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Ongoing
Art exhibitions.
Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999. Through March 23. 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.
This exhibition presents a panorama of images that celebrate the rich history and heritage of Memphis and the Mississippi River delta. A photographic journey through the history, culture, people and landscape of the South, Visualizing the Blues features the Civil War images of Matthew Brady and George Barnard, the striking 20th-century work of Walker Evans, Eudora Welty, Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White, and pictures composed by contemporary artists, including William Eggleston and Huger Foote.

There Is No Eye: Photographs by John Cohen. Through March 23. 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.
After studying at Yale University with Josef Albers and Herbert Matter, John Cohen moved to New York, where he mixed with a community that included abstract expressionists, beatniks and a wide array of other artists and musicians. He was a founding member of the music group the New Lost City Ramblers in the late 1950s and he had a crucial impact on the folk music revival of the 1960s. He also wrote for and edited Sing Out magazine, and his interviews with such cultural icons and musicians as Harry Smith, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan remain influential documents of American counterculture. Also a highly acknowledged filmmaker, Cohen coined the phrase “high lonesome sound” in reference to country music; his film of that title is legendary.

Alfred Stieglitz’s America. Through June 15. 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.

Spirit Yard: Sculptures by Harold Rittenberry. Through March 23. Grounds of 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.
This collection of welded metal sculptures by Harold Rittenberry Jr. will be on view on the grounds of the museum. The exhibition will include works such as Totem Pole, a 1992 work over six feet tall, and Moonchaser, 2000, a bench embellished with a mermaid, fish, birds and a full moon.
Included are 15 large works dating from 1990 to the present.

Ghana in Photographs. Through Feb. 28. Broad Street Gallery, 257 W. Broad St., open weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sponsored by School of Art. 542-0069.
This exhibition at the Broad Street Gallery features the work of participants in the 2002 studies-abroad program in Ghana: Edwina Arey, Bridget Conn, Chuck Hemard, Megan Jeltema, Melody McWhorter, Erin O’Keiffe and professor Michael Marshall of the photography department. The program included four weeks of photographic fieldwork while traveling through Ghana.

Exhibits.
Georgia Writers in the Hall of Fame 2002. Through Jan. 31. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, third floor, main library. Sponsored by Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Program. 583-0582.
The exhibit includes limited editions, manuscripts, correspondence and other rare materials from the Hargrett Library’s Georgiana, rare books and manuscripts divisions, featuring 2001 Hall of Fame inductees Conrad Aiken and Harry Crews and 16 other Georgia authors.

Beyond the Arch. Through Jan. 31. Tate Student Center Gallery. Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-1884.

Monday, January 27
Winterfest 2003.
Through Jan. 31. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Faculty Center Eatery, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by Food Services. www.uga.edu/food-serv.

Main Library Orientation.
1:25-2:15 p.m. Instruction lab A, first floor, main library. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-1114.

Founders’ Day Emeriti Scholars Lecture.
“A Search for the Complete Education: Balancing the Needs for Survival and Fulfillment.” Ronald Simpson. 3 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Alumni Association. 542-2251.

Religion Colloquium.
“Sufi Itinerary: From 10th-Century Nishapur.” Ken Honerkamp. 3:30 p.m. 205C Peabody Hall. Sponsored by religion department. 542-5356.

Plant Biology Lecture.
“The History of Science in the Galapagos.” Edward J. Larson, Talmadge Professor of Law and Russell Professor of History. 4 p.m. 2401 Miller Plant Sciences Building. Sponsored by department of plant biology. porter@botany.uga.edu.

Film Screening.
Innocence. Discussion with Paul Cox, filmmaker, follows. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theater. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox will visit the department of telecommunications in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication from Jan. 26 to Feb. 2. He will deliver a CHA lecture on Jan. 30 and a lecture for students on Jan. 29.

Tuesday, January 28
Art exhibition.
Strange Deal II. Through Feb. 14. Main gallery, visual arts building (open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-0069.
This exhibition features the work of Georgia Strange and Georgia Deal. The artists’ original exhibition, Strange Deal, showcased their work as graduate students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 1976. The artists were invited for this exhibition by the Printmaking Student Association as part of the Annual Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, which coincides with the 15th annual Juried Book Arts and Printmaking Student Exhibition.

Workshop.
“Editing Video.” 2:30-4 p.m. 124B Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by Digital Language Research Laboratory.

