Native American poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie will present "The Business of Fancydancing: Poems, Stories, Punch Lines and Highly Biased Anecdotes" at Aurora University Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Native American, will speak at 7 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration at 407 S. Calumet Ave. in Aurora.
The public is invited. Admission is free. Reservations are required. Call (630) 844-4924 or e-mail artsandideas@aurora.edu.
Alexie's program is part of AU's 2008-2009 Celebrating Arts and Ideas series. Sponsors are Nicor, gold sponsor; City of Aurora, Harris Aurora, Human Resource Management Systems, LLC, Old Second National Bank, and Sodexo, silver sponsors; BFC, Sikich, and Comcast bronze sponsors; and The Beacon News, media support. Before his appearance, Alexie will talk to AU students in three classes.
Also, the public is invited to "Who is Sherman Alexie?" a community symposium led by an AU faculty panel. The symposium is at 1:30 p.m. in The Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, 1400 Marseillaise Place in Aurora. Alexie was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, Wash.
The author of 20 books, he adapted his book "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" into the movie "Smoke Signals." It is believed to be the first movie made by American Indians about American Indians. "Smoke Signals" won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmaker's Trophy in 1998 and was distributed by Miramax films.
The film also received the Christopher Award presented to works that affirm "the highest values of the human spirit." His second movie, an adaptation of his book of poems, "The Business of Fancydancing," was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In 1999, The New Yorker called Alexie one of the top writers for the 21st century.
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