Visual Art
Continuing through February 18 MFA Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the MFA Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition, which features works by graduates of UMBC’s MFA programs in Imaging and Digital Arts. The 2012 exhibition will include work of graduate students in robotics, photography, performance art and trans materials. The work selected represents the culmination of each student's unique experience at UMBC's dynamic and demanding MFA program.
Meghan Flanigan's work, I Will Disappear to You, can be experienced as either a live, one-on-one performance or as a video installation. The performances will occur at the following times, and by appointment. The video installation will be shown at all other times.
Friday, January 27, 12 - 1 pm
Saturday, January 28, 2 - 3 pm
Wednesday, February 1, 12 - 1 pm
Thursday, February 2, 3:30 - 4:30 pm (immediately prior to the opening reception)
Friday, February 3, 12 - 1 pm
Saturday, February 4, 2 - 3 pm
Wednesday, February 8, 12 - 1 pm
Friday, February 10, 12 - 1 pm
Saturday, February 11, 2 - 3 pm
Wednesday, February 15, 12 - 1 pm
Friday, February 17, 12 - 1 pm
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.
Image: Gary Kachadourian, Proposal Image for "Apartment Complex."
Visual Art
Continuing through March 22 Passage on the Underground Railroad
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Passage on the Underground Railroad, artwork by Stephen Marc, organized by the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, and curated by Sandra H. Olsen. The exhibition will be on display from January 29 through March 22.
Stephen Marc's fascinating photographs and digital montages explore the history of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. With this body of work, Marc combines contemporary images with historic documents and artifacts to create richly-layered objects that bring the past palpably into the present. For seven years the artist photographed the routes traveled by fugitive slaves in their search for freedom, documenting and interpreting his research along the way. In Passage on the Underground Railroad, Marc shares the results of these explorations through eighty-seven thought- provoking, unconventional, and haunting digital images.
Marc uses two types of photographic composites to reveal the history of the Underground Railroad (UGRR): multiple photographs that describe UGRR sites and metaphorical montages that address the larger horror of slavery. Each UGRR site has a story, so individual sites are portrayed inside and out, using several photographs in combination to create visual tours. The companion montages evocatively interpret the South's "peculiar institution" from which slaves were fleeing. These multilayered narratives weave together elements from the landscape of slavery—plantation structures, crop fields, waterways, tools of bondage and agriculture, merchant tokens and bank note currency, newspaper articles, and advertisements—along with UGRR site details, antislavery materials, and contemporary cultural references.
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.
On Wednesday, March 7 at 4 pm, Stephen Marc will present a lecture on his work. Please see the Humanities Forum listing on this calendar for additional information.
The presentation of this exhibition is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Foundation and individual contributions. For this exhibition and publication, Stephen Marc has received ongoing support from Olympus Imaging America, Inc., as well as from the National Park Service as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.
Image: Stephen Marc, Untitled, Digital montage/archival pigment inkjet print, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist.
Humanities Forum
Wednesday, February 8 Martin Collcutt: "Pacific Encounter: The Japanese Iwakura Embassy in America in 1872" - Asian Studies Program Lecture
The Humanities Forum presents Martin Collcutt, Department of History, Princeton University, who will speak on "Pacific Encounter: The Japanese Iwakura Embassy in America in 1872." In January 1872 a large and distinguished diplomatic delegation (an Embassy) from Japan arrived in San Francisco. The Embassy, headed by the court noble Iwakura Tomomi, had been sent by the Government of Japan to learn from the West and, perhaps, to re-negotiate unfavorable treaties that had been imposed on Japan. Martin Collcutt will discuss the Iwakura Embassy's experiences in the United States.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Dance February 9, 10 and 11
Baltimore Dance Project
Baltimore Dance Project returns to the UMBC Theatre with a mix of heart-warming, mind-bending, vigorous, inventive, creepy, and entertaining dance. BDP highlights the creativity of award-winning artistic directors Doug Hamby and Carol Hess, "two of the most exciting choreographers in Maryland."
