Festiba - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
READING ROCK STARS, READING IS FUNDAMENTAL, TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL - Author Visits to Public Schools: Carmen Tofolla, Xavier Garza, Rene Lainez, Rene Saldana, Amada Irma Perez, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Lee Merril Byrd and Illustrator Antonio Castro | |
| 08:00 a.m. | Reading Is Fundamental Book Distributions to Public Schools with "Celebrity Readers" |
| 09:00 - 11:00 a.m. | Story tellers from the Texas Commissions for the Arts - Tammy Gomez, Image & Illustration Student Readings, CLARK Gallery This is an art performance series that will feature artists from the Texas Commission on the Arts Cultural Connections touring roster along with UTPA Art Department students and Faculty. |
| 09:10 - 10:25 a.m. | "The Impossibility (& possibility) of a Multi-Cultural Rhetoric" - M. Noe, CAS 140 |
| 09:10 - 10:25 a.m. | Creative Writing Faculty Panel - E. Ochoa, CAS 184 |
| 12:00 - 01:00 p.m. | Art Department: Flash workshop, ASC 2.126 Flash workshop; a hands on workshop using the animation program, Flash. This would be an introduction to the program and would focus on the basics of movement on the time line. |
| 12:00 - 01:00 p.m. | "Panel on Democracy" - K. Buckman, CAS 225 |
| 01:10 - 02:25 p.m. | Creative Writers of UTPA, CAS 107 |
| 02:00 - 04:00 p.m. | Texas Commission on the Arts Storytellers: Tammy Gomez (CAS Gallery) This is an art performance series that will feature artists from the Texas Commission on the Arts Cultural Connections touring roster along with UTPA Art Department students and Faculty. |
| 02:25 - 03:35 p.m. | Fiction Reading - Spell, Hoffman, CAS 107 A FICTION READING WITH CARRIE AND RUSTY SPELL READING OF ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FICTION, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT PAN AM PROFESSORS ARE UP TO. |
| 05:30 - 07:00 p.m. | Distinguished Speaker Series - Denise Chavez (Dinner in Ballroom by invitation) |
| 06:00 - 09:00 p.m. | "Artists Who Write" (Clark Gallery) This will be an art performance series that will feature artists from the Texas Commission on the Arts Cultural Connections touring roster along with UTPA Art department students and faculty. Presentations will consist of fine art performances and writing that has been presented by visual artist. |
| 07:30 p.m. | Distinguished Speaker Denise Chavez (Student Union) |
