Current and Upcoming Events
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Dance
November 20 and 21
Senior Dance Concert
The Department of Dance presents the Senior Dance Concert.
8 pm each evening, Fine Arts Studio 317. $12 general admission $7 students and seniors. For information and reservations, call the Dance Box Office at 410-455-6240.
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Music
Sunday, November 22
UMBC Symphony Orchestra
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards. The program will feature Aaron Copland's Dance Episodes from Rodeo, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (conducted by UMBC alumna Elizabeth Shin) and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Visual Art
Continuing through December 12
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, curated by Christopher Bedford, and organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York.
Mixed Signals focuses on artists from the mid-1990s to the present who question the notion of the male athlete as the last bastion of uncomplicated, authentic identity in American culture during the preceding decades. The works presented here, made by artists who have appropriated, riffed on, complicated, and variously re-presented athletic imagery, demonstrate that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, polyvalent figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before.
The exhibition includes 40 works in photography and video from artists such as Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Paul Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, Collier Schorr, Joe Sola, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hank Willis Thomas.
The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the iCI Advocates, the iCI Partners, Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson.
Mixed Signals is an expanded version of Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets--Masculinity and Sports, an exhibition curated by Bedford and organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.
Photo: Brian Jungen, Michael, 2003, screen print on powder coated aluminum, 10 boxes, installation dimensions: 34 x 44 x 33 in. Rennie Collection, Vancouver.
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Visual Art
Continuing through December 13th
The Art of Persuasion: Poster Design from 1896 through 2008
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents The Art of Persuasion: Poster Design from 1896 through 2008, on display from August 25th through December 13th, 2009.
The Art of Persuasion surveys a century of development in the visual language of posters. Presented in three distinct thematic groups—Pleasure & Leisure, Politics & Propaganda, and Commercial Advertising, this broad selection of posters highlights transformations in the art, culture, and technology of posters. Disseminating vital information through use of diverse visual strategies, poster artists engage the viewer to sell ideas and products.
Many of the posters in the exhibition are widely recognized and have been collected for their historic and cultural significance as well as their aesthetic qualities. Also included are posters identified as emerging landmarks in this ever evolving medium. Selections were drawn from UMBC’s Special Collections as well as public and private collections.
The presentation of this exhibition is supported in part by a General Operating Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Endowment, and private contributors.
The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-2270.
Image: Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the U.K., Silkscreen Print, 1976, United Kindom, on loan from Dennis Lo
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Social Sciences Forum
Wednesday, December 2nd
Robert D. Reischauer, President, The Urban Institute
Robert D. Reischauer, president of the The Urban Institute, speaks on health care reform.
Robert D. Reischauer, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and nationally known expert on the federal budget, Medicare, and Social Security, began his tenure as the second president of the Urban Institute in February 2000. He had been a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution since 1995. From 1989 to 1995, he was the director of the nonpartisan CBO. Mr. Reischauer served as the Urban Institute's senior vice president from 1981 to 1986. He was the CBO's assistant director for human resources and its deputy director between 1977 and 1981. Mr. Reischauer serves on the boards of several educational and nonprofit organizations. He is Vice Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He frequently contributes to the opinion pages of the nation's major newspapers, comments on public policy developments on radio and television, and testifies before congressional committees. Mr. Reischauer holds an A.B. in political science from Harvard University and an M.I.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Co-sponsored with UMB/UMBC's Doctoral Program in Gerontology.
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Music
Wednesday, December 2
UMBC Collegium
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium under the direction of Joseph Morin. The Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. Performers are given the opportunity to sing in a variety of conventional and extended vocal styles, and to play recorder, krummhorn, racket, cornetto, shawm, sackbut, viol da gamba, vielle, harp, organetto, lute, and other historical instruments from the UMBC Department of Music's collection of instruments.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Theatre
December 2 - 13
The Crystal Egg, created and directed by Colette Searls
The Department of Theatre presents The Crystal Egg, an exciting new fusion of computer animation and puppetry created and directed by Colette Searls, based on a story by sci-fi pioneer H.G. Wells.
Equal parts sci-fi fantasy and spooky comedy, The Crystal Egg tells the bittersweet tale of old Mr. Cave, a curio shop owner who makes an extraordinary discovery. A crystal egg sitting on his dusty shelves is going to reveal something shocking. Creatures from another dimension are sealed inside that egg, and they are about to escape.
Using innovative computer-generated graphics, The Crystal Egg features animated creatures designed and built by UMBC's Imaging Research Center Fellows, performing with artist Don Becker's charmingly rendered puppets. Set to an original score by sound artist Timothy Nohe, The Crystal Egg promises a novel experience in visual and aural storytelling.
