 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of September 22, 2013
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Photo by Julian Germain
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Exhibition of work by Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin
Open now through October 4, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts is currently presenting a unique exhibition of sculptures, photo-collages, and site-specific installations by Dean of the Faculty and professor of computer science David Dobkin, a self-identified amateur artist who collects and creatively repurposes a vast array of things from daily life. The exhibition is part of a graduate arts and humanities course, "Contemporary Art and the Amateur," and will be on view through Friday, October 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Photo by Kip Malone
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Theater professor Brian Herrera performs his solo autobiographical play
Tonight only! Friday, September 20 at 8:00 p.m.
Program in Theater professor Brian Herrera will perform his autobiographical solo show, I Was the Voice of Democracy, on Friday, September 20 at 8:00 p.m. at the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. This multimedia production tells the hilarious and heartbreaking story of a 17-year-old briefly thrust into fame when a patriotic speech he writes on a whim wins a national contest. The show is presented as a part of the Lewis Center's Performance Central series and is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Marilynn Richtarik
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Literary historian Marilynn Richtarik opens Fall 2013 Fund for Irish Studies Lecture Series
Today! Friday, September 20 at 4:30 p.m.
Professor and historian of British and Irish literature Marilynn Richtarik will present a lecture entitled, "Stewart Parker: The Playwright in his Place," on Friday, September 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Based on her 2012 biography, Stewart Parker: A Life, Richtarik's lecture will explore the brief but storied career of playwright, poet and cultural critic Stewart Parker (1941-1988). The lecture, part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Brigitte Enguerand
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Celebrated and emerging French theater artists converge onstage at Princeton
Saturday, September 21 - Sunday, September 29
The Lewis Center, the Department of French and Italian, and L'Avant-Scène will present Princeton University's second Seuls en Scène - French Theater Festival from Saturday, September 21 through Sunday, September 29, at venues on the University's campus. The Festival brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as a new generation of artists, to the University and local community. This year's festival includes Marivaux's classic L'Épreuve, original works by up-and-coming directors and playwrights, and texts by Valère Novarina, Marguerite Duras, Molière, and Jean Vilar. Discussions with the artistic teams of the shows will follow a number of the performances. Marking the launch of the 13th season of the student French theater workshop, L'Avant-Scène, the Festival has been organized by the workshop's director, Florent Masse, Senior Lecturer in Princeton's Department of French and Italian. For the full schedule of performances, click here. All performances will be in French. Admission to all events is free but reservations are strongly recommended by sending an email to ftw@princeton.edu - Subject Line: Festival.
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Photo courtesy Cindy Rosenthal
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on "Judith Malina's Living Theatre and the Occupy Movement: Performing Bodies, Memories and Communities"
Tuesday, September 24 at 1:30 p.m.
Hofstra University Professor of Drama and Dance Cindy Rosenthal will present a lecture entitled "Judith Malina's Living Theatre and the Occupy Movement: Performing Bodies, Memories and Communities" on Tuesday, September 24 at 1:30 p.m. Rosenthal's lecture is being presented as part of a Theater and American Studies course at Princeton entitled "Performance and Politics in the 1960s: Hippies and 'Homos,' Black Arts and Broadway," taught by Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf. The course explores U.S. performance in the 1960s, from Broadway to the avant-garde to community and political theaters, in the context of the decade's social, cultural and intellectual politics. The lecture will take place in Room 219 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Chris Dodds '13
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Screening of new short films
Tuesday, September 24 at 4:30 p.m.
In a video screening on Tuesday, September 24 at 4:30 p.m., students in the Lewis Center's Program in Visual Arts will present recent work created earlier this year in introductory and intermediate digital video production courses. The courses, taught by Lecturer in Visual Arts Keith Sanborn and Professor in Visual Arts Su Friedrich, introduced students to the techniques of shooting and editing digital video, digital media production, and issues of aesthetic choice and challenging one's audience. The screening will take place in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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L to R: Photos by Eric England & Jason Reblando
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Two rising writers open the
2013-2014 Althea Ward Clark
W'21 Reading Series
Wednesday, September 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Two writers selected as the Lewis Center's 2013-2014 Hodder Fellows will read from their work on Wednesday, September 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Poet Katy Didden and fiction writer Adam Ross will begin their ten-month residencies at the Lewis Center by opening the Program in Creative Writing's 2013-2014 Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series, which is free and open to the public. For further details on upcoming readings in the series, click here.
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Photo by Paul Schnaittacher
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"The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland, India
and Jamaica, 1857-1870"
Friday, September 27 at 4:30 p.m.
Historian and professor of British and Irish literature Amy Martin will present a lecture entitled, "The Origins of Irish Internationalism: Violence and Terror in Ireland, India and Jamaica, 1857-1870" on Friday, September 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Martin's lecture will explore internationalism and critiques of empire in nineteenth century Ireland as well as related conflicts in Jamaica and Ireland today and reflect on the development of modern ideas of terrorism and the state in Irish thought based on colonial situations in the three nations. The lecture, part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Réka Zempléni
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Tuesday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m.
