The NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival (SACF) is an annual cross-disciplinary event designed to encourage conversations about social issues, broaden cultural understanding, promote creativity and diversity and celebrate the arts. The festival brings together activities, professional speakers and artists to unite education, local industry and community in conversation. Every year offers a new theme.

2024 Theme - Translation
This spring, SACF will explore the theme of translation. How do we convert meaning from one language, person or culture to another? Whether communicating between languages or translating texts, completing the biological process of translating information into RNA, or translating ourselves and our ideas to another in a way of shared relation and comprehension, the concept of translation surrounds us as we make meaning from our lives.

Schedule:

Monday, March 4, 2024

9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: Civil Conversations Workshop Student Center 108
10:30 a.m - 11:45 a.m: Antisemitism in Modern Conspiracy Theories Burns Hall, White Auditorium
12:00 p.m - 1:15 p.m: Keynote: Man Made Monsters with Andrea Rogers (Reading/Q&A) Burns Hall, White Auditorium
1:30 p.m - 2:45 p.m: A Moving Lecture on Embodied Translation Student Center 108
3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m: Translating the Complex and Technical to Language for the Rest of Us Student Center 108
6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m: Keynote: Man Made Monsters with Andrea Rogers (Author Talk) Fayetteville Public Library, Event Center

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: Forgotten Culture: The New Generation Student Center 108
10:30 a.m - 11:45 a.m: Dorothy McFadden Hoover: Arkansas' Hidden Figure Burns Hall, White Auditorium
12:00 p.m - 12:40 p.m: Translating Themes Across Genre Student Center 108
1:30 p.m - 2:45 p.m: Nelson Hackett and Rock Van Winkle: Important African Americans in the History of Northwest Arkansas Burns Hall, White Auditorium
3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m: Translating Your Skills into a Career You Enjoy Student Center 108
4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m: Brightwater Mural Reveal Reception Brightwater Campus

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: Language for the Living: Translating "Classics" for Contemporary Audiences Student Center 108
10:45 a.m - 11:45 a.m: Translate: A Poetry Reading Burns Hall, White Auditorium
12:00 p.m - 1:15 p.m: Translating Words into Wellness: A Yoga Nidra Workshop Student Center 108
1:30 p.m - 2:45 p.m: Home Cooked Chronicles: Student Explorations of Food Sociology Brightwater
3:00 p.m - 4:15 p.m: Resisting Translation: Notes on Transgender Bilingual Poetics Student Center 108
4:30 p.m - 6:00 p.m: LatinX Theatre Project presents Songs & Scenes from Raices, Roots Burns Hall, White Auditorium

Thursday, March 7, 2024

9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m: Shop Talk: Comparing Translations of The Táin Student Center 108
10:30 a.m - 11:45 a.m: Building a Community of Makers Integrated Design Lab
12:00 p.m - 1:15 p.m: Shakespeare in Translation: The Bard in Portuguese, French & Spanish Burns Hall, White Auditorium
1:30 p.m - 2:45 p.m: NWACC Chamber Singers presents Five Hebrew Love Songs Burns Hall, White Auditorium
3:00 p.m - 4:15 p.m: Translating Hedonism into Civic Virtue: Honors Student Guerrilla Voting Campaign Student Center 108
4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m: "Translation: A Collection of Works by NWACC Art Faculty" opening reception Integrated Design Lab Lobby
4:30 p.m - 5:45 p.m: Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig with NWACC Book Club and Intro to Gender Studies Student Center 108

Friday, March 8, 2024

9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m: Build a Bed Integrated Design Lab

Date: March 4 - 8, 2024

Location: Various Venues in Bentonville, AR 72712

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