Scholars-in-Residence and Patti Pace Performance Festival return to Georgia Southern

January 23, 2016

Both the Patti Pace Performance Festival and Scholars-in-Residence Terry Galloway and Donna Marie Nudd return to Georgia Southern University Jan. 27-30 for “Celebrating Disability through Performance” in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The slate of events features performances, discussions, film showings, a book reading of Galloway’s Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir, and the two-day Patti Pace Performance Festival that culminates with Galloway’s one-woman show, “You Are My Sunshine: A Kind of Love Story.”

The festival honors the late Patricia Pace, Ph.D., a teacher and theater director in the Department of Communication Arts at the University from 1985 until her passing in 2000. The festival rotates among the three universities with which Pace was affiliated, Georgia Southern, Southern Illinois University and Louisiana State University.

Galloway’s performance of  her award-winning show will take place on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, and Rebecca Kennerly’s, Ph.D., “Reflections on the ‘Sweet Life’: The Vidalia® Onion Oral History and Performance Project” will be reprised on Friday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre.

Guests with a disability or those in need of assistance or accommodations including wheelchair access, sign language interpreter, menu modification or alternative formats of program materials to fully participate in this program, should contact Kennerly by e-mail by Jan. 22 as advance notice is necessary to arrange for accessibility needs.

The Scholars-in-Residence and the Patti Pace Performance Festival are sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), Campus Life Enrichment Committee (CLEC), Department of Communication Arts, Theatre and Performance Program, Multicultural Student Center, Student Disability Resource Center, Department of Literature and Philosophy, and the Department of Writing and Linguistics.

Schedule of Events

PRESENTATION – Creating Inclusive Theater

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1-2 p.m., Multipurpose Room, Williams Center

FILM SHOWING AND DISCUSSION – Mickee Faust’s Gimp Parade

Thursday, Jan. 28, 1-2 p.m., Sanford Auditorium

GALLOWAY BOOK READING AND RECEPTION – Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir

Thursday, Jan. 28, 7-9 p.m., Arts Building Auditorium (reading) and Lobby of Center for Art and Theatre (reception)

PATTI PACE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL*

*Registration required (e-mail Rebecca Kennerly at rkennerly@georgiasouthern.edu)

Friday, Jan. 29 – Saturday, Jan. 30, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Center for Art & Theatre

PERFORMANCE – “You Are My Sunshine: A Kind of Love Story”

Saturday, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Center for Art & Theatre

For more information and a full list of events please visit Georgiasouthern.edu/CLASS/pattipace.

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