tART: a
very selective calendar of arts in the Triangle
issue 4.3
editors: R. Sikorski and Courtney Baker
Special Events sponsored by the Franklin Center and the Center for
International Studies
September
27, 2001, Thursday, Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, 4.00 p.m.:
Caribbean Crossings presents a reading by Angie Cruz from her first novel
Soledad. Books will be available for purchase.
Angie Cruz,
a talented young Dominican-American writer, was born and raised
in the Washington Heights section of New York City. She was a student of
Christina Garcia at New York University where she received her MFA. Her
fiction and activist work have earned her the New York Foundation of the
Arts fellowship, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, and the Bronx
Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship. She has had residencies at
The Macdowell Colony and Yaddo. Cruz was co-founder of WILL: Women in
Literature and Letters, a collective devoted to social change through
artistic expression, which hosted the First Annual International Writing
Conference for Women of Consciousness.
September
28, 2001, Friday, Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, 12.15 p.m.:
Sites/Times/Spaces lunch with Angie Cruz. Advanced registration is
required. Email: p.gutlon@duke.edu
For information
on the novelist Angie Cruz, see the item for September
27th.
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Note date and location change:
October 1, 2001, Monday, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus, 8.00
p.m.: Caribbean Crossings presents a screening of " Ava and Gabriel"
(Holland/Curaçao, 1990, dir: Felix de Rooy, 100 minutes, 35 mm, Dutch
and
Papamientu with English subtitles).
The story
takes place on Curaçao in the late 1940s. Following the request
of Father Fidelius, parish priest of St. Anna's, the Surinam painter
Gabriel Goedbloed arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary
in the church. The drama unfolds from different angles. First the clergy
and locals are confused by the fact that the painter is black, originating
from Surinam, but resettled in The Hague. Contributing factors arise when
he chooses a young teacher, Ava Recordina, who is of mixed origins, to be
his model for the painting of the Virgin Mary. Ava is engaged to the while
police major Carlos Zarius, who is not too happy with his fiancé posing
for
the painter.
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And now returning to our regularly scheduled calendar of events:
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Tuesday, September 25th, 7.00 p.m., Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center for
Interdisciplinary & International Studies, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University
Interdisciplinary
Studies in Information Sciences presents
artist/inventor/entrepreneur Michael Joaquin Grey. He will talk about the
evolution of his work from genetics and art to invention and
entrepreneurship.
Grey is
best known for inventing the ZOOB organic/dynamic modeling system.
Nearly one half billion ZOOB units have been manufactured to date and
marketed nationally at educational toy stores by Grey's company, Primordial
LLC.
The ZOOB
was a culminating point in Grey's work, joining his knowledge
of evolutionary biology and art with entrepreneurial flair. Grey's ZOOB
creations were featured in "Interface: Art+Tech in the Bay Area,"
a
student-curated exhibition at Duke University Museum of Art, supervised
by Dr. Kristine Stiles in 1998.
As an artist,
Grey's work has been exhibited internationally, at venues
including two Whitney Biennials, LA MOCA, and exhibitions at Barbara
Gladstone Gallery (New York), Lisson Gallery (London), and Ars
Electronica (Linz), where his computer animations of artificial life
creatures won the prestigious Golden Nica prize.
Grey has
advised students at the MIT Media Lab and is currently
consulting to Research Studios, the international design firm founded by
Neville Brody, whose clients include Macromedia, Scitex, Kenzo, and
Salomon. He also serves on the advisory board of the Eyebeam Atelier,
which will be the first museum in New York City dedicated to the
intersections of art and technology. Grey currently lives in San
Francisco, where he continues his artistic, inventive, and
entrepreneurial ventures.
This event
is free and open to the public. For more information contact
Edward Shanken at edward.shanken@duke.edu
***
Tuesday, September 25th, 8.00 p.m.,Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Duke
West Campus
Shenandoah
Shakespeare, a dynamic young company of American actors, in
HENRY V. Tickets are still available ($17 General Admission, $12 students)
and can be purchased from the box office in advance, or on the night of the
performance.
***
Wednesday, September 26th, 7.00 p.m., Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke
University
North American Studies at Duke University presents
"Todo el Poder" (1999, dir. Fernando Sarinana, in Spanish, no subtitles)
"Sometimes the ones who protect are the enemy"
Todo el
Poder broke all box office records following its debut in 1999. It
is a rousing comedy about modern Mexico's crime and corruption. A small
documentary filmmaker grows fed up with being the victim of robberies and
starts a personal investigation. When he discovers government collusion
with the criminals, he finds himself taking on more than he imagined.
***
Wednesday, September 26th, 8.00 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg.,
Duke University
Shenandoah
Shakespeare will present a performance of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Tickets are $17 general/$12 students, available in advance or at the door.
