FREE EVENT! AMPlifying the Arts at EMU CREATIVITY in a CHANGING ECONOMY – ENTREPRENEURIAL SOLUTIONS Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 6:00pm Eastern Michigan University Sponberg Theatre in the Quirk Building You are invited to a panel discussion with local Arts & Entrepreneurship Leaders who will be sharing strategies on how they are navigating the downturn in our…
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New Publications Faculty Lecture Series Thursday 4-5, Pray-Harrold 422
“New Publications Faculty Lecture Series” A new lecture series begins this week. The series will be run twice a semester and is intended to spotlight recent faculty publications. The English Department grad committee hopes this series will provide graduate students with a sense of the different kinds of research faculty do and, more broadly, with a sense…
Poetry Radio – Special MLK Day Show
This Sunday’s edition of Poetry Radio (1/18, 8pm) will feature a special MLK Day show, including Pamela Z, Language Removal Services, Tracie Morris, Sun Ra, Jaap Blonk, Amiri Baraka, Claudia Rankine, People Like Us, Will Alexander, Fred Moten, Michael Harper, Taylor Mali, Cecil Taylor, and Martin Luther King Jr. Hope you can listen: http://www.emich.edu/studentorgs/wqbr/
Workshop for Students Seeking Graduate Assistantships
Monday, January 26, 5:30-6:30 PM, 618 Pray-Harrold Interested in learning about graduate assistantships? Join Linda Adler-Kassner, Andrea Kaston-Tange, and Russ Larson and hear them discuss the process of obtaining a graduate assistantship. Application and recommendation forms will be available. If you are seeking a graduate assistantship, this workshop will give you the opportunity to ask…
Upcoming BathHouse Events
The Winter ’09 BathHouse readings are coming up: Mar. 2, 5:30 pm: Nicole Brossard (Carillon Room, Halle Library, EMU) Mar. 5, 5:00 pm: David Grubbs (Sponberg Theater, EMU) Mar. 12, 5:00 pm: Cris Cheek and Robert Fitterman (Dreamland Theater, 26 N. Washington St., Ypsilanti) More info about the BathHouse Reading Series is available here.
Tune in to Poetry Radio
Check out Professor Christine Hume’s new radio show, POETRY RADIO, streaming live Sundays at 8 p.m. In her own words: “At the crossroads of textual and sonic arts, Poetry Radio will feature poetry in the age of the MP3. This show will also sample contemporary and historic sound art, performance art, sound poetry, collaborations between writers and…
Links Hall – January and February Programming
Links Hall (a Chicago-based non-profit arts organization) is offering a multitude of programs. Of particular interest to CW folks: Anti Gravity Surprise Inauguration Party with Book Launch & Panel Discussion at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Tuesday, January 20, 6pm Free Public art group Anti Gravity Surprise celebrates the inauguration by launching the…
ACN Mini Think Tank Fellowships
Here’s some info regarding Art Culture Nature (ACN) Mini Think Tank Fellowships of particular interest to poetry, drama, and visual/performance art folks: ACN Mini Think Tank Fellowships: Eco-Performance and Arts-Based Methods. Part of the Earth Matters Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 21st to 31st 2009 Art Culture Nature invites you to share your practice, and research process…
Cellar Roots Events This Week!
Cellar Roots is putting on three great interactive events this week in order to promote the journal and celebrate the arts on campus in general. Individuals interested in being readers for Thursday and Friday night events (see below) can sign up by e-mailing Jamie at: cellarroots.editorinchief<at>gmail.com. Wednesday, November 19th: EcoArts Night: EcoArts gets back to its…