For Immediate Release—Tuesday,
March 27, 2007
Contact:
Mary E. McCrank
Media Relations Officer
(585) 245-5516
Colombian Storyteller Carolina
Rueda to Perform at SUNY Geneseo April 11
GENESEO, N.Y.—Carolina
Rueda, world-renowned Colombian storyteller, will deliver a performance at 7
p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in Wadsworth Auditorium at the State University of
New York at Geneseo.
Rueda's class act of oral
narratives has earned her numerous awards and has received enthusiastic reviews
at venues across the globe, from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Mexico, Peru and Venezuela to the United States and Spain.
Rueda will deliver a program
of "Cuentos entre-tenidos y sueltos"—entertaining and assorted short
stories—a collection of humorous tales from around the world, inspired by
the narratives of some of the most celebrated short story writers, including
Colombia's Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Rueda is in residence
through the spring of 2008 at the University of Miami in Florida, where she is
teaching a class/workshop on Latin American storytelling traditions
cross-listed with Spanish.
Rueda learned the craft of
storytelling in Colombia, where a movement of urban storytellers, many of whom
were college students, sprung up in several towns, despite a tendency to
associate the form with
exaggeration and lies.
The performance is suitable
for audiences of all ages. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $4 for
students with ID. Tickets may be purchased at the door the day of the event;
from members of the college's Spanish club, La Casa Hispanica; or by writing to
spanish@geneseo.edu.
The performance is being
organized by La Casa Hispanica, with the collaboration of the college's
department of foreign languages and literatures and Latin American studies
program.
For more information,
contact Rose McEwen at mcewen@geneseo.edu or (585) 245-5247 or Kathleen Marrero
at spanish@geneseo.edu.
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