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A Face for Radio Video Series with Sarah LaDuke
A virtual kick-off event for the festival, WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s Sarah LaDuke will interview artists and faculty participating in this year’s Modfest as well as check in with the staff of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center during “Late Night at the Loeb.” LaDuke will give audiences a preview of what is to come and speak with the following:
Source: https://www.wamc.org/people/sarah-laduke. Accessed 1/11/21.
Drew Minter from the Music Department will discuss how imagination has shaped his teaching and practices as an artist during these strange circumstances as he reflects on the fall semester and his process for preparing for an upcoming virtual cabaret. He may perform or share a recording for this upcoming event..
In addition to numerous workshops in the vocal and dramatic performance of baroque music, Drew Minter has taught voice for the past ten years at Vassar College, where he also directs the Vassar Opera Workshop and conducts the Vassar Madrigal Singers. He has taught since 1989 at the Amherst Early Music Institute. In addition to an active singing career of his own, he teaches frequent masterclasses in opera and oratorio; in recent years these have taken place at Indiana University, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, West Chester University and the Crittendon Opera Workshops in Boston.
Source: https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/drminter/. Accessed 1/11/21.
Andre Bouchard from Indigenous Performances Productions will discuss how the FLLAC will engage with more native artists and host an indigenous artists panel to take place on February 4 during Modfest as well as a visit later in the semester by Delanna Studi and her devised play, And So We Walked.
Principal and Founder, Andre Bouchard (of Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Oreille/Salish descent) is an internationally recognized agent, producer and consultant who was born and raised on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana the son a CSKT enrolled father and a white mother. As a person with a background in both Native and non-native worlds Andre aspires to serve as an inter-cultural activist, working to build bridges and reverse the invisibility that serves to marginalize Native people in the US. Andre's primary background is as producer of dance, theatre, music and multi-disciplinary performance but has worked in practically every roll in the performing arts since he began as an active artist and arts administrator in 1999. In 2001 he founded Walrus Performance Productions, a non-profit dedicated to providing first opportunities to choreographers, playwrights and multi-disciplinary performing artists in the Pacific Northwest. In this role he opened the Walrus Theatre, a blackbox venue in the heart of Seattle's Capital Hill which fell victim to the real estate boom of 2008. In 2010 he founded Walrus Arts Management and Consulting which was expanded in 2015 to serve as a home to the first Native run performing arts booking agency representing Indigenous dance, theatre, music and multi-disciplinary artists . In 2019 he founded Indigenous Performance Productions, a non-profit company dedicated to production of touring Indigenous performing arts festivals.
Source: https://www.walrusarts.com/about Accessed 1/8/21.
Someone from the FLLAC staff will discuss the upcoming exhibition, Women Picturing Women: From Personal Spaces to Public Ventures that will run February 6- June 13, 2021