Film Screening.
Man of Flowers. Discussion with Paul Cox, filmmaker, follows. 4 p.m. Tate Student Center Theater. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Film Screening.
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. Discussion with Paul Cox, filmmaker, follows. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theater. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Guest Artist Recital.
James Avery, piano, and Steven Schick, percussion. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.
The program for this concert, part of the “Concerts 1900+” series, includes works by Wolfgang Rihm, Brian Ferneyhough, and Younghi Pagh-Paan and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s monumental Kontakte for piano, percussion, and electronic sounds.

Wednesday, January 29
Public Service and Outreach Conference.
“Seeing and Serving the New Faces of Georgia.” $30. 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Public Service and Outreach. 542-2237.
The annual Public Service and Outreach Conference is intended to sharpen the faculty’s focus on changes in the state in order to better serve its people.
Alf Nucifora, a marketing consultant and nationally syndicated columnist, will present the keynote address. He will paint a portrait of Georgia as it is becoming--distinct from the Georgia that marketers have mistakenly assumed it to be.
The general session, “Who Are We? Where Are We? What Do We Think?” will present the results of the Peach State Poll and will be led by Rich Clark of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Concurrent sessions will develop the implications of the “new faces of Georgia.”
University System of Georgia Chancellor Thomas C. Meredith has been invited to speak at the conference luncheon on “Focusing Higher Education and Service in the New Context of Georgia.” The 2003 Walter Barnard Hill Awards will be presented at the luncheon.

Video Brown Bag.
“Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech with Social Commentary.” Talmadge Guy. Noon-1:30 p.m. Rivers Crossing. Sponsored by department of adult education. 583-8145.

CLACS Seminar.
“Polarization and Deadlock: Roundtable Discussion of the Venezuela Crisis.” Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, public relations, and David Smilde, sociology. Noon. CLACS, 290 S. Hull St. Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 583-0619.
Since opponents of President Hugo Chavez began a nationwide strike on Dec. 2, violent demonstrations and strikes involving tens of thousands of people have crippled Venezuela. The strike has severely reduced the Venezuelan state oil company’s production capacity, causing shortages of gasoline and other fuels. Delivery of key goods and services has been dramatically affected both by the strike and related transportation difficulties. Some basic food supplies are critically low, and ground transportation throughout the country is operating on a very limited basis.
Acosta-Alzuru is a Caracas native and assistant professor of public relations in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She specializes in critical and cultural studies, international communication and women’s studies and taught previously at the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas.
Smilde, assistant professor of sociology, focuses his research on examining the way individuals and groups facing difficult situations caused by global restructuring use culture to understand and control the processes affecting them. He is currently in the writing stage of two research projects: a study of the conversion of men to Pentecostalism in Venezuela and a collaborative study of street protest in Caracas.

Lunch-in-Theory.
“Literary Form and Civilization.” Richard Dien Winfield, philosophy. 12:20 p.m. 410 journalism building. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Discussion Forum.
“War and the Environment: A Forum.” James Porter, ecology. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
The topic for the forum is the effects of the 1991 Persian Gulf War on the environment of the region. Porter will make an illustrated presentation of the effects of the war, with observations on the present situation. A discussion will follow with Dorinda Dallmeyer, law, and Clark Wolf, philosophy.

ArtBeat.
Janice Simon, art, on Alfred Stieglitz. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Open Studio: Life Drawing.
$3. Live models; no instruction; participants must provide their own supplies. 5:30 p.m. Forio Studio Classroom. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

CHA Visiting Artist Lecture.
“Is Cinema Dead and If So, Who Killed It?” Paul Cox, Australian filmmaker. 7 p.m. Brumby Hall Rotunda. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Thursday, January 30
CHA Visiting Artist Lecture.
“Art, Politics and Humanism in an Insane World.” Paul Cox, Australian filmmaker. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Art History Lecture.
“Writing, Scribbling, Drawing, Printing: Goya’s Universal Language of Art.” Sarah Symmons, University of Essex (England). 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

UGA Symphony Orchestra Concert.
David Zerkel, tuba soloist. Program includes Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for Tuba, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Theater.
The Weir. Tickets: $5. Through Feb. 2. 8 p.m. Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building. Sponsored by Thalian-Blackfriars. Reservations: 552-0603.
Conor MacPherson’s Irish drama takes place in a pub where men are telling stories to impress a young woman--but it is her story that will surprise them all.

Friday, January 31
Marriage and Family Therapy Institute.
“Keeping the Spark Alive: Burnout, Grief and Spirituality in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life.” Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by School of Social Work, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and College of Education. 542-2134.

Georgia Poetry Circuit Reading.
Allison Joseph. Noon. 261 Park Hall. Sponsored by The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry Circuit. 542-3481.

