Friday, October 15, 2010

Fabiola Nabil Naguib Reads at UBC Green College

VANCOUVER — The second session of Play Chthonics promises to be another evening filled with inspiration as Fabiola Nabil Naguib share her energy, art, and creative thought. Please arrive on time as seating is limited.

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free

Fabiola Nabil Naguib is an artist, writer, and activist and she profoundly integrates these roles in all of her work. Her first book, Uninhabiting the Violence of Silencing: activations of creativity, ethics, and resistance (Creativity Commons Press, 2007), fuses poetry, critical essays, and art work. She has published in multidisciplinary anthologies and journals such as Collision: Interarts Practice and Research (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), Fuse, Yishu, Writing for Our Lives and Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence, and her work is also forthcoming in collections such as Planetarity, Creativity and Social Justice: An Intra/International Collection of Critical and Creative Writings (Creativity Commons Press, 2011). Naguib has contributed to numerous projects and interventions in Cairo, New Delhi, Havana, Paris, Oujda, Dhaka, Florence, Pasadena, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal. In 2010, Naguib was awarded the Usamah Ansari Creative Justice Award.

***Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lee Maracle is unable to attend.

The Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, and community members in Vancouver. The series is supported by the Canada Council and the following UBC institutions and programs: the International Canadian Studies Centre, Green College, the Department of English, the First Nations Studies Program, the Program for Critical Studies in Sexuality, and the Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry. We gratefully acknowledge their assistance.

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