'Without Margins' Theme of 2015 Arts Fest
Author: News Bureau
Posted: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:27 PM
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College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty/Staff
Macon, GA
This year is the first time the festival has combined with the MGA Undergraduate Conference to create one unified event focused on the fine arts, research and writing. The 2015 Festival will feature: Spoken Word, Blogging, Digital Art, Found Art, Graffiti Art, Digital Publishing and more.
The keynote speaker is Amanda Golden, a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology and previously holder of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Ashgate, 2015) and the editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UP of Florida, 2016). She is also the Book Review Editor for Woolf Studies Annual and has published in Modernism/Modernity, Virginia Woolf and Twentieth Century Women Writers, Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers’ Libraries: A Handbook, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, Plath Profiles and Woolf Studies Annual. She will speak from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Friday, March 20, in the College of Arts and Sciences building theater.
The rest of the schedule:
9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 17, "Color Theory and You," project with MGA art professor Lee Simmons, College of Arts and Sciences building theater.
2 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, Vine Competition Workshop, College of Arts and Sciences building room 124.
11 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, "Blogging with Nicole Thurston," College of Arts and Sciences theater. Thurston, a blogger, freelance writer and Executive Director of the Cannonball House, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Georgia College & State University, with a Minor in International Studies.She previously worked as a Radio DJ for two years in Milledgeville and later as the 5 p.m. and Special Projects Producer for 13WMAZ. She won the Associated Press Award for Best Public Affairs Reporting for the documentary, “Faces of Freedom” and a Gabby Award for Excellence in Broadcasting (Georgia Association of Broadcasters).
2 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, 2015 Fall Line Review Release Party, College of Arts and Sciences building lobby.
11 a.m. Thursday, March 19, Novel and Self-Publishing Workshop with Robin Grant, Macon Campus Library Lab. Writing the novel is just the first step. Then comes publishing. Today’s publishing world is changing so rapidly it’s hard to keep up. There are more opportunities than ever—but also more challenges. In this workshop, author and Middle Georgia State College Librarian Robin Johns Grant will give you information about different types of novel publishing and help you decide if self-publishing is best for you. She will also give you the basics on how to get started with indie publishing, what’s involved, how much it costs, and how much you might expect to earn. Grant has been writing for decades and has published two novels over the past year, using two different methods. Learn from her successes and mistakes in this workshop.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 20, Undergraduate Conference, including student panels and keynote speaker Amanda Golden, registration in College of Arts and Sciences building lobby. Yolanda “Y-O” Latimore will be the lunch speaker from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Latimore is a Poet, Entrepreneur, Historian, Writer and Community Activist and is known as Y-O to many. She is the founder and director of Poetic Peace Arts, since 2003. This year, in August, will mark the 11-year anniversary of this arts organization which provides open mic sessions, reading theaters, literacy workshops and more for schools, recreational centers and other venues in the Middle Georgia area.
For more information on the MGA Arts Festival and Undergraduate Conference contact Dr. Sheree Keith at sheree.keith@mga.edu, Dr. Shane Trayers at shane.trayers@mga.edu or Dr. Kelly Whiddon at kelly.whiddon@mga.edu.