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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Creativity Center and the
Office of the President invite you to<b><br>
<big><big><font color="#6a72a7">Participate in
CONNECTING THE ARTS TO SOCIAL CHANGE!
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</font></big></big></b></font><big><big><font color="#6a72a7"><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Tuesday March 13 @ </font></b></font></big></big><font
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color="#6a72a7"><b> Main Stage, Emily Dickinson Hall
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>Are
you interested in combining the arts with social change in your
divisional work?</b></font></font><font
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<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Join artists /
alums / professors in discussing the unpredictable nature of
inspiration.</b></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Learn about the
imagination, personal experiences, opportunities, and communities that
can build bridges between the arts and social change.<b><br>
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Bring your own
work to the table. </b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
Share your project ideas with students and faculty to discuss how you
might make your own creative connection to social change.</font><font
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Participate in
small
discussion groups.<br>
</b>Explore the development of your project ideas, meet with other
students who are interested in combining the arts with social change,
and engage panelists in brainstorming and discussion. </font><b><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Students at all levels of
the Divisional process are welcome!</font></b><br>
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Our five panelists will show and discuss their work for 15
minutes each. <br>
This second part of
the evening will be about 40 minutes, and there may be a chance to
report back
to the panelists some of the ideas and questions that get generated.
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<b>We'd love to see you there! <br>
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Spread the word on <font color="#6a72a7"><a
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>PANELISTS</b></font><font
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<b>David Budbill </b>is a Hampshire parent, the author of a recent
book of poems called
"Happy Life," and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
Award for
playwriting and a Guggenheim for poetry. His play, which will have a
staged
reading at the panel, is called "Thingy World" and was originally
commissioned
by Jonathan Lash to address issues of consumerism and sustainability.
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<b>Adelind Horan</b>, a graduate of Hampshire in 2010, wrote and
performed a play
called "Cry of the Mountain" which brings alive the community and the
environmental implications of the coal-mining practice of mountaintop
removal in
the Appalachians, a part of the country she has loved and lived in.
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<b>Jill Lewis</b> is a professor of literature and gender studies, and
has generated
and overseen the making of a film entitled "Protection" in 2011, made
in Kenya,
South African and Sierra Leone, and produced in multiple languages.The
film is
aimed at opening up dialogues about condoms in the face of HIV among
men and
boys in sub-Saharan African communities.
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<b>Kamil Peters</b> graduated from Hampshire in 2010 and worked on a
series of welded
sculptures and masks for his Division III project, which included a
program for
teaching the "fire arts" to under-served youth in the community.
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<b>Aracelis Girmay</b> is a professor of poetry at Hampshire College
and recent
finalist for the National Critics' Circle Book Award for her book of
poems,
"Kingdom Animalia."
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