This week at Arts Scholars...

Welcome Heather!

Next week, Arts is welcoming a new member of staff! Heather Bremenstuhl joins the College Park Scholars community with fourteen years experience in design and social science. Having earned a B.A. in Architecture from Lehigh University, she worked for over five years in architectural firms in New York, Philadelphia, and L.A. She earned a M.A. in Sociology from The University of Arizona. Recently, she has held faculty and administrative roles at Allegany College of Maryland and George Washington University. An enthusiastic participant in the D.C. arts scene, Heather is passionate about the power of the arts as a mechanism for self-expression, community building, and social change.

Coffee & Crafts is Back!

Beginning next Friday, October 12th, and held on various dates throughout the semester, we invite any interested Arts Scholars students to come by the Bel Air lounge for coffee and a featured craft/activity! Coffee & Crafts presents the opportunity to relax after a long day of classes, connect with your peers, arts program staff and others in a casual setting. Students may use these events to fulfill pentathlon assignments as well. Sign up soon so we can be sure to plan accordingly!! https://goo.gl/forms/ehmEjz8syQ9ndtL62

CPSA100
Colloquium

Monday, October 8th: Final Project Overview

On Monday, Kenna will introduce the final project, and the rest of class time will be time to work on the project in your TA groups. The project description is now live on Canvas.

CPSA200

Colloquium

Tuesday, October 9th: The Festival of India, 6 PM at Memorial Chapel

Sophomore students are required to attend per their normal colloquium. Doors open at 6pm so plan to gather at the chapel. Please be sure to bring your journals to the event. There will be an assignment connected to this event posted on ELMS.

The fun and entertaining free Festival of India (Indian New Year) will take place on October 9, 2018 at the Memorial Chapel from 6 pm - 9 pm. Any interested student, faculty, or staff are welcome to enjoy the delicious free food, vibrant culture, colorful traditions, exhibits, ancient wisdom, yoga, meditation, and fine art of India for free right here on campus! It's a refreshing break for busy students.

Festival of India is open to all students (first year Arts Scholars are encouraged to attend as well)
Some additional info about the event:
https://www.facebook.com/discoverindiafest/

Pentathlon Opportunities

Featured:
The Festival of India
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Memorial Chapel
Free
https://www.facebook.com/discoverindiafest/
The fun and entertaining free Festival of India (Indian New Year) will take place on October 9, 2018 at the Memorial Chapel from 6 pm - 9 pm. Any interested student, faculty, or staff are welcome to enjoy the delicious free food, vibrant culture, colorful traditions, exhibits, ancient wisdom, yoga, meditation, and fine art of India for free right here on campus! It's a refreshing break for busy students. The Festival of India is fun and educational and contributes to the general enrichment of the University of Maryland student experience. It also contributes to the creation of campus community, appeals to a wide audience of campus citizens, contributes to the advancement of the academic mission of the University, enlarges opportunities for leadership, cultural and social exchange, and service to the University and broader community.

Literature/Presentations:
A Heretic in the Expanded Field: Means of Engagement in the Public Realm
Friday, October 5, 2018
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Art-Sociology Building, Atrium
https://go.umd.edu/Upd
Mary Miss has been redefining how art is integrated into the public realm since the early 1970s. She is interested in how artists can play a more central role in addressing the complex issues of our times ”making environmental and social sustainability into tangible experiences is a primary goal. Collaboration has been central to her work as she has developed projects as diverse as creating a temporary memorial around the perimeter of Ground Zero, marking the predicted flood level of Boulder, Colorado, or revealing the history of the Union Square Subway station in New York City. Her work crosses boundaries between landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and graphic communication. Her vision favors site-specificity and human perception over traditional concerns of the public monument.

Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
McKeldin Library, Room 6137
https://umd.libcal.com/event/4303014
Period dramas such as Downton Abbey, Poldark, Outlander, and The Crown provide viewers a rich assortment of complex male characters. Conflicting Masculinities explores the very different types of maleness offered by these and other recent television dramas and shows how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

Ali Wong: Homecoming Comedy Show Feature
October 11, 2018
7 PM & 10 PM
Tickets $10
Ritchie Coliseum
https://www.see.umd.edu/hcs
Ali Wong is a stand-up comic from San Francisco, now living in Los Angeles. Her first Netflix stand-up special BABY COBRA was filmed when she was 7 months pregnant. According to the New York Magazine, "The special’s arrival on Netflix is the sort of star-making moment that unites the tastes of the unlikeliest fans." Elle applauded it as a "comic genius gem" while Vogue called it "The special that everyone is talking about." Emily Nussbaum hailed it as "funny and refreshingly rude." The day before its premiere, Wong's interview with Marc Maron on his podcast WTF was released. He called the special "the most honest, rawest, funniest special I’ve seen in years."

