Jonathan Cann, '06 (BardCorps)

Interviewee

Jonathan Cann

Files

Interviewee Role

Alumni/ae/x

Significant Quote

"Even the bad days here...were part of a larger interesting story. I wouldn't do anything different."

Class Year

2006

Other Program

Asian Studies Major

Interviewer

Helene Tieger, '85

Description

Jonathan Cann remembers finding Bard through his guidance counselor in Westwood, NJ; recognizing in the student body the community he had been looking for; wanting to explore, experiment and ask questions; beginning Bard as a Creative Writing major and focusing on Taoism and classical Chinese fiction as an Asian Studies major; self-publishing stories since the age of 16; learning to unpack meaning and choose words carefully under Peter Sourian; becoming involved with the Queer-Straight Alliance in his senior year; experiencing Bard from the different perspectives of four different dorms; looking through the branches of a particular tree at the Catskills every morning from Robbins; turning his creative writing experience at Bard into a career in New York; the last Drag-Race, that "had an attendance greater than the entire roster of students at the school"; the amalgamation of Bard bands and different sounds; leaving the school the person he had wanted to become.

Keywords

Bruce Knickerbocker, Peter Sourian, Li-Hua Ying, Queer-Straight Alliance, Leonard, Keene, Sycamore, Robbins, Bard Drag Race, the Old Gym, Mother Ming, the Foundations, Spring Fling, Bardstock, YIKES, the Josh Tyler Band

Location

BardCorps Trailer, Main Campus.

Interview Date

5-22-2011

Interview Duration

16:48

Recommended Citation

Cann, Jonathan, "Jonathan Cann, '06 (BardCorps)" (2011). BardCorps -- All Oral Histories. 19.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/oral_hist/19

Rights Management

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