2,283 research outputs found
Oral History Interview, Carla Trujillo (1504)
No full textIn this interview, Carla Trujillo discusses her roots, which include being born in New Mexico and growing up in Northern California. Carla received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Psychology from UW-Madison and became an established author. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.Carla Trujillo was born to a working class family in New Mexico and grew up in Northern California. Her extended family and roots are New Mexican (Chicana). She received her B.S. degree in Human Development from UC Davis, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her dissertation focused on assessing differential treatment of underrepresented students in college classrooms. She is the editor of Living Chicana Theory and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (Third Woman Press), winner of a Lambda Book Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Her first novel, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003), won the Miguel Marmol prize focusing on human rights. What Night Brings also won the Paterson Fiction Prize, the Latino Literary Foundation Latino Book Award, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Carla has also written various articles on identity and higher education. Her latest novel, Faith and Fat Chances, was a finalist for the 2012 PEN Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction and is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press. Carla works as the Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity Program at U.C. Berkeley and has focused some of her recent activities on improving the work and classroom climate using Interactive Theater. She has lectured in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and Mills College, and in Women’s Studies at S.F. State University. She has also taught fiction for the Sandra Cisneros Macondo Writers Program and the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writers Program
Writers Talk Featuring Carla Buckley, Sarah Gridley, Paula McLain
No full textFeaturing Paula McLain, author of the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses; poet Sarah Gridley; and Carla Buckley, author of the novel The Things that Keep us Here.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw11/New_Voices-Carla_Buckley_Sarah_Gridley_Paula_McLain.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
ACTivism interview | Gavin Krastin
No full textInterview with performance artist Gavin Krastin, as part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics. This interview specifically focusses on the use of nudity as a means of radical engagement, and explores notions of performance both on stage and in everyday life. Informal Zoom meeting on 2022-02-03, edited in line with interviewee's redactions. </div
ACTivism interview | Haroon Gunn-Salie
No full textInterview with artist and activist Haroon Gunn-Salie focussing on the role, responsibilities of and repercussions for the artist/activist in society. The interview speaks particularly to the artist's 2013 work "Zonnebloem Renamed" as a site-specific form of occupation activism, and forms part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics.
Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-12-17.
Please be advised this interview contains the use of strong language.</p
ACTivism interview | Neil Coppen
No full textInterview with Empatheatre co-founder and theatre Director Neil Coppen. The interview focusses on Empatheatre's 2019 performance 'Boxes,' which engaged themes of spatial justice and gentrification in the City of Cape Town. This interview forms part of Dr Carla Lever's research into occupation as a form of protest, and engages with the notion of activism as performance, and performance as activism.Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-11-19.</div
ACTivism interview | Sibongile Mngoma
No full textInterview with Opera Singer and arts activist Sibongile Mngoma. This interview focusses on her March/April 2021 protest occupation of the NAC offices in Johannesburg, and reflects on the value of liveness in protest, as well as the skillsets that trained performers can bring to political dissent. It forms part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics.
Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-07-26.</p
ACTivism interview | Kelly-Eve Koopman and Sarah Summers
No full textInterview with activist storytellers Sarah Summers and Kelly-Eve Koopman, as part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics. This interview asks Summers and Koopman to reflect on their 2020 experience occupying a Camps Bay mansion as part of the 'We See You' radical queer collective. The discussion considers the power of creative praxis within political intervention strategies. Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-12-14.</div
ACTivism interview | Greg Karvellas
No full textInterview with ex-Fugard Artistic Director Greg Karvellas, focussing on the negotiation of nude scenes in his production of Athol Fugard's "Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act" at the Fugard Theatre (17 September - 26 October 2019) and the KKNK festival (21 - 26 March 2019). The interview, which explores contemporary morality and reactions to a classic piece of Apartheid-era protest theatre, forms part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics.
Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-06-30. </p
ACTivism interview | Kim Kerfoot
No full textInterview with theatre director Kim Kerfoot, focusing on the negotiation of nude scenes in two iterations of his production of Athol Fugard's "Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act" - one at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective independent venue (2 - 5 November 2011), and one at the Fugard Theatre (24 February - 18 February 2012). The interview, which explores contemporary morality and reactions to a classic piece of Apartheid-era protest theatre, forms part of Dr Carla Lever's research into repertoires of shock in South African performance and politics.
Informal Zoom meeting on 2021-07-23.</p
My First Pop-Up Book of Fables: Little Simon
No full textI find the text in this nice little pop-up particularly succinct and pithy. My favorite pop-up shows one arm and one leg of the lion moving outside the net that is holding him in. One of a set of four from an unusual dealer specializing in pop-ups.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Carla Dij
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