MEDIA CONTACT: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu
BOCA RATON, FL (September 6, 2006) - The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will present a lecture and activities to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Monday, September 11 from noon to 2 p.m. The events will take place in the Live Oak Pavilion of the University Center on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road.
Starting at noon, there will be a multimedia display, including images from the 9/11 documentary photographic collection, Here is New York, which is part of the Jaffe Book Arts Collection in FAU’s Wimberly Library. The program includes a recital of excerpts from the poem When the Towers Fell, by Galway Kinnell, performed by Trent Blanton and Rebecca Simon, of FAU’s Department of Theatre; and a storytelling performance of A Peace Tale by Caren Neile, director of the South Florida Storytelling Project and artist-in-residence in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.
At 1 p.m., Professor Sushil Mittal, director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, will present September 11: Creating History of a Different Kind. The lecture will include remarks on 9/11 and the 100th anniversary of Gandhi’s non-violent resistance in South Africa. This lecture is presented as part of Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World, a community outreach program of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters’ Peace Studies program.
The event is sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Here is New York is courtesy of John and Joanne Payson and the Jaffe Book Arts Collection. For further information, call Polly Burks at 561-297-2595.
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