An Exciting Fifth Anniversary Season is Underway for 2012-13!
The Lewis Center for the Arts has launched its fifth anniversary season with over 100 theater and dance performances, readings, exhibitions, screenings and lectures planned.
“The Lewis Center has an exciting and diverse program planned for this year,” noted Michael Cadden, the new chair of the Center. “More than ever, we want to share with the entire community the amazing artistic work that comes out of our course programs, work created by our students, our faculty, and the dozens of guest artists who visit our campus. We want everyone to know that the Lewis Center is not something in Princeton’s future. The Lewis Center is happening now!”
Highlights for the coming year include: a new adaptation of Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, entitled Der Bourgeois Bigwig; the Spring Dance Festival featuring works by Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Laura Peterson, and Zvi Gotheiner; the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival; the Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George; the musical theater improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy; readings by internationally-known writers; exhibitions and a Visual Arts faculty lecture series and more.
Photo: A scene from last year's production of the musical Pippin. Photo by Frank Wojciechowski.
Princeton Receives Mellon Grant for New Fellows Program
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton a $3.3 million challenge grant to support the University's creation of the Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts program, which will bring innovative early- to mid-career artists to campus. The first fellows will be chosen based on work of extraordinary promise and demonstrated teaching ability and arrive on campus in the fall of 2013. While on campus, the fellows will create, exhibit and perform their work; teach undergraduates; and participate in seminars and conferences, bringing fresh perspectives to the programs of the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music. The Foundation's challenge grant has been matched through the gift of an anonymous alumnus, essentially doubling its power and creating four new endowed fellowships over five years. Read more »
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Four Emerging Writers Open Lewis Center for the Arts' 2012-13 Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series
 Four writers selected as the Lewis Center for the Arts' 2012-13 Hodder Fellows will read on Wednesday, September 19 at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Poet James Arthur, fiction writer Melinda Moustakis, non-fiction writer Yasmine El Rashidi, and playwright A. Rey Pamatmat will begin their ten-month residencies at the Lewis Center by opening the 2012-13 Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series, which is free and open to the public. Read more »
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Irish Literary Scholar Eve Patten Opens 2012-13 Fund for Irish Studies Lecture Series
 Irish scholar Eve Patten will present a lecture entitled, “A Feverish Place: Ireland and the English Literati, 1920-1945,” on Friday, September 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public. Read more »
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Suels en Scène Princeton French Theater Festival
September 25 - 29, 2012
 The Festival will bring a group of four early-career French actors to Princeton to perform five recently developed one-person shows that have either received accolades at international festivals or are about to premiere in their home country. The performances will be in French. The Festival is cosponsored by the Department of Italian and French, the Lewis Center, and the student French theater workshop L-Avant-Scène with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Read more »
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