Events and Exhibits

“Bach Bowl!” Emory University Organist Recital Series
Feb 05 @ 4:00pm ~ Feb 05 @ 6:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
This year’s program features Bach concertos for pianists Keiko and William Ransom and organists Tamara and Timothy Albrecht. The finale adds the exciting Vega String Quartet! Free event, boxoffice@emory.edu.
Call 404.727.5050 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

Lawrence Millman, Reading
Feb 06 @ 6:30pm ~ Feb 10 @ 8:30pm
Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA
Non-Fiction Writer. Lawrence Millman is an adventure travel writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of eleven books, including “Our Like Will Not Be There Again,” “Northern Latitudes,” “Last Places,” “An Evening Among Headhunters,” “A Kayak Full of Ghosts,” and “Lost in the Arctic.” His awards include a Northern Lights Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, an award for the best article on Canada in a U.K. publication (1996), and a Pacific- Asia Gold Travel Award. He has been anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing” three years in a row. Millman holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University. Booksigning to follow. creativewriting@emory.edu, free event.
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Lawrence Millman, Colloquium
Feb 07 @ 2:30pm ~ Feb 07 @ 3:30pm
N301 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA
Non-Fiction Writer. Lawrence Millman is an adventure travel writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of eleven books, including “Our Like Will Not Be There Again,” “Northern Latitudes,” “Last Places,” “An Evening Among Headhunters,” “A Kayak Full of Ghosts,” and “Lost in the Arctic.” His awards include a Northern Lights Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, an award for the best article on Canada in a U.K. publication (1996), and a Pacific- Asia Gold Travel Award. He has been anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing” three years in a row. Millman holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University. creativewriting@emory.edu, free event.
Call 404-727-4683 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

Emory Friends of Dance Lecture: “Love Poems to God: The Contemplative Artistry of Dianne McIntyre,” Dr. Veta Goler, Spelman College
Feb 07 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 07 @ 9:30pm
Oxford Road Building, Presentation Room
1390 Oxford Rd., Atlanta, GA
Early in her career, Dianne McIntyre distinguished herself as a choreographer by creating dance works through improvisation. As her career has unfolded, she has turned to spirituality as a major theme. In this talk, Veta Goler will discuss McIntyre as a contemplative artist—an artist whose creative approaches are based in accessing the present moment, one who explores experiences of spirituality in daily life, and one whose works help viewers to connect with a deep place within themselves. Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion. Free event, dance@emory.edu.
Call 404.727.7266 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

“Visions of Light,” Film Screening
Feb 08 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 08 @ 10:00pm
White Hall 205
301 Dowman Dr., Atlanta, GA
(Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels, 1992) (1.85:1, 92 min.) Featuring interviews with the cinematographers. We are including in our series on cinematography this acclaimed documentary from the American Film Institute on the history and art of motion picture cinematography, featuring interviews with all of the above cinematographers talking about the history of their craft to the former chief film critic at "Variety," Todd McCarthy. Free event.
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Authors Night Out! - Gypsy Theatre Company
Feb 10 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 10 @ 10:00pm
The Cumming Playhouse
101 School Street, Cumming
Gypsy Theatre Company is proud to present their first Authors Night Out! Our first guests to join us are the authors of THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB--Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, who are currently enjoying the reputation of being three of the most widely-produced comedic playwrights in America. On Friday, February 10th, please join us for our production of THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB and meet the playwrights! After the show, Jones, Hope & Wooten will take the stage and regale us with their trials, tribulations and triumphs as authors--followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Directly following the Q&A there will be a "Mix & Mingle" with the authors down the hall in Tam's Backstage restaurant with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
Call 770-781-9178 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

