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Creating Comics to Capture First Gen Student Stories
This workshop will teach the fundamentals of creating comics or sequential art to first generation college and graduate students at the University of Denver, who will create a three-panel comic that captures an important aspect of their experiences as first-generation students. The aim of this workshop is to leverage the unique qualities of sequential art to facilitate first-generation students in sharing their narratives.
Join us on October 17 from 4:00 P.M. to 5:15 P.M. in AAC 340. -
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News from the Music Library
There is always something interesting happening at DU's Music Library. Take a look at our September newsletter to find playlists, new additions to our collection, and more!
Thursday, September 29th, 2023
Gail Watson Retrospective: Artists’ Books + Letterpress Editions, 1987-2023 exhibit opening reception and gallery tour with the artist
Thursday, September 29th, 2023 from 5:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. with a gallery tour with the artist at 6:30 P.M. in the Schayer Seminar Room on the Lower Level in Room 102.
Event is free and open to the public, DU students, faculty, and staff.
"Many of my books are personal explorations that help me understand and lay claim to my life; where I’ve been and where I’m going. Though highly personal, my work deals with universal themes of love, loss and the need to look honestly and openly at ourselves and our world.” - Gail Watson
Gail Watson will be present at the reception and will share insights into her creative process during a talk and gallery tour at 6:30 P.M. It's a chance to engage with the artist and gain a deeper understanding of her artistic journey.
Join us for an evening of artistic inspiration, mingling with fellow art enthusiasts, and enjoying refreshments.
We look forward to your presence at the exhibit reception, honoring the artistry of Gail Watson.
- 5:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
- Schayer Seminar Room on the Lower Level in Room 102
Friday October 6th, 2023
The Anonymous People Documentary Screening
Event is free and open to the public, DU students, faculty, and staff.
“Deeply entrenched social stigma have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast cancer, or people with HIV/AIDS, a grass roots social justice movement is emerging. Courageous addiction recovery advocates have come out of the shadows and are organizing to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions. The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of the citizens, leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, and public figures who are laying it all on the line to save the lives of others just like them. This passionate new public recovery movement is fueling a changing conversation that aims to transform public opinion, and finally shift problematic policy toward lasting solutions.” —Greg Williams
This is companion programming for the INTO LIGHT Colorado Project Exhibition and was organized by the Collegiate Recovery Program and the University Libraries.
We look forward to your presence at the screening.
- 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
- Kvidstad Special Events Room on the Main Level in Room 290
Thursday October 19th, 2023
Dreamland Book Discussion Group
Event is free and open to the public, DU students, faculty, and staff.
Lunch will be provided.
Quinones weaves together two tales of American capitalism: The stories of young men in Mexico, independent of the drug cartels, in search of their own American Dream via the fast and enormous profits of trafficking cheap black-tar heroin to America's rural and suburban addicts; and that of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on pain with its new and expensive miracle drug, Oxycontin; extremely addictive in its own right. Quinones illuminates just how these two stories fit together as cause and effect: hooked on costly Oxycontin, American addicts were lured to much cheaper black tar heroin and its powerful and dangerous long-lasting high. Embroiled alongside the suppliers and buyers are DEA agents, local, small-town sheriffs, and the U.S. attorney from eastern Virginia whose case against Purdue Pharma and Oxycontin made him an enemy of the Bush-era Justice Department, ultimately stalling and destroying his career in public service.
HOW TO FIND A COPY OF DREAMLAND:
DU Faculty, Staff, and Students or community members with library cards: check out a physical or digital copy at library.du.edu
General public: please email recovery@du.edu or madison.sussmann@du.edu.
This is companion programming for the INTO LIGHT Colorado Project Exhibition and was organized by the Collegiate Recovery Program and the University Libraries.
- 12:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M.
- The Loft on the Upper Level in Room 340