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Campus Events: April, 1998 |
Wednesday, April 1
Poet, fiction writer, and editor Peter Makuck will read from his work on Wednesday, April 1, at 8:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Art Exhibit Room on the Wells College campus. The reading is free and open to the public. His visit to Wells is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Peter Makuck is distinguished professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University, where he teaches English and serves as editor of the literary journal Tar River Poetry. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Where We Live (1982), The Sunken Lightship (1990), and, most recently, Against Distance (1997). He is also author of a collection of short stories, Breaking and Entering, and he co-edited An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris.
Poet Jonathan Holden has observed of Peter Makuck's poems: "What sets them apart is their... attentiveness to the world outside the self and their capacity to love: people, creatures, landscape. Makuck's poetry shows us not only how to see, but how to live." Emily Grosholz has written: "The poetry of Peter Makuck does for the coastal waters of North Carolina what Wallace Stevens did for the Florida Keys, and Robinson Jeffers for Big Sur. He revives in language the very look, feel, and smell of beach and wetlands..."
During his visit to Wells Makuck will also conduct an Editor's Workshop for creative writing students and attend a dinner in his honor sponsored by the student literary society.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 2, 3 and 4
Wells senior Katharine Schlist will produce and direct Sam Shepard's play Cowboy Mouth as part of her senior project. The play runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 2, 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m. in Morgan Hall on the Wells campus. The event is free and open to the public. The play does contain adult language and content.
Cowboy Mouth is one of Shepard's best known early plays. The play is a loose autobiography of Shepard's 1970 affair with poet/musician Patti Smith. In the play, Slim (Shepard) has been kidnapped by Cavale (Smith) who sees him in the potential to be "a rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth."
Marett Seymour, a senior from Dewitt, New York, plays Cavale. Stephanie Wolford, a senior from Kirkwood, New York, plays Slim. Natalie Pierce, a sophomore from Ulster, Penn., plays Lobster Man.
Schlist, of Clinton, New York, is an arts and performance major. She performed in the Wells College production of Top Girls, which received three TANYS awards last year.
Friday, April 3
The improvisational comedy show Loos Scrooz will perform in the Sommer Student Center on the Wells College campus, Friday, April 3 at 9:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Loos Scrooz is the McDonald's of live entertainment, according to founder and producer Tony DiSante. "Unlike McDonald's, no two 'hamburgers' are alike," explains DiSante. "Each show is completely different from every other one, since we make it up as we go along."
DiSante says there is something for everyone in a Loos Scrooz show. Audience participation is a large part of every performance. "Everyone loves to see people in funny situations," says DiSante. "It's a genuine thrill because you never know what is happening next."
Loos Scrooz was the house improv show for two years at the New York Comedy Club and is currently running at Upstairs at Rose's Turn in Greenwich Village. The group has also played to colleges across the northeast, and numerous organizations and events.
Tuesday, April 7
Comedian Tom Cotter will perform Tuesday, April 7 at 8:00 p.m. in the Sommer Student Center on the Wells campus. The event is free and open to the public.
A resident of Boston, Cotter uses a combination of impressions and wacky anecdotes that leave audiences clutching their sides and rolling in the aisles.
Cotter's popularity reaches from coast to coast and he has won several comedy competitions. Cotter's voice may sound familiar to many. He has been featured in advertisements for McDonald's, Pepsi, Doritos, and Converse.
Cotter has appeared on A&E's An Evening at the Improv, and Comedy Central's Two Drink Minimum.
Thursday, April 16
Anthropologist Dr. Laura Nader, a member of the Wells Class of 1952, will deliver the annual Beckman Lecture on Thursday, April 16, at 8:00 p.m. in Main Building's Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
Nader, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak about "Magic, Science, and Religion Revisited: Knowledge versus Power."
Nader is the author of more than 150 articles and books. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Social Science Quarterly, American Anthropologist, the American Journal of Contemporary Law and Current Anthropology.
Nader received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College. She has done field work in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lebanon, and Morocco. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society of Women Geographers, Law and Society Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Beckman Visiting Lectureship was established at Wells College in 1953 by the Bernard C. Beckman family of Naperville, Illinois, who believe in the lifelong inspiration of creative teaching. The Beckman Lecture is selected annually, and is distinguished for creative work, original thought, and the ability to communicate and teach with enthusiasm.
Friday and Saturday April 17 and 18 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 19
The arts and performance department at Wells College presents
"Romancing the Dance," the annual spring dance concert
Friday and Saturday April 17 and 18 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday,
April 19 at 2:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Phipps Auditorium. Tickets
are $6.00 for general admission.
