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Friday, October 23 through Thursday, November 19
Benjamin Rinehart: Accepted
Lewis Art Gallery, Ford Academic Complex, third floor.
An exhibition of prints, paintings, books, and paper engineered objects inspired by a passion for problem solving and artistic exploration by Benjamin D. Rinehart, professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. "Accepted" explores what happens when comfortable or predictable ideologies are questioned. See www.benrinehart.com.
Gallery Talk on Friday, October 23 at 2 p.m.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com.
Monday, November 2
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3:00 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Tuesday, November 3
Arts & Lecture Series
Andrew Chaikin - “The Incredible Adventure of Space Exploration”
7 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Science journalist, author and speaker Andrew Chaikin is an internationally renowned authority on space exploration. His books include the best-selling chronicle of the Apollo moon missions, A Man on the Moon, the main basis for Tom Hanks’ Emmy-winning HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon. He brings the excitement of space exploration to schools, corporate events, and public events. His mission is …”to inspire and educate about the wonders of the universe and the incredible adventure of space exploration.” His newest book, Voices from the Moon, captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book. Paired with never-before published quotes from 23 of the 24 Apollo lunar astronauts are 160 images taken from NASA’s new high-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during the missions.
Individual tickets, $10
Contact the Continuing Education Office at 601-974-1130
Thursday, November 5 through Sunday, November 8
Players Production: Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Directed by Jeannie-Marie Brown
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Christian Center Auditorium
Clever social commentary by American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Cost: $10 general admission; $5 seniors & students
Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show. Discover, Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted.
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Thursday, November 5
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture
7 p.m. – Leggett Center, Boyd E. Campbell College Center
Jean Comaroff, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, will give a free, public lecture, “Nations with/out Borders: the Problem of Belonging in Africa, and Beyond.” Comaroff is a Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and is the recipient of two Quantrell Awards for excellence in teaching. Her research on colonialism, globalization, and modernity, much of it carried out in South Africa and Botswana, focuses on the body, healing, and religious practice.
For more information contact Dr. Julian Murchison, 601-974-1437, murchjm@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 6
Friday Forum
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi: “What Is Going On in Iran? Everything You Wanted to Know about Iran, Khomeini, Shi’ism, and U.S. Policy but Were Afraid to Ask”
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi is an Iranian-born writer and political activist who in 1993 produced a series of documentary films about the Iranian secret police and the assassinations of Iranian writers and activists. Her father has been a political prisoner in Iran for several years. In 2007, she was part of the Secular Islam Summit, which released a declaration calling on governments to reject Sharia law and fatwa courts, among other elements of theocratic rule. Zand-Bonazzi is a sought-after analyst of Iranian politics and radical Islam.
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7
Friday Forum
Mississippi Political Science Association annual meeting
Meeting throughout the day mainly in Sullivan-Harrell Hall.
Schedule to be announced.
Free.
Contact Michael Reinhard at 601-974-1438 or reinhmr@millsaps.edu.
Friday, November 13
Friday Forum
David Blount, Mississippi Senate: "Inside the Mississippi Legislature”
12:30 p.m. Academic Complex Room 215
A state senator representing Jackson looks ahead to preparation for the 2010 Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature.
Free
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 13
Millsaps Singers & Japan-America Society of Mississippi: “Iaido: Music & Martial Arts”
7:00 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
The 77-voice Millsaps Singers choir performs traditional Japanese folk music in conjunction with an exhibition of Japanese sword arts by Sword Masters from Fukuoka, Japan. Special thanks to event sponsors and contributors Little Tokyo, Sakura Bana, Chatan Dojo USA and the Madison County Economic Development Authority.
Admission $10 – for tickets call 601-956-4453
(Open to the public)
Monday, November 16
Departments of Performing Arts & Religious Studies: Dr. Guy Beck, Classical Music of India
7 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A scholar and musician from Tulane University, Dr. Guy Beck has examined Hindu theology relative to sacred sound, and studied Indic influences on world religious chant and music. An accomplished pianist and performer of Hindustani vocal classical music, he presents this lecture/demonstration as part of the Indian Culture and Religion Lecture Series.
Free admission (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
November 17, 2008
Southern Circuit Film Series
Flying on One Engine with Joshua Weinstein, producer/director
7 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only (and barely) so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions where up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives off of social security while living in his Brooklyn apartment, his life is drastically different in India where the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god. Flying on One Engine shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by curing others.
Contact Melissa Lea at 601-974-1755 or leama@millsaps.edu
Thursday, November 19
Arts & Lecture Series
Paul Canonici: Discovering My Roots…In Italy and In the Mississippi Delta
7 p.m. in the Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Paul Canonici, retired Catholic priest and educator, artist, writer and world traveler, set upon a journey to discover his roots. In doing so, he visits Italy often and speaks from firsthand knowledge about Italian society and cultures as well as of the Italians of the Mid-South region of the nation. He is the author of The Delta Italians: Their Pursuit of “The Better Life” and Their Struggle against Mosquitos, Floods and Prejudice; So Italian: Traditional Recipes with My Art and Travel Notes; and Pictures and Profiles of Delta Italians. He encourages those interested in genealogy and in Italian culture in Europe and America to attend this lecture and to start their own journey to find their roots.
Individual tickets, $10
Contact the Office of Continuing Education at 601- 974-1130
Friday, November 20
Friday Forum
Brit Katz, Vice President for Student Life: “Step by Step: The Staircase as Metaphor across Film Genres”
12:30 p.m. Academic Complex Room 215
Film directors have always used staircases to affect mood, emotion, or reaction to a story arc or outcome. In horror (The Exorcist, Spiral Staircase), suspense/thriller (Vertigo, Notorious), musical comedy (The Little Colonel, Hello Dolly), drama (Gone with the Wind, The Heiress, Sunset Boulevard), or action/adventure (Titanic), a staircase winds its way into the audience's appreciation for the film.
Free
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 20
Swarm, a solo trumpet performance
Jacob Wick
7 p.m., Lewis Art Gallery, Academic Complex
Composer, improviser, and video artist Jacob Wick is visiting Jackson as a part of his performance/project to entitled ROAD TRIP: drawing a perimeter of the united states. ROAD TRIP consists of a series of performances, residencies, and collaborative efforts, including the repetition of a series of open-scored performances: THIS IS IT, an open text-based performance piece; 4’33,” John Cage’s seminal piece, reinterpreted as a community video performance; road trip: a solitary action to be undertaken by Wick, re-drawing the route of ROAD TRIP every single day; and swarm, a solo performance for trumpet. ROAD TRIP will be thoroughly documented online (www.jacobwick.info), in the hope that this may serve as a sort of library, a resource for artists, musicians, and the general public to learn about the various local artistic communities existing in our united states.
Free
Contact Amanda Rainey at 601-974-1334 or rainek@millsaps.edu
Monday, November 30
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
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