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.
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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
UK Libraries, A&S Symposium to Honor bell hooks
Register: https://form.jotform.com/220183243570145
UK Libraries, A&S Symposium to Honor bell hooks
January 24, 2022
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 24, 2022) — Join University of Kentucky Libraries and College of Arts and Sciences 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, via Zoom, for “bell hooks: A Legacy Rooted in Love.”
This symposium will celebrate the life and legacy of bell hooks, UK Libraries' 2021 Medallion for Intellectual Achievement recipient and author, professor, feminist and activist.
The event is open to the public. To RSVP for the event, please click here.
Proclaimed as “one of the preeminent feminist voices of our time,” bell hooks was Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College up until she died in December 2021. She also taught at the University of Southern California, Yale University, Oberlin College and the City College of New York, publishing more than 30 books of poetry, fiction and critical essays. Her work garnered several prestigious awards, including the American Book Award, an Image Award nomination from the NAACP and a Children’s Book of the Year designation .
Throughout the symposium, scholars, artists and activists from acrossKentucky will present and engage in conversations that celebrate and reflect on hooks’ work and its impact on literature and critical thought. Featured speakers include:
- Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky Poet Laureate and UK associate professor of English.
- Attica Scott, Kentucky State Representative for District 41.
- Kaila Adia Story, podcaster and University of Louisville Audre Lorde Endowed Chair in Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
- DeBraun Thomas, "Take Back Cheapside" co-founder and WUKY producer/host.
- M. Shadee Malaklou, first director of the bell hooks center and Berea College chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Department.
- DaMaris Hill, UK associate professor of creative writing, English, and African American studies.
The UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement was created in 1990 to recognize high intellectual achievement by a Kentuckian who has made a contribution of lasting value to the Commonwealth. The award also promotes education and creative thought. The recipient is determined by majority vote of the UK Libraries National Advisory Board.
The University of Kentucky is increasingly the first choice for students, faculty and staff to pursue their passions and their professional goals. In the last two years, Forbes has named UK among the best employers for diversity, and INSIGHT into Diversity recognized us as a Diversity Champion four years running. UK is ranked among the top 30 campuses in the nation for LGBTQ* inclusion and safety. UK has been judged a “Great College to Work for" three years in a row, and UK is among only 22 universities in the country on Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers." We are ranked among the top 10 percent of public institutions for research expenditures — a tangible symbol of our breadth and depth as a university focused on discovery that changes lives and communities. And our patients know and appreciate the fact that UK HealthCare has been named the state’s top hospital for five straight years. Accolades and honors are great. But they are more important for what they represent: the idea that creating a community of belonging and commitment to excellence is how we honor our mission to be not simply the University of Kentucky, but the University for Kentucky.
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Zoom
BREATH BETTER SPENT: LIVING BLACK GIRLHOOD
This virtual event takes place on zoom. Register here.
Charis welcomes DaMaris B. Hill in conversation with Crystal Wilkinson for a celebration of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood. From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. This event is co-hosted by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History.
In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust violence, unwarranted incarceration, and unnoticed disappearance, Hill chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries, using the narrative-in-verse style of her acclaimed book A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing to revisit her youth. There, jelly sandals, Double Dutch beats, and chipped nail polish bring the breath of laughter; in adolescence, pomegranate lips, turntables, and love letters to other girls' boyfriends bring the breath of longing. Yet these breaths cannot be taken alone, and as she carries her childhood self through the broader historical space of Black girls in America, Hill is forced to grapple with expression in a space of stereotype, desire in a space of hyper-sexuality, joy in a space of heartache.
Paying homage to prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Whitney Houston and Toni Morrison, Breath Better Spent invites you to walk through this landscape, too, exploring the spaces-both visible and invisible-that Black girls occupy in the national imagination, taking in the communal breath of girlhood, and asking yourself: In a country like America, what does active love and protection of Black girls look like?
DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, an NAACP Image Award Finalist; The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland; and a collection of poetry, \Vi-ze-bel\ \Teks-chers\(Visible Textures). As with her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. An Associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky and a former service member of the United States Air Force, she lives in Kentucky. www.damarishill.com.
Crystal Wilkinson is the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. She is the author of Perfect Black and The Birds of Opulence, winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award; Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature; and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The winner of a 2020 USA Artist Fellowship, she serves as associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
This event is free and open to all people, especially to those who have no income or low income right now, but we encourage and appreciate a solidarity donation in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Charis Circle's mission is to foster sustainable feminist communities, work for social justice, and encourage the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/CharisCircle?code=chariscirclepage
This event will use Zoom's Live Transcription technology for closed captioning. If you have other accessibility needs or if you are someone who has skills in making digital events more accessible please don't hesitate to reach out to info@chariscircle.org. We are actively learning the best practices for this technology and we welcome your feedback as we connect across distances.
By attending our virtual event you agree to our Code of Conduct: Our event seeks to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), class, or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate. Anyone violating these rules will be expelled from this event and all future events at the discretion of the organizers. Please report all harassment to info@chariscircle.org immediately.
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Zoom