An Exciting Time at Notre Dame

Opera ND Town Hall Meetings • Relay for Life • Caroline Chiu

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John McGreevy, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College kaity Fuja of Arts and Letters: An exciting time This past week Mark Beudert, director of Opera Notre Dame, reminded me that lyric theatre had humble beginnings on this campus over a century ago— signifying to me that Notre Dame has a long tradition of the arts. for the In fact it was not until the College developed its strategic plan in 2002 that there has been a concerted effort to ensure that the arts have a central place in the curriculum and culture for all at Notre Dame. ARTS In the plan Dean Mark Roche identified six priorities for the arts involv- ing: (1) space; (2) flourishing of student production in the arts; (3) center for creative computing; (4) initiative in the sacred arts; (5) internationalism and diversity, further exploration and integration of the at Notre Dame art of other cultures into our curriculum and on our campus; and (6) the Shakespeare initiative. As a credit to Dean Roche’s leadership, the mere Matt Cashore Matt mention of those six priorities calls to mind many different successes that the College has achieved toward fulfilling those priorities over the course of the last eight years. McGreevy A partial list of high points includes faculty shows at the country’s most prestigious galleries, a thriving Shakespeare program, a creative writing program that draws national atten- tion, awards for our faculty and students in industrial and graphic design, and the completion of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Attempting to build on our successes, when I first started my tenure as dean in 2008, I drafted a document that outlined four aspirations that I have for the college. One of those aspirations was to increase the intensity and sophistication of our undergraduate education. This included, for instance, advancement in the arts in the undergraduate curriculum. How can our undergraduate curriculum better educate our undergraduates to be more disposed toward the arts? How can we give our students the arts habit that they will have for the rest of their lives? How can our graduates, as part of their intellectual, emotional and spiritual delight in the arts, return to their communities predisposed to patronize the arts, or to serve on their local art, symphony and museum boards? How can we prepare our undergraduates to express with greater facility more complicated ideas or concepts by using metaphors or images or scenes gleaned from the arts to navigate toward clearer communication and greater understanding? How can we provide even more opportunities for students to experiment in different art media, to struggle in ways that they do not encounter in any other medium, so as to deepen their own sensibilities and observations, and cultivate the maturation of their own distinctive voices? We will know that we have met our aspiration when our students demon- strate that the arts inform the way they interpret culture, articulate religious experience, reveal their dispositions, or contribute to the arts in their local communities as alumni.

There is much work to do, but the openness exists and the spadework has kaity Fuja been done. In many ways it is indeed an exciting time for the arts at Notre Dame.

Large photo: Susan Shields, center, staff assistant in University Relations, rehearses for Opera Notre Dame’s production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffman” (The Tales of Hoffman), which opens in the Decio Mainstage Theatre Thursday, April 22. Other staffers playing roles include Michael Ball, OIT; the ACE program’s Jennifer Borek and her children Herbert, Blake and Veronica; and Paulette Curtis, assistant dean in the Office of Under- graduate Studies. For more information on performance dates and times, see music listings on page 6. Inset: Participant Sadie Jenkins

