Ohio Wesleyan alumni, faculty and staff, and all non-OWU graduate and undergraduate students – $115 per person.
Current Ohio Wesleyan students – $25 per person with a valid OWU ID. (OWU students volunteering to work at the symposium will be admitted free.)
VIP meet-and-greet with Erika Alexander – $75 per person, available only with symposium ticket purchase. (This hour-long reception will precede the closing banquet. Limited VIP tickets are available.)
Theme: Disruption!! Signal Fires, Reckoning, and Jubilee Through Black Art March 27-29, 2025
In Conversation with Erika Alexander
Erika Alexander is an actress, trailblazing activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, director, and one of the country's boldest, most daring, and powerful voices. Hear her story during the 2025 symposium!
Melvin Van Peebles at the Deauville Film Festival. (Photo by Georges Baird)
About Melvin Van Peebles
Best known as a trailblazing Black filmmaker, Melvin Van Peebles was a twentieth-century Renaissance man. The 1953 Ohio Wesleyan graduate transcended the boundaries of race and gender as an innovator in film, theater, music, art, literature, and business.
In Conversation with Erika Alexander