Posted by Katie Feifer on 02/11/11 at 07:07:47 AM
On February 17th, notable Chicago actors will come together to read award-winning short fiction that addresses violence against women. Co-created by The Voices and Faces Project's Anne K. Ream and Stories on Stage founder Kathe Telingator, and directed by ensemble member Michael E. Myers, this unique public performance is part of the programming series for “Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art,” an international contemporary art exhibition. The event is sponsored by Soroptimist International and co-presented by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media.
Featured Stories on Stage writers will include Sandra Cisneros, author of the critically acclaimed book The House on Mango Street, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the National Book Award, Barbara Harman, whose work is included in the definitive anthology of fiction on domestic violence, Women in the Trees, and R. Clifton Spargo, a recent finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award For Short Fiction whose work has been praised as “marked for permanence” by esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom. The poetry of Mary Simmerling, which has been featured at the International Museum of Women, will also be included in the performance.
For more information about the event, please click here.