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The Cleveland Orchestra announces Indiana University residency activities for January 2010

The Cleveland Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra, one of the world's most widely acclaimed orchestral ensembles, is embarking upon a newly established Indiana University Residency program this month with IU's Jacobs School of Music. The inaugural residency will take place Jan. 18-21, while The Cleveland Orchestra is in Bloomington for an IU Auditorium performance scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m.  Full Story

 IU ArtsWeek goes 'green' for 2010

Indiana University's 26th Annual ArtsWeek, scheduled for February Feb. 18-28, will focus on the theme "Arts and the Environment." ArtsWeek is an annual winter festival showcasing the many levels of artistic expression in Bloomington and on the IU campus. Sponsored in part by the IU President's Office and the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research, ArtsWeek offers dozens of exhibitions, performances and family-friendly events featuring many modes of artistic expression.

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 A cappella sensation Straight No Chaser to return to IU Auditorium in April

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A cappella group Straight No Chaser will perform at Indiana University Auditorium April 12 at 8 p.m. The concert will feature songs from the band's newest contemporary album, which is scheduled for release in April by ATCO/Atlantic.

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 IU Jacobs School of Music hosts state's first Indiana Guitar Festival and Competition

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will host the First Indiana Guitar Festival and Competition March 27-28 with plans to continue the festival annually. It is the only guitar festival and competition in Indiana and only the second guitar festival in the Midwest.

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 IUPUI scholar to help digitize entire body of Shakespeare's work

Terri Bourus

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will house a new editorial project that will change the way Shakespeare is presented to the world. The Oxford University Press project will result in The New Oxford Shakespeare, an entirely new print and digital edition of the complete works of the most influential writer in the English language.

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 IU symposium, film series to highlight overlooked portion of German history

Whisper & Shout

Indiana University Bloomington will present a symposium and film series in honor of the East German Cinema of the DEFA Studios, bringing to light a group of overlooked films made between 1988-1994 that reflect life surrounding the toppling of the Berlin Wall in 1989. "WENDE FLICKS -- Last Films from East Germany," curated by the University of Massachusetts DEFA Film Library, will play at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater from Jan. 17-March 28 and on the IU Bloomington campus in the Fine Arts Auditorium through April 18.

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 IU's 'Muslim Voices' project wins international award for best Twitter account

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Muslim Voices, a joint production between the Voices and Visions Project at Indiana University and WFIU Public Radio, was recently awarded the international Brass Crescent Award for best Twitter account in the Islamic blogosphere.

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 Previous issue

"Claudette Colvin"

In the Dec. 4, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU alum Phillip Hoose, whose book about Claudette Colvin won a 2009 National Book Award. Also in this issue were features about IU Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler receiving honorary citizenship from his hometown of Magdeburg, Germany; an IU Bloomington Visitor Information Center shadowing program for at-risk junior high students; IU Ballet Theater's 2009 presentation of The Nutcracker; a married couple who brought their considerable talents to the Department of Theatre and Drama when they joined the faculty at the same time; an IPFW professor who won a grand prize from Cooking Light magazine; and holiday sales from Students in Free Enterprise and the School of Fine Arts Gallery.

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