http://artsandculture.msu.edu Year of Arts and Culture event highlights. http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/yaac_logo.gif http://artsandculture.msu.edu arts@msu.edu (Arts and Culture @ MSU) Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:21:18 EST Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:21:18 EST Copyright 2008 Michigan State University Board of Trustees Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=50 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The MSU Museum celebrates a landmark 150 years as Michigan's natural history and culture museum, and the state's first Smithsonian Institution affiliate Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=310 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp WKAR adds to new channels to its digital tier. WKAR Life (23.3) features lifestyles, how-to and encore programs; WKAR World (23.4) features documentaries, history and current events. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=61 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp Among the many projects to come out of the Great Depression and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal government programs to combat massive unemployment are those that dealt with the arts, architecture and crafts of American workers. Michigan State University Museum presents an exhibition of pieces from public work projects in Michigan and on the Michigan State College campus during the 1930s and early '40s. More than 8,500,000 Americans were hired through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) mostly to build roads, public buildings and parks. Unemployed artists and writers were also given work through branches of the WPA known as the Federal Art Project and the Federal Writers' Project. Their lasting legacy can still be seen and enjoyed throughout the state and the nation. Michigan State University and MSU Museum collections are rich with examples of a WPA legacy of art and craft. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=78 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp This exhibition, organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and drawn from their collection, covers over 1000 years of Chinese porcelains to illustrate the important role of foreign trade and changing domestic markets in stimulating Chinese potters -- and their counterparts in Japan and Korea -- to continually reinvent their repertoire of shapes and decorative techniques. The exhibition traces the exchange along the Silk Road between the Chinese Han dynasty and ancient Persia and the Mediterranean world; porcelains made for domestic use, foreign exchange and imperial families. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=461 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder, now retired from his career at MSU of more than 40 years. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard that permits control of expression through variation of touch. The MSU carillon contains 49 bells and is capable of playing the full range of literature composed for the instrument. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=462 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder, now retired from his career at MSU of more than 40 years. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard that permits control of expression through variation of touch. The MSU carillon contains 49 bells and is capable of playing the full range of literature composed for the instrument. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=460 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp On July 10, 2008, the Michigan Humanities Council will host a Michigan Author Homecoming with critically acclaimed authors Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane at the Wharton Center at Michigan State University (MSU). The three authors, icons of contemporary American literature, are also MSU alumni and will meet together in public for the first time. The event will be a moderated discussion among the literary giants. It will commemorate the conclusion of the 2007-08 Great Michigan Read. It is free and open to the public. The discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a book signing. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Schuler Books&Music will provide on-site book sales. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=447 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp This is an award-winning 1991 Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwan film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. An adaptation of the 1990 novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong, it is noted for its opulent visuals and sumptuous use of colors, the fi lm tells the story of a young woman who becomes a concubine of a wealthy man during the Warlord Era. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=154 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp SO MUCH HAPPENED BEFORE DOROTHY DROPPED IN. Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald-green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years. When WICKED opened on Broadway, it worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 15 major awards including the Grammy and three Tony Awards. Today, "WICKED is Broadways biggest blockbuster." - The New York Times Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=463 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder, now retired from his career at MSU of more than 40 years. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard that permits control of expression through variation of touch. The MSU carillon contains 49 bells and is capable of playing the full range of literature composed for the instrument. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=448 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=449 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp Hands on Japanese calligraphy with Kitty Douglass, Program Assistant, Asian Studies Center, MSU. After a brief overview of the history of calligraphy, join us for a lesson in the way of writing. All materials provided, FREE, ages 6 years and up, MUST pre-register, call for availability. Funded by the Dart Foundation. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=464 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder, now retired from his career at MSU of more than 40 years. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard that permits control of expression through variation of touch. The MSU carillon contains 49 bells and is capable of playing the full range of literature composed for the instrument. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=465 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder, now retired from his career at MSU of more than 40 years. A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard that permits control of expression through variation of touch. The MSU carillon contains 49 bells and is capable of playing the full range of literature composed for the instrument. