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Vol. 18, No. 23 |
March 4, 1999 |
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Actors from the University's Professional Theatre Training Program will join poet Fleda Brown Jackson, English, in reading selections from her new work, The Devil's Child, at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 16, in Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Jackson has published a series of poems unlike her earlier works. The volume recounts conversations between people snowed in together after a church meeting and includes quotations from the New Baltimore Catechism. The characters include Suzanna, a writer who attends the church; Father Andrew, whose heavy-set frame is indicative of his weighty role as priest; and Barbara, raised in a Satanic cult-family who has developed multiple personalities to cope with her violent life.
"This dark, ambitious narrative full of voices, echoes and whispers of anguish is deftly plotted and carefully crafted. Here is a challenging poetry of action and remembrance and the sheer, downright, daily human grotesque. But it is also a poetic sequence that does something altogether more difficult: it holds our interest and its own lyric balance at one and the same time. It compels the sort of music from pain which is hard to forget." poet Eavan Boland writes.
Jackson's award-winning poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ariel, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Georgia Review, The Southern Review and many other journals.
Her first collection of poems, Fishing With Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Her second collection, Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press, 1993), was chosen by Gerald Stern as the winner of the Verna Emery Prize. She also wrote The Earliest House, published in 1993 by Yarrow.
Her poems have been used as text for several prize-winning musical compositions, which have been performed at the Eastman School of Music and at Yale University. She holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Arkansas and is coeditor of Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (G.K. Hall, 1988).
Two of the actors who will be reading Jackson's poems are William Leach and Susan Sweeney, theatre.
Leach has worked extensively on the American regional theatre
circuit at such theatres as the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Hartford
Stage and the Walnut Street Theatre, where
he will be starring in Skylight this May.
Sweeney has acted and sung professionally for many years,
performing in Chicago, Milwaukee and on three tours
for the U.S.O. She is primarily involved in the theatre as a teacher
and coach of voice, speech and dialects.
--Beth Thomas
A Health Fair will be held from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Monday, March 15, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center.
Representatives of more than 20 area health-related organizations will be present.
The free event, open to the entire University community, is being presented by the Student Nutrition and Dietetics Club and cosponsored by the Employee Wellness Center.
There will be door prizes and giveaways as well as free blood pressure screenings provided by the Department of Nursing.
Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed," the annual exhibition of selected undergraduate artwork, will be held at the University from March 18-25. Works will be on display at the University Gallery, which is open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays, and from 1-5 p.m., Saturdays-Sundays.
UD alumni, who served as jurors for the undergraduate exhibition,
will have their own works on display in the Art Department Gallery,
102 Recitation Hall, from 11 a.m.-
5 p.m., Mondays-Fridays, from March 11-26.
A Delaware Public Policy Forum, focusing on the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for mapping and data distribution, will be held from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday, March 15, in Clayton Hall.
Public and private agencies can learn how they can become involved in the emerging GIS community and discuss an action agenda for GIS development in Delaware during the event. The cost is $45 and includes the forum, continental breakfast, lunch and materials.
Specific work sessions and presentations include "An Action Agenda for GIS in Delaware: The Creation of the DGDC and the Delaware Clearinghouse Project," "Emerging GIS Technology" and "The Federal Geographic Data Committee and the Development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure."
The forum is sponsored by the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, in cooperation with the UD Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research, Research Data Management Services, the state Office of Planning Coordination and the Delaware Geographic Data Committee.
For registration information or more information, call 831-8971.
The bands Unprovoked Moose Attack and Healthy Doses headline one of the fundraisers the University of Delaware's student-run public radio station is hosting this year as part of its annual radiothon, which runs through March 21.
WVUD 91.3 FM's program hosts will be asking for contributions and offering gift incentives during their shows.
* The Jam--DJs play rap music and hip-hop from 8 p.m.-2 a.m., Saturday, March 13, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center. Donations accepted.
* Swing Night--featuring the Jump 'n Jive at 8 p.m.,
Sunday, March 14, in the Scrounge, Perkins Student
Center. Donations accepted.
* Rock Concert--featuring Jared Kessler, Alex and Nick, Unprovoked Moose Attack and Healthy Doses at 8 p.m., Friday, March 19, in the Scrounge, Perkins Student Center. Donations accepted.
* Radiothon '99 Concert--featuring Saves the Day, The Rookie Lot, The Variants, Big Wig, Yearly and Glass Jaw at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 20, in the Scrounge, Perkins Student Center. Tickets are $5.
For details, call 831-2701.
Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, will read from her new book, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 14, at Borders Bookstore in Newark. After the reading, Gates will sign copies of her book.