Films and Screenings:
Movies at the Hoff Theater this week:

Back to the Future, 10/5 @ 7pm
The Shining, 10/5 @ 10pm

All the Difference Screening and Discussion
Monday, October 8, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
South Campus Commons, 1102 Building 1
https://www.facebook.com/events/263697930931895/
The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly "and heroically" to life in All the Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college. Statistics predict that Robert and Krishaun will drop out of high school, but they have other plans. Oscar-nominated producer/director Tod Lending's intimate film, executive produced by author Wes Moore, follows the young men through five years of hard work, sacrifice, setbacks and uncertainty. As they discover, support from family, teachers and mentors makes all the difference in defying the odds.

Inside Out Screening and Discussion
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Hoff Theater
Free
http://go.umd.edu/mhaw18
Join the Counseling Center and SEE for a night at the movies! We are showing Disney and Pixar's Inside Out, an animated comedy set in the mind of a teenage girl, as her emotions Anger, Joy, Sadness, Fear and Disgust take us on an adventure. After the screening stick around for a discussion with Counseling Center psychologists about mental health facts and myths from the movie. And you can't have a movie night without popcorn! Snacks will be provided.

Climate Refugees Screening and Discussion
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cambridge Community Center, 1111
Around the world, millions of people have been forced to leave their homes in response to devastating climatic events. These are the human faces of climate change, and the documentary Climate Refugees shows the very real impacts of climate change on these citizens, and on the governments that must deal with these humanitarian disasters. What are the impacts of such climate-related mass migrations? How are, and how should, national governments be addressing the potential national security risks related to climate change? A short discussion will follow, moderated by Dr. Thomas Holtz, director of College Park Scholars’ Science and Global Change program and a principal lecturer of UMD’s Department of Geology.

Pose Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 12, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Marie Mount Hall, Room 2218
Free
The category is: LIVE. WORK. POSE! Yes, that's right. If you missed this summer's historical series, Pose, don't worry. We will be hosting a weekly screening & discussion in the LGBT Equity Center Fridays at noon. Hope to see you there!
Contact: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity Center, 301-405-8720, lgbt@umd.edu

Dance:
Royal Scottish Country Dancing
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Mathematics Building Rotunda
Free
A Scottish country dancing class and practices. (An ancestor of square dancing and a cousin of the dancing you may have seen in Jane Austen movies.) Taught by certificated Scottish Country Dance teacher Howard Lasnik (Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics). ANYONE can come. No experience required. No partner needed. And no Scottish heritage required!
Contact: Howard Lasnik 301-405-4929

MFA Dance Thesis Performance: dwelling and Hamlet
Friday, October 12, 2018 7:30 PM - Sun , October 14, 2018 7:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre
Cost: $10 (or free if booked in advance)
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2018/fall-mfa-thesis-concert
MFA Dance candidates present thesis concerts of original, compelling works. dwelling, by Stacey Carlson, is a multidisciplinary work that explores the myriad subtleties of dwelling. What implicit meaning does the word suggest? Internal versus external, shadow against light, our perspective versus what we perceive. Spaces near and far, up and down, seen and unseen. The choreography uniquely intertwines dance with puppetry, projections, aerial arts and other mysterious elements.

Christine Hands' Hamlet questions if Shakespeare's Hamlet had existed in a dystopian, futuristic world, would things have turned out differently? This work of highly physical dance theater, set against fresh sci-fi-inspired design, takes on the timeless tragedy. The emotionally evocative, soul-rending choreography explores the characters' duplicity and basic truths about the human experience, while inviting the audience to come to their own conclusions.

Fine Art:
Opening reception for Rhythmic Impulses: The Art of Floyd Coleman and Hayward Oubre

Sunday, October 7, 2018
3:00 - 5:00 PM
UMUC Arts Program Gallery, Lower Level
University of Maryland University College
College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD 20783
Join the University of Maryland University College community in celebrating artists Floyd Coleman and Hayward Oubre. Floyd Coleman spent more than 60 years teaching art at various universities, including Howard University. As a full-time professor, Coleman had little time to promote his visual arts career and is best known for his publications on African and African American art. Although he has exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, this will be his first major exhibition in many years. He defines himself as an abstract painter, but he has also created figurative and surrealist works over the years.

