Week of Events
Steven Brower – Influence, Parody, and Process
Designer Steven Brower explores his origins and how he filters early and later influences through his own personal sensibility. Not limited to visual art, graphic design or illustrations those influences include Groucho Marx, Woody Guthrie, Louis Armstrong, right along side PushPin Studios, Mad Magazine, and Jack Kirby.
Gallery Exhibition: Historic Wilson Hall
The splendor of the golden age of American palaces will be featured in an exhibit of photographs depicting Shadow lawn estate as it appeared from 1903 through 1937.
The Foreigner
Winner of 2 Obie (Off-Broadway) awards and two Outer Critics Circle awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway production, The Foreigner is an inspired comic romp. Set in rural Georgia, this comedy investigates what can happen when a group of people encounter a stranger who (they think) neither speaks nor reads English. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the “bad guys” and the “good guys” emerge triumphant.
Peter Yarrow w/ Special Guests Bethany & Rufus
Peter Yarrow w/ Special Guests Bethany & Rufus
Fifty years after the release of the first album by Peter, Paul & Mary, the man who helped to reinforce folk music’s
Argentine Tango Classes (Beginner and Advanced
Argentine Tango Classes (Beginner and Advanced
Join us for a series of both advanced and beginner Tango classes with Lee Sager of Tango Pantera. No partner needed.
Provost Film Series: Camp de Thiaroye
Provost Film Series: Camp de Thiaroye
Provost Film Series: Camp de Thiaroye
Event: Provost Film Series: Camp de Thiaroye
Date: 11/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
In this semi-autobiographical film by Ousmane Sembene, black soldiers help to defend France in the Algerian War, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Fall Poetry Festival
Fall Poetry Festival
The day will consist of readings by nationally known poets, some of whom will conduct poetry workshops for participants. The keynote readers will be Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and Cave Canem Fellow Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Stephen Dunn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Different Hours.