Check out the September 2009 edition of the Creative Arts E-Lert, the official e-mail newsletter of the SF State College of Creative Arts. This issue highlights upcoming events including the exhibits “Cartographic Imagination/An Atlas,” a video screening about the Smile Foundation of India and a free Morrison Artists Series concert with the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio. The newsletter also includes news on international awards won by Cinema students, an alumna who has joined the Ringling Bros. Circus and more.

The College of Creative Arts welcomes its new tenure-track faculty member, Yutian Wong. An assistant professor of Dance, she will teach courses in aesthetics and history.

Leah Christiana was an Oakland Raiders cheerleader while attending SF State, but she now performs with a real circus. She joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a trapeze artist.