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Robert W. Woodruff Library - Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library Event Visions and Revisions: An Exhibition of Poems in Process
Tuesday, January 15- Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Price: FREE
Venue: Robert W. Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Cir., Level 10, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322Contact: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library: MARBL, 404-727-6887
Visions and Revisions charts the trajectory of individual poems, beginning at the poets desk with notebooks and handwritten drafts and concluding with published volumes and broadsides. By assembling multiple drafts of single poems by celebrated writers such as Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, and Natasha Trethewey, this exhibit represents how poetic vision is first conceived, then revised, and eventually realized.
Free and open to the public, contact 404-727-6887 or marbl@emory.edu for more information
Official Link: http://http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Events/exhibits-current.html
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Michael C. Carlos Museum - Exhibition Lost Kingdoms of the Nile: Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
February 9, 2008 through August 31, 2008
Price: $7 suggested donation
Venue: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 3rd Floor
Schatten Gallery - Exhibition Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Danowski Poetry Collection
Saturday, March 15 - Saturday, June 14
Price: Free
Venue: Woodruff Library, Main and Corridor Galleries, Schatten GalleryContact: Schatten Gallery: 404-727-6887 marbl@emory.edu
Highlights from Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Collection will be showcased.
Official Link: http://www.arts.emory.edu
Visual Arts - Exhibition 2008 Student Art Exhibition & Open Studios
Wednesday, April 30 - Monday, May 12, 2008
Price: Free
Venue: Visual Arts Building & GalleryOpening Reception: Wednesday, April 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m
Contact: Visual Arts Program: 404-727-6315
Opening Reception: Apr. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Fri, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat., noon-4 p.m.; and by appointment. Closed: major holidays.
Reception for Emory Seniors: May 12, noon-4 p.m. This exhibition features Emory University class of 2008 art history/visual arts joint majors, Visual Arts Program honors students, and other select students of the Visual Arts Program
Official Link: http://www.visualarts.emory.edu
Michael C. Carlos Museum - Family Program. Tea with Mummy
Sunday, May 11 at 4 pm
Price: Museum members - $15 for children and $20 for adults; Non-members - $20 for children and $25 for adults
Venue: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception HallContact: : 404 727-4280.
Celebrate this Mothers Day at an elegant afternoon tea with a Nubian flare. Enjoy scones, tarts, finger sandwiches, and afternoon tea as your children make shabti sugar cookies and puzzle over their placemat activity sheet. Members: $15 for children and $20 for adults; non-members: $20 for children and $25 for adults. Fee includes admission to Lost Kingdoms of the Nile and the permanent collection. RSVP by Thursday, May 8 by calling 404 727-4280.
Music - Concerts. 1st Annual Cherry Emerson Alumni Concert
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Price: free
Venue: Miller-Ward Alumni HouseContact: Arts at Emory box office: 404-727-5050 boxoffice@emory.edu
Emory alumni Dr. Lee Demertzis, piano, and Katherine Blumenthal, soprano, perform. Dr. Lee Demertzis graduated from Emory College in 1999 with a B.S. in Biology, a B.A. in Music and Highest Honors in Music. In 2004, he graduated from the Emory School of Medicine where he was a Robert Woodruff Fellow in Medicine. Currently chief resident in the Internal Medicine program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, MO), he is also founder of a new chamber music group comprised of members of the St. Louis medical community. Katherine Blumenthal graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory in 2001 with a double degree in Music and French Literature. After receiving a Masters of Music at the New England Conservatory where she was awarded a distinction in performance she moved to France where she is currently pursuing her career. She made her French debut in collaboration with Emory music professor Steve Everett at the IRCAM Resonances Festival, giving the premier of his piece, Tembang Gede. At the end of this year she will perform the world premier of the American composer Lee Hoibys Nuits, which he wrote for her on a French text taken from Marguerite Duras novel LAmant.
Performance Program: Download PDF
Official Link: http://www.arts.emory.edu
Music - Events. Masterworks Atlanta Sacred Chorale
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:00p.m.
Price: Public $20;$15 Discount Category; Emory students free
Venue: Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert HallDirector: Eric Nelson
Contact: Arts at Emory Box Office: 404-727-5050 boxoffice@emory.edu
Featuring the music of France, the ASC is joined by organist Bruce Neswick (St. Philips Cathedral) for a performance of Faure's Requiem along with other works by Durufle, Dupre, and Widor.
This outstanding chamber choir sings traditional sacred choral gems along with rousing spirituals and hymns. Renowned for their exquisite artistry and transcendent sound, ASC is a community chorus that brings together professional musicians and gifted amateurs in an exciting choral ensemble.
Performance Program: Download PDF
Official Link: http://www.arts.emory.edu