Between the Cracks Forum - Sunday January 25th at 2pm
Between the Cracks: A Forum for Music, Science, Art, and Ideas
January 25th, 2:00pm
3400 SW Willamette Ave. Corvallis, OR 97333
(541) 230-1401
$10 Suggested Donation
Please RSVP by January 23rd due to limited space.
Jennifer Bachman – The Creative Mind
Jennifer Bachman is getting her doctorate in Science Education at OSU, specializing in Free-Choice Learning. Although “dull and uncreative herself”, she is particularly interested in how social, personal, and institutional factors impact the development of creativity. In previous lives Jennifer was a remote sensing analyst in Portland and a community college physical science instructor in Bellingham. She has a B.S. in physics from UCSD and a M.S. in geoscience from UCLA. She home educates her two children, one husband, and assorted animals.
Michael Coolen – The Pattern which Connects: Music, Mathematics, and Creativity
Michael Coolen is on the Music Faculty here at OSU, and he is an ethnomusicologist specializing in African music. His research and publication has focused primarily on the griot tradition of West Africa and the cultural and musical connections between the Senegambia and the American colonies. He led a variety of African and Latin percussion ensembles (including a steel drum ensemble) for several years around the region, as well as in Denmark.
Speakers/Performers are invited to discuss and answer questions from audience after presentation.
Light refreshments will be served.