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=469 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp This workshop gives participants an opportunity to experience what it is like to be on Broadway. The workshops are taught by working Broadway professionals - Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy, star of Legally Blonde: The Musical and fellow cast member and Broadway star Paul Canaan. Students in grades 3 through 12 will learn the craft of musical theatre with basic to advanced skills, industry history, and practical content in an exciting, fast-moving, interactive setting. Workshops are geared toward students interested in pursuing a professional career in musical theatre as well as those just looking to have fun with performing arts. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=450 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The roots, the rhythms and the richness of music, dance, arts and culture from across America and around the world come to downtown East Lansing for the Michigan State University Museum's annual Great Lakes Folk Festival, Aug. 8-10. Five music and dance stages sponsored by the City of East Lansing let visitors swing, fling, jig, reel and revel, including: Acadian (Prince Edward Island, Canada), bluegrass, Chinese erhu, Malian kora (West Africa), Ottawa Valley fiddle (Canada), Piedmont blues, Western swing, Wisconsin polka, Zydeco and more. This award-winning event has emerged as one of the region's premiere arts programs and a summer-time high note -- and is expected to draw more than 90,000 visitors throughout the weekend to celebrate culture, tradition and community. Learn more at http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net . Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=466 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp In this feisty election season, the Michigan State University Museum presents a new exhibition with a political theme: No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age. Among the most important developments in the popularization of the Gilded Age press (the late 19th Century) was the increasingly sophisticated use of visual ridicule -- political cartoons that informed, aroused, and pronounced on myriad contemporary issues, explains Samuel J. Thomas, MSU professor of history and the exhibition's curator. Favorite targets included graft and fraud that then, as now, too often characterized political life, most often at the local and state levels, but also at times at the national level. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=459 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp MSU Residential College of Arts and Humanities presents Seeley&Baldori: MSU C-210 Snyder Hall East Lansing, MI 48825 Critics and fellow musicians have called Bob Seeley "the best boogie-woogie player on the planet." It is often said that a good boogie-woogie player sounds like there are two pianists playing at once; of Seeley, it has been said that he "often sounds like there are three pianists in pitched boogie battle." Seeley, who has played thousands of gigs in cities around the world, has stayed close to his Detroit hometown: he has been a fixture at Charley's Crab in Troy, Michigan since the restaurant opened in the 1970s. His introduction to boogie woogie music came early in life. While still a teenager studying at the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts, Bob Seeley would ride his bike to Baker's Bar (pre Baker's Keyboard Lounge) and listen in at the back door to Fat Waller protege Pat Flowers. At the once ubiquitous boogie clubs in Detroit Seeley heard other greats like Art Tatum and Eubie Blake, the latter who became both a friend and fan of Seeley's. Perhaps his most conspicuous influence, however, was Meade "Lux" Lewis, who was considered largely responsible for igniting the boogie-woogie craze during World War II. Seeley first met the maestro during a Detroit gig in the late 1940s. Meanwhile, Lansing resident "Boogie" Bob Baldori started his career in the late sixties in Detroit with his group, The Woolies, which had the national hit "Who Do You Love?" Like Seeley, Baldori has played venues all over the United States. In addition, he has recorded, engineered, and produced albums as well as wrote and starred in the musical "I'm Almost Famous" which premiered at Lansing's Boarshead Theater. For years he has backed up Chuck Berry, recording two albums with the rock and roll great. Tickets may be obtained from Seeley&Baldori web sit. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=467 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp A new, eye-opening image of Africa will be on display at the Michigan State University Museum, featuring the photos of a group of sixth grade Malian students from two small villages 500 miles southwest of Timbuktu. "Visual Griots," a project of the Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C., sent a team of Malian and U.S. photographers into the villages of Damy and Kouara to put cameras in the hand of youth, empower them to document their lives, and help them better connect with their communities and the world. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=468 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp "Our Journeys/Our Stories" presents 25 portraits and narratives of well known Latino individuals - a Noble Prize-winning chemist, an astronaut, an athlete, an artist, a labor leader, to name a few -- and their personal stories, photos, oral history interviews and dichos (traditional sayings) to illustrate and celebrate this contemporary anthology of Latino accomplishments. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=470 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp Prepare yourself for some fast-paced, non-stop surround sound entertainment. The Collage Concert offers an exhilarating array of musical talent performed by the students of Michigan State's College of Music. There will be performances by a full symphony orchestra, a wind ensemble, a jazz orchestra and a chorale, with pieces performed by individual soloists, quartets and a percussion ensemble. The musical arrangements will range from early classical to musical theatre and jazz to contemporary. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=471 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp The performance of Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, accompanied with the MSU Symphony Orchestra, is sure to be breathtaking. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is composed of fifteen of today's best soloist and ensemble musicians and has toured nearly 400 cities in more than 35 countries in 6 continents. As Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis will be giving the MSU Symphony Orchestra the privilege to play him and the renowned JLCO and the audience the joy of listening to the captivating sounds of their orchestral performance. Category: All Events http://artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=472 http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/events_all.asp Wharton Center for Performing Arts would like to present the legendary singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to the stage. Known as one of Bob Dylan's favorite songwriters, his sensitivity and inventiveness in his singing and songwriting style became a captivating influence and inspiration to folk and country music. He has become an integral fixture in the folk music scene since 1962. If you want to be inspired, make sure you mark this event on your calendar.