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February 19, 2003


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Calendar for February 20 - March 5

For complete listings of Carolina events, see the Carolina Calendar

For complete listings of Carolina athletics, see tarheelblue.com

Library Schedules
Readings/Films/Performances
Attractions
Galleries/Exhibits
Lectures/Colloquia/Seminars
Noteworthy
Deadlines to Watch
Fitness/Recreation/Wellness
Coming Up

 

Readings/Films/Performances


BULL'S HEAD BOOKSHOP
Call 962-5060, bullshead@store.unc.edu, www.store.unc.edu/bullshead.

2/27 Kenneth Janken reads from "White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP."

2/28 Sally Armstrong reads from "Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the women of Afghanistan." (The book's subject, Sima Samar, appears on campus 2/27; see listing under "Lectures" for that date.)

CAROLINA ASIA CENTER, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, ASIAN STUDIES
E-mail Jan Bardsley, bardsley@email.unc.edu.

2/25 Young Japan film series: "Kishiwada Bad Boys." Aud, Student Union. 7-9 pm.

3/4 Young Japan film series: "Aiko - Sweet Sixteen." 103 Bingham. 7-9 pm.

CAROLINA UNION ACTIVITIES BOARD
Call 962-1449 for privilege card; 962-2285 for info. www.unc.edu/cuab/cuab-movies.htm. Films are shown in Film Aud, Student Union.

2/21, 22 "The Princess and the Warrior." Fri, 7 pm; Sat, 9:15 pm.

2/21, 22 "Standing in the Shadows of

Motown." Fri, 9:45 pm; Sat, 7 pm.

2/28; 3/1 "The Ring." 7, 9:30 pm.

CAROLINA UNION PERFORMING ARTS SERIES
Call 962-1449. www.performingartsseries.unc.edu. $

2/28 Charlie Haden's Quartet West. Hill. 8 pm.

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH

2/27 Writing the South New Speakers Series: Randall Kenan. 08 Gardner. 7:30 pm.

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS'S COLLEGE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Call 962-0313.

2/24 "Wrecked on the Diamond Shoals." Discussion by Bland Simpson, author of "Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering. Alumni Ctr. 2:30-4 pm. $ George Watts Hill Alumni Center .

JOHNSTON CENTER FOR UNDERGRADUATE EXCELLENCE
Call 966-5110. www.unc.edu/depts/jcue

All events occur at Morehead Lounge, Graham Memorial, 11:30 am.

2/20 Sarah Rae Peters, traditional Indian Bharatanatyam dancing.

2/27 Jonathan Byrd performs contemporary Southern folk music.

MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Call 962-1039 or 2-2224. www.unc.edu/depts/music/

Note: See page 2 story for Carolina Jazz Festival events at the music department.

2/20 Faculty Recital: Donna Darden, soprano; David McChesney, trumpet. Aug, Hill. 8 pm.

2/21 Faculty Recital: Anne Larson Dyke, flute; Barbara Ann Peters, soprano; James Bumgardner, piano. Aud, Hill. 7 pm.

2/25 UNC Symphony Orchestra. Aud, Hill. 8 pm.

3/4 UNC Symphony Band. Aud, Hill. 8 pm.

WILLIAM S. NEWMAN ARTISTS SERIES

Call 962-1039. www.unc.edu/depts/music/. $

3/2 Emory Chamber Players. Aud, Hill. 8 pm.

PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY
Call 962-7529, www.playmakersrep.org Paul Green Theater. $ Tues - Saturday, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm. $

2/26-3/23 "Uncle Vanya."

SONJA HAYNES STONE CENTER FOR BLACK CULTURE AND HISTORY
Call 962-9001, shsbcc@email.unc.edu, www.unc.edu/depts/bcc/.

2/20 Midday Film Festival: "The Hate that Hate

Produced. 110 Lenoir. Noon.

2/25 Midday Film Festival: "Dôlè (Money)."

110 Lenoir. Noon.

2/26 "Nat Turner, A Troublesome Property." Aud, Student Union. 7 pm. Discussion follows with film's director, Charles Burnett.

2/27 Midday Film Festival: "Mi Otro Yo," Hip Hop SP," "El Puente." Lenoir. Noon.

2/27 "Nat Turner, A Troublesome Property." Discussion follows with film's director, Charles Burnett. Aud, Student Union. 7 pm.

STREETSIGNS CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
Call 843-3865, strtsigns@aol.com, www.streetsigns.org.
Studio 6 Theater. Wed-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm.

Through 3/2 "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992." Studio 6 Theater, Swain.

UNC DANCE MARATHON
Contact Marcellus Parker, 260-1045, Marcellus@unc.edu, www.uncmarathon.org.

2/21,22 Fundraiser for N.C. Children's Hospital. Fetzer Gym. 7 pm.

WORDSHED PRODUCTIONS

Call 969-7121; wordshed@unc.edu. Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm. Swain Hall. $

2/21-23 "Coming Home: Memories from the Heart of Appalachia." 203 Bingham.