The program features choreography by Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, Hallie Dalsimer, James Hansen, Eran David P. Hanlon, and performances by Sandra Lacy and other acclaimed artists. Works will include:
* The Collected by Carol Hess, a modern pointe solo based on the book The Collector by John Fowles, a harrowing novel in which a woman is kidnapped by a butterfly collector in order to add her to his assortment of beautiful things.
* Against the Tide by Carol Hess, which premiered in 2011--an exciting, tumultuous and slippery dance for seven women who move between cliques and independence.
* A new duet by Carol Hess for a man and woman to music by the vibrant "breakcore" composer Venetian Snares. Veering away from conventional partnering, the the dancers pursue a relationship of "equals" through contrapuntal structures, spatial orientations and supports.
* Dust by Doug Hamby, a physical journey for five dancers that combines Hamby's highly energetic moment with beautiful moments of stillness inspired by the sculptures of Henry Moore, with an original score by Ferdinand Maisel.
* A new dance by Doug Hamby in which modern dance of 2012 is brought together with modern dance from the past. Live dancers perform with archival silent dance films from the 1950s, originally created by choreographer Helen McGehee, with a musical score by Ferdinand Maisel.
* Excerpts of Lovely by James Hansen, which premiered at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival in June 2011. The dance is performed to Maria Callas, Cher, Frank Sinatra, and an original sound design by Hansen that uses text from the 1960s classic game show The Newlywed Game.
* memories of walking on the moon by Hallie Dalsimer, a solo borne of the vulnerability that comes with taking responsibility for oneself. The piece premiered in November 2010 at Moving People Dance Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
$20 general admission, $10 students and seniors, $7 UMBC students. 8 pm each evening in the UMBC Theatre.
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 by calling 410-455-6240.
Funds raised through ticket sales for this event will be administered by the UMBC Foundation for the benefit of UMBC.
Arts Education
Saturday, February 11 Sixth Annual UMBC Arts Integration Conference
UMBC presents the Sixth Annual UMBC Arts Integration Conference, organized by the UMBC Department of Education in partnership with the Walters Art Museum and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. The conference addresses the needs and interests of elementary and secondary teachers, artists who work with schools, and arts integration specialists. This year's theme is "Looking Out...Looking In: Re-envisioning Our World through the Arts."
The conference features workshops for and by P-12 teachers, artists and arts-integration specialists; tours and exhibits; classroom resources; and book sales. A keynote address will be given by Arnold Aprill, director of the Chicago Arts Partnerships and Education, and Reginald Lawrence, director, Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre.
Optional tours and workshops will be presented at the Walters Art Museum and at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, featuring a gallery talk by Gary Kachadourian.
9 am to 3 pm at the University Center. Advanced registration is required, with early bird registration until February 1st. Full registration continues through February 9th. Additional information and registration forms, are available on the website: http://www.umbc.edu/education. Contact Tonya VanDerlinde for further information at tvander1@umbc.edu or 410.455.1362.
This event is made possible through the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation.
Visual Art
Continuing through February 12 Image Transfer: The CADVC/K-12 Remix
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture celebrates its Fall 2011 K-12 school and community partnerships with an exhibition in the Hall Gallery on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building through February 12. The multi-media display features original artwork by more than two hundred students from four area schools--Lansdowne High School (Academy of Arts & Communication), Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School and Hampstead Hill Academy--alongside work by their UMBC student and faculty collaborators. Their artwork responds to the CADVC’s main gallery exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, which was on display in Fall 2011.
Image: Lizbeth Lobra, Untitled Dream, 2011, mixed media
Highlandtown Elementary/Middle
Baltimore City Public School #215
Social Sciences Forum
Thursday, February 16 Brian Grodsky: "The Costs of Justice: Understanding How New Leaders Choose to Respond to Previous Rights Abuses"
The Social Sciences Forum presents Brian Grodsky, assistant professor of Political Science at UMBC, who will speak on "The Costs of Justice: Understanding How New Leaders Choose to Respond to Previous Rights Abuses." Dr. Grodsky will discuss factors that impact on whether and how new elites pursue transitional justice policies (legal and symbolic acts designed to address past abuses) after a period of repression. The theoretical discussion will be applied to two cases of post-conflict states, Serbia and Poland.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor. Admission is free.
