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College Announces Fall Fine Arts Schedule Calendars Coming Soon...
Phoenix College Ireland
Study Abroad 2005 Exhibit An exciting exhibit of artwork created by students who participated in the Phoenix College Ireland Study Abroad 2005 program at the Quest Campus located at the Charleville Castle in Tullamore, County Offlay, Ireland. Phoenix College Honors Community
Seminar - The Gifts of Ancient Greece Explore the modern society and culture for remnants of the civilization of Homer, Socrates and Alexander the Great with Phoenix College Honors Program adjunct faculty, Mary Schlueter.
The art gallery will sing with the vibrant paintings of these two native Arizona artists. O'Brien and Palmer, friends and artistic partners for more than a decade, present their recent works, ranging from images of desert landscapes to historic Phoenix architecture - with a few surprises in between. Both artists enjoy an ever-growing fan base and placement in private, public and corporate collections. Come and add some color to your life! The Perfect Pitch: Writing
the Nonfiction Book Proposal - Creative Writing Workshop with
Lori Pfeiffer and Pam Waterman Perfect your nonfiction book pitching skills with this writing workshop. Participants will be coached on all aspects of writing a book proposal; finding the saleable idea; researching the competition; writing sample chapters; writing an author bio; developing a marketing plan; writing a cover letter; and sizing up agents and publishers. Lori Pfeiffer, a public relations consultant and freelance writer, is the author of The Insiders' Guide to Phoenix, 2nd Edition and edits the Writing Arizona Newsletter. Her current book project is The Mother's Muse: Notes on Writing and Raising Children. Pam Waterman is the author of The Absolute Best Play Days and Jumpstart 5th Grade Activities; she is currently working on The Braces Cookbook. She also writes for Family Fun Magazine, Highlights for Children and Desktop Engineering (see www.theDiscoveryBox.com and www.EngineeringInk.com.) Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the many activities available on campus. For a complete listing of activities, call the Foreign Language Department at 602.285.7845. The Hero's Journey
- Creative Writing Workshop with Connie Flynn Learn how mythic story structure and character archetypes add power to your works of fiction. Flynn will explore heroes, mentors and threshold guardians, among others. Participants will learn how to create the ordinary world, take characters from the call and through their various challenges to eventually return with a prize. Connie Flynn's 10 novels span the romance sub-genres of fantasy, suspense and humor and several have been bestsellers in their genre. Her last novel received an award for best time-travel romance. Currently, she is developing a time-travel sorcery series that alternates between Arthurian England and modern Manhattan. To see more, visit www.connieflynn.com.
Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour
in October 1999 as a Washington-based senior correspondent responsible
for conducting newsmaker interviews, studio discussion and debates, reporting
from the field and serving as backup anchor. He also is an essayist for
BBC Radio, joining a group of US-based writers on a new program called
State of the Union. The weekly commentaries are the successor to
the late Alistair Cooke's Letter From America. He has more than
25 years of varied experience in the news business. South American Poetry
Tour - Creative Writing Workshop with Sarah Vap In the summer of 2005 Phoenix College English instructor Sarah Vap experienced a "poetry tour" of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Columbia and Brazil, meeting with poets and translators, and attending the Poetry Festival of Medellin, Colombia. She now returns to share the poetry, lessons, conversations, stories and translations of her trip. This workshop will include writing exercises, and a close look at translation, inspiration and intention with poetry. Sarah Vap received her MFA degree in Creative Writing at ASU in May 2005. A recipient of the ASU Graduate Scholar Award for 2001-2004, she teaches English composition courses and poetry creative writing courses at ASU and Phoenix College. She is an associate poetry editor at Hayden's Ferry Review and a recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Professional Development Grant, which allowed her to travel to Lithuania for the Europos Parkas Artists' Residency Program this past summer. She won first place in the 2003 Writers' Voice Poetry Competition. Phoenix College Honors Community
Seminar - Pilgrimage: Journey of Faith Take a journey to various pilgrimage locales in France, Spain and Portugal and discover their historical, cultural and philosophical meanings with Dr. Albert Celoza. Dr. Celoza is the Department Chair for Liberal Arts and teaches Political Science and Religious Studies at Phoenix College. Blown Glass Exhibit by Johanna
Dozer Johanna Dozer's work is held in many private collections and has appeared in galleries all along the East coast and in Arizona, including: New York, Connecticut, Maine, Scottsdale, and Sedona. Her artistry displays exciting design and exceptional vibrancy. Celebración de la
Cultura Latina Celebración de la Cultura Latina is a student and community variety show that depicts different regions of Latin America and their cultures. Voices From All Directions:
Multi-Genre Readings Come celebrate the written and spoken word. Durang, Durang Enjoy an evening of one-act plays by playwright Christopher Durang. Indulge in the humor of his parodies. Captivating Newsletters
