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Lake Erie College announces a symposium on narrative practices in the arts with area artists and writers, to be held Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. in the B.K. Smith Gallery located on the east side of Lake Erie College on Gillett Street. This discussion is being presented with the support of Lake Erie Interdisciplinary Committee. In a round table style discussion the panel will explore topics bringing visual artists together with writers to converse about the creative process, and the role that story telling plays in our contemporary world with its ultra fast links to the web. Some of the more specific questions they will encompass include topics on the ramifications and possibilities inherent in the link of dissolutions of media/art and life boundaries between art and storytelling. As well as entertainment versus healing: the idea of artist as shaman and the incorporation of storytelling just another material available for manipulation in a fragmentary, postmodern world. The panelists will then take part in a comparison dialogue between the role of storytelling historically across cultures and time to storytelling today, specifically oral tradition. The panel will consist of Nancy Prudic, moderator, and Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Lake Erie College; Laila Voss, adjunct professor at several area colleges and universities including CIA, University of Akron and Kent State University. Laila was also a recipient of OAC fellowship and residency program in Prague; Johnny Coleman, Professor of Art at Oberlin College; Dr. Mimi Pipino, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Director of Scholars Program at Lake Erie College. Her research and teaching interests focus on multiethnic American literature, specifically Italian American literature; women's literature; and feminist critical and literary theory. She has published a book, "I Have Found My Voice": The Italian-American Woman Writer, and is currently working on several articles on Italian American literature for a forthcoming Greenwood Press encyclopedia of multiethnic American literature; Kelly Harris, a distinguished poet and former journalist and editor-in-chief of UHURU Magazine. Ms. Harris was a member of the 2003 Cleveland Poetry Slam team and has won several awards for her works including the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Award and selected for the 2003 National Poetry SLAM Anthology. She has read as a featured poet at The Ohio State University, Kent State University, CSU, The Canton Museum of Art, to name a few. Kelly currently teaches creative writing part time to high school students; �ngel Pag�n, Senior Community Officer for the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration. Holding a Masters Degree in Philosophy, �ngel is a member of Philosophy Club at Cleveland State University as well as a member of Student Group Latinos Unidos. He has been awarded twice for his works in poetry and is an illustrious composer, songwriter, percussionist and performer.