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Tekki Lomnicki

Tekki Lomnicki to present "Inside and Out, a Journey Toward Self-Acceptance--Differences within Differences, Social Equity, Social Communication"

Date and Time: Friday, February 20, 2009, 7:00 PM
Location: Plaster Student Union, Robert W. Theatre
Sponsored by the Provost Convocation Lecture Series as part of the Pathways to Communication Conference, hosted by the Missouri State University National Student Speech Language Hearing Association Chapter

Tekki Lomnicki is a solo performer, educator and the co-founder and Artistic Director of Tellin' Tales Theatre, a company dedicated to building community through storytelling. Now in its twelfth year, her annual project Six Stories Up pairs six well-known storytellers with six middle school children (with and without disabilities) in a mentoring program and subsequent production. Tekki has taught drama to kids with and without disabilities for the Gallery 37 Connections Program and solo performance to adults at the Victory Gardens Theater. She was named one of the "100 Women Making a Difference in Chicago" by Today's Chicago Woman, received a Gargoyle

Award from the Council For Disability Rights and the Carol Gill Award for Arts and Advocacy from the Progress Center. She most recently completed The Miracle, an awarding-winning film by Jeffrey Jon Smith based on one of her performance pieces, received an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in New Performance Forms and a prestigious 3Arts Artists Award in acting.

Event Website: http://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu
Sponsor: Public Affairs Mission
Admission: Open to Current Students, Future Students, Family of Students, Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Community, Visitors,.
Contact: Elisabeth Bell, Clinical Fac-inst 12/12 at EBell@MissouriState.edu or (417) 836 - 6676.

 

ID 162 • 2/19/2009



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