[cgfc] Infecting the Sick Society: cultural resistance events June 27-29

[Sarah Kanouse]

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“Reading the Cathedral Project: Poetry and the Aesthetics of Politics”
June 26, 2004, 7 PM,
UCIMC, 218 W. Main Street, Urbana

New York-based writer and community animator Charles Frederick will 
read from his poems and discuss “The Cathedral Project.” In the 1980s, 
during the height of the AIDS crisis, Charles began a 10-year project 
with the gay, Catholic community that began as a struggle to achieve 
recognition within the Catholic Church and ultimately became a radical 
restructuring of ritual, spirituality, and community in the Catholic 
tradition.  Charles will read from writings created at the time and 
discuss his work as a community animator.  Join us at 7 PM on Saturday, 
June 26th at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 218 W. 
Main, Urbana.  For more information, contact Sarah Kanouse at 691-1783. 
  This event is supported by SORF.

“Infecting the Sick Society: Cultural Resistance as Virus”
June 27, 2004, 1-2:30 PM
214 Ilini Union

Join internationally-renowned cyberfeminist art collective subRosa, 
writer and community animator Charles Frederick, and movement artist 
Lisa Fay for a panel discussion on their work as cultural activists, 
performance artists, and educators.  SubRosa, best known for their work 
around biotechnology, is featured in the summer’s show ‘The 
Interventionists’ at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.  
Charles Frederick will present his work with the Dignity Community, a 
group of gay Catholics in New York.  And Lisa Fay is the coordinator of 
UI’s Inner Voices Social Issues Theater, which offers students a safe 
space to explore issues of identity and justice in performance.  The 
panel, funded by SORF, is free and open to the public and is offered in 
conjunction with Crossroads in Cultural Studies.  Join the discussion 
at 1 PM on Sunday, June 27th in  room 214 Illini Union. For more 
information, contact Sarah Kanouse at 691-1783.

“Mapping Biopower: A guided walk with subRosa”
June 28, 2004, 3 PM, meet at Morrow Plots

Join subRosa, an internationally renown cyberfeminist art collective, 
for a tour of UI’s biotechnology sites.  Meet at Morrow Plots and the 
Post Genomic Institute at 3 PM for a walk that connects local research 
with the ethical, philosophical, and feminist debates around 
biotechnology.  For more information, contact Sarah Kanouse at 
691-1783.  This event is supported by SORF.