Dance concert
The dance department will present the annual Concert Dance Company concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 27, 28 and March 1 in the Fine Arts Auditorium. The program offers a variety of dance styles, including neo-classical and contemporary ballet, modern, post-modern and jazz.

UGA's Ballet Ensemble will present three works: Prelude to Sunrise, in which guest choreographer Er-Dong Hu has combined traditional Chinese folk dance with classical ballet; Spilling Promises, a new work by ensemble director Joan Buttram; and Raymonda Grand Pas, featuring guest artist Waverly Lucas (Ballethnic Dance Company) in a restaging by Buttram of Balanchine's choreography.

The CORE Concert Dance Company will perform four works: Blessed, choreographed by Bebe Miller; Rainforest Dreams, a multimedia premiere by company director Bala Sarasvati; Bloodstream, choreographed by dance faculty member Pamela Walden; and Miles, Walden's tribute to Miles Davis.

Tickets are $8 ($5 for students and senior citizens) at the Tate Center box office (542-3816) or, on the evening of performances, the Fine Arts box office. For more information call the dance department at 542-4415.

Women's History Month
The opening ceremony for Women's History Month will take place at noon March 3 on the steps of the main library, to mark the opening of two library exhibits: U.S. Girl Scouts Celebrate 85 Years of Trailblazing and Women Leading the Way. Other exhibitions exploring women's history will be mounted in Hill Atrium at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education (Pen Arts), at the Women's Studies Program offices (Annual Women's Student Art Exhibit), in Hargrett Library at the main library (Women in History and the Law: Suffrage for Women in Great Britain and the United States, 1848-1920) and at the Georgia Museum of Art (Women Crossing Barriers).

Deborah Gray White, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, will present the keynote lecture, "Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Feminism in the 1970s," in 265 Park Hall at 3:30 p.m. March 3.

Works by America's first women filmmakers, Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber, will be screened in room B-2 in the main library at 8:10 p.m. March 4.

Rosemarie Tong, Thatcher Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities at Wake Forest University and the 1986 Professor of the Year of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, will present the Phi Beta Kappa Associates Lecture in the Chapel at 2:30 p.m. March 5. Her lecture is entitled "Is Assisted Suicide a Feminist Issue?"

For more information about these and the numerous other events scheduled for Women's History Month, call the Women's Studies Program at 542-2846.

Richard III in black and white
University Theatre will present a compelling historical drama called The African Company Presents Richard III in the Cellar Theatre in the Fine Arts Building at 8 p.m. March 4-14. The plot deals with two competing productions of Shakespeare's play in New York in 1821--one by the African Company, America's first black theatrical group, and one by the all-white Park Theatre. Tickets will be on sale beginning Feb. 25 at the Fine Arts box office for $10 (542-2836).

College bands galore
The UGA School of Music will host this year's College Band Directors National Association Conference, Feb. 26 through March 1. Directors from across the country will be on campus, attending sessions, panel discussions, workshops and performances. Visiting bands will offer public performances in the Performing Arts Center's Hodgson Hall every afternoon during the conference; tickets are $8 per event, available at the box office in the center. The schedule includes Wichita State University (Feb. 26, 4 p.m.), the University of Southern Mississippi (Feb. 27, 1:30 p.m.), the University of Kentucky (Feb. 27, 4 p.m.), the University of North Texas (Feb. 27, 8 p.m.), East Texas State University (Feb. 28, 1:30 p.m.), Southern Methodist Universiter information, call 542-8468.a University (March 1, 4 p.m.). The UGA Wind Symphony will perform Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. and the Budapest Symphonic Band will add an international flair on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. For additional information, call the School of Music at 542-3737.

Remembering slavery
The African-American Cultural Center is presenting an exhibition of artifacts from slavery through the end of the month. Visions from Old Times includes items such as chains as well as articles belonging to Frederick Douglass. The center is located in 406 Memorial Hall; for further information, call 542-8468.

Cortona artworks
Works produced by students in the university's study-abroad program in Cortona, Italy, are on display in the main gallery of the Lamar Dodd School of Art through March 21.

Music school concerts
UGA Symphonic Band--March 5, 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall; UGA Symphony Orchestra, March 6, 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall; Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, March 9, 8 p.m., Classic Center and March 10, 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall (tickets required for the March 10 program; available free at the Performing Arts Center box office, 542-4400).

Michelangelo expert visits
Paul Barolsky, Commonwealth Professor of the History of Art at the University of Virginia and a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, will give an illustrated public lecture on "The Poetic Imagination of Michelangelo's Art" on March 8 at 8 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art. He will be on campus the following week as a Humanities Center Visiting Scholar, meeting with classes and giving a second lecture. For additional information, call the Humanities Center at 542-3966.

Murder trial re-enactment
As part of Law Day festivities on March 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the Chapel, students in the mock trial program will re-enact portions of the third trial for the murder of Savannah antiques dealer Jim Williams. The murder, subject of the best-seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is the only one in Georgia history to be tried four times. Savannah attorney Sonny Seiler, who represented Williams in three of the trials, will provide commentary and share trial exhibits and photographs with the audience. Seiler is president of the UGA National Alumni Association. A reception on the fourth floor of Dean Rusk Hall will follow the re-enactment at 5 p.m.; Seiler will be joined by Emma Kelly, another participant in the case.