Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association
22nd Annual Conference  

Voyages of Discovery:

The Word, the Sound, the Picture

The 2002 WCTCHA conference was held on October 25-26, 2002
at the Red Lion Hotel, Port Angeles, Washington.

Pictures from the conference are throughout this page!
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Founded in 1981, the Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association is a network of humanities teachers whose goal is to foster humanities instruction at the community college level and in the community outreach programs provided by most districts. Click here for links to our 2000 and 2001 conferences.

CONFERENCE THEME:
"We invite presentations that reflect your personal and professional insights relating to the voyage. These presentations may include points of departure, geography of the imagination, landmarks and guideposts, messages sent/messages received, coming home, or other interpretations of the journey as represented in words, sounds, or pictures."

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Our keynote speakers this year are Tess Gallagher & Alfredo Arreguin.


photo courtesy of Brian Farrell

Tess Gallagher is a poet, short story writer, and essayist. Ms. Gallagher's most recent American book is Soul Barnacles, Ten More Years With Ray (Italian version: Io and Carver ): essays, Winter 2000, University of Michigan Press. Her essay, The Pure Place, was published in Sleeping With One Eye Open from University of Georgia Press, 2000.
In September of 2001 Ms. Gallagher was in Prague to welcome a book of combined poetry from her late husband, Raymond Carver, and herself. She visited Japan in Fall 2000 where she gave a program at the Nogoya American Center and had reunions with Haruki Murakami, distinguished novelist and translator of Raymond Carver.
In 1999 Ms. Gallagher received the prestigious Nancy Blankenship Pryor Award for unique contributions to the literary culture of Washington State. The award, presented by the Governor's Office and the Washington State Library, also honored her teaching and mentoring. In 1998 she was Writer in Residence at The Stadler Poetry Center at Bucknell University.
   

Photo courtesy of UW Press, Lauro Flores

Alfredo Arreguin was born in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico in January of 1935. He lived there for thirteen years. He then moved to Mexico City, where he lived until he was 23 years old. Since 1959 he has lived in Seattle, where he received his B.A. and M.F.A degrees from the University of Washington. His painting, Sueno: Eve Before Adam, hangs in the Smithsonian, and was deemed one of its most important works in the year it was acquired.
Arreguin's meanings are as complex as the carefully constructed layers of his paintings. Simultaneously rendering the painting's main subject and a myriad of semi-transparent, interlocked and intuitively connected design motifs, he relates personal history, Mexican history, ecological concerns, the immigrant experience, and reflections on the northwest. In addition to hanging in the Smithsonian and corporate headquarters around the United States Arreguin's work has graced the covers of books by his friends, Northwest writers, Tess Gallagher and the late Raymond Carver, among others. A comprehensive book on Arreguin's work was published by the University of Washington Press in 2002. The painting at the top of this web page is Chiwana/theBig River, by Alfredo Arreguin, courtesy of UW Press, Lauro Flores

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

Friday, October 25:

8-9 am - Registration
9-9:15 am - Announcements and Introductions - Ballroom
9:15 - 10:15 am - Keynote Address: Alfredo Arreguin - Ballroom
10:15 - 10:30 am - Coffee Break - Ballroom
10:30 am - Noon SESSION ONE

Hot on the Trail of Gender



 Karen Stuhldreher, Fran Schmitt, and Jane Harradine Ballroom

Many Gates to Rashomon


 Terry Mirande and Tom Link Heritage Room

Edgar Allan Poe's 'True' West

 James Finley Suite 148

(10:30 - 11:15)
The Voyage in Poetry and Painting

Fred Thompson and Alice Derry Suite 248

(11:15 - Noon)
Journeys into the Unknown: A Model for Creativity

 Keith Harrington Suite 248
Noon - 1:30 pm LUNCH Ballroom
1:30 - 2:45 pm SESSION TWO

Creative Writing at the Community College:
Creatively Connecting with our Students and Community

Holly Hughes, Alice Derry, Ed Harkness, and Bethany Reid

 


 Ballroom

Planet Earth: Across the Street and Across the World

Don Correll and Deborah Brink



Heritage Room

Discovering Northern Spain through Pilgrimage

 John Pratt Suite 248
2:45 - 3:30 pm COFFEE BREAK Ballroom
3:30 am - 5:00 pm SESSION THREE

One-Hundred Days in China


 Jim Fisher Ballroom

(3:30 - 4:15)
American Triptych: Nancy Till, Harriet Jacobs, and Hannah Crafts--Their "Dangerous Journeys" from Slavery to Freedom


 Grace Crawford Heritage Room

(4:15 - 5:00)
Billy Budd Revisited


 Don Foran Heritage Room

Journals and Journeys: Reading, Writing (and Teaching) the Travel Experience


 Troy Wolff Suite 148

(3:30 - 4:15)
Tales from the Southland: Canadians in the U.S.


 Joakim Nilsson and Brenda Philip Suite 248

(4:15 - 5:00)
Moments Among Miles: A Poet's Journey


Wendy Blake Suite 248
5:00 - 6:00 pm SOCIAL HOUR Ballroom
6:00 - 8:00 pm BANQUET AND AWARDS Ballroom
8:30 pm POETRY READING
 Fine Arts Center

Saturday, October 26:

8-9 am - Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 am - Keynote Address: Tess Gallagher - Ballroom
10:00 - 10:15 am - Coffee Break - Ballroom
10:15 am - Noon SESSION FOUR

Plenary Session: Voyages of Discovery: The Word, The Sound, The Picture

 

CONFERENCE SITE & ACCOMODATIONS:
The 2002 Conference will be held at the Red Lion Hotel 221 North Lincoln, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
(360) 452-9215. Reservations (800)RED-LION.
www.redlionportangeles.com

Directions:

Directions from Seattle and points east:
From Seattle via Bainbridge Ferry. Follow highways 305 to 3 to 104 to 101 around Sequim. Port Angeles is 15 miles west of Sequim on highway 101.

Travel Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Directions from SeaTac Airport:
Take Interstate 5 south to the Bremerton Exit (highway 16 North) through Bremerton; past Bremerton take highway 3 to 104 to 101 around Sequim. Port Angeles is 15 miles west of Sequim on highway 101.

Travel Time: 2 hours and 15 minutes

Directions from the West:
From Forks, or Aberdeen follow highway 101 into Port Angeles.

Travel Time: From Forks 1 hour

From Clallam Bay/Sekiu:
follow highway 112 to 101 into Port Angeles.

Travel Time: 1 hour