Under the auspicies of HIRH Kathrin von Hohenstaufen

Events for September 10, 2009
Common Spaces: The Quad | September 10, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Scenes from the student musical, "The Quad".

The Harvard University Common Spaces initiative announces a two month pilot program to encourage community building in and around Harvard Yard. During September and October, areas within the Yard and near the Science Center will feature new colorful seating, outdoor food vendors in select locations, and venues for arts related performances by the Harvard community.
Sponsor: Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Science Center area
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: http://www.hrdctheater.com
Email: commonspaces@harvard.edu

NOW? Public Projections and Instrumentations / Krzysztof Wodiczko in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi | September 10, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Krzysztof Wodiczko is an internationally known artist and Professor in the Visual Arts Program at MIT. He is a director of MIT‘s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he also heads the Interrogative Design Group. He has created many interventional art projects, including nearly 90 ‘Public projections’ on monuments and public buildings and a series of ‘Instrumentations’ the aim of both of which was to assist and inspire estranged and marginalized city residents in inserting their presence and voice into public space. Krzysztof Wodiczko‘s work has been exhibited at the Architectural Venice Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Documenta, and many other international festivals and group shows. He is presently representing Poland in the 2009 Venice Biennial. Among other awards, he received the Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to the world peace. Professor Wodiczko has an exhibition opening at the ICA in November. For more info: http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/wodiczko/ Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. NOW? is an occasional series of conversations about ideas, images, words, things, drawings, places, designs. NOW? is also a specific temporal moment — of thought and action — caught between the present and possible futures
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Email: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

The Donkey Show | September 10, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org
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Renovating a House of Pleasure: Japanese Screen Conservation | September 16, 2009 | 3:30 pm Description: This talk will focus on a 17th century Japanese screen that was recently remounted in the Asian conservation studio at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The speakers will explain the materials and techniques used to produce the screen as well as the technical, aesthetic, and ethical issues of remounting. This popular series pairs presenters to consider objects from more than one point of view. The informal talks, by Harvard Art Museum curators, conservators, and educators, and Harvard University faculty members, are designed to stimulate thinking about works of art and encourage participants to explore their own ways of seeing.
Sponsor: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free with the price of admission
Phone: 617-495-9400
URL: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24680
Notes: Limited to 30 participants. Please arrive early. Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.

Members Evening with the Director & Harvard Students | September 22, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Please join Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum, for a reception and thematic gallery tours created and led by students.
Sponsor: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Date: September 22, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Admission: Open to members ($15) and their guests ($20); complimentary admission for members at Supporting level and above
Phone: 617-495-0534
Email: artmuseum_membership@harvard.edu
Notes: Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street. Members will receive invitations in the mail.

Midday Organ Recital | October 1, 2009 | 12:15 pm Description: Antje Maria Traub, professor of organ, Kirchenmusikschule, Aargau, Switzerland

Presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church. Recitals are performed on Harvard‘s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.
Sponsor: Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church
Date: October 1, 2009
Time: 12:15 pm
Location: Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24602
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu

M. Victor Leventritt Lecture: Rediscovering Boscoreale: Roman Country Villas and Their Treasures | October 1, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Bettina Bergmann, Helene Phillips Herzig ‘49 Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College

The stunning frescoes and other finds from the first—century BC country villa of Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, discovered in 1899, are now dispersed in a number of collections. This lecture presents new images of the finds and recreates their physical and historical contexts.
Sponsor: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Date: October 1, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24712
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

Introducing the Visual Thinking Strategies | October 3, 2009 | 10:00 am Description: The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a developmentally based program used by teachers and museum educators across the country, helps students of all ages learn skills for looking at and thinking about art. One of the most exciting educational outcomes of this innovative approach is that it helps students build critical thinking skills that transfer across the curriculum. This interactive workshop will provide teachers with an opportunity to ‘try-on’ the VTS and to explore ways in which it can support their teaching goals.

The VTS curriculum:
—Asks classroom teachers to facilitate learner—centered discussions of visual art

—Engages learners in a rigorous process of examination and meaning-making through visual art

—Uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills

—Engenders the willingness and ability to find multiple solutions to complex problems

—Uses facilitated discussion to practice respectful, democratic collaborative problem solving among students that transfers to other classroom interactions, and beyond

—Uses eager, thoughtful participation to nurture verbal language skills, and writing assignments to assist transfer from oral to written ability


Sponsor: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), Harvard Art Museum
Date: October 3, 2009
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Workshop fee: $25.00 (free for teachers in Grades 3 to 12 and ELL teachers). Lunch included. Participants receive 5 PDPs.
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.vtshome.org/
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: Due to limited enrollment these workshops fill up fast. To register: Contact Susannah Hutchison at 617.496.8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu. Please note: a $25.00 check is required to reserve your place.

The VTS was created by Abigail Housen and Philip Yenawine of Visual Understanding in Education (VUE).

In-Sight Lecture Series: The Harvard Buddha Hand | October 7, 2009 | 6:30 pm Description: Yukio Lippit, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Through a remarkable display of art—historical acumen, this left hand in the Harvard Art Museum‘s collection was recently determined to belong to a large Japanese Buddhist icon by the 13th—century master sculptor Kaikei. His figure of the Buddha was a key component in one of the most dramatic chapters in Japan‘s religious and cultural history, the efforts of the monk Chogen (1121–1206) to rebuild Todaiji monastery —the world‘s largest freestanding wooden building — and its Great Buddha in Nara. The hand not only returns us to this historical moment, but also provides new insights into the wholesale changes taking place in Japanese sculpture, architecture, and religious culture of the period.

Join us for a new series of lectures that will explore individual objects from the Harvard Art Museum collection and beyond. Each lecture will look deeply at a single work of art, inviting interpretations that probe beneath the surface. Approaching each work from multiple perspectives, we will examine the techniques, contexts, and stories that helped shape these exceptional works, and their significance to the Art Museum.
Sponsor: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Date: October 7, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Series tickets $90 (members $60; complimentary series admission for members at Sustaining level and above). Individual lectures $18 (members $12).
Phone: 617.495.0534
URL: artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=25194
Email: artmuseum_membership@harvard.edu
Notes: Space is limited and registration is strongly encouraged; please call 617.495.0534 or email artmuseum_membership@harvard.edu for more information.

Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street. Members will receive invitations in the mail.

Midday Organ Recital | October 8, 2009 | 12:15 pm Description: Gail Archer, concert organist, New York

Presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church. Recitals are performed on Harvard‘s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.
Sponsor: Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church
Date: October 8, 2009
Time: 12:15 pm
Location: Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617.496.8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24688
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu

M. Victor Leventritt Lecture: The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space | October 8, 2009 | 5:00 pm Description: Bettina Bergmann, Helene Phillips Herzig ‘49 Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College Victoria I, artist/designer

Taking two— and three— dimensional actual and virtual models of Roman houses and villas as the starting point, this seminar addresses how different forms of reconstruction tell us not just about the object of reconstruction, but about the limits of our knowledge and evolving historical perspectives.
Sponsor: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Date: October 8, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Room 318, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24718
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

New Muslim Cool Screening | October 10, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Hamza Pérez will be on hand to answer questions about the film New Muslim Cool, which is based on his life experiences as a Puerto Rican—American, rapper, former drug dealer, family man, and spiritual leader. The film has been selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Sponsor: Harvard‘s Pluralism Project and Active Voice
Date: October 10, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617.496.8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=25218
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: This event is made possible by Harvard‘s Pluralism Project (www.pluralism.org), a research organization that seeks to encourage engagement with America‘s religious diversity, and Active Voice (www.activevoice.net/newmuslimcool.html), which uses film, television, and multimedia to spark social change.

Galleries at the Sackler Museum will be open until 6:00pm so that visitors can view Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, on view August 6, 2009—January 3, 2010.

