Events – Fall
Fall Highlights
■ Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
The Carolina Summer Reading Program
August 18, 2008
7:30PM, MEMORIAL HALL
Author Kenji Yoshino will give a lecture and answer questions about his book.
■ Feminine and Masculine in Ovid’s Poetry
Ackland Art Museum
AUGUST 20 – Ongoing 2008
With ten prints and one sculpture, Feminine and Masculine examines persistent ideas about gender and gender roles as presented in tales of ancient deities, such as Jupiter, Venus, and Apollo. For more information, visit www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.
■ In the Continuum
Presented by Playmakers Repertory Company
SEPTEMBER 10 – 14, 2008
KENAN THEATRE
Written by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter,
this is the powerful story of two black women, one in South Central Los Angeles and one in Harare, Zimbabwe, whose contemporaneous HIV diagnoses bring the international AIDS epidemic down to very human, very personal terms. For more information contact Playmakers at 919-962-PLAY
■ Chisholm’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Stone Center for Black Culture and History
SEPTEMBER 16TH AT 7PM
The first historical documentary on Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972. There will be a post-discussion event with the film’s producer Shola Lynch. For more information contact ulittlej@email.unc.edu or call (919) 962-0395.
■ Discussion of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
UNC GAA
SEPTEMBER 24, 7:30pm
GEORGE WATTS HILL ALUMNI CENTER
The book selected for this year’s summer reading program for incoming Carolina students looks at how people with stigmatized identities, based on differences in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or disability status, are coerced into toning down, or covering, those identities. Join an exploration of Covering and discuss Kenji Yoshino’s belief that these behaviors are harmful for those who practice them, have damaging fall-out for the more socially-dominant groups, and threaten the civil rights of us all. Tuition is $10.00, although there is no charge for GAA members if pre-registered. Please visit http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=6095 for more information.
■ Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
Stone Center for Black Culture and History
SEPTEMBER 25 – pre-performance reception 6pm, performance 7pm
Stone Center
UNC Alumnus E. Patrick Johnson’s one-man performance chronicles first-hand accounts of black gay males in the South. For more information contact ulittlej@email.unc.edu or call (919) 962-0395.
■ { it is in you }
Process Series
SEPTEMBER 26 – 27, 2008 TIME?
Gerrard Hall
Written by Marie Garlock, directed by Joseph Megal, this performance uses storytelling, dance/movement, live music and spoken word to explore the politics of development, HIV, and the body with the stories and wisdom of educators, students and artists in Tanzania.
■ Lulu
DDA Mainstage
OCTOBER 3-7, 2008 – Friday – Monday 8:15pm, Monday 4pm, Tuesday 5pm
KENAN THEATRE
Munich, 1894. A series of spouses, lovers and mentors come to abrupt ends through their association with Lulu, one of the most enigmatic characters ever created for the stage. Wedekind’s unpredictable, kaleidoscopic journey through the lethal worlds of love and desire is equal parts furious social indictment, ferocious satire and flamboyant spectacular, and endures as a powerful exploration of the troubling links between sex and violence.
■ To Be Straight With You: DV8 Physical Theatre
Carolina Performing Arts
OCTOBER 9, 2008 – 7:30PM
OCTOBER 10, 2008 – 8 PM
MEMORIAL HALL
A dance theatre piece based on hundreds of hours of audio interviews, the multiethnic cast offers a poetic and unflinching exploration of intolerance, religion and sexuality.
■ For the Bible Tells Me So
Carolina Women’s Center / LGBTQ
Screening and Discussion
OCTOBER 13, 6–9PM TBD
This award-winning documentary explores the experience of being caught in the crosshairs of scriptureand sexual identity through the lives of five Christian families with gay children. For more information,contact the Carolina Women’s Center at cwc@unc.edu or (919) 962-8305.
■ Vivien and The Shadows: Ong Keng Sen/Theatreworks
Carolina Performing Arts
OCTOBER 21, 2008
7:30PM, MEMORIAL HALL
A soul-stimulating, post-modern spectacle, Vivien and The Shadows melds film/performance, race, genderand sexuality and transports us into the fantasy world of Vivien Leigh’s Blanche Dubois, inspired by the 1951 film, A Streetcar Named Desire.
■ Mother Courage and Her Children
Justice Theatre Project
OCTOBER 24–NOVEMBER 16
Part drama, part musical, this play entertains and engages the audience while following the life of Mother Courage and her three children. For more information, email marketing@TheJusticeTheaterProject.org or call 259-6936
■ This is Our Youth & A Bright Room Called Day
LAB! Theatre
OCTOBER 23–30
KENAN THEATRE
Two plays running in repertory, the first written by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Jon Haas and the second written by Tony ushner, directed by Ryan Tumulty. Both deal with the issues of gender and identity through the lens of youth, and with multiple perspectives.
■ The Rite of Spring: Compagnie Heddy Maalem
Carolina Performing Arts
OCTOBER 25, 2008
8PM, MEMORIAL HALL
Fourteen dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Mozambique and Senegal come together for Heddy Maalem’s explosive interpretation of the infamous 1913 Stravinsky/Nijinsky ballet.
■ Druid Theatre Company
Carolina Performing Arts
OCTOBER 29 AND OCTOBER 30, 2008
7:30PM, MEMORIAL HALL
Set in an isolated cottage in County Wicklow, John Millington Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen (1905)centers around a loveless and decaying marriage of convenience. Playboy of the Western World (1907)portrays the conflict between illusion and reality in Synge’s comic masterpiece.
■ Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Department of Music / UNC Opera
NOVEMBER 21–22, 2008
8:00PM, HILL HALL AUDITORIUM
Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is a surrealist two-act opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc,based on a text by Guillaume Apollinaire. Contact Terry Rhodes trhodes@unc.edu
■ Final Girl
UNC Department of Communication Studies
DECEMBER 3, 2008
6:00PM, BINGHAM HALL Room 203
An evening of four student-created performance works, based on the poetry of Daphne Gottlieb, that explore the role of gender in the slasher movie. Gottlieb’s poems investigate how the figure of the final girl (who stays alive to kill the killer) and the technology of film create both an opportunity to challenge norms of gender identity as well as a rehearsal of the same old gender scripts. These four performances use stunning visual imagery, engaging physical theatre, and a poetic theatrical aesthetic to ask critical questions about how gender is constructed and deconstructed in popular culture. Admission is by donation at the door. For more information contact Tony Perucci 919-962-4944 perucci@unc.edu.
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