Saturday, 30 Jan 2010
Documentary: "Under Our Skin"
"Under Our Skin: There's No Medicine for Someone Like You," exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease. It looks at not only the science and politics of the disease, but also the personal stories of those whose lives have been affected and nearly destroyed. The film follows the stories of patients and physicians, from doctors who risk their medical licenses to patients who once led active lives but now can barely walk.
Reading: The Wilding
Ben Percy, assistant professor of creative writing at Iowa State, was raised in the high desert of Central Oregon. He is the author of The Wilding, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk.
Lecture: My Journey to Islam
"My Journey to Islam," Yusha Evans. Yusha Evans, a former youth minister who was raised by his conservative Methodist grandparents in North Carolina, will be talking about his experiences and why he chose to revert to Islam. Questions will be welcome after the talk.
Writers Grow Here: FLYWAY's Home Voices Reading
Sponsored by Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, the Home Voices event showcases creative work focused on themes of environmental imagination - poetry, fiction, and nonfiction - from writers in the Iowa State MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment. The Home Voices readers are selected from a competitive pool of submissions by the staff of Flyway, and the top winners' work will be published in a forthcoming...
Lecture: The Writer as Citizen
"Meaningful Work: The Writer as Citizen," authors Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass. Join the symposium keynotes in a conversation about the responsibility of writers in an ever-changing and imperiled environmental landscape.
Men's hockey
ISU vs. Eastern Michigan University (Central States Collegiate Hockey League).
Lecture: Beauty in a Broken World
"Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World," author Terry Tempest Williams. Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge, a classic in environmental literature. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life.
Men's Basketball
ISU vs. Colorado.