Ruth Ozeki to Lead Off 2014-15 SPSCC Artist and Lecture Series

0 Shares

 

Submitted by South Puget Sound Community College

Ruth_Ozeki_credit-Kris_KrugSouth Puget Sound Community College opens its 2014-15 Artist and Lecture Series with Japanese-Canadian novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki. Ozeki will speak from her latest book, “A Tale for the Time Being,” on Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts Main Stage.

Her first two novels, “My Year of Meats” (1998) and “All Over Creation” (2003), have been translated into 11 languages and published in 14 countries. Her most recent work, “A Tale for the Time-Being” (2013), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and will be published in more than 30 countries. She will sign books following the presentation.

Ozeki also produces documentary and dramatic independent films, including “Halving the Bones”, which have been shown on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at colleges and universities across the country.

A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ozeki was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in British Columbia and New York City.

Tickets are $8 for the general public (which includes a $3 Washington Center processing fee), and the event is free to all SPSCC staff, faculty and students. The event is sponsored by the SPSCC Tomodachi Club. Tickets are available online at OlyTix.org or by calling The Washington Center for the Performing Arts box office at (360) 753-8586. For more information about the Artist and Lecture Series at South Puget Sound Community College, visit www.spscc.edu/ALSeries.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email
0 Shares