Dr. Gariot Louima to Present, Dialogue with Equity Leaders at PC on Feb. 16
Peninsula College will welcome Dr. Gariot Louima on Feb. 16, at noon, in honor of Black History Month. Dr. Louima will offer a short presentation followed by a dialogue with equity leaders at Peninsula College.
Dr. Louima is the first Associate Vice President for Strategic and Diversity Initiatives in the history of Earlham College, located in Richmond, Indiana. In this newly created role, he will advance strategic initiatives that widen the path to an Earlham education and build upon the College’s longstanding commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), including the implementation of a comprehensive DEI action plan.
The son of Haitian immigrants, Louima was born in the Bahamas and grew up in Miami, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from Union Institute and University; an M.F.A. in writing and literature from Bennington College Writing Seminars; an M.S. in management from Nova Southeastern University; and a B.S. in communication from the University of Miami.
Louima began his career as a journalist, writing breaking news and features for The Palm Beach Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and (New Orleans) Times Picayune. His short fiction has been published in the journals The Caribbean Writer, carte blanche, Tupelo Quarterly, Crossing Borders, and Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, as well as in the anthology So Spoke the Earth. His critical essay “Finding Identity in the Space Between Haiti and the U.S.,” appeared in Representations of Internarrative Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).
As an administrator, he has held positions in enrollment management, fundraising, and marketing communications at Antioch College, Goddard College, Nova Southeastern University, and Miami Dade College.
This free, online event will be hosted by ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse, Studium Generale, Magic of Cinema, and Upward Bound, and is free and open to the public.
Join the Zoom presentation at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/84298574012, Meeting ID: 842 9857 4012.
For more information, contact longhouse@pencol.edu or Dr. Kate Reavey, kreavey@pencol.edu.
Feb. 10 Studium to Share Stories, Tools, and Spiritual Practices of Those with Chronic Illness
“The Nightstand Collective,” a storytelling project featuring portraits of the lives of the chronically ill through the material culture from 79 bedroom nightstands, will be presented at Peninsula College’s Feb.10 Studium Generale. Featuring stories, tools, and spiritual practices from the space of interruption that illness brings, the event will also look at the project’s Victoria and Albert Museum exhibit in London, and share the audio piece, “Voices from the Nightstands.”
Emma Jones is a storyteller and social scientist whose work ranges from the natural world and magical realism, to the human experience of chronic illness. With degrees in Theatre and Sociology as her backdrop, she has worked in the social work field for much of her adult career.
Her screen credits have played in festivals around the world and include co-producing the award-winning feature film documentary The Memory of Fish (2016). She starred in Reed O’Beirne’s award-winning short film Last of Our Kind (2012) and has two films in post-production, one of which will be her directorial debut. Her radio debut for NPR/KNKX public radio, “Sisters of the Rogue Wave” (2017), tells the true story of a group of nuns who were struck by a giant wave carrying dangerous drift logs on the Washington coast in 1976.
The Nightstand Collective 2015, invites people living with chronic illness to document their lives by creating a visual and textual inventory of the contents of their nightstands and bedside tables.
This online event is free and open to the public and will begin at 12:30 p.m. This program is made possible in partnership with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Join the Zoom Meeting at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82278252780, Meeting ID: 822 7825 2780.
Together We Read Digital Book Club:
“The Five Wounds”
North Olympic Library System (NOLS) patrons can join readers around the world during Together We Read, one of OverDrive’s digital book clubs. From Feb. 7-21, booklovers can enjoy reading or listening to Kirstin Valdez Quade’s 2021 First Novel Prize-winning book, The Five Wounds, as an eBook or eAudiobook with no waitlists or holds. NOLS readers can join by visiting anytime.overdrive.com or downloading the Libby app, then join the discussion online at togetherweread.com/us.
The Five Wounds takes place during Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and 33-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his 15-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption.
Together We Read is an international reading program. The free program runs for two weeks and only requires a NOLS library card; visit www.nols.org or call 360-417-8500 to get started.
