Storyteller and recovering academic Jane Curry to perform at UAF

Submitted by Sonja Bickford
Phone: (907) 474-6714
04/16/07

Fairbanks, Alaska-Jane Curry, a storyteller, performer and recovering academic will give two different performances this week at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Both shows are free and open to the public.

Samantha "Rastles" the Woman Question is the first of the two UAF shows. This 50 minute event will be held on Tuesday April 17, 2007 from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the UAF Lab Theater (Fine Arts Complex).

The second performance entitled Miz Wizard’s Science Secrets will be held at the UA Museum of the North on Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. with a reception following the show.

Both shows are written and performed by Jane Curry herself. Jane Curry is an author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic. She received her B.A. from Hanover College (Indiana) and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has edited a critical anthology, also entitled Samantha Rastles the Women Question (1983), and is author Marietta Holley, (1996), and The River’s in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories (1983).She toured for nine seasons with the Minnesota Chatauqua and performs nationally with four other solo shows she has write: Just Say Know: Educating Females for the 21st Century; Nice Girls Don’t Sweat; Miz Wizard’s Science Secrets; and Sisters of the Quill and Skillet. Curry lives in Minneapolis with her husband, two cats, and a snowblower.

These performances have been sponsored by the Alaska Women in Higher Education with funding provided by the BP and ConocoPhillips Charter through the UA Foundation.

For more information please visit:
www.janecurry.com
or
www.uaf.edu/cnsm/janecurry.html

Contact: Sonja Bickford, CNSM public relations officer, s.bickford@uaf.edu or (907) 474-6714.