September 27, 2022, Santa Rosa, CA — The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Fall Arts & Lectures series kicked off in September with a joint presentation by novelist Jean Hegeland and French artist Lomig, demonstrating and discussing their collaborative process in Lomig’s adaptation of Hegeland’s best-seller Into the Forest as a graphic novel. The link to the recorded session is available on the Arts and Lectures website.

The next event, featuring the Founder and Executive Director of FLIP National Chris Sinclair, will take place on October 17 at 3 pm in Newman Auditorium, in Emeritus Hall on the Santa Rosa campus. He will present his experiences as a first-generation, low-income student and the work, he now does to help FGLI students overcome challenges such as financial insecurity, imposter syndrome, survivor’s guilt, and more. Half of the time will be devoted to a panel discussion with SRJC and Sonoma State University (SSU) students. This presentation will also be simulcast to the Petaluma campus and available online.

The Fall 2022 Arts & Lectures series will culminate with a conversation with Ada Limón, the 24th, and current U.S. Poet Laureate, on November 22 at 12 pm. On stage in the Studio Theatre in the Santa Rosa campus’s newly renovated Luther Burbank Auditorium, the discussion will be simulcast to the Petaluma campus and available as a webinar to those unable to attend in person.

A native of Sonoma, Limón has authored six books of poetry, teaches at Queens University of Charlotte, and hosts The Slowdown, a critically acclaimed podcast devoted to poetry. Her book The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2018, just three years after her book Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the same prize.

On July 12, the Library of Congress announced her appointment as the nation’s 2022-2023 Poet Laureate. In the announcement, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said, “Ada Limón is a poet who connects. Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.”

Visit Arts and Lectures website for more information, and for links to both upcoming webinars and previously recorded events in the archives.