Opening Celebration: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 | October 15, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: An exhibition of over 70 politically—charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15—December 23, 2009, the exhibition chronicles New York‘s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) through an examination of compelling graphics created by various artist collectives that populated the group. The exhibition also features the premiere of the ACT UP Oral History Project, a suite of over 100 video interviews with surviving members of ACT UP New York that offer a retrospective portal on a decisive moment in the history of the gay rights movement, 20th—century visual art, our nation‘s discussion of universal healthcare, and the continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987—1993 is co—curated by Helen Molesworth, Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum; and Claire Grace, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum and a graduate student in Harvard University‘s History of Art and Architecture program.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum
Date: October 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/collective.html
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NOW? Public Projections and Instrumentations / Krzysztof Wodiczko in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi | September 10, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Krzysztof Wodiczko is an internationally known artist and Professor in the Visual Arts Program at MIT. He is a director of MIT‘s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he also heads the Interrogative Design Group. He has created many interventional art projects, including nearly 90 ‘Public projections’ on monuments and public buildings and a series of ‘Instrumentations’ the aim of both of which was to assist and inspire estranged and marginalized city residents in inserting their presence and voice into public space. Krzysztof Wodiczko‘s work has been exhibited at the Architectural Venice Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Documenta, and many other international festivals and group shows. He is presently representing Poland in the 2009 Venice Biennial. Among other awards, he received the Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to the world peace. Professor Wodiczko has an exhibition opening at the ICA in November. For more info: http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/wodiczko/ Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. NOW? is an occasional series of conversations about ideas, images, words, things, drawings, places, designs. NOW? is also a specific temporal moment — of thought and action — caught between the present and possible futures
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Email: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

Place Makers: Planning and Developing the City | September 14, 2009 | 12:30 pm Description: Presentations from this year‘s class of Loeb Fellows.

Gil Kelley, planner, former Director of Planning, Portland, OR

Weiwen Huang, Director, Department of Urban & Architecture Design, Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau, Shenzhen, China

Neal Morris, Developer, New Orleans
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 14, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/pdf/Press_release_with_images.pdf
Email: Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu)

INSERT! Chinatown Storefront Library Exhibit Opening | September 14, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: The Chinatown Storefront Library will transform an empty storefront in Boston‘s Chinatown into a temporary public library. Operating for approximately three months, the project will provide urgently— needed services for a community that has been without a library since 1956, while creating a new advocacy tool for Chinatown‘s efforts for a permanent library.

Starting in the Spring ‘09 semester, twelve current GSD students and recent alumni partnered with the Department of Micro— Urbanism (founded by Marrikka Trotter, MDesS ‘09) to design, fabricate and construct INSERT for the Chinatown Storefront Library, an innovative, compact and flexible program space for children‘s reading, internet access, and multi— lingual book and periodical areas targeting Chinatown‘s large elderly population. The design is modular, portable, and reconfigurable; it can be adapted to multiple locations and changes in use as the Storefront Library project continues and changes over time. At the end of the Storefront Library project, the INSERT components will be reused for other purposes within the community.

Working with programming partner Boston Street Lab, the students collaborated closely with community organizations, residents, and each other in presentations, pin-ups, meetings and charette sessions to produce the final design concept for the INSERT.

Two GSD Community Service Fellows, Julian Bushman-Copp and Matthew Swaidan, and CAD/CAM manager alumnus Trevor Patt, worked through the summer to fabricate and assemble the design in partnership with DMU and supported by volunteers. As a unique, student— initiated project, the Chinatown Storefront Library INSERT models a larger goal of students at the GSD: to creatively utilize the school‘s talent, skills and innovation to address urgent problems and opportunities in a collaborative exchange of ideas, action and expertise with local communities on an ongoing basis.

The INSERT is on temporary display at the GSD before moving into a commercial storefront in Chinatown in October.
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 14, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Room 110 (Pit), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: insert-chinatownlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/insert-chinatown-library-basic-info.html
Email: Marrikka Trotter (marrikka_trotter@yahoo.com)

Place Makers: Protecting the Environment | September 15, 2009 | 12:30 pm Description: Presentations from this year‘s class of Loeb Fellows.

Julie Campoli, Landscape Architect and author, Burlington, VT
Rob Bleiberg, Executive Director, Mesa Land Trust, Grand Junction, CO
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 15, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/pdf/loeb0910_poster_F.pdf
Email: Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu)

Place Makers: Designing through Political Engagement | September 16, 2009 | 12:30 pm Description: Presentations from this year‘s class of Loeb Fellows.

Peter Steinbrueck, architect, former City Councilor, Seattle
Jose deFilippi, engineer, former Mayor, Diadema, Brazil
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/pdf/Press_release_with_images.pdf
Email: Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu)

The Return of Nature: Organicism Contra Ornament | September 16, 2009 | 6:30 pm Description: The Return of Nature is the first of four Harvard Symposia on Architecture, an annual series of events which brings together architects, historians and theorists to consider the question of architecture‘s autonomy in relation to contemporary debates.

The Return of Nature: Organicism Contra Ornament Participants:
Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural Theory and History at UCLA where she served as Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design from 1996 to 2006. Her books include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (2005) and the forthcoming The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity.

Robert Levit is Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Toronto. He is a partner in the design firm Khoury Levit Fong. His projects and writings have appeared in numerous publications. Essays include ‘Contemporary Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed’ (2008).

Farshid Moussavi is Professor in Practice in the Department of Architecture at the GSD. She is an architect, co founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA) together with Alejandro Zaera-Polo, an international practice with projects in Europe, Asia and North America. She is author of the forthcoming The Function of Form (Sept 2009) as well as The Function of Ornament (2006).
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall , 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/pdf/return_of_nature_description.pdf
Email: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
Notes: Co-Conveners: Preston Scott Cohen and Erika Naginski

Place Makers: Telling the Story, Engaging the History | September 17, 2009 | 12:30 pm Description: Presentations from this year‘s class of Loeb Fellows.

Michael Creasey, Superintendant, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA
Donna Graves, Arts and cultural heritage consultant and urban historian, San Francisco
Patricia Leigh Brown, Contributing writer New York Times and Architectural Digest, San Francisco

Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/pdf/Press_release_with_images.pdf
Email: ally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu)

Utopia Across Scales: Talk and Roundtable | September 22, 2009 | 12:00 am Description: As part of the exhibition Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive, Paul Noritaka Tange will give a presentation, followed by a roundtable with

Gerald McCue John T. Dunlop Professor of Housing Studies, Emeritus, Harvard GSD

Toshiko Mori Toshiko Mori Architect, New York Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard GSD

Mark Mulligan Mark Mulligan, Architect, Cambridge Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD

Paul Noritaka Tange began his architectural career upon receiving his Master in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in 1985. That same year he joined Kenzo Tange Associates, the architectural firm headed by his father, well known architect and urban planner, Kenzo Tange. Paul became President of Kenzo Tange Associates in 1997 and founded Tange Associates in 2003. Tange Associates, headquartered in Tokyo, has offices in Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei. At this time, Tange Associates has more than 30 on-going projects in ten countries. Paul himself exemplifies the international element of his practice. Born in Tokyo, Japan, and educated in Japan, Switzerland and the US, he is a registered architect of both Japan and Singapore.
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 22, 2009
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Room 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/events/exhibitions/current.htm
Email: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

Design Education During Transformational Times: Professional Practice, Lifelong Learning and Applied Research | September 23, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Design Education During Transformational Times: Professional Practice, Lifelong Learning and Applied Research. What do design firms need and what can academic institutions provide?

Roundtable panel discussion with
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Harvard GSD
Robert AM Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture & Principal, RAMSA
Spiro Pollalis, Professor, Harvard GSD
Leland Cott, Professor, Harvard GSD and Principal, Bruner/Cott
Peter Morrison, CEO, RMJM

Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall , 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/rmjm/design_firm_leadership_gsd.html
Email: Aimee Taberner (ataberner@gsd.harvard.edu)
Notes: The discussion is free and open to the public, however, current GSD community members have preferential access to Piper Auditorium, after paying Design Firm Leadership Conference attendees.

Frank Gehry and Joe Brown: A Dialogue | September 24, 2009 | 6:30 pm Description: A dialogue between the Pritzker Prize Winner and the CEO of AECOM Design & Planning about their current design challenges and their observations about the evolving state of professional practice.


Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 24, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall , 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/rmjm/design_firm_leadership_gsd.html
Email: Aimee Taberner (ataberner@gsd.harvard.edu)
Notes: The discussion is free and open to the public, however, current GSD community members have preferential access to Piper Auditorium, after paying Design Firm Leadership Conference attendees. The discussion will be shown in several overflow rooms for those who cannot get a seat in the auditorium.

Discussions in Architecture: Thom Mayne with Preston Scott Cohen | September 29, 2009 | 6:30 pm Description: Thom Mayne Founder and Director of Design, Morphosis

Preston Scott Cohen Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture, Harvard GSD Principal, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc.

Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972. As design director and thought leader of Morphosis, Mayne provides overall vision, project leadership and direction to the firm.

With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 75 American Institute of Architecture Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under Mayne‘s direction, the firm has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions throughout the world, including a large solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2006. Other notable exhibitions include those at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Walker Arts Institute in Minneapolis, the Ministerio de Fomento in Madrid in 1998, and a major retrospective at the Netherlands Architectural Institute (NAI) in 1999. In addition to these solo exhibitions, Morphosis has been included in prestigious group exhibitions in Tokyo, London, Vienna, Buenos Aires, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the ‘End of the Century: 100 Years of Architecture’ exhibition, and at the 2002, 2004 and 2006, and 2008 Venice Architecture Biennales. Drawings, furniture, and models produced by Morphosis are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the MOMA in New York, San Francisco MOMA, the MAK in Vienna, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the FRAC Center in France. Morphosis buildings and projects have been published extensively; the firm has been the subject of 25 monographs, including five by Rizzoli, two by Korean Architect, two by El Croquis (Spain), two by G.A. Japan, and one by Phaidon.

Throughout his career, Mayne has remained active in the academic world. In 1972, he helped to found the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Since then, he has held teaching positions at Columbia, Yale (the Eliel Saarinen Chair in 1991), the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Eliot Noyes Chair in 1998), the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and many other institutions around the world. His commitment to the education of young designers has not wavered. Currently, he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture.
Sponsor: Graduate School of Design
Date: September 29, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall , 48 Quincy Street, GSD
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: www.morphosis.com/
Email: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | September 13, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: September 13, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Poetry Homecoming: WPR Orientation and Brainstorming Session | September 15, 2009 | 5:00 pm Description: Meet fellow poets, poetry—lovers and poetry— scholars at this fun and informal gathering at the Woodberry Poetry Room, featuring representatives from the Harvard Review, Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Bow & Arrow Letterpress, the Poetry@Harvard iSite, Gamut, Harvard Advocate and the Spoken Word Society. Learn about upcoming readings and workshops and share your ideas for the forthcoming year. All Harvard undergraduates, grad students, fellows, faculty and staff are welcome.
Sponsor: Woodberry Poetry Room
Date: September 15, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330
Admission: Free and open to all Harvard students, fellows, faculty & staff
Phone: 617-495-2454
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/
Notes: For details, contact Christina Davis at 617-495-2454

REEL TIME: Reaching Z: Recordings by Louis Zukofsky, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams & W. C. Williams | September 18, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: REEL TIME is an acoustical journey through one of the preeminent audio archives in the country. On a biweekly basis throughout the semester participants are invited to read, write and chat during these creative listening sessions at the Woodberry Poetry Room. This year, the listening hours will travel backwards from Z—A, in an alphabetical route through the Poetry Room‘s 20th and 21st century audio and video collection.
Sponsor: Woodberry Poetry Room
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.2454
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/
Notes: For details, contact Christina Davis at 617.495.2454

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | September 22, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: September 22, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Poetry Reading: Simon Armitage | September 22, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: The Fall 2009 season gets off to a felicitous and Anglophile start with a reading by preeminent British poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage (author of Out of the Blue and The Shout: Selected Poems). Introduction by Professor James Simpson. Co— sponsored by the Department of English and the Woodberry Poetry Room.
Sponsor: Woodberry Poetry Room and the Department of English
Date: September 22, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617-495-2454
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/
Notes: For details, contact Christina Davis at 617-495-2454

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | September 29, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: September 29, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | October 13, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: October 13, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | October 20, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: October 20, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | October 26, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: October 26, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk: “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist” | November 3, 2009 | 4:00 pm Description: Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, has been appointed the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Pamuk will deliver his Norton Lectures on the art of the novel at Sanders Theatre this fall. In the lectures, which will carry the general title of “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist,” Pamuk will discuss the hidden center of a novel through the perspective of literary characters, time and plot, seeing and objects, museums and politics.
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard
Date: November 3, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values | November 4, 2009 | 4:30 pm Description: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Jonathan Lear - ‘Irony and Identity‘
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard and the Office of the President
Date: November 4, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Notes: Entrance will be first come first served based upon space availability

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values | November 5, 2009 | 4:30 pm Description: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Jonathan Lear - ‘Irony and Identity‘
Sponsor: Humanities Center at Harvard and the Office of the President
Date: November 5, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/
Notes: Humanities Center at Harvard and the Office of the President

Colored People: a Memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author Event | November 12, 2009 | 7:30 pm Description: Cambridge READS: the Citywide Book Club hosts a presentation by author Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ‘Colored People: a Memoir‘
Sponsor: Cambridge READS
Date: November 12, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre at 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Please refer to notes.
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu
Notes: Tickets are free but required. Limit of 2 per person The tickets will be valid only until 7:15PM, please arrive early to guarantee seating. Tickets may be ordered by phone 617-496-2222 starting at noon on October 31st. There is a non refundable $4 handling fee charged for each ticket ordered by phone. These tickets must be picked up 1/2 hour prior to the event.
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Boston Ballet Dance Talk: World Passions | October 16, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Boston Ballet dancers will perform excerpts from the World Passions program, featuring innovative works by rising star Helen Pickett and Boston Ballets resident choreographer Jorma Elo. Mikko Nissinen and other members of Boston Ballets artistic staff will discuss the works presented, in this sixth annual partnership with Harvard. Free and open to the public.
Sponsor: Dance Program (Office for the Arts)
Date: October 16, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Harvard Dance Center, 60 Garden St., Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
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Harvard Film Archive: The Old Dark House and Remember Last Night? | September 11, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Just as Whale set the standard for horror with Frankenstein, he created in The Old Dark House a classic of the horror subgenre named for this very film that announced Whales distinctive blend of horror, satire, camp and farce. The typical &rsquo old dark house &rsquo film features innocents who stumble upon a sinister mansion; here, in a typically perverse Whale touch, the heroes are a flighty, cynical quintet who are hardly wholesome themselves. Still, they are no match for the freakish Femm family that inhabits the house. Perversely, Whale cast aging actress Elspeth Dudgeon as the Femm patriarch &mdash she is credited in the film as &rsquoJohn Dudgeon,&rsquo a secret joke that was not revealed until 1975.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 11, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: Frankenstein | September 12, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Universal hoped to repeat the success of the Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi Dracula (1931) with a version of Frankenstein. When the Laemmles offered the project to Whale, his imagination was fired by the material, and he took total control over both the screenplay and the production design. Taking advantage of the subjects visual possibilities for the grotesque and the macabre, Whale emulated the look of German expressionist cinema – in striking contrast to the low-key naturalism of Waterloo Bridge, his previous film. The juxtaposition of Frankenstein’s impending marriage and the creation of the monster, who will disrupt that union, remains notably charged and open to the many contemporary queer readings of the film.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 12, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: The Man in the Iron Mask and The Invisible Man | September 13, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Alexandre Dumas’ 1847 novel of wrongful imprisonment and swashbuckling adventure with the Three Musketeers has been often filmed, but Whale’s version remains a favorite. Independent producer Edward Small made the film as a follow up to his 1934 Count of Monte Cristo and hired Whale at a time when the latter was looking for work after leaving Universal. Small was known for keeping his directors on a tight leash, and The Man in the Iron Mask was no exception. Yet while the film bears relatively few traces of Whale’s signature – no dark humor or satiric impulses, no Expressionist lighting or jump cuts – it clearly demonstrates his strong command of fleet cinematic storytelling.

