ICE Announcements 2.17.09
http://ice.uga.edu
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*AUX 3: Experimental Arts Festival (2/21)*
1. VOX Poetry Reading (2/17)
2. Lecture: Joel-Peter Witkin (2/17)
3. Lecture: Richard J. Gray (2/17)
4. Music Learning Community Service Project (2/17)
5. The Ecomuseum Model in Postmodern Museum Studies (2/18)
6. ICE-Vision: Existenz (2/19)
7. The Changeling (2/19-3/1)
8. Vagina Monologues (2/19)
9. Roundtable: New Wave Cinema (2/20)
10. Colloquium: Norman Ferguson (2/20)
11. Film: Four Little Girls (2/20)
12. UGA French Film Festival (2/23)
13. CORE Dance Company (2/25-28)
14. Cine Screenings
More event and opportunity listings available at:
http://iceannouncements.com
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*AUX 3: Experimental Arts Festival*
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Little Kings and Cine
Downtown Athens, GA
Tickets: $5
http://auxfestival.com
Performance Schedule
3:00 Dark Meat (Little Kings)
3:30 Youth Movement Workshop (Cine)
4:00 Glasspacks (Little Kings)
4:30 Killick (Cine)
5:00 A Horse Is A Sphere (Little Kings)
5:30 The Rectanglers (Cine)
6:00 Video Screening (Cine)
6:00 Howling Jelly (Little Kings)
6:30 Our New Silence (Cine)
7:00 Dream Scene (Little Kings)
7:30 Some Meat Out of the Eater (Cine)
9:00 Mercer Street (Little Kings)
8:30 Lisa Yaconelli, Denise Posnak & Page Campbell, Julie Rothschild & Shawn Copeland (Cine)
9:00 Video Screening (Cine)
9:30 Maps and Transit (Cine)
10:00 Bill Doss presents the Flashcard Orchestra (Little Kings)
10:30 Brave New Citizen (Little Kings)
11:00 Spirit of the Falcon-XL (Little Kings)
11:30 Deonna Mann & Medaglia d'Oro Orchestra (Cine)
12:30 Icy Demons (Little Kings)
Artists Market at Little Kings
Sponsored by ICE, Little Kings, Cine, Flagpole Magazine, & Nucis Space
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1. 2/17/2009 VOX Poetry Reading: Zawacki and Stonecipher
VOX is pleased to host a book launch by poets Andrew Zawacki and Donna Stonecipher on
Tuesday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m. at Ciné, in downtown Athens.
ANDREW ZAWACKI
is the author of three poetry books, Petals of Zero (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan,
2004) and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002), and of three chapbooks: Georgia (Katalanché,
2007), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (Track & Field, 2008); and Masquerade (Vagabond,
2001), which received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. His
book Par Raison de Brisants is forthcoming, in a French translation by Antoine Cazé, from Éditions
Grèges in 2008. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers:
American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855
(Turtle Point, 2005), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa, 2004), and Great
American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). Coeditor of Verse and of The
Verse Book of Interviews (Verse, 2005), he has published criticism in the Times Literary
Supplement, Boston Review, Talisman, How2, New German Critique, Australian Book Review,
Religion and Literature, and elsewhere in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. A former fellow of the
Slovenian Writers’ Association, he has edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White
Pine, 1999) and Ales Debeljak’s selected poems, Without Anesthesia (White Pine, 2008). He is
currently translating Sébastien Smirou’s Mon Laurent from the French.
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DONNA STONECIPHER
is the author of The Reservoir and Souvenir de Constantinople. Her third book, The Cosmopolitan,
won the National Poetry Series and was published in 2008 from Coffee House Press. She lives in
Athens, Georgia, and Berlin, Germany. She is a doctoral student in English and Creative Writing at
the University of Georgia.
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2. Joel-Peter Witkin
Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 17th, 5:30pm
Room S151, Lamar Dodd School of Art
Joel-Peter Witkin claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed
when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a little
girl was decapitated.
In addition: * Mary Ruth Moore in Conversation with Joel-Peter Witkin
4 pm, Wednesday, February 18th, Room 151
Read more: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=78
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3. 2/17/2009 Barbara Lester Methvin Lecture
Richard J. Gray, Professor of English at the University of Essex, will be in residence on campus
from February 16 through February 20 as the first Barbara Lester Methvin Visiting Distinguished
Professor of Southern Literature. On February 17 at 4PM in 148 Miller Learning Center he will
deliver a talk entitled: "'Maybe Nothing Ever Happens Once and is Finished': Some Notes on Recent
Southern Writing and Social Change."
