Kick Off at the UCF Library
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, FL 32816
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Opening Reception “’In the Eyes of the Hungry’: Florida’s Changing Landscape”
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 selected artists provide immediate yet transcendental responses to the environment that explore ideas such as conservation, migration, agriculture, poverty, homelessness, and local food security. Exhibiting artists include: Cesar Cornejo, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Mark Messersmith, Noelle Mason, Donald Martin, Carl Knickerbocker, Brooks Dierdorff, Arthur Rothstein, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, and Gordon Parks. The UCF Art Gallery is free and open to the public Monday – Friday from 10am to 5pm. The exhibition will be at the UCF Art Gallery 2/27-3/3 and at the Terrace Gallery at Orlando City Hall 3/13-4/23.
Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Lecture “Environmental Concerns and the Little Econ”
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 32816
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Artist Talk: Cesar Cornejo
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 – 11:15am
Lecture and Book Signing: Dale Slongwhite, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food
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 1, 2017
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lecture and Book Signing Cindy Hahamovitch, “The Fruits of Their Labor”
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 Labor. A panel discussion and reception hosted by Scot French, Director of Public History at UCF, and featuring Connie Lester, Director of RICHES, and Robert Cassanello, Associate Professor of History, will follow Dr. Hahamovitch’s lecture.
Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816
Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Key Note Lecture: Susan Shillinglaw, “The Legacy of Steinbeck”
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, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816
Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2017
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Screening and Q + A with Coco Fusco
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 American Self (2003), A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008), and Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015). Recipient of the 2016 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art, a 2014 Cintas Fellowship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Fusco’s work explores the relationship between women and society, war, politics, and race. Fusco will screen her latest film followed by Q+A.
Event Location: Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803
Date: Fri, Mar 31, 2017
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
UCF Celebrates the Arts
The Big Read at UCF is sponsoring several events as part of UCF Celebrates the Arts. See http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/ for a complete listing of events.
Event Location: Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts , 445 S Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL 32801