Multicultural Affairs hosts Samoan American artist
The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Dan Taulapapa McMullin, a Samoan American writer, painter and filmmaker, as a weeklong artist in residence. Beginning Monday, Oct. 8, McMullin will make several presentations in commemoration of Coming Out Day and Anti-Columbus Day to which the public is invited to attend at no charge.
McMullin gives a lecture titled U.S. Territory of American Samoa and Pacific Island Sovereignty at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.
An opening reception for his exhibition, Surrounding the Shell: Coming Our on Many Level, My World as a Samoan Fa’afafine Artist, follows his talk, at 7:30 p.m. in Chase Hall Gallery.
McMullin gives a second lecture titled Here is the Fire that Devours Me’: Tahitian Activism and Spirituality in the Poetry of Henri Hiro, at noon Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall. At 4:30 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge, McMullin screens his award-winning film Sinalela, followed by a lecture titled Sounding the Shell: Coming Out on Many Levels.
McMullin offers a second screening of Sinalela and a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.
McMullin engages audiences in the South Pacific, North America and Europe with stories that take place in the Samoan Diaspora. His 2004 illustrated poetry chapbook, A Drag Queen Named Pipit, and 1996 performance poem, The Bat, garnered a 1997 Poets & Writers Award from The Loft. “Sinalela” received the 2002 Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Best Short Film Award.
McMullin’s political essays on colonization in American Samoa contributed to the 1999 Gustavus Meyers Humanitarian Award-winning book, Resistance in Paradise. He recently completed his forthcoming book, The Only Paradise is Paradise Lost.
For more information about McMullin’s ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ visit, call the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 207-786-8376.
