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“When Word Comes to Flesh: Body and Soul”
Celebrating the history of Toni Morrison’s literary work, Bucknell University Press published Martina Young’s doctoral chapter, “Beloved Bodies: Moving Toward Wholeness,” in the anthology, Toni Morrison: Forty Years in the Clearing (2012). For the 2016 Reno, NV Juneteenth Celebration — “Soul Food” — Martina performs, When Word Comes to Flesh: body and soul, an embodied presentation of her literary commentary on the nourishing quality of “Baby Suggs, holy”—a character in Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved. |
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The Power of Voice
Featuring Dr. L. Martina Young, Dr. Joe Crowley, Mayor Hillary Schieve and Designer Brianna Bullentini
July 9, 2016 at Studio on 4th Street 6-8pm. FREE
You are invited to participate in something unique. A different kind of storytelling session. One part interview. One part storytelling. One part myth.
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Featuring Dr. L. Martina Young, Dr. Joe Crowley, Mayor Hillary Schieve and Designer Brianna Bullentini
July 9, 2016 at Studio on 4th Street 6-8pm. FREE
You are invited to participate in something unique. A different kind of storytelling session. One part interview. One part storytelling. One part myth.
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SWAN Book III ~
Returning from her three-week residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where she developed “Solitude”— the 4th performance installation of her ongoing life project, SWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text & memoir, and which premiered at the 2015 International Exhibit of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Albanian poet Mirela Gegprifti at Gallery Le Logge in Assisi, Italy — Martina has received the ongoing support from the Nevada Arts Council with full 2016 funding for her third literary memoir installation.
NAC grants are made possible through funding from the State of Nevada and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Returning from her three-week residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where she developed “Solitude”— the 4th performance installation of her ongoing life project, SWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text & memoir, and which premiered at the 2015 International Exhibit of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Albanian poet Mirela Gegprifti at Gallery Le Logge in Assisi, Italy — Martina has received the ongoing support from the Nevada Arts Council with full 2016 funding for her third literary memoir installation.
NAC grants are made possible through funding from the State of Nevada and the National Endowment for the Arts.
