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Hi! My name is Hannah Jeffries. I am a senior ISC major and Psychology minor. I grew up in Naples, Florida, but have been visiting Kentucky all my life. I love creative writing, singing, seeing theatre performances, cooking (as long as I don’t have to clean), traveling, and hanging out with my best friends in the world, who I’m lucky enough to live with.

The reason I choose UK is actually a funny story--my dad grew up in Louisville and is a diehard Cardinals fan. When I was a sophomore in high school, I used to say I was going to go to Kentucky just to bug him. The bugging eventually turned into insistent begging for him to take me to see campus. He finally did and I fell in love with it, especially after seeing Willy T. Ever since then, I couldn’t see myself going anywhere else--I only applied here and one other school!

'Bodies of Evidence' to Explore Violence Against LGBTQ*, Black Individuals

Ricardo Pau-Llosa: A Bilingual Recital

 

RICARDO PAUL-LLOSA: A BILINGUAL RECITAL

Translations into Cuban by Enrico Mario Santí



Wednesday, November 4

4-6 p.m.

Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

Ricardo Pau-Llosa is, far and away, the most prestigious Cuban-American poet writing in English today. With seven books to his credit, he has established himself as well as a prominent and sought-after art critic: http://www.pau-llosa.com/

Pau-Llosa, a Professor of English at Miami Dade College, and I have been collaborating on a bilingual anthology of poems translated, not exactly into Spanish, but into… Cuban. Part of the excitement of this event is that it will be the first public together reading of our experimental work.

“Pau-Llosa is a superb poet of memory…. He displays a consummate ability not simply to evoke, but to recreate the lost city of remembrance and to do so with a tragic depth rare in contemporary American poetry.” Eric Ormsby

Reception to follow

THE PUBLIC IS INVITED

Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery

Hitnes: Master Muralist Workshop

Since July, the famous Italian muralist, Hitnes, has traveled throughout the nation working on The Image Hunter. This project consists of loosely retracing the route of John James Audubon spending time observing birds in nature and then painting the results in murals across the country. His quest brought him to Lexington this October. Pictures of the workshop to paint a mural at the UK Ecological Research & Education Center are shown above. 

Photography (c) Carlos Gutierrez

Screening & Panel: "Let the Fire Burn"

A  film screening of the documentary "Let the Fire Burn" and a poster session analyzing the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. The film will be screened at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at Young Library. The poster session will be held in the adjacent Alumni Gallery and will feature poster presentations of research on recent killings of unarmed black people in the United States by students currently enrolled in Stein’s "GWS 595 - Crime & Punishment: Race & Ferguson in Historical Context."

Sponsored by:  The Department of Gender & Women's Studies, African American & Africana Studies Program, and the MLK Center. 

Date:
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Location:
Young Library Auditorium
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