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ProArts Collective and Austin Community College Collaborate on Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil

Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil opens Thursday, April 17, 2008 in the
Rollins Theater at the Long Center for the performing Arts. The play runs
April 17- 20 and April 23-27, at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturday and 3
p.m. on Sundays.

The Long Center for Performing Arts Rollins Theater 701 West Riverside Drive Austin, TX 78704 (512) 474 - LONG www.thelongcenter.org General Admission: $12 Student Admission: $10

All proceeds go towards the Boyd Vance Scholarship Fund, named in honor of ProArts
Collective founder Boyd Vance. The scholarship will be awarded to an African
American drama or dance student.
For more information please visit the ACC Drama Department website.

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ACC Student Art Exhibit 2008

The 2008 Austin Community College annual student art exhibition will be on display at:

Dougherty Arts Center Julia Butridge Gallery 1110 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 (512) 397-1468 www.ci.austin.tx.us/dougherty/gallery.htm

The exhibit will be open from April 3, 2008 through April 29, 2008.
An opening reception will be held on April 8, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
For more information call (512) 397-1468 or (512) 223-3352
or visit or www.ci.austin.tx.us/dougherty/gallery.htm or www.austincc.edu

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ACC's 1st Annual Artistic Celebration of Constitution Day

The ACC Center for Public Policy and Political Studies (CPPPS), the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, and the Arts and Humanties Division are sponsoring an artistic celebration of Constitution Day on September 17, 2008.

As part of the celebration, CPPPS will give cash prizes for the best opinion pieces, personal reflections, and academic, researched essays, which address the following question: In a post 9/11 world, what is the state of the U.S. Constitution?

For more information regarding Constitution Day, please see our website www.austincc.edu/ah/cd/index.html

Spring semester entries are due by May 14th, 2008. Summer semester entries are due by July 7th, 2008.

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Arts and Humanities Year in Review 2006-2007 Video

Please click the image to view the Arts and Humanities Year Magazine or Arts and Humanities Year in Review 2006-2007 video. Download Real Player here

Creative Opportunities for Your Spring Students
Artistic Competition Celebrating the Constitution

This Spring 2008 semester, ACC is creating an exciting learning opportunity for your students, and we ask you to find ways to support it. We are letting you know about it now, hoping you might include it as an assignment in your Spring 2008 syllabi.

Click for more.

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The $1,000 Balcones Poetry Prize for 2006 has been awarded to DRIVE, by Lorna Dee Cervantes.

The Balcones Center for Creative Writing will bring Cervantes to Austin Community College’s Rio Grande Campus for a reading September 13, 2007.

The Balcones Center for Creative Writing at Austin Community College is pleased to announce the winner of the 2006 Balcones Poetry Prize. The prize of $1,000 recognizes an outstanding book of poetry published during the year.

DRIVE, by Lorna Dee Cervantes, was published in 2006 by Wings Press. Cervantes is a Californian of Mexican and Native American heritage. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, and lives in Boulder. Among her many honors are the American Book Award, the Paterson Prize, two NEA fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. DRIVE, a collection covering 25 years — from 1980 to 2005 — was chosen from 121 books nominated for the 2006 prize. The judges were impressed by poems that are intensely political or intimately personal, or both. They cited a wealth of voices and styles, crisp and resonant imagery, and a “well-crafted effortlessness.”

Four finalists were named:

LIGHT AND SHADE, by Tom Clark (Coffee House Press)

THE REPUBLIC OF POETRY, by Martin Espada (W.W. Norton)

EROSION’S PULL, by Maureen Owen (Coffee House Press)

ABIDING PLACES, by Ko Un (Tupelo Press)

The judges were Hoa Nguyen, poet and publisher of Skanky Possum, Richard Price, poet, novelist and professor of writing and literature at Austin Community College, and Liz Scanlon, poet and professor of creative writing at Austin Community College.

Posted: 12/13/2007