Aurora Connects, Friday August 28

This week on Aurora Connects, Josh and Dawn are joined by Rafael Jesús González, Aurora Advisory Council member. The City of Berkeley honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, and he was named the City of Berkeley's first Poet Laureate in 2017. We'll learn more about González, his background as a creative writing & literature professor, and his life's work as writer and poet. We'll learn about what brought González to the Bay Area, how he founded the Mexican and Latin American Studies Department at Laney College, and about his time as the Poet in Residence at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library. MEET OUR GUEST: August 28, 2020 Rafael Jesús González, born in the bicultural/bilingual setting of El Paso, Texas/Juárez, Chihuahua, attended the University of Texas El Paso, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, & the University of Oregon. Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & Literature, he has taught at the University of Oregon, Western State College of Colorado, Central Washington State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Laney College, Oakland...Read more. WATCH PREVIOUS EPISODES WATCH THIS FRIDAY'S EPISODE LISTEN TO AUDIO Have a question for our guests or an idea for a future Aurora Connects episode? E-mail us at connects@auroratheatre.org.  We want to hear from you! BECOME A MEMBER Vital Art's mission is to honor the victims of the Ghost Ship Fire by ensuring access to safe, affordable spaces for artists and musicians to live, work, and perform. Vital Arts envisions a world in which groundbreaking arts and culture that are essential for the continued health and vitality of society at large are recognized and cultivated. We seek to bring this about by implementing projects to meet the needs of low and moderate-income artists in the Bay Area. VITAL ARTS   (Click image to play video) WEBSITE DONATE Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration. They gather Indigenous collaborators across North, Central, and South America, and inspire creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions. DANCING EARTH   Photo courtesy pauloT. WEBSITE DONATE Are you having issues navigating technology during this time? Having trouble getting online to connect with your loved ones? Email us at techsupport@auroratheatre.org, and we'll be happy to troubleshoot any issues you may have. Copyright © 2020 Aurora Theatre Company, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or when you purchased tickets to an Aurora Theatre Company production. Aurora Theatre Company THE ULTIMATE INTIMATE THEATRE EXPERIENCE 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley CA | 1/2 block from Downtown Berkeley BART Administration: 510.843.4042  |  Box Office: 510.843.4822 Josh Costello, Artistic Director  |  Julie Saltzman Kellner, Managing Director www.auroratheatre.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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