Through an examination of poetry, memoir, and artistic activism participants will explore the empowering possibilities of personal narrative. The session will include readings from Jimmy Santiago Baca's Singing at the Gates and A Place to Stand as well as analyzing inventive community applications for narrative interventions such as the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women. Finally, the presentation will challenge static conceptions of narrative with local examples of resiliency and achievement found through the literary arts.
About Craig Rowe, Ph.D.
Craig Rowe holds a Bachelor's of Arts in English from the University of Washington, a Master's of Dramatic Arts from UC Santa Barbara, and a Doctorate in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. A Regents Fellowship recipient, Rowe has been an artist-in-residence at the Jon Sims Center for the Arts in San Francisco, worked with the Chicano Secret Service and appeared in readings of Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman at the Magic Theatre and Stanford University. Rowe currently instructs English at Truckee High School and is the director of La Fuerza Latina, a local college access program.
Join us on campus for Craig Rowe's engaging and thought-provoking session!
6:30 p.m. Refreshments care of Starbucks, 7 to 8:15 p.m. pogram