2017 FESTIVAL - Identity Matters PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Monday February 27 1:10-2:05 pm, Room 1403-Centennial Hall 8:50-11:20 am ALL Discussion: Disability, Access, and Identity on a College ART: Watch Them Work Campus Printmaking Room 334-Center for the Arts 1:10-3:40 pm ART: Watch Them Work Blacksmithing & Metalsmithing Printmaking Rooms 20 & 23-Center for the Arts Room 334-Center for the Arts
Ceramics Photography and the Camera-less Image Room 25-Center for the Arts Room 26-WING Technology Center
Art History UWL Art Gallery (First Floor)-Center for the Arts 2:15-3:10 pm, Room 1404-Centennial Hall CST Presentation: Social Support for First Generation Students 9:55-11:30 am, Frederick Theatre-Morris Hall at UWL THA/LIB Presentation & Discussion: From Performance on Paper to Performance Onstage 2:15-3:10 pm, Makeup Room (Room 7) Center for the Arts THA Demonstration: Makeup: Changing Your Identity to Suit 9:55-10:50 am, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall the Scene MUS Discussion: Music, Race and Gender - Changing Professional Stereotypes in Music 2:15-3:45 pm, Room 1400-Centennial Hall PSY Presentation: Burial Practices and Identity 9:55-10:50 am, Room 333-Center for the Arts ERS Presentation: More Than a Label: Preserving the Sounds 3:00-3:55 pm, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall & Songs of the Greater Syrian Diaspora in WI 1896-1961 THA Discussion: Ridiculously Small Pockets, or the Challenges Women Face in a Stereotypically Male Work Environment 11:00-11:55 am, Room 1404-Centennial Hall CST Presentation: Sports Fandom, Rivalry and Identity 4:00-5:30 pm, Room 1400-Centennial Hall ALL Discussion: Are Male and Female Faculty Perceived 12:00-1:00 pm, Toland Theatre-Center for the Arts Differently as Teachers? THA Performance: Music Theatre Showcase 4:00-5:30 pm, Room 1404-Centennial Hall 12:00-1:00 pm, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall CST Presentation: Identity After Memory Loss ALL Presentation: The Over-Consumption of Native American Imagery and the Ongoing Results 5:00-6:30 pm- Lobby, Art Gallery, Room 116- Ctr. for the Arts Reception & Presentation of Student Work 1:10-2:05 pm, Hall of Nations, Centennial Hall CST Discussion: Conversations About Native American 7:30 pm, Toland Theatre- Center for the Arts Identity THA Artist Talk and Discussion Guest: Karen Olivo
Tuesday February 28 12:00-1:00 pm, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall 8:50-9:45 am, Third Floor Gallery-Center for the Arts CST Book Reading and Discussion EDS Discussion: Choice in Advocacy Discourse: Art Project I Guest: Kirsten Cronn-Mills
9:55-10:50 am, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall 1:10-2:05 pm, Room 333-Center for the Arts MUS Artist Talk: Career Goals and Music BIO Presentation: Insects vs. Humans: The Boundaries of Guest: Brandon Ridenour Creativity and Industry
9:55-11:55 am, Room 333-Center for the Arts 1:10-2:05 pm, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall SOC Workshop: Identities in Transition CST Discussion: The Opportunities and Limits of Allyship Guest: Kirsten Cronn-Mills 11:00-11:55 am, Room 102-WING Technology Center HIS Presentation: It’s Me Mohannad-A Professor’s Foray into 1:10-3:10 pm, Room 56-Center for the Arts Making an Episodic Web Series MUS Master Class: Trumpet Guest: Brandon Rideonour 11:00 am -12:20 pm, Frederick Theatre-Morris Hall THA Workshop: Changing Character through Improvisation
EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Session Details and More Information available at www.uwlax.edu/creative-imperatives/
2017 FESTIVAL - Identity Matters PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Tuesday February 28 (continued) 4:00-5:30 pm, Rooms 1309 & 1400- Centennial Hall 2:15-3:10 pm, Room 333-Center for the Arts CST Public Speaking Competition CST Presentation: Reading and Performing Identity through Social Media 7:30pm, Graff Main Hall MUS Performance 2:15-3:10 pm, Toland Theatre-Center for the Arts Guest: Brandon Ridenour THA Presentation: Revealing Identity with Light Ongoing Events 3:00-3:55 pm, Hall of Nations- Centennial hall ALL Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Inclusive Negligence Exhibition- All Students Juried Show UWL Art Gallery, Center for the Arts (First Floor) 3:00-4:30 pm, Room 335- Center for the Arts ENG Workshop: Professional Identity and Building a Personal Student Research & Creative Work Display Brand Lobby, Center for the Arts
4:00-5:15 pm, Hall of Nations-Centennial Hall Exhibition- Identity Matters Gallery ALL Hands-On Discussion: Disability and Diversity Third Floor Gallery, Center for the Arts
2017 FESTIVAL GUESTS
KIRSTIN CRONN-MILLS Additionally, she originated the role of Faith in the Kirstin is a self-proclaimed word nerd. Her grandmother Broadway production of Brooklyn The Musical, directed and her father passed on their love of language to her, by Jeff Calhoun. Additional theatre credits include the and that love became a love affair when she started Off-Broadway production of The Miracle Brothers, writing poems in sixth grade. She still writes poems, but directed by Tina Landau, at the Vineyard Theatre, the now she focuses on young adult novels. In 1992 Kirstin Public Theatre’s 40th Anniversary concert production of moved from Nebraska to southern Minnesota, where she Hair, directed by Diane Paulus, and The Ford Theatre’s lives now. She writes a lot, reads as much as she can, production of Children of Eden. Karen has also appeared teaches at a two-year college (she won the Minnesota on film and television, and has worked as a musical State