This document lists upcoming events for the Albany Writers Institute including film screenings, seminars, and readings featuring authors such as Werner Herzog, Richard Dreyfuss, Sigrid Nunez, Sapphire, Ilyon Woo, and Kwame Anthony Appiah between September and December 2010. Locations include venues on the Albany campus and in downtown Albany. Events are free or low-cost and open to the public.

1. Encounters at the End of the World
Dir. Werner Herzog, 2007
Wednesday, September 22 @ 7 p.m.
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

2. The Archives Partnership Trust 2010 Empire State
Archives & History Award
Featuring Richard Dreyfuss
Tuesday, September 28 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Egg, Empire State Plaza
$10, order at theegg.org or 473-1845
albany.edu/writers-inst

3. The Films of Ousmane Sembène:
La Noire De…, L’Heroisme au Quotidien, The Making of a Mooladé
Friday, October 1 @ 7 p.m.
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

4. Sigrid Nunez
Author, Salvation City (2010), The Last of Her Kind (2006)
Thursday, October 7
Seminar: 4:15 p.m.
Reading: 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
albany.edu/writers-inst

5. Portrait of the Cuban-American Artist as a Young
New York Filmmaker
Featuring Hugo Perez, director of The Writer
Friday, October 8
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Film & commentary: 7 p.m., Page Hall
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

6. Louisa May Alcott: In Print & On Screen
Harriet Reisen and Nancy Porter, producers of
“Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women”
Thursday, October 14 @ 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
albany.edu/writers-inst

7. Behind the Scenes With Harriet Reisen & Nancy
Porter
Producers, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women”
Friday, October 15, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst

8. The Glass Castle
Performance by the American Place Theater
Wednesday, October 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
$10 students, $12 faculty/staff, call 442-3997
(Pre-performance discussion at 7 p.m.)
albany.edu/writers-inst

9. Ilyon Woo
Author, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s
Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
(2010)
Thursday, October 21
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7 p.m., 25 Meeting House Road
(Near ALB main entrance)
albany.edu/writers-inst

10. Sapphire
Author, Push (1996)
Tuesday, October 26
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Reading: 8 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue
(Downtown Campus)
albany.edu/writers-inst

11. Gerald Vizenor
Author, Shrouds of White Earth (2010)
Tuesday, November 9
Seminar: 4:15 p.m
Reading: 7:30 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst

12. Kwame Anthony Appiah
Author, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010)
Thursday, November 11
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Ctr.
albany.edu/writers-inst

13. Jean Valentine
New York State Poet
Tuesday, November 16
Seminar: 4:15 p.m., Standish Room (Science Library)
Reading: 7:30 p.m., Albany Public Library
(Main Branch, 161 Washington Avenue)
albany.edu/writers-inst

14. Fence Fall 2010 Issue Launch
Featuring Jena Osman, poet of The Network (2010)
Thursday, December 2 @ 7:30 p.m.
Standish Room (Science Library)
albany.edu/writers-inst