“Eraserhead,” Film Screening
Feb 10 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 10 @ 10:00pm
White Hall 205
301 Dowman Dr., Atlanta, GA
(1977) This is the first feature film created by David Lynch, who went on to the "The Elephant Man," "Dune," many other films, and the popular television series, "Twin Peaks." Fans of the film include Stanley Kubrick, Mel Brooks, George Lucas, and John Waters. According to commentaries, Kubrick considered it his "most spiritual movie." The discussant, Dr. Mark James, has been intrigued by the film for many years due to its strange, evocative, dreamlike, surreal, primary process qualities. Dr. James is a psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. Presented by the psychoanalytic community in Atlanta and The Atlanta Foundation for Psychoanalysis. Free event.
Call 404-727-5886 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

Pajama Concert, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Family Series
Feb 10 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 10 @ 9:30pm
Michael C. Carlos Museum
571 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA
Enjoy hot chocolate with marshmallows on a winter evening with Night Music by Mozart, Chopin, Bartok, Beethoven and Schumann. The Vega Quartet and pianist William Ransom perform. Wear your pajamas if you like (not required) and bring a pillow! Fun for all ages. Tickets: $4; Museum members family level and above, free (limit 4). boxoffice@emory.edu
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Emory Annual Jazz Fest, Sachal Vasandani and the Gary Motley Trio
Feb 10 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 10 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
Versatile vocalist Sachal Vasandani is a fresh, young talent who displays a deep-brewed voice and possesses an uncanny sensibility to straddle the fine line between jazz and pop with songs that teem with emotion and intellect. He performs with Gary Motley, piano; Herman Burney, bass; and Terreon Gully, drums as part of the Emory Annual Jazz Fest. Tickets: $15; Discount Category Members $10; Emory students free. boxoffice@emory.edu.
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Side by Side, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Noontime Series
Feb 10 @ 12:00pm ~ Feb 10 @ 2:00pm
Michael C. Carlos Museum
571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA
Mozart's "Gran Partita" for winds with Emory faculty and students joining forces.boxoffice@emory.edu, free event.
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Emory Annual Jazz Fest, Big Band Night
Feb 11 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 11 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
boxoffice@emory.edu, free event
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Scholar's Seminar on Modernism
Feb 12 @ 9:00am ~ Feb 12 @ 4:00pm
Michael C. Carlos Museum
571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA
What was Modernism? Was it a style, an ideal, a politics, a form of life or none of these things? And what about its central concepts like authorship, realism, truth, teleology, medium specificity, and expression? With the growing sense that Postmodernism is in decline, we might begin to get a clearer sense of what Modernism was and what its aims were. This symposium asks whether Modernism is dead for good (and for the best), or whether its death was announced prematurely. Discussion format: Nell Andrew (UGA), Todd Cronan (Emory), Lisa Florman (Ohio State), Elizabeth Goodstein (Emory), Sarah Hamill (Oberlin), Gordon Hughes (Rice), Dalia Judowitz (Emory), Andrew Mitchell (Emory), Charles Palermo (William and Mary), Michael Schreyach (Trinity), and others.todd.cronan@emory.edu, free.
Call 404.727.0513 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

“Sweet Smell of Success,” Film Screening
Feb 15 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 15 @ 10:00pm
White Hall 205
301 Dowman Dr., Atlanta, GA
(Alexander Mackendrick; Hill-Hecht-Lancaster/UA, 1957) (1.66:1, 96 min.) Written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman; music by Elmer Bernstein and the Chico Hamilton Quartet; starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Cinematography by James Wong Howe. "Sweet Smell of Success" was dubbed by one period reviewer “one of the most cynical movies ever made.” The steely stillness of Burt Lancaster’s performance as the Walter Winchell-based columnist J.J. Hunsecker may have justly earned him a place in AFI’s top 50 movie villains but Tony Curtis’ endlessly ingratiating and deliciously craven press agent Sidney Falco is the heart of this black-hearted movie: That is, if you don’t count Howe’s rendering of New York City itself. Voted onto the National Film Registry in 1993. Free event.
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Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra
Feb 15 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 15 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
boxoffice@emory.edu, free event.
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The Lovis Corinth Colloquium
Feb 16 @ 9:00am ~ Feb 18 @ 6:00pm
Goizueta Business School, Room 130
1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
The program is entitled ‘Ab historia proprie figurativa: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1600.’ Free event.
Call 404.727.6282 or visit their website for more information or reservations.

