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Nigerian writer Chris Abani will keynote Syracuse University’s 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. CelebrationJanuary 02, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Chris Abani, an award-winning writer who as a teenager in Nigeria was imprisoned for his fiction, will give the keynote address at…

Point of Contact celebrates 30 years of publishing with anniversary anthology co-published with SU PressDecember 06, 2006Tere Paniaguatpaniagu@syr.edu The Point of Contact Gallery recently hosted a 30th-anniversary bash in which luminaries from the literary and academic communities gathered to commemorate…

Community Folk Art Center presents ‘Three Brothers: The Art of Oren Lyons, Rick Hill and Tracy Thomas’ beginning Dec. 9November 27, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., a unit of the Department of African…

SU hosts Baba Brinkman’s ‘The Rap Canterbury Tales’ Nov. 29November 19, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University is sponsoring a performance of “The Rap Canterbury Tales” by…

Joy Harjo performs as part of Syracuse SymposiumNovember 10, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Internationally acclaimed poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo plays saxophone for the audience during her performance Nov. 9. Harjo visited campus as a guest of the 2006 Syracuse…

Civic writing course traverses Atlantic; participants from United Kingdom visit SU Nov. 13November 09, 2006Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu In the beginning of the Spring 2006 semester, Steve Parks, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the Writing Program in The College of…

Syracuse University in Florence joins SUArt Galleries to debut new gallery, exhibitionNovember 07, 2006Daeya Malboeufdmking04@syr.edu Syracuse University in Florence (SUF) and SUArt Galleries have joined together to launch the new SUF Gallery and its debut exhibition, “Visual Poetry: Quinto Martini’s…

Espaillat to deliver 2006 Stephen Crane Memorial Lecture Oct. 26October 26, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Acclaimed poet Rhina P. Espaillat will deliver the 2006 Stephen Crane Memorial Lecture Thursday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. at the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center….

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chris Wedge is next guest of Syracuse Symposium on Nov. 1October 25, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Award-winning filmmaker Chris Wedge will bring his perspective on the magic of animation to the 2006 Syracuse Symposium, “Imagination,” presented by Syracuse…

SU Women’s Choir hosts fifth annual Invitational Women’s Choir Festival Oct. 28, culminates with free concertOctober 16, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Syracuse University Women’s Choir, under the direction of College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) instructor Barbara M. Tagg,…