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Spotlight for March 25, 2009For more information please click on the image next to the event
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University Gallery
 Miroslaw Balka
Thursday, February 5 - Sunday, May 24 | University Gallery
 Sheron Rupp: Dialogue With a Collection
Thursday, February 5 - Sunday, March 29 | Hampden Gallery
 Mind Bridge: Mary Robinson from Columbia and the U.S. and Ha Ran Kim from South Korea
Sunday, March 1 - Wednesday, March 25 | Magic Triangle
 Three Things to Say: Terry Jenoure, Billy Bang, Charles Burnham pay tribute to Leroy Jenkins
Thursday, March 26 | Center Series
 Trinity Irish Dance Company
Friday, March 27 | Hampden Gallery
 Monica Rabinowitz: Line #5- Knyazhevo
Monday, March 30 - Thursday, May 14 | University Gallery
 In Whose Voice
Tuesday, March 31 | Augusta Savage Gallery
 Nomad: Women On the Move
Wednesday, April 1 - Friday, April 10 | Central Gallery
Fulgar ConditumL A Search for Ancestors, Secrets, Myths and Magic
Wednesday, April 1 - Tuesday, April 14 | Hampden Gallery
Artist In Residence
Wednesday, April 1 - Saturday, April 11 | Hampden Gallery
 Prayer Flags Around The World
Wednesday, April 1 - Thursday, April 30 Tentative | Arts Council
Mini Grant Deadline
Wednesday, April 1 | New World Theater
 Project 2050
Thursday, April 2 - Friday, April 3 | Fine Arts Center
 Amherst Lit Series: In Celebration Of Amherst's 250th Anniversary
Thursday, April 2 | Center Series
 I Musici de Montréal
Sunday, April 5 | Hampden Gallery
 Mother/Memory
Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30 | Hampden Gallery
We Are All Related: Ruby Barnes from the US and Roland Idaczyk from New Zealand
Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30 | Hampden Gallery
 Crossing Borders: Comparing Thoughts
Elizabeth Geissler • USA
Juliet Armstrong • South Africa
Ian Calder • South Africa
Vulindlela Philani Elliot Nyoni • South Africa/Zimbabwe
Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30 | Global Arts
 Spirit Horse
Wednesday, April 8 | Fine Arts Center
 Amherst Lit Series: In Celebration Of Amherst's 250th Anniversary
Wednesday, April 15 | Asian Arts & Culture Program
 Salute to Baseball: Japan Style
Wednesday, April 15 | Global Arts
 Salute to Baseball Japan Style: Taiko Drums and Trumpet
Wednesday, April 15 | Central Gallery
 TransCultural Minga
Thursday, April 16 - Thursday, April 30 | Augusta Savage Gallery
 Art from the Heart
Thursday, April 16 - Thursday, April 30 | Center Series
 National Philharmonic of Russia
Sunday, April 19 | Augusta Savage Gallery
 Beginning Again
Tuesday, April 21 | University Gallery
 MR: Celebrating Fifty Years of Covers
Wednesday, April 22 - Sunday, May 24 | Center Series
 Toumani Diabaté Symmetric Orchestra
Thursday, April 23 | Fine Arts Center
 Amherst Lit Series: In Celebration Of Amherst's 250th Anniversary
Friday, April 24 from 6-8pm and Saturday, April 25 from 12:30 to 8pm | University Gallery
 Contemporary Art Circle
Saturday, April 25 | Magic Triangle
 Ganelin Trio Priority
Tuesday, April 28 | New World Theater
 Ameriville
Thursday, April 30 - Friday, May 1 | Center Series
 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Wednesday, May 13 | Augusta Savage Gallery
 Student Exhibit
Monday, May 18 - Friday, May 22 | |
| Spotlight for March 25, 2009 > The Fine Arts Center Celebrates Amherst\222s 250th Birthday with a Free Lit Series |
The Fine Arts Center Celebrates Amherst\222s 250th Birthday with a Free Lit Series  It's a month-long party dedicated to Amherst's rich literary history. In celebration of Amherst's 250th Anniversary, the Fine Arts Center is collaborating with the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, and the
Juniper Literary Festival to present a month-long series of readings, a journal and press fair, and a literary scavenger hunt for families -- and it's all free.
The series gets started April 1 through the 30th with a Literary Scavenger Hunt for families with young children throughout downtown Amherst. Families can start anywhere and there's a small prize awarded at each location if the clue is solved. For participating businesses, clues and a map visit http://www.fineartscenter.com/amherstlit.
On Thursday, April 2 at 7PM at Wünderarts Gallery in Amherst, there will be a New Writers Reading where the public can hear some of our local, young award-winning authors read from their new books. Featured will be Chris Bachelder, Elizabeth Hughey, Jedediah Berry, and Lisa Olstein. Refreshments are generously provided by Portabella Catering.
Still to come: a reading by local luminary author Martin Espada and an Independent Journal and Book Fair. For a complete schedule, visit fineartscenter.com/amherstlit. | For the Love of Classical Music Fine Arts Center Launches Orchestra Circle Join our Orchestra Circle a growing community of individuals committed to the nurturing and support of classical music at the UMass Fine Arts Center.