College Student Association 2009 Instructor of the coach for UW-Madison and as writer for Theatre Lila. Year award), and goofs around with her son, Shae, and her husband, Dan. Her first young adult novel, The Sky BRANDON RIDENOUR Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind (Flux, 2009), was Brandon Ridenour is a winner of the 2014 CAG Victor a 2010 finalist for the Minnesota Book Award for Young Elmaleh Competition. His wide-ranging activities as a People’s Literature. Her second novel, Beautiful Music For soloist and chamber musician, paired with his passion for Ugly Children (Flux/Llewellyn, 2012), won ALA’s Stonewall composing and arranging, are evident in his versatile Award in 2014 as well as an IPPY (Independent Publishing) performances and unique repertoire. In the 2015-16 silver medal for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction. BMUC was season, Brandon makes his Carnegie Hall recital debut at also placed on ALA’s 2013 Rainbow List (as a Top Ten Weill Recital Hall (CAG Winners series) and other featured Pick) as well as their 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults recitals include: Northeastern Illinois University’s Jewel Box list. Her third novel, Original Fake (G.P. Putnam’s Series in Chicago; Chamber Music Society of Little Rock; Sons/Penguin Random House 2016), was a Junior Library The Regina Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure Guild selection and received a starred review from University (NY); and St. Vincent College Concert Series, Publisher’s Weekly. near Pittsburgh. As a concerto soloist, Brandon appears in 2015-16 with the South Bend Symphony and Modesto KAREN OLIVO Symphony, and is also featured with the Chamber Music Karen can currently be found in Chicago, starring as Society of Lincoln Center for its annual performances of Angelica Schuyler in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-Award- Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos. Brandon has wining hit musical Hamilton. She starred as Anita in the appeared as a concerto soloist with the National acclaimed Broadway revival of West Side Story, directed Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the by Arthur Laurents, a role which garnered her the 2009 Indianapolis, Jacksonville, and Edmonton Symphony Tony Award for “Best Performance by a Featured Actress Orchestras. He has played with leading ensembles in a Musical.” Karen also earned Drama Desk, Drama including the New York Philharmonic, International League, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Contemporary Ensemble, the Knights, the Royal Scottish her portrayal of the iconic character. Olivo originated the National Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie role of Vanessa in both the Off-Broadway and Broadway Bremen, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Other solo productions of the Tony Award- winning musical, In the performances include the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Heights. Born in New York City and raised in Florida, Karen Hall, and Carnegie Hall, where he most recently made her Broadway debut as Mimi in Jonathan Larson’s appeared in a performance of Penny Lane alongside Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning musical, Rent, a role she Sting and James Taylor. also performed in the first touring production of the show.
LATE BREAKING NEWS!
Just as the turkeys went into the oven, Creative Imperatives was able to confirm a fourth featured guest for this year’s festival. Many more specific details will be forthcoming, but while you are clearing your calendars to attend the terrific selection of presentations, performances, workshops, lectures, and discussions on Monday and Tuesday, be sure to leave room for one final event at 7:30 pm on Wednesday March 1 in Toland Theatre to meet CeCe McDonald.
CeCe McDonald is an African-American transgender prison-reform activist. While on her way to the grocery store with friends in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she encountered a drunken group outside of a bar. When the group began taunting them with racial, homophobic and transphobic slurs McDonald took a stance that their hate speech would not be tolerated, and was assaulted with a shattered drinking glass across the face. The attack perforated her cheek and lacerated her salivary gland. McDonald defended herself against a second assailant with fabric shears, the only weapon she had. The assailant died. McDonald was arrested and imprisoned. After two months in prison, she finally received care for her wounds. Experiencing the inhumane treatment of prisoners firsthand, McDonald began speaking out against the criminal justice system. “Prisons aren’t safe for anyone, and that’s the key issue,” she said. For McDonald, the issue of safety included her status as a transgender female in a men’s prison. Transgender prisoners were assigned to prisons based on their sex at birth rather than their gender identity. The penal system frequently placed them in solitary confinement—a psychologically debilitating isolation—purportedly for the safety of the individual. The experience served to strengthen McDonald’s character and establish her resolve to become a transgender leader. Free CeCe, a documentary about her experiences, focused on the issue of violence against trans women of color. McDonald was released from prison in January 2014 after serving 19 months. In August 2014 she was awarded the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Award by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. (excerpted from LGBT History Month profile.)