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John Killacky A former dancer, ex-marathon runner and is now paraplegic, Killacky is the Program Officer for Arts and Culture at The San Francisco Foundation. Prior to this, he served as Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for six years and Curator of Performing Arts for the Walker Art Center. He has received numerous awards, including the First Bank Award Sally Ordway Irvine Award in Artistic Vision, the William Dawson Award for Programming Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters; and Dance USA’s Earnie Award as an “Unsung Hero.” Killacky has written extensively on the arts, culture, and disability issues including co-editing the Lambda Award-winning anthology Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories. “The remarkable thing is NOT that people with disabilities are onstage and in galleries, we must also be judged on aesthetic terms as to how we draw, act, dance, play music and make films” videos: Dreaming Awake, Crip Shots: Six Performative Profiles |
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Teresa Konechne A recipient of the 2005 Bush Foundation Fellowship, Konechne is an artist and an activist who strives to find the critical juncture between the two. She comes to community-based work through documentary video, theatre and activism. She sees social change as the inevitable outcome if we connect ourselves to each other and to our mother earth. Her acclaimed documentary This Black Soil was produced while she was a professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Communication Arts and Design, with help from students in her video class, This Black Soil was more than two years in the making, and well worth the wait. . Teresa is a KFAI board member and volunteer on the Outreach Committee videos: Atra Vez De Ti, Yo Soy (Through You I Am), Caesarean |
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| girl videomakers (Crosswinds Middle School, AGAPE High School) In the summer of 2004, students from a girls’ leadership program at Crosswinds Middle School (Woodbury) and teen girls from AGAPE High School (St. Paul) participated in a video workshop led by Marlina Gonzalez. Sponsored by the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, the workshop was in preparation for viewing “Shape Of A Girl,” a theatrical production which explored the issues of bullying. The girls created video letters, music videos and video poems in answer to forms of aggression they have encountered in their lives. |
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