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TODAY (Friday, October 19)
Join Marieh for Karaoke in Bel Air Study Lounge from 3:30 - 5pm.

Monday, October 22
Relieve stress by making a glitter jar. Led by Kat from 7:30-9pm in the Bel Air Study Lounge.

Halloween Coffeehouse

The first Coffeehouse of this year is on Thursday, October 25th, 7-9pm, in CCC 1100! Please sign up to participate here: cpsacoffeehouse@gmail.com

Concert in Close Quarters

This semester's Concert in Close Quarters is coming up on November 1! Join Alsarah and the Nubatones at 7pm right here in CCC 1100. Get an up close encounter with Alsarah and the Nubatones at this intimate, unplugged concert. Alsarah used music as her coping mechanism during her transition from life in her native Sudan to life here in the U.S. Her group’s one-of-a-kind concert celebrations draw influence from Nubian Songs of Return and East African pop from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, exploring the richness of cross-cultural exchanges through a seamless blend of vocals with percussion, bass and oud. Bring your stories about family immigration, as there will be a storytelling open-mic portion of this event.

CPSA100
Colloquium

Monday, October 22nd: Behind the scenes tour of the Clarice

On Monday October 22, Bill Brandwein and his team will lead us on a behind the scenes tour of the Clarice.

CPSA200

Colloquium

Sunday, October 21st: Visit to Baltimore to see Sweat at the Everyman Theatre

Instead of Colloquium on Tuesday, we will travel to the Everyman Theatre in Baltimore on Sunday evening departing Cambridge Hall at 5:45pm. A great opportunity to see Harold's lighting design work!

Pentathlon Opportunities

Literature/Presentations:
Jose Emilio Pacheco: Our Great Disappropiationist
Friday, October 19, 2018
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
McKeldin Library, Room 4123
https://go.umd.edu/UGA
The UMD Libraries and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese invite you to join us for a talk by Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza as a part of the Jose Emilio Pacheco Distinguished Lecture Series. "Disappropriation gives - from writing - a warning sign as to what is at stake: the construction of popular-communitarian horizons that ensure the collective reappropriation of the available material riches."

Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
12:30 AM - 2:00 AM
Architecture Building, Library
https://umd.libcal.com/event/4591957
The author relates the aesthetic of the forest, Wood, canopy, shelter, space, to various urban and architectural construction and design. Case studies of various urban and forest environments are included.

Arts & Humanities Dean's Lecture featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre
Free, tickets required
http://go.umd.edu/vtn
Join the UMD College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) for the kick off to the 2018-19 Arts and Humanities Dean's Lecture Series (DLS) featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen's book "The Refugees" is Maryland's 2018-19 First Year Book. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Reserve your FREE tickets online or call 301.405.ARTS.

SEE Stand Up
Tuesday, October 23
7:30 - 9:30 PM
Stamp, Adele's
Free
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167655656816284/?event_time_id=2167655683482948

How Were So Many Arabic Authors So Prolific?
Thursday, October 25, 2018
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
Hornbake Library, Room 0301 North
Cost: Free
https://go.umd.edu/UxJ
This event is co-sponsored with Roshan Institute for Persian Studies. Rivaled only by medieval Chinese and arguably the largest written tradition up to its day, this lecture focuses on the size of the Arabic tradition (ca. 700-1500) and the likely role that written practices and cultural expectations played in its development. Dr. Savant will explore recent work assembling a corpus of 1.3 billion words, these works in light of evidence for a much larger body of no-longer extant material and her theory and concept of text "reuse."

Dance/Theatre:
Royal Scottish Country Dancing
Wednesday, October 24, 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

Rockfish: A Story of Immigration and Identity
Friday, October 19, 2018
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Theatre
Free
https://go.umd.edu/UGi
A Second Season dance theater performance by Sydney Lemelin.
This piece is an exploration of my half-Chinese identity. My research brought me to old photographs, half remembered stories, and an untouched Mah Jong set. I drew on these elements in creating my Second Season show "Rockfish".

Music:
Stew and the Negro Problem: Notes of a Native Song
Friday, October 19, 2018
8:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre
Cost: $10 or Free
https://go.umd.edu/U4Y
Tony and Obie Award-winning writer and composer Stew delves into the rich legacy of activist writer James Baldwin in this new music and theater experience alongside long-time collaborator and co-composer Heidi Rodewald and an all-star band. Stew's uniquely incisive lyrics are wrapped in an irresistible mix of rock, rhythm and blues, and jazz in this powerful homage to the inspiring writer, who famously confronted issues of gender, race, and class distinction with wisdom and fire.

UMD Wind Ensemble
Friday, October 19, 2018
8:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Free, no tickets required.
https://go.umd.edu/U5f
Under the leadership of newly appointed Associate Director of Bands Andrea Brown, the University of Maryland Wind Ensemble (UMWE) serves as a training ground for talented young wind players. With a focus on student performers, UMWE presents an exciting season of the best traditional and contemporary wind ensemble literature.

Richard Goode Piano Performance
Friday, October 26, 2018
8:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Cost: Student/Youth: $10 or Free
https://go.umd.edu/U4g
The Washington Post calls Richard Goode one of the finest pianists in the world for his expert technique, interpretive insight and emotional commitment. Acknowledged as one of today's leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music, Goode is a frequent recitalist in the world's musical capitals and with leading orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, among others.

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

D eadpool 2, 10/19 @ 8pm

Blood Brother Screening
Monday, October 22, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
South Campus Commons, 1102 Building 1
https://www.facebook.com/events/703432136671899/
Rocky Braat, a young man from a fractured family and a troubled past, went traveling through India without a plan. Then he met a group of HIV positive children living in an orphanage meeting that changed everything for him. Rocky left his life, friends, and career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to live with the kids. Steve Hoover, his best friend and filmmaker, was unsettled and intrigued by this drastic action. In an effort to find out what compelled Rocky to give up every source of stability in his life, Hoover decided to trace Rocky's story, following him to India. He witnessed Rocky and the kids endure disease, abject poverty, and death. But, strangest of all, in the midst of these troubles, he also saw their deep joy. And he came to understand why Rocky had given up everything he had to experience it.

Crazy Rich Asians Screening & Discussion
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room 2212
https://www.aast.umd.edu/crazy-rich-asians-panel-discussion/
As the first Hollywood studio film in twenty-five years to feature an all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club, Jon M. Chiu’s Crazy Rich Asians exceeded expectations, broke box office records, and quickly greenlit both a sequel and several film and TV projects involving Asian Americans. The large crowds of Asian Americans that bought out entire theaters and posted selfies also marked the film as a seminal cultural moment for a community that has long felt invisible, on and off screen. At the same time, the film’s representation of privileged Asian life–portrayed by a diasporic Asian cast–has sparked a flurry of think-pieces, social media debates, and dinner table conversations about the burdens and blemishes of the film’s representation. What do Terps have to say about the celebrations, critiques, and issues generated by Crazy Rich Asians? Hear an all-Asian American panel comprised of a professor, staff member, graduate student, and undergraduate student address this question and more.

Pose Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 26, 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

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

Other Opportunities

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 19, 2018.