The Invisible Man offers an unsettling cautionary tale of scientific hubris run amok. The film’s story of a mild-mannered scientist transformed by his fantastical invention into a raving megalomaniac is less an ethical debate about man playing God than an existential allegory about the seductive nature of power.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 13, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: Waterloo Bridge and Impatient Maiden | September 14, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Universal gave Whale the job of adapting a popular and topical stage play for his first Hollywood assignment. Roy, a naïve American soldier in London during World War I, falls in love with the winsome Myra, another American, played by the mesmerizing Mae Clarke. Claiming to work as a chorus girl, Myra cannot tell Roy that she has lost her job and now makes her living as a prostitute. Out of this melodramatic (and definitely pre-Code) material, Whale fashions a vivid tale of sacrifice and suffering whose box office success quickly earned Whale a spot as one of Universal’s top directors. Look for a young Bette Davis in one of her first roles as the soldier’s sister.

After Frankenstein, Whale returned to melodrama with another vehicle for Mae Clark, one of the most sadly neglected great actresses from the 1930s. Here she is a young career woman in love with an ambulance driver who hopes to become a doctor. He wants to establish his medical practice before they marry, but her willingness to wait is complicated by the attentions of her boss. The film’s casual and racy view of pre- and extra-marital affairs marks it as prime pre-Code melodrama, one that was, in fact, at one point envisioned as a vehicle for Clara Bow.) Whale’s camera, highly mobile as usual, sails right through a handful of walls as it tracks the characters. New print from Universal Studios.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 14, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: Lunch Break and Exit | September 18, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: For the first time in her films Lockhart unleashes a mobile camera, although one fixed to a carefully calibrated path that cuts a carefully timed cross-section through the Bath Iron Works in coastal Maine during the midday repast, as workers sit along a central passage to eat and talk. By deliberately slowing the film down, Lockhart opens up the wealth of details, textures and gestures captured by each frame and echoed by the richly evocative and complexly multilayered soundtrack designed by Becky Allen and filmmaker and Lockhart mentor James Benning. Lunch Break’s gradual passage through the aged factory offers a meditative and melancholic reflection on the architectural, social and phenomenological space of a notably anachronistic mode of industrialized labor.

Like the Lumière brothers before her, Lockhart steps outside the factory in order to film her lyrical companion piece to Lunch Break. Structured around five separate takes filmed across the work week, Exit captures the temporal and physical “shift” from labor to rest of workers exiting the iron works and observes the subtle differences and symmetries that sustain the rhythm of factory labor.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html
Notes: The director, Sharon Lockhart, will be appearing in person.

Sound Safari with Sharon Lockhart in Person | September 19, 2009 | 5:00 pm Description: An impressionistic audio documentary of a coastal Maine town. Under the direction of Sharon Lockhart, Sert Practitioner and Film Study Center — Radcliffe Fellow, a group of Harvard students traveled to Bath, Maine, for two nights and two days of field recording, working with composer Ernst Karel to craft this audio documentary. ‘Sound Safari‘ will be shown at in conjunction with the Harvard Film Archive‘s presentation of Lockhart‘s award-winning works ‘Lunch Break‘ and ‘Exit‘, filmed in the same town.
Sponsor: Film Study Center at Harvard University
Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-495-9704
URL: www.filmstudycenter.org/events.html
Email: hcarrell@fas.harvard.edu
Notes: Directed by Sharon Lockhart, director appearing in person

Harvard Film Archive: Goshogaoka and Teatro Amazonas | September 19, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Lockhart spent an extended residency in the Tokyo suburb of Goshogaoka, closely observing and getting to know the local girls basketball team that is the subject of her structurally complex study of ritualized motion, collectivity and cultural difference. The uncanny presence of a curtained stage within the high school gymnasium, and at the background of the static long takes that structure the film, lends a theatrical weight to the team’s rhythmic practice and the exercises carefully choreographed by Lockhart in close collaboration with the girls. Matching the intensity of the girls’ practiced drills is Lockhart’s immobile framing, which gives almost Olympian gravity and beauty to the young athletes while also hinting ironically at the inherent heroization of subject cast by the predominately Western ethnographic gaze.

Teatro Amazonas reverses Goshogaoka’s frontal tableau by placing a static camera on the stage of the eponymous opera house, a beautiful architectural folly built in Manuas, in the heart of the Brazilian jungle at the height of the rubber boom. Lockhart’s film stages a brilliant conceptual gambit that bridges geographic and cultural distance to bring two disparate audiences face to face, the cinematic audience meeting the eyes of Manaus locals who were each individually interviewed and invited by Lockhart to hear a minimalist choral work specially commissioned from American composer Becky Allen. Deflecting the traditional perspective of ethnographic cinema Teatro Amazonas celebrates the artifice and absurdities of ritualized culture and engenders a mode of heightened visual spectatorship.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html
Notes: The director, Sharon Lockhart, will be appearing in person.

Harvard Film Archive: Show Boat | September 20, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: The stage musical Show Boat is credited with bringing a new maturity to Broadway when it opened in 1927. Universal’s first film version, from 1929, was part talkie, part silent, and only included some of the score by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Besides retaining most of the score, Whale’s remake includes several cast members from the original Broadway production, notably Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan. Whale proves strikingly adept at both the musical numbers and the dramatic sequences, turning away from the romantic comedy that provides the narrative thread for so many 1930s musicals to instead offer a full-fledged drama about racism, miscegenation, failed marriages and human weakness among a performing troupe in the South around the turn of the twentieth century.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 20, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: The Kiss Before the Mirror and One More River | September 21, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: A dark and highly stylized psychodrama, The Kiss Before the Mirror traces the breakdown of a lawyer who begins to suspect his wife of infidelity, even as he is defending a friend on trial for having murdered his wife. For this operatic material, Whale sought out famed German cinematographer Karl Freund to produce another visually striking and rhapsodically cinematic masterpiece, complete with complicated tracking shots and 360-degree pans, one that (in the words of a critic of the day) “might well have come from the UFA studios a dozen years earlier.” Whale remained rightfully proud of this still largely unknown gem. New print from Universal Studios.

This adaptation of John Galsworthy’s last novel focuses on the more dramatic of the book’s two plots, the story of a society woman’s divorce from a violent husband and her affair with a younger man. Like so many of Whale’s melodramas, it benefits from his ability to ground the material in well-crafted detail, whether imagined or, as in this case, remembered from his life in England. The Production Code went into effect while Whale was making the film, and he was forced to cut a scene wherein the sadistic husband attacks his wife. Whale’s camera, highly mobile as usual, is especially brilliantly deployed in the film’s climactic courtroom sequence.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 21, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Sullivan’s Travels Revisited. A Conversation with Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors | September 25, 2009 | 12:00 am Description: To what degree can a joke seduce not only an audience but its author? Sullivan’s Travels is about a comedy director—Joel McCrea, who we meet wearing pants that come up to his armpits, and with such blustery conviction you figure maybe you ought to try it—who wants to make a serious movie about real people and real problems, a Movie with a Message, and he’s got a title: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” which nearly sixty years later actually did get made, and for all we know pretty much as Sturges himself (1898-1959) might have made it. With a hungry Veronica Lake as a teacher, Sullivan hits the road to discover the bitter truth about America and its people; riding the rails, his resentment rises along with his confusion. He’s about to return to Hollywood, to do what he can, but one last Hollywood gesture—handing out money to his erstwhile fellow bindlestiffs—lands him in a prison camp. There, his identification gone, Sullivan disappears into an America that he never knew existed, part of a miserable crowd—until, one day, he is taken with the rest to see a movie, a cartoon that soon enough has everyone laughing their heads off, and he resolves to go back to comedy. It’s a wonderful movie, but its premise isn’t quite convincing—nor did it, it seems, altogether convince Sturges. For the climax of Sullivan’s Travels is precisely the Serious Message the picture has so effectively discredited. Sullivan, we barely remember by the end, wasn’t falsely imprisoned; he’d smashed a railroad cop over the head. But the moment it’s discovered who Sullivan is—the famous Hollywood director all America has been looking for—he’s out of jail, free and clear, the legatee of the magic of peekaboo American justice. The other prisoners, left behind, can watch comedies. You be the judge. – Greil Marcus
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 25, 2009
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html
Notes: Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors will be appearing in person .

