2008: ART & BORDERS
Thursday, October 30 - Sunday, November 9
SCHEDULE
All events are free and open to the public except DePauw Theatre (see below for ticket information).
Note: This schedule is subject to change.
CONTINUING EVENTS
LIBRARY COLLECTION DEPARTMENT DISPLAY
Roy O. West Library
Sponsored by the Collection Development Department
PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION
CROSS THIS BORDER : THE FENCE PROJECT
East College Lawn
Sponsored by Student Art Council
For this student-wide community art project, a chain-link fence will be installed on campus as a canvas for the voices of the DePauw and Greencastle community.
THE HUMAN RACE MACHINE
Memorial Student Union Building
Sponsored by hte Public Arts Committee and NAACP
An entirely unique diversity experience, the Human Race Machine is an interactive multi-media creation of art technology that gives viewers the opportunity to envision themselves as a different race.
PHOTOCYCLES AROUND CAMPUS
All over campus
Sponsored by Peter Williams with assistance from the DePauw University Professional Development fund
Photocycles is a participatory art work in which bicycles, fitted with cameras, will be available for use by anyone who wants to contribute to the project. As they ride, the participants will be able to snap photographs which will be automatically geotagged, and compiled into a collective visualization of our physical and visual borders.
THE CAMP SESSIONS (November 2-7)
Green Center Lawn
Sponsored by DePauw Galleries and Museums
Centered around the field tent, a traditional structure widely found in refugee camps and border areas, and used frequently for disaster relief efforts, THE CAMP SESSIONS is a series of events - organized by Indianapolis-based artist and musician Stuart Hyatt - that will take place inside a tent installed near the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The project is intended to bring together students and people of divergent backgrounds into a focused environment of study, creativity, and exploration.
ALL THAT WE'VE BEEN MISSING
Highway US 40
Sponsored by DePauw Galleries and Museums
An outdoor art installation created by artist Felipe Dulzaides - located on a double-sided billboard (on U.S. 40, 1/2 mile west of U.S. 231) - that explores notions of isolation and migration, the artist's history and experience as an artist and Cuban-American, and the real and metaphorical borders that separate the United States and Cuba.
THE IDENTITY AND BORDERS PHOTO EXHIBIT
Memorial Student Union Building
Sponsored by the Center for International and Experiential Education
This exhibition examines the "before" and "after" of international experience with 2 photos and a narrative that relay the evolution or reaction of "new selves."
This event hosted in the Memorial Student Union Building.
GALLERY EXHIBITION: EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
Richard E. Peeler Art Center
Sponsored by the DePauw Galleries and Museums
An exhibition exploring the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide.
GALLERY EXHIBITION: FELIPE DULZAIDES: NOTHING HAPPENS, TWICE
Richard E. Peeler Art Center
Sponsored by DePauw Galleries and Museums
Cuban-born visual and performing artist Felipe Dulzaides creates interdisciplinary works that are poetic responses to the fleeting and contingent circumstances and quirks of everyday life.
MUSEUM EXHIBITION: ANDY WARHOL: FACES AND NAMES
Emison Museum of Art
Sponsored by DePauw Galleries and Museums
This exhibition – featuring over 150 Polaroid and black-and-white photographs by Andy Warhol recently given to DePauw University by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts – examines the artist’s photography in context with his prints, paintings and films, and illuminates the enormous influence his work has had on contemporary artistic practice.
All above events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. For updated or additional information regarding Peeler Gallery exhibitions click HERE. For Emison Museum of Art exhibitions click HERE, or call (765) 658-4336. Peeler Art Gallery and Emison Museum of Art hours are Tuesday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday: 1 - 5 p.m. Both venues are closed on Mondays.
DAILY EVENTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
4:15 - 5:30 p.m. ARTSFEST OPENING EVENT
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Great Hall
Sponsored by the ArtsFest Planning Committee
To kick-off DePauw's annual celebration, DePauw professor Tom Hall (Sociology and Anthropology) will moderate a panel of scholars and artists in a discussion about arts and borders. Panel participants include assistant professor of Modern Languages Cheira Belguellaoui, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology Mona Bhan, assistant professor of Music Carlos Carrillo, visiting artist Stuart Hyatt, associate professor of history Glen Kuecker and assistant professor of art Peter Williams. Also featured will be a screening of “talk…the…line,” a video created by Peter Williams. Light refreshments will be served.
