Featured News | June 12, 2015
Our creative colleagues down the road at Colorado State University are holding a “Crisis and Creativity” symposium July 22-24 in Fort Collins. Presenters include poets, artists, educators, environmental scientists and activists. According to organizer, poet and CSU professor Dan Beachy-Quick: “We’re concerned with the ways in which creativity, be it in words or in making, experiment in lab or on page, are required to have an open, honest, attentive engagement with the world.”
Here’s more info:
Crisis and Creativity Symposium at Colorado State University: Collaboration of the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences
Seeking ways to reinvigorate the conversation between the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, from July 22-24 we’ll be holding a symposium at Colorado State University. Organized by CSU professor Dan Beachy-Quick and made possible with funds from the Monfort Professorship generously awarded to Beachy-Quick, the symposium will focus on bringing together artists, writers, scientists, and scholars from multiple fields, not simply to present ideas already formed, but to gather together and consider new approaches to dealing with today’s most pressing difficulties.
Of the symposium, Dan Beachy-Quick says, “Our hope is to re-integrate the Arts into the largest concerns facing us today, from ecological disaster to social injustice, holding to the old belief that in the arts we have the longest, most comprehensive record of what is to be human and face situations where our humanity is threatened—often by our own hands. We’re concerned with the ways in which creativity, be it in words or in making, experiment in lab or on page, are required to have an open, honest, attentive engagement with the world.”
Guests invited from across the country will assemble in Fort Collins to study and collaborate with esteemed poet and activist Brenda Hillman, visionary artist Michael Swaine, and CSU’s own and pre-eminent environmental scientist Diana Wall. Morning sessions, guided by Hillman, Swaine, and Wall, will give way in the afternoon and evening to events open to the public. Each afternoon will feature a “maker’s space” in which invited participants and interested community members will have the chance to collaborate on a variety of projects addressing the driving concerns of the symposium: crisis and creativity. Evening events include a reading from Brenda Hillman and a panel discussion, moderated by Dan Beachy-Quick, with the three featured guests.
Events open to the public (all events on CSU campus):
Wednesday, July 22
Thursday, July 23
Friday, July 24
For more information, please find our website http://crisisandcreativity.org and/or contact us at info@crisisandcreativity.org.
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