London’s own Louise Fagan will speak to the art of telling women’s stories in the year’s final lecture of the Sophia Series at Brescia University College on Thursday, May 13.
The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the St. James Auditorium.
If talking is remembering, then cultivating and sharing women’s stories remains one of the most powerful tools in disseminating women’s history, says Fagan.
“From our earliest experiences, stories have provided a common place of understanding our collective experiences – where we’ve been, who we are, and what we’ve felt.”
Fagan has garnered a reputation as an arts entrepreneur adept at bringing an idea to its fullest development. Her recent credits include:
Producer of Portraits; A Festival of One Woman Shows, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and off Broadway at Urban Stages, New York; Artistic Director for Under An African Sky, held twice at London’s John Labatt Centre, featuring United Nations envoy to Africa, Stephen Lewis; Producer/Director for the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2001 Jeux du Canada Games; Artistic Producer of In Good Company, a multi-arts festival held in London; Appointed Executive Producer of the Bach Music Festival of South Huron, to be held in July.
This Sophia Series event is sponsored by The Circle Women’s Centre. Created and endowed by Shelly Siskind, this lecture honours Jeanne Adamson, a woman who was not famous or well known, but a mother and friend who touched the lives of everyone with whom she came in contact. Adamson passed away from cancer in 1987.
A donation for entry is welcome and parking is free.