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In conjunction with the exhibition “Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey,” Theater Emory and the Carlos Museum present a live, three-day reading of Stanley Lombardo’s award-winning translation of Homer’s epic “The Odyssey” Jan. 24 – 26. The readings begin at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Reception Hall of the Carlos Museum on the Emory campus,

Readers include some of Atlanta’s finest actors such as E. Roger Mitchell, Chris Kayser, Tiffany Mitchenor, Lisa Paulsen, Tom Key, Janice Akers, and Tim McDonough; former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, local television and radio personalities Jovita Moore, Valerie Jackson, and Rose Scott; and faculty members and students from Emory’s Departments of Classics, English, Theater Studies, and the Woodruff Library.

For more, visit carlos.emory.edu.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.