Next week, Gochmyrat Gutlyyev, a CEC ArtsLink Fellow visiting Appalshop from Turkmenistan, will be visiting UK for a couple of days. He would like to meet with other writers, storytellers and bloggers while he is hosted by the Appalachian Center Thursday and Friday, Nov. 10 and 11. (He will be attending the Appalachian music concert on Friday, of course.) I am copying the CEC ArtsLink Fellows page for Gochmyrat here. Please email Ann Kingsolver at ann.kingsolver@uky.edu if you would like to meet him during his visit.
GOCHMYRAT GUTLYYEV, TURKMENISTAN
Host: Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
Host: Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
Artist—Gutlyyev collects and performs Turkmen stories as a folktale narrator, writer and blogger. Living in a multinational town that borders Afghanistan, he also investigates the ethnographical aspects of interactions between people of different cultural backgrounds. In his conversational style, he has begun to chronicle stories of Turkmen life and culture in literary form as short stories and essays, and more recently a blog. He hopes to expand his writing into a book-length work and would like to participate in discussions, meetings, classes and other events with US folklorists, writers and bloggers.
