Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
This Week at the Lewis Center
March 23, 2014
studio corner
Photo by Clare Arentzen
A senior thesis exhibition 
by Clare Arentzen
Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28

The Program in Visual Arts will present Hand {Made} Ready, a senior thesis exhibition by certificate student Clare Arentzen, on view from Monday, March 24 through Friday, March 28 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. Arentzen's exhibition will include collections of natural found objects, ready-made found objects, and handmade objects rooted in her interests in biology, natural history, process, and her midwestern upbringing. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.  
baker headshot
Photo by Walter McBride
Conversation and master class with Broadway actor Becky Ann Baker
Tuesday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m.

The Music Theater Lab is presenting a series of guests "in conversation" as part of Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf's spring seminar course "The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim." On Tuesday, March 25, Broadway actor Becky Ann Baker will lead a master class and conversation on "Acting Sondheim Songs." In 2004 Baker starred in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sondheim's Assassins. The conversation will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Room 219 at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.  
geometric design

Featuring Paul Muldoon, Idra Novey, James Richardson, and Milberg Poetry Prize-winning students
Tuesday, March 25 at 6:00 p.m.

Labyrinth Books and the Lewis Center will host a reading on March 25 featuring Program in Creative Writing faculty members Paul Muldoon, Idra Novey, and James Richardson, along with three young debut poets: Adina Lasser, Tim D. Housand, and Katie Hibner. The young poets are the winners of the 2014 Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually and open internationally to high school students in the eleventh grade. The reading, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton, is free and open to the public.  
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Lecture by Michael Cramer on 
Peter Watkins' BBC documentaries
Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m.

The Program in Visual Arts will present the second of four lectures in the "4 the Love of Film" series on Thursday, March 27. Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY-Purchase College Michael Cramer will speak on "Inform, Educate, and Aestheticize: Documentary and Art in Peter Watkins' BBC Films." The focus of Cramer's talk will be on two films directed and produced by Watkins for BBC Television: 1964's Culloden and 1965's The War Game, which were widely seen upon their release as marking a critical shift in documentary filmmaking. The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.  
two dancers
Photo by COSTAS
Lecture/demonstration on the 
ballet "Phaedra"
Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m.

The Phaedra Project will present members of the acclaimed Martha Graham Dance Company performing scenes from Graham's ballet, Phaedra, on Thursday, March 27. A reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Princeton's Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, will accompany the dance performance. The event will be introduced by Ze'eva Cohen, founder and professor emerita of Princeton's Program in Dance. Part of "Myth in Transformation: The Phaedra Project" at Princeton, the event will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center and is free and open to the public. Mark your calendars for November 5, when McCarter Theatre will present a full evening of dance by the Martha Graham Dance Company.  
childers in a field
Photo courtesy Erskine Childers
Fund for Irish Studies lecture 
by Erskine Childers
Friday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m.

Writer and Irish historian Erskine Childers will lecture on "The Riddle of Erskine Childers" as part of the Fund for Irish Studies lecture series on Friday, March 28. Childers will talk about his great-grandfather Robert Erskine Childers, an author, political activist, and major figure in the Irish revolution. The lecture, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street, is free and open to the public.  
In the Coming Weeks

tyrell in studio
Photo by Charles Waldron '15
Exhibition of photographs by senior Nathan Tyrell
Monday, March 31 - Friday, April 4


The Program in Visual Arts will present a senior thesis exhibition by certificate student Nathan Tyrell from March 31 through April 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. Tyrell's exhibition will feature medium format color photographs of raw industrial materials such as piles of scrap aluminum, taken during his summer spent working in an aluminum factory in Germany as a Keller Center Ruhr fellow. An opening reception will be held in the Lucas Gallery on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
The Fall - myself
Photo courtesy Jose Carlos Teixeira
Lecture by Jos� Carlos Teixeira
Monday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m.


Visual and video artist Jos� Carlos Teixeira will present a lecture about his interdisciplinary work on Monday, March 31 as part of Claudia La Rocco's spring dance criticism course, "The Art of Seeing: Choreography in the Contemporary Moment." Using strategies of group participation and collaboration, Teixeira investigates notions of identity, language, boundary, otherness, exile and displacement in his work. Presented by the Program in Dance, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton, the event will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
authors headshots
L-R: Photos courtesy of Hassan Blasim, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, & Roy Scranton
A reading by writers Hassan Blasim, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, and Roy Scranton 
Thursday, April 3 at 6:00 p.m.


The Lewis Center and Labyrinth Books will host "War from the Inside," an evening of readings by three authors who lived through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reading will seek to open a conversation between the Iraqi point of view, represented by Hassan Blasim, author of The Corpse Exhibition; the Afghan point of view, represented by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, who wrote about the war in Afghanistan in The Watch; and the point of view of American soldiers, represented by Roy Scranton's edited collection Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. Award-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges will give an introduction to the reading, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
black 47 poster
Photo courtesy Black 47
Celtic rock band performs on farewell tour 
Friday, April 4 at 4:30 p.m.


Renowned Celtic rock band Black 47 will perform in concert at Princeton on Friday, April 4, as part of the Fund for Irish Studies series. Black 47 is disbanding after 20 years together performing songs about such topics as the Northern Ireland conflict, civil rights, and urban unrest in contemporary New York. Their farewell tour of the U.S. recently included a St. Patrick's Day performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon--click here to watch a clip of their performance! The concert will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center and is free and open to the public. 
Announcements

muldoon with award
Photo courtesy of The Poetry Society


Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Professor of Creative Writing Paul Muldoon received the Freedom of the City of London at Guildhall on Monday, March 17, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to poetry. He was nominated for the honor by The Honourable The Irish Society, which commissioned him to write a cantata in celebration of the Society's 400th anniversary in 2013. Muldoon is Princeton's Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, and served as founding Chair of the Lewis Center. Photo: Muldoon accepting his award in The Lord Chamberlain's office at Guildhall
lee headshot
Photo by Frank Wojciechowski


Professor of Creative Writing and bestselling author Chang-rae Lee will discuss his newest novel at the Princeton Public Library on Monday, March 24. On Such a Full Sea is set in a dystopian future America and tells the story of a girl searching the country for her disappeared boyfriend. Lee will be available to sign copies of his book at the event, which will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room on the first floor of the library and is free and open to the public.

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 the University 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, screenings and lectures are offered each year, most of them free or at a nominal ticket price. The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts, including a complete list of supporters, please visit arts.princeton.edu.



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