Spotlight on the Arts Festival schedule

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The UGA Arts Council presented a nine-day festival Nov. 3-11 to spotlight the performing, visual and literary arts at the University of Georgia. Arts events at UGA continue throughout the year, so visit arts.uga.edu to keep up with the latest.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 3

Africa Day
10 a.m.-noon, State Botanical Garden of Georgia Visitor Center
The Georgia Museum of Art and the African Studies Institute join with the Botanical Garden to present a Family Day celebrating the 25th anniversary of African Studies at UGA. Storytelling, dance and music will highlight this event that explores the culture, plants and art of Africa.

Georgia Museum of Art Exhibitions
Saturday hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art

Opening day for exhibition of black-and-white works by Jack Davis: “Beyond the Bulldog.”
Last day to view two exhibitions: “The Epic and the Intimate,” a history of French drawing, and Francisco de Goya’s “Disasters of War,” 80 prints that make up the famous series depicting the lengthy Peninsular War (1808–1814) between Spanish forces and the invading army of Napoleon Bonaparte. See also list of ongoing exhibitions below.

SUNDAY, NOV. 4

Open Ballet Class
2-4 p.m. Studio 274, Dance Building
The public is invited to participate in or observe an open ballet class with the UGA Ballet Ensemble members led by Artistic Director Joan Buttram.

Georgia Museum of Art Lecture
3 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art
Local cartoonist Patrick Dean, curator of the exhibition “Beyond the Bulldog: Jack Davis,” gives a talk on legendary cartoonist Jack Davis’ career. Reception follows.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
3 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center
Guest conductor Asher Fisch is joined by pianist Stewart Goodyear in a program that includes Mozart’s “Rondo in D Major” and “Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor,” Richard Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration,” and Richard Wagner’s “Suite from Die Meistersinger.” $59/49/20; $5 for UGA students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

MONDAY, NOV. 5

Juried Student Exhibition
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Gallery 101 + Gallery 307, Lamar Dodd School of Art
Last day to view.

Open Folk Dance Class
10:10-11 a.m. Tate Grand Hall
The public is invited to participate in or observe an open class offered by the dance department.

Open House at The Georgia Review
1-3 p.m. The Georgia Review offices, 7th floor Main Library (706A)
Visitors can view informational and historical displays, speak with the editor and other staff, learn about internship opportunities, and meet visiting poet Jacqueline Osherow, who will give a reading at
7 p.m. at Ciné (see below). Coffee and light refreshments served.

Special Collections Libraries Dedication/Reception
5:30 p.m. Russell Gallery, Richard B. Russell Building
A reception celebrating completion of “Doors,” a large-scale mural tracing the modern political history of Georgia by retired UGA art professor Art Rosenbaum for the gallery of the Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Brief formal program includes remarks by Russell Library curators and the artist.

Georgia Poetry Circuit Reading
7 p.m. Ciné, 234 W. Hancock St., downtown Athens
A reading by nationally recognized poet Jacqueline Osherow, author of several collections including Whitethorn (2011) and Hoopoe’s Crown (2005). Presented by The Georgia Review.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6

Historic Campaign Speeches Re-enacted
Noon, 2nd floor, Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
In honor of election day, members of UGA’s Demosthenian Literary Society will re-enact classic campaign speeches from atop a stump inlaid in the lobby floor of the Russell Library Gallery.

Open House at The Georgia Review
1-4 p.m. The Georgia Review offices, 7th floor Main Library (706A)
Visitors can view informational and historical displays, speak with the editor and other staff, and learn about internship opportunities. Coffee and light refreshments served.

Open Ballroom Dance Class: Waltz & Swing
12:30-1:20 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom
The public is invited to participate in or observe an open class offered by the dance department.

Special Collections Libraries Tuesday Tour
2 p.m. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
Regular Tuesday Tour of the Special Collections Libraries, with special tour of the 30,000-square-foot underground storage vault for the first 40 who RSVP to jclevela@uga.edu. Meet in rotunda.

Jazz Combo Recital
2 p.m. Edge Recital Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
UGA’s jazz combo performs music from the history of jazz.

UGA Press/Ecology Panel Discussion, Reception and Book Signing
4 p.m. Ecology Building Auditorium
“Ecology for the Masses: Southern Ecosystems in the Popular Press.” Panel features Charles Seabrook, author of World of the Salt Marsh, and Merryl Alber, UGA professor of marine sciences and author of the children’s book And the Tide Comes In...: Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh, moderated by Dorinda Dallmeyer, director of the UGA Environmental Ethics Certificate Program.

