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Award-Winning Author To Speak At UM
American Indian writer and lecturer Janet
Campbell Hale will speak at UM Wednesday,
March 21.
“An Evening with Janet Campbell Hale” begins
at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building
Room 123.
Hale’s book of essays, “Bloodlines: Odyssey
of a Native Daughter,” won the 1994 American
Book Award in Creative Non-fiction.
She also is the author of the novels “The
Owl’s Song” and “The Jailing of Cecilia
Capture” and a collection of short fiction,
“Women on the Run.”
The youngest of four daughters of a
full-blooded Coeur d’Alene Indian father and
Kootenay/Cree/Irish mother, Hale grew up on
the Yakima Indian Reservation in central
Washington and the Coeur d’Alene Indian
Reservation in northern Idaho.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in
rhetoric in 1974 from the University of
California, Berkeley, Hale studied law for
two years. She earned a master’s degree in
English at the University of California,
Davis, in 1984. She has held faculty
positions at colleges and universities across
the country.
She now lives in Desmet, Idaho, on the Coeur
d’Alene Indian Reservation.
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Theater Director To Attend Symposium
Tom Webster, director of the University
Theatre, will be in elite company April 16-17
when he participates in a symposium in
New York City organized by Duncan Webb, a
national leader in theater management.
The event – “The Performing Arts Center of
2032” – will bring together theater and
theater facilities experts from across the
country for a two-day discussion about the
future of performing arts centers. It is
sponsored by Webb Management Services and
Americans for the Arts.
Webb, author of “Running Theaters: Best
Practices for Leaders and Managers," recently
completed a feasibility study for a
performing arts center in Missoula.
Symposium participants will discuss a range
of issues associated with performing arts
centers, including where to find the funding
to build and sustain them, whether planned
buildings are the right buildings for the
future, how facilities can remain relevant to
their communities, and likely changes in
audience attendance.
Webster said technology and the growing cost
of building arts centers are big concerns.
“Whatever information I get there, I can
bring back to help with long-term planning
here (at UM),” Webster said, “and if Missoula
does get funding for a center, I can add some
expertise there.”
University Theatre
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