La Guagua Literary Festival (IDS 105)
This literary experience and IDS course will examine the themes of cultural diversity
and social inequality through an exploration of literary work in its original language,
as well as in translation. This IDS weekend is both a course and a festival. Students
will take part in the third annual La Guagua Literary Festival, a conference in which guest writers and literary translators present their original
work. Students will participate in breakout sessions organized into three tracks:
creative writing, translation and publishing. All students will reflect on their experiential
learning through mentor/mentee engagement with writers, translators and publishers,
and will engage in online discussion forums and reflect on their experience through
a reflective writing assignment and/or through original creative work or translation.
The weekend will include a walking tour of Lowell, poetry readings, and creative writing
workshops, along with dinner Friday night and lunch Saturday. We will be hearing renowned
poets from all over the world present their work in a variety of languages and translations.
In addition, students will receive a published anthology of the poets.
We hope you enjoy this wonderful experience!
