| Monday, May 28 | |
| 8:00 PM | Concert J.P. Shields and Raymond Garofalo, guitar: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, May 29 | |
| 4:30 PM | Art/Scandinavian Studies Lecture Strindberg and Photography Exhibit. Odegaard Undergraduate Library Room 220. The August Strindberg and Photography Exhibit has been installed and Associate Professor Lotta Gavel Adams, Department of Scandinavian Studies, will give an introductory lecture. Two drama students will do a staged reading of Strindberg's quart d'heure The Stronger. For more information please contact Professor Lotta Gavel Adams at lotta@u.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Exhibit MFA Exhibit: Jodi Rockwell. CMA Building (4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive). Jodi Rockwell will present a lecture in conjunction with the opening of her MFA Exhibit. Jodi's exhibit runs through June 2, 2001. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 206.543.0178. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Bookends: Music for Choir and Jazz Piano. Meany Theater. The UW Chamber Singers, directed by Geoffrey Boers, are joined by jazz faculty member Marc Seales, piano, in a unique concert combining choral music by Monteverdi, Bach, Bruckner, Lauridsen, Tallis,and other composers, with jazz improvisation. Tickets: $5-$8 (206/543-4880 or available at the door). For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Russ Nyberg, percussion: Senior Recital. Meany Studio. Russ Nyberg takes the stage to perform both traditional and contempory works for percussion. Highlights incluce Schultz's "Dragons in the Sky", Colgrass' "Concertino for Timpani with brass and percussion, and "Malaguena" with members of the Husky Marching Band. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Toshie Ueda, piano and Kwan Park, violin: DMA Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Wednesday, May 30 | |
| 9:30 AM 4:45 PM | **SEPHARDIC STUDIES CONFERENCE** "Ladino in Print: An International Scholarly Symposium." Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. 9:30-10:00 - Opening Remarks, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UW); 10:00-10:45 - "Medieval Sephardic Philological and Exegetical Traditions Reflected in the Biblia de Ferrara," Angel Saenz-Badillos (Universidad Computense de Madrid); 11:00-11:45 - "Some Observations on the 15th Century Hispano-Jewish 'Romanceamientos' and the First Printed Works in Ladino," Louis Giron-Negron (Harvard University); 12:00-2:00 - Lunch; 2:00-2:45 - "Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) in Print," Aviva Ben-Ur (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); 3:00-3:45 - "What are Today's Sephardim Writing?" Salvador Santa Puche (University of Murcia, Spain); 4:00-4:45 - The Judeo-Spanish Press in Salonika 1864-1941: A Vehicle for Modernization and Enhanced Sephardic Identity," Yitzchak Kerem (Aristotle University). "Ladino in Print" has been sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, The Jewish Studies Program, Sephardic Studies, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Near Easten Languages and Civilization, and the International Studies Center. For more information please call 543-0138. |
| 10:30 AM | **WOMEN'S STUDIES/MUSIC LECTURE** "Listening to the Dead: Rethinking 'Thinking from Women's Lives,'" Suzanne Cusick (University of Virginia). Peterson Room, 4th Floor, Allen Library. Professor Cusick's 1993 article "Thinking from Women's Lives: Francesca Caccini after 1627" (on reserve in the Music Library for Music History 497) vividly recounts how taking the perspective of this renaissance composer led Cusick to startling discoveries in Italian archives and revealed a chapter in Caccini's life unknown to earlier biographers. In this lecture Professor Cusick will talk about additional discoveries and new perspectives from her work on the new biography of Francesca Caccini. Discussion over coffee and tea immediately following Sponsored by the Kenneth S. Allen Fund from the University Libraries, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the School of Music, and the Women Studies Department. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 11:30 AM 2:20 PM | Art Event Art You Can Play With! Parnassus, Art Basement. Join us at Parnassus where the final projects from Art 329, Interactive/Collaborative Art will be shown, demonstrated, and available for interaction! Free and open to all. For more information, please call 206-543-0999. |
