Creative Writing 50th Anniversary: Oregon

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Creative Writing 50th Anniversary: Oregon

You are invited to join President Teresa Amott and Professors Carlin Metz, Metz, and Kiraly in Ashland, Oregon, for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!

Special college guests: President, Teresa Amott; Elizabeth Carlin Metz, Smith V. Brand Endowed Chair in Theatre Arts; Robin Metz, Philip Sidney Post Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing Program; and Sherwood Kiraly '72, Visiting Instructor in English and Theatre and Writer-in-Residence.

Saturday, September 16, 2017
10:00 a.m. Backstage Tour (option) ($14)
1:30 p.m. Off the Rails (option) ($57)
6:00 p.m. Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception with College Guests at Enoteca ($25)
8:00 p.m. Unison (group attends) ($57)

Sunday, September 17, 2017
10:00 a.m. Tour of production building with Mikah Berky '09
1:30 p.m. Shakespeare in Love (option) ($57)

Ashland is the backdrop for the award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1935, this Tony Award-winning festival is among the oldest and largest professional nonprofit theatres in the nation. Learn what goes on behind the scenes from Ted DeLong '00, general manager at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and fellow Knox alumni who are on staff at OSF.

Visit www.osfashland.org for information on travel and accommodations.

This tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Knox College program in Creative Writing. Since its creation in 1967, the program has grown in both size and prestige. Today, creative writing faculty members are both widely published and widely acclaimed for their works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

Creative writing is consistently among the top three majors at the College, and students produce award-winning work in and out of the classroom, from holding a record number of Nick Adams Short Story Contest prizes to producing the nationally awarded Catch literary arts magazine.

Please RSVP by Friday, September 1, 2017. Register online now or call Alumni Relations at 309-341-7238.

To commemorate the 50th Anniversary, the Knox College English Department has curated a letterpress broadsides series. These limited-edition, signed pieces are available for purchase individually or as sets. Treat yourself to one or all of them.

Contact Information

Amy Roth

Knox College Alumni Relations

2 East South Street, Campus Box K150

Galesburg IL 61401

309-341-7238

alumni@knox.edu

Date & Location

Date: 9/16/2017 to 9/17/2017
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Ashland, OR

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

15 South Pioneer Street

Ashland, Oregon