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Campus Events: October, 1997 |
Wednesday, October 1
The Ancient Mask Repertory Theatre will perform Aeschylus' Greek
tragedy The Persians, translated by Seth G. Benardete,
on Wednesday, October 1, at 8:00 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium. Tickets
are $2 for students and $6 for adults.
The Persians focuses on the agony of war and the tragedy of over-reaching ambition in a tale heightened by the power of masked, chorus-centered theatre. When Persian ruler Xerxes tried to conquer Greece in 480 B.C., he ruled the largest empire the western world had ever known. Defeated by the combined Greek forces in the battle at Salamis, and at Platea, Persia's expansion into Europe ended miserably. First performed in 472 B.C., it is the earliest of the surviving Greek tragedies and the only one based on a historical event.
Ancient Mask Repertory Theatre provides a unique opportunity to learn ancient theatrical traditions such as Greek and Roman, Sanskrit, Commedia dell-Arte characters and technique, Medieval liturgical drama, Japanese Noh and Pre-Columbian American texts.
The AMRT is an ensemble of performers, directors, composers and researchers committed to using theatre to build community, foster individual exploration, and celebrate the interplay of art and the human condition.
September 10 - October 10
Rochester-area artists Marianne O'Loughlin and Patrick Doyle will display their work in the String Room Gallery inside Main Building on the Wells College campus. The show began Wednesday, September 10 and runs through Friday, October 10.
Photographer Marianne O'Loughlin is an assistant professor of graphic design and fine art at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been on display at RIT as well as the Action Against Racism Art Exhibition and Sale in Rochester.
She says she believes in creating from what is known and striving to know what is new. Speaking about the need to look for the beauty and joy in life she says, "It was created by the ultimate artist who is constantly changing and reshaping it."
Sculptor Patrick Doyle's work has been an experimentation and discovery in the realm of structural geometry. Working in this domain allows him to make visible patterns and configurations that are often associated only in the mathematical language.
"Working with pure geometric form allowed me to physically experience structure while learning a multi-dimensional language of form which speaks of spacial wholeness," explains Doyle. "This path to approaching sculpture intensified my previousfs love of Renaissance art and architecture as well as my fascination with the geodesic domes."
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, October 17
F'loom, a Rochester based, all-male vocal trio, will perform on
Friday, October 17, at 8:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Phipps Auditorium
on the Wells College campus. Tickets are $2 for students and $6
for the general public.
F'loom draws freely from literature, music, comedy and social commentary to produce an unforgettable auditory and visual experience. By blending the principles and rigorous standard of musical composition with the dynamic theatre of performance art, F'loom stretches the possibilities of the spoken word and human noise in a program of delight and almost alarming virtuosity.
With wit, humor and mind-stretching verbal pyrotechnics, F'loom's "language music" uses any and every art that requires voice: prose, poetry, diatribe, tongue clicks, whirrs, breaths, nonsense syllables and ululations. From whispered endearment to gurgle and sneeze, F'loom exploits the musicality of the human larynx.
F'loom's roots are both literary and musical. Michael Ives, a veteran of the used and antiquarian book trade and student of classical literature, is a jazz musician. Robert Kulik is a jazz guitarist and a speaker in tongues. Rick Scott studied composition at a German music conservatory.
Their individual enthusiasm for the possibilities of carefully orchestrated spoken sound led them to F'loom. In April 1996, F'loom received the Fairchild Award for Creative Excellence from the University of Rochester.
For tickets or more information call the Wells College Box Office at 315/364-3456.
Thursday, October 23
Aurora, New York - Poet Sue Ellen Thompson will read from her work on Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Art Exhibit Room. The reading is free and open to the public.
A native of Mystic, Connecticut, Thompson's second and most recent book, The Wedding Boat was published in 1995 by Owl Creek Press in Seattle. Her first book, This Body of Silk, was awarded the Samuel French Morse Prize in 1986 and published by Northeastern University Press.
Reviewing The Wedding Boat in International Poetry Forum, Samuel Hazo writes, "For her honesty about conjugal love, about the sexual residue that couples often mistake for unhappiness when it may simply be discomfort, about the aching peace of 'old marrieds' growing older together - or apart - Sue Ellen Thompson has provided a veritable thesaurus. These new poems constitute a chromatic scale of love between men and women, and the poems are so true they remain memorable without our even trying to memorize them."
