Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week!
Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.听
Faculty聽Recital:聽Melia Watras:聽Song: An Endless Flight
April 11, 7:30 PM |
$10 – 20 |
Jeremy Denk
April 12, 7:30 PM |
One of America鈥檚 foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk鈥檚 creative blend of virtuosic dexterity and colorful imagination has earned him praise as 鈥渁n artist you want to hear no matter what he performs鈥� (The New York Times). Winner of a MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥� Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, he is also lauded for his original and insightful writing about music. Denk returns to Meany Center with a program that examines the interplay between Bach and Schubert with four American-inspired works and culminates in Beethoven鈥檚 final piano sonata.
Ticketed |
Beauty That Saved Their World: Ukrainian Women’s Arts and Crafts in the Soviet Gulag
April 13, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Dr. Oksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv) will give this public lecture as a part of the lecture series on Ukrainian history and culture sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; the聽Department of History; the聽Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies;聽and the聽Simpson Center for the Humanities.
In the 1940 and the 1950s thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to long-term incarceration in camps and prisons of the Gulag for real or alleged anti-Soviet crimes. Despite the back-breaking work, permanent hunger and cold, general exhaustion, disease and injuries, the abuse of guards and convicted criminals, and the intolerable living conditions, the need for beauty not only remained but sometimes even grew stronger among those female political prisoners. The women and girls invariably drew their inspiration from traditional Ukrainian culture, as the form and content of their creative efforts testify. What drove the women to sing and play music, to write poetry, to embroider and draw, to celebrate traditional holidays, to engage聽with amateur theater, to savor the beauty of nature鈥攅xpending what was left of their聽energy, finding meager resources, and exposing themselves to likely punishment? What gave such a creative urge to these outcast captives? Who were they, these camp artists and artisans?聽What role did creative activity play in the survival strategies of Ukrainian women locked up as political prisoners in the Soviet Union?
Third Coast Percussion/Movement Art Is: Metamorphosis
April 14, 8:00 PM |
Third Coast Percussion joins forces with the groundbreaking choreography of Movement Art Is (MAI) for an evening-length program at the Meany Center that explores the duality of human nature. At once intensely personal and fiercely virtuosic, MAI co-founders and choreographers Lil Buck and Jon Boogz seamlessly blend two disparate styles of street dance with new music by Jlin and Tyondai Braxton, as well as Third Coast Percussion鈥檚 critically acclaimed arrangement of Philip Glass鈥� Aguas da Amazonia.
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics: Race, Health and Justice
April 15, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on 鈥淩ace, Health and Justice鈥� is a one-day, cross disciplinary symposium which will present theoretical and empirical research on racial injustice and its impact on health and well-being.
The Keynote Speaker is George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Professor Yancy’s speech will also be a Philosophy Department Colloquium. The Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Program on Ethics, the School of Public Health, and the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics at UW.听