The book has been hailed as a "seminal volume, a reclaiming of a key chapter in the history of science and our understanding of nature" by Booklist and called "an exhilarating and splendid book that fills in a vast blank in our understanding of women's relation to natural history and science between the 1830s and the end of World War," by Ann Zwinger, author of Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
For more information, call Borders at 366-8144.
The Assateague Shore and Shelf Workshop, with the theme,
"Mid-Atlantic Coastal Studies--25 Years of Observations as a
Foundation for the 21st Century," will be held Friday and Saturday,
April 16-17, at the Virden Center
in Lewes.
Reservations for housing at the Virden Center for the nights of April 15 and 16 must be made by March 15.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the workshop is hosted by the UD
geology department and the Delaware Geological Survey. Opening the
event will be an evening reception at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 15.
Keynote talks, poster presentations, a panel discussion and tours of
marine research facilities and an oil-spill cleanup ship will take
place on April 16. A field trip is planned on April 17, and the
conference will end after a
late lunch.
The registration fee is $35, which includes lunch on Friday, a guidebook and abstract. Financial support is available to the first 30 students who register.
For updated announcements about the workshop and a map to the conference center visit the web site at <www.udel.edu/dgs/dgs.html>.
For more information, call John Wehmiller at 831-2926 or Kelvin Ramsey at 831-3586.
Black, Brown and Beige: A Centennial Tribute to Duke Ellington" is now on display on the first floor of the Morris Library. The free public display continues through May 7.
Edward "Duke" Ellington, one of America's greatest composers, was born April 29, 1899. Influenced by the sound of early ragtime musicians, Ellington began performing in small bands in the Washington, D.C., area while still in high school.
In the early 1920s, Ellington and his band, "The Washingtonians," relocated to New York City where his career as composer, pianist and bandleader flourished. Ellington achieved national attention during the late 1920s and early 1930s when he worked at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
Ellington's career continued to expand during the Swing Era that promoted the type of big band music that he had long been composing and performing. He debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1943 when he performed, among other things, an extensive piece, "Black, Brown and Beige," that was intended to capture musically the historical experience of African&endash;Americans.
Ellington's career entered a quiet stage during the World War II years and the period following, but his electrifying performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 again brought him to the attention of the American public. Ellington composed and performed right up until his death on May 24, 1974, with many of his later pieces being spiritual or sacred in content. His orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, continued even after his death, under the leadership of his son, Mercer Ellington.
Ellington's vast musical heritage has been preserved in a variety of mediums for future generations of music enthusiasts and scholars to enjoy.
The UD exhibition, featuring books, photographs, printed music, sound recordings and Internet resources, provides a brief commemorative of his life and work. In addition to addressing the highlights of his career, the exhibition seeks to convey some of Ellington's many contributions to African-American music and culture, and the many ways in which he has enhanced the American musical landscape.
The exhibition was curated by Carol Rudisell, reference department. For more information, call 831-2231.
The second 1999 Inquiry for Truth Lecture, "10 Reasons Why Darwin Would Not Write The Origin of Species If He Were Alive Today," will be given by Charles Thaxton, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 18, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.
Thaxton will give a second talk, "Teaching Origins and Preserving the Integrity of Science," for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the sciences, at 4:30 p.m., Friday, March 19, in the Kirkwood Room on the second floor of the Perkins Student Center.
With a doctorate in chemistry from Iowa State University, Thaxton has done postdoctoral work at Brandeis and Harvard universities.
The talks are sponsored by the Church and Campus Connection and the Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship. For more information, call 738-9191.
Should the movie be the same as the book? No, says Millicent Marcus, the Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian and director of film studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
At 4 p.m., Friday, March 12, Marcus will discuss movie adaptations of literature in Room 103 Gore Hall.
The talk, entitled "Literature into Film: A Defense of Unfaithful Adaptations," is free and open to the public.
For more information on the lecture, call 831-6882.
The Yale Russian Chorus will perform a program of sacred and secular music from Russia, the Ukraine and neighboring republics at 7 p.m., Friday, March 12, at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Newark.
The 18-member ensemble is recognized as a musical ambassador and has performed before U.S. presidents and Soviet officials.
A $5 donation is requested. For more information, call
368-4644.
The Academy of Lifelong Learning will hold a Spring Art Show and Sale from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday-Thursday, March 15-18, at Arsht Hall on the UD Wilmington Campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Works on display will include sculpture and paintings, all by academy artists. Some works will be for sale.
For more information about the art show or the academy, call 573-4417.
The University of Delaware Botanic Gardens will hold a slide preview of the plants to be offered in its spring plant sale from 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, in the Girl Scouts Building in Newark, near the grounds of Townsend and Worrilow halls.
St Patrick's Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 17, in the Perkins Student Center. Events and activities will be held throughout the day, including music, live radio broadcasts, food and bookstore specials. Students who wear green will be eligible for special prizes. For a complete schedule,call 831-2428.
