By Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations
Contact: 336-334-3890
Posted 4-20-11
GREENSBORO, NC – All events are free and on the UNCG campus unless otherwise noted. For help finding campus buildings, see our maps. For more events at UNCG, visit our Public Events Calendar.
Tickets can be purchased from the UNCG Box Office online, by phone at 336-334-4849, or in person at windows in Elliott University Center and the Music Building. Walk-up and telephone sales are available noon-5 p.m. weekdays. Walk-up purchases can also be made at performance venues starting an hour before show time.
Lecture: The Bible and the Making of Transatlantic Modernity
7-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 19
Maple Room, Elliott University Center
Stephen Prickett, the Regius Professor of English at the University of Glasgow, will present the lecture “The Bible and the Making of Transatlantic Modernity,” sponsored by the Atlantic World Research Network.
Artist Talk: John Ahearn
5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Artist John Ahearn returns to Greensboro for a talk on his current work. An artist-in-residence at the Weatherspoon in 1995, Ahearn has a close tie to the museum and the community. A storefront on Lee Street became a working studio where he created life-like plaster portraits of Greensboro residents.
Earth Day events
10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, April 21
College Avenue and Foust Park
More than 40 organizations, companies, local farmers and artists from the campus and the community will be participating in Earth Day 2011 on the UNCG campus, a partnership between UNCG and Sustainable Greensboro. The day’s events will include jean collection (where old jeans will be recycled into housing insulation), a CFL/incandescent light bulb exchange, children’s story corner, bike clinics, live music and a tree planting. That evening, Anthony Fragola, a professor of media studies, will premiere his film “Another Corleone: Another Sicily, Living Sustainably in the Land of the Godfather,” a film that focuses on the lands confiscated from the mafia in Corleone, the town made famous by Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” at 6:30 p.m. at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
Exhibition: Photovoice “Inspiring Community Inclusion One Photo at a Time”
5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 28
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, 342 N. Elm St., Greensboro
A Photovoice exhibition spotlighting the perspectives of seven adults with intellectual disabilities will be on display at the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, part of a joint effort between The ARC of Greensboro and the TRAIN grant team from UNCG. Visitors will have a chance to meet the photographers and learn more about their personal stories. Photovoice is a participatory research process that empowers individuals—who have traditionally lacked a voice—to record and reflect on issues from their points of view, increase collective knowledge on these issues, and provide that information to policymakers and others who have the power to instigate change.
Dance: Silhouettes and Shadows
1-4 p.m. Sunday, May 1
Kress Terrace, 212 S. Elm St.
The Silhouettes and Shadows dance performance will showcase the work of graduate students in the dance program. Lindsey Bramham Howie will present "Relinquish," a group work involving seven dancers exploring themes of control and suppression. Christine Bowen Stevens will present a work investigating feelings, emotions, and reactions to the struggle humans deal with as we experience triumphs and tragedies. Denise Murphy will present a work based on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
fire which killed 146 garment workers. Sarah Wildes Arnett will present a work for six that explores intimate relationships and, ultimately, what draws people to stay or leave. A pre-concert reception will start at 1p.m., and the concert will begin at 2 p.m. Admission is free; donations are welcome.
Exhibition: MFA Thesis Exhibition Reception
2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 1
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Opening reception for the 2011 UNCG Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The show features work by six artists in UNCG’s Department of Art graduate program: Amanda Nicholas (drawing), Andrew Etheridge (sculpture), Isabelle Abbot (painting), Jody Christian (drawing), Jonathan Cobbs (painting/sculpture), and Maurice Moore (drawing).
Science on Tap: Physics of the Human Body
7:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 3
The Green Bean, 321 S. Elm St., Greensboro
Dr. Promod R. Pratap, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will lead the final Science on Tap of the spring semester. Sponsored by the Office of Research and Economic Development.
Film: MFA Thesis Films
6-9 p.m. Thursday, May 5
Weatherspoon Art Museum
MFA students in the Department of Media Studies present their thesis works in this selection of film shorts. A reception begins at 6 p.m., the screening begins at 7 p.m. and a discussion follows the films. Parental guidance is recommended. “Moving Minds,” directed by Cara Clark, is a behind the scenes look at the rehearsal process for three graduate students’ thesis dance concerts at UNCG. “Moon Rock,” directed by Debra Sea, is an experimental film that explores the importance of education, connections with family, our curiosity about the world, and the lyrical and poetic nature of life with science. “Between Friends and Family,” directed by Rick Dillwood, is a documentary about a lesbian family and their sperm donor. “The Walled City of Charles Town,” directed by Mary Lopez, is the rarely told story of the Carolinas’ colonial founding and the only English walled city in America.
Spring Commencement
10 a.m.-noon Friday, May 6
Greensboro Coliseum