Willson Center/Peabody Awards Film Series
7 p.m. Auditorium, Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
A screening of the Peabody Award-winning documentary on designers Charles and Ray Eames: Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Discussion and question-and-answer follow.

UGA Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs:
Carmina Burana
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center
The UGA Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, Hodgson Singers, and Men & Women’s Glee Clubs join forces to bring Carl Orff’s seminal work Carmina Burana to the stage. Hailed as one of the 20th century’s greatest works for chorus and orchestra. $10 general admission/$5 students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

Blue Man Group
8 p.m. Classic Center Theatre, 300 N. Thomas St., downtown Athens
Accompanied by a live band, Blue Man Group creates a new form of entertainment with a combination of theatricality and performance art. Presented by the Performing Arts Center and the Classic Center. Also Nov. 7. Tickets $39-$79. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7

Open Hip-Hop/Jazz Class
11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
The public is invited to participate in or observe an open class offered by the dance department.

Willson Center Roundtable: “Creativity in the Research University”
12:30 pm. Room 150 Miller Learning Center
A panel discussion featuring Nicholas Allen (Willson Center), Mark Callahan (Ideas for Creative Exploration), Susan Thomas (Hugh Hodgson School of Music), David Saltz (theatre and film studies) and Martijn van Wagtendonk (Lamar Dodd School of Art).

Artful Conversation
2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art
Carissa DiCindio, GMOA curator of education, leads an in-depth discussion of Radcliffe Bailey’s “7 Steps.”

Bulldog Book Club Meeting
3:30 pm. Jittery Joe’s, Miller Learning Center
A discussion of Haruki Marukani’s The Windup Bird Chronicle with University Professor Fran Teague.

Willson Center Lecture
4 p.m., 150 Miller Learning Center
Robert Connor (Teagle Foundation) discusses “Extreme Literature: Learning from the most challenging ancient and not-so-ancient literature.”

UGA Trombone Ensemble and Choir Concert
6 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center
Joshua Bynum, assistant professor of trombone, leads a massed trombone performance.

Somebodies Screening and Q&A
7 p.m., Ciné, 234 W. Hancock St., downtown Athens
The Willson Center presents this Athens premiere of the locally produced 2006 feature film, with introduction and Q&A session by writer/director and UGA alumnus Hadjii. $9.75 general admission/$7.50 students. Buy online: athenscine.com. Reception follows..

UGA Symphonic Band Concert
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center
A free concert by the UGA Symphonic Band, conducted by Michael Robinson, assistant director of bands.

University Theatre: The Darker Face of the Earth
8 p.m. Fine Arts Theatre, Fine Arts Building
Play by former Poet Laureate Rita Dove combines the Greek Oedipus myth with the reality of slavery. It follows Augustus as he, like Oedipus, undertakes a journey of shocking self-discovery. Through Nov. 11. $16, $12 students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8

Charter Lecture: Natasha Trethewey
2 p.m. Chapel, North Campus
Reading and remarks by Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a 1989 graduate of UGA. Reception follows in Demosthenian Hall.

Willson Center Fellows Lecture
4 p.m. Room 248 Miller Learning Center
Michael Oliveri, Lamar Dodd School of Art, presents a talk on his Willson Center Faculty Fellowship project “Inner and Outer Space Images from the Micro to the Macro.”

Georgia Museum of Art Lecture
4:30 pm. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art
“Crossing Artistic Worlds: A Private and Public Journey” by Judy Bales, an artist who creates sculpture for the body, avant-garde costumes, abstract fiber installations and public art. Reception follows.

Georgia Museum of Art Reception and Lecture
5:30 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. lecture, Griffith Auditorium Georgia Museum of Art
Contemporary artist Chakaia Booker will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition of her work, “Defiant Beauty,” on view in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden. Booker used tires as the primary materials in constructing these sculptures.

Open studio night
6-9 p.m. Lamar Dodd School of Art
The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents a joint open studio night in the South Wing of the building at 270 River Road. The South Wing includes the areas of Fabrics, Photography, Printmaking and Painting and Drawing and visitors can explore the facilities, see demonstrations and view student work. Free and open to the public.

Willson Center/Peabody Awards Film Series
7 p.m. Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave., downtown Athens
A screening of the Peabody Award-winning documentary LennoNYC that chronicles John Lennon’s life in New York City in the 1970s. Discussion and question-and-answer will follow.

Young Choreographers Series Senior Concert
8 p.m. New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
Seniors majoring in dance will premier their final choreographic works, which go towards completion of an A.B. or B.F.A. degree in dance. Through Nov. 10. $12, $8 UGA students. Buy tickets at the Tate Student Center cashier’s window M-F after Oct. 10 or at the door an hour before the concert.