***
Thursday, September 27th, 5:30 p.m., the Duke University Museum of Art,
East Campus, Duke University
Duke Institute
of the Arts, with the Museum, presents The Ciompi Quartet in
a "First
Course Concert" featuring a reading of a new string quartet by New England
composer Malcolm Peyton. Mr. Peyton will be present to discuss his work
before and after its performance. Cash bar and free hors d'euvres begin at
5:30; the musical program commences at 6pm and concludes by 7 pm.
Admission is $5 at the door; $3 for Friends of the Museum or Friends of the
Ciompi Quartet, and free to Duke students with I.D. No advance tickets are
sold for this performance. Free parking is available in the traffic circle
the encompases East Campus Quad, in front of the Art Museum.
***
Friday, September 28th, 8.00 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building,
Duke University East Campus
Duke Institute
of the Arts presents a concert of Ottoman and Turkish
secular music by Osman Aksu and Friends. The concert will feature the
music of the great Turkish composer Hammamizade Ismail Dede Efendi
(1778-1846). It will be performed on kanun (a
trapezoidal zither), ney (reed flute), rebab (fiddle), violin, ud, various
frame and kettle drums, and three will also feature three vocalists.
Tickets
for this concert are for sale at the door only, beginning at 7:15
p.m. They are $10 General Admission, $5 for students.
***
Saturday, September 29th, 8.00 p.m., Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Duke
University West Campus
The Ciompi
Quartet of Duke University opens its 2001-02 concert season with
a
program of music by Beethoven (Quartet Opus 18, No. 4); Franz Schubert
(Quintet in C Major with guest cellist Norman Fischer); and the new work by
Malcolm Peyton (see above Sept. 27). Tickets are $14 General Admission, $8
Students (other than Duke), and free to Duke students with I.D. They will
be available at the door beginning at 7:15 on the night of the concert.
***
Sunday, September 30th, 5.00 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building,
Duke University East Campus.
In cooperation
with the Indian Classical Music and Dance Society of NC, the
Institute of the Arts presents a concert of Carnatic jusic by renowned
Indian violinist T.N. Krishnan. The concert also includes Krishnan's son
and daughter, who join him as violinists for an evening of high-energy,
improvisatory violin fireworks in the Carnatic style, accompanied by
mrdingam. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $5 students, at the door
only.
***
Sunday, September 30th, 7.00 p.m.,Duke Chapel, Duke University West Campus
Memorial Concert
Mozart's
Requiem
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
Rodney Wynkoop, Conductor
Featuring:
The Duke Chapel Choir, The North Carolina Symphony, The Duke
Chorale, The Choral Society of Durham, The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community
Chorus and Guest Soloists
Call Sherry
Layton for details (681-6753)
Donations will be collected for victim relief in lieu of admission charge
***
In Galleries and Museums
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New Show: September 17th-October 14th, John & June Allcott Gallery, Hanes
Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"John Burke: Shatterer of Worlds--sacred and secular banners"
***
August 16th-October 28th, Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus, Duke
University
"Rodolfo
Abularach: Apocalyptic Landscapes" featuring vibrant paintings of
this 60-year-old Guatemalan artist's homeland.
***
Now through October 7th,Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro
Jose Bedia: Falk Visiting Artist
Cuban-born,
Miami artist Jose Bedia opens the Falk Visiting Artist program
for the 2001-2002 season. Curator of Exhibitions Ron Platt has organized
Bedia's exhibition around the theme of the sea journey, one of the artist's
recurring concerns. In addition to a selection of acrylic paintings, Bedia
will create an on-site work, "Kalunga," that will incorporate the
painting
of a large figure directly on the wall and a sculptural piece on the floor.
Bedia will present a gallery talk on Wednesday, September 19 at 4.00 p.m.
and a slide lecture on the development of his work Thursday, September 20
at 5.30 p.m. both events are free and the public is invited.
***
September 4th-September 28th, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center,
West Campus, Duke University
"Meta-Perceptions--the
metaphysics of dots and lines," the works of
Aristides Logothetis.
***
September 4th-October 19th, Duke University Institute of the Arts Gallery,
Bivins Building, East Campus
"Patterns," photographs of John Taormina
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September 7th-September 30th, LUMP Gallery, 505 South Blunt Street,
Raleigh.
"9[from]1026=deece!"
New works from Philadelphia's Space 1026, a
multimedia collective.
Here is
a good space to take notice of The Independent's article on "The
New Guard," including Lump Lipschitz.
***
September 9th--November 11th, Ackland Art Museum, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Space,
Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth Century Art from the Collection
of Mary and Jim Patton." Show includes work by Siah Armajani, Helen
Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Sean Scully, Ellsworth Kelly and Donald
Sultan.
***
September 12th-November 30th, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Gallery, Perkins Library, Duke University
"Paul Kwilecki: Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia."
A 40-year
documentary record of everyday life in southwest Georgia. the
exhibit is rich in images of churches and religious practices, shade
tobacco cultivation, working people, and the vernacular landscape.