This year, we have chosen discussions that resonate to our theme of "Fusion."
Books and Coffee: Christine Petrell Kallevig Children’s Author, Storyteller, Origami Artist
Lecture/Workshop for Teachers
Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 p.m.
Riverside Rooms on the lower level of Concordia University’s Student Union This event is free and open to the public.
Author, novelist, and professional storyteller Christine Petrell Kallevig has been captivating audiences since 1991 with the special storytelling technique she calls STORIGAMI. Kallevig folds giant-sized paper as she tells stories. Each fold illustrates an action or character from the story, so by the time the story is over, a surprise origami figure is magically created in a seamless blending of these dynamic folk arts.
Additional information on Christine Petrell Kallevig can be found here.
Tuesday, October 26, 4:00 p.m.
Earhart Manor Living Room This event is free and open to the public.
The 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has prompted diverse responses about the book’s message and status. Is it still popular because so many baby-boomers remember reading it in the 1960s (nostalgia)? Is it kept on life-support by its popularity as an assigned text in high school English classrooms? Does its representation of the South, of race, of women hold up in the post-everything 21st century? Bring your copy and quote your favorite (or unfavorite) passages. Directions / Campus Map / Kreft Arts Calendar
Stuart Dybek, Novelist, Short Story Writer, and Poet
Tuesday, November 16 • 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Rooms on the lower level of Concordia University’s Student Union This event is free and open to the public.
MacArthur Award-winning author Stuart Dybek reads from and discusses his poetry and fiction. Dybek's work has won numerous awards, among them a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim, and numerous O. Henry Prizes. His work has been included in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry. In 2007, Dybek was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship as well as the Rea Award for the Short Story, a $30,000 annual prize given for "originality and influence on the genre."
Sunday, December 12 • 3:00 p.m.
Earhart Manor Living Room
Sign up to read a part in Concordia English Professor, Dr. Mark Looker’s adaptation of Dickens’ own reading script of the classic Christmas story. This event is free and open to the public.
