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Fresno Unified School DistrictOffice of Communications
2309 Tulare Street ~ Fresno, CA 93721~ (559) 457-3733
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE#17-4.3.1
Contact: Jessica Peres Baird, Public Information Officer [email protected] Office: (559) 457-3732 Cell: (559) 443-9644
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McLane Hosts Award-Winning Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca
What: McLane High School hosts award-winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca
When: Thursday, April 6, 2017 10 a.m.-noon (student workshops) 1:45-3:30 p.m. (touring classrooms)
Where: McLane High School 2727 N. Cedar Ave. (93703)
McLane High School’s ArtVenture Academy will host award-winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca, who will conduct workshops with students and tour classrooms to see student artists painting and assembling art based on Baca’s writing. Baca learned to read and write and turned his life around while serving a five-year prison sentence in the 1970s. Baca’s memoir, “A Place to Stand,” is the inspiration for a year-long art and literature project at McLane.
Baca’s visit will include a workshop with forensics/spoken word students, who are writing a hip opera on Baca’s life. Baca will also visit the M Street Arts Complex as part of ArtHop, where students will present art and spoken word based on their reflections on Baca’s memoir. Baca will present a poetry reading at 6 p.m.
“Throughout the year, Jimmy Baca’s life and writings have inspired our students. What a privilege to be able to host Mr. Baca and have our students meet this incredibly talented writer,” said Interim Superintendent Bob Nelson.
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