Bouncers
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 27 – Sunday Dec. 2
Time: 7:30 Tuesaday - Saturday and 2:00 on Sunday
Location: Allen Bales TheatreDescription (taken from UA theatre Web site): Any weekend night might look just the same. Inside the club the DJ rattles on a thumping beat, drinks pour freely from the tap, and tigers are on the prowl for the best pair of legs in the tightest pair of jeans. Its a recipe for absolute pleasure or absolute pain and the men in black stand guard, ready to ensure that both are viable options. "Bouncers" cleverly interweaves four actors in a variety of roles, from the venomous vixen to the liquored-up lounge lizard. Chosen by Great Britain's National Theatre as one of the top 100 plays of the 20th century, "Bouncers" promises a night like you'll never forget.
Cost: $6
Clinging to Mammy: lecture and signing with Micki McElyaDate: Tuesday, Nov. 27
Time: 4:30
Location: W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 2nd floor Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
Description (taken from UA calendar): Micki McElya, Assistant Professor of American Studies, The University of Alabama will talk about her new book,
Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Harvard University Press, 2007). Join us for this important and fascinating lecture McElya examines why we "cling to mammy", arguing that the figureof the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern Americanpolitics and culture. Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammybecame a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social,and racial realities. McElya's stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reachof the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literatureabout the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custodycases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynchingcampaigns, and the civil rights movement. A reception and signing will follow the talk.
Cost: Free
Community Conversation with the 91st Kateri Circle of Birmingham
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 27
Time: 4:30
Location: Crossroads Lounge (outside 232 Ferguson)
Description (taken from UA calendar): Kateri Circle of Birmingham is an intertribal group whose mission is to promote Native American spirituality within the Catholic Church while respecting diversity.
Cost: Free
Alabama Symphonic Band Concert
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 27
Time: 7:30
Location: Moody Concert Hall
Cost: Free
Lecture on the work of Robert Colescott
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 28
Time: 4:30
Location: Gorgas Library, 205
Description (taken from UA calendar): Dr. Amalia Amaki, Professor of Art History, will present a lecture on the work of Robert Colescott at 4:00pm in 205 Gorgas Library, followed by a reception at 5:00pm in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art. The Robert Colescott exhibition is on display in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (located in Garland Hall) from November 9 - December 7. This exhibition contains selected paintings and works on paper from the last ten years of a career spanning more than fifty years. Colescott is represented in many public collections including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art and Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Colescott was selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1997. He was the first African-American artist to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Cost: Free
RHA General Assembly Meeting
Date: Thursday, Nov. 29
Time: 7:00
Location: Ferg, room 300
Cost: Free
Capstone String Quartet
Date: Thursday, Nov. 29
Time: 5:30
Location: Moody Music Building
Cost: Free
African American Poets Duriel Harris and Randall Horton
Date: Thursday, Nov. 29
Time: 4:30
Location: Gorgas Library, room 205
Description (taken from UA calendar): November 29, 2007 will be a celebration of African-American Poetry at The University of Alabama -- join us for Randall Horton and Duriel Harris! Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, isa former editor of Warpland: A Journal ofBlack Literature and Ideas and co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard (Third World Press, 2006). He isa PhD candidate at The University at Albany.
http://www.randallhorton.com/writings.htm Heraldedas one of three Chicago poets for the 21st century by WBEZ Chicago PublicRadio, Duriel Harris is a co-founderof the Black Took Collective and aPoetry Editor for Obsidian III:Literature in the African Diaspora. Drag (Elixir Press, 2003), her firstbook, was hailed by Black Issues BookReview as one of the best poetry volumes of the year. She teaches Englishat St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.And be sure to attend shortly following in the Ferguson Theater, An Evening with Nikki Giovanni, the grammy-nominated African-American poet, activist and author.
Cost: Free
An Evening with Niki Giovanni
Date: Thursday, Nov. 29
Time: 7:00
Location: Ferguson Theatre
Description (taken from UA calendar): Nikki Giovanni will be coming to the University of Alabama campus in order to enlighten the community about her dynamic life. She prides herself on being "A black American, a daughter, a mother, and a professor of English." As one of America?s leading intellectual figures, Ms. Giovanni will be sure to inspire and educate the audience about a wide range of issues.
Cost: Free
Hilaritis
Date: Friday, Nov, 30
Time: 7:30
Location: Moody Music Building Concert Hall
Description (taken from UA calendar): Hilaritas is a Greek word that translates loosely into "Live joyfully, and be proud of what you are!" Like the sign of the fish, early Christians used 'hilaritas' as a password. The word has taken on a similar meaning at The University of Alabama since 1969 when the University Singers and the Alabama Jazz Ensemble gave their first performance of holiday music, known as Hilaritas. Two Performances only.
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Cost: Admission charged
Romeo and Harriet: The Engineering Musical
Date: Friday, Nov. 30 – Sunday, Dec. 2
Time: 7:00
Location: 126 MIB (HM Comer)
Description (taken from UA calendar): It is time for the engineering musical again. This is the second biannual engineering musical by COE Does ART. Come see us and get dinner too. Show and dinner included in $8 ticket. Show starts at 7PM. Please come early to receive your plate. Doors open at 6PM.
Cost: $8
Reminders:
Weekly reports are due to Liz on Wednesday. You can send them by email or drop them in her box in the East office.
You should be checking your mailboxes every day. If you have a program, be sure to do a sign-in sheet. Leave the attendance sheet in my box in the East office.
