FALL 2009
Friday, October 9 and Thursday, November 5
Seventeenth Annual Lesbian Looks Film Series
Three great films over two nights: STRAIGHTLACED, PARIAH and DROOL.
Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project: COMMUNITY HISTORIES Launch!
N. Park Ave. & East 4th St., Room 105
Jamie A. Lee, award-winning documentary filmmaker, will present the launch of this groundbreaking archive. The purpose of the Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project is to develop a record that documents the memories, historical movements, struggles, triumphs and perspectives of the individuals that make up the diverse LGBT communities living in Arizona for the benefit of present as well as future generations. The Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project is a Pan Left production / Jamie A. Lee project.
Learn more about this project in the Research section of this website.
Read article in UA News: UA Hosting, Screening LGBT Storytelling Project
Event sponsors include the Institute for LGBT Studies; Oral History Cluster; Southwest Center; Mexican American and Raza Studies; Gender & Women's Studies, English Department and the RCTE Program; and the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth & Families.
Special thanks to Pan Left Productions; the Alliance Fund of Southern Arizona; Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC); the University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies & its Oral History Cluster; Wingspan; Odyssey Storytelling; and all those who have volunteered to tell our stories as well as those who are learning to use digital video equipment to gather our stories.
The Institute for LGBT Studies Oral History Cluster Presents:
Towards a Post-Documentary Sensibility: The Democratic
Uses of a Broadened Conception of Method in Oral History.
Chavez 104
Public lecture by visiting scholar Dr. Michael Frisch and reception to follow.
Michael Frisch is Professor and Senior Research Scholar in American Studies at University of Buffalo, New York. He is current president of the Oral History Association and author of numerous books including: A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History.
Between the Raw and The Cooked in Oral History: A Workshop in
The Kitchen
SBSRI Computer Lab
Visiting scholar Dr. Michael Frisch (see bio info provided with November 19th event) will lead a hands-on workshop about working with interviews, indexing, editing etc.
Participants must pre-register for this workshop and space is limited!
Please contact Rosario Carrillo at carrillo@email.arizona.edu for further information.