Attractions


MOREHEAD PLANETARIUM

Call 549-6863 for show times or 962-1236.www.morehead.unc.edu/, spinelli@email.unc.edu. No public shows Mon through Wed. $

"Carolina Skies"

"Larry, Cat in Space"

"Sky Safari"

"Sol & Company"

"Solar System Adventure"

NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN

Hours
Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm; Sat, 9 am-5 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm. Piedmont Nature Trails: Dawn to dusk daily. (Main visitor area will be closed 1/20.)

Call 962-0522, www.unc.edu/depts/ncbg/.

Registration required & $ unless noted otherwise.

Exhibits
"Botanical Journeys: At Home and Abroad Photographs by Jean Anne Leuchtenburg. Through 2/28.

Tours/Walks/Hikes
2/22, 3/1 Plant Collections tour. 10-11 am. Free.

Classes
Call 962-0522 to register.

3/3, 10, 17, 24 Botanical Illustration: Color Theory II. 1-4 pm.


Galleries/Exhibits

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM
Wed-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm. Call 406-9837 (tape), 966-5736 (voice), 962-0837 (TTY); ackland@email.unc.edu, www.ackland.org

Artist in Residence
Through 26 Deepak Joshi, renowned tangka painter from Nepal, demonstrates the various steps and techniques of creating a Buddhist tangka painting. Yager Gallery of Asian Art. Wed-Fri, noon-2 pm; Sat-Sun, 1-4:30 pm.

Director's Series 3
/1 "How big is big enough? Architecture for an art museum." Lecture by Katharine Lee Reid, Cleveland Museum of Art, followed by dinner. 6 pm. $

Gallery Talk
2/23 Deepak Joshi gives talk on the processes and techniques involved in producing a Buddhist tangka painting. 3 pm.

Ongoing Exhibitions
"Buddhist Art and Ritual from Nepal and Tibet." Through 3/2.

"Journey into the Past: Ancient Mediterranean Art in Context."Through 3/23.

"Biennial UNC-Chapel Hill Studio Art Faculty Exhibition." Through 3/23.

"In the Studio: Art and Art-making in Nineteenth-century France." Through 5/25.

ALLCOTT GALLERY
Hanes Art. Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Call 962-2015, www.unc.edu/depts/art

"Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper." 1/27-2/28. Opening reception 1/30, 7-9 pm. Talk by master printmaker Lynn Allen. 7 pm.

Willie Cole. Sculptural installations. Opens 3/3 through 4/4. Opening reception 3/6, 7-9 pm, preceded by lecture at 6 pm.

CURRICULUM IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
207 Caldwell. Mon-Fri, 7:30 am-4 pm.

"No Call for Pity." The work of Edie Cohn, Reneé Baker and Sharyn Jordan Holland. Through Feb.

WILSON LIBRARY
Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm (NC Collection Gallery opens at 9 am.). Weekend hours vary by exhibit; call 962-0114 for details. NC Collection Gallery offers guided tours Wednesdays at 2 pm, other times by appointment. Call 962-1172.

First (Ground) Floor
"The First State University." Hall.

Second (Main) Floor
"The History of the North Carolina Collection." Hall.

"The Photography of Bayard Wootten." Pleasants Family Assembly Rm. (Not accessible during meetings.)

"'All the Charms of Nature': A History of Landscaping at UNC-Chapel Hill." Opens 2/3. Also, exhibits on Sir Walter Raleigh, UNC history, rare bird prints, Eng and Chang, plus historic rooms. NC Collection Gallery.

"'Capturing a Giant:' The Thomas Wolfe Collection of Aldo P. Magi." NC Collection Reading Room.

Third Floor
"William Chambers Coker: The Legacy of a Lifelong Botanist." Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room. Opens 2/3.

Fourth Floor
"The Popes of North Carolina: An African-American Family from Reconstruction to Civil Rights." Opening reception 2/19, 5 pm.


Lectures/Colloquia/Seminars

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Program on Aging, Carolina Geriatric Education Center 14th Annual Challenges in Geriatric Practice Conference. Friday Ctr.

Women's Studies "Picturing Oral Histories: The Homeless People's Project." Edie Cohn, artist, activist discusses her work drawing and interviewing homeless women and men in Durham. 100 Hamilton. 7 pm.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies "From Realism to Modernism in Russian Art: Valentin Serov as Pivot." Conf Rm, University Center for International Studies. 4 pm.

Department of Music Carolina Lectures in Music and Culture: Renaissance Music. Anthony Newcomb, U California-Berkeley. 103 Hill. 4:15 pm.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24

University Center for International Studies "Migration Transitions: Latina Immigrant Women's Photo Narrative." Deborah Bender. 1301 McGavran- Greenberg. 12:30 pm.

School of Education "Jazz Across the Curriculum," series of concerts, conversations about creativity, structure, education. Presented by Arts/Education Agenda. Cameron Park Elementary School, Hillsborough. 4-5 pm.

School of Education Groundbreaking and Horizons Lecture: "A Teacher's Repertoire: Supporting the Full Intellectual and Professional Development of Practicing Teachers." Patricia Wasley, U. Washington. Smith Middle School. Groundbreaking, 5:30 pm; lecture, 6:30 pm.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

School of Public Health "Bioterrorism: Implications for Public Health and Biomedical Research." Gail H. Cassell, Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis. 1301 McGavran-Greenberg. 9:30 am. Open discussion forum presented by Cassell: 331 Rosenau. 12:30 pm.

Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean's Speaker Series 2003: Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist, "The New York Times." Koury Aud, McColl. 5:30 pm.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Souls of Black Folk Symposium Series: "Imprisoned Intellectuals/Imprisoned Souls." Joy James. Old Well Rm, Carolina Inn. Noon.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

University Center for International Studies Distinguished Speaker Series: "We Had to Make a Space for Ourselves: The Women of Afghanistan." Sima Samar, chair, Independent Afghanistan Human Rights Commission. Alumni Hall I, II, Alumni Ctr. 4 pm.

Women's Studies "A Promise and a Way of Life: Antiracist Activism." Becky Thompson, Duke U. Aud, Hanes Art. 4 pm.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 - SATURDAY, MARCH 1

School of Education Eighth Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Educational Studies. Carroll. Fri, 5-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1

Department of Music 25th Anniversary Carolina Jazz Symposium. Person Recital. 9 am.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4

Association for Women Faculty and Professionals "Advances in the Detection of Breast Cancer and the Diagnosis of Breast Problems." Etta Pisano. Aud, Tate-Turner-Kuralt. 4 pm.

Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean's Speaker Series 2003: Sallie L. Krawcheck, chairman, CEO, Smith Barney. Koury Aud, McColl. 5:30 pm.

School of Journalism and Mass Communication Reed Sarratt lecture. Carl Kassell, National Public Radio. Aud, Carroll. 5 pm.

School of Medicine Mini-Medical School: "Basic Neuroscience Frontiers." William Snider, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Mohanish Deshmukh discuss "Brain and Spinal Cord Repair," "Genes, Brain Development and Disease" and "How Neurons Die: the Road to Prevention." Friday Ctr. 7-9 pm. $

Stone Center Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture: Pearl Cleage, essayist, poet, journalist. 100 Hamilton. 7 pm.


Noteworthy

CAMPUS Y
campus-y.unc.edu/events/beathungerbeatstate.html.

Through 2/25 Beat Hunger, Beat State! Food-drive competition between Carolina and N.C. State to collect food for Food Bank of North Carolina.

DAVIS LIBRARY TOURS
Call 962-1151, pphinton@email.unc.edu.

3/5 Intro to Davis & the campus library system. 3 pm.

EMPLOYEE FORUM
www.unc.edu/staff/forum/.

3/5 Assembly Rm, Wilson Library. 9:30 am.

LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
www.checkyourinsidesout.com, cancer.med.unc.edu.

Through 2/22 Colossal Colon Tour. Tent adjacent to Graham Memorial, Alumni Bldg, Morehead Planetarium. Wed, 10 am-7 pm; Thu-Sat, 9 am-7 pm.


Deadlines to Watch

TAR HEEL LANE AT APPLE CHILL
Contact Laura Fine, 843-2787, e-mail artsunc@email.unc.edu, www.artscarolina.org.

2/28 Applications due for departments, student organizations and individuals to participate in Apple Chill on 4/27, 1-6 pm.

"HILLBILLY SOURCES AND SYMBOLS: COUNTRY MUSIC, CULTURAL BROKERAGE AND `O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?'"

Contact Steve Weiss, 962-1345, smweiss@ email.unc.edu. www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/hillbilly.html.

3/24 Deadline to register for 4/5 conference, hosted by Center for the Study of the American South, Academic Affairs Library, Music in Context.


Fitness/Recreation/Wellness

CAMPUS RECREATION
203 Woollen Gym. Call 843-PLAY. pomerant@email.unc.edu, www.campusrec.unc.edu. Gym/pool privilege card required.

For complete listings of campus recreation facilities and links to each program, refer to www.campusrec.unc.edu/Facilities.htm.

H.E.E.L.S. FOR HEALTH
115 Women's Gym. Contact Holly Tiemann, 962-3422, hatiem@email.unc.edu. www.ais.unc.edu/hr/heels
Gym/pool privilege card required.

Refer to web site for complete listings of education and exercise classes, Fitness Center schedule, FitPlus Incentives Program, Fun Run/Walks and the Wednesday Wellness program.


Coming Up

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

Wordshed Productions "Accomplices: Joyce, Beckett, and Pinter." Through 3/16. Studio 6 Theatre, Swain. Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 6 pm.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

Wordshed Productions "Finding Beulah Mae." Through 3/9. 203 Bingham. Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 6 pm.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

National Outdoor Drama Auditions 7:30 am-6 pm. Call 962-1328 for info.

Carolina Union Performing Arts Series Pilobolus Too. Aud, Hill. 8 pm. Call 962-1449. www.performingartsseries.unc.edu. $

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

Creative Writing, Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program Public reading by Calvin Trillin, writer, humorist, commentator. Carroll. 7:30 pm.

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

Center for the Study of the American South Writing the South New Speakers Series: Lee Smith & Hal Crowther. 08 Gardner. 7:30 pm.


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