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Food for Thought: Holocaustproject raises consciousness about hunger Whoever controls food Holocaust and the values that inform people,” Signer comments. With this controls the people students’ everyday lives. call to awareness, highlighting how Several years ago, while she was vis- global and local issues of food and BY BILL SCHMITT, NDWORKS iting the site of the Auschwitz concen- water supply can be tied to questions tration camp, Signer read the remnants of power and justice, malevolence and This spring Notre Dame continues of notes in which a Nazi administrator compassion, she said, the 2010 a 14-year-long tradition of raising the had quantified the minimum number Holocaust Project program will pres- campus’s consciousness about the Ho- of calories necessary daily to keep a ent films and lectures grouped around locaust. But the approach in 2010 will prisoner alive to do assigned tasks, plus the subject of food. be a little different, and it will literally replacement costs when an inmate Faculty, staff and students will be offer “food for thought.” died of malnourishment. “I thought invited to consider questions like food The annual Holocaust Project, to myself, how could anyone sit down safety, nutrition, water contamination, begun by Rabbi Michael Signer, and calculate that without any sense of the pros and cons of our globalized the late Abrams Professor of Jewish feeling?” and corporate-controlled food supply, Thought and Culture, has always This led her to consider carefully impacts on the environment and held events highlighting the need for various instances of starvation in his- energy, the “local food” movement and individuals and societies to pursue tory and its use as a tool to eliminate other issues. justice and tolerance and to be on whole groups. “Whoever controls Food for Thought events include guard against the genocidal inclina- the food source has power over the “Sustainability: The Key To Today’s tions that still imperil the world. Rabbi Food Revolution,” a lecture by Marion At 3 p.m. Friday, April 23, Peter Signer, who died in early 2009, sought Nestle, author of “Food Politics: How Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio of the to help students make the connection the Food Industry Influences Nutri- Hungry Planet present “FOOD between the Holocaust and the human tion and Health,” which takes place THINK: A Global Nutritional Survey family’s cry for solidarity. Food For Thought Film Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, in the from Hungry Planet and What I Eat” “It’s a universal theme, and it fits in Hesburgh Center Auditorium. in DeBartolo Hall Room 129. very well with what this University’s April 22 - 24 goal and purpose are,” says Betty Signer, the spouse of the late Rabbi, Five films will be screened in conjunction withFood For Thought, the 2010 who carries on the work of coordinat- Holocaust Project. Screenings take place in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo ing the Holocaust Project. She says the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $5 for faculty and staff, $4 for seniors 2010 program, Food For Thought, and $3 for students. Contact the ticket office, 631-2800, to make reservations scheduled for April 20-24, taps into for One Water, which is free but ticketed. an even more expansive connection People Gotta Eat she has seen between the lessons of the No Impact Man (2009) around the globe, the film Double your contributions with matching funds 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22 also explores our changing Colin Beavan decides to relationship to water as it grows BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS completely eliminate his more scarce. Director Sanjeev personal impact on the Chatterjee is scheduled to be One in five people in St. Joseph County regularly visit local food pantries for assistance. environment for a year. present, and will participate In 2009, the United Way’s People Gotta Eat campaign, spearheaded in a panel discussion following by the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic’s Judy Fox and Bruce L. Green- Food, Inc. (2009) the film. berg, executive director of the Family and Children’s Center, raised more 7 p.m. Friday, April 23 Free but ticketed EXECUTIVE EDITOR than $300,000 for the Food Bank of Northern Indiana and local food Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts Gail Hinchion Mancini pantries. the veil on our nation’s food Babette’s Feast (1987) This year, two MANAGING Editor industry. 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24 organizations and an Carol C. Bradley A woman flees the French civil anonymous donor have contributing editor The End of the Line (2009) war, landing in a small seacoast agreed to match up to William G. Schmitt 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 23 village in Denmark where she $125,000 in donations The first major documentary comes to work for two spinsters, to the People Gotta Eat graphic designer film to reveal the impact of devout daughters of a puritan fund for contributions given through April 15. Kristina R. Craig, overfishing on our oceans. minister. Babette wins a lottery, Kreative Koncepts Pantry partners of People Gotta Eat include Catholic Charities, Little and decides to create a real Flower Catholic Church, La Casa de Amistad, the Salvation Army, Broad- Copy Editors One Water (2009) French dinner—causing the way Christian Parish UMC and St. Vincent DePaul. Brittany Collins 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24 sisters and the village elders to Checks should be made out to “People Gotta Eat,” and mailed to the Jennifer Laiber Celebrating the myriad ways fear for their souls. United Way of St. Joseph County, 3517 E. Jefferson Blvd., South Bend, IN Student Intern water has touched human lives 46615. For more information, contact the United Way at 574-232-8201. Lisa Bucior Student Reporter Katie Doellman

