| Fall 2008 Calendar of Events
September 2-September 26, 2008
John J. Fitzsimmons - Impressionist landscapes exhibit
Joan Derryberry Art Gallery
September 25, 4:30pm Reception/Gallery talk
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING (Gallery Talk only)
Mr. Fitzsimmons' paintings explore the intimate space experienced as a "witness to a slice of life." He gravitates towards the random, the chaotic, and the awkward in his works, making use of unresolved tensions. The paintings have an odd scale and proportion, a low, wide format simulating a natural field of vision.
http://www.fitzsimmon3art.com
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September 11
International Welcome Event
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Roaden University Center Patio
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
This event is a welcome event open to all students, faculty and staff. Free international desserts. Co-sponsored by One World.
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September 18
Borealis Wind Quintet
Concert 7:30 pm; Masterclass 11:00 am
Wattenbarger Auditorium Bryan Fine Arts Building
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
The Borealis Wind Quintet has been acclaimed as one of America's preeminent chamber ensembles. The highest musical integrity, irresistible energy and five-fold charisma distinguish Borealis in the chamber music field. Audiences love their exquisite programming that includes the finest of the classics, engaging commissions, and opera arias. The group received a Grammy nomination in 2006.
Joanne Rile Management - http://www.rile.com
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September 25 - November 3
"Forgive Us All" - Brian Somerville exhibit
September 25, Reception/Gallery talk
Gallery Two at the Appalachian Center for Craft
Mr. Somerville's exhibition uses animal figures to dramatize the mayhem and aggression to which we as a society have become increasingly desensitized. "Each scene is inspired by specific experiences of humans behaving like animals. These instances are stripped of their baggage, leaving only the primal behaviors involved. All this fury and confusion is then regurgitated into familiar animal forms. The familiarity of each beast allows the viewer to bring into this world his or her own interpretations." (Taken from the artist's statement)
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September 29-30
Renard Harris: Storyteller with a Blues Harp
September 29, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Wesley Arena Theatre
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Renard Harris tells original stories in a lyrical way and support his stories with the intensity of a Blues harmonica. Harris' delivery is rhythmic in cadence, possesses the simplicity of a front porch tale, and swells with the emotions of a country Blues song. Entertaining, inspirational, and thought provoking, an evening with the Storyteller with a Blues Harp is guaranteed to please all who attend.
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September 29-October 24
Carol LeBaron - Fiber Art exhibit
October 23; 4:30pm Reception/ Gallery talk
Joan Derryberry Art Gallery
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING (Gallery talk only)
Ms. LeBaron's art expresses the human impact on natural forms with colors taken from devastation caused by acid rain, warfare, and other environmental pressures. She states, "New technologies bring progress and danger simultaneously. My working process is a reflection of this navigation through perilous waters."
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September 30 and October 2
Cameroon Crafts presented by Hans Knopfli
September 30 3:30 pm in Clement Hall Room 212
October 2 11:00 am in Johnson Hall Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Dr. Knopfli will present two lectures: "The Western Grassfields - Social Structure and Crafts: basketry, pottery, blacksmithing and music"; "Royal Art and its Symbolism: Architecture and Carved Royal Symbols."
Dr. Knopfli lived in Cameroon from 1956 to 1993, where he worked both as a pastor and a craftsman. He is an author of four books about Cameroon Crafts. ________________________________________________________________________________________
October 3
Tres Vidas
Concert/performance 7:30 pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
An evening-length work for singing actress and chamber music trio, based on the lives of three legendary Latin American women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya and Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni. Written by Marjorie Agosin and directed by Matthew Wright. Presented by Core Ensemble Chamber Music Theater.
http://www.core-ensemble.cc/tv.htm
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October 6
Multicultural Evening
6:00-8:00 pm
Roaden University Center Multipurpose Room
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Free Japanese food and Asian music. Co-sponsored by One World.
