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S T A G E E R T N E C 8 1 0 - 2 2 0 1 7 A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE OF EVENTS FOR THE ARTS FOREVER WELCOME TO F OREVER CENTER STAGE.FOREVER WELCOME TO THE ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS. Each year UIndy presents more than 100 arts-related events; most of these are free to the public and many are family-friendly. These events provide a great variety of vocal and instrumentalF OREVER music performances, theatre productions, art exhibitions, readings and lectures from which to choose. The calendar is fairly comprehensive, butFOREVER because we often have the opportunity to add events during the year, we encourage you to visit uindy.edu/arts frequently for the most up-to-date information. While you’re on our site, you can learn more about our programs and facilities and join our email list. F OREVER ARTS.UINDY.EDU FOREVER For questions about tickets, events on campus, performance times or venues, please call our Event TicketingF OREVERCenter at 317-788-3251, visit uindy.edu/etc, or visit the ETC in the Ransburg Auditorium lobby. Hours vary by semester— please call for details. 2 FOREVER T S I Y S E R E V R UNIVERSITY SERIES I I N E Each year UIndy focuses on one of its four learning S U goals: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Performance, and SERIES // UNIVERSITY Social Responsibility. In 2017–18, the University will F explore how two of those goals, critical thinking and L T I P P I P R social responsibility, relate to each other. I N C G T H E S SALLY WASMUTH // question: If this were your last chance to address students, what would you Scripted: Living Recovery in an ‘Addiction Society’ say to them? If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say? Tuesday, September 12, 7 p.m. Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, SUTPHIN LECTURE: Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center THEASTER GATES // PRESSING ON: THE Contemporary Social LETTERPRESS FILM // Performance Art Saturday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, 6 p.m. Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Open house: 4:30-6 p.m. KEVIN RADAKER // Join filmmakers and producers for “A Visit from Henry David Thoreau” a screening of Pressing On: The Wednesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m. Letterpress Film. Before the film, tour Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, the Printmaking Studio and experience Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center the presses in action. Sponsored by the English Department SHOWERS LECTURES: JOHN BOWLIN // FAIRBANKS SYMPOSIUM // Thursday, September 21 Housing and the Vibrant City 4:30 p.m.: “Christianity & Toleration” Friday, March 2, Schwitzer Student 7:30 p.m.: “Love’s Endurance — Pauline Center & Democratic” UIndy Hall A, Schwitzer ROBERT EDSEL // Student Center “The Monuments Men: Anthropological LAST LECTURE: Heroes, Nazi Thieves, DR. DEBORAH SACHS // Tickets may be and the Greatest Saturday, October 7, reserved through Treasure Hunt in 1 p.m. Ruth Lilly the Event Ticketing History” Performance Hall, Christel Center at Ransburg Tuesday, March 20, DeHaan Fine Arts Center Auditorium, or by 7 p.m. visiting uindy.edu/etc Dr. Sachs, UIndy’s Teacher Ruth Lilly Performance or calling of the Year, takes on the Hall, Christel DeHaan 317-788-3251. Fine Arts Center 3 N T O F E T M H T E R A DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE PRODUCTIONS A T P R UIndy students are staging a reading of a brand new script E E D along with three productions from various genres this academic year while providing students with main stage and S T S U N studio theatre acting, design, and production opportunities. D O E I N T C T P R O D U FRANKENSTEIN // THE MARY SHELLEY PROJECT // by Mary Shelley, October 31, 8 p.m.; Discussion with adapted by Austin Tichenor playwright to immediately follow October 27–28, November 2–4, November 7, 8 p.m. November 9–11, 8 p.m. Ransburg Auditorium, Esch Hall October 29, November 5, 2 p.m. Admission: Free Ransburg Auditorium, Esch Hall As part of UIndy’s Communiversity course, Admission: $12 general; $10 for alumni, Frankenstein, the Department of Theatre senior citizens, groups of eight or more has commissioned a world premiere and non-UIndy students with ID original play by local playwright K.T. Peterson. This exciting new work explores Free preview: October 26 Mary Shelley’s life, events and experiences Thrifty Thursdays: November 2 & 9, that helped to shape the writing of her 8 p.m. $6 general admission groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein. The Department of Theatre’s students, faculty/ To mark the 200th anniversary of Mary staff and guest artist will present two Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Department of staged readings of this exciting new work. Theatre presents a fully staged production of this classic novel adapted for stage by This project was generously funded Austin Tichenor. This adaptation closely through a Shaheen Grant from the follows the original novel and is performed Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences as part of UIndy’s Communiversity course, Frankenstein. PARENTS: Tickets may be As a courtesy to the cast and reserved through other audience the Event Ticketing members, parents Center at Ransburg are urged to not Auditorium, or bring infants by visiting uindy. or preschoolers. edu/etc or calling 317-788-3251. 