NDWorks, Notre Dame’s faculty and Concerts in staff newspaper, is published by the Office South Bend Symphony community of Public Affairs and Communication. The views expressed in articles do not the Basilica necessarily reflect the views of ND concert to raise funds for Haiti Works or the administration. NDWorks of the Sacred Concert will also feature 700 St. Joseph’s High School sophomore, student musicians cellist Austin Huntington, will be the is produced semimonthly during the featured musician. academic year when classes are in session, Heart Groups include Glee Club, Relief for the people of Haiti is one Representatives of the Notre Dame and monthly during June and July. liturgical choirs goal when the South Bend Symphony Student Government will be on hand Online PDF versions of past NDWorks gathers adult and student musicians before the concert to accept donations. nd.edu/~ndworks. at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25, in the The funds are earmarked for the Haiti can be found at The Notre Dame Glee Club sings Joyce Center. The other order of busi- Program, which continues to be a Submit story ideas, questions and at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on ness is good family fun. vital source of medical care, food and comments to [email protected] or Sunday, April 25, immediately follow- Some 700 student musicians from shelter in Haiti. contact Carol C. Bradley, 631-0445 or ing the 7:15 p.m. Vespers service. The local high schools will join the Student tickets are $5; Notre Dame [email protected]. event is free and open to the public. symphony and Maestro Tsung Yeh in faculty and staff tickets are $7.50. Other upcoming Basilica concerts The deadline for stories is 10 business what is believed to be the largest side- Tickets are available on the sympho- include the Notre Dame Women’s days before the following 2009-2010 by-concert attempted locally. Instru- ny’s website, southbendsymphony. Liturgical Choir’s Annual Spring mentalists and choir members from org, or by calling 235-9190. Tickets publication dates: July 23, Aug. 13, Aug. Concert, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April Notre Dame and other local colleges will be available at the Joyce Center 28, Sept. 10, Sept. 24, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, 21; the Basilica Schola, after 7:15 and universities also will participate. A the day of the concert. Nov. 19, Dec. 10, Jan. 7, Jan. 28, p.m. vespers on Sunday, May 2; and Feb. 11, Feb. 25, March 18, April 8, the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir concert, 4 p.m. Friday, May 14. April 22, May 6, May 20, and June 17. South Bend Symphony Maestro Tsung Yeh April 8, 2010 | NDWorks | 3

New campus map has paper, online and iPhone options Maps can be embedded in and pedestrian pathways. If you “Imagine the visit that includes a events websites mouse over landmarks like the Main lecture at McKenna Hall, dinner at Building or football stadium, you’ll Legends and a film at the performing By Gail Hinchion Mancini, find links to virtual tour information arts center, and you can see the value Internal Communications for those locations. The online map of saving multiple locations,” says also identifies parking areas. Grundy. “Conference planners can Just in time for spring visitor The online version uses Google build these into their conference sites. season—the Blue-Gold Game and Maps technology, including a feature But it’s just as useful to youth athletic Commencement, to name two—the that allows users to see a series of competitions, or tourists who need to University has a new campus map. A on-campus destinations. From aca- identify a rendezvous site.” paper version will be available from demic conference planners to brides The online version of the map, such points as the Visitors’ Center and grooms, hosts can pre-populate along with the viewers’ chosen loca- and the security gates. But the real maps to locate a series of activities tions, can be printed. Or, for iPhone fun is happening online. in multiple locations. These versions users, it can be viewed directly from The website map.nd.edu will take of maps can even be embedded in the phone at map.nd.edu. viewers to a site that more clearly event websites, says Chas Grundy, orients campus buildings and points director of interactive marketing at of interest to identifiable landmarks AgencyND.

Town Hall meetings to review new position and compensation program A response to ND Voice “This spring’s sessions are especially feedback important as we explain how we’ve Date Time Location Unit(s) designed the new compensation By Gail Hinchion Mancini, program as a response to the feedback April 14 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Washington Hall Finance/Investments you shared with us during the ND Internal Communications April 14 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Jordan Auditorium MCOB OIT Voice survey.” ND Renew, a comprehensive re- Affleck-Graves and Bob McQuade, April 15 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. DPAC – Leighton Academic Groups view of exempt and nonexempt staff associate vice president for human re- (Academic Groups = Provost’s Office, Centers and Institutes) positions and the compensation pro- sources, will outline the details of the gram, will be among topics discussed new position structure. The project April 15 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Carey Auditorium (Hesburgh Library) Student Affairs later this month during spring Town goal was to identify a clear, consistent April 19 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monogram Room Athletics Hall meetings. Eleven sessions are and competitive program that helps planned. Those who are unable to employees understand: April 19 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. DPAC – Leighton Business Operations attend the session scheduled for their • How their positions and com- April 20 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. McKenna Hall Business Operations division are welcome to attend one of pensation relate to similar positions the other sessions. across campus. April 21 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. DPAC – Leighton Business Operations “I look forward to the Town Hall • How Notre Dame compensation April 22 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Carey Auditorium (Hesburgh Library) President/EVP meetings each semester as a great relates to the external markets from opportunity to meet with staff from which employees are recruited. April 23 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. DPAC – Leighton Colleges across the University and share Affleck-Graves also will provide April 23 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. DPAC – Leighton Business Operations information on important priorities an update on Notre Dame’s financial at Notre Dame,” says John Affleck- position, the recent student survey Graves, executive vice president. and campus construction projects.

