ICE Announcements 1.26.11 http://ice.uga.edu --- 1. Seminar: Windows, Mirrors or Mirages? (1/26) 2. ICE-Vision: I Vitelloni (1/27) 3. Ballroom Magic (1/27) 4. Fuddy Meers (begins 1/27) 5. Fulbright Information Session (1/28) 6. TV Roundtable: I Love Lucy (1/28) 7. The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (1/28) 8. Jewelry and Metalwork Open House (1/28) 9. Mirror Mob (1/30) 10. Georgia Museum of Art Opens (1/31) 11. Laurie Anderson at Georgia Tech (Atlanta) 12. Cine Screenings and Events For more listings visit http://iceannouncements.com --- 1. Seminar: Windows, Mirrors or Mirages? Wednesday, January 26 at 12 PM G23 Aderhold Hall Taking a Critical Look at the Portrayal of Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Speaker: Jennifer Graff, Language and Literacy Education Program. A look at whether children's and young adult literature serve as both windows and mirrors for diverse populations; that multicultural literature helps readers gain a sense of themselves and of the global societies in which they live. A critical analysis of immigrant characters and their experiences will be discussed. Information about how to select high-quality multicultural literature for classroom and personal reading experiences will be available. --- 2. ICE-Vision: I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) Thursday, January 27 at 8 PM Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150 Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE's informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities. "Ernest Hemingway once remarked that all of American literature came out of ''Huckleberry Finn.'' With only slightly greater exaggeration, it could be said that much of American cinema, at least in the last 30 years or so, comes out of ''I Vitelloni" . . . It shows all of Fellini's unrivaled virtues -- his lyrical sense of place, his abiding affection for even the most hapless of his characters, his effortless knack for limpid, bustling composition -- and very few of his putative vices." -The New York Times --- 3. Dance Performance: Ballroom Magic 20th Anniversary Thursday, January 27 at 8 PM Continues through Saturday, January 29 New Dance Theatre, Dance Building http://www.franklin.uga.edu/dance Featuring choreography by founder Mark Wheeler, directors Mike Fulford and Natalie Cox, BPG alumni and guest artists. $15, $10 for students, seniors. Tickets: 706-542-8579 --- 4. University Theatre Performance: Fuddy Meers January 27-29, February 2-5 at 8 PM and February 6 at 2:30 PM Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu A quirky and uproarious comedy/mystery by David Lindsay-Abaire about a woman with a rare condition that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. $15, $12 for UGA students. Tickets: http://tickets.perfcenter.uga.edu/ --- 5. Fulbright Information Session for Graduate Students Friday, January 28 from 3 - 5 PM 264 Baldwin Hall Speakers: campus Fulbright Program Adviser and past UGA graduate student Fulbright recipients. --- 6. TV Roundtable Discussion Friday, January 28 at 4 PM 148 Miller Learning Center Richard Neupert, Theatre and Film Studies, moderates this panel discussion on the "I Love Lucy" television series. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. --- 7. The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana Friday, January 28 at 6:30 PM Hodgson School of Music Dancz Center for New Music Room 264 The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs) is a research and performance ensemble dedicated to the exploration of real-time computational technologies and digital media for the purpose of group music making. Inspired by the Princeton (PLOrk) and Stanford (SLork) ensembles, we look to bring the same excitement and virtuosity to the Gulf South, but with our own individual flair. --- 8. Jewelry and Metalwork Open House Friday, January 28 from 7 -9 PM Cedar Street Art Annex (intersection of East Campus and Cedar) Tour the studio, see projects made by students and "20_3_20", a traveling jewelry installation. Refreshments provided. --- 9. Mirror Mob: A Group Photo Shoot Sunday, January 30 from 3 - 4 PM ATHICA http://www.athica.org Mirror Mob is a group photo event during which people will participate in the creation of a unique group photo in which participants will be reflected in each other's mirrors, captured by the expert eye of experienced event photographer Blane Marable. Mr. Marable--a professional photographer recently voted "Athens Best Photographer" by the Athens Banner-Herald--captures events as staff photographer for the University of Georgia. In a generous gesture, dealmobs, who is also an exhibit sponsor, will donate all proceeds from the sale of the subsequent photograph to benefit ATHICA, a non-profit cultural institution that has been bringing Athens stimulating exhibitions since 2002--Taking Part is its 38th exhibit. The resulting photograph will be sold from www.dealmobs.com, a local online daily-deal company. Participants are encouraged to bring a medium-sized mirror. --- 10. Georgia Museum of Art Events Open to the Public and UGA Faculty & Staff Day Monday, January 31 from 10 AM - 5 PM http://uga.edu/gamuseum/ Be one of the first to see the new Georgia Museum of Art. Curators and docents will be available in the galleries for tours throughout the day. UGA faculty and staff will receive shop and membership discounts with a UGA ID Card. UGA Faculty Lunch and Learn at Noon Bring a brown-bag lunch or reserve a box lunch ahead of time and learn how to use the museum's collection as an education tool in your classes. Email [log in to unmask] to reserve your lunch. UGA Physical Plant Staff Appreciation Reception at 3:30 PM All UGA support staff are invited to join us for a special reception in their honor as we formally recognize those who keep the university running and beautiful. --- 11. Laurie Anderson Workshop and Lecture Thursday, February 3 at 1 PM Georgia Institute of Technology Hinman Research Building http://gtcmt.gatech.edu/?p=3871 Noted experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson will discuss her recent works and collaborative experimentation with Georgia Tech students, faculty and researchers. During her visit, Anderson also will work with researchers from GTCMT, CATEA, the School of Psychology, and the School of Interactive Computing on a study that explores how musicians translate dynamic visual displays into music as assistive technology for the visually impaired. Laurie Anderson is one of today's premier performance artists. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Initially trained as a sculptor, she did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Anderson has gone on to create large-scale theatrical works which combine a variety of media - music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, sculpture - in which she is an electrifying performer. As a visual artist, her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York, as well as extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has also released seven albums for Warner Bros., including "Big Science," featuring the song "O Superman" which rose to number two on the British pop charts. Anderson has invented several novel musical instrument that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds. In 1999, she staged "Songs and Stories From Moby Dick," an interpretation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel. She lives in New York. --- 12. Cine Screenings and Events http://athenscine.com I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS MADE IN DAGENHAM WINNER - GOLDEN GLOBE BEST PICTURE: THE SOCIAL NETWORK BLUE VALENTINE WHITE MATERIAL HARRY POTTER: THE DEATHLY HALLOWS NYICFF KIDS FLIX DR. LAURA MASON, Associate Professor at the History Department at UGA, who specializes in French Revolution, French Cultural History, History and Film, and presented last year's Director's Spotlight discussion on filmmaker Claire Denis, will introduce the 7:15p evening screening of WHITE MATERIAL on its opening night Friday 1/28.