Mark your calendar now!
The Madden Library’s Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.
Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.
The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.
Submissions are invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length to be presented in breakout sessions on May 14. The Call for Papers information is found at www.arnenixoncenter.org/events/oz_con_call_for_papers.shtml.
Community sponsors include The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno Pacific University, and The Fresno County Public Library. Planning is still underway; some projects are dependent on the future generosity of donors. As plans progress, information will be posted on the Center’s web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org. The Center’s spring newsletter will include a schedule and a registration form.
For more information about the Oz conference and its underwriting opportunities, please call 559.278.8116 or e-mail Arne Nixon Center curator Angelica Carpenter at angelica@csufresno.edu.
Friday, October 16, 2009
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