WSP Friday Speaker.
“Title IX and Athletics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Sarah Fields, physical education and sports studies. 12:20 p.m. 139 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-0066.

Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving.
vs. South Carolina. 4 p.m. Gabrielsen Natatorium, Ramsey Student Center. 542-1231.

Gymnastics.
vs. Maryland. 7:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.

Concert.
“Baroque Fantasy.” Red Priest. $19 (half-price students). 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Traditions Series). 542-4400. See story above.

Saturday, February 1
Karate: St. Valentine’s Day Classic.
$5. 10 a.m. Clarke Central High School gymnasium. Sponsored by UGA Karate Club. 543-4447.
The competition is open to current members of accredited martial arts schools and features events in empty-handed forms, weapons forms, breaking and WTF-style sparring, as well as demonstrations by grand masters. Entry fees are $45-$50.

Georgia Student Philosophy Conference.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. 115 Peabody Hall. Sponsored by arts and sciences. claus@uga.edu.
The conference features papers on metaphysics written by graduate and undergraduate students from across the state of Georgia. The keynote address, by Steven Strange of Emory University, will deal with “Ethics, Metaphysics and the Self.”

Workshop.
“Winter Tree Identification.” Bruce Bongarten, forest resources. $12 ($10 members). 1-4 p.m. Classroom A, conservatory. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Men’s Basketball.
vs. Mississippi State. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.

Franklin College Chamber Music Concert.
Amadeus Trio. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center. 542-4400.
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a world-class ensemble,” the Amadeus Trio is generally acknowledged as one of the most dynamic chamber music groups performing today. Recognized for their brilliant virtuosity and superb musicianship, the three artists--pianist Marian Hahn, violinist Timothy Baker, and cellist Jeffrey Solow--also enjoy award-winning solo careers.
In 1992 the Amadeus Trio made its Lincoln Center debut in Alice Tully Hall with a performance that elicited spontaneous applause and shouts from the audience between movements, treatment very rarely accorded any debut in New York. As a result of that acclaimed performance, the Amadeus Trio was immediately invited to perform at several of the country’s major musical venues, including San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, Los Angeles’s Ambassador Auditorium, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. In 1995 the trio made its Kennedy Center debut in a concert which the Washington Post called “chamber music at its best.”
During the past decade, the Amadeus Trio has become an established guest ensemble at summer chamber festivals throughout the United States. The trio has also been featured on National Public Radio and on WQXR in New York, WGMS in Washington and WGBH in Boston. The ensemble’s debut recording of works by Dvorák and Smetana was released in early 2001.
The program for this concert includes Joaquin Turina’s Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76, Astor Piazolla’s Quatro Tiempos Porteños, Gaspar Cassadó’s Trio and Brahms’s Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87.

Sunday, February 2
Art exhibition.
Works by K. Miles-Anderton. Through March 23. Conservatory. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture.
“Indirect Genetic Effects of Parent-Offspring Interactions: Who Cares?” Edmund D. Brodie III, Indiana University. 7:30 p.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-1417.

Monday, February 3
Art exhibition.
Primitive Pop: Social Bombs and Cross Hairs. Steven Craig Chandler. Through March 6. Room 309 Gallery, Tate Student Center (open 8 a.m.-midnight daily). Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.
Chandler’s paintings in acrylics and oils are primitive pop art. He combines vibrant color and paper bags to create a cave-wall effect. The depth of surface gives a feeling of infinite space.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture.
“Eye of Newt and Fillet of Fenny Snake: The Witches’ Brew of Co-Evolutionary Arms Races.” Edmund D. Brodie III, Indiana University. 11:10 a.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-1417.

Center for Family Research Seminar.
“Parenting as an Organization.” Robert Vandenberg, management. 3:30 p.m. Second floor, Nichols Building. Sponsored by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.

Faculty Chamber Recital.
UGA Woodwind Quartet: Angela Jones-Reus, flute; Dwight Manning, oboe; D. Ray McClellan, clarinet; and William Davis, bassoon. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Coming up
Symposium.
“Cultural Diversity at the University of Georgia in the 21st Century.” Feb. 7, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Concert.
Hungarian National Philharmonic, Zsolt Hamar, conductor, Károly Mocsári, piano. $29-$33 (students half-price). Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Music Series II). 542-4400.

Concert.
Big Band Dance Party, starring the Jivin’ Lindy Hoppers and the Uptown Big Band. $21-$25 (students half-price). Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Showtime Series). 542-4400.