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Columns::August 19, 2002

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2nd Thursday schedule set

UGA’s School of Music has announced the schedule of 2nd Thursday concerts for the coming academic year. All concerts begin at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center.
Single-event tickets may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center box office at 542-4400. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for UGA students. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and two hours prior to all events.
A limited number of season subscriptions are still available for $15. The deadline for subscription orders is Sept. 12.
The season schedule:

Sept. 12: Mark Cedel and the UGA Symphony Orchestra with John Mack, oboe soloist, performing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Oboe Concerto.

Oct. 10: UGA Wind Symphony, with winners of the annual School of Music Concerto Competition as soloists.

Nov. 14: “An Evening with Franz Liszt,” featuring Liszt specialist Alan Walker as narrator, joined by UGA voice and piano faculty.

Fri., Dec. 6, and (repeated) Sat., Dec. 7: “A School of Music Christmas,” with Fred Mills and the Georgia Brass joined by UGA Choruses.

Jan. 9: Russian piano music with Evgeny Rivkin, piano.

Feb. 13: Shostakovich duos with Levon Ambartsumian, violin, and Anatoly Sheludyakov, piano.

March 13: Epsilon Brass Ensemble, a French brass quartet in the tradition of the Canadian Brass.

April 10: “Lips and Sticks!” Flutist Angela Jones-Reus and percussionist Thomas McCutchen, joined by UGA’s Mass Marimba Ensemble.

Ongoing
Art exhibitions.
Little Objects Little Others, recent work by Kathryn Jill Johnson. Through Aug. 23. Broad Street Gallery, 257 West Broad Street. bosou@aol.com.

These Rare Lands. Through Sept. 1. Conservatory. Open Tues.-Sat., 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.
These Rare Lands is a Smithsonian traveling exhibition consisting of 44 large-format panoramic photographic portraits of national parks, monuments and battlefields.
All are the work of photographer Stan Jorstad, who refuses to use computer manipulation, either in the field or in the darkroom, because he fears it “threatens the credibility of nature photography.”

Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London. Through Sept. 29. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

The Bold and the Beautiful: Portraits by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst. Through Sept. 29. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

At Home and Abroad: Japan and Japonisme. Through Oct. 6. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Bunzlauer Style: German Pottery from Jugendstil to Art Deco. Through Oct. 6. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Exhibit.
Legends of the Deadball Era: Vintage Baseball Cards from the Richard B. Russell Collection. Through Nov. 22. Russell Library. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-8079.

Print and Poster Sale.
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Through Aug. 23. Room 309/Gallery, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.

Monday, August 19
First day of classes.

Tuesday, August 20
Theater.
The UGA Campus Show. 8 p.m. Arena Theatre, Fine Arts Building. Sponsored by the Turquoise Lawn Flamingos. 552-0603.

The Turquoise Lawn Flamingos are UGA’s resident undergraduate shortform improv troupe. This will be their first show of the 2002-03 season. The group of eight second-, third- and fourth-year students will perform improvisation games like those seen on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” in preparation for auditions for new members on Aug. 24 at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, August 21
Lunch-in-Theory.
“Pagan Urban Space and Christian Power: The Cities of Constantine the Great.” Asen Kirin, art. 12:20 p.m. 411 journalism building. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

ArtBeat.
“Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.” John Vance, English. 6:15-7:15 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Film.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert DeNiro as the monster (1994), in conjunction with the exhibition of Regency portraits (which includes Richard Rothwell’s 1830 portrait of Mary Shelley). 7:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Friday, August 23
Soccer.
Scrimmage vs. Florida State. 7 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Saturday, August 24
Art Exhibition.
Imperfect: Digital Paintings and Drawings by Matt Chansky. Through Sept. 13. Opening reception 7-9 p.m. Aug. 24. Main gallery, visual arts building. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art. 542-1511.
Chansky’s work examines our daily lives as workers in an increasingly technological environment. We are surrounded by fax machines, copiers, computers and printers--by indecipherable information. Chansky creates abstract “paintings” from the glitches and errors of computer programs. Within the gibberish of the lines and colors, the images mirror a heat sensor detecting a warm body.
He explains his intentions this way: “Erasures and computer display errors are harvested and matured into a field as the image develops. This complex terrain complements my interest in the side effects of progress--the anxieties and anomalies, and how they affect the human and man-made infrastructure.”
Chansky lives and works in Chapel Hill, N.C. He received an M.F.A. from Stanford University in 1990 and a B.F.A. in painting from Temple University in 1988.

Sunday, August 25
Live radio broadcast.
“Once in a Blue Moon Live.” $12. 6:30 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by WUGA-FM. 542-9842.
WUGA-FM 91.7/97.9 will cap its 15th anniversary celebration with the annual live radio show, “Once In a Blue Moon.”
The show will begin at 6:45 p.m.; attendees should arrive and be seated by 6:30 p.m. due to the requirements of the live broadcast.
Performers will include the bluegrass-folk band Skillet Lickers, the a capella group Noteworthy, world acoustic performers Dromedary, the piano blues group Jackie Avery and the Mississippi Dough Boys, UGA historian and author Nash Boney, writer-commentator Pete McCommons, and writer Augusta Trobaugh. The House Band includes Matthew White, Jamie DeRevere, John James, and Darrin Cook.

Monday, August 26
Art exhibition.
Michelle Penland and Bryan Dodson. Through Sept. 26. Room 309/Gallery, Tate Student Center (open 8 a.m.-midnight daily). Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.
The exhibition includes solo and collaborative paintings by local artists Penland and Dodson.
Penland’s figures on the canvas connect with the space around it; the boundaries between solid objects and space are blurred, creating a dream-like quality. Dodson’s paintings use abstract forms and images. He paints in a meditative state.

Coming up
Campus Employment Fair.
For UGA students interested in part-time employment on campus. Aug. 28, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Career Center. 542-8829.