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4. Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Concert: Music Learning Community Service Project - 8:00 pm
Ramsey Concert Hall
Admission:Â Nonperishable Food ItemsÂ
The Music Learning Community Food Bank Service Project, abenefit concert for the Food Bank of
Northeast Georgia, will be held on TuesdayFebruary 17 at 8:00pm in Ramsey Recital Hall of the
UGA Performing Arts Center.The MLC presents a concert featuring UGA students performing solos
andensembles of rock, R&B, folk, jazz, classical, opera, and musical theatre. Admissionto the event
is two nonperishable food items, cash donations will also beaccepted. Please come out and enjoy
the vast talent UGA has to offer whilesupporting a great cause! This event is co-sponsored by the
Office ofPerforming Arts and the Vice President of Instruction.Â
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5. Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lecture: The Ecomuseum Model in Postmodern Museum Studies- Cultural Navigation and
Knowledge Creation Beyond Museum Walls. Sponsored by the College of Education Dean's Council
on Diversity. Doctoral student Lesley Graybeal discusses who chooses descriptions and objects for
a museum display case, exploring a widespread critique on how often museum displays speak
about the groups they represent rather than with or from them, and how because of this, new
types of museums have emerged within communities to serve interests closer to home. Noon -
1:00 p.m. G23 Aderhold Hall.
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6. ICE-Vision: Existenz
Thursday, February 19 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
ICE-Vision continues with a series of informal screenings on Thursday nights in the auditorium
ofthe new Lamar Dodd School of Art (first floor, room S150). BFA candidates Ash Sechler, Daniel
Osborne, and Eddie Whelan select titles touching upon culture, science, and art. This week's
selection is:
Existenz. (David Cronenberg, 1999, 97 min.)
EXistenZ is a virtual reality game where players, their nervous systems linked to a techno-
biological pod via a plug in the spinal column, enter hallucinatory worlds/stories fuelled by their
fears, needs and desires. At the game's launch, cultish, controversial creator Allegra (Leigh)
survives an assassination attempt by an anti-games fanatic. Fleeing from a 'fatwa' with the game
company's trainee marketing man Ted (Law), she soon persuades him to join her in playing her
invention, both to assess the damage done to her pod, and to share the vicarious pleasures to
which she's addicted. But how can they tell which of the bizarre scenarios they find themselves in
is imagined or real? And do they have any control over them? While weaving fresh variations on
familiar Cronenberg themes, the film also proffers intriguing metaphors about the role of the
artist in a consumer-driven world, and the ambivalent effects of fetishised, thrill-based
entertainment. Most welcome, however, is the playful wit - unprecedented for Cronenberg - and
the pacy, tortuous narrative, a series of Chinese boxes which leave fugitives and viewers alike
wondering where in hell they are and what could possibly happen next. Dark, delirious fun. -
(Time Out New York)
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7. THE CHANGELING
When: Feb 19-21, 24-28 @ 8:00 pm Mar 1 @ 2:30 pm
Where: The Cellar Theatre
Fine Arts Building
by Thomas Middleton & WIlliam Rowley. This rarely performed masterpiece of Western theatre,
first performed soon after Shakespeare’s death, is a graphic tale of love, desire, deceit, betrayal
and revenge. Featuring one of the most compelling woman characters in all of English drama, The
Changeling is thrilling, horrifying, and steeped in startlingly modern psychological insight.
This production continues the Department of Theatre and Film Studies tradition of merging digital
media and live performance, which has earned it an international reputation with productions such
as Hamletmachine, A Christmas Carol and The Tempest.
Regular admission is $15; admission for students with I.D. is $12. Tickets may be purchased
beginning Thursday, January 8 at the University Theatre box office located downstairs in the Fine
Arts Bldg. at the corner of Lumpkin and Baldwin Sts. (hours: M-F, 12 - 5 pm) or at the theatre
door beginning one hour prior to show time. Reservations may be made in advance by calling the
University Theatre Box Office line at (706) 542-2838.
