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Through September 17
Sarah Greene Reed: Survey Exhibit
(Artist will speak at a Friday Forum at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 11)
Lewis Art Gallery, Academic Complex Third Floor
Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com
Friday, September 4
Friday Forum
Harvey Johnson, Jr.: “The Prospects for Jackson”
12:30 p.m., Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson shares his perspective on some of the challenges and opportunities the city faces.
Free
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, September 11
Friday Forum
Sarah Greene Reed: "Survey"
12:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Austin-based artist Sarah Greene Reed introduces her exhibit in the Lewis Gallery, which features vibrant, patterned digital collages. Her engaging collages-created by scanning materials as diverse as doughnuts and dog leashes into her Macintosh computer, then manipulating them in Photoshop-might best be called intuitive studies of material culture.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com
Monday, September 14
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3:00 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Monday, September 14
Faculty Showcase: Collage Concert
7:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music featuring faculty members and teaching artists of the Millsaps College Department of Performing Arts music division.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Tuesday, September 15
2009-2010 Arts & Lecture Series
Leif Anderson: A Legacy of Wings
7 p.m. -For Academic Complex Recital Hall
Leif has always danced, inspired to free expression by her artist father, Walter, and encouraged to serious study by her writer mother, Agnes. She studied ballet with Lelia Haller in New Orleans and became a member of her company, The Crescent City Ballet. She also danced with the New Orleans Opera and with the New Orleans Symphony. Later, she studied Spanish dance and appeared with Ole’ Flamenco Ole’. In 1965, Leif’s discovery of Isadora Duncan, an early pioneer in modern dance, led to her lifelong exploration of nature as inspiration and guide, and to the formation of Airth, her own technique and philosophy. Returning to her hometown of Ocean Springs in 1983, she continued teaching and performing Airth, publishing her first book, Dancing Through Airth, in 1986. Dancing with My Father was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2005. Along the way, other forms of expression evolved out of her firm grounding in dance and the practice of Airth: writing, drawing, sculpture, painting, and music.
Individual tickets, $10.
Contact the Office of Continuing Education at 601- 974-1130
Wednesday, September 16
“The Defenestration of Pluto, the Rise and Fall of the Ninth Planet”
Noon, Sullivan Harrell Room 263
Lecture by Dr. Shadow JQ Robinson about how in August 2006, after years of debate, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact Shadow JQ Robinson at 601- 974- 1348 or robins1@millsaps.edu
Friday, September 18
Friday Forum
Paulette Bethel: “The New Normal: Obama and Other Third Culture Kids Using the Gifts of Their Global Childhoods”
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Like an increasing number of people, both major 2008 presidential candidates grew up as “Third Culture Kids” outside their parents’ culture, relating to both cultures without a sense of full ownership of either, feeling most akin to others with the same type of early experience. Accelerating globalization makes understanding TCKs important for everyone. Dr. Bethel is a licensed psychotherapist, researcher, consultant, trainer, and certified global executive coach specializing in cross-cultural management and global transition impacts.
Free
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Sunday, September 20
Faculty Recital: Cheryl Coker, soprano & friends
3 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Faculty artist Cheryl Coker performs works by Handel, Cimarosa, Dottori, Viardot, Fauré and Sclater. She will be assisted by Millsaps graduate Christina Coker Hrivnak, soprano; Janette Sudderth, piano; Jimmy Turner, guitar and Xie Song, violin.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Sunday, September 21 through October 15
April Flanders: Infectious
Lewis Art Gallery, Ford Academic Complex, third floor.
Works by April Flanders, a professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.Through a variety of mediums, this work critiques modern consumerism by juxtaposing it with images of parasitic organisms.
www.aprilflanders.com
Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com.
Tuesday September 22
Southern Circuit Film Series, 2008-2009
“Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records” with Jeff Alulis, director
7 p.m. For Academic Complex Room 215
Founded by two Canadian brothers Shawn and Mark Stern from the influential L.A. punk band Youth Brigade, the BYO was part political movement, part business venture. It was a way to organize punks to take positive action to help sustain their scene and their way of life. The ideals upon which it was founded helped countless bands put on shows, put out records, and otherwise get their music out to the world. It allowed for the making of the landmark punk documentary 'Another State of Mind'. And it spawned BYO Records, which stands today as one of the oldest surviving independent punk rock labels in the world. BYO, Youth Brigade, and the Stern family are three intertwined entities that comprise a too-often-overlooked chapter in the history of punk. This is that chapter.
Free
Contact Melissa Lea at 601-974-1755 or leama@millsaps.edu
Friday, September 25
Friday Forum
“Watch with Greg Miller”
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Greg Miller, Department of English
Dr. Miller reads from his forthcoming book of poems, Watch. From the book description by the University of Chicago Press: “Artfully combining the religious and secular worldviews in his own sense of human culture, Miller complicates our understanding of all three. The poems in Watch sift layers of natural and human history across several continents, observing paintings, archeological digs, cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes-all in an attempt to envision a clear, grounded spiritual life.”
Free
Contact Steven Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, September 25 through Saturday, September 26
Guest Artist: Robert Crowe, male soprano – assisted by Rachel Heard, fortepiano
Concert co-sponsored by Millsaps Department of Performing Arts and Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music.
7:30 p.m. Friday recital - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
10:30 a.m. - Saturday masterclass - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall.
Described by the New York Times as "a male soprano of staggering gifts," Robert Crowe completed his education at the Manhattan School of Music, after receiving a master of music from Boston University School for the Arts and a bachelor of music from Millsaps College. In 1995 he was only the second countertenor (and first male soprano) to be a National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Since that time he has had a very successful career in Europe and the United States. Craig Smith of New Mexican says, "Neither length nor complexity faze American male soprano Robert Crowe... The fascinating timbre of his voice is like sharp-edged silver swaddled in and gleaming through velvet..."
Free admission – Donations accepted (Open to the public).
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422.
Sunday, September 27
Guest Concert: Carlow Choir, director John De Chiaro
2:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A vocal ensemble composed of over 150 members from Louisiana and Mississippi has performed in both those states, as well as Italy, and is headed on tour to its namesake Carlow College in Ireland. They are releasing their first CD “Reflections of the Heart” this summer.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Tuesday, September 29
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in a Changing Society
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sullivan-Harrell Hall, room 347
Brown bag lecture by Lorenc Bejko, professor of archaeology at the University of Tirana, Albania.
Sullivan-Harrell 347, in the Sociology-Anthropology Department.
Free.
Contact Michael L. Galaty at 601-974-1387 or galatml@millsaps.edu.
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