Organizer: Graduate Colloquium Program, North Illinois University

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

Description:

Join the NIU’s Graduate Colloquium Program for a lecture by Jen Shyu. Using her travels in her parents' homelands of Taiwan and East Timor, and her travels in Cuba, Brazil, and Southeast Asia as well, Shyu, an experimental jazz vocalist and composer, will facilitate the exploration and empowerment of identity through the use of voice, movement, and writing.

This will be a customized interdisciplinary workshop centered around identity and open to artists as well as non-artists. She will then facilitate the exploration of everyone's identity and lived experiences and how we can empower ourselves and each other through writing, listening, movement, acting, spoken word, singing, solo improvisation, duo, and group improvisation with and/or without instruments/found objects.

Those participating should bring a pen/pencil and paper/notebook and wear comfortable clothing and shoes (no high heels). Instruments welcome but not required.

Registration:

To attend online, please register here.