| 12:30 PM | African Studies Lecture Presentation on Research in Senegal, Kirsten Marshall (African Studies). Mary Gates 258. Funded by the 2001 Nelson Mandela Scholarship, UW POA Assistant Kirsten Marshall traveled to Senegal, West Africa this Spring to conduct research on Senegalese women and music. Inspired by master musician and griot, Doudou N'Diaye Rose, the first master sabar drummer to teach women in his family how to drum, Kirsten took sabar classes, conducted interviews, and observed sabar performances at marriages, baptisms, wrestling matches & various festivals. The presentation will include an overview of her thesis, a short slide show, a short sabar drumming performance / demonstration, and a Senegalese rice and vegetable dish will be served. Check out the POA website for a few pictures from the trip and in the coming weeks to view her undergraduate thesis entitled, Changing Gender Roles in Sabar Performances, a Microcosm for Changing Roles in Senegalese Society. For more information visit http://depts.washington.edu/poa or email kirs@u.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Films The Decalogue, Parts IX-X. Mary Gates 234. Parts IX and X of Kieslowski's masterpiece. UW faculty, staff and students only. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Studio Jazz Ensemble: Ensemble Concert, Jay Thomas, director. Meany Theater. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Toshie Ueda, piano and Kwan Park, violin: DMA Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Thursday, May 31 | |
| 9:00 AM 4:45 PM | **SEPHARDIC STUDIES CONFERENCE** "Ladino in Print: An International Scholarly Symposium." Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. 9:00-9:45 - "The Role of Translation in Shaping the Ladino Novel at the Time of Westernization," Olga Borovaia (Stanford University); 10:00-10:45 - "On Vernacular Print Culture and the Emergence of a Judeo-Spanish Public Sphere," Matthias Lehmann (Freie Universitat, Berlin); 11:00-11:45 - "Creating an Ottoman Ladino Reading Public," Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UW); 12:00-2:00 - Lunch; 2:00-2:45 - "Methodological and Practical Issues that Face the Editor of Sephardic Texts," Jacob Hassan (Estudios Sefardies, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones, Madrid); 3:00-3:45 - "Judeo-Spanish Writing Systems and the Normalization of Orthography," Winfried Busse (Freie Universitat fur Romanische Philologie, Berlin); 4:00-4:45 - "Problems of Language Planning and Standardization in Contemporary Ladino Texts," Armin Hetzer (Universitat Bremen). "Ladino in Print" has been sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, The Jewish Studies Program, Sephardic Studies, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Near Easten Languages and Civilization, and the International Studies Center. For more information please call 543-0138. |
| 3:30 PM | Film Festival Human Rights Film Festival. UW Bothell, UW1-041. "Toxic Lives" - presented by the Filipino American Coaliton for Environmental Solutions (FACES). Festival sponsored by the Human Rights Action! Group at UW Bothell. Festival continues through June 7. For more information please contact magicbusrider@hotmail.com. |
| 5:00 PM 8:00 PM | Art Exhibit Fibers Program Annual Open House and Reception. Art 9. Celebrate the new Fibers program graduates at the annual roving Open House and Reception. From 5-6pm, enjoy food, drink and conversation in room 9 of the Art Building - BFA graduates and ongoing MFA student work will be on display. At 6pm, MFA graduates Lauren Obenour and Young Hee Chang will each give a lecture in room 6 (Art Bldg). From 7-8pm you can view the MFA exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery with the Fibers program. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please call 206.543.0999. |
| 6:00 PM | German Drama Performance The students of German 304 will present a one-act play, "Acht Tage Vernuenftig," in German. Savery 239. Admission is free. This event is sponsored by the Dept. of Germanics. For more information please contact Scott Baker by email at ksbaker@u.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Lecture Visiting Artist Kerstin Abraham will present a lecture. CMA Building(4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive). This event is free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture, please call 206.543.0178. |
