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Mixed Roots Stories Schedule at CMRS 2017–At a Glance

Friday

10 AM in TCC 232: Mixed: Pop & Punk Culture

1PM in TCC 227: Coloured: Mixed-Race Voices from South Africa Documentary: Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise

1 PM in TCC 232: Visual Culture: Mixed Bodies /Mixed Spaces

3 PM in TCC 232: Mixed and Interracial Worlds on Stage

6 PM @ Norris Cinema Theater 850 W. 34th St: Mixed Roots Stories LIVE Performance. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mixed-roots-stories-live-performance-tickets-30492355456

 

Saturday

9:45 AM in TCC 301: “Interracial Marriage and Mixed Race Identity in the Age of Colorblindness: A Roundtable Discussion with the Cast of Colouring Book: The Mixed Race Documentary

2:30 PM in TCC 227: Mixed Roots Stories Performance Sampler

4:30 PM in TCC 227: Beyond Binaries: Contemporary Mixed, Queer, Trans, Asian Diasporic Art

 

Sunday

10 AM in TCC 232: Practices of Transgression: Accessing the Creative Potential of Liminal Identities to Imagine Radical Futures

10 AM in TCC 432: Critical Mixed Race Literature

1 PM TCC 232: Mixed Race Media Studies

3 PM in TCC 232: Comix, Manga, Zines, and Racial Navigation

5 PM in TCC Ballroom: Mixed Match by Jeff Chiba Stearns; Register here: https://mixedmatch.eventbrite.com

MXRS Episode 5 – Jenina Gallaway

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Jenina Gallaway recently joined us for a MXRS Podcast – Telling the Story Behind the Stories. You can follow her on her Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/jeninagallawaysoprano and support her http://www.gofundme.com/z7tuys. Listen to her interview (also found on iTunes). Read her full bio below.

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Soprano, Jenina Gallaway, has performed internationally and throughout the United States in a wide range of genres. Operatic repertoire includes: Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, the title role in Suor Angelica, Serena in Porgy and Bess, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, Mrs. Augusta Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe, and the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas.

 

Equally committed to the concert repertory, Gallaway has performed as the soprano soloist in Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum, Beethoven’s Ninth Syphony, Dvořák’s Te Deum, and Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder, among others.

A recipient of several awards, Gallaway was an Arizona District Winner and Western Region Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions where she received an encouragement award. She has also been a finalist in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition. In Tucson, Gallaway has been a first place winner in several competitions including the Ameilia Reiman Vocal Competition, Marguerite Ough Vocal Competition, and the Opera Guild of Southern Arizona’s Quest for the Best Vocal Competition. She has also received awards from the Opera Buffs, inc., Fe Bland Foundation Music Award, Society of Singers and the Village Voices Chorale.

Born and raised in Californina, Gallaway holds a Masters in Vocal Performance from California State University, Northridge, a Bachelors in Vocal Performance from Azusa Pacific University, and is currently working towards a DMA in Vocal Performance at the University of Arizona.