Alongside Coleman’s works are those of his mentor and teacher Hayward Oubre. An award-winning printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Oubre was the first person to graduate with a fine arts degree from Dillard University in Louisiana. He taught at various universities in the South until 1980 and continued working on his art until his death in 2006. The exhibition will include about 25 large-scale wire sculptures by Oubre and 40 paintings by Coleman. Mervin Anthony Green, Oubre's son-in-law and heir, will join Coleman at the opening reception to discuss the works in the exhibition.

Music:
Sean Jones Quartet Performance
Friday, October 5, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
MilkBoy ArtHouse 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park, Maryland 20740
Cost: $10
https://go.umd.edu/U4q
Music and spirituality have always been fully intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones, who is hailed for his 'virtuosity, musicality, and sensitivity' (Chicago Tribune). Among his many accomplishments are his tenure with Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he began his relationship with mentor Wynton Marsalis. Jones serves as Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, is Artist-In-Residence at San Francisco Performances and is a member of the SFJAZZ Collective. Deeply committed to education and mentoring, he was recently appointed Chair of Jazz Studies at the Peabody Conservatory.

The Immigrants 1: What is America to You?
Friday, October 5, 2018
8:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Cost: $10 (free for students if booked in advance)
https://go.umd.edu/UUc
A leading voice among collegiate ensembles in premiering new works for winds, the 10th anniversary season of the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra, led by Dr. Michael Votta, will feature faculty soloists, world premiere performances and masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. UMWO has performed in side-by-side collaborations with major professional ensembles and has been invited to perform at international, national and regional conferences.

Kurt Weill Festival: The Road of Promise
Sunday, October 7, 2018
7:30 PM
Dekelboum Concert Hall, The Clarice
Presented by the School of Music, the first performance in this festival is a semi-staged oratorio featuring the combined forces of the UMD Symphony Orchestra, the Maryland Opera Studio, the UMD Concert Choir and SOM alumni. Weill’s story is inextricably linked to the story of immigration and exile, influencing his music in profound ways.

Victor Provost: The Other Side of the Storm
Friday, October 12, 2018
7:00 PM
Joe's Movement Emporium 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
Pay as you wish
https://go.umd.edu/U4p
Experience new music examining local and global societal structures in the U.S. Virgin Islands as the territory rebounds from a devastating hurricane season.

Know of any events on campus that other Arts Scholars should attend? Let Kenna know!

Other Opportunities

Visit Cuba with the UMUC Arts Program

You’re invited to tour Havana, Cuba, on an educational art trip from April 13 to April 20, 2019, with the UMUC Arts Program and Art Advisory Board. Join other art patrons, collectors, and enthusiasts as we spend a week in Cuba for the 13th Havana International Art Biennial. We will immerse ourselves in Cuban art, including studio visits with artists, tours of galleries and museums, and visits to cultural attractions. For the full itinerary, contact the Arts Program at 301-985-7937 or arts@umuc.edu.

Ground Package Cost: $2,429 (Airfare not included. Prices are per person based on double room occupancy; single room supplement is $490.) including:
• Seven nights at the Iberostar Habana Riviera Hotel in Havana
• 13 meals (hotel breakfast daily, plus lunch on four days and dinner on two nights)
• Havana International Art Biennial All-Access Pass
• Luxury air-conditioned coach transportation and professional driver
• An expert Cuban-English speaking guide and translator throughout the program, together with ongoing support from Authentic Cuba Travel staff in Cuba and Canada

View the itinerary.

Registration: All participants must register online at Authentic Cuba Travel . You will be required to create an account. After you create your account, you will receive an e-mail confirmation detailing the next steps. The e-mail will also have some important reminders.

Registration Deadline: October 13, 2018
Space is limited, so register now.

FrankenTerps Literary Competition

In conjunction with the “FrankenTerps” celebration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies and the Libraries are sponsoring a Literary Competition for University of Maryland undergraduate and graduate students.

All submissions should reflect in some way on Frankenstein, and we welcome poetry and prose. We will choose a graduate student winner and an undergraduate winner. The prize for each is $100. The deadline for submission is October 22, 2018 at 11:00 pm, and the webform for submissions is here: https://www.english.umd.edu/FrankenReads/Submission

Winners will be announced and have an opportunity to read from their work at a ceremony on October 31, 2018, at 6:00 pm, in 6137 McKeldin Library, as part of the FrankenReads Marathon & Celebration.

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This newsletter was sent on October 5, 2018.