For six weeks this summer, fifteen Princeton students collaborated with five Kenyan students, Professor in Visual Arts Su Friedrich, and filmmaker Katie Carpenter in a Global Seminar/Princeton Atelier to produce short documentaries about issues related to wildlife conservation in East Africa. A screening of the resulting five films will be held on Tuesday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Garden Theater at 160 Nassau Street in Princeton. A conversation with the student and faculty filmmakers, a musical performance, and a reception will follow the screening. The event is presented by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies in conjunction with the office of International Programs, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Atelier and the Program in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts. The evening's events are free and open to the public.
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on "STEM to STEAM: The Meaning of Innovation"
Wednesday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m.
The 2013 Evnin Lecture will feature Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda, who will discuss adding the arts, alongside science, technology, engineering, and math, into an enlightened form of innovation for the next generation of leaders and creators, one where art, design, technology and business meet. Maeda's lecture, entitled "STEM to STEAM: The Meaning of Innovation," will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2 in Room 101 at the Friend Center, which is located on the corner of Williams and Olden Street on the Princeton campus. Presented by Princeton's Council on Science and Technology, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Lewis Center, the event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Mary Gearhart
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Friday, October 4 at 4:30 p.m.
On Friday, October 4 at 4:30 p.m., a screening of the The Wooster Group's OBIE Award-winning production of To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) will be held at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater as part of a year-long series called "Myth and Transformation: The Phaedra Project." The project aims to bring together artists, scholars, and students from Princeton and beyond to engage creatively with Phaedra's many instantiations. During the 2013-14 academic year, the myth will be featured in an interdisciplinary series of events including theatrical productions, lectures, musical performances, film screenings, and more. The Wooster Group's production of To You, the Birdie! is Paul Schmidt's version of Racine's Phèdre, re-set in a mobile modernist landscape. The screening will be followed by a talk-back with director Elizabeth LeCompte and memebers of the cast. The event is sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Lewis Center. For more information on upcoming events in The Phaedra Project, click here. Photo caption: Frances McDormand, Scott Shepherd, and Kate Valk from "To You, The Birdie!" by The Wooster Group.
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Photo by Nina Subin
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Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Ayad Akhtar, a playwright, screenwriter and novelist who lives in many worlds between East and West, Islam and secularism, white and Asian, will talk with Lewis Center for the Arts Chair Michael Cadden on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Carl Fields Center at 58 Prospect Avenue on the Princeton University campus. Akhtar, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Disgraced, will discuss with Cadden faith, culture, and identity as manifested in his work across genres. Presented by the Muslim Life Program in the Office of Religious Life, the Program in American Studies, the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, the Department of English, and the Lewis Center, the event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Fiorella Battistini
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Tuesday, October 8 at 4:30 p.m.
The Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton and the Spencer Trask Lecture Series are sponsoring The Task to the Novelist, a conversation between author Mario Vargas Llosa and scholar Efraín Kristal on Tuesday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m. Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize-winner for literature, is a Visiting Scholar in both the Program in Latin American Studies and the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center. Efraín Kristal, a specialist in Latin American literature, is the Chair of the Comparative Literature Department at UCLA. The roundtable will begin at 6:00 p.m. at McCosh 50 on the University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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An evening of drinks, live music, and mingling
Saturday, September 28 from 8:00 - 11:00 p.m.
The Lewis Center for the Arts is sponsoring an event for Princeton Alumni in the Arts on Saturday, September 28 at 8:00 p.m. The event, hosted by Pilar Castro Kiltz '10, Alexandra Maguire '11, Mike Wood '08, Bridget Wright '11, and Adam Zivkovic '10, aims to gauge interest in and promote the formation of a formal association of Princeton Alumni in the Arts, with the hopes of organizing future events, programming, and an organized network of Princetonians who create, manage, and support the arts. Featuring live music by Miracles of Modern Science and an open bar, the event will be held at SubCultureNYC at 45 Bleecker Street in New York City. Advance tickets: $10; $20 at the door (cash only). Reserve tickets online here. With questions or for more information, email Pilar Castro Kiltz '10 at pcastrok@gmail.com.
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Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts
and Hodder Fellows
Due October 1, 2013
Princeton University offers two artist fellowship opportunities designed to support artists in all artistic disciplines who demonstrate great promise. Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. These fellowships are for two 10-month academic years. For the 2014-16 round, the University is accepting applications from artists in Theater, Creative Writing, and Dance. The Hodder Fellowship will be given to writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the 2014-2015 academic year. The application deadline for both fellowships is Tuesday, October 1, 2013. For more information, click here.
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