Music Sunday, February 19
L2Ork - The Linux Laptop Orchestra
The Department of Music presents L2Ork, the Linux Laptop Orchestra, in concert. L2Ork (pronounced as lohrk) is the world’s first orchestra of its kind, built on Linux. Established upon the foundation established by earlier ventures PLOrk and SLOrk, L2Ork was founded by Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic in May 2009 as part of Virginia Tech Music Department’s Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio (DISIS). Designed and produced by exclusively undergraduate researchers, L2Ork consists of up to fifteen tightly networked, yetindependently operated laptop computers running open source software (Linux, PD).
Instead of designing new instruments, L2Ork’s focus is on perfecting use of existing technologies within a context of astandardized ensemble. Consequently, what arguably sets L2Ork apart from a growing number of laptop orchestras is its focus on physical presence and performance practice, consistent exploration of coupling traditional instruments with contemporary technology, and tight integration of networked data streams that fundamentally alter the orchestra’s properties and consequently sound. The performance choreography borrows cues from Taiji and other Martial Arts and captures the ensuing motion data through the use of Nintendo Wiimote controllers.
5 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Music Thursday, February 23
Airi Yoshioka, violin, with Adam Kent, piano
We regret that this event has been cancelled.
Humanities Forum
Monday, February 27 Kathy E. Davis: "Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves" - Korenman Lecture
The Humanities Forum presents Kathy E. Davis, Institute of History and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, who will speak on "Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves." Beginning in the 1970s, the feminist classic book on women and health, Our Bodies, Ourselves, not only has had an enormous impact on feminism in the U.S., but it has been taken up, translated and adapted by women across the globe. Drawing upon Edward Said's concept of "traveling theory," Kathy E. Davis will explore the book's world-wide travels, showing how it was transformed in the process of its many border crossings, and how it provides useful insights for how we think about history, the politics of knowledge, and transnational feminism.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor. Admission is free.
Visual Arts and Humanities Forum
Wednesday, March 7 Stephen Marc: "Passage on the Underground Railroad and the Black Experience within American History"
The Humanities Forum presents Stephen Marc, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, who will speak on "Passage on the Underground Railroad and the Black Experience within American History" in conjunction with the exhibition of his work at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. For nine years Stephen Marc traveled to over half the states in this country to photograph the routes traveled by fugitive slaves in their search for freedom, documenting and interpreting his research along the way. Marc shares the results of these explorations through his thought-provoking, creative, and haunting digital composite images, which he will place into the context of his previous and ongoing bodies of work that focus on locating the black experience within American history.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Image: Stephen Marc, Untitled, 2009, Digital montage/archival pigment inkjet print, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist.
Theatre March 7 - 11
GRRL Parts
The Department of Theatre presents GRRL Parts, a continuing project to commission major American playwrights to create new roles for actresses, directed by Eve Muson and produced by artistic director Susan McCully. For 2012, five new works have been commissioned: Girls Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan
A new play by Julia Jordan In the Monkey House by Kate Moira Ryan Bleeding Heart by Tanya Saracho First by Lucy Thurber
Performances:
Wednesday, March 7th, 8 pm (preview)
Thursday, March 8th, 4 pm (free for UMBC students, faculty and staff, with a talkback following the performance)
Friday, March 9th, 8 pm (opening night)
Saturday, March 10th, 2 pm
Saturday, March 10th, 8 pm
Sunday, March 11th, 2 pm
All performances in the UMBC Theatre. $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 (available soon) or by calling 410-455-2476.
