Join us on Monday, June 3rd, 2024 at the Civitella Ranieri Castle for Presentations by Corinne de San Jose, Thomas Urquhart & L. Lamar Wilson. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 5:45 PM. Please note that Presentations will start earlier than usual at 6:00 PM.
Corinne de San Jose
Visual Arts, Philippines
Corinne De San Jose is an interdisciplinary artist and film sound designer based in Manila, Philippines. She works in a range of medium from photography-based processes to sound pieces and installations, often using found objects or outmoded forms of communication, juxtaposing them with current and imagined technologies to create new systems of storytelling. She utilizes complex processes and repetition to document ideas around the female body and gaze, exploring other scopes of identity such as her own domesticity and habitation within the nature of systemic social values in her culture.
Thomas Urquhart
Writing, UK/USA, Director’s Guest
Thomas Urquhart has spent half his life in England and half in the US. His career has also been split between arts management and wildlife conservation. He was director of the Maine Audubon Society when he wrote his first book, a collection of essays on nature and culture. For the Beauty of the Earth was named a Best Book of 2004 by the L.A. Times. His most recent book Up For Grabs is a history of Maine’s public lands. Thomas has written on environment and culture for European and American journals and has been a scholar at the American Academy in Rome and Hawthornden Castle. He lives in Maine.
L. Lamar Wilson
Writing, USA
L. Lamar Wilson is the author of Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press, 2013), a Thom Gunn Award finalist, and associate producer of The Changing Same (PBS/POV Shorts, 2019). His work is published widely, including in This Is the Honey (Hatchette, 2024), Bigger than Bravery (Lookout Books, 2022), the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times, Oxford American, and Poetry. Wilson, an Affrilachian Poet, has received fellowships from the Cave Canem, Hurston-Wright, and Ragdale foundations. He teaches creative writing and African American poetics.
Monday, June 3rd, 2024
5:45 PM Welcome cocktail
6:00 PM Presentations
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