7:30 p.m. SONES DE MÉXICO
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium
Sponsored by the DePauw School of Music
Chicago's premier Mexican folk music group, Sones de México plays son - a term used in Mexico to define a large family of regional music and dance styles. Each region has its own brand of son with its own repertoire, instruments, and dancing and singing style. This exciting ensemble is a unique blend of seasoned Mexican folk musicians and educators that hail from Chicago. The group, formed in 1994 to keep the tradition of Mexican son alive in its many regional forms, stays true to its roots and old masters, as well as being current and fresh. Nominated for the 2007 Latin Grammy and 2008 Grammy for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album, Sones de México comes to DePauw to start ArtsFest with a bang!
9:00 p.m. PLAYWRIGHTS' FESTIVAL
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kerr Theatre
Sponsored by Alpha Psi Omega
A popular semester theatre event that produces 10-minute plays written, directed, and acted by students. This semester's plays will focus on the ArtsFest theme of Art & Borders.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
4:00 p.m. THE EDICT OF EXPULSION
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Large Rotunda
In 1492 "Columbus sailed the ocean blue", and also did the King and Queen of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabel, conquer Granada. In a bold, if cruel move they set about sealing their geographic and ideological borders to all but devout Christians of the “one true faith” by ousting Jews and forcing conversions of Muslims. Join theatre professors Tim and Caroline Good as “King and Queen of Spain”in a dramatic reading of The Edict of Expulsion.
8:00 p.m. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with JOHN SCHWANDT, organ
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium
Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series and the Film Studies Film and Speaker Series
Organist John Schwandt will perform an improvised score to the classic silent film, Phantom of the Opera in honor of Halloween. Costumes encouraged!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7:00 p.m. PLAYWRIGHTS' FESTIVAL
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kerr Theatre
Sponsored by Alpha Psi Omega
A popular semester theatre event that produces 10-minute plays written, directed, and acted by students. This semester's plays will focus on the ArtsFest theme of Art & Borders.
9:00 p.m. THE LAUGH IN PEACE TOUR
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Thompson Hall
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural and Community Life and the Public Occasions Committee
A comedy routine featuring Rabbi Bob Alper, Azhar Usman, a Muslim lawyer and imam, and Nazareth Rizkallah, an Evangelical Christian. This act is winning rave reviews all over the country. Talk about crossing borders!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
3:00 p.m. DEPAUW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURE, Orcenith Smith, conductor
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium
Sponsored by the DePauw School of Music
Concert featuring works by traditional composers writing about foreign countries including:
-Hungarian Dance No. 6 by Johannes Brahms (German / Austrian composer writing about Hungary)
-Espana by Emmanuel Chabrier (French composer writing about Spain)
-Sensemaya by Silvestre Revueltas (Mexican composer work based on works by Afro-Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen)
-Capriccio Espanol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian composer writing in a Spanish idiom)
5:00 p.m. PLAYWRIGHTS' FESTIVAL
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kerr Theatre
Sponsored by Alpha Psi Omega
A popular semester theatre event that produces 10-minute plays written, directed, and acted by students. This semester's plays will focus on the ArtsFest theme of Art & Borders.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
4:15 p.m. DOUBLESPEAK featuring Mexican poet GAËLLE LE CALVEZ
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the Modern Languages Department
Members of the DePauw community will read literary selections in an original language, and then read their translation. This event features the Mexican poet Gaëlle Le Calvez. There will be a discussion about the art of translation after the readings.
7:30 p.m. PERSEPOLIS
Ashley Square Cinemas
Sponsored by the Film Studies Film and Speaker Series
A stunning coming of age story about a young outspoken Iranian girl, Marji, who struggles with the idealism of a promised future in post-revolution Iran, and the reality of a homeland that has embraced a new kind of tyranny.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
4:15 p.m. THE KEMOSABE THERAPY
Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum
Sponsored by DePauw Theatre
DePauw Theatre's visiting guest artist Cochise Anderson presents "The Kemosabe Therapy," a powerful and entertaining performance that aligns his many talents as musician, poet and actor. Whether playing an original flute or drum song or performing his new spoken-word piece, "Methods of Mass Deception," Cochise re-constructs our perceptions of the modern world through a Native American perspective.
