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Tues 10/10 Johnson Center Cinema 7:30pm: Tamer El Said will present and discuss his film about Khalid (Khalid Abdalla), a 35-year-old filmmaker in Cairo, 2009, struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. Free and open to the public.

Tues, Oct 30 at 4:30pm Johnson Center Cinema: Kim Reed's documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. This political thriller takes viewers to Montana. a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow an intrepid local journalist -- John Adams -- working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Cheston Knapp kicks of the Fall 2018 Visiting Writers series on Thursday, September 27, with a reading at 7:30 p.m. in the Johnson Center, Meeting Room G, on Mason’s Fairfax Campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and books will be for sale after the reading.

J. Michael Martinez, MFA ’06, has been long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award for his third collection, Museum of the Americas, already a winner in the National Poetry Series.

"To communicate “together” in American Sign Language (A.S.L.), you press your knuckles together and hold your hands close to your chest before circling them counterclockwise and bringing them to rest below your heart. Like many signs in A.S.L., it seems to convey several meanings at once: linkage, firmness, circularity."

Masterclass with Dan Mirvish, cofounder of Slamdance Friday, September 14, 12noon, Art and Design Building 1007

"Afterward, as a dense blue string of thunderstorms rolled in from the south, drenching everything, I found myself thinking about a quote by the late David Foster Wallace: 'How do you promote democracy when you know that a majority of people will, if given the chance, vote for an end to democratic voting?'"

Dr. Sylvia Schreiner (Assistant Professor of Linguistics), in collaboration with her colleague Dr. Lane Schwartz at UIUC, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for the study of St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik.

Alexandra Ruiz, BFA ’18 and an incoming MFA student in nonfiction, has been named the recipient of this year’s Robert Raymond Scholarship, established by adjunct professor Rosalind Gann to honor her father and encourage diversity in the graduate creative writing program.

"Jessica Kallista, founder, curator and art instigator of Olly Olly art gallery, craved to create a space that would not only highlight the energy in Fairfax, but also mold a sanctuary for artists to crawl out of isolation and 'create an experiment together.'"