| 6:30 PM | Art Lecture Canadian-born sculptor Jackie Winsor will be the featured speaker of the School of Art's end of the year lecture. Kane 120. Winsor earned her MFA from Rutgers State University and soon emerged as an artist whose work was a response to Minimalism. While Winsor's art is relatively simple in form, it usually carries meaning either as a metaphor or as a reference to the art-making process. The lecture is free and open to all. For more information please call the School of Art at 206-543-0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Contemporary Group: Celebrating UW Composers, Part II. Meany Theater. The Contemporary Group features works by UW composers, past and present, including Gerald Kechley ("Res Miranda" and "Spring Night" from "Three Songs"), Paul Tufts ("String Trio"), John Rahn ("Sea of Souls I, Sea"), George F. McKay ("Suite: Rocky Harbor and Sandy Cove"), Joel-Francois Durand ("Le chemin"), and Richard Karpen ("The Silence of Time"). Tickets: $5-$8 (206/543-4880 or available at the door). For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Combos: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Marc Seales, director. Music 126. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Friday, June 1 | |
| 12:30 PM | Anthropology Lecture "When the Fat Raven Sings: Mimesis and Environmental Alterity in Kamchatka's Environmentalist Age," David Koester (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks). Mary Gates Hall Room 248. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Against Triggered Movement", Frederick J. Newmeyer (UW). Smith 105. Sponsored by the Linguistics Department. For more information please call 543-2046. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Reading by Michael Kusagak. Kane Hall 210. This is an rare opportunity to see Canada's most prolific and popular Inuk writer who has a fabulous reputation as a storyteller. Tickets: $10 adults/$5 children and students. The event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center and the University Book Store. For more information please call 221-6374. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Ragamala: Sudha Raghunathan. 120 Kane Hall. Sudha Raghunathan (vocal) with Embar Kannan (violin), P.R. Ravi (mridangam) and R. Raman (kanjira). Tickets: $5-10. Sponsored by the UW Ethnomusicology Program. Please call 206-543-0949 for more information. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Vocal Jazz Concert: Ensemble Concert, Dave Cross, director. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, June 2 | |
| 8:30 AM 4:30 PM | Workshop for Teachers "Northern Dreams: Art, Life and the Environment in the Far North." UW Campus. The day will begin with an overview of the history & geography of the northern regions - Siberia, Greenland and the far north of Russia, Canada and Western Europe. Representatives from the various regions (including a special appearance by Inuk writer Michael Kusagak, from Nunavut) will give an insider's view of traditional life and culture. The afternoon will be dedicated to storytelling, mythology and music from the North. Northern crafts for the classroom will also be introduced by presenters. Participants receive 8 clock hours. Cost is $40. To register send a check payable to "Washington State Council for Social Studies" to Canadian Studies Center, Box 353650, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195. Please indicate if you want a vegetarian lunch. This event is sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center; Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies; West European Studies and; Program on the Environment. For more information please call 221-6374 |
| 2:00 PM 4:30 PM | Library Event Passion and Prose: The Art of Book Collecting. 220 Odegaard Undergraduate Library. The event brings together books dealers, appraisers and collectors to discuss book collecting. Experts will explain what makes a volume collectable, where to find special books, how to evaluate their value and condition, and other topics. Space is limited. RSVP to 206-543-1760. $10, includes informal appraisal of one book. Sponsored by the Friends of the University of Washington Libraries. For more information please call 206-543-1760. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Student Chamber Ensembles. Brechemin Auditorium. Instrumental students perform chamber works. For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 3:00 PM | Concert Christian Krehbiel, percussion: Senior Recital. Meany Studio. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| Sunday, June 3 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 3:00 PM | Concert David Reeves, percussion: Senior Recital. Meany Studio. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Jesse Espinoza, guitar: Senior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |