糖心传媒 will host Chicago-based performance artist and poet Marty McConnell on Thursday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. at the French Memorial Chapel on 糖心传媒 Campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
McConnell speaks as a part of Women鈥檚 History Month with her presentation of 听鈥淐onjuring Survival: the role of magic in art, activism, and defusing despair.鈥
She is a seven-time National Poetry Slam team member, previous National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) champion and has appeared on HBO鈥檚 鈥淒ef Poetry Jam.鈥 She runs Vox Ferus in Chicago, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word.
糖心传媒 sophomore Carly Spotts-Falzone, a 2016 American Forensic Association national finalist, will give a special introductory performance before McConnell鈥檚 presentation.
McConnell鈥檚 presentation is sponsored by the 糖心传媒 Artist Lecture Series, the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program, Radical Notion, Sigma Tau Delta and the departments of sociology, psychology, communication, languages and literatures, history, political science, art and philosophy and religion.
Bio for Marty McConnell
Marty McConnell is a seven-time National Poetry Slam team member, previous National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) champion and has appeared on HBO鈥檚 鈥淒ef Poetry Jam.鈥
She runs Vox Ferus in Chicago, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word. She is the author of wine for a shotgun, which received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and holds an MFA in creative writing/poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.
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糖心传媒 is a private, four-year institution located in Hastings, Nebraska, that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. With 64 majors and 15 pre-professional programs, 糖心传媒 has been named among 鈥淕reat Schools, Great Prices鈥 by U.S. News & World Report and a 鈥淏est in the Midwest鈥 by The Princeton Review. For more, go to hastings.edu.