Thompson is a frequent contributor to literary journals. Her work has appeared recently in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Seneca Review, Tar River Poetry and The New Virginia Quarterly, among others.
In May 1997, she joined the faculty of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf; and in August 1997 she was invited to read her work at the Aran Islands Poetry Festival in Ireland. She has given readings throughout New England as well as at the National Arts Club in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
Thompson is a graduate of Middlebury College and The Bread Loaf School of English. Her visit to Wells is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Friday, October 24
Concert pianist Claud Brown will perform John Cage's sonatas and
interludes for prepared piano in the Alice Barler Recital Hall
on the Wells College campus, Friday, October 24, at 8:00 p.m.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Cage wrote his sonatas and interludes when he became seriously interested in Oriental philosophy. He wanted to express, in music, the nine permanent emotions of the Indian tradition: the dark emotions - sorrow, fear, anger and the odious; the light emotions: the wondrous, the mirthful, the heroic, the erotic; and their common tendency toward tranquillity.
Brown's presentation of Cage's work offers listeners a deeper understanding of how Zen meditation influenced the music of John Cage, and reveals new relationships between meditation and contemporary music.
Claud Brown examines how music and art are not an escape from life, but rather an introduction to it. "In the same way that the laws of relativity and chaos theory have opened new discoveries in science, new structures in music have changed how we listen to and experience our world," explains Brown.
Brown studied piano performance at the University of Michigan. He received a degree in Tibetan Buddhism and contemplative Christianity from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Wednesday, October 29
Mark Dimunation, curator of rare books at the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University, will deliver the semi-annual Susan G. Swartzburg '60 Memorial Lecture at Wells on Wednesday, October 29, at 8:00 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room. The event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.
Dimunation's illustrated presentation is entitled, "By Design or By Accident: The Book Arts Collections at Cornell University." He will consider the hidden resources for the book arts that can be found in Cornell's collections. In addition to the deliberate collecting of the book arts, the library has developed several "accidental collections" - scrapbooks, naive bindings, illustrated manuscripts - that can guide and inspire the book artist.
Prior to his appointment in 1991 as Curator of Rare Books for Cornell University Library, Mark Dimunation served as Rare Books Librarian at Stanford University and as Assistant Head of Acquisitions for The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dimunation oversees the collection building process in the division, and as Curator of Rare Books, he is responsible for the development, management, and interpretation of Cornell's extensive rare book holdings. He is a principal participant in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections' ambitious instruction and education program, and has offered numerous presentations, lectures, and seminars to all levels of Cornell students. He has curated several book arts exhibits in California and New York.
"Our mission is to make historical materials accessible to all student researchers, to help them feel comfortable with confronting the past," said Dimunation. "With the collections we have at Cornell and with our new facilities in the Kroch Library, this is an extraordinary opportunity for all Cornell students."
Dimunation hails from Minnesota and did his undergraduate work at St. Olaf College. After reading history at Christ Church, Oxford, he went on to do graduate work in history at Berkeley.
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.
October 15 - November 14
Carver John T. Sharp, renderer Debrah Butler and photographer
Vaughn Wascovich will display their work in a group show in Wells
College's String Room Gallery. The exhibit runs from Wednesday,
October 15 through Friday, November 14 and is free and open to
the public.
An opening reception in honor of the artists will be held on October 15 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The String Room Gallery is located in Main Building.
Sharp, a native of Kent, Ohio, began carving miniature fish and bird forms in 1970. He advanced to life-size creations a few years later. His carvings are created from hardwoods, primarily walnut and cherry, which he cuts, hauls and seasons himself.
"I take a classical approach to sculpture in which my handling of both subject matter and medium are a direct appeal to the viewer's sense of beauty in the natural world and to an appreciation of the skill of human hands," he says.
Butler works mostly with textures from nature, be it feathers,
fur or bones and skulls. The contrast or harmony that results
from juxtaposing found, natural objects and human-made objects
creates an intriguing pictorial view.
She explains that many of the human-made object images in her drawings are meant to depict the human intrusion upon nature. "Symbols of death in nature, such as bones and skulls, have always been part of my work and lend themselves to that relationship I try to represent."
Wascovich is a photographer in Chicago. He works with many corporate clients such as the American College of Surgeons, Bridgestone/Firestone and Hilton Hotels. He is also an instructor at Columbia College in Chicago.
He graduated from Youngstown State University and completed an M.F.A from Columbia College.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; and Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
For more information on campus events call Wells College Public Relations at (315) 364-3209
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