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photo provided Joel W. Ottman’s painting “Machoego and the Legend of the Phallic Scroll” Fightin’ Cancer’ is one of the works The campus community is gearing • Tours of the football locker room on display in the up for the annual Notre Dame Relay (until 9 p.m.) will be available to 2010 BFA/MFA for Life, 6 p.m. Friday, April 16, registered participants for a dona- Candidates’ through 9 a.m. Saturday, April 17, in tion of $5. Theses Exhibition, Notre Dame Stadium. • For $1, have your photo taken on view at the Snite The event begins with opening with friends at the S&S Photo Museum of Art ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. Friday, and a Booth. through May 16. survivors’ lap around the track. After dark, those whose lives have been • At midnight, a Relay for Life touched by cancer are remembered in Fiesta will include activities as the 9:30 p.m. Luminary Ceremony. well as chips and salsa from Closing ceremonies begin at 8 a.m. Hacienda. Saturday. A variety of activities and

fundraisers have been scheduled dur- Donations of handcrafted items NOTRE DAME STADIUM ing the event: such as jewelry, ceramics, floral ar- rangements and photography are still • CJ’s Pub will offer a burger, chips welcome for the silent auction. Visit NOTRE DAME STADIUM or popcorn and a soda for $5 relay.org/ndin for donation forms. For more information, contact Jed • Elephant ears will be available Hanawalt, [email protected] or honor of O’Leary’s recent passing and from 6 to 10 p.m., $3 each or 631-9715. courageous fight with cancer, his wife, two for $5 This year’s event is dedicated to Linda, is serving as honorary chairper- • A silent auction will be held from Rich O’Leary, who spent 38 years of son of the event. Also being honored 7 to 11 p.m. his career in the athletic department, as a chairperson is sophomore Kelsey • Hot Box Pizza and BW3’s wings first serving as Men’sL acrosse coach Thrasher, who is battling Hodgkin’s will be available from 11 p.m. on and later as Director of Intramurals Lymphoma. for a donation. and Club Sports in RecSports. In 4 | NDWorks | April 8, 2010 2010 2011

“An Irish Homecoming” with phiLhArMOniA QuArtett BerLin Cherish the LAdies January 16 And MAurA O’COnneLL Hagerty Irish Performer Series eVidenCe, A Dance Company September 10 Ron K. Brown, artistic director January 20—21 Ahn triO BrAziLiAhn September 17 dAVe hOLLAnd Visiting January 29 esperAnzA spALding L.A. Theatre Works presents September 24 the reAL dr. strAngeLOVe: pOMeriuM Edward Teller and the Battle for the October 1 H-Bomb February 4—5 reginA CArter and BiLLy ChiLds diAVOLO dAnCe theAtre Artist October 8 February 10—12 the FisChOFF nAtiOnAL ChAMBer Omaha Theater Company presents MusiC COMpetitiOn grAnd prize there’s An ALLigAtOr under My Winner Bed, A nightMAre in My CLOset, October 14 And sOMething in My AttiC Three classics by Mercer Mayer Omaha Theater Company presents Book adapted by James Larson iF yOu giVe A CAt A CupCAke Based on the beloved classics by Book adapted by Brian Guehring Mercer Mayer Based on the beloved book series February 26 series by Laura Numeroff October 22 ChAntiCLeer March 5 seán CurrAn COMpAny unCOnVentiOnAL October 27—29 VAnguArd JAzz OrChestrA March 26 MOsCOW stAte syMphOny OrChestrA iMAni Winds inspirAtiOns with siMOn shAheen Jeremy Denk, piano November 7 April 2 Art with a point of view informed by reflection on our LunA negrA dAnCe theAter VeniCe BArOQue OrChestrA Catholic character and inspired by the academy’s November 10—11 Andrea Marcon, director/harpsichord Romina Basso, mezzo-soprano pursuit of knowledge AddiCted Giuliano Carmignola, violin … a comedy of substance April 9 November 18—20 Join the growing DeBartolo Performing Arts Center subscriber eMersOn string QuArtet A kOdAChrOMe ChristMAs May 7 community. Get your 2010-2011 Visiting Artist Series book this written and directed by Pat Hazell Friday immediately after the April 9 Academy of St. Martin in December 9—12 the Fields performance. Pre-order this April to reserve priority seating at the best possible value. Subscriber preferential pricing is up to 40% off regular price.

