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Arts & Issues and SIUE Xfest present

Manual Cinema

No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks Friday, September 13, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

Dunham Hall Theater Sponsored by the SIUE Office of the Provost and Commerce Bank

Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for the stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live-feed cameras, multi-channel sound design and a live music ensemble, Manual

Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveliness, ingenuity and theatricality.

No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks brings to the center stage one of Chicago’s most beloved figures. She was an icon, a poet laureate, and a Pulitzer Prize winner–but she was also a treasured educator and mentor. The performance combines intricate paper puppetry, live actors working in shadow and an original score for an unforgettable multi-media experience.

For additional Xfest shows, visit the Manual Cinema page on artandissues.com.

To purchase Xfest tickets (excluding Manual Cinema), contact the Theater and Dance Department at 618-650-2774, or visit the Theater and Dance Box Office, Dunham Hall, Room 1042b.

SIUE and SIUC Combined Orchestras Michael Mishra, SIUE Conductor Edward Benyas, SIUC Conductor Featuring Awadagin Pratt, Pianist

Monday, October 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

Dunham Hall Theater Sponsored by Busey Bank

The orchestras of both Southern Illinois University campuses will combine for an evening of exceptional music with pianist Awadagin Pratt.

Pratt began studying piano at the age of 6. At the age of 16, he entered the University of Illinois, where he studied piano, violin and conducting. He later graduated with degrees in those areas from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University–making history as the first student to receive diplomas in three performance areas at that institution.

In recognition of his achievement and work in the field of classical music, Pratt received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins, as well as an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University. Pratt will perform Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in A Minor” in the first half of the concert. The combined orchestras will perform “Mahler Symphony No. 1” in the second half.

Robert Moses

The Legacy of Freedom Summer: Education, Citizenship, and the Constitution

Arts & Issues and the Ralph W. Axtell Lecture Series in Biological Sciences present

J. Drew Lanham

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center

Forever Gone – Extinction and the Case for Ecological Reparations

Sponsored by the Madison County Regional Office of Education

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center

Bob Moses was one of the key figures in the American civil rights movement. As the field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi, he was a young activist working for change in the Deep South more than half a century ago. He was the main organizer of Freedom Summer, which registered African American voters in Mississippi in 1964.

Moses kept the project moving forward despite violence that included the murder of three student volunteers: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Sponsored by the SIUE Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Audubon Center at Riverlands

Freedom Schools were an important part of Freedom Summer and provided focused supplemental instruction for African Americans to help overcome the artificial voter registration requirements in Mississippi. Moses later continued his commitment to broaden educational opportunities by establishing the Algebra Project through funding from a MacArthur Fellowship. This program aims at increasing math literacy for all citizens, starting in elementary school.

The Department of Biological Sciences and Arts & Issues will celebrate Darwin Day by presenting Dr. J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, S.C., Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize. It was also a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. Lanham is a birder, naturalist and hunter-conservationist, who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram’s Living Legacy and Carolina Writers at Home.

Moses will share his compelling life story, along with his thoughts and beliefs about transforming education across America.

An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, Lanham and his family live in the upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.

Chaos Magick

Arts & Issues and the Department of Physics’ Shaw Lecture Series present

Angela Kim, Michael Robert Boswell, Peter John Kearney Thursday, January 30, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Dunham Hall Theater Sponsored by WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound

This evocative, multi-media experience will spotlight SIUE Assistant Professor of Piano Angela Kim. Her performance will be the center of a unique presentation that will include classic repertoire, electronic sound, graphic design, animation and dance. Created by artists of different genres from across the country—Michael Robert Boswell (graphic designer), Peter John Kearney (motion designer) and Angela Kim (pianist)—this concert will take the conventional concert experience to a different level. It will also incorporate the work of composer Dan VanHassel and choreographer Kevin Hockenberry, assistant professor in SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance.

Praised by international press as “a pianist who meets the highest standard of technique,” Dr. Kim is one of the rising young pianists showing her versatility through colorful imagination and intense musical expression. As a scholarship student at the Eastman School of Music, Kim received the prestigious Henry Cobos Endowed Piano Prize for demonstrating excellence in piano performance.

Kim has performed throughout the United States, South America, Italy, Germany, Austria and Korea.

Brian Greene

Revealing the Universe – A Journey to the Frontier of Understanding Thursday, April 2, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center Sponsored by the SIUE Graduate School, the Dr. William Shaw Lectureship Endowment and the Madison County Regional Office of Education

Dr. Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts.

A professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, Greene has been described by The Washington Post as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”

Greene is the author of three acclaimed books: The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Hidden Reality, which have collectively sold more than two million copies, been translated into more than 40 languages, and spent 65 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List. His books are also the basis of two Emmy and Peabody Award-winning NOVA miniseries, both of which Greene hosted. A Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, Greene is currently director of Columbia University’s Center for Theoretical Physics.