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This January, UCF will celebrate The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, the debut novel of African journalist and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Dinaw Mengestu. Events include an art exhibition, play, book clubs, lectures, artist talks and book signing. Woven throughout these events is the goal of revitalizing reading as a shared community initiative. UCF, in collaboration with the […]

Coco Fusco, Professor and Banks Preeminent Chair in Art at the University of Florida, is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the […]

Susan Shillinglaw, Professor of English at San Jose State University, Director of the National Steinbeck Center, and author of Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage, On Reading The Grapes of Wrath, and A Journey into Steinbeck’s California, will discuss Steinbeck and the legacy of The Grapes of Wrath. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, […]

Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch, Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 and No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor will discuss her award-winning book The Fruits of Their […]

Dale Slongwhite will discuss her book, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food, which presents oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives were forever altered by one of the most disturbing pesticide exposure incidents in United States’ history. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816 Date: Wed, Mar […]

Cesar Cornejo, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at the University of South Florida and Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Sculpture Space-grantee will discuss his artistic practice. Event Location: University of Central Florida Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816 Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 Time: 10:00am […]

Dr. John Fauth, Associate Professor of Biology at UCF and expert in ecology, evolution, conservation and restoration biology, and herpetology, will give a talk on environmental issues effecting the Econ River. Pick up your complementary copy of The Grapes of Wrath at the talk. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL […]

Join us for a celebration of John Steinbeck’s 115th birthday and the opening reception of “’In the Eyes of the Hungry’: Florida’s Changing Landscape.” Inspired by The Grapes of Wrath, this exhibition seeks to inspire and contribute to conversations about demographic, geographic, and environmental shifts, with an emphasis on human relationships with the landscape. The […]

Join us in the foyer of the John C. Hitt Library on the campus of UCF to Kick-off the Big Read @ UCF 2017. Come by to pick up a schedule of events and copy of The Grapes of Wrath. Event Location: University of Central Florida John Hitt C. LIbrary, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, […]

A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Managed by Arts Midwest, this initiative offers grants to support innovative community reading programs designed around a single book. The Big Read supports organizations across […]