Articles / Gabrielle Otero

Words Without Borders • 11th May 2015

PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Édouard Glissant: Everything Scatter, Scatter”

The celebration of the late Martinican poet, writer, and cultural commentator began as moderator Christopher Winks set the room in a trance by reading some of Édouard Glissant’s poetry in its original French. Winks admitted that there is no panel that can sufficiently excavate the life and work of Glissant. However, the goal of this one was to illuminate and debate some of the key aspects present in Glissant’s work. Panelists included Kaiama L. Glover, Achille Mbembe, and Véronique Tadjo.

ARKive on the Road: First ARKive School Museum launched!

Imagine walking the halls of an elementary school where the lockers and bulletin boards have been replaced with near life-size replicas of whales and giant maps of the continents dotted with endangered species around the world. This is exactly what happened recently at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church, Virginia in the U.S. when ARKive staff joined over 300 students, teachers and family and community members to launch the first ever ARKive School Museum!

ARKive on the Road: LOOK3 – The Festival of the Photograph!

The town of Charlottesville, Virginia in the US played a very welcoming host to the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph last week and ARKive was there to take part in “3 days of peace, love and photography”. Here’s a rundown of the many LOOK3 activities that the ARKive team were involved with.

ARKive’s Top Ten Fathers

In honor of Father’s Day, being celebrated across the US and UK today, we have delved into the ARKive collection to track down the animal kingdoms’ Top Ten Fathers. You may think your dad is pretty awesome, but the natural world has some pretty wild challengers. Who deserves the title of Father of the Year?

Puerto Rican band Plena Libre celebrates culture

The four-time Grammy-nominated ensemble band Plena Libre graced Smothers Theatre Sunday for their first performance at Pepperdine University. The event was unlike any other musical performance, filled with educational tidbits, audience involvement and, of course, the beautiful music of Puerto Rico.

Professor reveals secret side

The Pepperdine community at large knows Professor Joi Carr as a professor of American literature and film studies under the Humanities Division as well as the director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She is a quiet, shy and humble individual who is highly respected for her positive influence on students. However, this quiet storm has a secret life that she has agreed to reveal officially to the Pepperdine community via the Graphic.

Stay off the naughty list

Every year there seems to be a list of unwanted presents that gets passed around to parents, siblings, friends and relatives who show up in our lives only twice a year. Without fail, they all seem to be in some sort of club that distributes this unspeakable list and show up at the door with nicely wrapped presents and ear-to-ear smiles. Don’t let those smiles fool you though — beneath those ribbons and bows are some of the worst presents in the history of Christmas, Hanukkah, and all other end of the year holidays.

Q & A with Cynthia Hand Struleoff

Professor Cynthia Struloeff, who publishes under the name Cynthia Hand, had just finished shooting six rounds from a pistol (for research purposes) in her father’s backyard when she received the news that her Young Adult novel, “Hallowed” (the second in a trilogy) had made it to The New York Time’s Best Seller list. They celebrated with champagne, dancing and even a few tears in her father’s remote Idaho home.

Gabrielle Otero

Gabrielle Otero

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