Humanities Forum
Monday, March 26 Lucian Stone: "The Regression of Listening to the 'Middle Eastern' Other"
The Humanities Forum presents Lucian Stone, Department of Philosophy, University of North Dakota, who will speak on "The Regression of Listening to the 'Middle Eastern' Other." The heightened awareness of the 'Middle East' in the 'West' due to recent and ongoing political events has not led to an increased discourse with, but rather a further unwillingness to listen to the 'Middle Eastern' other. The vast majority of the region's writers, intellectuals, and artists, in fact, remain relatively unknown to Western audiences. Drawing on Theodor Adorno's critique of the regression of listening, Lucian Stone explores the question of whether and, if so, how 'Western' audiences can increase their capacity to attend to the 'Middle Eastern' other.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor. Admission is free.
Visual Art
March 29 - April 28 Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology, curated by Lisa Moren, on display from March 29 through April 28. Command Z is an exhibition and public programming project featuring several pioneering artists whose works use kinetics, morse code, audio, computer programming, a grand piano and fire. This exhibition will create new as well as re-create historic installations of internationally received work by Ingrid Bachmann, Paul DeMarinis, Nina Katchadourian and artist team Emile Morin and Jocelyn Robert.
Special Events
At 4 pm on Thursday, March 29, artists Emile Morin and Jocelyn Robert will discuss their collaborative piece Leçon de piano (Piano Lesson), in which letters fall like rain, slowly making sounds onto a keyboard randomly playing 47 phrases from a child's piano lesson book such as "the green valley" or "in the dark corridor." The "weight" of the projected letters and colors appear to press down on each key inspired by phenomena of colors, letters and sounds coming together in nature. In the collaboration of Jocelyn Robert and Emile Morin both artists bring programming, engineering and poetic skills to this project that randomly plays single notes minimally and automatically. Leçon de piano uses a Yamaha Disklavier, an acoustic and digital grand piano that receives input from a computer using MAX software programmed by the artists, in order to always vary the associations throughout the installation.
The Opening Reception on March 29 at 5 pm will include a special performance of Nina Katchadourian's Talking Popcorn, a sound sculpture that hears what popcorn is saying, a project inspired by the artist's interest in language, bi-culturalism and translation. A microphone is in the cabinet of a popcorn machine that picks up the sound of popping corn, and translates it according to the patterns and dictates of Morse code. A computer-generated voice provides a simultaneous spoken translation. Attendees will receive free popcorn in a bag labeled with the text of what their popcorn is saying.
On Thursday, April 12 at 4 pm, a "rush hour" concert wlll feature new works for Disklavier by UMBC faculty and composition students Matthew Belzer, Linda Dusman, Jacob Foster, Jacob Housand, Justin Mann, Timothy Nohe, David Revill, Anna Rubin and Alan Wonneberger.
Admission to the exhibition and all events is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm (with the exhibition opening for regular hours on Friday, March 30) and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.
Image: Emile Morin and Jocelyn Robert, Leçon de Piano.
Music
Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31 UMBC Jazz Festival
On Friday, March 30, the festival will feature the UMBC Jazz Ensemble and the John Blount-Dave Tucker Big Band.
On Saturday, March 31, the festival will feature the Maryland All-State Jazz Band and the UMBC Faculty Jazz Ensemble.
7 pm both evenings, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free, donations accepted. (Admission to the Maryland All-State Jazz Band TBA.)
Funds raised through ticket sales for this event will be administered by the UMBC Foundation for the benefit of UMBC.
Humanities Forum
Tuesday, April 3 Maryland Traditions, Maryland State Arts Council Folklife Program: "Approaching Authenticity: Locating Living Cultural Memories, Identities, and Traditions in the 21st Century"
The Humanities Forum presents a panel of scholars from Maryland Traditions, the Folklife Program of the Maryland State Arts Council, who will discuss "Approaching Authenticity: Locating Living Cultural Memories, Identities, and Traditions in the 21st Century." The panel will explore what 'authenticity' means with respect to our living cultural memories, identities and traditions of today. In this increasingly globalized world, where ideas are shared, taken and/or sold instantaneously and where the boundaries between communities, groups and individuals are more fluid than ever before, this panel will focus on what makes one cultural expression, memory or tradition more authentic than another, and who decides what is authentic and what is not.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Visual Art
Wednesday, April 4 Robert Staples and Barbara Charles
Staples & Charles Ltd are planners and designers of outstanding museums, exhibitions, and visitor centers. Robert Staples and Barbara Fahs Charles established the firm in 1973 to provide the museum community with planning and exhibition design services at the highest aesthetic and intellectual level. Staples & Charles has conceived and designed projects for such diverse clients as the Smithsonian, Monticello, The Coca-Cola Company, South African Breweries, The Sixth Floor Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and Detroit Institute of Arts.
