ICE Announcements 10.31.17
http://ice.uga.edu
*UGA Spotlight on the Arts*
1. Clark Lunberry: Writing on Water (11/10)
2. Screening: Faust: Song of the Sun, Part II (11/1)
3. Colloquium: Stephen Valdez (11/2)
4. Lecture: Philip Juras (11/2)
5. Lecture: Justin Rabideau (11/3)
6. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
7. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
8. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/13)
9. Opportunity: McColl Center Residency (deadline 11/15)
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*UGA Spotlight on the Arts*
November 1 - 12
Full schedule:
http://arts.uga.edu/spotlightuga2017/
Presented by the UGA Arts Council, the sixth annual Spotlight on the Arts festival features dozens of events and exhibitions in the visual, literary and performing arts. The 12-day festival includes museum tours, discussions with writers, concerts, dance and dramatic performances. The festival kicks off Nov. 1 with "Kaleidoscope: Spotlight on the Arts Opening Celebration," featuring a non-stop collage of student performances from dance to music, theater, and creative writing. The free event is set for 7-8 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Performing Arts Center, followed by an after-party at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
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1. Clark Lunberry: Writing on Water
Friday, November 10 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Interdisciplinary artist Clark Lunberry will talk about creating site-specific poetry installations and introduce a new work for the UGA campus. Lunberry is a Professor of English at the University of North Florida and the author of Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory (Anthem Press 2014) and Writing on Water | Writing on Air (University of North Florida 2016). His large-scale poems placed on water and windows include recent installations in Oxford, England; Paris, France; Toronto, Canada; Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan; and Stanford University.
Lunberry will create a temporary installation at Lake Herrick, a prominent feature within Oconee Forest Park, which serves as a living laboratory for research in the natural and social sciences. The new work, viewable near the Boardwalk Trail bridge, coincides with a major restoration project at UGA aimed at promoting water quality and enhancing Lake Herrick as an amenity for experiential learning, research, and recreation. For more about the Lake Herrick Watershed Restoration visit http://sustainability.uga.edu/lakeherrick/.
Supported in part by the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English and ICE. For more about Clark Lunberry visit http://clarklunberry.weebly.com.
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2. Screening: Faust: Song of the Sun, Part II
Wednesday, November 1 at 6 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre
Werner Fritsch is the author of numerous award-winning theater and radio plays, a highly acclaimed novel and the writer and director of three experimental films. The first episode of "Faust: Song of the Sun" was screened at UGA in 2016. This year the artist will present the second part in substantial clips with an introduction, synopsis and commentary.
Fritsch's extended film poem "Faust: Song of the Sun" reflects on a central moment in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's seminal play Faust, offering a stream of images and text probing Faust's notion of contentment in a beautiful moment. Attempting to counter the pervasive notion of globalization as taking over the world, Fritsch's film explores the diversity of foreign cultures and different natures, highlighting "a certain human vision" of "watching the world with open eyes." "Faust: Song of the Sun" is a cultural adventure addressing fundamental questions about human relations, faith, the nature of beauty and the mythical foundations of reality. Filmed all over the world in India, California, Egypt, New York, Germany, Norway, Nepal, Mexico and New Zealand, the film has been described as "a delirium of wild colours and idyllic nature, images of wonderful music and powerful lyrics. This film is pure madness" (Der Spiegel).
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3. Colloquium: Stephen Valdez
Thursday, November 2 at 5 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Room 408
"You Say You Want a Revolution': John Lennon's Contributions to The Beatles"
1968 represents a shift in the Beatles' creative output from their second creative period of experimentation (Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour), to a third creative period in which they returned to their musical roots in blues and rock 'n' roll, yet maintained in several songs a level of experimentation in the recording studio and in their compositions. In this presentation, Dr. Valdez will examine John Lennon's contributions to The Beatles (best known as The White Album) and how the techniques and traits present on this album foreshadow Lennon's later solo work.
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4. Lecture: Philip Juras
Thursday, November 2 at 7 PM
Odum School of Ecology Auditorium
Although they are ecologically rich, aesthetically gorgeous, and often tightly linked to human history, grasslands, especially in the southeastern United States, have been largely lost and forgotten while the plant and animal species that depend on them have become increasingly rare. As a Georgia artist and nature lover who grew up in a region where there is enough rainfall to turn most any patch of dirt into a forest in only a few decades, falling in love with the wild beauty of grasslands has been a revelation for Philip Juras. Philip will present a visual tour of landscape paintings that document his journey of grassland discovery. Drawing on early descriptions of the presettlement landscape by chroniclers such as William Bartram and his own studies and adventures in southern nature, Philip's grassland route traverses high mountain balds, grassy Piedmont barrens, historic Alabama prairies, and the once vast pine savannas of the coastal plain. Then, from the colorful seaside meadows of the Georgia coast, Philip's exploration continues beyond the Southeast to the lush tall grass prairies of the Midwest and the gorgeous high elevation paramo of the Andes. Through all of these settings his paintings celebrate the rich aesthetic qualities of grasslands while also highlighting that these are threatened ecosystems deserving of our attention.
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5. Lecture: Justin Rabideau
Friday, November 3 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Art Library
Justin Rabideau will be visiting UGA to deliver the fifth Dodd Dialogue. Rabideau received his MFA in Sculpture from the Dodd in 2006. He is now the Director of Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, GA. Dodd Dialogues is a speaker series created in April 2016 to help current students explore their academic pathways and career options leading up to and following graduation. By connecting students early on with alumni in their careers, students are better able to picture and establish their own personal goals, forging ahead in their careers.
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6. Call for Participation: North Oconee River Project
North Oconee River Project is an interdisciplinary, student-led, grant-funded project that engages community members, artists, and legal experts in an effort to draft local legislation that grants legal personhood to the North Oconee River in Athens, GA. The project draws its inspiration from the Community Rights Movement that, for the past two decades, has worked to prevent corporate and governmental harm on the environment by helping pass locally enforceable "rights of nature" laws that treat natural entities, such as rivers, as having the right to be healthy and to thrive.
North Oconee River Project is seeking participants who are interested in assisting our team with any of the following activities:
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending environmental events on campus and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending community-organizing events in the Athens community and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing the North Oconee River Project by tabling at the West Broad and/or Athens Farmer's Markets. Involves providing people with information about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Distributing flyers on campus and at various businesses and community centers in Athens.
If you are interested in participating, please email Carla Cao: [log in to unmask]
Affiliated with the "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" project funded by an a2ru Student Challenge Grant with additional support from Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts a2ru Research Cluster.
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7. CURO Research Assistantships
Deadline for Spring: November 1
http://curo.uga.edu/
The CURO Research Assistantship (CRA) supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Assistantships are one-semester awards for either Fall, Spring, or Summer. Assistantship students are encouraged to register for academic credit regardless of major, GPA, or Honors status. All Assistantship recipients are required to present their research at the spring CURO Symposium. If beneficial for their programs of study, students may conduct research with faculty members outside their department, college or school.
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8. Campus Sustainability Grants
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 13
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
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9. Opportunity: McColl Center Residency
Deadline: November 15
http://mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/residency-programs
McColl Center for Art + Innovation is a nationally acclaimed artist residency and contemporary art space in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its mission is to empower artists, advance communities, and contribute positive impacts to its broad public audience by introducing a range of current artistic practices. McColl Center annually awards residencies to approximately eighteen artists. Regional, national, and international artists are selected through a combination of open applications, invitations, and solicited nominations. The Artist-in-Residence Program is open to artists working in architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, design, music, theatre, social practice, community organizing, urban agriculture, culinary arts, or interdisciplinary practices.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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