[Peace] University INC and Actual Lives at Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Great upcoming events - a talk by a noted author about the corporatization of the university, writing workshops and a staged reading of works by local people with disabilities.

Please forward widely:

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Actual Lives Workshop and Performance with Chris Strickling

Writing Workshops 
Beckwith Hall, 201 E. John, Champaign
Friday, April 29 
6-8pm
Saturday, April 30 
12:30-3pm, 6-8:30pm

Staged Reading of writings produced during the workshops 
Allen Hall Main Lounge, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana 
Sunday, May 1 
8pm
All are welcome!
Free and open to the public

Actual Lives is a writing and performance workshop in which adults with disabilities produce autobiographical writings and then translate those writings into performance. The Actual Lives workshop acknowledges the importance of shared personal experience, with a focus on the lived experience of disability. You don't need any previous writing or performance experience to participate in this workshop, all you need is the willingness to communicate a story, in whatever form is available to you. Chris Strickling, current director of the Actual Lives Performance Project of Austin, Texas will lead you through the writing-into-performance process developed in collaboration with deaf performance artist Terry Galloway for the first Actual Lives Austin in August of 2000. For more information visit: www.actualives.org.

Workshop is limited to 15 participants. Priority will be given to people with disabilities, but able-bodied people are encouraged to apply. Contact Esther for a registration form for the workshops at eslee2 at uiuc.edu.

All are welcome to the staged reading on May 1.

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Jennifer Washburn 
author of University, INC.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

Tuesday, May 3rd
7:00pm
South Rec Room of Allen Hall 
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the garage across the street)

Free and open to the public!

Author JENNIFER WASHBURN is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the New America Foundation. She writes for Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, The Nation, and other national magazines. Formerly a fellow at the Open Society Institute, Ms. Washburn lives and works in New York. 

Drawing on extensive interviews and original research, Washburn paints an alarming picture of how the academy—the nation’s last refuge for independent thought—is being colonized by a market ideology that is fundamentally at odds with the university’s core academic values. At a time when universities try to convert professors into "content providers" and students into "consumers," when scientists neglect the long-term interests of their field in favor of short-term personal gain, Washburn's book UNIVERSITY, INC. offers a rigorous and important analysis of the deteriorating state of our higher education system today.

Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu


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