Art Writers Event with Rudy Castaneda Lopez and Janet Colson

Date
31 October 2015, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location
Aratoi

A coming of age story containing discussion around the theme of art in literature 1960s LA with Rudy Castañeda López and Janet Colson.


Photography by Finn Rainger


Rudy Castañeda López was born California to Mexican-American parents. He attended the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the California State University at Long Beach. In 1986 he and his Kiwi wife, Jan, were part of a group of anti-nuclear campaigners nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. In 2005 he earned his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the Whitecliffe School of Art and Design in Auckland and in the same year his first novel, The Song of Laughing Bird, was published. He has both taught and studied at Whitireia – he was the Programme Manager of the Visual Arts and Design Department before he took up writing and his own art making  fulltime. He lives with his wife, daughter, son, Mother-in-law, three cats and several fish on the shores of the Pauatahanui Inlet.
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Janet has an MA in English and American Literature from King’s College, London, where she acted in numerous student productions, taking leading roles to the Edinburgh Fringe. She went on to become one of London’s most successful arts fund-raisers.
Janet wrote the first draft of The Shark Party, on the Whitireia Creative Writing Programme in 2012. She has published short fiction in UK anthology Words Made Flesh and she created the theatre piece Dali’s Womb. Art and illusion, possession and freedom are the heady components of this first novel by a stylish new voice in New Zealand popular fiction.
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