{"id":81,"date":"2007-08-15T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/index.php\/2007\/08\/15\/la-filmmaker-to-guest-direct-%e2%80%98far-away%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:14:40","slug":"la-filmmaker-to-guest-direct-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2007\/08\/15\/la-filmmaker-to-guest-direct-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. filmmaker to guest-direct \u2018Far Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress-test.austincc.edu\/test3\/files\/2007\/08\/laurasomers.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Somers\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Laura Somers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drama highlights talent-packed fall arts season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director\/filmmaker Laura Somers will helm the Drama Department\u2019s fall production as part of the Arts and Humanities Division\u2019s upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The division has organized a full schedule of events. Among them is \u201cFar Away,\u201d featuring Somers as guest director. The former Austin resident helped found the dirigo group theater company before moving to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile (\u2018Far Away\u2019) is a somewhat mysterious play, I believe that when audiences leave, they will be thinking about it for many days to come,\u201d said Drama Department Chair Shelby Brammer. The play runs two weekends in October.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Audiences also can look forward to a Sept. 13 visit from Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of \u201cDrive: The First Quarter.\u201d She is winner of the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Cervantes \u201cis a leading voice among Hispanic-American poets,\u201d according to John Herndon, associate director of the Balcones Center for Creative Writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judges for the Balcones Poetry Prize were impressed by her poems that are at once intensely political and intimately personal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a look at the Arts and Humanities fall calendar. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/ah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.austincc.edu\/ah<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sept. 13:<\/strong> Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rio Grande Campus Mainstage Theater, 4 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 3-31:<\/strong> ACC Faculty and Student Exhibition, Highland Business Center lobby<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 4:<\/strong> Globalization and its Discontents, Eastview Campus Room 8500, 7 to 9 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 10:<\/strong> ACC Faculty and Student Exhibition Reception, Highland Business Center lobby<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 12:<\/strong> Dance Video Sampler Series, Rio Grande Campus Dance Studio (Room 130), 7 to 9 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 17:<\/strong> ACC Faculty and Staff Readings, Riverside Campus, 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 19-21, 26-28:<\/strong> \u201cFar Away,\u201d Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 5:<\/strong> Stan Sanvel Rubin and Judith Kitchen, Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 29:<\/strong> The Rio Review Publication Celebration, Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater, 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dec. 7-8:<\/strong> Fall \u201907 Choreographers\u2019 Showcase, Rio Grande Campus Mainstage Theater, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dec. 11:<\/strong> Fall \u201907 Dance Informance, Rio Grande Campus Dance Studio (Room 130), 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Somers Drama highlights talent-packed fall arts season Director\/filmmaker Laura Somers will helm the Drama Department\u2019s fall production as part of the Arts and Humanities Division\u2019s upcoming season. The division has organized a full schedule &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2007\/08\/15\/la-filmmaker-to-guest-direct-far-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}