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Upcoming University of Notre Dame Symphonic Band and Events Symphonic Winds We’re getting healthier Presented by the Department WebMD results show Individual responses are confiden- decline in the percentage for whom of Music increases in eating right, tial, and Notre Dame receives a sum- stress is a health risk. Art 3 p.m. Sunday, April 18, Leighton exercising mary that monitors general improve- High blood pressure continues to be 2010 BFA/MFA Candidates’ Concert Hall ment in terms of the numbers who a top risk factor. The percentage with Theses Exhibition Free but ticketed By Gail Hinchion Mancini, participate, the change in numbers at high blood pressure issues has hovered Through May 16, Snite Museum of internal communications each health level, and improvement between 58 percent and 59 percent Art O’Shaughnessy Galleries Opera Notre Dame: Les Contes trends among those who work with over the three-year period. The annual exhibition of D’Hoffman health coaches. This year’s findings Working with a health coach is Notre Dame staff and faculty who culminating works by seniors and 7 p.m. Thursday through are focusing on their health are becom- indicate: optional, and some respondents third-year graduate students in the Sunday, April 22 through 25, ing a more nutrition- and exercise- 47 percent of eligible faculty, staff choose not to. But engagement in the Department of Art, Art History Decio Mainstage Theatre conscious group that is measurably and spouses took the survey; 37 per- coaching process is reaching those in and Design includes industrial Presenting Offenbach’s final improving its health. cent of eligible spouses participated. the high- and medium-risk categories masterpiece, examining the Those findings are seen in data A migration from high risk to at a rate better than typical. and graphic design, multimedia, painting, drawing, photography, ultimate cost of true talent. Sung collected from the 2009 WebMD lower risk is emerging. Over the three Those who invest in the coaching in French with English subtitles. years, the percentage in the high risk process are setting and meeting goals prints, ceramics and sculpture. personal health assessment that is $12/$12/$5 offered to employees during the fall category has shifted from 6 percent to with cardiovascular exercise, weight benefits open enrollment period. Staff 4 percent. The percentage in the me- loss and nutrition. The coaching Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and and faculty receive a reduction in their dium risk category has shifted from 20 processes can continue over a number Chinese Ink Painting Anne-Marie McDermott monthly medical benefit premiums percent to 18 percent. The percentage of phone call discussions. Almost On display in the Snite Museum’s Visiting Artist Series when they and their eligible spouses in the low risk category has increased 70 percent of those in the high risk Mestrovic Studio Gallery through complete the survey. from 74 percent to 77 percent. category who sought coaching had April 25; artist talk and reception, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24, Now in its third year, the Health Diets are improving, and exercise is three or more calls. About 60 percent 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 15. See Leighton Concert Hall Quotient (HQ) is attracting greater on the upswing. The percentage whose of those in the moderate risk category page 8 of this issue for an interview Salerno-Sonnenberg, one of the numbers of participants. In each year, health is at risk because of their dietary had three or more calls. with the artist and a look at her world’s preeminent violinists, joins participant results are expressed to choices has fallen by 12 percent over Most who used the coaching work. pianist McDermott in a program individuals in terms of a