The production features set design by Greggory Schraven, costume design by Celestine Ranney-Howes, light design by Terry Cobb, sound design by Timothy Nohe, and video animation by Timothy Nohe.
Performances:
Wednesday, December 2nd, 8 pm (preview)
Thursday, December 3rd, 4 pm (free performance for UMBC students, faculty and staff)
Friday, December 4th, 8 pm (opening night)
Saturday, December 5th, 8 pm
Thursday, December 10th, 8 pm
Friday, December 11th, 8 pm
Saturday, December 12th, 8 pm
Sunday, December 13th, 4 pm
$10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors, and $3 for the preview.
To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Patrons who would prefer to pay by cash or check at will call may make a reservation through the online Theatre Box Office or by calling 410-455-2476.
Image by Monique Cucchi, Linehan Artist Scholar.
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Music
Thursday, December 3
UMBC Wind Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Richard Spece. The Ensemble is comprised of exceptional woodwind, brass and percussion performers who enjoy the challenge of performing excellent concert literature. The program will feature:
• Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
• Symphony for Band by Vincent Persichetti
• Vesuvius by Frank Tichelli
• October by Eric Whitacre
• Awayday by Adam Gorb
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Music
Friday, December 4
UMBC Camerata
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo, featuring Mozart's Missa Brevis in C, K. 220 (the "Sparrow Mass"), performed with an instrumental chamber ensemble. The program also features concert carols for Christmas. UMBC Camerata is a select chamber choir of 35-45 singers that performs great choral literature in a variety of styles, from Renaissance motets to avant-garde contemporary works.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Music
Thursday, December 10
UMBC Percussion Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. The UMBC Percussion Ensemble is a dedicated performing group of advanced percussion students. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and Carlos Chavez. The Ensemble has established a tradition of performing works by UMBC's faculty and student composers, who sometimes include members of the ensemble.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Dance
December 10, 11 and 12
Fall Dance Concert
The Department of Dance presents the Fall Dance Concert.
8 pm each evening, UMBC Dance Lab (Fine Arts Building Studio 317). $12 general admission $7 students and seniors. For information and reservations, call the Dance Box Office at 410-455-6240.
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Music
Saturday, December 12
UMBC Vocal Arts Ensemble
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of Cantor Thom King. The Vocal Arts Ensemble is a group of 8-15 advanced vocalists who study and perform opera scenes.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Music
Saturday, December 13
Jubilee Singers
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
3 pm, Charlestown Retirement Community. Donations accepted. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Music
Sunday, December 13
UMBC Chamber Players
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka. The ensemble investigates the instrumental chamber works of the Western Art Music, ranging from the Baroque, Classical, Romatic to contemporary repertoire.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Music
Monday, December 14
Department of Music Honors Recital
The Department of Music presents an Honors Recital.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-MUSC.
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Dance
February 4, 5 & 6
Baltimore Dance Project
Baltimore Dance Project performs concerts of works by choreographers Carol Hess and Doug Hamby, “two of the most exciting choreographers in Maryland.” Known for its groundbreaking fusion of dance and technology, the company features some of the most exciting dancers from the Baltimore area and beyond, performing sumptuous and thrilling movement in choreography that ranges from provocative and dramatic to free-wheeling and fun.
$20 general admission, $7 students and seniors. 8 pm each evening in the UMBC Theatre.
Tickets will be available fall 2009.
Funds raised through ticket sales for this event will be administered by the UMBC Foundation for the benefit of UMBC.
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Theatre
March 3 - 7
IN10 Festival
The Department of Theatre presents the fifth annual IN10 Festival, Susan McCully, artistic director. The Festival features new theatrical works for young actresses and all audiences, including the winning play of UMBC's IN10 International Short Play Competition.
Performances:
Wednesday, March 3rd, 8 pm (preview)
Thursday, March 4th, 4 pm (free performance for the UMBC campus community)
Friday, March 5th, 8 pm (opening night)
Saturday, March 6th, 8 pm
Sunday, March 7th, 4 pm
Tickets will be available through MissionTix in spring 2010.
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Theatre
April 21 - May 2
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, directed by Eve Muson
The Department of Theatre presents The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, directed by Eve Muson. Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that a Hollywood director is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.
Performances:
Wednesday, April 21, 8 pm (preview)
Thrusday, April 22, 4 pm (free performance for the UMBC campus community)
Friday, April 23, 8 pm (opening night)
Saturday, April 24, 8 pm
Sunday, April 25, 4 pm
Thursday, April 29, 8 pm
Friday, April 30, 8 pm
Saturday, May 1, 8 pm
Sunday, May 2, 4 pm
Tickets will be available through MissionTix in spring 2010.
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Note: Artists, dates and ticket prices may change. Funds raised through ticket sales for certain events will be administered by the UMBC Foundation for the benefit of UMBC.
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