Indiana University Events
March 8-31, 2006
This is a sampling of events occurring at Indiana University. For a complete list, visit: http://www.events.iu.edu
Pianist Alexander Toradze
Alexander Toradze
March 10, 8 p.m., Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall, South Bend -- Alexander Toradze, the Martin Endowed Professor in Piano at IU South Bend, is universally recognized as a masterful virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition. He has enriched the Great Russian pianistic heritage with his own unorthodox interpretative conceptions. Tickets are available in advance for $5-$12 and at the door for $7-$15. For more information, contact Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts Box Office: (574) 520-4203.
Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility
March 10, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Whitewater Hall at IU East, Richmond --The Commission on the Status of Women presents: Rene Hicks, comedian and a survivor of lung cancer (from second-hand smoke), as keynote speaker. Also enjoy art exhibits by several Indiana women artists. The registration is $10 and registration forms are available at the Bursar's Office in Whitewater Hall. For more information, contact (765) 973-8313 Mary Mahank or email mmahank@indiana.edu
Horses in Classical Art
Now-May 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., IU Art Museum, Bloomington -- The horse holds a particular mystique for ancient Greeks and Romans and thus has been a major theme in art over the centuries. This exhibition features more than 100 horses and horse-related images on vases, sculptures, coins, jewelry and engraved gems -- from the beginnings of Greek art to the end of antiquity -- drawn from the museum's collection. For more information, visit http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu or e-mail emjpowel@indiana.edu.
Forest Farmers of the Amazon Estuary
Now-May 21, Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 1p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington -- The exhibit provides insight into the daily lives of Caboclo farmers -- people of Ponte de Pedras in eastern Brazil. These "forest farmers" earn their living from the forest and river, making the most out of all the resources around them. The exhibit features a full-sized canoe similar to ones used by the Caboclo farmers, as well as a full-sized model of a Caboclo house, decorated in a "resourceful" fashion with magazine ads adorning the walls and a television running on a car battery. Also included are examples of products made from the two crops cultivated by the Caboblos, the acai plant and the manioc root. Museum admission is free. For more information, call (812) 855-6873 or visit http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/exhibits/forest.html.
La Casa Cooking Demonstration: Latino Desserts
March 22, 7 p.m., La Casa, 715 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- A tribute to a Latino passion for sweetness, this cooking demonstration class will focus on three different desserts: Almendrados from Spain, Fruit Salad with Frozen Yogurt from Argentina and Mango Delight from Colombia. For more information, contact lacasa@indiana.edu.
Khac Chi: Sounds of Vietnam
March 22, 7 p.m., Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington -- Vietnamese duo Khac Chi will take guests on a musical adventure through Vietnam using a lecture and demonstration. Incredibly versatile musicians, the two artists cover an entire ensemble of traditional instruments and perform the music of Vietnam's 50 minority cultures. Khac Chi have shared their art with everyone from symphony-goers to second-graders, presenting traditional Vietnamese folk music in an accessible yet authentic style designed to connect with Western audiences. The event is free and open to the public, and is part of the "Spring Performing Arts Workshops Series" sponsored by the IU Ethnomusicology Students' Associations working with the Lotus Blossoms series. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/ or contact Judy Kirk at mathers@indiana.edu.
Tap Dogs at the IU Auditorium
March 22, 7:30 p.m., IU Auditorium, Fine Arts Plaza, East Seventh Street, Bloomington -- The athleticism and power of workmen, combined with the precision and talent of tap dancing, produces this irreverent industrial revolution of tap. Featuring six guys, a construction set and a driving score, Tap Dogs is leaving dents in stages all across North America. The award-winning show, with the same noise and energy levels as Stomp, leaves tongues wagging wherever it plays. Tickets are $13.50 to $37.50. For more information, visit http://iuauditorium.com or call (812) 855-1103.
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: "Gender and Genre: News and Fiction in the Brazilian Novelas (TV soap operas)"
March 24, 3 p.m., Ballantine Hall 205, Bloomington -- Esther Hamburger, a visiting film professor at the University of Ann Arbor, will discuss the global phenomenon of the Brazilian soap opera. Broadcast throughout Brazil and to hundreds of cities abroad, the Brazilian soap opera has had an impact not only on media networks worldwide, but also on the way Brazil is imagined in countries as far away as China and Japan. The soap opera is one of the most popular programs in Portugal, and it has introduced customs, vocabulary and other linguistic forms never before used there. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Darlene Sadlier at sadlier@indiana.edu.
