ICE Announcements 1.19.16
http://ice.uga.edu
For more events and opportunities visit http://iceannouncements.com
***The Sun Ra Arkestra at the Morton Theatre (2/18)***
1. Upcoming: Dada Centennial Events (begins 2/11)
2. Screening: Note by Note (1/20)
3. Event: Athens Science Cafe (1/20)
4. Third Thursday Events (1/21)
5. Opportunity: Call for 2016 CURO Symposium Submissions (deadline 2/12)
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***The Sun Ra Arkestra***
Thursday, February 18 at 8 PM
The Morton Theatre
Tickets: $15
Purchase online at bit.ly/1OieSiN
or at the Morton Theatre box office M-F 10 AM - 1 PM and 3 - 6 PM
The spirit of famed jazz musician, composer, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra is alive and well in the present day manifestation of the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen, featuring a mix of classic Sun Ra big-band compositions and arrangements alongside Allen's own compositions and arrangements that are deeply rooted in the spirit of Sun Ra.
Marshall Allen, 91, joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1958 and led Sun Ra's formidable reed section for over 40 years. He assumed the helm of the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1995 after the ascension of Sun Ra in 1993 and John Gilmore in 1995. Mr. Allen continues to reside at the Sun Ra Residence in Philadelphia, composing, writing and arranging for the Arkestra much like his mentor, totally committed to a life of discipline centered totally on the study, research, and further development of Sun Ra's musical precepts.
This historic evening at the Morton Theatre will commence with a rare performance by Athens' own Flicker Orchestra, which provides live music for classic silent films.
Presented by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia, and the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time.
For more information about the Sun Ra Arkestra visit http://www.sunraarkestra.com
Famed jazz musician, composer, poet and bandleader Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He began performing professionally as a teen and, after moving to Chicago in 1945, immersed himself in jazz and the blues. Along the way, Sun Ra was influenced by space, religion and radical social movements - all of which found their way into his music. A prolific composer and record label owner, he took to wearing colorful, outlandish costumes with his band members.
One of the first, and the oldest surviving African-American built, owned, and operated vaudeville theatres in the United States, the fully restored Morton Theatre opened in 1910 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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1. Dada Centennial Events
Mark your calendars for a series of events to celebrate the centennial of Dada, an artistic phenomenon that began in February 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland and spread around the world! Although the venue where Dada was born closed after only four months and its acolytes scattered, the idea of Dada quickly spread to New York, where it influenced artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray; to Berlin, where it inspired painters George Grosz and Hannah Hoch; and to Paris, where it dethroned previous avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism while inspiring early Surrealists like Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard. The long tail of Dadaism, Rasula shows, can be traced even further, to artists as diverse as William S. Burroughs, Robert Rauschenberg, Marshall McLuhan, the Beatles, Monty Python, David Byrne, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, all of whom - along with untold others - owe a debt to the bizarre wartime escapades of the Dada vanguard.
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA present three evenings of performance and scholarship in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time.
On Thursday, February 11 Flicker Theatre & Bar becomes Cabaret Voltaire 1916 with a performance by visiting artist Luciano Chessa, reenactments by students in music and theatre and film studies, and a presentation by Jed Rasula, author of "Destruction Was My Beatrice," the globe-spanning narrative of Dada published in 2015. (8 PM, free and open to the public).
Thursday, February 18 celebrates the ongoing spirt of experimental art with a rare performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra at the historic Morton Theatre. Athens' own Flicker Orchestra will open with live soundtracks for vintage experimental films. (8 PM, $15).
Thursday, February 25 return to Flicker Theatre & Bar for an evening of new works with visiting artist Bruce Andrews, students from art, music, and theatre and film studies, and the extraordinary Mind Brains! (8 PM, free and open to the public).
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2. Screening: Note by Note
Wednesday, January 20 at 3 PM
Fine Arts Building Balcony Theatre, Room 300
http://www.drama.uga.edu/event/1446/screening-note-by-note-the-making-of-steinway-l1037-
Note by Note, (The Making of Steinway L1037) is a feature-length independent documentary directed by UGA alumnus Ben Niles that follows the creation of a single Steinway concert grand, #L1037- literally from the forest floor to Carnegie hall. The film won top honors at the Sarasota Film Festival in 2007, and was nominated for an IDA award and selected to the prestigious American Documentary Association and is screening in over 30 countries.
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3. Event: Athens Science Cafe
Wednesday, January 20 at 7 PM
Physics Building Auditorium Room 202
https://athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com
This event is led by Dr. Loris Magnani, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UGA. He will be leading a Science Cafe on the origin of the universe. Following the cafe, there will be a sky viewing outside. This will be located next to the physics building and telescopes will be provided. Come out and view the amazing Georgia night sky with us!
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4. Third Thursday Events
Thursday, January 21 at 6 PM
http://3thurs.org
Seven of Athens' established venues for visual art hold "Third Thursday," an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Cine, the Classic Center and ATHICA will be open from 6 until 9PM to showcase their visual-arts programming.
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5. Opportunity: Call for 2016 CURO Symposium Submissions
https://curo.uga.edu/symposium/sites/default/files/2016_1st_call_for_abstracts_oct15.pdf
Deadline: February 12
The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) invites submissions from UGA undergraduate researchers for the 2016 CURO Symposium, which will be held on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia.
Eligibility:
CURO welcomes submissions from UGA undergraduates pursuing faculty mentored research in all disciplines. The Symposium is open to all undergraduate researchers, not just those pursuing research through CURO coursework. Undergraduate researchers at various stages of the research process are encouraged to submit.
Submission:
Abstracts should be submitted only by current UGA undergraduates. We respectfully request that faculty and graduate students do not submit for undergraduates. For group research projects, one member of the group should submit an abstract. Additional members must be fellow UGA undergraduates and should be listed as co-presenters.
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, free of spelling and grammatical errors, and contain a thesis statement, a description of methods, a statement of (anticipated) findings, and a statement of significance. Submitted abstracts must be free of footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations. Submissions are limited to research conducted under the direction of a UGA faculty member.
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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 Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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