risk category the three-year period. The percentage process say a knowledgeable coach including Bach, Debussey and of low, medium or high. All survey whose health is threatened by lack taught them something they hadn’t Music Franck. respondents also then may work with of physical activity has declined by 2 known and motivated them to make Unless otherwise noted, all $25/$25$15 a health coach to talk about better percentage points. a healthy change. performances take place in the approaches to health, and to work on People seem to be managing stress DeBartolo Performing Arts better, as indicated by a 2 percent setting and achieving specific goals. Center. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit performingarts.nd.edu or call the c ashore m att N o t r e D a m e ticket office, 631-2800. To make New employees reservations for free but ticketed events, please call the ticket office. The University welcomes the Ticket prices are for faculty and following new employees, who staff, senior citizens and students began work in January and Women’s February. Golf League of all ages. Daniel Schlosberg and Amy Aurelio G. Banda, “I want students to be infected Briggs: 20th Century Piano development with the arts—the arts habit,” The Notre Dame Women’s Golf League Spring Kickoff will take place at 5:30 Panorama Edward Scott Booker and says Peter Holland, associate Presented by the Department Jonathan Carpenter, p.m. Tuesday, April 27, in the Warren Golf Course indoor facility off Douglas Road. dean for the arts in the College football Enter through the gate east of the Douglas Road roundabout. of Music of Arts and Letters. “The arts Nolan Brubaker, Center for The event begins with a driving lesson, so please bring your club. Warren 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, change how you think, and how Research Computing Leighton Concert Hall general manager John Foster will give a presentation on “What it means to play you see the world. Everywhere Merri Deal, human Acclaimed new music pianist Amy they go—and our students go all resources ready golf.” Briggs joins Artist-in-Residence over the world—we want them The golf league begins Tuesday, May 18, Robyn Karkiewicz, Daniel Schlosberg in a concert of to recognize how important the University Press with tee times between 4 and 5:28 p.m. The works for two pianos by iconic arts are to who they are.” Martinbhai C. Macwan, league runs through Tuesday, Aug. 10, with composers of the 20th century. Kroc Institute the annual tournament and banquet Tuesday, Lan Q. Nguyen, physics Aug. 17. Schola Musicorum presents Stephen J. Reifenberg, University of Notre Dame Band Membership dues are $18, and greens fees Abend Musique XXXIV Kellogg Institute Presented by the Department of with the Naperville Municipal are $9. Registration deadline for the league is Bianca Schonberg, interna- Music Band tional student services Friday, April 30. 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, Presented by the Department of Christopher J. Wilkinson, Participation in the league is open to current Reyes Organ and Choral Hall Music AgencyND Notre Dame employees, wives of current employees, ND retirees receiving a Notre Gregorian chant from medieval 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25, Richard Williams, aerospace Dame pension check or wives of retirees receiving ND pension checks, or the manuscripts, featuring Mass Leighton Concert Hall and mechanical engineering The concert will feature both holders of Notre Dame Courtesy Cards. For more information, contact Carolyn Propers for the third Sunday after Aaron Zila, North Dining groups performing individually Hall Sherman, league president, 631-1305 or [email protected]. Easter from the 12th-century graduale Graz 807. Directed by and combined, with guest tuba Alexander Blachly. soloist Deanna Swoboda. $3/$3/$3 Free but ticketed

