Schedule of Huntsville Events, Sena Jeter Naslund, Spring 2008

UA Huntsville Events
with Novelist Sena Jeter Naslund

Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Spring 2008

Information: 256-824-6320

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Chan Auditorium is in the Business Administration Building (#14 on map)

Tuesday, January 15, 11:10-12:30, "Doing Factual Research to Write Fiction"

Honors Forum, Frank Franz Hall (#2 on map), Multipurpose Room, UAH Campus (across from Morton Hall, north end of campus, enter from University Dr.).

Friday, January 25, 7:30 p.m., “The Origins of My Novels: Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette.” Free public lecture, Chan Auditorium in the Business Administration Building (#14 on map, facing Sparkman Drive at Holmes Ave.)

Tuesday, February 5, 5:30-8:00 p.m. Elaine Hughes and Sena Jeter Naslund discuss their theatrical adaptation of Naslund’s novel Four Spirits¸ which has its world premiere as a fully staged play at UAH February 7-10.

AAUW dinner meeting, 5:30-8:00, Bevill Center (UAH campus, #9 on map, facing Sparkman Dr.) Open to the public. Requires dinner reservations by January 30 to Lois Guendel at 880-8643, or herb.guendel@knology.net . People may request to come just for the talk, which will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday-Sunday

February 7, 8, 9, 7:30 p.m.,

February 9, 10, 2:30 p.m.
UAH's Chan Auditorium

Four Spirits takes place in Birmingham during the summer of 1963 and concerns events leading up to the September 15 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls, the “four spirits” of the title. The play explores the intersecting lives of black educators at Miles College, the students in a GED program there, and a small group of white civil rights workers. It is a theatrical adaptation of Sena Jeter Naslund's novel of the same title, adapted by Naslund herself and Elaine Hughes. Both playwrights will attend certain performances.
Chan Auditorium is in the Business Administration Building (#14 on map, facing Sparkman Drive at Holmes Ave.) Free parking. Wheelchair accessible.
Tickets available at UAH (Morton Hall 222 and University Center), and Stearns Coffee, 2113 Whitesburg Dr S (near the intersection of Longwood and Whitesburg, behind Steak Out).
Group rates (minimum 10 tickets, prepaid) get reserved seating. All others open seating. Call 256-824-6210 and leave a detailed message.
See also theatre.uah.edu

Saturday, March 29, 1-3 p.m. Fiction Writing Workshop

University Center, Room 126

Limited to 20 participants.
Reservations to brasherc@uah.edu by Tuesday, March 25 (or phone 256-824-6321).

Sunday, April 20, 3-5 p.m., HLA Salon.
“Writing about Royalty—Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette”

Limited to Huntsville Literary Association members and their guests.
Information: Mari Zimmerman, mariz@hiwaay.net or phone 256-520-0881.

Monday, April 21, 4-5:15 p.m. “Excellence in Fiction Writing”

Union Grove Gallery and Lecture Hall, UAH Campus (between Morton Hall and University Center). Naslund will lecture on fictive techniques, illustrated with excerpts of work from her creative writing students at UAH, as well as the work of published writers. Light refreshments will be served.