Harvard Film Archive: Milestones | September 26, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Following the ambiguous reception of Ice and the upheaval within Newsreel, Kramer left New York for a collective community in Vermont, an experience that inspired the fictionalized fantasia of his next film, five years later, Milestones.An epic and a mosaic, Milestones features dozens of characters gathered at a rural New England commune, refugees from the radical 1960s and allegorical figures for the country’s disillusioned entry into the 1970s. A visually striking work of seemingly improvisational form, Milestones bears comparison to the work of both Cassavetes and Altman, and especially Nashville, Altman’s nearly contemporaneous epic study of Americana.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 26, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: Route One USA | September 27, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: After living abroad for a decade, Kramer embarked on the extended road trip which gave way to Route One USA, an engrossing portrait of Eighties America and one of Kramer’s finest works. Kramer introduces the fictional protagonist “Doc” to tie together the unscripted footage shot along the eponymous highway stretching from the Canadian border to the Florida Keys. Played by Newsreel associate Paul McIsaac, who first created this character for Kramer’s 1987 Doc’s Kingdom, Doc becomes a sort of Odysseus figure, returning wearily home from the wars of radical politics and expatriation, puzzled by the state of the nation he barely recognizes.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 27, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

Harvard Film Archive: Ice | September 28, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Kramer’s first film to hybridize fiction and documentary imagines an alarming near-future in which the U.S. has become a repressive police state. Made in a pseudo-verité style, Ice matter of factly documents the preparations for a violent overthrow of the state by a group of young New York City radicals. Featuring animated debates about politics and tactics and vivid “footage” of the radicals’ daily lives, Ice initially drew controversy in U.S. leftist circles for its apparent endorsement of armed struggle. While Ice is a meditation on the mesh and clash of experience and ideology, today itseems both a work of fierce political commitment and an ambiguous statement about the dissent.
Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Date: September 28, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Admission: Tickets available at door, 45 minutes prior to screening
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/september09.html

New Muslim Cool Screening | October 10, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Hamza Pérez will be on hand to answer questions about the film New Muslim Cool, which is based on his life experiences as a Puerto Rican—American, rapper, former drug dealer, family man, and spiritual leader. The film has been selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Sponsor: Harvard‘s Pluralism Project and Active Voice
Date: October 10, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617.496.8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=25218
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: This event is made possible by Harvard‘s Pluralism Project (www.pluralism.org), a research organization that seeks to encourage engagement with America‘s religious diversity, and Active Voice (www.activevoice.net/newmuslimcool.html), which uses film, television, and multimedia to spark social change.

Galleries at the Sackler Museum will be open until 6:00pm so that visitors can view Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, on view August 6, 2009—January 3, 2010.

ACT UP: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema | October 16, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Focusing primarily on the years 1986 through 1991, this program comprises film and video work that both documents the political struggles around AIDS and employs formal experimentation as an intervention into the AIDS epidemic as a crisis of signification. The program will include work by Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, the Gran Fury collective, John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh, Nino Rodriguez, Rosa von Praunheim and David Wojnarowicz.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive
Date: October 16, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: For ticket prices and other information, please visit the Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa

ACT UP: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema | October 17, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Focusing primarily on the years 1986 through 1991, this program comprises film and video work that both documents the political struggles around AIDS and employs formal experimentation as an intervention into the AIDS epidemic as a crisis of signification. The program will include work by Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, the Gran Fury collective, John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh, Nino Rodriguez, Rosa von Praunheim and David Wojnarowicz.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive
Date: October 17, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: For ticket prices and other information, please visit the Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.
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Music by Stravinsky, Britten and Beethoven | September 20, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Join us for Stravinsky Suite, Histoire du Soldat, Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Beethoven Symphony Number Four. Featuring Matthew Anderson on tenor, and Kevin Owen on horn.
Sponsor: Discovery Ensemble
Date: September 20, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre at 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/

The Boston Conservatory Orchestra 1 (Kabalevsky / Shostakovich) | September 27, 2009 | 2:00 pm Description: The Boston Conservatory Orchestra led by Bruce Hangen, Conductor, performs:

KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon Overture

GLAZUNOV: Saxophone Concerto with Kenneth Radnofsky, soloist

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet Overture, Fantasy

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5
Date: September 27, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/

Midday Organ Recital | October 1, 2009 | 12:15 pm Description: Antje Maria Traub, professor of organ, Kirchenmusikschule, Aargau, Switzerland

Presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church. Recitals are performed on Harvard‘s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.
Sponsor: Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church
Date: October 1, 2009
Time: 12:15 pm
Location: Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24602
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu

Loud & Rich: An Evening with Richard Thompson & Loudon Wainwright III Alone & Together | October 4, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: Richard Thompson and Loudon Wainwright III, long time friends and collaborators, commence their first ever North American tour together for the 2009 / 2010 season. While they have performed and recorded together intermittently over the years, this will be their first full scale North American tour together. Be prepared for a once in a lifetime concert event when they join forces on the same bill.
Sponsor: Great Northeast Productions, Inc.
Date: October 4, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Midday Organ Recital | October 8, 2009 | 12:15 pm Description: Gail Archer, concert organist, New York

Presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church. Recitals are performed on Harvard‘s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.
Sponsor: Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museum and the Memorial Church
Date: October 8, 2009
Time: 12:15 pm
Location: Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617.496.8576
URL: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/calendar/detail.dot?id=24688
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu

Brahms & Dvorak / BPO Concert 1 | October 8, 2009 | 7:30 pm Description: The Boston Philharmonic begins the 2009–2010 season by introducing Boston audiences to the extraordinary artistry of Feng Ning. The amazing gifts of this young Chinese violinist were recognized right away by Yehudi Menuhin when he came to study at Londons Royal Academy of Music in 1998. A few years later they were formally acknowledged by the entire faculty at this world renowned school of music, which awarded him a perfect grade of 100% on his final recital. This had never happened in the entire 200 year history of the Royal Academy, an institution that over the course of its existence has trained literally thousands of the world’s most respected violinists! This honor made waves, as did his subsequent winning of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy, a major benchmark for violin virtuosos. His career has skyrocketed since then, with appearances all over Europe and the United States.

His playing is distinguished by an impassioned, romantic sensibility tempered by classical poise, completely free of affectation. Some listeners with long memories have been reminded of the young Isaac Stern. His tone is of silken refinement, his intonation flawless. His playing can be sampled in a number of clips on YouTube, including an astounding performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, a work for which he has such a deep affinity that it has become his international calling card.

Dvoák’s Seventh Symphony concludes this program. Although somewhat overshadowed by the Eighth Symphony and the New World, it is this symphony that most musicians consider to be the composers greatest. Its endlessly inventive lyricism is imbued with a disturbing, confessional darkness. Dvoáks s true visage, which so often seems to be hidden behind a mask of nationalism, seems clearly discernible in this soulful, wondrously beautiful work. And, as so often, Dvoáks debt to Brahms is clear and pervasive, making the symphony a perfect companion piece to the older composer’s Violin Concerto.
Sponsor: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Date: October 8, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

An Evening with Alkistis Protopsalti and Stefanos Korkolis | October 9, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: An inspiring and unique performance of some of the most beautiful Greek songs in an intimate setting by one of Greeces most famous vocalists, Alkistis Protopsalti, and composer/pianist, Stefanos Korkolis.
Sponsor: The Greek Institute
Date: October 9, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Brahms & Dvorak / BPO Concert 1 | October 11, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: The Boston Philharmonic begins the 2009–2010 season by introducing Boston audiences to the extraordinary artistry of Feng Ning. The amazing gifts of this young Chinese violinist were recognized right away by Yehudi Menuhin when he came to study at Londons Royal Academy of Music in 1998. A few years later they were formally acknowledged by the entire faculty at this world renowned school of music, which awarded him a perfect grade of 100% on his final recital. This had never happened in the entire 200 year history of the Royal Academy, an institution that over the course of its existence has trained literally thousands of the world’s most respected violinists! This honor made waves, as did his subsequent winning of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy, a major benchmark for violin virtuosos. His career has skyrocketed since then, with appearances all over Europe and the United States.