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October 7
Rhonda Larson, flutist
Concert 7:30 pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Ms. Larson presents a program of music, primarily composed by her, which reflects the influence of various world musics. Her diversity, combined with her musical and technical wizardry, has begun a new generation for the flute as a leading voice in the music world. Ms. Larson continues to be recognized as a visionary force creating a refreshing hybrid music for the flute, including her versatility on an array of ethnic flutes from around the world.
http://www.RhondaLarson.com
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October 16
Tibet - Presented by Ngawang Losel
9:30am Bruner Auditorium (Room 119)
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Ngawang Losel, a former Tibetan refugee, will present information on the history, culture, philosophy and spiritual dimensions of an ancient human civilization called Tibet, a forgotten culture.
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October 21
Mix It Up Lunch Day
11:00 am Multipurpose Room - RUC
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
A luncheon and simulation exercise to help participants learn to evaluate problems from diverse perspectives and promote intercultural teamwork skills at TTU and in the surrounding community. Robert Owens, Minority Affairs director will also speak on diversity at TTU. Co-sponsored by Minority Affairs and an Introduction to Sociology class.
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October 22
International Film Series: Monsieur Ibrahimm (1st of 4 films)
This series is a four part examination of the cinema of Northern Africa.
7:00 pm Library Media Center
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In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Shariff) is an old Muslin Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo (Pierre Boulanger), who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Koran to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.
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October 24
Eva Amsler, flutist
Concert 8:15pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Ms. Amsler is a leading proponent of performing on the wooden flute, providing audiences with a chance to hear music of the 18th and 19th centuries played with a character those composers were writing for. Her concert will feature pieces played on the wood flute, representing a variety of western nationalities and styles.
http://evaamsler.com
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October 27-November 21
William E. Hubschmitt, PhD - Digital Art exhibit
October 28, 4:30pm Reception/ Gallery talk
Joan Derryberry Art Gallery
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING (Gallery talk only)
Dr. Hubschmitt creates his artwork by using digital images and then transforming those images to create the visual effect he is searching by technology and acrylic glazes. The artist states, "Through this process of evolution, the work becomes much more than just manipulated photographs or figures or landscapes. They become emotional self-portraits and true visual dialogs in a postmodern sense."
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October 29
International Film Series-Halfouine: Boy of the Terraces (2nd of 4 films)
This is a four part examination of the cinema of Northern Africa.
7:00 pm Library Media Center
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Set against the sensual, erotic backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Ferid Boughedir's Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces is a bittersweet portrait of a boy's sexual awakening. Noura (Selim Boughedir, the director's nephew) is an inquisitive thirteen-year-old whose eyes are opened to his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. Gazing upon the spectacular array of unclothed women and girls, Noura begins to experience his first pangs of longing. But just as Noura is awakened to the pleasures of the fair sex, he risks being wrested from their tender, affectionate companionship and into the callous and rigid company of men. A sensitive, comical look at the difficulty of growing up under the puritanical codes of Islam, Boughedir's film is also a rich, vibrant portrait of the Arab neighborhood of Halfaouine, with its array of colorful and eccentric citizenry from whom Noura learns the complicated, often hypocritical ways of adulthood.
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November 4
Sin-Hsing Tsai, pianist
Concert 7:30 pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Dr. Sin-Hsing Tsai is a professor of piano at the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. A former student of Daniel Pollack, her program will feature works by prominent American composers.
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November 5
International Film Series: Satin Rouge (3rd of 4 films)
This is a four part examination of the cinema of Northern Africa.
7:00 pm Library Media Center
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
A widowed Tunisian seamstrees takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in writer-director Raja Amari's sumptuous and sensual Satin Rouge. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. She strikes up a friendship with one of the dancers, and then eventually takes the stage herself-quickly becoming the favorite of both cabaret patrons and the club's hot-blooded drummer. As she gradually sheds her shapeless, matronly housedresses for the flamboyantly sequined bar-girl garb, she also begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness.
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November 6
"Changing Places, Changing Faces: Recent Immigrant Settlement in the United States and Its Implications" presented by Dr. Katharine Donato
6:00 pm, Johnson Hall Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Dr. Donato's talk will cover recent developments in immigration to the United States, particularly to rural areas. It will include a photo presentation of the faces of immigration across the country, as well as data on immigrants: who they are, where they come from. The implications of the new patterns of immigration for public policy and American society will be discussed.
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November 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 @8:00pm; 13th @10:00pm; 15th @2:00pm
Assassins
Backdoor Playhouse - Rear of Jere Whitson Building
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Based on an original idea by Charles Gilbert
“Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, “Assassins” is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.”
“Produced by arrangement with Music Theatre International” http://www.tntech.edu/bdph
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November 9
A Brass Spectacular Concert featuring Synergy Brass Quintet
Concert 7:30 pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
This concert will feature national, regional, and TTU brass performers in a concert chamber music and large-scale works for brass instruments (trumpets, horns, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas). The featured group, Synergy Brass Quintet, is a national touring ensemble represented by Radian Arts Productions.
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November 11
"The Right to Agree: Why Common Ground Eludes the Abortion Conflict" presented by Cristina Page.
7:00 pm
Derryberry Hall Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
A presentation by Cristina Page, author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America", will be followed by a Q & A session. Ms. page will attempt to cover common ground and the effect of government policy nationally/internationally, by comparing and contrasting diverse opinions on a topic that is hotly debated but rarely discussed rationally.
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November 12
International Film Series: Bab El-Oued City (4th of 4 films)
This is a four part examination of the cinema of Northern Africa.
7:00 pm Library Media Center
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Boualem is a young man who works the local bakery's graveyard shift in the Bab El-Oued district of Algiers. One morning, shortly after the bloody riots of October, 1988, he commits an unthinking act which jeopardizes the entire district. Unable to stand the noise from one of the many rooftop loudspeakers broadcasting the propaganda of a local fundamentalist group, he rips the speaker out and throws it away. The extremists, led by Said, regard this act as deliberately provocative and aim to make an example of the culprit. Merzak Allouache's exposure of the inherent dangers in the recent rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria has attracted considerable attention, winning both a Fipresci (International film Critics) prize and a Prix Gervais when it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Merzak Allouache was recently awarded the Reba Steward and Genevieve McMillan Award for Distinguished Filmmaking by the Harvard Film Archive.
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November 13
Jim Snidero, Jazz Artist
Concert 7:30 pm; Master class 11:00 am
Wattenbarger Auditorium
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Mr. Snidero is a world class Jazz artist who also has the distinction of being a member of Frank Sinatra's Orchestra for four years. He is also one of the finest jazz educators in the country. His recordings have received critical acclaim by leading jazz critics. Several have received 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine, in which critics hailed Snidero as "a master musician" and "alto sax virtuoso."
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November 17
"Issues in the Muslim World" presented by Ms. Maha ElGenaidi and Dr. Awadh Binhazim
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Multipurpose Room Roaden University Center
STUDENTS SHOW EAGLE ID CARD FOR ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Ms. ElGenaidi will speak on Muslim women. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors, of the Islamic Networks Group (ING); a commissioner on Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante's "Commission for One California"; Commissioner on Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission) appointed by Supervisor Jim Beall); Advisor to California's Commission on Police Officers Standards & Training (POST) for hate crimes and cultural diversity training; and former Co-chair and Vice-chair of the Bay Area Hate Crimes Investigators Association (BAHCIA).
Dr. Awadh Binhazim, founding president of Olive Tree Education of Nashville, will serve as a panelist/moderator. He is currently Professor of Pathology at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Adjunct Professor of Islam at the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University; and Adjunct Professor Africana Studies at Tennessee State University.
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November 21
John Farrell - "Building Bridges in the Classroom"
7:00pm - Concert/Presentation; Workshops TBA
BAckdoor Playhouse - rear of Jere Whitson Building
The workshops and concert will explore how music, songs, writing and storytelling can be used to build bridges that connect people of different cultures, languages, ages, genders and life experiences.
Songwriter, author, storyteller and social activist John Farrell has been traveling across the U.S. and around the world for more than fifteen years singing, telling stories, writing songs, and listening to the music and stories of others. His songs and stories focus on living peacefully, appreciating diversity, exploring the natural world, and promoting literacy. Mr. Farrell is the founder of "Bridges of Peace" project.
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