Deaf Visual Artist Rosa Lee performed a one-woman multimedia performance, featuring American Sign Language poetry, music, and video, on Saturday, June 13, as a guest of the National University Center for Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
The Rosa Lee Show, as the free event was billed, attracted a sizeable audience, including alumni, students, faculty, staff and members of San Diego’s deaf community. It was held at the Neurosciences Institute Theater near National University’s Torrey Pines headquarters and was open to the public.
Rosa Lee is a performance artist and instructor who has been involved with a variety of theatre arts projects over the past twelve years. She incorporates all aspects of her artistic talents and her experiences as a woman from a deaf family into her shows, which have toured the United States, and have been performed in front of tens of thousands of deaf and hearing audience members in numerous cities.
The Center for Cultural and Ethnic Studies is housed under the College of Letters and Sciences at National University. Its mission is to foster educational opportunities by bringing together faculty, students, community members and academics and practitioners in the humanities to dialog over important social and cultural issues.
The Center presents several events annually, all of which are relevant to National University’s non-traditional and traditional students as well as diverse faculty and community groups enabling serious, widespread, and ongoing dialog on issues.
Programs presented by the Center are learner-centered, dialogue-oriented, and responsive to the special impact of the humanities.
The Center’s purpose is to promote continuing education and community discussions by offering a diversity of speakers in collaborative community forums. For information, contact Annette Cyr at acyr@nu.edu.
