January 2008 - Posts
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Anne Frank: Within & Without returns to the Center for Puppetry Arts after playing to sold-out audiences during its first run two years ago. This original production by Associate Producer Bobby Box tells the remarkable story of a young girl whose hopes, dreams and inner strength carried her from day to day during one of history’s darkest times. The runs January 22 – February 17 and recommended for ages 12 & up. No one under age 8 admitted. For tickets call (404) 873-3391 or visit www.puppet.org.
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Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University, will deliver a public lecture titled "Autobiography and the Novel" at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd. on Emory's main campus.
Tickets, which are $10 ($5 with Emory ID), are available online at www.emory.edu/events.
"The lecture will be an examination of how the lives of writers intertwine with their work, and in what ways, if at all, the life can be said to be the best explanation of that work," said Rushdie of the presentation.
"People nowadays assume that all fiction is somehow autobiographically inspired," he said. "And of course life and experience have always contributed to art. But the fictionality of fiction is what makes it worthwhile."
Rushdie's position as Distinguished Writer in Residence is a five-year appointment, and began in the spring of 2007. During each of the five years, he presents a public lecture, teaches for at least four weeks, leads a graduate seminar, participates in undergraduate classes, advises students and engages in symposia with the academic community.
In 2006, Rushdie placed his archive at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Included in the archive are Rushdie's private journals detailing life under the fatwa, as well as personal correspondence, notebooks, photographs and manuscripts of all of his writings, including two early unpublished novels.
Rushdie is one of the world's best-known writers of fiction and essays and a leading champion for human rights. His novel, "Midnight's Children" (1980), won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, and was selected in 1993 as the best novel in 25 years of the Booker Prize. Subsequent novels, including "The Satanic Verses" (1988), "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999) and most recently, "Shalimar the Clown" (2005), involve a panoramic scope, weaving mythology, pop culture, politics and religions from around the world to epic effect.
The lecture is presented by Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, Emory College and the Emory Creativity and the Arts Initiative.
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In the interest of complete transparency, I went to high school with artist Laura Loving. She was always talented and we all knew big things were ahead for her. She lives and works in New York now, but has an exhibition of her original paintings at Saks Fifth Avenue in Atlanta through February 9. The exhibit is a preview to The Trinity School's annual fundraiser, "Spotlight on Art", sponsored by Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks Fifth Avenue is located at 3440 Peachtree Road in Phipps Plaza and open Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Spotlight on Art is the Trinity School’s acclaimed art event and fundraiser. Now in its 27th year, Spotlight on Art is considered to be one of the top elementary school fundraisers in the country. Proceeds from the event will fund Trinity School student financial aid and continuing education for teachers. A donation will be made to The Joseph Sams School of Fayetteville, Georgia. The Joseph Sams School Inc., is a private, non-profit school serving children ages two to fifteen who have mild to severe intellectual and or physical disabilities. Following the Saks Fifth Avenue preview, the Spotlight on Art artist market will be held February 19th through 23rd at the Trinity School’s campus, located at 4301 Northside Parkway. The artist market will feature more than 7,500 pieces of fine and decorative arts, crafts, jewelry and garden decorations from 300 established and emerging artists. Please see www.spotlightonart.com www.spotlightonart.com for additional information and schedule. To see and find out more about Laura's work, visit www.LauraLoving.com.
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Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, will place her archive with Emory University. "The Alice Walker Archive will provide a major bridge in the university's collections on African-American literature, history and culture," said Steve Enniss, director of Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. "Walker is one of Georgia's most beloved writers, and it is particularly gratifying that she has chosen to return her archive to the state where she was born, to the city where she attended college as an undergraduate, and to Emory which has, in the intervening years, become a major research center in literary studies." In 1983 Walker became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which honored her novel "The Color Purple." The book depicts oppressive early 20th century life in the South for a young African-American woman named Celie. Other honors bestowed upon Walker and her writing include the 1983 National Book Award, also for "The Color Purple"; the 1973 Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts for "Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems"; the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters; and Radcliff Institute, Merrill and Guggenheim fellowships. Faculty, students and visiting scholars from around the world who study Walker's archives at Emory will be within a 90-minute drive to her home in Eatonton, Ga., and within 20 minutes of Spelman College, which she attended for two years.
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