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X-WR-CALNAME:Lest Silence Be Destructive: A Celebration of Chicana Feminism
  and the Work of Helena María Viramontes
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DESCRIPTION:A morning a panel of scholars will discuss Chicana feminism and
  Helena María Viramontes’s central role in its development. Afternoon r
 eadings feature Cornell alumni Manuel Muñoz and Jeanine Capó Crucet. The
  day will be crowned with a reading by Professor Viramontes and a staged r
 eading of Vicki Grise’s adaptation of Their Dogs Came with Them.\n\nPlea
 se also join us Friday\, October 20 for a special work in progress viewing
  of Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind.\n\nThe following schedule of 
 events takes place at the A.D. White House.\n\n9:30am: The Impact and Lega
 cy of Helena María Viramontes \n\nJohn Alba Cutler\, Associate Professor 
 of English\, University of California\, BerkeleyDean Franco\, Winifred W. 
 Palmer Professor of English\, Wake Forest UniversityRosaura Sanchez\, Prof
 essor Emerita of Latin American and Chicano Literature\, University of Cal
 ifornia\, San Diego1:30pm: Tribute to Helena María Viramontes by Cherríe
  Moraga\, poet\, playwright-director\, writer-essaying\, educator and cult
 ural activitist\n\n2:00pm: Reading by Manuel Muñoz\, MFA ‘98\n\nManuel 
 Muñoz’s most recent collection of short stories\, The Consequences\, wa
 s a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and longlisted for the Sto
 ry Prize. He is the author of two previous collections of short stories\, 
 Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue\, which was shortlisted for
  the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and a novel\,
  What You See in the Dark. Muñoz is the recipient the 2023 Joyce Carol Oa
 tes Prize. He has been recognized with a Whiting Writer’s Award\, three 
 O. Henry Awards\, and two selections in Best American Short Stories\, and 
 was awarded the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. A native of Dinuba\, Califor
 nia\, Muñoz has been on the faculty of the University of Arizona’s crea
 tive writing program since 2008.3:30pm:  Reading by Jennine Capó Crucet\,
  BA '03  \n\nJennine Capó Crucet is a novelist\, essayist\, and screenwri
 ter. A recipient of an O. Henry Prize and a former Contributing Opinion Wr
 iter for The New York Times\, she’s the author of three books: the novel
  Make Your Home Among Strangers\, which won the International Latino Book 
 Award\; the multiple award-winning story collection How to Leave Hialeah\;
  and the essay collection My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinish
 ed Education\, long-listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. Born and raised in
  Miami to Cuban parents\, her fourth book\, a novel titled Say Hello To My
  Little Friend\, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.4:30pm:  Reading by 
 Helena María Viramontes\, followed by Q&A with Paula Moya\, PhD ’98\, D
 anily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities\, Stanford Univ
 ersity\n\nHelena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other St
 ories and two novels\, Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came With Th
 em.  She has also co-edited with Maria Herrera Sobek\, two collections: Ch
 icana (W) rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. A 
 recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including the John Dos Passos Aw
 ard for Literature\, and a United States Artist Fellowship\, her short sto
 ries and essays have been widely anthologized and her writings have been a
 dopted for classroom use and university study. Her work is the subject of 
 a critical reader titled Rebozos De Palabras edited by Gabrielle Gutierrez
  y Muhs and published by the University of Arizona Press. A community orga
 nizer and former coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association
 \, she is a frequent reader and lecturer in the U.S. and internationally. 
 Currently she is completing a draft of her third novel\, The Cemetery Boys
 .7:00pm: Staged reading of excerpts of Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena
  María Viramontes\, adapted adapted for the stage by Virginia Grise\n\nPe
 rformers: Karen Jaime\, Deb Vargas\, Cherríe Moraga\, Belinda Rincón\, a
 nd Manuel MuñozVirginia Grise writes plays set in bars without windows\, 
 barrio rooftops\, and lesbian bedrooms. She is a recipient of the Alpert A
 ward in the Arts\, Yale Drama Award\, Whiting Writers’ Award\, and the P
 rincess Grace Award in Theatre Directing. Her published work includes Your
  Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press)\, blu (Yale University Press)
 \, The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas 
 Press) and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations
  with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press). Her interdisciplinary body of work i
 ncludes plays\, multimedia performance\, dance theater\, performance insta
 llations\, guerilla theater\, site specific interventions\, and community 
 gatherings. She is a founding member of a todo dar productions\, an alumna
 e of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab\, the Women's Project Theatre Lab & 
 the NALAC Leadership Institute. Grise has been a Hodder Fellow at Princeto
 n University\, a Matakyev Research Fellow for the Imagination in the Borde
 rlands at Arizona State University\, a Jerome Fellow at the Playwright’s
  Center\, and a Herberger Institute Projecting All Voices Fellow at Arizon
 a State University. Currently\, she is the Mellon Foundation Playwright in
  Residence at Cara Mia Theatre. Virginia has taught writing for performanc
 e at the university level\, as a public school teacher\, in community cent
 ers\, women’s prisons and in the juvenile correction system. She holds a
 n MFA in Writing for Performance from the California Institute of the Arts
 .\n\nThis event is presented by the Department of Literatures in English /
  Creative Writing Program and sponsored by Minority\, Indigenous & Third W
 orld Studies (MITWS) at Cornell University.
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LOCATION:A. D. White House\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY:Lest Silence Be Destructive: A Celebration of Chicana Feminism and 
 the Work of Helena María Viramontes
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/lest_silence_be_destructive
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