To find out more about becoming a member and the Orchestra Circle benefits contact the Friends of the Fine Arts Center 413-545-4253 or arobbins@admin.umass.edu. | I Musici de Montreal Art Unites with Music for a Singular Experience  I Musici de Montréal has developed a well-deserved reputation as one of the world's finest chamber orchestras. Known for its gutsy, passionate music-making, I Musici de Montréal presents imaginative programs that draw on repertoire spanning the centuries. Celebrating 25 years, the orchestra is on tour in the Unites States and will make a stop at the UMass Fine Arts Center Concert Hall on Sunday, April 5 at 3PM. Performing an all-Russian program, the highlight will be Mussorgsky's famed Pictures at an Exhibition performed with animated projections of new paintings by Natasha Turovsky. The acclaimed new interpretations are accompanied by breathtaking imagery projected on a large screen on-stage. The evening's program also includes Alexander Borodine's Notturno and Tchaikovsky's Sextet in D minor, op. 70, Souvenirs de Florence. There will be a pre-performance discussion by visual artist /violinist Natasha Turovsky at 2:15PM in the University Gallery.
Tickets for I Musici de Montréal are are $35, $30, and $15; Five College/GCC students and youth 17 and under are $15. Tickets are available at the Fine Arts Center Box Office, 545-2511 or 800-999-UMAS or online at www.fineartscenter.com. | Magic Triangle Series: Three Things to Say Terry Jenoure, Billy Bang, Charles Burnham pay tribute to Leroy Jenkins Three master improvising violinists pay homage to the most important violinist to emerge in the post-Coltrane era: the late Leroy Jenkins. A veteran of the bands of John Carter, Archie Shepp, Henry Threadgill and others, Bronx-born Terry Jenoure is a wide-ranging visual and performing artist, and curator of the Fine Arts Center's Augusta Savage Gallery. "From Billy Bang's violin comes everything we know about black music and a lot we have yet to learn about rhythm, subtlety and swing," writes Ntozake Shange. The passion and fire of Charles Burnham has graced the work of Cassandra Wilson, James Blood Ulmer, Steven Bernstein and Medeski, Martin & Wood.
The Magic Triangle Jazz Series continues with the Ganelin Trio Priority (April 28). Tickets are $12/general public and $7/students and are available through the Fine Arts Center Box Office, 1-800-999-UMAS. | The Best of Project 2050! 10th Year of the New WORLD Theater's Visionary Youth Program  The 10th year of New WORLD Theater's innovative youth program is here! To celebrate, Project 2050 members and alumni are looking to the past and recreating some of the most exciting moments from previous performances for the Best of 2050! 2050 artists Aisha Jordan, vocalist, and choreographers Kenny Jones, Rokafella and Kwikstep were in residence to rehearse and Teo Castellanos, is directing this once in a decade show! The evening will include new takes on pieces from performances such as Conflict. Nation. Freedom. (2002), Environmentality (2004), On the Frontlines: Sex, War, and Lies (2005), and The Love in Revolution (2007).
The Best of 2050 will be presented on Thursday, April 2 and Friday April 3, 2009 at 8:00 pm in Bowker Auditorium on the UMass campus. Tickets for the general audience are $15; $8 for seniors and low income patrons; $5 for students with valid I.D and can be purchased through the Fine Arts Center Box Office. 1.800.999.UMASS or 413.545.2511. For more information, please call New WORLD Theater at 413.545.1972 or visit us at www.newworldtheater.org | "In Whose Voice?" at the University Gallery Tracking Shifts in the Art World  "In Whose Voice?" focuses on the increasingly significant shift that is occurring away from the didactic model of curating towards a more inclusive model. This panel will examine the (multi-)cultural, interdisciplinary,
contextual challenges museums face in order to appropriately exhibit works of art and to create a platform for genuine dialogue between the artist and the curator, and between the curator and other cultures.
Our distinguished panelists Matthew Higgs (director of White Columns, artist, critic and writer), Susan Vogel (Columbia University, African art expert, film maker), and Hamza Walker (Renaissance Society, award winning
curator and writer) will examine the (multi-)cultural, interdisciplinary, contextual challenges museums face in order to appropriately exhibit works of art and to create a platform for genuine dialogue between the artist and the curator, and between the curator and other cultures.
"In Whose Voice?" will be conducted at the Fine Arts Center Rand Theater on Tuesday, March 31 at 4:30 P.M. Refreshments will follow at the University Gallery. | Salute to Baseball: Japan Style! Special Morning Event! Spotlight subscribers and their families are invited to attend a special
"Salute to Baseball: Japan Style!" at 10:00 AM Wednesday, April 15, in the
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. This morning matinee is open to the general
public.
Adult tickets are only $8 and children (ages 17 and under) are $6.
Featuring the trumpet of renowned Japanese jazz musician, Tiger Okoshi and
the thundering six foot drums of Odaiko New England, the program includes
both traditional American and Japanese music. You've never heard our
National Anthem played like this! Tickets on sale through the box office:
413-545-2511. |
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