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The Year of Art + Invention is Underway!
This year's theme highlights the innovative, interdisciplinary spirit driving the arts at Stanford. Recent event highlights include The Origin Cycle - a coproduction of the biology, philosophy and music departments celebrating Darwin's On the Origin of Species; The Metaphysics of Notation - a weekly performance at Cantor Arts Center with a score by Stanford composer Mark Applebaum; and the kickoff to a yearlong Stanford Lively Arts residency with jazz trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas and filmmaker Bill Morrison. Visit our website featuring galleries, upcoming events and an interactive map showcasing Stanford innovators at http://ai0910.stanford.edu
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Gwyneth Lewis, Inaugural National Poet of Wales
SiCa welcomes Gwyneth Lewis as this year's joint fellow in Arts and Humanities. Gwyneth will be featured at the next SiCa Presents event on November 10th... (learn more)
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Stanford Lively Arts Awarded $163K from Dance/USA
Lively Arts has been awarded $162,568 from Engaging Dance Audiences (EDA) to produce four dance artist residencies and evaluate the various approaches to audience engagement used in each residency... (view EDA press release - PDF)
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Benedict Anderson - Ian Watt Lecture on the History and Theory of the Novel
5:30 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Terry Berlier
7:00 PM
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
Bulrusher by Eisa Davis
8:00 PM
Nov. 5 - 7, 2009
Nitery Theater, Old Union
Tickets $5/$10/$15
Lively Arts Presents: A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
8:00 PM
Saturday Nov. 7, 2009
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
$40/$46 General
$10 Stanford Students
Stanford New Esemble
8:00 PM
Saturday Nov. 7, 2009
Campbell Recital Hall
From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Matt Kahn
2:00 PM
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
Genevieve Bell - David H. Liu Memorial Lecture
6:00 PM
Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Braun Hall (Bldg 320) Room 105
SiCa Presents: Gwyneth Lewis
12:00 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
Wallenberg Hall (Bldg 160) Learning Theater
RSVP by Nov. 6 to sicaRSVP@stanford.edu
Russian Art and Architecture in the 17th Century
12:15 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
Wallenberg Hall (Bldg 160) Room 314
Exhibit Opening: Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings
On View from Nov. 11, 2009 - Feb. 21, 2010
Cantor Arts Center
SLSQ Emerging String Quartet Program Presents: The Afiara String Quartet
12:10 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
Geology Corner (Bldg 320) Room 105
Artists' Reception: Cara Erskine "Battle of the Sexes"
6:00 PM
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
The Clayman Institute - Serra House 589 Capistrano Way
From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Joel Leivick
7:00 PM
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
Tesseract: A Life of Eadweard Muybridge in 8 Stages
8:00 PM
Nov. 12 - 14, 2009
Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall
$5/$10/$15
Lively Arts Presents: The Prokofiev Project
Nov. 12 - 15, 2009
A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn
Nov. 13 + 14, 2009
Annenberg Auditorium
From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Jamie Meltzer
6:00 PM
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium
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Party on the Edge 2009
This year's Party on the Edge brought Stanford students together in an overwhelming celebration of the arts at the Cantor Arts Center. Students displayed visual artwork, screened films, read poetry, and performed dance and music... (read more)
Watch highlights from the evening online >> |
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Beyond My Circle
As part of the Bing Overseas Studies Program, a group of Stanford students travelled to Kampala, Uganda to collaborate with students from Makerere University in creating a devised performance piece in just ten days. The piece catalogs their personal and physical journey, exploring identity and otherness... (read more)
Watch the complete performance online >> |
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The Origin Cycle
In The Origin Cycle, seven contemporary composers set fragments of Darwin's Origin of Species to music. Texts were chosen from all pivotal chapters of the Origin. The result is a systematic exploration of the aesthetic dimension of a Darwinian view of life... (read more)
Watch a selection from the performance >> |
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Energy and the World (UNAFF 09)
The 12th annual United Nations Association Film Festival brought documentary films from around the world to the Stanford campus... (read more)
Watch the trailer online >> |
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Cleave, dance by Diane Frank
Cleave, a site-specific dance created by Diane Frank, was developed from small nuggets of movement material, using language prompts to create a platform for the studio work. The dance explores the cadence of conversation, the physical obstructions inherent in the space, and domestic behavior and activity... (read more)
Watch the performance online >> |
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Each week SiCa compiles links to media coverage of Stanford's arts events, programs, students, and faculty. Below is a selection of links to articles covering Stanford arts during October 2009. If you are interested in receiving Stanford arts news coverage on a regular basis, please click here to subscribe to the RSS feed >>
- Artists, profs. evaluate arts education - Pedagogy for the Impressed (Stanford Daily, 10.29.09)
- Poet Robinson Jeffers and wife, Una, 'tell their own story' in newly published letters (Stanford Report, 10.27.09)
- Biology, Geometry, Globe-trotting – and Art? (Stanford Review,10.23.09)
- JUMP START starts the year off great for Stanford Dance (Stanford Daily, 10.23.09)
- 'HOPE' artist lied (Stanford Daily, 10.22.09)
- 'Chant camp' comes to Stanford with early music ensemble Anonymous 4 (Stanford Report, 10.21.09)
- Colleges See Rise In Mental Health Issues (NPR, 10.19.09)
- Sixth Dance Marathon promises to be bigger than ever (Stanford Daily, 10.16.09)
- Stanford Lively Arts Awarded $163K from Engaging Dance Audiences (Mercury News, 10.16.09)
- Music adds up for Vienna Teng (Palo Alto Daily News, 10.16.09)
- Palo Alto launches film festival, climate goal (Palo Alto Daily News, 10.15.09)
- Annual UN festival to feature films from more than 50 nations (Stanford Report, 10.15.09)
- Stanford scholars discuss the future of the essay at Litquake festival (Stanford Report, 10.14.09)
- Filmmaker, prof. in spat over film rights (Stanford Daily, 10.13.09)
- Music review: Uri Caine's 'Othello Syndrome' (SF Gate, 10.13.09)
- From the studio to the gallery (Palo Alto Online, 10.12.09)
- West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's 'Othello Syndrome' opens Lively Arts season on Saturday (Stanford Report, 10.09.09)
- Uganda meets Stanford in the collaborative arts piece "Beyond My Circle" (Stanford Daily, 10.09.09)
- Shloss wins James Joyce settlement (Stanford Daily, 10.08.09)
- American premiere opens Stanford Lively Arts season (Mercury News, 10.08.09)
- A Garden of Art, Now in Full Bloom at Emory - Joel Leivick (Emory Wheel, 10.05.09)
- Poet plays it by ear - Robert Pinsky, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford (Reporter Herald, 10.01.09)
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