Oct. 8, 2002
Media Advisory
To: News Directors and News Editors
From: Veronika Avery, Coordinator of Media Relations, 342-5444

This week's Chautauqua Nexus at the University of Louisiana at Monroe will feature speaker Bob Teague on "The Cottonport Project". It is set for Friday, Oct. 9th at 4:30 p.m. on the sixth floor of the library.

The Chautauqua Nexus web site has the following information about the upcoming talk: "The Cottonport Project," which started with two area writers looking for a forum for their work and the work of other area artists, has evolved over the past year into a hothouse for creativity in northeastern Louisiana. The weekly reading series, while not a school in the traditional artistic sense of the word, has provided fertile ground for the cross-pollination of forms, ideas and styles. The end goal of the project is to build a framework for artistic voices that represent the cultures and peoples of northeastern Louisiana. It has already expanded from it's coffeehouse birthplace into the streets with a quarterly magazine, regular art happenings, members in various stages of publication, and most importantly several non-writers who have been inspired to explore the art form as writers themselves."

To be on the Chautauqua Nexus e-mail list or for a look at the fall 2002 Chautauqua Nexus Schedule go to http://www.ulm.edu/~stevens/nexus/.

For more information: call Dr. Joe McGahan at 342-1338.

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