4 “IF YOU LIKE throughout the world. In 1987 this fast paced, witty, physical and preposterous SHAKESPEARE, masterwork premiered at the Edinburgh // THEATRE Festival Fringe. It quickly became a YOU’LL LIKE worldwide phenomenon, earning the title of London’s longest-running THIS SHOW. comedy after a decade at the Criterion Theatre. This play is sure to provide an evening full IF YOU HATE of laughter for Shakespeare lovers and haters alike. SHAKESPEARE, I AND YOU // YOU’LL LOVE By Lauren Gunderson April 20–22 & 26–28, 8 p.m. THIS SHOW!” Studio Theatre, Esch Hall Admission: $12 general; $10 for — The Today Show alumni, senior citizens, groups of eight or more and non-UIndy students with ID Free preview: April 19, 8 p.m. DINNER THEATRE: THE Thrifty Thursdays: COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM April 26, 8 p.m. SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) $6 general admission [REVISED] // One afternoon, Anthony arrives By Adam Long, Daniel Singer unexpectedly at classmate Caroline’s and Jess Winfield door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt February 23–25 and March 1–3 Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, an urgent Dinner 6:45 p.m., performance 8 p.m. assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn’t Schwitzer Student Center Dining Hall been to school in months, but she is as Admission: $27 general; $25 for alumni, quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, senior citizens, groups of eight or more sensitive and popular. As these two let and non-UIndy students with ID; $15 for down their guards and share their secrets, UIndy students, faculty and staff this seemingly mundane poetry project Free preview: February 22, 8 p.m. unlocks a much deeper mystery that has (performance only, no dinner) brought them together. I and You is an ode to youth, life, love and the strange beauty Thrifty Thursdays: March 1, 8 p.m. ($6 of human connectedness. performance only, no dinner) The revised and updated play for the 21st-century audience, incorporating PLEASE NOTE: Some productions may some of the funniest material from the contain adult language and content numerous amateur and professional inappropriate for minors. productions that have been performed 5 R T A G A C L THE ART GALLERY AT THE CHRISTEL DEHAAN FINE ARTS CENTER A L F E The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of D R Y C Indianapolis features several exhibitions of two- and three-dimensional art each year. The gallery is curated by UIndy faculty member Mark Ruschman, chief fine arts curator for the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. Located in the UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center E X S H N Gallery, the gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays. I B I T I O “STRATA” SOCIAL PRACTICE ART // NEW WORKS EXPLORING October 9 – November 3 LIGHT, Reception: 4-6 p.m., October 9 SOUND AND Theaster Gates Lecture: 7:30 p.m., October 21 SCULPTURE: Social practice art draws on numerous creative OWENS + disciplines and has evolved in recent decades CRAWLEY // from performance, participatory art, activist August 28 – art, ephemeral art and relational aesthetics. September 29 Multidisciplinary and inclusive, social practice Reception: 4-6 artists endeavor to engage local communities p.m. August 28 in the creation of the art outside the studio or classroom, activating people and places for Quincy Owens received both his BFA in Studio social and cultural empowerment. The art in Art and Master of Arts in Teaching from the exhibit will reflect these elements. University of Indianapolis. Luke Crawley received both his BS in Religious Studies and Master of Arts in Physics from Ball State FLIGHT OF OBSCURITY XIV: University. NATHAN FOLEY // The collaborative artist team of November 13 – December 15 Owens + Crawley explores the Reception: 4-6 p.m., Nov. 13 term “strata” in their newest These sculptures consist of body of work. The word strata cones that are integrated is referenced through all of with spires and held together the sciences as it pertains under tension, supported by to the concept of layers. utilitarian stands. This fragile Owens + Crawley are known to relationship of forms exposes incorporate sound, light and UIndy’s Christel the delicate balance between material into sculpture, public DeHaan Fine Arts grace and imminent danger, art and installation-based Center Gallery similar to the fleeting ballet of projects.