Students crowded around the Campus Theatre Feb. 4 waiting to get inside to watch “Dreamscape,” a play presented by Rickerby Hinds, an EC alum.

“The play was good; it was interesting; I like the way he used the music to project them and to show what he tried to mean,” Miguel Valdez, 20, sociology major, said.

The play was written by Hinds and the play is based on the true story of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African American woman.

The play is done with hip-hop sounds that makes it a joy very attractive to the hears of the audience and gives to the audience a joyful moment.

“To be able to come back to EC after so many years. I haven’t actually being in the campus in like decades and to be able to come back and walk around and kind see where I hanged out for a year,” Hinds said.

Many students got in touch with the play and at the end, some of them had a short conversation with Hinds to express just how much the play impacted them and how Hinds is a mentor to many students.

Hinds also gave the keynote speech on Feb. 6 in the East Dining Room.

“I think the speech was really cool,” Daaiyah Muhammal, 16, undecided major, said. “I consider him a really inspirational person and I hope that he brings more different plays because I saw ‘Dreamscape.'”

Wearing a black and white suit and with a smile in his face Hinds started to talk about his experience as play writer.

During the speech all the students were paying attention all the words that Hinds were saying and some times he made all the crowd laugh.

“When I speak I always have the feeling I could done better maybe, you know there are things I have written down and I didn’t said in the exact way that I wanted to say them but I believe that the message that I was trying to contain that I was trying to put out there got across,” Hinds said.

Hinds added that he’s gotten great feedback from students and that’s what makes him so happy to continue mentoring.

“It helped me realize like the journey that I am taking tour I am right now and like how each of the moments, each of the steps that you taken even though you can’t at the moment figure out or you main necessarily know how that moment lead to the next thing that they all matter and they all count tours where you want to go,” Hinds said.

The Black History Month event committee consists of professors from the social sciences department, with Dr. Gloria Miranda, dean of social sciences, heading the committee.

The last two events will be a performance of a jazz band, dancers, and mimes on Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. in the East Dining Room and the “Taste of Soul” Festival on Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the East Dining Room.