Our Country's Good
March 24, 25, 26-April 1, 7:30 p.m., Wells-Metz Theatre in the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, Bloomington -- Called "a moving, often funny story in which art and humanity triumph over ignorance" by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, this play addresses the ability of the theatre to move and change lives. A recipient of the 1988 Olivier Award, it dramatizes Thomas Keneally's novel, The Playmaker. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr or call (812) 855-1103 for ticket information.
Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater: Spring Ballet
March 24, 8 p.m., Musical Arts Center, Bloomington -- This semester's ballet, titled "From Bournonville to Balanchine: An Evening of Legendary Ballets," includes August Bournonville's Napoli, Marius Petipa's Paquita and George Balanchine's Who Cares? Tickets are $12 to $20 for general admission and $8 to $16 for students. For more information, visit http://music.indiana.edu or call (812) 855-4733 for ticket information.
Navruz Festival
March 25, 2 p.m., Wilkie Auditorium, Bloomington -- Navruz is an ancient festival of spring celebrated by a diverse group of people from Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Performances of musical selections and skits by student groups and participants from nations that celebrate Navruz will kick off the event, followed by samplings of local cuisine and cultural displays. Food will be served in the Forest Quad Dining Hall after the performances at approximately 5 p.m. For more information, contact Rebecca Gordan at rgordan@indiana.edu.
Filmmaker to discuss documentary, case of Emmett Louis Till
March 28, 5-9 p.m., Vivian Auditorium in Whitewater Hall, Richmond -- Fifty years after his murder, Emmett Louis Till could have justice after a documentary has examined the truth behind his death. Keith Beauchamp, a documentary filmmaker, released the documentary on Oct. 14, 2005, in seven selected cities. It has since made its way to university and college campuses nationwide. Beauchamp will visit the Indiana University East campus on March 28 to give a talk and take questions. Beauchamp began the documentary at age 24. Nine years later, the Louisiana native completed the film and witnessed the reopening of the case by the United States Department of Justice in May 2004. The documentary is an eye witness account of what happened to a young Chicago boy during a summertime visit with relatives. In August 1955, Emmett Till was visiting his family in Money, Mississippi. His mother, Mamie Till-Bradley allowed him to take the train from Chicago to the Delta on Aug. 20. Eight days later, the 14 year-old boy from the north would be kidnapped, beaten, tied to a 75-pound cotton-gin fan and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. For more information, visit http://www.iue.edu/external/post/Feb06/beauchamp.shtml
Barry Gealt: New Works
Photo by: Nicole Roales
New art from Barry Gealt
Now-March 10, noon to 4 p.m., School of Fine Arts Gallery, 1201 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- Barry Gealt, a professor at Indiana University's School of Fine Arts since 1969, created these new paintings while on sabbatical in Paradise Valley, Utah; Barfleur, France; and Owen County, Indiana, from July through December, 2005. These rhythmically abstract renderings of three distinct landscapes bring the viewer in contact with the wilderness of a mysterious and meditative natural world. For more information, visit http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu
Beings: A Preview to Human Nature
Now-March 10, noon to 4 p.m., School of Fine Arts Gallery, 1201 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- The exhibit features four Midwest artists reinterpreting scientific discoveries and addressing their related ethical and moral issues in unique visual ways. Artists Elona Van Gent, Richard Krueger, Richard Grey and Reggie Stump utilize paintings, prints, photographs, video projections and installation pieces to tackle humanistic, cultural and ethical concerns related to nature and biotechnology. The exhibit is the first in a series of exhibits and events called Human Nature, to be presented at the SoFA Gallery in 2006 and 2007. For more information, visit http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu
Edmund Barry Gaither Lecture
March 30, 5-6:30 p.m., Indiana Memorial Union, Frangipani Room, Bloomington -- Edmund Barry Gaither, director and curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and special consultant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, will give a lecture entitled "'Still Life Revisited' and other Adventures in Iconography: The Art of Eldzier Cortor." A dance performance, based on a print by Eldzier Cortor and featuring new choreography from Iris Rosa, director of the IU African American Dance Company, will follow at 6:45 p.m. on the first floor of the IU Art Museum's Thomas T. Solley Atrium. The evening will continue from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with a reception on the second floor of the Thomas T. Solley Atrium for Gaither and to mark the opening of the IU Art Museum exhibition, "Black Spirit": Works on Paper by Eldzier Cortor." There will be gallery tours beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/iuam_intro.htm
