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ARTSANDIDEAS Fall 2012 Published by the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas Stephen King Kerouac Play Chancellor’s Speaker World Premiere U.S. Sen. Scott Brow n/ Elizabeth Warren Series at MRT U.S. Senate Debate Women’s Rowing Dugan Gallery g 9 e r 6 A g O Art Department . a t t M o i D s f , I l N o o l r t e P i A P . w - m P S o r n . e L o U P N Miriam Margolyes: Concerts: l l e Dickens in Lowell Music Department w o L s t t e s u h c . a e 4 s v s 5 A a 8 y 1 M t i 0 f s r o A e y v t i M i n s , l r l U e e v e i w n n o U O L Theater Arts: Wes Moore English Department Community Event Visit www.uml.edu/artsandideas for details on all events. LITERATURE &WRITING ‘Doctor Marigold’: A Performance ‘Dickens’ Women’: A Performance Dickens in Lowell by Gerald Dickens by Miriam Margolyes The celebration continues! Charles Dickens, O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222 Durgin Hall one of the world’s best-known and best- 61 Wilder St., UMass Lowell 35 Wilder St., loved writers, would have turned 200 years South Campus UMass Lowell old this year. To mark Dickens’ bicentenary Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. South Campus and his memorable 1842 visit to Lowell, Admission: $5 students and Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. UMass Lowell is hosting a series of fall seniors; $10 general admission In her Olivier Award–nomi - events and, together with Lowell National at the door nated one-woman show, Historical Park, a major exhibition This one-man acclaimed British actress exploring Dickens’ life, work and travels show is performed Miriam Margolyes brings to in America. For more information, visit Miriam Margolyes by Gerald Dickens, life two dozen of Charles www.uml.edu/dickens. Unless otherwise the great-great- Dickens’ most memorable characters, male noted, events are free and open to grandson of and female. Margolyes—a.k.a. Professor the public. Charles Dickens, Sprout from the Harry Potter films— and is based on an presents her powerful and often hilarious Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale original public portrait of Dickens, his writing and the of Power and Transformation reading Charles Associate Professor Diana real-life women who found themselves Boott Gallery at Boott Cotton gave during his Archibald, English Department, immortalized in his books. A must-see and Gerald Dickens Mills Museum 1867-68 tour performance for families, Dickens enthusiasts 115 John St., Downtown Lowell of America. A and Margolyes fans! Daily through Oct. 20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. dramatic sign interpreter will perform with Gerald, making this an ideal event for Closing Reception of Dickens and “A show and a story as fascinating as hearing-impaired audiences. (Gerald Massachusetts Exhibition Dickens’ own”—that’s how WGBH de - will also perform at Worcester’s famed Boott Gallery at Boott Cotton Mills scribes this exhibition exploring Dickens’ Mechanics Hall. For information two trips to Massachusetts. It features a Museum about Worcester events, go to 115 John St., Downtown Lowell rich collection of artifacts from museums http://valfa.com/dickens-returns/.) around the world, including the MFA’s Oct. 20, Time TBA iconic 1842 portrait of the young Dickens, painted by Boston artist Francis Alexander. Dickens in Lowell is sponsored by UMass Lowell in partnership with Lowell National Historical Park, the Tsongas Industrial History Center and the Charles Dickens Museum of London, with generous support from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation and the UMass President’s Office. For more information, contact Assoc. Prof. Diana Archibald at 978-934-4182 or [email protected]. Jack Kerouac Literary Festival 2012 (selected events) The Jack Kerouac Literary Festival is ‘Young Angel Midnight’: World Premiere of ‘Beat co-sponsored by the UMass Lowell Kerouac UMass Lowell Alumni Reception Generation’ by Jack Kerouac Center, the Center for Arts and Ideas, Lowell Allen House, 2 Solomont Way, Merrimack Repertory Theatre Celebrates Kerouac! Inc. and the Cultural UMass Lowell South Campus 50 E. Merrimack St., Downtown Lowell Organization of Lowell. For the full Oct. 9, 4:30–6 p.m. Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 11, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; schedule, visit uml.edu/artsandideas or Oct. 12, 8 p.m.; Oct. 13, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; lowellcelebrateskerouac.org. Unless More than 20 UMass Lowell alumni are Oct. 14, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. otherwise noted, events are free and open represented in the new anthology “Young Tickets start at $40 to the public. Angel Midnight: An Emerging Generation in the Arts in Lowell,” with writing, visual art Kerouac’s only full-length play will premiere and music. Meet the contributors and have in a stage reading at the Merrimack your book signed in between readings, visual Repertory Theatre (MRT) in partnership displays and performances. with UMass Lowell. Written in 1957, when the now-legendary novel “On the Music and Prose: Tanya Donelly Road” was published, and set in 1953, this and Rick Moody is a play “about tension, about friendship, and about karma—what it is and how you Room TBA, UMass Lowell South Campus get it.” The Los Angeles Times wrote: Oct. 10, 3:30 p.m. “It bears traces of a deeper vision, defined Singer/Songwriter Tanya Donelly (“Throw - by beatitude and despair. …This is what ing Muses,” “The Breeders” and “Belly”) continues to give Kerouac resonance.” will discuss songwriting, influence and Tickets may be purchased at MRT.org or inspiration with the novelist, short-story by calling the MRT box office at writer and essayist Rick Moody (“Ice 978-654-4678. Storm” and “Garden State”). They will talk about their recent collaborations, which experiment with the line between (continued) Jack Kerouac © Walter Lehrman All Rights Reserved music and prose. 2 Visit www.uml.edu/artsandideas for details on all events. ARTS AND IDEAS UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas LITERATURE &WRITING A Conversation With Stephen King Richard Bachman, is known for crafting tales Message From Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell that terrify. But he is also the author of nonfic - 300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, tion books like “On Writing,” his self-described the Dean Downtown Lowell “memoir of the craft,” and “Faithful,” a chronicle of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. Welcome to the Fall 2012 issue of championship season co-written with Stewart Admission: $32 (general admission), Arts and Ideas—a publication of the O’Nan. Last year’s “11/22/63” was King’s $52 (reserved floor seating) Center for Arts and Ideas, which first work of historical fiction, set around the aims to enrich both campus and Stephen King’s nearly 35-year literary career assassination of President John F. Kennedy. community life. The Center for Arts includes the publishing of more than 50 full- King is the recipient of numerous honors, and Ideas represents what UMass length books that together have sold more including the National Book Foundation Lowell and the College of Fine Arts, than 350 million copies, as well as many short Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Humanities and Social Sciences are stories, essays, anthologies and novellas. King’s American Letters. early thrillers, like “Carrie” and “The Shining,” all about. We are the region’s epicen - put him on the map, not King’s appearance marks the ter of cultural production and dia - only as a writer of popular debut of the new UMass Lowell logue about important topics and horror novels, but also as Chancellor’s Speaker Series and ideas. The arts and the public ex - one whose work could be is co-sponsored by the English change of ideas have a transforma - successfully adapted for Department. tive effect on our community and films and television. More contribute to our shared understand - than 50 of his works have Tickets will be sold at the ing of timely and complex issues. been turned into movies and Tsongas Center box office, On July 23, I assumed the position miniseries, and many have www.tsongascenter.com and of dean of the College of Fine Arts, garnered critical success, via 866-722-8780. Admission is Humanities and Social Sciences. A including “The Shawshank free for UMass Lowell students sociologist by training, I have inter - Redemption” and “The with valid ID who obtain tickets ests in inequality and, in particular, Green Mile,” both film in advance at the Tsongas those related to health disparities. versions of which were Center box office. Having spent most of my academic nominated for multiple life as a faculty member and an ad - Academy Awards. ministrator at another university in King, who also published the Boston area (Northeastern), I am work under the pen name familiar with the experiences and Stephen King challenges of a rising institution like UMass Lowell. Since my arrival, I have been very impressed by the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival 2012 continued passion and determination I see in the members of our college community. I know the students, staff, faculty Poet Anne Waldman in Performance Kathleen Pierce and Nancy Aycock and members of the Lowell commu - Room TBA, UMass Lowell South Campus Metz: Writers on the Roa d— nity are eager to know what exciting Oct. 11, 3:30 p.m. Charles Dickens and Jack Kerouac performances, lectures and exhibits Anne Waldman is the author of more than Boott Mills Museum Event Center will be taking place this fall on our 40 books of poetry and co-founder of the Jack 115 John St., Downtown Lowell campus.