7 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free. Presented by the InterArts Series and the Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Image: Staples & Charles design of the "Making Monticello" Gallery at the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center, Monticello.
Visual Art
April 9 - May 31 The Photographer's Eye: Civil War Photographs Selected from the UMBC Photography Collections
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents The Photographer's Eye: Civil War Photographs Selected from the UMBC Photography Collections, on display from April 9 through May 31.
The American Civil War coincided with the early years of photography, and the images captured by the early practitioners of this art have helped to shape the memories of this central historical event. Technological limitations, artistic aspirations and societal expectations strongly impacted the images produced by photographers "documenting" the events of the Civil War. This exhibition will explore the art and artifice of Civil War photography, while revealing something about why each of the selected 81 images was produced.
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.
The presentation of this exhibition is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Foundation and individual contributions.
Image: Burnside and his Staff, 7 X 9.25in., albumen print, Photography Collections, UMBC.
Social Sciences Forum
Tuesday, April 10 Nate Silver: "Forecasting the 2012 Election"
The Social Sciences Forum presents Nate Silver, blogger for The New York Times' FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus, who will speak on "Forecasting the 2012 Election." Nate Silver will talk about forecasts for the 2012 presidential election, the prospects for Barack Obama's re-election and his new book about making accurate predictions.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Humanities Forum
Wednesday, April 11 Margaret Little: "Morality Beyond Demands" - Barker Lecture
The Humanities Forum presents Margaret Little, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, who will speak on "Morality Beyond Demands." There has been a resurgence of interest in discussing morality as a system of demands -- more specifically, the idea that moral obligations, duties, and responsibilities are to be understood as actions we can demand of one another. The notion of what we can demand of one another is a crucial one, well worth keeping for the important work it does, but it is a deep mistake to think that it exhausts the morally deontic realm. The fact that an action or its forbearance is not something we can demand of someone does not settle the question of whether it is morally wrong.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Music Thursday, April 12
Musicians from SoundSCAPE
The Department of Music presents Musicians from SoundSCAPE, featuring Aiyun Huang, percussion; Tony Arnold, voice; Thomas Rosenkranz, piano; with Lisa Cella, flute. Their program of contemporary music will be announced in early 2012.
Aiyun Huang enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, conductor, producer, researcher and teacher. She was the First Prize and the Audience Award winner at the 2002 Geneva International Music Competition. She has commissioned and championed over 100 works in the last two decades working with composers internationally.
John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune writes, "anything sung by soprano Tony Arnold is worth hearing." Hailed by the New York Times as "a bold and powerful interpreter," she has gained international acclaim for sparkling and insightful performances of the most daunting contemporary scores. In 2001, Ms. Arnold was thrust into the international spotlight when she became the only vocalist ever to be awarded first prize in the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition.
Thomas Rosenkranz has performed on four continents and is in demand nationally and internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and artist teacher. He is a recipient of the Classical Music Fellowship Award from the American Pianists Association. As a Cultural Ambassador sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, he often travels to North Africa and the Middle East promoting goodwill through his performances both in traditional classical music settings and with his longstanding collaborations with musicians from other cultures.
As a champion of contemporary music, Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. She is an associate professor of music at UMBC and a founding member of its faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door, cash or check only.
