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Hudson Gallery — The Group of Nine Exhibit is the fifth in a continuing series of stimulating exhibits showcasing the artwork of nine local artists. It runs at 5645 N. Main St. Sylvania from 10am. to 6pm.
Friday Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery — Live glassblowing demonstrations by Robert Geyer, assistant professor at BGSU, Matt Paskiet and friends. Light food and beverage served. The event is free and open to the public from 7 to 10pm. at 7166 Front St., Holland.
Saturday Franciscan Center at Lourdes — WAVE holds their celebration of women festival — an indoor exhibi-
Arts and Life
By Megan Aherne IC Staff Writer
Student filmmakers, playwrights, screenwriters and performers will exhibit their talents in two events this weekend. Tomorrow evening is for the writers, and Saturday hosts the filmmakers. Friday night’s first annual New Writers Festival is an opportunity for students of playwriting and screenwriting courses to create 10-minute pieces involving three characters for submission to a faculty jury. Actors from the theatre department will read the two screenplays and three plays chosen. Junior film major Jerod Nawrocki’s screenplay “Thieves” was selected to be read at the festival. Nawrocki said his story “highlights two young and deviant teenagers who are abruptly introduced to the harsh reality of the criminal world they find so glamorous.” Additionally, Nawrocki’s screenplays, “Impulse” and “The Dead Fox,” were
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The Valentine Theatre in Downtown Toledo has hosted an array of incredibly vivid and eclectic theatrical performances and will soon feature a ballet inspired by a mural within its own walls. The ballet, titled “If These Walls Could Dance,” was created by the Toledo Ballet faculty member Michael Lang. Also serving as the play’s director and choreographer, Lang was inspired by artist Paul Geiger’s mural in the Valentine. In a large room behind a wall of windows towers Geiger’s 68 foot long by ten-foot tall mural of different performers, all of whom played at the Valentine between 1895 to 1917. The mural boasts an array of over 50 characters, from actresses Ethel Barrymore and Fanny Brice, to more well-known performers such as Will Rogers and Houdini.
Rosary Cathedral — Mozart’s Requiem
performed
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Bowling
Green’s Philharmonic Orchestra and The University Choral Society begins at 7:30 p.m.
Monday B-Bop Records — The grand reopening of Toledo’s oldest record store at 137 N. Michigan St., Toledo. It’s a creative place for meetings, coffee and tea, artwork and film screenings.
selected for review by Yale Udoff, a screenwriter best known for his mystery classic “Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession.” Between each piece, theatre students who attended the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival will perform selected scenes for the Irene Ryan Acting Competition. “I think the audience will be impressed at the quality of material and the performances that they see,” said Edmund Lingan, assistant professor of theatre and the events’ coordinator. Admission to the festival is free, and it will commence at 7:30 p.m. in the Center Theatre of the Center for Performing Arts. “People should attend the New Writers Festival because it will allow them to see a sampling of some of the finest screenwriting and playwriting talent that we have here at UT, and they will also get to see these fine
works performed by excellent student actors from the UT Department of Theatre and Film,” Lingan said. Saturday night’s Film Showcase, organized by the University of Toledo Film/Video Society, is the largest event of the year in the department. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit any of their work from inside or outside class to a faculty jury. Selected entries will be screened in the Center Theatre of the CPA. The showcase primarily features final projects from the courses required of production film majors — Film I, Video I, Film II, Video II and Optical Printing. Film I students produce a three to five minute surreal film shot on 16 mm film. Sophomore film/video production major Kim Sanchez’s Film I final project “Static” will be featured in the showcase. It was recently selected
Waltzing through walls By Christine Hombrink For the IC
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Caitlin Arthurs – Editor
Students storm the silver screen
tion and sale of fine arts, crafts and
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Geiger was given creative license to design anything he could dream up, and from his imagination emerged a pack of hybrid entertainers which took a year-and-a-half to research and another three years to paint. After Lang’s success with “Museum of Dreams,” a ballet inspired by works from Toledo Museum of Art collections, Lang was inspired to create this dance using four dancers depicted in Geiger’s mural. Gieger said the ballet’s storyline is a two-act play broken into four parts. “[The actors’] ghosts still linger here, and so they are kind of reliving their past roles here at the theater,” he said. Each of the performers has their own unique story to tell, intricately interpreted and elegantly choreographed by Lang. With the diverse forms of classical ballet, traditional
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Leila Elhilal, Katie Martin and Matt Sauter are part of the UT Film/ Video Society, who organizes the annual Film Showcase.
A new kind of ‘zoo’ A new “zoo” opened in To- tables featuring the new book ledo, but instead of animals, selections. Past the initial exthis location feacitement of this, tures fantasies, however, is where mysteries, rothe real treasure mances and lies. science-fictions. As I entered the Ukazoo Books large building, I is a wonderland found myself surfor those who rounded by thoulove books — essands of books. pecially a dorky I was like a bookworm like child in a candy By Benjamin Lynn myself. store with unlimIn the front, IC Staff Writer ited options and customers are greeted by a large sweet tooth. Unsure of
my craving, I began to explore the shelves. With the valuable assistance of the employees who greeted me at the door, I soon discovered the “zoo” which was all around me. Along the outside walls are works of fiction, ranging from the science-fiction epic “Dune” to the literary classic “Dante’s Inferno” and everything in between, including romance, horror, mystery and — Ukazoo, Page B3
— Mural, Page B3 Emily Gessner/ IC
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Ukazoo is Toledo’s new used bookstore located near campus at 830 N. Westwood Ave.
Valentine Theatre — Limitless
From pen to paper
Dance Company and the studio of Alison Reny present a dance performance unlike any other at 7:00 p.m.
Submissions from student literary artists
Tickets are $11 for adults and $6 for
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The Romans road... Paved with my friend Robin’s small and smooth, flat stones … Each one of ‘ems got some immortal reason fer savin’; A baby’s gooey cake – An ice cream face, and the bigger kids Are celebratin’ too, with Scooby Doo pictured On paper hats and plates, And mommy-Robin’s “grown-up” friends Are singin’ “Happy Birthday Robin’s little baby” And then some who know the secrets Of Robin’s Michigan-French-Trapper marries Potawatamee Indian girl blood line …that someone who knows, gives Robin a little stone ta mark the day… Like the trip to Petosky where she found and Indian rock That was like a face… She knit it was a sacred rock, and she threw it back in the water Like an apology… Like the morning of her cancer surgery Where we passed around a small flat rock, Signed by everyone who could be there, Like, “this is your get well card, injun’ girl…”
students and seniors.
Wednesday Bar 145 — Piano Wars every Wednesday at 5305 Monroe St.
By Jim O’Fahey, a senior individualized major
Photo Courtesy of Toledo Ballet
Vaslav Nijinsky will be one of the four dancers from Paul Geiger’s mural portrayed in “If These Walls Could Dance.”
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