Bryn Mawr's Mary Osirim Featured
at First Person Arts Festival Saturday

Philadelphia's First Person Arts Festival is underway, with some help from the Bryn Mawr faculty and staff.

First Person, now in its sixth year, is a celebration of memoir and documentary art that features both local and nationally known artists in a series of events ranging from traditional readings and film screenings to culinary tours and, for the first time this year, a "story slam."

Program Coordinator Vanessa Christman of the Office of Intercultural Affairs has long been an enthusiastic supporter of the festival and now serves on the board of First Person Arts; she will introduce several of the events in this year's festival.

This Saturday, Nov. 10, another member of the College community will be featured at a festival event: Professor of Sociology Mary Johnson Osirim will lead a conversation with filmmaker June Cross before a screening of Cross's Emmy-winning documentary Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away, Cross's autobiographical account of being sent to live with a black couple when her white mother realized her daughter could no longer pass as white.

The event is to take place from 4 to 7 p.m. at the First Person Stage at 2111 Sansom Street. To buy tickets, go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/19878?prod_id=5528.

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