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 »

Suels en Scène Princeton French Theater Festival

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. Admission is free but reservations are strongly recommended by sending an email to L’Avant-Scène with the Subject Line: Festival. 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 »

Creative Writing Faculty Read at Labyrinth Books

Three members of the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing faculty, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, and Susan Wheeler, will read on Thursday, September 27 at 5:30 p.m. at Labyrinth Bookstore, 122 Nassau Street in Princeton, along with four winners of the 2012 Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize. The reading is free and open to the public. Read more »

United in Anger: Screening and Talkback

This inspiring feature-length documentary depicts the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, showing ACT UP's battles against corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect. Startling archival footage puts the audience on the ground with activists in the trenches, and survivors reflect on how a small group of men and women, of all races and classes, came together to change the world and save each other's lives. The screening in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street will be followed by a talkback with producers Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman. Both events are free and open to the public. Read more »

Reading by Playwright/Actor Wallace Shawn and Poet/Novelist Laura Kasischke

On Wednesday October 3, renowned poet Laura Kasischke and OBIE Award-winning playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public. Read more »

The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society Continues with Reading and Performance

The Fertile Crescent project, a showcase of women artists and writers of the Middle East and Middle East diaspora, continues on October 3 at 7:30 p.m. with a reading by four writers at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Maysa Hayward, originally from Egypt; Nathalie Handal, who was born in Haiti in a family originally from Bethlehem, Mohja Kahf, a Syrian novelist and poet now teaching in the U.S.; and Abena Busia, a poet originally from Ghana in Africa will share their work and perspectives.

On October 4 during the next Princeton ArtWalk Turkish-German artist Nezaket Ekici will present Lifting a Secret, a living installation, in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio. From 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. visitors are invited to witness Ekici's preparation of her installation, which will ultimately reveal entries from her diary on stark white walls within the theater. These personal statements reflect her views on Turkish arranged marriage traditions, which include a woman's ability to make a perfect cup of coffee as a test of readiness and worthiness for marriage. From 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. the installation culminates in a multi-sensory performance where her writings are dramatically revealed and the space transformed. Read more »

Photos: (above left) Abena Busia, poet who will read and moderate. (above right) Nezaket Ekici presents Lifting a Secret, a living installation.

Irish Scholar Poses Question: "The End of Ulster Loyalism?"

Irish scholar Pete Shirlow will present a lecture posing the question: “The End of Ulster Loyalism?” on Friday, October 5 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 »

The Lewis Center for the Arts encompasses Princeton University's academic programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier. The Center represents a major initiative of President Shirley M. Tilghman to fully embrace the arts as an essential part of the educational experience for all who study and teach at Princeton. Over 100 diverse public performances, exhibitions, readings, and lectures are offered each year, most of them free or at a nominal admission fee. For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts visit princeton.edu/arts.