"Romancing the Dance" features a specially commissioned premier by Ithaca choreographer Jill Becker in collaboration with composer/guitarist Peter Chwazik. Becker is a founding member of the American Dance Asylum and the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship. She is currently teaching in Ithaca.
Also featured in the show will be the duet "Heli" by Ithaca choreographer Saga Ambegaokar. "Summer's Lease" and "Stones" are original works that will be performed by associate professor of dance Jeanne Goddard. Wells students Sharity Bassett '98, Raven Herndon '00 and Allison Winters '00 will also perform.
Other musicians include baritone Steven Stull, pianist Nancy Gilbertson, cellist Margaret Flowers and saxophonists Linda Schwab and Danielle Sullivan '00.
For reservations or more information please call the Wells College box office at 315/364-3456.
Tuesday, April 21
A reception in honor of eminent Welsh writer Leslie Norris will
be held on Tuesday, April 21 at 7:00 p.m. in Main Building on
the Wells College campus. The reception will be followed by a
reading of Norris' work. The event is free and open to the public.
Norris is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, including two books for children. His Collected Poems and Collected Stories were published in 1996. His Christmas story, Albert and the Angels will be published this Christmas. The Wells College Press has published his collection of poems, Holy Places.
Norris' reading and reception coincides with a show by Rochester artist, Robert Marx. Marx shows literary broadsides which combine etchings and selected, hand-printed verses from poems by notable authors. He has created some original etchings of poems by Leslie Norris for this reading.
Now a humanities professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University, Norris has been awarded the Alice Hunt Bartlett and Cholmondeley prizes in poetry and the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Award, given every three years for the best short story. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain, the Welsh Academy, and was awarded the John Hughes Prize for Literature in 1991.
Wednesday, April 22
Drew University librarian Deirdre Stam will deliver the semi-annual Susan Garretson Swartzburg memorial lecture, "Good Skills, Low Wages, and Unusual Fringe Benefits: Women as Printers in the 19th Century Oneida Community," on Wednesday, April 22, at 8:00 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room on the Wells College campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The Oneida Community was a utopian or intentional community which was famous more for its concept of complex marriage, in which everyone in a sense was married to everyone else, than for its printing prowess. The women who were given responsibility for printing, publishing and editing were those near and dear to the Community founder, John Humphrey Noyes. This talk chronicles the roles of women in these narrow "career" paths as part of their roles as Community members.
Currently director of the Drew University Library, Stam served as the executive secretary of the Bibliographical Society of America, the executive director of the Museum Computer Network, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She served as a faculty member in library programs at Columbia, Syracuse University, and Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
Stam received her B.A. from Radcliffe College, her M.A. from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, M.Ed. from Johns Hopkins, an M.L.S. from Catholic University, and a D.L.S. from Columbia University.
The Wells College Book Arts Center, housed in Morgan Hall, is a teaching and publishing component of the college that contains the Victor Hammer Press and the Class of 1932 Bindery. Hammer is recognized by the printing and book arts communities as one of the great type founders and printers of the 20th century. He was a Wells faculty member from 1939-48.
The lecture series is made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established and sustained through the generosity of Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60.
Monday, April 28
Murray Louis, dancer, teacher, and choreographer will deliver
the annual Phi Beta Kappa address at Wells College on Monday,
April 28, at 8:00 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium. The event is free
and open to the public.
Louis's presentation, "A Conversation with Murray Louis," will focus on dance in America, dance company touring, creativity and teaching. Currently, he is the artistic director of the Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company, and has created over 100 works.
Louis choreographed two works for Rudolph Nureyev to premiere on Broadway and has choreographed and staged programs for television, among them The Tales of Cri-Cri and Stravinsky's Pulcinello. He as has published two books of essays, Inside Dance and On Dance, and developed a five-part film series titled, Dance as an Art Form, which has become a standard introduction series for education.
Murray Louis' dances have been performed by leading ballet companies, and he has been commissioned by the 16th International Festival of Dance at the Theatre Champs-Elysees, the Taorimina Art Festival in Sicily, and the American Dance Festival.
In 1984 he was decorated a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Other awards include Guggenheim fellowships, as well as NEA, Rockefeller and Mellon grants. He also received the Grand Medaille de Vermeille de la Ville de Paris, and the Critics Award, International Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany.
For more information on campus events call Wells College Public Relations at (315) 364-3209
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