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Performance Artist Fern Davye to Appear at Library
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Fern Davye delights audiences with her programs.
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More from Conejo ValleyAcclaimed performance artist Fern Davye will present Liaisons in Literature at the Grant R. Brimhall Library on September 28, 2008 at 2 p.m. This event is part of the Thousand Oaks Reads - One City One Book activities. This year's book -- What is the What by Dave Eggers - is a compelling and powerful novel based on the real-life story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who were forced to flee their East African villages during that country's civil war. "Ms. Davye astonishes and engages audiences with her electrifying readings of literary works. In this program she will resonate the themes of What Is The What - our 2008 Thousand Oaks Reads selection," explains Steve Brogden, Director of Library Services.
Davye has been called a "performance artist," an "insightful guide able to intimately connect writers and audiences," who travels 250 days a year to read poetry and literary selections to audiences all over the country. Equipped with 500 works from 95 poets, fiction writers, essayists, and playwrights of diverse cultures and ages, she performs in several languages and inspires her listeners to be intellectually challenged while participating in her performance.
"I don't think of what I do as dramatizing the poem. I think of myself as the intermediate between the poem and the audience," Davye says, "It's lifting language off the page and delivering it mid-air."
This free program is recommended for teens and adults.
A month-long One City One Book celebration kicks off at the Thousand Oaks Arts Festival on September 20 & 21 and continues with community book discussions, film screenings, a panel discussion led by California Lutheran faculty, an essay contest and more. The centerpiece of the celebration will be an afternoon with the author Dave Eggers on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Copies of What Is The What are available at the Grant R. Brimhall and Newbury Park Branch libraries, and at local book stores. More information can be found at www.thousandoaksreads.org or call the Library, 805-449-2660 ext. 204.
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