2nd Thursday Concert Series: Georgia Woodwind Quintet & Friends
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center
“A Southern Wind Serenade” features UGA’s faculty wind quintet, joined by wind faculty from Florida State University. $18/$5 students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

Georgia Museum of Art Student Night
8-11 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art
The Student Association of the Georgia Museum of Art hosts tours, food and DIY projects.

FRIDAY, NOV. 9

Hugh Hodgson School of Music Open House
Noon-3 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Informal performances throughout the building, lobbies and in the outdoor quad of the Performing and Visual Arts Complex (weather permitting). Tours of the School of Music.

Department of Dance Performance Sampler
12:15-12:45 p.m. New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
Stop by the Dance Building for some lunch-hour entertainment.

UGA Trombone Studio Recital
3:35 p.m. Edge Recital Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Students studying trombone at the University of Georgia perform.

BFA I Exhibitions/Reception
7-9 p.m. Lamar Dodd School of Art
Exhibitions of work by students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees with concentrations in drawing and painting, ceramics,
Art X and sculpture.

Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center
Banjo player Béla Fleck, who has won 14 Grammy Awards, performs with The Marcus Roberts Trio with Roberts on piano, Jason Marsalis on drums, and Rodney Jordan on bass. $47/42/20; $5 UGA students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

SATURDAY, NOV. 10

Georgia Museum of Art Family Day
10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art
Visit the museum’s permanent collection to see how different artists represent nature, then head to the Michael and Mary Erlanger studio classroom to paint a landscape.

Community Music School Open House
10 a.m.-1 p.m., 2nd floor lobby, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
The Community Music School, an outreach program of the Hodgson School of Music, offers musical instruction for all ages. The open house includes live performances, class demonstrations and an Instrument Petting Zoo, plus the opportunity to talk with faculty about CMS programs and lessons.

Willson Center/Peabody Awards Film Series
2 p.m. Auditorium, Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
Screening of the Peabody Award-winning New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts: Bach Transmorgified (with Leonard Bernstein). Discussion and question-and-answer follows.

Theatre: The Little Clay Cart
2:30 p.m. Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building
Early Indian Sanskrit drama performed by Epic Actors Workshop from New Jersey. Also on Nov. 11, 11 a.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 11

University Theatre: The Darker Face of the Earth
2:30 p.m. Fine Arts Theatre, Fine Arts Building
Play by former Poet Laureate Rita Dove combines the Greek Oedipus myth with the reality of slavery. It follows Augustus as he, like Oedipus, undertakes a journey of shocking self-discovery. $16, $12 students. Buy online: pac.uga.edu.

Georgia Museum of Art Spotlight Tour
3-4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art
The docents lead a tour of highlights from the museum’s permanent collection. Participants should meet in the lobby.

ONGOING

Georgia Museum of Art Exhibitions
Hours: Tues-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thur to 9 p.m.), Sun 1-5 p.m.

George Beattie’s Agriculture Murals
Through Jan. 6, 2013. In 1956, George Beattie, an Atlanta-based artist, painted a series of eight murals that hung at the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s building in downtown Atlanta until 2011. The four on display at GMOA address the state’s history of agriculture, beginning with a representation of the American Indians who originally lived in the region and including two that address slavery.

De Wain Valentine—Human Scale
Through Jan. 27, 2013. From the late 1960s through the late 1970s, the Colorado-born but California-based artist De Wain Valentine made large-scale sculptures in polyester resin. Their simple shapes (discs, slabs, diamonds) belie the complex processes by which they were created, as Valentine had significant technical input into the chemical composition of the new material.

Defiant Beauty—The Work of Chakaia Booker
Through April 30, 2013. Large-scale sculptures by African American contemporary artist Chakaia Booker constructed from tires on view in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden. Exhibition is on loan from Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y.

Remixing History—Manolo Valdés
Through April 30, 2013. Large-scale bronze sculptures on the grounds of the Performing and Visual Arts Complex.

Special Collections Libraries Exhibition

Gallery hours are weekdays 8-5 p.m. and Saturdays 1-5 p.m. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

On the Stump, What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia?
Through February 15, 2013. A look at the evolution of campaigning for political office in Georgia from the passage of the white primary in 1900 to the presidential election
of 2008.

School of Music Recitals

Students in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will be presenting individual recitals at Edge Recital Hall throughout the nine days of the arts festival. For up-to-date details, see the School of Music web site: www.music.uga.edu.

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