|
SASE Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender (GLBT)
Reading Series
hosted by curators Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros
SASE's GLBT Series is launched in its new space with performances this month by
Sharon Day and Richard
LaFortune
When: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
7:00 p.m
Where: Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sharon M. Day, Ojibwe is an artist and an activist. She uses poetry,
images, and music to convey her messages to the community. Ms. Day
is an awarding artist and has performed at the Illusion Theater. She
makes music with the Neeconis Women Singers. Ms. Day is also the
Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force.
Richard LaFortune (Anguksuar)-Yupik, Eskimo, tribe - is a Native language
researcher. He is past Director of Training for the National Native
American AIDS Prevention Center in Oakland CA; he served as Executive
Director of Honor the Earth, a non profit organization for Native
environmental justice issues, and he is a co-Founder of 2SPR (Two Spirit
Press Room), an intertribal GLBT Native critical literacy media project. He
has served on the Governor's Task Force for Lesbian & Gay Minnesotans, and
was elected Grand Marshal for Twin Cities Gay Pride 2005. His print poetry
was recently choreographed and included in a series of performances at
Lincoln Center, New York City. His writings appear in Living the Spirit
(St.
Martin's Press, 1988), Two Spirit People (University of Illinois, 1997), and
selected poetry was curated at the Two Rivers Gallery at the Minneapolis
American Indian Center. He lives in Minneapolis.
Event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 612-822-2500.
This reading is part of SASE's Carol Connolly Reading Series
and is co-sponsored by SASE: The Write Place and Intermedia Arts.
|
