[Grovenet] CGE Presents: The Laramie Project

[Cecelia Warner]

THE LARAMIE PROJECT

  “Everyone carries a piece of the truth”

The Center for Gender Equity presents for the first time on the  
Pacific University campus: The Laramie Project. This powerful play is  
about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie,  
Wyoming, widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by  
homophobia. Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater  
Project went to Laramie after the murder of Matthew Shepard and wrote  
a play based on more than 200 interviews they conducted there. It  
follows, and in some cases re-enacts, the chronology of Shepard's  
visit to a local bar, his kidnapping and beating, the discovery of  
him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and  
funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports  
with actors portraying friends, family, police, killers, and other  
Laramie residents in their own words.  The Laramie Project is  
directed by the Center for Gender Equity’s student co-director,  
Callie Vandewiele.

  The Laramie Project is at heart about all American communities and  
provides a wonderful opportunity for open dialogue about gender  
equity and respect for difference.  It is especially relevant at this  
time given the US senate’s recent passing of the Matthew Shepard  
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.


When:         Friday, October 12 at 7:30 pm
                     Saturday, October 13 at 7:30 pm
                     Sunday, October 14 at 2:00 pm

Where:       Pacific University, Forest Grove
                    McCready Hall, inside Taylor-Meade Performing  
Arts Center
                    (for directions go to www.pacificu.edu)

Cost:         $5.00 at the door (Open to the public)

Special thanks to The Elise Elliott Foundation, Pacific University  
Community Council, and the Pacific University Music Department.

The mission of the Center for Gender Equity of Pacific University is  
to support gender equity through dialogue, programming, service,  
research, and advocacy in order to facilitate collaborative, humane,  
and sustainable University, local and global communities.