Asian Music Festival
Feb 16 @ 7:00pm ~ Feb 19 @ 9:00pm
Performing Arts Studio
1804 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
The Department of Music presents four concerts performed by the seven Asian music ensembles in the world music program, featuring classical genres, folk repertoire, and new compositions in the music of China, Korea, Indonesia, North India, South India and Tibet. boxoffice@emory.edu, free event. (Feb. 16-19), Thurs., Feb. 16, Sat., Feb. 18 and Sun., Feb. 19, 2012, 7 p.m., Sun., Feb. 19, 2012, 3 p.m.
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Kronos Quartet with Alim Qasimov Ensemble, Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series
Feb 17 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 17 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
The collaboration between Kronos Quartet and the Alim Qasimov Ensemble produces powerful pieces drawn from the repertoire of Azerbaijani ashiqs—oral-tradition singer-songwriters whose song texts portray, often with wry humor and searing irony, the power of love and the pain of separation. The legendary singer Alim Qasimov is called “one of the most thrilling, unashamedly emotional performers on the planet” (Robin Denselow, the “Guardian”). boxoffice@emory.edu, tickets: $38; Discount Category Members $30; Emory students $10.
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“T-Men,” Film Screening
Feb 22 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 22 @ 10:00pm
White Hall 205
301 Dowman Dr., Atlanta, GA
(Anthony Mann, Eagle-Lion, 1947) (1.37:1, 92 min.) Produced by Aubrey Schenck; written by John Higgins and Virginia Kellogg; starring Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford and Alfred Ryder. Cinematography by John Alton. Preserved by the Library of Congress. The first of five films to team Mann and Alton, this low budget, “case-file” crime drama became a major hit for the young Eagle-Lion studio. Though initially received as a new high in location-based realism, today Alton’s low-key lighting effects virtually define film noir visuals at their most stylized, expressionistic extreme.
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Poetry Reading with Matthea Harvey, Zach Schomburg
Feb 23 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 23 @ 10:00pm
Emory Bookstore
1390 Oxford Rd., Atlanta, GA
free event, abrandewie@hotmail.com, www.poetrycouncil.campuslifetech.org.
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The Radio Show, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series
Feb 23 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 25 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Dance Studio
1700 N. Decatur Rd, Atlanta, GA
Pittsburgh-native Kyle Abraham delves into identity and personal history in The Radio Show. Creating an abstract narrative around the loss of communication, he investigates the effects of the abrupt discontinuation of Pittsburgh radio station WAMO on a community, and the lingering effects of Alzheimer's and aphasia on a family. Abraham mixes recordings of classic soul and hip hop with contemporary classical compositions to create an eclectic score that evokes fond memories and a passion for what is lost. boxoffice@emory.edu, tickets $20; Discount Category Members $15; Students $10.
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Emory Wind Ensemble
Feb 24 @ 8:00pm ~ Feb 24 @ 10:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
boxoffice@emory.edu, free event
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Jonathan Biggers, organ, Emory University Organist Recital Series
Feb 26 @ 4:00pm ~ Feb 26 @ 6:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall
1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA
Organ professor at SUNY Binghamton, Jonathan Biggers performs to acclaim around the world. Come enjoy the Fantastic Fantasies of Mozart, Franck, and Reger! boxoffice@emory.edu, free event.
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“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Film Screening, with introduction by Salman Rushdie
Feb 29 @ 7:30pm ~ Feb 29 @ 10:00pm
White Hall 208
301 Dowman Dr., Atlanta, GA
(William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt; Warner Bros., 1935) (1.37:1, 133 min.) Produced by Henry Blanke; from the play by William Shakespeare; starring; Ian Hunter (Theseus), Verree Teasdale (Hippolyta), Dick Powell (Lysander), Olivia de Havilland (Hermia), James Cagney (Bottom), Joe E. Brown (Flute), Mickey Rooney (Puck) and Billy Barty (Mustard-Seed). Cinematography by Hal Mohr. Preserved by the Library of Congress. Free event. .
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