Notre Dame Symphony University of Notre Dame Band Orchestra Spring 2010 Concert Section Ensembles Concert staff spoTlight Presented by the Department 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25, of Music Leighton Concert Hall Building Services staffer Larry Robinson, who 8 p.m. Friday, April 16, Free but ticketed works in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Leighton Concert Hall has missed only one day of work in his 35 years at Featuring the winner of the Notre Dame. “I love Notre Dame,” he says. “I love orchestra’s 2009-10 Concerto my job, every bit of it. I love cleaning. I got plenty Competition. of work, and nice people around me. I like to be $5/$4/$3 busy.” People ask him if he ever gets tired, he adds. Have a “I get tired, but the job’s got to get done.” Diane Reeves Visiting Artist Series story idea 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Leighton Concert Hall for A four-time Grammy award winner, Reeves is one of the preeminent jazz vocalists in the NDWorks? world. Call Carol Bradley at 631-0445 or $28/$28/$15 email [email protected]. April 8, 2010 | NDWorks | 7

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“As You Like It,” one of Shakespeare’s photo provided most exuberant comedies, will be performed by Notre Dame students and members of the Michiana community April 22 through 25 in the Philbin Studio Theatre, DeBartolo Per- forming Arts Center. The production, directed by renowned British Shakespearean actor and visiting artist Tim Hardy, is presented by the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival in association with Notre Dame’s Not-So-Royal Shake- Father Ted’s Fun Run/Walk speare Company and the St. Edward’s Hall Players. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. FILM Altman’s sprawling masterpiece Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 22 Unless otherwise noted, films are paints a portrait of the people and through 24, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25. screened in the Browning Cinema, music industry in Nashville. Tickets are $15 for faculty, staff and senior DeBartolo Center for the Performing citizens, $10 for students. To purchase tick- Arts. Tickets are $5 for faculty and Theater ets, visit performingarts.nd.edu or call the staff, $4 for seniors and $3 for students. Blithe Spirit ticket office, 631-2800. Contact the ticket office, 631-2800, to Presented by the Department of make reservations for free but ticketed Film, Television and Theatre events. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, April 13 through 17, and 2:30 p.m. Hamlet (1920) Sunday, April 18, Decio Mainstage Nanovic Institute Film Series Theatre Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore beginning and ending on the south enrolled in a post-secondary 7 p.m. Thursday, April 15 Noel Coward’s “improbable farce To celebrate National Poetry side of the Jordan Hall of Science. institution. The event includes a The 1920 silent film adaptation of in three acts” features a couple Month, Notre Dame faculty Advance registration recommended one-mile walk and 5K and 10K Shakespeare’s play, starring Danish haunted by the jealous ghost of the and students will read from their at nd.edu/~upbound. Registration runs. Registration fees are $10 for silent film legend Asta Nielsen. In husband’s first wife, summoned by poetry. and packet pick-up, 1:30 to 3:15 students, $20 for adults, $30 for a this radical interpretation, Hamlet a séance. p.m. family of up to five members, and is born female and disguised as a $12/$12/$10 Notre Dame Bike Fest 2010 Notre Dame’s Upward Bound $15 per person for organizations male to preserve the lineage. Noon to 7 p.m., Friday, April 23, program helps local high school or businesses. The event includes Piano accompaniment by Larry Campus lectures on the quad in front of the Rockne students from low-income families a T-shirt, snack and a guest Schanker, with an introduction by and events Memorial Building become the first in their families appearance by Rev. Theodore Judith Buchanan. Céilí (a party with music, dance Register your bike, get a free to attend college. Proceeds from M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who will and general merriment) tune-up, learn safety skills or join the event will provide scholarships present the awards and give a A Prophet (2010) Presented by the Keough- a bike club. to Upward Bound participants short talk. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Naughton Institute for Irish Saturday, April 16 and 17 Studies Blue-Gold Spring Football At age 19, Malik is beginning a 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, Oak Game/Festival six-year prison sentence. He soon Room, South Dining Hall All day Saturday, April 24 guided mindfulness meditation. figures out the system, though he Irish musicians from Clare and Game starts at 1:35 p.m. in Participants may attend one cannot read or write. Kerry will lead a céilí featuring Notre Dame Stadium session or all three; register for the Irish Dance Team and Notre For information or to purchase Peace of Mind: The Art of each class separately through Jaws (1975) Dame musicians, led by alumnus tickets, visit und.com/tickets or Mindful Relaxation RecRegister, recsports.nd.edu, PAC Classic 100 Larry Lynch. call the ticket office, 631-7356. Three Mondays, April 12, 19 beginning March 19. 3 p.m. Saturday, April 17 Free and open to the public General admission tickets are $12 and 26, noon to 1 p.m., St. Liam rd A resort town is terrorized by in advance, $15 the day of the Hall 3 floor Conference Room Family Yoga surprise attacks from a great white Poetry Reading: Maurice game, youth (18 and younger) Erica Wagner and Wendy 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sundays, April shark in Steven Spielberg’s thrill Kilwein Guevara $8 in advance, $10 on game day. 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Blithe Spirit “Performing arts for me is a medium through which we develop an understanding of what makes us human,” says Jay Paul Skelton, assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and Ryan Producing Artistic Director for the Notre Dame photos: c arol . Bradley Shakespeare Festival. “I caught the theater bug late in life, but once it bit, I never got over it. When I see someone else start to get bitten, I try to be as encouraging as I can for their particular path, whether it be actor, designer or stage manager.” Theater offers useful experience, he adds: “Collabora- tion. Independence. A work ethic. How to take care of your mind and body. And, hopefully, a bit of insight into humanity Skelton along the way.”