Social Sciences Forum
Wednesday, April 18 Mrinalini Sinha: "Totaram Sanadhya's Mere Fiji Dwip me Ikkis Varsh (My 21 years in Fiji) and the Second Abolition"
The Social Sciences Forum presents Mrinalini Sinha, associate professor, Department of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, who will speak on "Totaram Sanadhya's Mere Fiji Dwip me Ikkis Varsh (My 21 years in Fiji) and the Second Abolition." The system of indentured labor from India, which the British devised in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery to replace the demand for labor world wide, has often been referred to as a "new system of slavery." When, how, and why did this once lucrative system eventually come to an end? What was the significance of this second abolition? The contributions of the abolitionist, Totaram Sanadhya, an ex-indetured laborer and author of one of the earliest first-hand accounts of indenture, provide a useful way of getting at the history of the second abolition and of its unexpected global ramifications.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, 7th Floor. Admission is free.
Theatre April 18 - 28 Incorruptible by Michael Hollinger, directed by Colette Searls
The Department of Theatre presents Incorruptible ("A Dark Comedy About the Dark Ages") by Michael Hollinger, directed by Colette Searls.
Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D.: The river flooded again last week. The chandler's shop just burned to the ground. Nobody's heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Ste. Foy, the patron of the local monastery, hasn't worked a miracle in thirteen years. In other words, the Dark Ages still look pretty dark. All eyes turn to the Pope, whose promised visit will surely encourage other pilgrims to make the trek and restore the abbey to its former glory. That is, until a rival church claims to possess the relics of Ste. Foy--and "their" bones are working miracles. All seems lost until the destitute monks take a lesson from a larcenous one-eyed minstral, who teaches them an outrageous new way to pay old debts.
Performances:
Wednesday, April 18th, 8 pm (preview)
Thursday, April 19th, 4 pm (free performance for UMBC students, faculty and staff)
Friday, April 20th, 8 pm (opening night)
Sunday, April 22nd, 2 pm
Thursday, April 26th, 8 pm
Friday, April 27th, 8 pm
Saturday, April 28th, 2 pm
All performances in the UMBC Theatre. $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 (available soon) or by calling 410-455-2476.
Dance
Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21 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.
Humanities Forum and Social Sciences Forum
Wednesday, April 25 Peter H. Wood: "Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War" - Low Lecture
The Humanities Forum and Social Sciences Forum present Peter H. Wood, Department of History, Duke University, who will speak on "Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War." In 1866, the great American artist Winslow Homer created an unusual painting of an enslaved woman, linking Georgia's infamous Andersonville POW camp to the black struggle for freedom. But this picture vanished for a full century. Peter Wood, the first scholar to explore this painting of an enslaved woman closely, suggests that Homer's image provides a striking new way for Americans to view the Civil War, and ourselves, in the twenty-first century.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Social Sciences Forum
Monday, April 30 Michelle Fine: "Critical Psychology Confronts Racialized Crises: Activist Research on the School to Prison Pipeline, and the Prison to College Pipeline" - Distinguished Lecture in Psychology
The Social Sciences Forum presents Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education, Graduate Center, City University of New York, who will speak on "Critical Psychology Confronts Racialized Crises: Activist Research on the School to Prison Pipeline, and the Prison to College Pipeline." Dr. Fine will discuss social psychology's long and often buried history of critical psychological engagements with movements for social justice. She will then review two participatory action research projects, one with New York City youth and one with women in prison, that focus on the school to prison, and prison to college, pipelines as racialized dynamics during times of growing inequality gaps.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
Social Sciences Forum
Wednesday, May 2 Virgil H. Storr: "Community Recovery After Disaster: Almost Seven Years After Katrina"
The Social Sciences Forum presents Virgil H. Storr, Research Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Graduate Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, who will speak on "Community Recovery After Disaster: Almost Seven Years After Katrina." The talk will focus on the role of commercial, social and political entrepreneurship in bringing about community recovery after a disaster using examples from post-Katrina New Orleans.
4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free.
8 pm each evening, UMBC Theatre. $12 general admission $7 students and seniors. For information and reservations, call the Dance Box Office at 410-455-6240.
Music
Saturday, May 5 Jubilee Singers
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers (followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir) under the direction of Janice Jackson.
7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Music
Thursday, May 10 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.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Music
Friday, May 11 Department of Music Honors Recital
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.
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.
