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Chronicle APRIL 14, 2011
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the artistic accomplishments of BC students and faculty. Hogan’s public appearances More than 1,000 Boston College during the festival will include a students, faculty and administrators Q&A following a screening of “The will display their artistic talents and Town” on April 28 at 7 p.m. in interests at the University’s 13th an- Devlin 008, and a panel discussion nual Arts Festival April 28-30. — sponsored by the Lowell LecThe festival, which last year drew tures Humanities Series — on April more than 16,500 BC alumni and 29 at 7 p.m. in Devlin 008. The area residents, includes over 80 panel, “Chuck Hogan’s Prince of events — most of them free — that Thieves and ‘The Town’: A Boston showcase performing, visual and Crime Story as Novel and Movie,” literary arts programs. Professional also includes English professors artists, many of them alumni, also Carlo Rotella and Chris Wilson. will take part. Activities for families with chilEach afternoon, music, dance dren of all ages will be offered on Doug Levy and theater events fill April 30 from noon O’Neill Plaza, the festo 5 p.m.: a parade tival’s hub; each eveled by BC’s Marchning there are several ing Band, arts and featured events. In adcrafts, story hours dition, art exhibitions for children and and demonstrations are teens, and an origiopen all afternoon, with nal theater producexhibitions continuing tion — most apinto the evening; there propriate for 5th to also are daily literary 8th graders — on Chuck Hogan ’89 (Prince of readings. Thieves) will make several bullying, written This year’s special appearances at the festival. by Theatre Departguest is best-selling author Chuck ment faculty member Luke JorHogan, a 1989 BC alumnus whose gensen and presented by students in novel Prince of Thieves was adapted his Creative Dramatics class. for the film “The Town,” directed This year’s festival, according to by and starring Ben Affleck. Ho- organizers, features a greater infugan will be presented with the an- sion of professional mentors beyond nual Boston College Arts Council BC faculty and staff members. They Alumni Award for Distinguished include artists, among them alumni, Achievement from University Presi- who have been on campus this dent William P. Leahy, SJ, at an spring to work with students in arts awards celebration and public various genres, including a cappella, reception on April 29 from 4-6:30 dance, improv theater and fashion. p.m. in O’Neill Plaza. Awards will Some mentors will return to take also be presented in recognition of part in the festival. The goal of this
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BY ROSANNE PELLEGRINI STAFF WRITER
BC SCENES
Frank Curran
Lee Pellegrini
Song, dance and many other forms of artistic expression will be on display at the BC Arts Festival.
The annual Black Family Weekend will take place tonight through Sunday, featuring a panel discussion on “Transformative Leadership,” a 40th anniversary celebration of the Black Student Forum and a talk on black leadership by Georgetown University Professor of Sociology Michael Eric Dyson, and other events. See http://www.bc.edu/clubs/ bsf/38th.html for more details.
initiative — dubbed the “Road to the Festival,” which has included workshops, master classes and other programs — is to enhance students’ creative preparation not only for the festival, which showcases this work, but for their ongoing artistic growth and development. Examples of “Road to the Festival” this semester included a workshop on choreography for performance led by Betsi Graves Akerstein ’04, founder and director of Boston’s Urbanity Dance company; English faculty member and “slam poet” Susan Roberts’ sessions with student poets; and Boston-based
WALKING INTO THE FUTURE Photo by Caitlin Cunningham
Kimberly O’Neill ’13 takes visiting high school student Kiara Matier on a tour of Boston College as part of “A Day in the Life of a College Student,” co-organized by BC senior Elizabeth Yuan with the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. The event matched BC students with high school-age “Little Sisters” and their “Big Sisters” — including Erin Hayes (left) — to talk about college life.
rock band Five O’Clock Shadow’s mentoring of student a cappella groups BC Dynamics and BEATS. The festival is organized by the Arts Council and sponsored with the offices of the President, the Provost and Dean of Faculties, and the Institute for the Liberal Arts. For more information, including event locations and updates, see the festival website http://www. bc.edu/artsfestival or call ext.2ARTS(2787). Note that the schedule is subject to change. Events with admission fees are indicated. Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu
A Weekend of Joyce A talk by the co-editor of a controversial new edition of Finnegan’s Wake will highlight a weekend of James Joyce celebrations April 16 and 17 at Boston College, including the University’s annual “Bloomsday-in-April” event that brings to life Joyce’s legendary book Ulysses. Danis Rose — who collaborated with John O’Hanlon to produce the new Finnegan’s Wake — will speak at BC on April 16 at 2 p.m., as part of the Boston Joyce Forum “Joyce, Gender and History.” The Rose-O’Hanlon edition generated a debate when it was released last year in Ireland over alterations in spelling, punctuation, syntax, placing of phrases and other aspects to “facilitate a smooth reading of the book’s allusive density and essential fabric,” according to Rose and O’Hanlon. For information on other events at the forum, see http://joycegenderandhistory.wordpress.com. The program for April 17’s “Bloomsday-in-April” includes “Joycean Moments,” dramatizations and readings from Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and songs from Joyce’s works — with introductions by WGBH-FM host Brian O’Donovan — and a series of workshops on how to read Joyce, and a “relay reading” of Ulysses. The afternoon ends with a screening of “Faithful Departed,” a documentary on Joyce’s Dublin based on the collection of period photographs by William Lawrence, creating a photographic impression of Dublin on June 16, 1904 — “Bloomsday,” the day on which Ulysses takes place. For more on “Bloomsday-in-April,” see http://bloomsdayinapril.wordpress.com. Both the Joyce Scholars Forum and “Bloomsday-in-April” will take place at Connolly House (300 Hammond Street), the location of Boston College’s Center for Irish Programs. —Sean Smith
Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, above, will screen his 2006 film “State Legislature” and lead a discussion afterwards on Saturday at 10 a.m. in Cushing 001. See http://www.bc.edu/centers/ cloughcenter/events.html. Brita Meng Outzen
BC Gets Ready to Show Its Artistic Side
Lee Pellegrini
13th Annual Arts Festival April 28-30
LOOKING AHEAD
The Irish Studies and American Studies program will sponsor the lecture “Baseball and the Business of American Innocence” on April 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Connolly House. Email joan.reilly@bc.edu. Natalie Jeremijenko, an artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, and engineering, will give a workshop on April 26 at 2 p.m. To sign up (the location will be announced upon RSVP), e-mail hakel@bc.edu; more information available at http://www. bc.edu/sustainbc. The Heinz Bluhm Annual Lecture series will host a talk, “Totalitarian Art: What it is, by Comparison with Islamic Art,” by Brandeis Professor and former Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya on April 27 at 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 008. E-mail kevin. newmark@bc.edu. For more on Boston College campus events, see events.bc.edu or www. bc.edu/bcinfo.