His playing is distinguished by an impassioned, romantic sensibility tempered by classical poise, completely free of affectation. Some listeners with long memories have been reminded of the young Isaac Stern. His tone is of silken refinement, his intonation flawless. His playing can be sampled in a number of clips on YouTube, including an astounding performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, a work for which he has such a deep affinity that it has become his international calling card.

Dvoák’s Seventh Symphony concludes this program. Although somewhat overshadowed by the Eighth Symphony and the New World, it is this symphony that most musicians consider to be the composers greatest. Its endlessly inventive lyricism is imbued with a disturbing, confessional darkness. Dvoáks s true visage, which so often seems to be hidden behind a mask of nationalism, seems clearly discernible in this soulful, wondrously beautiful work. And, as so often, Dvoáks debt to Brahms is clear and pervasive, making the symphony a perfect companion piece to the older composer’s Violin Concerto.
Sponsor: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Date: October 11, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Bach Society Orchestra - Concert I | October 17, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Program:

Bach/Webern Ricercar from Musical Offering

Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastorale (Program Subject to Change)


Sponsor: Bach Society Orchestra
Date: October 17, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Paine Hall, behind 1 Oxford Street, Music Building, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

The Better Angels of Our Nature - PACO Concert #1 | October 18, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Pro Arte commemorates the bicentennial of Lincoln’ s birth, the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, and the inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States. Copland, Lincoln Portrait Glass, Interlude #1 from Civil Wars
Sponsor: Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
Date: October 18, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Schubert, Harbison & Brahms - BCMS 1 | October 18, 2009 | 7:30 pm Description: Schubert - String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581 Harbison - Piano Trio No. 2 Brahms - Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 26 Ida Levin, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Andrew Mark, cello; David Deveau, piano
Sponsor: Boston Chamber Music Society
Date: October 18, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

playwright/actor/vocalist/composer EISA DAVIS | October 19, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Eisa Davis ’ 92 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play ’ Bulrusher’ (published by Samuel French). Davis is a winner of the Helen Merrill Award, the Whitfield Cook Award, and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations. As an actor, recent work includes her Obie Award-winning performance in the Broadway rock musical ’ Passing Strange,’ which is now a film directed by Spike Lee. The 2009-10 Clifton Visiting Artist, Davis will lead a workshop on writing for the stage, followed by another workshop (date TBA) in which participating students will perform the pieces they have written.
Sponsor: Learning From Performers
Date: October 19, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: New College Theatre, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/

vocalist/composer PETER ELDRIDGE | October 23, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: A member of the double— Grammy winning New York Voices, a vocal group he co— founded with Darmon Meader, which has recorded six studio albums, made numerous guest appearances, and toured internationally for more than a decade, with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Kennedy Center, Peter Eldridge will conduct a master class with members of VoxJazz, Harvard’ s jazz vocal group.
Sponsor: Learning From Performers
Date: October 23, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: New College Theatre, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/

HRO Concert I | October 24, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Program to include: (subject to change)

Berlioz ‘ Roman Carnival,‘ Debussy ‘ Nocturnes,‘ and Tchaikovsky Symphony #5.
Sponsor: Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra
Date: October 24, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Boston Conservatory Orchestra 2 (Strauss / Schoenberg) | October 25, 2009 | 2:00 pm Description: The Boston Conservatory Orchestra

Bruce Hangen, Conductor

Featuring guest concertmaster of the violin section Jorja Fleezanis

STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration
SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night with Russell Ger (M.M. ’10, conducting)
WEBERN: Symphonie op. 21
RAVEL: La Valse
Sponsor: Boston Conservatory
Date: October 25, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

Blodgett Chamber Music Series presents The Chiara Quartet | October 30, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Program:
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1
Webern 5 Stücke für Streichquartette
Student composition winner
Brahms Viola Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 with Roger Tapping, viola

Sponsor: Music Department
Date: October 30, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Paine Hall, behind 1 Oxford Street, Music Building, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/
Notes: Limit 2 tickets per person Valid until 7:45pm

A Cappella Masterpieces | October 31, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Harvard - Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society
Kevin Leong & Jameson Marvin, conductors
Sponsor: Harvard - Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society
Date: October 31, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

British Legends of Nicholas - Masterworks Chorale 1 | November 8, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Britten‘s dramatic cantata from 1948 is full of wonder. It even directly involves the participation of the audience! As Nicholas is considered the patron saint of children, this performance is made more meaningful when the talented young singers from the Treble Chorus of New England join the Chorale on stage. The program also includes two shorter works by living British composers. John Tavener became a household name when his Song of Athene was included in the worldwide broadcast of Princess Diana‘s funeral. Ivan Moody‘s multi—layered, multi-lingual music debuts August 2009 in Montenegro‘s Kotor Arts Festival and receives its North American premiere on this program.

Program: JOHN TAVENER — Apolytikon for Saint Nicholas (1987); IVAN MOODY — Hymn to Saint Nicholas (2009), North American premiere; BRITTEN — Saint Nicholas, Op. 42

Matthew Anderson, tenor; Treble Chorus of New England; Valerie J. Becker, director; Steven Karidoyanes, conducting


Sponsor: Masterworks Chorale
Date: November 8, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: boxoffice.harvard.edu

saxophonist/composer FRED HO | November 13, 2009 | 5:00 pm Description: Fred Ho achieves his cross-cultural goals with skill, grace and humor. The music merges Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus with Chinese instruments and vocal styles from Western opera, Chinese opera, and jazz; for a fusion that never seems forced...Mr. Ho‘s act of East— West fusion has an audacious integrity.‘ (Jon Pareles, The New York Times) 2009— 10 Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Fred Ho ‘79 will be in residence during the fall term to rehearse and perform with the Harvard Jazz Bands, and participate in other events to be announced. Joining Ho will be choreographer Daniel Jáquez, the co— founder and Artistic Director of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company as well as an Associate Artist at the Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon and at The Immediate Theater in New York. Jáquez earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.
Sponsor: Learning From Performers
Date: November 13, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Ticket information TBA

saxophonist/composer FRED HO | November 14, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Fred Ho achieves his cross-cultural goals with skill, grace and humor. The music merges Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus with Chinese instruments and vocal styles from Western opera, Chinese opera, and jazz; for a fusion that never seems forced...Mr. Ho‘s act of East— West fusion has an audacious integrity.‘ (Jon Pareles, The New York Times) 2009— 10 Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Fred Ho ‘79 will be in residence during the fall term to rehearse and perform with the Harvard Jazz Bands, and participate in other events to be announced. Joining Ho will be choreographer Daniel Jáquez, the co— founder and Artistic Director of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company as well as an Associate Artist at the Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon and at The Immediate Theater in New York. Jáquez earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.
Sponsor: Learning From Performers
Date: November 14, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Admission: Ticket information TBA

Coro Allegro Concert | November 15, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Choral Program:
Robert Stern: Shofar
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Sponsor: Coro Allegro
Date: November 15, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Ticket information TBA
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Common Spaces: The Quad | September 10, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Scenes from the student musical, "The Quad".

The Harvard University Common Spaces initiative announces a two month pilot program to encourage community building in and around Harvard Yard. During September and October, areas within the Yard and near the Science Center will feature new colorful seating, outdoor food vendors in select locations, and venues for arts related performances by the Harvard community.
Sponsor: Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Science Center area
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: http://www.hrdctheater.com
Email: commonspaces@harvard.edu

The Donkey Show | September 10, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 10, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

Common Spaces: Laughterbirth | September 11, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Come watch "Laughterbirth", an all female improv groupe!

The Harvard University Common Spaces initiative announces a two month pilot program to encourage community building in and around Harvard Yard. During September and October, areas within the Yard and near the Science Center will feature new colorful seating, outdoor food vendors in select locations, and venues for arts related performances by the Harvard community.
Sponsor: Common Spaces
Date: September 11, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Lehman Hall, Dudley House
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: www.hrdctheater.com
Email: commonspaces@harvard.edu

Common Spaces: Putting it Together | September 11, 2009 | 12:00 pm Description: Join us for scenes from the student musical, "Putting it Together"!

The Harvard University Common Spaces initiative announces a two month pilot program to encourage community building in and around Harvard Yard. During September and October, areas within the Yard and near the Science Center will feature new colorful seating, outdoor food vendors in select locations, and venues for arts related performances by the Harvard community.
Sponsor: Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club
Date: September 11, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Science Center area
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: www.hrdctheater.com
Email: commonspaces@harvard.edu

The Donkey Show | September 11, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 11, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 12, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 12, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 12, 2009 | 10:30 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 12, 2009
Time: 10:30 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 16, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 17, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 18, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 19, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 19, 2009 | 10:30 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 10:30 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 23, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 23, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 24, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 24, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 25, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 25, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 26, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including &lsquo We are Family,&lsquo &lsquo I Love the Nightlife,&lsquo &lsquo Car Wash,&lsquo &lsquo Ring My Bell,&lsquo and &lsquo Last Dance.&lsquo The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 26, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

The Donkey Show | September 26, 2009 | 10:30 pm Description: From its six year run in New York City to a world tour from London to Seoul, the celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show now takes Boston by storm, bringing you the ultimate disco experience &mdash a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

The Donkey Show tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the great 70s anthems, including "We are Family," "I Love the Nightlife", "Car Wash," "Ring My Bell," and "Last Dance." The enchanted forest of Shakespeare &lsquo s classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy.

A.R.T. &lsquo s OBERON houses this magical romp. Join the party under the disco ball. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever!
Sponsor: American Repertory Theatre
Date: September 26, 2009
Time: 10:30 pm
Location: Oberon theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Tickets available through the A.R.T. Box Office and website
Phone: 617.547.8300
URL: www.amrep.org

Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony | October 1, 2009 | 7:30 pm Description: The Nineteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony honors achievements that make people laugh, then think. The ten new winners will be revealed on stage. Genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates will hand them their the Prizes. This years theme: RISK, with keynote speaker Benoit Mandelbrot, and premiere of the mini-opera Big Bank Theory (wherein stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers). Also featured: the Win a Date with a Nobel Laureate Contest.
Sponsor: Annals of Improbable Research
Date: October 1, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Contact Box Office for details
Phone: 617.496.2222
URL: www.improbable.com

playwright/actor/vocalist/composer EISA DAVIS | October 19, 2009 | 3:00 pm Description: Eisa Davis ’ 92 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play ’ Bulrusher’ (published by Samuel French). Davis is a winner of the Helen Merrill Award, the Whitfield Cook Award, and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations. As an actor, recent work includes her Obie Award-winning performance in the Broadway rock musical ’ Passing Strange,’ which is now a film directed by Spike Lee. The 2009-10 Clifton Visiting Artist, Davis will lead a workshop on writing for the stage, followed by another workshop (date TBA) in which participating students will perform the pieces they have written.
Sponsor: Learning From Performers
Date: October 19, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: New College Theatre, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
URL: www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/
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Sound Safari with Sharon Lockhart in Person | September 19, 2009 | 5:00 pm Description: An impressionistic audio documentary of a coastal Maine town. Under the direction of Sharon Lockhart, Sert Practitioner and Film Study Center — Radcliffe Fellow, a group of Harvard students traveled to Bath, Maine, for two nights and two days of field recording, working with composer Ernst Karel to craft this audio documentary. ‘Sound Safari‘ will be shown at in conjunction with the Harvard Film Archive‘s presentation of Lockhart‘s award-winning works ‘Lunch Break‘ and ‘Exit‘, filmed in the same town.
Sponsor: Film Study Center at Harvard University
Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free admission
Phone: 617-495-9704
URL: www.filmstudycenter.org/events.html
Email: hcarrell@fas.harvard.edu
Notes: Directed by Sharon Lockhart, director appearing in person

Visiting Faculty Artist Talk: Sophie Tottie | September 24, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Tottie is an artist whose work departs from painting and drawing. Her work was most recently shown in the solo exhibitions Written Language at galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin in 2009; Planes & Squares at galleri Brändström Stockholm in 2008; Fiction Is No Joke at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm in 2007; and in the group shows From Place to Place at the Museum of Sketches (Archives of Public Art), Lund (Sweden) in 2009; Wandauftrag, Leverkusen (Germany) in 2007; and Common Destinations at the Drawing Center, New York City in 2006. In 2008 Tottie was commissioned by the the National Public Art Fund to do a work now on permanent view at the Library of the Philosophical Institution of Lund University in Sweden. Tottie has received a number of grants and artist residencies, including the International Studio Program in New York City (1994), Elisabeth Foundation (1996), I.A.S.P.I.S. in Stockholm (1998), the DAAD artist in residency in Berlin (2000), Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide in Italy (2002), and the Swedish Art Councils work grant (2006). Starting in 2001 Tottie has been a professor of fine arts at the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. Additional teaching experience includes workshops, tutoring, studio visits, and lectures at the Industrial School of Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm; at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, at the University Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver; Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris; Beckmans School of Design, Stockholm; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; the Art Center in Los Angeles (in Berlin); Weissensee Art Academy and Universität der Künste in Berlin. Tottie is educated at the painting department of Kungliga konsthögskolan (The Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Stockholm (1986–1991) and with Pontus Hultén, Daniel Burén, Sarkis and Serge Fauchereau at Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris (1989—1990).
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: September 24, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Room B-04
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/tottie.html

Introducing the Visual Thinking Strategies | October 3, 2009 | 10:00 am Description: The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a developmentally based program used by teachers and museum educators across the country, helps students of all ages learn skills for looking at and thinking about art. One of the most exciting educational outcomes of this innovative approach is that it helps students build critical thinking skills that transfer across the curriculum. This interactive workshop will provide teachers with an opportunity to ‘try-on’ the VTS and to explore ways in which it can support their teaching goals.

The VTS curriculum:
—Asks classroom teachers to facilitate learner—centered discussions of visual art

—Engages learners in a rigorous process of examination and meaning-making through visual art

—Uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills

—Engenders the willingness and ability to find multiple solutions to complex problems

—Uses facilitated discussion to practice respectful, democratic collaborative problem solving among students that transfers to other classroom interactions, and beyond

—Uses eager, thoughtful participation to nurture verbal language skills, and writing assignments to assist transfer from oral to written ability


Sponsor: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), Harvard Art Museum
Date: October 3, 2009
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
Admission: Workshop fee: $25.00 (free for teachers in Grades 3 to 12 and ELL teachers). Lunch included. Participants receive 5 PDPs.
Phone: 617-496-8576
URL: www.vtshome.org/
Email: susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu
Notes: Due to limited enrollment these workshops fill up fast. To register: Contact Susannah Hutchison at 617.496.8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu. Please note: a $25.00 check is required to reserve your place.

The VTS was created by Abigail Housen and Philip Yenawine of Visual Understanding in Education (VUE).

Visiting Faculty Artist Talk: Michelle Zalopany | October 6, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Zalopany received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and her MFA from Queens College. She has been a visiting artist at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the American Academy in Rome and Middlebury College. She is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has had 18 solo exhibitions including Esso Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, and PPOW in New York, as well as solo exhibits in Italy and Germany. She has also participated in international exhibitions such as The Whitney Biennial, The Peggy Guggenhiem Collection at the Venice Biennale, and The Drawing Center. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Eli Broad Foundation, the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Royal College of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, amongst many others.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: October 6, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Room B-04, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/zalopany.html

Collective Action: Calling All Artists | October 15, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: An evening with Robert Vazquez Pacheo, independent artist and writer, member of Gran Fury; Avram Finkelstein, independent artist and writer, member of Silence=Death Project and Gran Fury; Sarah Schulman, co—director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, novelist, historian, playwright, professor of English at The City University of New York; Jim Hubbard, co—director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, independent filmmaker.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: October 15, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/collective.html
Notes: reception to follow

Opening Celebration: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 | October 15, 2009 | 7:00 pm Description: An exhibition of over 70 politically—charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15—December 23, 2009, the exhibition chronicles New York‘s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) through an examination of compelling graphics created by various artist collectives that populated the group. The exhibition also features the premiere of the ACT UP Oral History Project, a suite of over 100 video interviews with surviving members of ACT UP New York that offer a retrospective portal on a decisive moment in the history of the gay rights movement, 20th—century visual art, our nation‘s discussion of universal healthcare, and the continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987—1993 is co—curated by Helen Molesworth, Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum; and Claire Grace, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum and a graduate student in Harvard University‘s History of Art and Architecture program.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum
Date: October 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/collective.html

ACT UP: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema | October 16, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Focusing primarily on the years 1986 through 1991, this program comprises film and video work that both documents the political struggles around AIDS and employs formal experimentation as an intervention into the AIDS epidemic as a crisis of signification. The program will include work by Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, the Gran Fury collective, John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh, Nino Rodriguez, Rosa von Praunheim and David Wojnarowicz.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive
Date: October 16, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: For ticket prices and other information, please visit the Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa

ACT UP: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema | October 17, 2009 | 8:00 pm Description: Focusing primarily on the years 1986 through 1991, this program comprises film and video work that both documents the political struggles around AIDS and employs formal experimentation as an intervention into the AIDS epidemic as a crisis of signification. The program will include work by Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, the Gran Fury collective, John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh, Nino Rodriguez, Rosa von Praunheim and David Wojnarowicz.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive
Date: October 17, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: For ticket prices and other information, please visit the Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
Phone: 617.495.4700
URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.

Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Conference: AIDS Stigma, Denialism, and Mistrust | October 19, 2009 | 1:00 pm Description: Speakers TBA
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: October 19, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: ves.fas.harvard.edu/ACTUP.html

Visiting Faculty Artist Talk: Dan Sousa | October 22, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Sousa graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied painting and animation. His films, which include Minotaur (1999), Fable (2005), and The Windmill (2007), have been screened around the world in festivals such as Sundance, Ottawa, Annecy, Hiroshima, and at The Boston Institute of Contemporary Arts. He has received several LEF development and production grants, a RISCA fellowship, and a Creative Capital grant. In his work, Sousa uses animation and themes commonly found in mythology and fairy tales to examine archetypes of human nature, and the inner struggles between our intellects and our unconscious drives. Rather than following conventional narratives, he approaches filmmaking from a painter‘s perspective. He focuses on states of mind, evoking the fragility of fleeting moments, memories and perceptions. In addition to his independent projects, Sousa has worked as a director and animator with Cartoon Network, Olive Jar Studios, Global Mechanic, and Duck, and. He has also taught at RISD, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Wheaton College, and the Art Institute of Boston. He is a founding member of Handcranked Film Projects, a group of New England filmmakers actively engaged in the production of independent experimental films.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: October 22, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Room B-04, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/sousa.html

Visiting Faculty Artist Talk: David Lobser | October 29, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Lobser studied film and animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1996—2000). He works in the postproduction and animation industry in New York at companies including The Mill, Radical Media, Psyop, Framestore, and Curious Pictures, among others. He worked briefly in the film industry on The Matrix III, Lord of the Rings III, I—Robot, and King Kong. In addition to production, he designs and directs animation for Blacklist, FFake, Z—Animation, and Little Sister. His short films tend to be surreal, with themes that juxtapose the cute and the scary. They have screened at festivals (Platform International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi, Seattle International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, Annecy, etc.), television (PBS, Sci—Fi Channel, MTV), DVD collections (Stash, Creative Review, Shots), and print (On Air, AWN, PC Gamer). He mainly uses 3D software for his work, but treats it like a mixed—media tool, bringing in elements from the real world as much as possible
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: October 29, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Room B-04, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/lobser.html

Visiting Faculty Artist Talk: Carlin Wing | November 5, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: Wing pulls social history and poetry out of ceilings, courts and carpet patterns. Her work claims elevators and parking lots as places of play and generally attends to spaces in need of reshaping. She recently completed a set of three collaborative exhibitions that manipulated the cultural and geographic resonances of wallpaper and wildflower seeds to animate the local history of Andrew Jackson and to initiate a discussion of its relevance to current issues of race and class. Pas de Quatre, a video from the project, is on view at The Hermitage, President Jackson‘s estate. Wing is currently preparing to bounce squash balls off of Olympic architecture as part of the Open Art Performance Festival in Beijing in the fall of 2009. She has taught at Vanderbilt University and Watkins College of Art and Design. She received an MFA in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts in 2008 and an A.B. in VES and Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2002. Her work has been exhibited at Museé de L‘Elysee in Switzerland, Aperture Gallery in New York and Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles among others. Wing is currently represented by Anthony Greaney in Boston.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: November 5, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Room B-04, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/wing.html

Carpenter Center Lecture: An Evening with Alison Knowles | November 12, 2009 | 6:00 pm Description: In the early 1960s Knowles composed the Notations book of experimental composition with John Cage as well as Coeurs Volants, a print with Marcel Duchamp. Both were published by Something Else Press. She also traveled and performed with the Fluxus group throughout Europe, Asia and United States. With Fluxus she made the Bean Rolls by invitation of George Maciunus, a canned book that appeared in the Whitney Museum exhibition The American Century (2000). The Big Book (1967), a walk—in book installation was comprised of 8-ft. pages, moving around a center spine, permitting the spectator/reader to go inside the book. In 1968, The House of Dust, programmed with the help of composer Jim Tenney, was recognized as the first computer poem on record, winning her a Guggenheim Fellowship; she brought this work to Cal Arts while she taught there from 1970—72. On the occasion of Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, Knowles was appointed a guest professor. She taught at Sommerakademie in Salzburg in 1990. Her work was featured in the exhibition In the Spirit of Fluxus originating at the Walker Art Center, and Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object, 1949—1979, which toured from MoCA, Los Angeles. In 2001, she performed and exhibited new paper and sound works at the Drawing Center in New York. The Time Samples (2006) exhibition traveled from Venice to New York. In May of 2008 she performed three Event Scores at the Tate Long Weekend in London. Make a Salad drew a record audience of 3000 people. Her Event Threads series appeared for the first time in New York at Miguel Abreu Gallery, and has traveled to Genova and Berlin. She performed in Berne and Zurich in December 2008. In January 2009, she exhibited and performed in The 3rd Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860—1989, at the Guggenheim Museum. For the duration of the exhibit she performed weekly with the Giant Beanturner. She is the Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University during the fall of 2009.
Sponsor: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Date: November 12, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Admission: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617.495.3251
URL: www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/knowles.html
Notes: Reception to follow.



Princess Kathrin von Hohenstaufen

President of

GREEN PRINCES TRUST

Mostra d'Arte dell'Artista Ugo Liberatore, la mostra in oggetto è
organizzata da Federico II eventi e curata da Denise Ania-curatrice mostre
ed eventi culturali. L'inauguarazione si terrà a Bari presso l'Auditorium
Vallisa (chiesa romanica dell'anno 1000)sabato 5 settembre 2009 alle ore
20,30.
Titolo dell'evento: IL MEDIOEVO NEI SIMBOLI...NELLE IMMAGINI E NEI COLORI di
Ugo Liberatore.
La mostra si terrà dal 5 al 14 settembre 2009 rimarrà aperta tutti igiorni
dalle 18,30 alle 23,00.



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