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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
Dr Jennifer Kokai is an award-winning educator, playwright, scholar, and Director of School of Theatre and Dance, at University of South Florida. As a scholar, Kokai is recognized internationally for her work on tourism and performance, with a focus on themed and immersive entertainments. In 2017, she published the well-reviewed monograph Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature with Southern Illinois University press, and in 2019 co-edited the anthology, Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor with Dr. Tom Robson of Millikin University.
Over the course of the exhibition Megan Dunn: The Mermaid Chronicles, Adam Art Gallery is screening a selection of films that celebrate, play with and reference the mermaid in popular culture and mythology. Each film will be prefaced by a conversation conducted between Megan Dunn and a special guest. Films screened with thanks to Aro Video.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
Dr Jennifer Kokai is an award-winning educator, playwright, scholar, and Director of School of Theatre and Dance, at University of South Florida. As a scholar, Kokai is recognized internationally for her work on tourism and performance, with a focus on themed and immersive entertainments. In 2017, she published the well-reviewed monograph Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature with Southern Illinois University press, and in 2019 co-edited the anthology, Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor with Dr. Tom Robson of Millikin University.
Over the course of the exhibition Megan Dunn: The Mermaid Chronicles, Adam Art Gallery is screening a selection of films that celebrate, play with and reference the mermaid in popular culture and mythology. Each film will be prefaced by a conversation conducted between Megan Dunn and a special guest. Films screened with thanks to Aro Video.