{"id":17981,"date":"2005-10-10T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:17:23","slug":"samoan-american-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/10\/samoan-american-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Affairs hosts Samoan American artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/10\/72mcmullin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/10\/72mcmullin.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Dan Taulapapa McMullin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Dan Taulapapa McMullin, a Samoan American writer, painter and filmmaker, as a weeklong artist in residence. Beginning Monday, Oct. 8, McMullin will make several presentations in commemoration of Coming Out Day and Anti-Columbus Day\u00a0to which the public is invited to attend at no charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>McMullin gives a lecture titled <em>U.S. Territory of American Samoa and Pacific Island Sovereignty<\/em> at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>An opening reception for his exhibition, <em>Surrounding the Shell: Coming Our on Many Level, My World as a Samoan Fa&#8217;afafine Artist<\/em>, follows his talk, at 7:30 p.m. in Chase Hall Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin gives a second lecture titled <em>Here is the Fire that Devours Me&#8217;: Tahitian Activism and Spirituality in the Poetry of Henri Hiro<\/em>, at noon Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall. At 4:30 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge, McMullin screens his award-winning film <em>Sinalela<\/em>, followed by a lecture titled <em>Sounding the Shell: Coming Out on Many Levels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin offers a second screening of <em>Sinalela<\/em> and a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin engages audiences in the South Pacific, North America and Europe with stories that take place in the Samoan Diaspora. His 2004 illustrated poetry chapbook, <em>A Drag Queen Named Pipit<\/em>, and 1996 performance poem, <em>The Bat<\/em>, garnered a 1997 Poets &amp; Writers Award from The Loft.\u00a0 &#8220;Sinalela&#8221; received the 2002 Honolulu Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival Best Short Film Award.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin&#8217;s political essays on colonization in American Samoa contributed to the 1999 Gustavus Meyers Humanitarian Award-winning book, <em>Resistance in Paradise<\/em>. He recently completed his forthcoming book, <em>The Only Paradise is Paradise Lost<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about McMullin&#8217;s Bates visit, call the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 207-786-8376.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Dan Taulapapa McMullin, a Samoan American writer, painter and filmmaker, as a weeklong artist in residence. 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