Author Event: Sandra Cisneros
Thursday, August 2, 2018
3:00pm to 4:30pm
When
Thursday, August 2, 20183:00pm to 4:30pm
Where
Auditorium, Hunt LibraryAbout This Event
Join Sandra Cisneros, world renowned author and poet, for a public reading followed by a lively discussion on the experience of working class immigrants in the US today.
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the National Medal of the Arts, awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship.
All donations and proceeds from the event will be donated to support agricultural workers and their union, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). Please consider making a donation to FLOC to support their efforts to bring justice to the tobacco farm workers across the southern US. For more information, visit www.floc.com or follow Farm Labor Organizing Committee - FLOC on Facebook.
This event is free and open to the public. Selected titles will be available for purchase on-site from the NC State Bookstore and Ms. Cisneros will be signing books following the event. Please reserve your tickets from this link.
Contact Information
Admission
Free and open to the public.
Accessibility
If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Marian Fragola at marian_fragola@ncsu.edu or 919-513-3481 to arrange services. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.