and Announcements: The Art of Getting the Word Out in Your Community or
Neighborhood - Creative Writing Workshop with Christy Skeen Calling all freelancers, HOA
newsletter editors and nonprofit feature writers…Phoenix College
has a free workshop designed especially for you. If you have been given
the title of publicity chair or newsletter editor by members of an organization,
you do not want to miss this learning opportunity. Participants will discover
the basics of writing for a special community. Learn how to write captivating
newsletters that your neighbors or HOA members will read by turning one-sentence
announcements into compelling profiles or Christy Skeen, Phoenix College
communications coordinator, has received international, national and local
news coverage. She has written, assisted and edited a number of newsletters
and bulletins including: the West Virginia State Legislature's Wrap-Up
and Phoenix College Bear Tracks - online edition. She received
a
Bill Goodykoontz learned to read using his grandmother's books of Addams Family cartoons. That's as good an explanation as any for his sense of humor. The television critic and columnist for The Arizona Republic, Bill has never seen a single episode of Leave It To Beaver. He also spent a few years without a TV set. Thanks to Nick at Night and TV Land, it did not take long for him to catch up. Now he comments on anything and everything that is on TV. Bill Goodykoontz has been with The Arizona Republic since 1990. His first assignment was living in Kingman, covering the western part of the state. He has also served as a police reporter, government reporter, a sports columnist, and a general features columnist traveling to the Final Four, a few Super Bowls, Woodstock '94 and the National Spam-Carving Contest. Choral Showcase The Choral Showcase concert features guest choirs from around the valley in a "round robin" performance format with choirs from Phoenix College. The Geography of the
Foreign Voice and the Geography of Your Voice in Writing -
Creative Writing Workshop with Renee Rivers Writers summon that intangible something special about people and place when they tap into local language and customs. What local language and customs do you bring to your writing? Explore a sense of place and its people through selections of contemporary writings and translations of largely non-fiction (and some fiction), including. Africa's Alexandra Fuller, Chile's Isabel Allende, Turkey's Orhan Pamuk and Lithuania's Vanda Jukniate. Be ready to delve into writing, language and imagery exercises to locate your own local language and sense of place in writing. Renee Rivers holds a Master of Arts in College Composition and Rhetoric with a focus in creative nonfiction and personal memoir. She also holds a BA in German from Germany's prestigious Goethe-Institut and numerous Arizona teaching certifications including Music, German, English, ESL and Adult Education. Her passion for travel, writing and photography has caused her to take root in rural Alaska and Germany and to extensively travel Europe and Sough America. Phoenix College Honors Community
Seminar - There's Something Happening Here: Election Reform in the
United States Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Phoenix College, Eddie Genna will discuss contemporary election reform, including Clean Elections, the findings of the Carter-Baker Commission, and federal laws about campaign finance and new voting technologies. National French Week Celebrate National French Week with the many activities available on campus. For a complete listing of activities, call the Foreign Language Department at 602.285.7845. Mexican - American Lecture Mark your calendars for this year's Mexican-American Lecture. The annual lecture will feature a prominent member of the Mexican-American community. Speaker topic, and location will be determined closer to the event. Southwest Through Its Cultures,
History and Natural Resources Lecture Series: "Federal Indian Policy
in the 21st Century" - Presented by Kevin Gover The direction of Federal Indian
policy historically has swung wildly from policies intended to strengthen
tribal government and culture to policies attempting to destroy tribal
government and culture. The past 40 years have seen the creation of a
broad political consensus that Indian tribes are here to stay. If the
Indians' long battle for survival is indeed won, how should policy change Kevin Gover is a Professor of Law and an Affiliate Professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs under Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt from 1997-2001. While serving in this capacity he concentrated on upgrading Indian law enforcement, rebuilding Indian schools, reforming trust services and overhauling the Bureau of Indian Affairs management system. His eloquent apology to the nation's Indian Communities on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Bureau's founding won him wide approval in Indian country and Congressional praise. Transforming Oral History
into the Written Word - Creative Writing Workshop with Juli
Henshaw Personal histories have been
preserved through time, through photos and in the oral tradition of storytelling.
Think of your family or a long-term friendship. Each has at least one
orator (often more) and one keeper of this shared history. It is this
orator that recounts the same event(s) at each new meeting or gathering,
always bringing us to laughter or tears. This workshop will attempt to
define the oral tradition of storytelling and contrast it to the written.
