L.A. filmmaker to guest-direct ‘Far Away’

Laura Somers

Laura Somers

Drama highlights talent-packed fall arts season

Director/filmmaker Laura Somers will helm the Drama Department’s fall production as part of the Arts and Humanities Division’s upcoming season.

The division has organized a full schedule of events. Among them is “Far Away,” featuring Somers as guest director. The former Austin resident helped found the dirigo group theater company before moving to Los Angeles.

“While (‘Far Away’) is a somewhat mysterious play, I believe that when audiences leave, they will be thinking about it for many days to come,” said Drama Department Chair Shelby Brammer. The play runs two weekends in October.

Audiences also can look forward to a Sept. 13 visit from Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of “Drive: The First Quarter.” She is winner of the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize.

Cervantes “is a leading voice among Hispanic-American poets,” according to John Herndon, associate director of the Balcones Center for Creative Writing.

“The judges for the Balcones Poetry Prize were impressed by her poems that are at once intensely political and intimately personal,” he said.

Below is a look at the Arts and Humanities fall calendar. Visit www.austincc.edu/ah for details.

  • Sept. 13: Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rio Grande Campus Mainstage Theater, 4 p.m.
  • Oct. 3-31: ACC Faculty and Student Exhibition, Highland Business Center lobby
  • Oct. 4: Globalization and its Discontents, Eastview Campus Room 8500, 7 to 9 p.m.
  • Oct. 10: ACC Faculty and Student Exhibition Reception, Highland Business Center lobby
  • Oct. 12: Dance Video Sampler Series, Rio Grande Campus Dance Studio (Room 130), 7 to 9 p.m.
  • Oct. 17: ACC Faculty and Staff Readings, Riverside Campus, 7 p.m.
  • Oct. 19-21, 26-28: “Far Away,” Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays
  • Nov. 5: Stan Sanvel Rubin and Judith Kitchen, Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 7 p.m.
  • Nov. 29: The Rio Review Publication Celebration, Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 7 p.m.
  • Dec. 7-8: Fall ’07 Choreographers’ Showcase, Rio Grande Campus Mainstage Theater, 8 p.m.
  • Dec. 11: Fall ’07 Dance Informance, Rio Grande Campus Dance Studio (Room 130), 7 p.m.

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