Haha! vg. I can't wait for next year?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Tuma, Keith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Next year will be the Year of Creativity
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> This year is the year of drudgery
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> Next year we will see that Creativity is Cultivated in Lots of Contexts
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> This year creativity has apparently mostly been off campus
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> Next year we will have a Steering Committee's wisdom to guide us
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> This year they are making it up
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> Next year we will perceive the world in new ways
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> This year we're seeing things exactly as we always have
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> Next year we will find the hidden patterns
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> This year we hocked our crystal ball to purchase medicine for our distemper
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> Next year we will demonstrate the Creativity of Everyday Life
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> This year we didn't ask the creative writers to be on the committee
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> No need for talk of Henri Lefebvre or something like that
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> Next year the money will be sprinkled on the Really Creative Types
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> This year as usual the people who do some of our hardest work do it for too
> little
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> Next year we will have a series of Programs, Events and other Activities
> having to do with Creativity
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> This year we have a series of programs, events and activities that don't
> have to do with creativity
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> Next year we will take purposeful risks generating mistakes and admitting
> solutions
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> This year we're just fucking up without any idea of the mess we've made
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> Next year we will have a plan for assessing and evaluating what we do to see
> if we did it
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> This year we're reading the old plan and the plan before that
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> Next year a Key Highlight of our Plan for Creativity will be Summer Reading
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> This year we elected to read only in the fall
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> and so on
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> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:43 PM, cheek, cris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> yes . . we should be jumping ALL over this and doing something big . .
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>> i think we ought to be represented on the committee from the outset and
>> getting a serious budget like 50k to do some major work
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>> special on translation with Pierre Joris, Jen Hofer, Sean Bonney (Sean
>> could teach a sprint while he's here? . . ) and others i'm just chuckling
>> out thoughts too term John Ashberry . . o gawd Clayton Eshleman . . rem
>> Lydia Davis (her Flaubert is unbelievable and she could read here too and we
>> could finally give her that big paycheck) . .
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>> we could do some things about creativity . what IS the creative bit in
>> Creative Writing
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>> a series of speaker responding to such a provocation . . .a symposium with
>> some profile . . maybe a university panel or three about creativity bringing
>> together differing practitioners across campus  . .
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>> [not uncreative writing . . . lol that's so dead duck in polluted water]
>> Kenny G blew his sad in Cinci three years ago . . do we really want to give
>> him another platform to goof about on?
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>> or a big focus on creativity in post_moot although that feels too hidden .
>> .  i'd like to bring Black Took Collective back  but i'd like to see a hole
>> slew of writers of color such as Douglas Kearney and LaTasha Diggs, Linton
>> Kwesi Johnson :D and maybe a focus on creolization and polylingual writing
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>> Definitely some interdisciplinary perspectives between creative writing
>> and film, between creative writing and music / sound art, creative writing
>> and dance, creative writing and visual art
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>> Amaranth Borsuk : http://www.amaranthborsuk.com
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>> Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat is doing her next book and we could launch that as
>> part of something . . . )
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>> a panel of ex-grads in all genres . . ?
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>> Let's bring a major comic book artist into town
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>> xx thinking on
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>> looking forwards,
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>> cris
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>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Cathy Wagner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, from the Provost's e-newsletter
>>> (http://blogs.miamioh.edu/provost/academic-affairs-intiatives/), there's
>>> this Year of Creativity thing which we should get in on -- maybe we could
>>> get resources bring an interesting writer-teacher to campus to do workshops,
>>> maybe someone who works across disciplines -- let me know if you have any
>>> thoughts and I will write to Glenn. I thought of Bonnie Jones, Kenny
>>> Goldsmith, Hoa Nguyen...
>>>
>>> Year of Creativity
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>>> President Hodge has declared that 2015-2016 will be the “Year of
>>> Creativity” at Miami University, and a new steering committee, co-chaired by
>>> Peg Faimon and Glenn Platt, has been formed to plan and oversee the
>>> implementation of this exciting annual theme.
>>>
>>> Recent creativity research has shown that creativity can be cultivated
>>> across all learning contexts, fields, professions, and disciplines as well
>>> as in everyday life.  It is characterized the ability to perceive the world
>>> in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to generate multiple unusual ideas, to
>>> make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, to take purposeful
>>> risks and admit mistakes, and to generate solutions.
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>>> With this broad conception of creativity in mind, the Year of Creativity
>>> Steering Committee will:
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>>> Develop a statement defining the “Year of Creativity” and articulating
>>> clear goals for the year’s activities;
>>> Through collaboration with departments, programs, and units across the
>>> University, generate and coordinate the implementation of a series of
>>> programs, events, and other activities that will address the annual theme
>>> goals;
>>> Design and oversee a plan for assessing or evaluating the effectiveness
>>> of meeting the year’s goals.
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>>> A key highlight of the year will be the Summer Reading Program which will
>>> focus on fostering creativity.
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Catherine Wagner
>>> Professor of English
>>> Director of Creative Writing
>>> Assistant Director, Literary London Program
>>> English Department
>>> Miami University
>>> 314 Bachelor Hall
>>> Oxford OH 45056
>>>
>>> 513-529-3828 (my office)
>>> 513-529-5221 (main office)
>>> 513-529-1392 fax
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