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Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
SOURCE: Ellen Cantor, Reading Together coordinator, (541) 463-3660, cantore@lanecc.edu
For release January 9, 2006
LCC's Reading Together hosts Warm Springs poet Elizabeth Woody
EUGENE - Elizabeth Woody, poet, essayist, member of the Warm Springs Tribe, and director of the Indigenous Leadership Program at Ecotrust in Portland will read from her work at Lane Community College on Thursday, January 19, from 10-11:15 a.m., in the Center for Meeting and Learning, Building 19, Room 104, main campus in Eugene at 4000 E. 30th Avenue. An afternoon Q&A will follow from 1-2 p.m., same location. The public is welcome and admission is free.
Woody will speak to this year's Reading Together theme, "Circling Home: Stories and Sustainable Communities." She will discuss cultural values and her sense of what constitutes a sustainable community in a whole sense-social, spiritual, political, cultural, historical, and ecological. She'll consider the role that story plays in this process.
Woody limits her public appearances and decided to visit Lane because of the college's programs and services for Native students, says Reading Together coordinator Ellen Cantor. "This is a rare opportunity for the college and local community."
Reading Together engages students and the community in the reading of the same books under a common theme, accompanied by discussions and events. This year's theme is "Circling Home: Stories and Sustainable Communities," and the selections are Terry Tempest Williams' memoir, "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" and Lucille Clifton's, "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000." Reading Together is in its third year. For more information, contact Cantor at (541) 463-3660 or visit the web at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/readingtogether/
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