This Friday- Stephen Nunns, Dept. of Theatre Arts: He Do the Police in Different Voices
COFAC Colloquium 47
Friday, April 9th, 2021
3:00p.m.- 4:30p.m.
https://towson-edu.zoom.us/j/99810627095?pwd=a2pPN0txVk1YTmJXd0ZDTVllazJjUT09
Meeting ID: 998 1062 7095
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This colloquium includes a Diversity and Inclusion funding presentation followed by two sabbatical presentations.
Diversity & Inclusion Funding
Kate Collins, MAIAI
Opening Critical Conversations About the Healing Power of Spoken Word Poetry
“The power of an individual writer speaking deeply personal truths lifts poetry off the page, aiming it straight at hearts and minds” (Goldbard, 2018). Knowing and appreciating this, MAIAI program director, Kate Collins, used awarded Diversity and Inclusion funds to invite in Baltimore spoken word poet Unique Robinson to introduce spoken word poetry to the graduate students enrolled in her Art in Other Places course. This dynamic course explores the many ways that the arts serve as powerful vehicles to engage and support vulnerable and marginalized communities. As part of this exploration, Collins invited Robinson to coach a handful of student volunteers on synthesizing their research into performed poems allowing them to appreciate the healing and transformative nature of performed poetry while also delving into critical conversations about cultural appropriation and advocacy.
Sabbatical Presentation
Bridget Sullivan, Dept. of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Bearing Witness – an artist’s tenacious view: what I did on my COVID sabbatical
The COVID pandemic brought the local, very local, environment into focus for Bridget Z. Sullivan in her art practice, and in her leadership of the Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery, a non-profit community art center. The result: 1) a new body of mixed media work focusing on the aging garages of Lauraville, 2) numerous grant applications and awards that have saved HAC|HG from permanent closure, 3) the adaptation of 2 major HAC|HG exhibitions to an online format and 4) continued HAC|HG in-person gallery exhibits offered to the public under CDC guidelines.
Sabbatical Presentation
Stephen Nunns, Dept. of Theatre Arts
He Do the Police in Different Voices
A musical adaptation and theatrical re-contextualization of T.S. Eliot’s classic 1922 poem, The Waste Land. The piece explores the polyphony of voices in the work in a contemporary musical context. He Do the Police embraces the noisy, multiple perspectives of the piece—what the poet Ted Hughes referred to as “an assemblage of human cries”—all within a popular musical framework.
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