For more information about University Theatre or UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies,
visit http://www.drama.uga.edu
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8. Thursday, February 19, 2009
Vagina Monologues. Sponsored by the Women Studies Student Organization, UGA Performing
Arts. Eve Ensler's award-winning play is performed by a cast of over 30 women and benefits
Project Safe, the local domestic violence center. 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Through Saturday,
February 21, 2009. UGA Chapel.
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9. Cinema Roundtable: New Wave CinemaÂ
When: Fri, Feb 20 @ 4:00 pm
Where: 148 SLC
"The French New Wave: 50 Years Later" is this semester's Willson Center Cinema Roundtable.
Hosted by Richard Neupert, panelists include Chris Sieving, Rachel Gabara (French) and Laura
Mason (History). Friday, Feb. 20th, at 4PM in 148 Miller SLC.
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10. Theatre and Film Studies Colloquium: Norman FergusonÂ
When: Fri, Feb 20 @ 12:20 pm
Where: Arena Theatre Room 151 and room 53
Fine Arts Building
Norman Ferguson (MFA performance student) and Patsy Benson will be performing Hugo (a silent
movie come to life...) in the Arena Theatre, and it will be immediately followed by a brief talk
about the life and career of Buster Keaton in room 53.
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11. Friday, February 20, 2009
FIlm: Four Little Girls. Sponsored by The Institue for African American Studies. This 1997 Spike Lee
historical documentary chronicles the events and emotional impact of the 1963 bombing of the
16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama which resulted in the death of four young African
American girls. Part of the 2009 African American Film Festival. 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Main
Library auditorium B2.
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12. UGA French Film FestivalÂ
When: Feb 23 @ 8:00 pm
Where: Tate Center Theater
The UGA FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL returns this winter, for six consecutive Monday nights, beginning
January 26th, at 8PM in the Tate Center theater. $1 for students.
Feb 23: Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)
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13. CORE Concert Dance Company Spring Collection 2009
Wednesday through Saturday, February 25-28 at 8:00 PM,
New Dance Theatre at the Dance Building at the Dance Building
Purchase tickets ($15 adult, $10 student/seniors) at the Tate Student Center at 542-8074, M-F
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CORE Concert Dance Company's Spring Collection 2009 will premiere several dance, aerial art and
multimedia works.
Rio de Generated integrates contemporary, aerial and break dance, inspired by recent journeys to
Brazil.
Vision of Student Learning is based on the cultural anthropological teachings of Michael Wesch,
KSU, recognized as 2008 Carnegie Foundation for Advance Teaching US Professor of the Year. The
multimedia work utilizes film, text, vocalization and set, exploring google, YouTube and MySpace
culture. The piece responds to the paradigm shift in current educational trends.
Syzygy is choreographed by CORE alum Matt and Emily Milam Kent. Matt as Creative Director for
Pilobolus Dance Theatre after touring with the company for over a decade. The Kents collaborate
with the a trio of dancers and together merge image, intention, improvisation and Pilobolus style
partnering.
Idle Athens, choreographed by Bill Young and Colleen Thomas, NYC, who have achieved worldwide
acclaim for their mastery in contact improvisation style of dance as exemplified in the dance, first
premiered in NYC.
El vuelo de Danaus, choreographed and performed by guest artist Mario Chacon Arias, member of
the Chamber's Company of Danza of Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. The DanzaUNA company
that he performs in won the The Dance National Award as the best group in 2008 in Costa Rica.
The Jane Willson Professor in the Arts endowment, awarded to Bala Sarasvati in 2008, generously
supports these guest works.
Cirque du Soleil veteran and guest choreographer Elsie Smiths lyre solo excerpts from
Misunderstood, a Tribute to Nina Simone (2004) and Apogee/Perigee (2008), created by Smith and
Sarasvati, will be performed in the concert. The collaborative aerial dance and training is made
possible by UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Also in the concert program: A Break in
Concentration (1999), Wireless (2003) (shown throughout China in 2004) and Saint Pauls
Chambers (2006), a multimedia work inspired by the breathtaking art and architecture in Londons
Saint Paul's Cathedral.
For more information visit:
http://web.mac.com/baladance/iWeb/979F9EBF-9C4D-4D60-8FB7-
631962B4EFE2/CORE%202009%20Concert%20Season.html
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14. THIS WEEK @ CINE
SHOWTIMES + MORE INFO: http://athenscine.com
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