6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. THE ART OF THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTION
Go vote in this most historical of presidential elections.
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ELECTION NIGHT PARTY
Judson and Joyce Green Center For the Performing Arts, Theta Garden
Sponsored by WGRE, D3TV, College Republicans, College Democrats, Conservative DePauw, Debate Society, Alpha Psi Omega, United DePauw
Watch the local and national election returns at this all-campus party. Food and entertainment provided.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
11:30 a.m. JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural and Community Life
"Cultural Connections," a monthly program sponsored by the Office of Multicultural and Community Life. Kimiko Gunji, Associate Professor of Japanese Art and Culture and Director of Japan House from the University of Illinois will be presenting a demonstration of a Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is a unique event not to be missed! Light Refreshments provided. Co-sponsored by Asian Studies, the Public Occasions Committee, and the Association of Students Interested in Asia.
4:00 p.m. KIMONO DEMONSTRATION
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural and Community Life
Kimiko Gunji, Associate Professor of Japanese Art and Culture and Director of Japan House from the University of Illinois will conclude her day of demonstrations (see above) with a kimono ceremony. Event co-sponsored by Asian Studies, the Public Occasions Committee, and the Association of Students Interested in Asia.
7:30 p.m. CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY READING
Richard E. Peeler Arts Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the DePauw University English Department
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
7:30 p.m. DAGOBERTO GILB, writer
Richard E. Peeler Arts Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by Kelly Writers Series
Dagoberto Gilb is the winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award for The Magic of Blood and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his nonfiction collection, Gritos, His latest novel, The Flowers, is a commanding story coming-of-age story about a Mexican American male that transcends age, race, and time. Gilb also authored the celebrated Woodcuts of Women and The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acua, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The editor of Hecho in Tejas: An Anthology of Texas American Literature, Gilb's essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Best American Essays.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. CREATIVE WRITING STUDENT READINGS
Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
Sponsored by the DePauw University English Department
7:30 p.m. NATURAL SELECTION
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Moore Theatre
Sponsored by DePauw Theatre
It’s the very near future and humans are coping with Earth's devastation. People risk radiation poisoning when they step outdoors. Children attend virtual school. Friends interact via the Internet. Some populations, such as Native Americans, have been nearly eradicated, so representatives are displayed in “Cultural Pavilions.” In seeking a genuine Indian, curator Henry Carson encounters a most charismatic and unsettling Navajo (played by visiting equity actor Cochise Anderson), who ultimately teaches everyone a few things about tolerance and borders. A dark comedy that examines our blind dependence on technology, our isolation from each other, and our detachment from our own spirituality, Natural Selection premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2007.
Tickets: $6 for adults and $3 for students and may be purchased at the Green Center Box Office or reserved at (765) 653-4827 or greencenter@depauw.edu. Patron packages available. For additional information on DePauw Theatre contact Gigi Fenlon at gfenlon@depauw.edu or (765) 658-4485.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
7:30 p.m. NATURAL SELECTION
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Moore Theatre
Sponsored by DePauw Theatre
See Friday, November 7 for a more detailed description of the play and for ticket information.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
12:30 - 4:00 p.m. ART ATTACK
Green Center for the Performing Arts
Sponsored by the Arts Coordinating Council
Art Attack, in its 5th year, is the annual ArtsFest event for children. The event includes performances, workshops and hands-on arts activities for children of all ages. For additional information and contacts, go HERE.
1:00 p.m. DEPAUW JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, Kresge Auditorium
Sponsored by the DePauw School of Music
Concert featuring works centered around New Orleans. Directed by Leonard Foy.
4:00 p.m. NATURAL SELECTION
Green Center for the Performing Arts, Moore Theatre
Sponsored by DePauw Theatre
See Friday, November 7 for a more detailed description of the play and for ticket information.
All events are FREE and OPEN to the public except DePauw Theatre productions.
**Events are subject to change**
