2023 Young Adult and Campus Ministry Grant Recipient - SUNY New Paltz Episcopal Campus Ministry

SUNY New Paltz Episcopal Campus Ministry                                                      $2000
Diocese of New York
“To Buy the Sun”

This application seeks to bring “To Buy the Sun,” a 3 person play about Pauli Murray commissioned by the Pauli Murray Center in Durham, North Carolina, to colleges in the Diocese of New York. The story of her/their life as worker for the Works Progress Administration, activist, lawyer, poet and priest, someone with significant questions about her/their gender identity before there were terms available, addresses most of the important developmental and vocational tasks of college students and young adults. The shows will include opportunities for talk-backs with the author, conversations with classes, and presentations around the play itself. At SUNY New Paltz, Black Lives Matter at School and the Black Studies Department, the LGBTQ+ Program Manager, the Theater Department and the Women and Gender Studies departments are eager to connect this play to their courses. Each campus will develop their own interdisciplinary team to build program around the play.