Connecticut State University System presents Sixth Annual Writing Conference: Recharging the Sensorium, 2007

NEW BRITAIN, CONN., April 24, 2007 -- On Thursday and Friday, April 26-27, 2007, the Connecticut State University System (CSUS) presents the sixth annual multimedia writing conference, “Recharging the Sensorium: A Multimedia Day of the Arts,” along with a Literary Magazine and Small Press Book Fair sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

CSUS, in conjunction with the Connecticut Review, the Helix and Drunkenboat.com, an international online journal of the arts, present a day dedicated to the conjunction of text with other media. The kickoff for the 2007 CSUS “Recharging the Sensorium” multimedia conference will be held on Thursday, April 26, from 5:30 to 9 pm at the New Britain Museum of American Art (http://www.nbmaa.org).

The event will feature the winners of Drunkenboat’s inaugural PanLiterary Awards in seven genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, sound art, photo, video and web art) and will be followed by a concert of electro-acoustic music by renowned composer and performer Robert Black, who will be premiering a piece by Anthony Cornicello, artistic director of SEMI. This concert is sponsored by Hartford’s Studio for Electronic Music Inc. (SEMI) and partially funded by a grant from the Roberts Foundation. Reception and performance are free and open to the public.

The Recharging the Sensorium Conference will be held on Friday, April 27, from 8:00 am to 7:30 pm, on the New Britain campus of Central Connecticut State University in the Torp Theater (http://www.ccsu.edu), a full day of events that include collaborations between writers and visual artists, musicians, dancers; creative, critical and pedagogical panels; electronic artworks and a panel on electronic publishing; and a keynote event Town Meeting, featuring a number of national and regional political leaders presenting on the subject “Long Days Journey into Plight: the problems of Urban Poverty.”

The conference will also feature a Literary Magazine and Small Press Fair sponsored by CLMP (to be held from 9:00 to 5:00 pm in Founders Hall at CCSU) which will feature a large assortment of literary magazines and books. This event is made possible in part through support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A full schedule of events is available at: www.english.ccsu.edu/recharge.htm. Both events are free and open to the public.