Festiba - Wednesday, March 26, 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" |
| 08:45 - 09:35 a.m. | "Utopias In Literature and the Arts" - R Hamilton, CAS 184 A lecture and multimedia demonstration, with class participation. This session and the one following on "Dystopias in Literature and the Arts" will identify common characteristics and goals of utopias and dystopias; give an overview of these visionary societies in literature as well as music, art, & film; and introduce the audience to theories of utopian/dystopian discourse and visual media. Students will also be asked to envision their own utopian (or dystopian) communities. Students may come to either session or both. |
| 09:00 - 11:00 a.m. | Story tellers from the Texas Commissions for the Arts - Gayle Ross also Image and 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. |
| 09:45 - 10:35 a.m. | "Dystopias In Literature and the Arts" - L Hamilton, CAS 184 A lecture and multimedia demonstration, with class participation. This session and the one preceeding on "Utopias in Literature and the Arts" will identify common characteristics and goals of utopias and dystopias; give an overview of these visionary societies in literature as well as music, art, & film; and introduce the audience to theories of utopian/dystopian discourse and visual media. Students will also be asked to envision their own dystopian (or utopian) communities. Students may come to either session or both. |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. | "The Corrido" Panel: Linguistics (P. Anderson), Creative Writing (J. Braithwaite), Music (F. Loera), Literature (M. Noe) MLL (E. Ochoa), CAS 225 This lecture/discussion considers a number of corridos collected ove rhte past 25 years from amont older members of the local RGV communities as to their linguitic structure and social purpose. |
| 11:45 - 12:35 p.m. | "Panel on Crusades" - P. Adair, K. Grant, CAS 254 As a panel we will look at the crusades from several points of view stressing the effects of the crusades on participants and settlers. The first panelist will discuss Pope Urban’s call for the Crusade and its success; a second participant will look at a queen of Jerusalem and her sister, both of whom were 2nd generation settlers and ruled Latin Crusader states at critical points in history; a final discussant will look at the serious consequences the call to fight for the Holy Land had on several generations of Flemish counts. One of the participants is a student in the MA program in History and uses her research for her thesis as a basis for her discussion. |
| 12:45 - 01:35 p.m. | Meet the Author Denise Chavez, CAS Gallery |
| 12:45 - 01:35 p.m. | Chinese Caligraphy, CAS 186 - Lu Zhiying |
| 12:45 - 02:35 p.m. | "Texas and Tejanso int eh Civil War" - James Fink, CAS 254 A roundtable discussion on the role Texans played in the Greater story of the War, the importance Texas had to the Confederacy, and the role of Tejanos and Mexico in the War. |
| 01:45 - 03:35 p.m. | Improvisation Workshop - D. Carren, CAS 107 What do Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, or Drew Carey have in common? They are all masters of improvisational comedy, a form of theatre in which performers spontaneously produce story, character, dialogue, and lots and lots of laughs. In this workshop, learn how to create humor on the run. |
| 02:00 - 04:00 p.m. | Texas Commission on the Arts Storytellers: Gayle Ross also Image and 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. |
| 03:00 - 04:30 p.m. | La Boda de la Mujer Maravilla (Spanish Student Drama) - Edna Ochoa (Student Union Theater) |
| 05:30 - 07:30 p.m. | Texas Business and Education Coalition Dinner: Recognition of Outstanding Public Schools Dinner, Ballroom (by invitation) |
| 07:30 p.m. | Chamber Music Concert:The Music of Mozart and Brahms (Media Theater) FREE Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115 I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Andantino IV. Con Moto Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Ted Lane, Clarinet Emily Hanna Crane, violin Juan Carlos Menendez, violin Joel Pagan, viola Sarah Kapps, cello |
