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Media Relations

Events at Indiana University

Summer Music Festival, Continued...

The Mikado

Now through Aug. 12, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington -- A performance by international violin sensation and Indiana University alumnus Joshua Bell, IU Opera Theater's presentation of The Mikado, the world premiere of a composition by acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan, the return of the Beaux Arts Trio and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and the debut of a new Festival Jazz Orchestra highlight a powerful lineup for Indiana University's 2006 Summer Music Festival. The festival features opera, orchestral, band, chamber and solo concerts. Highlights for the remainder of the Summer Music Festival include the The Mikado. The festival closes on Saturday, Aug. 12, with IU's David Baker conducting the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in the Musical Arts Center at 8 p.m. For more information visit http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/3333.html or http://www.music.indiana.edu/?vs=noflash. To order tickets for various Summer Music Festival events, go to http://www.music.indiana.edu/events/tickets.shtml.

The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
Aug. 10-13, 16-20, 23-27, Brown County Playhouse, Nashville, Indiana -- Where else can you see Othello as a rap song, or King Lear as a football game, or Hamlet at supersonic speed—backwards? It could only be the riotously funny The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged). Three actors perform all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in a madcap style worthy of Groucho Marx. Take advantage of this chance to be able to impress all of your friends by saying, "I've seen the complete works of William Shakespeare." Just leave off the "abridged" part. For tickets, visit ticketmaster at: http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/41147/?search_redirect=Brown County Playhouse. Tickets are $18 for adults. Student/Junior tickets are $11. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/bcplay.html.

'IU Day' at the Indiana State Fair

Aug. 10, Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis -- It's all about IU for an entire day at the Indiana State Fair. On Aug. 10 on Expo Hall Street, IU will celebrate its commitment to the Hoosier state with hands-on booths, giveaways, pep rallies and performances by the university's leading artists and performers. Several stages will showcase the best of IU's fine arts, music and dance, and the university will have a continual presence on IU Boulevard throughout the duration of the fair, to be held from Aug. 9 to 20. What's more, the brand-new IU Summer Music Festival Jazz Orchestra, directed by Indiana living legend David Baker, will help kick off the fair's 150th anniversary with a special concert on Aug. 8. For more information, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~fair/.

Aloha live in concert
Aug. 19, 7 p.m., Art Hospital (1021 S. Walnut St.), Bloomington -- The Indiana Memorial Union Board's Live from Bloomington committee with WIUX is excited to announce a summer concert with progressive rock band Aloha (Polyvinyl Records) and openers Rahim and local favorite Alexander the Great. Admission is $5 for non-students or free with an IU Bloomington student ID. For more information about Union Board, call (812) 855-4682 or email ubpr@indiana.edu.

Kinsey film screening, reception, to honor the life of Alfred Kinsey

Aug. 21, Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington -- World-famous sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, the namesake for Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, passed away 50 years ago. In honor of this man who forever changed the way America talks about sex, the Ryder film series will present a special showing of the film, Kinsey, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington on Monday, August 21. The event will include a 7 p.m. reception, 8 p.m. movie screening and a photo exhibit of original Kinsey Institute staff and characters from the movie. Tickets cost $5 and can be purchased at the theater.

The Colors of Rust

Sept. 11 through Oct. 16, gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Fridays 9 a.m.to 5 p.m., The Ronald L. Barr Gallery on the IU Southeast campus, New Albany -- The Ronald L. Barr Gallery will exhibit paintings by Bruce Linn, entitled "The Colors of Rust." The opening reception for this exhibit will be Sept. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information on the gallery, contact 812-941-2358.

Places of the Imagination
Now through September 2, The Lilly Library, Bloomington -- This exhibition is a celebration of worlds, islands, and realms that have captured the collective imagination throughout the ages -- places that, by name alone, conjure up an immediate sense of familiarity for many. The materials displayed allow us to examine how these locations have been depicted by authors and artists and how they have been re-imagined over the years. The exhibition ranges from fantastical lands, such as Oz and Middle Earth, to disguises based on real locations (Yoknapatawpha County and Winesburg, Ohio). Some originated in stories told simply to amuse children (Toad Hall from The Wind in the Willows) or in works addressing contemporary social issues such as Samuel Butler's Erewhon. While some have been "mapped" -- as one would expect Treasure Island to be -- others exist on purely abstract levels, such as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Travel narratives, of course, offer a wonderful assortment of distant lands for readers to explore--from Gulliver's Lilliput to Sindbad's Valley of Diamonds. The Lilly Library also features a number of online exhibits. For more information, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/.

Art and Coffee = Culture

Aug. 24, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor, IU Art Museum, Bloomington -- As the closing event to Culture Fest, the museum welcomes new and returning students with a free coffee tasting and culture fusion event that features music, dancing, temporary tattoos, tarot readings, henna hand-painting and coffee samples from around the world that complement our encyclopedic collection of art work. For more information, visit: http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu.

"Maria de Buenos Aires" - tango-opera
Aug. 31, 8 to 10 p.m., Buskirk Chumley Theater, Bloomington -- "María de Buenos Aires" is a tango opera with libretto by Horacio Ferrer and music by Astor Piazzolla. This surrealist production engages audiences with sensual dance, exhilarating music and symbolic narration alluding to the cultural portrait of Argentina and to the condition of art vs. moral preconceptions. At its core is María, who personifies the power of art and the city of Buenos Aires in all its splendor and decay, its euphoric high spirits and wistful melancholy. For more information, send an email to mdbogdan@indiana.edu or visit http://www.ex-art.com.

Refresh
Sept.1, SoFA Gallery, IU Bloomington -- Refresh is the first art auction and benefit gala for the SoFA Gallery and the Friends of Art. Unlike many art auctions for charitable or non-profit organizations, the Refresh benefit proceeds go back into the arts allowing SoFA to continue its provocative visual arts exhibitions and the Friends of Art to enhance their important advocacy and scholarship programming. Tickets to Refresh are $15. To purchase tickets, please contact the gallery at sofa@indiana.edu.

'Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century'

Ongoing, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington -- A new exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines the growing American interest in and apprehension of Japan during the 23 years preceding World War I. Japan-In-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century, samples the vast number of images, stories, performances, and accounts of Japan that circulated in the United States during that time. The exhibit displays a wide array of images and artifacts from the popular culture of the period -- paintings, poetry, and travel literature, but also postcards, illustrated books, sheet music, magic lantern slides, editorial cartoons, motion pictures, missionary tracts, children's literature, advertisements, and a range of other forms. A companion Web site at www.indiana.edu/~jia1915/ provides even more examples of these images, as well as downloadable texts of children's books from the time period, such as the work Japanese Fairy Tales by Teresa Pierce Williston, published in 1904. For more information, or to schedule a guided group tour, please call 812-855-6873 or e-mail mathers@indiana.edu.

'Talking Shoes'
Ongoing, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington -- This Children's Gallery exhibit features hands-on activities and shoes from around the world. Talking Shoes explores how shoes can reveal much about their makers and wearers. Native American beaded moccasins, sandals from the Republic of Congo, felt shoes from Tibet and wooden shoes from the Netherlands and Surinam are just a few highlighted artifacts in the exhibit, which features hands-on activities for younger visitors. The exhibit was developed by students in Indiana University's Anthropology A403: Introduction to Museum Studies class during the spring semester 2004-05. The students worked with staff at the Mathers Museum to select shoes from the museum's collections, research and write the exhibit labels, prepare the artifacts for display, design the case lay-outs and install the exhibit. For more information, or to schedule a guided group tour, please call 812-855-6873 or e-mail mathers@indiana.edu.

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