BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Events at Stanford//iCal4j 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Events at Stanford performances BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091105T200000 SUMMARY:Bulrusher by Eisa Davis UID:events_stanford_edu_20797 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Isaiah M. Wooden\n\n**Finalist for the 2007 Pulit zer Prize in Drama.** In 1955\, in the redwood country north of San Fra ncisco\, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant\, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the strange: the taciturn schoolteacher who adopted her\, t he madam who runs her brothel with a fierce discipline\, the logger with a zest for horses and women\, and the guitar-slinging boy who is after Bulrusher’s heart. Just when she thought her world might close in on her \, she discovers an entirely new sense of self when a black girl from Al abama comes to town. Passionate\, lyrical\, and chock full of down-home humor\, this play is an unforgettable experience by a new\, thrilling vo ice.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20797 LOCATION:Nitery Theater in the Old Union END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091111T121000 SUMMARY:SLSQ Emerging String Quartet Program Presents: The Afiara String Quartet UID:events_stanford_edu_20859 DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and join The Afiara String Quartet - internationally celebrated young string quartet\, (current Jui lliard Quartet in Residence and past participant of the SLSQ Seminar) fo r a short noon hour concert.\n\nThe St. Lawrence String Quartet Emerging String Quartet Program (ESQP) provides intensive train ing workshops to emerging string quartets on the skills\, execution\, de velopment\, presentation\, and organization of community outreach progra ms\, planting seeds for young ensembles when returning to their home com munities to foster similar programs and connections.\n\nThe first string quartet to visit Stanford as part of the SLSQ's ESQP is the Afi ara String Quartet\, currently the graduate string quartet in r esidence at the Julliard School and recent first prize winner at the Mun ich International String Quartet Competition.\n\nThe SLSQ welcomes the p ublic to attend The Afiara String Quartet in concert as part of the quar terly ESQP Noon Concert Series!\n\nThe ESQP is spon sored by the St. Lawrence String Quartet\, the Stanford Institute for Cr eativity and the Arts (SiCa)\, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundat ion. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20859 LOCATION:Geology Corner (Bldg. 320)\, Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091112T190000 SUMMARY:The Exonerated UID:events_stanford_edu_21031 DESCRIPTION:Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP) presen ts "The Exonerated\," a play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen based on t he true stories of six individuals who were taken off of death row after being found innocent for the allegations against them. Moving and polit ical\, the show explores how social stratification and discrimination in the United States can be a matter of life or death. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21031 LOCATION:Nitery Theater in the Old Union END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091112T200000 SUMMARY:Tesseract: A Life of Eadweard Muybridge in 8 Stages UID:events_stanford_edu_20803 DESCRIPTION:Guest directors Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson return to Stan ford Drama after last year's successful collaboration with Drama and SiC a. This original performance piece\, created with students\, is based on the life of the eccentric and fascinating photographer\, Eadweard Muybr idge. Hixson and Goulish\, founders of the Chicago-based performance gro ups "Goat Island" and “Every house has a door\," create project-specific collaborative performances with narrow thematic focus and rigorous pres entation.\n\n"One of the most important and influential [performance] co mpanies working in Chicago" --Peter Taub\, Director of Performance Progr ams at Museum of Contemporary Art\, about Goat Island performance group. \n\nVisit http://drama.stanford.edu for more information.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20803 LOCATION:Pigott Theater in Memorial Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20090403T120000 SUMMARY:Musical Performances\, "The Metaphysics of Notation" UID:events_stanford_edu_17491 DESCRIPTION:Performances of Mark Applebaum's graphic score \n"The Metaphy sics of Notation"\nFridays\, April 1\, 2009 - March 1\, 2010\n12 Noon\nG eballe Family Balcony\n\n*November 6\, Adam Sheppard\, guitar\n\n\nFor a full schedule\, see: http://museum.stanford.edu/participate/programs_ev ents_faculty_choice.html URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/174/17491 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091117T200000 SUMMARY:Kimball Chamber Series: Contrasts Quartet UID:events_stanford_edu_20935 DESCRIPTION:Contrasts Quartet\, the celebrated ensemble of clarinet\, vio lin\, cello and piano\, presents an intimate recital of chamber music at Kimball Hall on the eve of their formal concert in Dinkelspiel. The ens emble\, whose members have performed with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, performs a mix of duo\, trio\, and quar tet repertoire.\n\n**Please note: The Kimball Chamber Series is open to Stanford students and faculty only. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20935 LOCATION:Kimball Hall Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091119T190000 SUMMARY:My Name is Rachel Corrie UID:events_stanford_edu_20805 DESCRIPTION:The Stanford Department of Drama and the Stanford Theatre Act ivist Mobilization Project (STAMP) are proud to announce a staged readin g - the San Francisco Bay Area premiere - of the thought-provoking play\ , "My Name is Rachel Corrie."\n\nThis show follows one girl’s true story of struggle through adolescence\, self-discovery\, and idealism as she bursts through her familiar world of Olympia\, WA to the conflict-ridden Gaza strip as a volunteer aid worker. Taken from the poetic\, gritty\, and comedic writings of Rachel Corrie\, this one woman show celebrates t he precarious young life an emerging social hero right up until she is k illed by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer while working for social ju stice and peace in the Gaza Strip in March 2003\, teaching us all import ant lessons about global conflict\, peace\, and our own responsibility t o advance change in our world. \n\nThe performances feature an impressiv e line-up of post-show discussion speakers including Rabbi Michael Lerne r\, Professor Joel Beinin\, and Professor Tom Sheehan. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20805 LOCATION:Nitery Theater in the Old Union END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091202T190000 SUMMARY:Eudora Welty at 100 UID:events_stanford_edu_20035 DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s finest prose writers\, the incomparable Eudora Welty\, a nativ e and life-long resident of Jackson\, Mississippi. Welty’s beautifully c rafted\, joyous\, and wise stories\, often set in the South\, cross the lines of color and class\, offering unforgettable portraits of a region and its people. She was the author of ten collections of short stories\, six novels\, and five books of literary criticism. Her many awards incl ude the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973.\n\nTo celebrate Welty’s 100t h birthday\, Continuing Studies has invited her biographer and friend Su zanne Marrs to talk about Welty and her legacy. Marrs’ 2005 biography\, entitled simply Eudora Welty\, is regarded as the definitive life story\ , and one that the Dallas Morning News said “captures the humorous and u nconventional spirit of one of the South’s greatest writers.”\n\nOur eve ning celebration also features readings of some of Welty’s most popular short stories (“Why I Live at the P.O.\,” “A Worn Path\,” “Old Mr. Marbl ehall”) and a scene from the play based on her novella\, The Ponder Hear t\, which drew critical praise on Broadway in 1956. These performances—b y Courtney Walsh\, Aleta Hayes\, and Rush Rehm—will be supplemented by p rojections of Welty’s extraordinary photographs\, many of them made whil e she worked for the WPA in the 1930s\, bearing clear-eyed witness to th e human and architectural landscape of the South.\n\nSUZANNE MARRS\nProf essor of English\, Millsaps College\nSuzanne Marrs’ research centers on the American South and especially on Eudora Welty. She has lectured wide ly on Welty’s fiction\, serving as consultant for the 1987 BBC documenta ry on the writer. In addition to numerous articles\, Marrs has published The Welty Collection\, Welty and Politics\, One Writer’s Imagination: T he Fiction of Eudora Welty\, and the biography Eudora Welty. Recipient o f the 1998 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Eudora Welty Sch olarship\, Professor Marrs is currently Welty Foundation Scholar in Resi dence.\n\nRUSH REHM\nProfessor of Drama and Classics\; Artistic Director \, Stanford Summer Theater (SST)\nRush Rehm has written extensively on G reek tragedy\, including Greek Tragic Theatre\, Marriage to Death\, The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy\, and Radical The atre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World. Rehm has taught several course s for Continuing Studies and the Master of Liberal Arts program. Last ye ar he directed “The Time of Your Life: A William Saroyan Evening” and th is past Summer he directed The Electra Festival for Stanford Summer Thea ter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20035 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium\, School of Education END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20091204T203000 SUMMARY:Kimball Chamber Series: Christopher O'Riley\, solo piano UID:events_stanford_edu_20937 DESCRIPTION:Christopher O'Riley performs an intimate recital of solo pian o music\, drawing from his repertoire of celebrated original arrangement s of the music of Radiohead\, Elliot Smith\, Nirvana and other iconic po p artists.\n\n**Please note: The Kimball Chamber Series is open to Stanf ord students and faculty only. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/209/20937 LOCATION:Kimball Hall Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100122T200000 SUMMARY:MORPHOSES/The Wheeldon Company - BAY AREA DEBUT UID:events_stanford_edu_19705 DESCRIPTION:Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company—the critically-acclaimed new b allet company founded in 2007 by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez—makes its Bay Area debut in a co-presentation with San Fra ncisco Performances and UC Davis’s Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center for t he Performing Arts. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19705 LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100127T200000 SUMMARY:L.A. THEATRE WORKS UID:events_stanford_edu_19707 DESCRIPTION:L.A. Theatre Works’ new docudrama\, co-commissioned by Lively Arts\, chronicles Robert Kennedy’s relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the transformation of their relationship as RFK became an important force in the fight for civil rights. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19707 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100228T110000 SUMMARY:MAKING BOOKS SING - FAMILY PROGRAM (ages 6 and up) UID:events_stanford_edu_19725 DESCRIPTION:Following on last season’s triumphant West Coast premiere per formances at Lively Arts\, New York’s innovative Making Books Sing retur ns to transform a modern masterpiece of children’s fiction into a vibran t new work of musical theater. Tea with Chachaji (based on the 2003 pict ure-book Chachaji’s Cup by Uma Krishnaswami and Soumya Sitaraman) tells the story of Neel\, a contemporary Indian–American boy\, and his great-u ncle Chachaji\, who turns an heirloom teacup into a magical repository o f family memories and Hindu tales. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19725 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100228T140000 SUMMARY:MAKING BOOKS SING - FAMILY PROGRAM (ages 6 and up) UID:events_stanford_edu_19727 DESCRIPTION:Following on last season’s triumphant West Coast premiere per formances at Lively Arts\, New York’s innovative Making Books Sing retur ns to transform a modern masterpiece of children’s fiction into a vibran t new work of musical theater. Tea with Chachaji (based on the 2003 pict ure-book Chachaji’s Cup by Uma Krishnaswami and Soumya Sitaraman) tells the story of Neel\, a contemporary Indian–American boy\, and his great-u ncle Chachaji\, who turns an heirloom teacup into a magical repository o f family memories and Hindu tales. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19727 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100331T200000 SUMMARY:HERBIE HANCOCK TRIBUTE CONCERT Curated by the NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEU M IN HARLEM\; Christian McBride\, music director UID:events_stanford_edu_19733 DESCRIPTION:Lively Arts’ collaboration with the National Jazz Museum in H arlem and Stanford Jazz Workshop continues with a musical tribute to Her bie Hancock with bassist Christian McBride (co-director of the National Jazz Museum of Harlem) as music director. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19733 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100403T200000 SUMMARY:Urban Nights Dance Fusion UID:events_stanford_edu_20027 DESCRIPTION:Cardinal Ballet Company presents the biggest dance event of 2 010. Featuring: Basmati Raas\, Bent Spoon\, dV8\, Los Salseros de Stanfo rd\, Stanford Chinese Dance\, Swingtime\, TapTH@T\, Troposomatic\, and U rban Styles. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20027 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100418T143000 SUMMARY:ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET with TONY MANZO\, bass\; and PEDJA MU ZIJEVIC\, piano UID:events_stanford_edu_19735 DESCRIPTION:The SLSQ season closes its three-concert series for Stanford Lively Arts with two favorite collaborators: Pedja Muzijevic\, piano\, a nd Tony Manzo\, bass.\n\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19735 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100421T200000 SUMMARY:CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET UID:events_stanford_edu_19737 DESCRIPTION:Cedar Lake is a contemporary ballet company dedicated to the continued development of dance by providing choreographers a comprehensi ve environment for creation\, and curating work for presentation to a wo rldwide audience. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19737 LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100424T200000 SUMMARY:DAVE DOUGLAS & KEYSTONE/BILL MORRISON UID:events_stanford_edu_19739 DESCRIPTION:For the culmination of a yearlong residency jointly planned w ith the Stanford Institute for Creativity & the Arts (SiCa) and Stanford faculty and students\, Lively Arts has commissioned a work from compose r/trumpeter Dave Douglas and filmmaker Bill Morrison exploring how techn ology and invention have revolutionized the ways in which we understand the world. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19739 LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100427T200000 SUMMARY:HAL HOLBROOK UID:events_stanford_edu_19741 DESCRIPTION:Mark Twain Tonight!\, the trailblazing one-man show that Hal Holbrook created\, and that he has continued to hone over the course of his long and distinguished career on stage and screen\, earned him both a Tony and Emmy Award. Marking the centenary of Twain’s death almost to the day\, Holbrook’s performance at Stanford comes at the culmination o f courses in Stanford’s Departments of English\, American Studies\, and Continuing Studies\, spearheaded by Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin\, p reeminent Twain scholar and the Director of American Studies at Stanford . URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19741 LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080018Z DTSTART:20100505T200000 SUMMARY:LAURIE ANDERSON UID:events_stanford_edu_19743 DESCRIPTION:This newest work by Laurie Anderson\, co-commissioned with Ca l Performances\, will be a series of ten two-person plays. Presented as 90-minute piece\, each play will have two characters and feature various ways to look at two opposing sides of questions\, issues\, stories\, be liefs and themes. Anderson will play both roles and the dual parts will be defined by advanced audio triggers and soundscapes\, software\, digit al programs\, and projected sets. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/197/19743 LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR