Creative Counterpoints

Creative Counterpoints is an annual program that I founded in 2016 at MassArt. Each CC program explores converging narratives of creativity and difference by artists, writers, educators, and creative thinkers.

Creative Counterpoints 2021: Uprooted/Translated

Artist Scherezade Garcia &

Writer Valeria Luiselli

WEDNESDAY MARCH 24, 2021 6-7:30PM

A LIVESTREAM READING & ARTIST TALK

MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN

Creative Counterpoints 2021: Uprooted/Translated feature a conversation between two prominent women creatives, who employ their talent to tell contemporary postcolonial narratives of border-crossings, voluntary and forced uprooting and transplanting: Artist Scherezade Garcia and writer Valeria Luiselli. Their work bears witness to the agency and transformation that are possible through creative acts of cultural translation.

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Trans*: Representing the Transgender Body on Screen

Dr. Jack Halberstam_Creative Counterpoin

This year’s CCs program features a public talk and conversation with Dr. Jack Halberstam, Visiting Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University, and author of

Trans*A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018)

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

6:30-8:30pm MassArt Tower Auditorium

621 Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115

Reception to follow

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