Writing Fiction on Appalachian Culture: A Conversation with Authors Lee Mandelo and Ashley Blooms
Join the Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) for a
conversation between Lee Mandelo, author of the "queer southern gothic"
Summer Sons, and Ashley Blooms, author of recently-published Appalachian novel
Where I Can't Follow, about their work as Kentucky writers. Blooms and Mandelo
will discuss their journeys through publishing, how they approach Appalachian
cultures in their fiction, and how their novels engage with topics such as gender
and trauma within these contexts
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Zoom
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UK’s Crystal Wilkinson Wins NAACP Image Award for ‘Perfect Black’
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2022) — Crystal Wilkinson, associate professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, can add NAACP Image Award winner to her expansive and impressive list of accolades.
MFA Farewell Reading
Second year MFA students who will be graduating in May will read from their theses.
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The Burl
Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
Event Date(s)
Thu, Feb 24 2022, 7:30pm
Fri, Feb 25 2022, 7:30pm
Sat, Feb 26 2022, 7:30pm
Sun, Feb 27 2022, 2pm
Ticket Price
General admission: $15, Student tickets: $10
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Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
A Documentary Drama curated by UK Faculty Artists & Scholars
February 24 – 27, 2022, (Talkback following the Friday, Feb. 25 evening performance)
2022 will mark 10 years since Trayvon Martin was murdered and the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was created. The notion that Black Lives Matter has been stated simply and shouted loudly down through the years, decades, centuries. The enslaved African people, the abolitionists, the anti-segregation, anti-lynching, pro-civil rights, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Power, Black Arts Movement, freedom fighters were all, in their way, calling out that Black Lives Matter.
The Department of Theatre and Dance wants to provide our audience of students, faculty, staff, and community members with a thoughtful, insightful, factually accurate, and emotionally compelling, rendering of American history that places the BLM movement of the past 10 years in its full context in a powerful live documentary drama.
Date:
Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
Event Date(s)
Thu, Feb 24 2022, 7:30pm
Fri, Feb 25 2022, 7:30pm
Sat, Feb 26 2022, 7:30pm
Sun, Feb 27 2022, 2pm
Ticket Price
General admission: $15, Student tickets: $10
Poster Image
Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now
A Documentary Drama curated by UK Faculty Artists & Scholars
February 24 – 27, 2022, (Talkback following the Friday, Feb. 25 evening performance)
2022 will mark 10 years since Trayvon Martin was murdered and the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was created. The notion that Black Lives Matter has been stated simply and shouted loudly down through the years, decades, centuries. The enslaved African people, the abolitionists, the anti-segregation, anti-lynching, pro-civil rights, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Power, Black Arts Movement, freedom fighters were all, in their way, calling out that Black Lives Matter.
The Department of Theatre and Dance wants to provide our audience of students, faculty, staff, and community members with a thoughtful, insightful, factually accurate, and emotionally compelling, rendering of American history that places the BLM movement of the past 10 years in its full context in a powerful live documentary drama.
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Guignol Theatre
Visiting Writers Series
Austyn Gaffney
Creative Non-fiction Writer
Friday, February 11, 2022
3:30 p.m. Creative Nonfiction Craft Talk, Gatton Student Center 330AB
Zoom link for craft talk: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscuqvqj4vE9M0EFLaRwqLjnyANHYH-_su
Austyn Gaffney is a freelance writer based in Kentucky. Her creative work is featured in Brevity, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others; her journalism appears in the Guardian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vice, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Kentucky.
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Gatton Student Center 330AB