Participants will briefly examine the similarities and differences of
each. Come Juli Henshaw, a fiction writer, received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has given previous workshops for the Phoenix College Creative Writing Program as well as writing workshops at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. Her most recent publication is forthcoming in The Hawaii Review. She is currently at work on a novel.
Valerie's artistic viewpoint shows her experience in composition and design, which she brings from technical fields where she created and printed circuit board artwork and architectural drafting. She has left the world of technology and has now edged her way into the fine art of watercolor by creating vivid paintings of flowers and illusions of fantasy. Valerie's distinct and expressive style is easily recognizable - her soul-stirring watercolor paintings bring her love of nature to life. She achieves a wonderful range of deep and masterful hues through her extraordinary sense and use of color. Each unique painting transcends imagination and is in itself a piece of paradise on earth. Maricopa Honors Lecture
Series - Popular Culture: Shaping and Reflecting Who We Are - "Discovering
the Truth About 'Beauty' in Popular Culture" - Camille Cooper Camille Cooper has worked professionally in film and television for the past 10 years, starring in five motion pictures and more than 10 television series including General Hospital and Knots Landing. She has been featured in numerous commercials and print ads. Ms. Cooper has co-chaired the Committee for Empowerment of Young Women since 1994, and has lectured across the country, educating and encouraging young women to question what they see, to define themselves by their abilities and dreams, and to take action to promote positive change. New Voices: Multi-Genre
Readings by Creative Writing Students Enjoy and celebrate the written and spoken word. The Resistible Rise of
Arturo Ui A morality play by the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht that is a chillingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his henchmen on the one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the other. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a "protection" campaign. His henchmen look astonishingly like Goebbels and Goering. Their activities include "accidental" fires and a St. Valentine's Day massacre. Experience a grotesque parable of one of the twentieth century's most infamous persons. Writer, Edit Yourself:
Part I - Creative Writing Workshop with Lori Pfeiffer and Sonya Goodwin
Hemmings This self-editing workshop for magazine and nonfiction writers helps you tune up your writing. You'll learn how to spot and troubleshoot common article problems, as well as get a grip on your grammar, find the fact-checking fast track, smooth out transitions, tighten up text and pump up your prose. With a little diligence, you will have your editors smiling in no time. Lori Pfeiffer is an award-winning freelance writer and author whose credits include Arizona Highways, Phoenix Magazine, Black Enterprise and Working Woman. Sonya Goodwin Hemmings edited America West Airlines Magazine for 10 years and currently writes for bizAZ, TechConnect and the San Jose Mercury News. Happy Holidays Concert Celebrate with the McConnell Singers at their annual concert as they entice the audience with a mix of traditional and new music for the holiday season. New Voices: Multi-Genre
Readings by Creative Writing Students Enjoy and celebrate the written and spoken word. Student Holiday Art Sale The Student Holiday Art Sale includes many items created by Phoenix College students. This is a wonderful opportunity to do your holiday shopping and purchase that one-of-a-kind gift. Items for sale include: ceramics, photography, paintings, jewelry and various other arts and crafts. Songs of the Season The Voices of Phoenix College will present their musical celebration for the season. Some surprising musical "gifts" will be featured.
The Phoenix College community will light up the night with illuminating candles to celebrate an ancient Mexican Christmas tradition - Las Posadas. This event is a 30-year Phoenix College tradition. It will feature Mariachi music, a candlelight procession, caroling, piñatas and hot chocolate. Writer, Edit Yourself:
Part 2 - Creative Writing Workshop with Lori Pfeiffer and Kate Cross This second self-editing workshop is geared toward fiction writers with emphasis on grammar problems and awkward constructions. Write so that people will want to read your work! Practice smoothing and polishing your sentences. Bring a brief writing sample you would like to emulate and it will be critiqued. Lori Pfeiffer is an award-winning freelance writer and author whose credits include Arizona Highways, Phoenix Magazine, Black Enterprise and Working Woman. Kate Cross, Coordinator of the Phoenix College Creative Writing Program, is both a fiction writer and screenwriter. She has developed and taught many creative writing courses and is currently at work on a novel. |
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Places:
Two Approaches with Color by Liz O'Brien and Barbara Palmer
Maricopa
Honors Lecture Series - Popular Culture: Shaping and Reflecting Who We
Are - "The Old Subdivision: American Life and American Culture in
the First Suburban Century" - Ray Suarez
Maricopa
Honors Lecture Series - Popular Culture: Shaping and Reflecting Who We
Are - "Birth, School, Work, Death: Television as Ubiquitous Popular
Culture" - Bill Goodykoontz
Vivid
Illusions by Valerie Toliver
Las
Posadas