Creative/Critical Colloquium a success!

Thanks to all of you who made it out to the Creative/Critical Colloquium on Tuesday! We had a great time. Justin Wolfe read from an essay about watching television with his Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother, which Aaron Kessler then presented on, emphasizing Justin's use of repetition and recursion. Michael Mlekoday then performed several poems and John McGlothlin tied together some of the common themes and images across Michael’s work. Last (but not least!), Deb Kim read a short story about an unexpected transformation, paired with poetry by Bethany Carlson. Natalie Bainter then brought the common threads of their work together in her own interpretation. Those of you who did not make it to this event should absolutely join us in the spring!

And many thanks to GSAC’s Lynn Ramert for braving the crowds at Pizza X to bring us a smorgasboard of delicious pies! We raised a total of $104 for Adam Sarnecki’s family. (On Tuesday night, Pizza X amassed a total of $11,155 in sales and $3,425 in donations.)

Creative/Critical Colloquium tomorrow!

 A message from GSAC's Shannon Boyer:

As we come up on the Fall Creative/Critical Colloquium (tomorrow at 7 PM in Ballantine Hall 004), we at GSAC want to know if people would be interested in pitching in a few dollars towards getting pizza for the event.   As you may have heard, a driver for Pizza X South was shot and killed late last week.  The Pizza X South store is going to donate 100% of sales on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to a fund set up to support his fiancée and children.  We think the Creative/Critical Colloquium could provide a great opportunity for our department to contribute to this fund.  As we do not have money allotted for food at this event, we are writing to see if you would be interested in pitching in a few bucks to get pizzas from Pizza X South to enjoy while you listen to your colleagues and friends share their work. 

If you would like to contribute some cash and eat some pizza, please RSVP to Shannon Boyer (slboyer@indiana.edu) regarding how much you want to pitch in by 9 o’clock tonight so we can get an idea of how many pizzas to get for the event.  At the end of this email you’ll find a short checklist about how much you would like to pay/eat and what kind of pizza you would prefer.  This is totally optional, so if you can’t spare the cash right now, no worries: come to our awesome event anyway!

Best,

GSAC

Pizza X slices are about $1 a piece, so 1 slice=$1.  If you want some pizza Tuesday night, please check:

____I will bring $2

____I will bring $3

____I will bring $4

These are my preferred pizza toppings:

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