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The Arts
October 6, 2017 | 09:23 am

Elizabeth Poliner receives 2017 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

The annual prize was created in 1976 to recognize American women on the precipice of promising writing careers.

topics: awards, Department of English, Elizabeth Poliner, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, literature, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
man making music by using stickes to hit bowls filled with water
The Arts
October 5, 2017 | 02:25 pm

Hidden passions, creative lives

URMC’s Kishan Pandya kicks off this season’s “Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives,” a series sponsored by Memorial Art Gallery to showcase Rochesterians whose lives feature intriguing and unusual creative outlets.

topics: featured-post-side, Kishan Pandya, Memorial Art Gallery, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
three performers singing on stage
The Arts
September 29, 2017 | 12:46 pm

From Homer in the classroom to Meat Loaf on stage

The former Midnight Rambler is finding success on the London stage. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical makes its North American premiere in Toronto in October.

topics: Class of 2012, featured-post-side, International Theatre Program, Kim Kowalke, Midnight Ramblers, profile, Russell Peck,
Close-up of a microphone.
The Arts
September 26, 2017 | 09:30 am

Humanities Center announces public lecture series speakers

The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year’s theme of “memory and forgetting.”

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Douglas Crimp, events, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center, School of Arts and Sciences,
Mark Watters
The Arts
September 26, 2017 | 08:48 am

Composer Mark Watters says new media is changing the score

The Emmy winner has composed musical scores for movies, television, video games, even the Olympics. At the inaugural Light and Sound Interactive, he shares his thoughts on this rapidly changing field.

topics: Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media, Eastman School of Music, Light and Sound Interactive, Mark Watters, virtual reality,
performers on stage
The Arts
September 22, 2017 | 04:20 pm

University builds bridges to community through Fringe Fest

Students, faculty, and alumni take their unique perspectives on difficult and controversial conversations into the community as part of the annual arts fest.

topics: community, Department of Religion and Classics, Emil Homerin, featured-post-side, First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, Missy Pfohl Smith, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
A pencil lies atop an open, blank book
The Arts
September 19, 2017 | 05:17 pm

Douglas Crimp to discuss memory and writing

The theme of this year’s Humanities Center lecture series is “Memory and Forgetting,” and in this first lecture, art and cultural critic Douglas Crimp will discuss “Relying on Memory: From AIDS to Merce Cunningham.”

A view of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in the New York skyline, as seen from the harbor.
The Arts
September 19, 2017 | 04:50 pm

Mysteries shape Joanna Scott’s newest novel

Careers for Women, a new novel by English professor Joanna Scott, had its beginnings in her attic where she rediscovered a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that she’d collected in the wake of September 11, 2001.

topics: book authors, Department of English, Joanna Scott, School of Arts and Sciences,
photo of John Ashbery
The Arts
September 13, 2017 | 05:05 pm

Remembering John Ashbery

John Ashbery was memorialized as one of America’s premiere poets upon his passing earlier this month. English professor James Longenbach reflects on a long friendship with Ashbery and his impact on poetry and literature.

topics: Department of English, humanities, James Longenbach, John Ashbery, literature, poetry, School of Arts and Sciences,
sparks fly as workers use a grider on a bell
The Arts
September 8, 2017 | 12:16 pm

Carillon bells restored after 40 years of service

The familiar sound of the bells in tower of Rush Rhees Library will be silenced for the next few weeks, while parts of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon are under restoration.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Hopeman Memorial Carillon, School of Arts and Sciences,