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IU’s Midsummer Theatre Program trains aspiring actors

Theatre and Drama image A flock of teenage girls in various message T-shirts and sneakers struggle into their petticoats as a group of teen boys looks on ("Where's mine?" jokes one boy) for a "semi-dress" rehearsal in which the girls morph into giggling, dancing Shakesperean fairies. The 19 teens are in drama camp heaven for two weeks at Indiana University Bloomington, where the 2009 Midsummer Theatre Program is entering its 11th year. This year's camp began June 7 and culminates with a free, open to the public performance Saturday (June 20) at 2 p.m. in the Wells-Metz Theatre. The performance will include a variety of scenes from both Shakespeare and popular musical theater productions.  Full Story

 IU professor analyzes Chile's 'Project Cybersyn'

ZKM Center for Art and Media

Assistant Professor Eden Medina's background as an electrical engineer -- combined with an interest in Latin American history -- led to her research interest in Project Cybersyn, an early computer network designed to regulate Chile's economic transition to socialism during the government of Salvador Allende.

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 'Innovate Indiana' campaign wins national award

Innovate Indiana

Indiana University's Office of Creative Services has been honored with the top national award from the Council for Advancement of Education (CASE) for its "Innovate Indiana" campaign. The campaign included an Innovate Indiana Web site, print brochures and ads, billboards and a postcard series featuring economic development success stories from all eight IU campuses.

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 IU Art Museum celebrates summer solstice

Nightfall in Vermont

In honor of summer solstice, the shortest night of the year, the Indiana University Art Museum will host a special reception tonight (Thursday, June 18) from 7 to 9 p.m. From Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream to Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, Midsummer Night (also known as summer solstice, which technically occurs June 21 in the northern hemisphere) has inspired artists, who are attracted to its associations with ancient rituals, lovers' escapades and nature's bounty.

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 Summer Music Festival kicks off with array of world-class chamber music events

Indiana University's 2009 Summer Music Festival enters its16th year firmly established as Bloomington's signature summer event, attracting audiences from throughout the Midwest and beyond. The festival is increasingly gaining notice as one of Indiana's premier music festivals.

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 IUPUI's Herron students 'screen' IU's dental patients

Privacy screen image

Soon after renovations to the IU School of Dentistry's Patient Admissions division were completed, the clinical affairs faculty and staff decided that the remodeled area could benefit from an additional element of privacy to further separate the bank of patient registration desks from the nearby reception seating. They went looking for a solution -- and found it in the creative vision of two students from IUPUI's Herron School of Art and Design.

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 Juneteenth Freedom Celebration set for June 26

Juneteenth

Indiana University will honor the 11th annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, sponsored by IU's Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, with a one-evening gala Friday, June 26, at 5 p.m. Juneteenth recalls June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom.

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Virtuosi

In the June 4, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU Virtuosi, teen strings players who traveled to France for performances this spring; the Webby award-honoree GameZombie.tv, created and maintained by IU students; the 2009 IU Writers' Conference; the start of summer theater in Nashville with The All Night Strut! at Brown County Playhouse; a special Limestone Month exhibition at the IU Art Musuem; Lilly Library's vintage auto collection; and IU South Bend's Euclid Quartet winning an NEA grant as part of the "American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius" initiative.

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