Regina YC Garcia presents “Poetic Expression Obsession: Developing Artistic Partnerships to Elevate Impact”

In this interactive workshop, Poet and Language Artist Regina YC Garcia will engage artists from a wide range of artistic genres to discuss the most effective ways to create increased clarity and appeal in their productions through the formation of collaborations with other creatives from a diversity of artistic backgrounds.

Regina YC Garcia

Facilitator

Regina YC Garcia is a poet, writer, voice artist, narrator, and English professor. She is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she earned a BA in Speech Communication with a Concentration in the Oral Interpretation of Literature. She additionally earned an MA in Adult Education from East Carolina University, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature. She currently teaches English at Pitt Community College.

Regina is the 2021 National DAR American Heritage Poetry Award Winner and a 2021 NCLR James Applewhite Semiﬁnalist. Her publications include poetry and video poetry in the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Book of Black, Black and…, and others. Her work has also been featured (voice and poetry) in The Black Light Project, a documentary which was the subject of an Emmy Award winning episode of PBS Muse: An Art Show. She has recently been published in Main Street Rag, The Amistad, and Tulane University’s Sacred 9 Project.

Garcia’s ﬁrst book of poetry, The Firetalker’s Daughter, is scheduled for publication and release by Finishing Line Press in Spring 2023. She currently resides in Greenville, NC.

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Yvette R. Murray

Yvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet. She has been published in Emrys Journal, The Petigru Review, Catfish Stew, A Gathering Together, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Weymouth Fellow, a 2021 Best New Poet selection, a Watering Hole Fellow, and a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee. Ms Murray lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Find her on Twitter @MissYvettewrites.

C. Leonard Raybon

C. Leonard Raybon is excited to serve on the Down East Flick Fest panel on November 19, 2022. He is associate professor and director of choirs, Virginia Beer Professor in Singing, and Interim Artistic Director of Summer Lyric Theatre, at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is also the founder of the unique, performance/research hybrid organization, Sacred Nine Project, creating and sharing re{new}ed American music, taking old American music and worldviews and allowing it to comment on our country today. Sacred Nine Project also incorporates a significant visual element. For example, the Halloween 2022 concert offered brand new musical settings of the disturbing The New England Primer, and every musical selection was accompanied by a video, including animations of Youth, Christ, The Devil, and Death, in the terrifying “Dialogue” found C. Leonard Raybon is excited to serve on the Down East Flick Fest panel on November 19, 2022. He is associate professor and director of choirs, Virginia Beer Professor in Singing, and Interim Artistic Director of Summer Lyric Theatre, at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is also the founder of the unique, performance/research hybrid organization, Sacred Nine Project, creating and sharing re{new}ed American music, taking old American music and worldviews and allowing it to comment on our country today. Sacred Nine Project also incorporates a significant visual element. For example, the Halloween 2022 concert offered brand new musical settings of the disturbing The New England Primer, and every musical selection was accompanied by a video, including animations of Youth, Christ, The Devil, and Death, in the terrifying “Dialogue” found at the close of most editions of The Primer. To learn more, visit sacrednine.com. at the close of most editions of The Primer. To learn more, visit sacrednine.com.