2008 Woodie Awards
Happenings
Issue date: 2/1/05 Section: Happenings
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Chabon coming to DU
The Post-News Pen and Podium Series is presenting author Michael Chabon on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Gates Hall in the Newman Center.
Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Tickets may be purchased in the Newman Center box office or through Ticketmaster.
Call x17720 for more information.
Fiction reading Friday
The Creative Writing Program, the English Department and the Office of the Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is sponsoring a reading by fiction author Aleksandar Hemon in Sturm Hall, room 286 Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Hemon's work grapples with the traumas of exile and ethnic conflict. Hemon's Nowhere Man, a novel-in-stories, follows the circuitous path of a young Bosnian refugee with an appropriately circuitous narrative form. The reading is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Brian Kiteley at bkiteley@du.edu.
African extravaganza
DU will be celebrating the second annual African Extravaganza Thursday, Feb. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Centennial Towers.
The event will feature African food, dance, music and culture and is scheduled to coincide with Black History Month. It is free and open to the public.
Logo-Ligi, a traditional African dance and drumming ensamble, will perform and local African restaurants will offer foods from regions including Ethiopia and Morocco. African speakers will highlight cultural traditions and happenings in their regions.
Karambu Ringera, founder of the NGO Peace Initiatives International Africa, will serve as the hostess of ceremonies.
African organizations representing numerous local and national agencies will host tables to display literature and folk crafts. Denver Sister Cities Project will highlight work in the African cities of Nairobi and Axum.
Nhimbe, an African community development group, will display crafts made by Zimbabwe villagers, with all proceeds going to the villagers.
The Post-News Pen and Podium Series is presenting author Michael Chabon on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Gates Hall in the Newman Center.
Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Tickets may be purchased in the Newman Center box office or through Ticketmaster.
Call x17720 for more information.
Fiction reading Friday
The Creative Writing Program, the English Department and the Office of the Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is sponsoring a reading by fiction author Aleksandar Hemon in Sturm Hall, room 286 Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Hemon's work grapples with the traumas of exile and ethnic conflict. Hemon's Nowhere Man, a novel-in-stories, follows the circuitous path of a young Bosnian refugee with an appropriately circuitous narrative form. The reading is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Brian Kiteley at bkiteley@du.edu.
African extravaganza
DU will be celebrating the second annual African Extravaganza Thursday, Feb. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Centennial Towers.
The event will feature African food, dance, music and culture and is scheduled to coincide with Black History Month. It is free and open to the public.
Logo-Ligi, a traditional African dance and drumming ensamble, will perform and local African restaurants will offer foods from regions including Ethiopia and Morocco. African speakers will highlight cultural traditions and happenings in their regions.
Karambu Ringera, founder of the NGO Peace Initiatives International Africa, will serve as the hostess of ceremonies.
African organizations representing numerous local and national agencies will host tables to display literature and folk crafts. Denver Sister Cities Project will highlight work in the African cities of Nairobi and Axum.
Nhimbe, an African community development group, will display crafts made by Zimbabwe villagers, with all proceeds going to the villagers.