Far right, clockwise from center, student actors Ryan Belock, Sloan Thacker, Clara Ritger, Clare Cooney and Kevin Sarlo rehearse a scene from Noel Coward’s comic play “Blithe Spirit.” At right, Sarlo, Cooney and Thacker watch the rehearsal. The play will run for six performances beginning April 13—see theater listings above for more information. 8 | NDWorks | April 8, 2010

Caroline Chiu photos by Eric Nisly Photographer explores the intersection of reality and abstraction

BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson The images are part of a larger series, “Dreaming: spoke of the decisive moment in photography— A Chinese Wunderkammer.” Wunderkammers were that fraction of a second when a picture is taken. the “cabinets of curiosities,” of earlier centuries, That’s the moment when the photograher is cre- containing cultural objects, botanical specimens, ative, he said—a moment, once missed, that’s fossils and other treasures brought back by gone forever. explorers. Photography is different today, says Hong Kong Chiu has been photographing goldfish—the artist Caroline Chiu. “In 2010, we’re so digital. You subject of this exhibition—for years. “The image is just click, click, click and you have hundreds of big, the fish small. I’m playing around with paint- pictures.” erly gestures done with goldfish.” Chiu returns to the notion of the decisive mo- The fish have movement, she notes. “You can ment in an exhibition, “Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as feel the rising, and the falling. You have movement, Chinese Ink Painting,” on view in the Snite Museum a feeling of multiplicity—big person, little fish… of Art’s Mestrovic Studio Gallery through April 25. big fish, small person.” Above, a series of images from “Dreaming: A Chinese Her photographs are taken with nearly obsolete The exhibition also includes a tank of live gold- Wunderkammer.” Chiu aims for the painterly, gestural quality technology—a 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera, the fish, supplied locally. The tank has the same di- of Chinese ink painting in her photographs of bulbous-eyed second largest in the world, which is housed at 20 mensions as the gallery. Gallery lighting is delib- Black Moor goldfish. X 24 Studio in New York City’s Tribeca neighbor- erately dim. hood (the world’s largest Polaroid camera, 40 by “Dark work looks better in the dark,” Chiu says. 80 inches, can also be found in lower Manhattan). “Darkness highlights the edge of realism and ab- Below, the exhibition’s live goldfish are supplied and maintained The image size, 20 x 24 inches, is the actual size straction by making the viewer work a little.” by a local aquarium shop. The live fish add a sense of movement of the negative. The backing of the film is pulled Chiu has only 15 sheets of Polaroid film left. and of multiplicities of scale, says Chiu. off, leaving distinctive edges and occasional rips What’s next? She’s looking for a way to replicate the and tears. optics of the 20 x 24 Polaroid in a digital camera, to It’s a very deliberate process. All shots are give her work the feel of 19th-century photography. planned six to 12 months in advance, and Chiu In addition to the exhibition, Chiu will also cre- brings everything to the studio. “Everything is or- ate a five-day installation at the museum, “108 chestrated,” she says. Thoughts on Spirituality,” from April 12 to 16. The She calls it “a tribute to the end of photography.” installation will include photographs and projected “There is no more Polaroid film.” The 200 re- images of flames, music and a space to meditate. maining sheets of large-format film were divided, Viewers will be able to participate by writing or with half going to Chiu and the other half to Ameri- drawing on Chiu’s photographs. She will speak at can artist Julian Schnabel. a reception to be held at the museum from 5 to 6 In the series on exhibition, Chiu wanted to cap- p.m. on Thursday, April 15. ture the fluidity and drama of Chinese ink painting.