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A Night with the First Mexican-American Prima Ballerina

Monday, April 15, 7 pm

Adult Lecture Series at the County Library

Presented virtually by the County Library's Taylorsville branch 

Evelyn Cisneros-Legate will discuss how she overcame racial discrimination as the only person of color at San Francisco Ballet and how she utilized her background and cultural understanding to catapult her career.

Considered one of America's leading ballerinas and the first Mexican-American principal ballerina, Ms. Cisneros-Legate is a renowned dance educator, former principal at Boston Ballet School, and recent honoree as Utah Business Woman of the Year. She danced for many years at San Francisco Ballet under the direction of Lew Christensen (brother of Ballet West founder Willam Christensen) and later under Helgi Tomasson. Ms. Cisneros-Legate holds an honorary doctorate from both Mills College and the University of California at Monterey Bay. Today, as director of the Fredrick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy, she trains the next generation of dancers and works to ensure the future of the art of ballet.

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I Contain Multitudes:
Walt Whitman, America’s Poet

Tuesday, April 30, 7 pm

Adult Lecture Series at the County Library

Presented virtually by the County Library's Taylorsville branch 

How did the son of a farmer, grammar school dropout, and penny daily hack writer become the iconic American poet? Karen Karbiener will discuss Walt Whitman’s upbringing and his revolutionary work, Leaves of Grass.

Karen Karbiener is a scholar, writer, curator, and cultural activist and has been teaching at New York University since 2003. Winner of the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright recipient, she has published widely on Whitman, including an edition of Leaves of Grass, two audiobooks on the poet’s life and influence, and a book introducing Whitman’s poetry to children. As an active public scholar, she is invested in bringing complex literary content to a diverse public. A native New Yorker, Karen is president and a founding member of the Walt Whitman Initiative, a New York City-based nonprofit organization serving as a think tank and enabler of poetry-related events and community activism, including the open-access Tane Poetry Library and New York’s annual marathon reading of Whitman’s epic “Song of Myself.” She has led walking tours of Whitman's New York for over two decades and is currently completing a biography of the poet.

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