This week at Arts Scholars...

See you soon!

Harold, Heather, and Kenna are looking forward to seeing you on Monday and Tuesday. Have a safe trip back to campus.

Workshop sign-ups are live!

If you haven't done so already, sign up for a workshop! You can sign-up through the CPSA101 & 201 Canvas pages (see Heater's email for instructions). The workshops are as follows:
Mondays:

Empowerment Through Collage, Celia Cook
Intro to Music Production, Asad Rizvi
Sewing: Sustainability and Self Expression, Maggie Sprouse & Vijay Vanathayan
Write a Song to Change Your Life, Khali Williams

Tuesdays:

History of Modern Art, Maddi Brodeur
Art Therapy and Stress Relieving, Christine Cho
Individual Expression & Identity in Photography, Holly Liposky
Creative Writing: Reflecting on the World Through Fiction, Eva King

The first classes of the semester!
For the first week of class, please meet in the rooms listed below. We will meet as a group first before starting workshops.

Monday: 1100
Tuesday: 1205

Concert in Close Quarters: Leyla McCalla
January 29, 7pm

To make a great start to the semester, come see Leyla McCalla perform in the CCC! Attending this event will count for two Pentathlon events. Get Pentathlon 1 & 2 done in the first week of class! Sign up to attend here.

New Orleans-based, New York-born, Haitian raised. Cellist Leyla McCalla's succinctly elegant folk music is her way of processing the nation’s current political environment, where many of the issues are financial, but they’re rarely simply financial. The former Carolina Chocolate Drops member deepens her examination of Creole identities by bringing together her voice and her cello with fiddle, clarinet, piano, and electric guitar. At the forefront of her work is her Haitian identity, singing many of her tunes in Creole, which she classifies as a language of resistance, especially as she explores its connections to New Orleans.

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Pentathlon Events

Dance
"I AM WOMB" and "Champagne Party for Time Travelers"
Friday, January 31, 7:30 PM - Sat , February 1, 2020 7:00 PM
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Free, tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2020/second-season-untitled-and-champagne-party-for-time-travelers
"Untitled," choreographed by Gabriela Grant, explores how black and brown female bodies have been commodified and appropriated throughout history. She examines their femininity and masculinity and how this contributes to their commodification. The work primarily uses African and urban movement forms, such as vogueing, heels, hip hop choreography, to express this, but also incorporates elements of spoken word and live music.

"Champagne Party for Time Travelers," written and choreographed by Sydney Lemelin and Hana Huie,is based on the real party that famed physicist Stephen Hawking threw for time travelers, for which he sent invitations after the party ended. Lemelin and Huie combine theater and dance to explore the journey of believing in things that do not exist and pursuing what is important to us, however insignificant we may be in the universe.

Film
At the Hoff:

Joker, January 29 @ 8pm
GoodFellas, January 30 @ 8pm

Music
Leyla McCalla Quartet (USA)
Friday, January 31
8:00 PM
MilkBoy ArtHouse 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park, Maryland 20740
Regular: $25; Student/Youth: $10
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2020/leyla-mccalla-quartet-usa
New Orleans-based, New York-born, Haitian raised. Cellist Leyla McCalla's succinctly elegant folk music is her way of processing the nation's current political environment, where many of the issues are financial, but they're rarely simply financial. The former Carolina Chocolate Drops member deepens her examination of Creole identities in her sound by bringing together her voice and her cello with fiddle, clarinet, piano and electric guitar. At the forefront of her work is her Haitian identity, singing many of her tunes in Creole, which she classifies as a language of resistance, especially as she explores its connections to New Orleans.

Theatre
Thaïs
January 30 (7:30pm) & February 1 (2:00pm)

Earthly desire or spiritual conviction? A devout monk seeks to convert an alluring courtesan, but realizes too late that he is driven by lust and not religion. She finds redemption. He does not. Maryland Lyric Opera presents Massenet's rarely staged, intoxicating masterpiece Thaïs. Sarah Joy Miller, a rising American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut last season, sings the iconic title role. Louis Otey co-stars as Athanaël. MDLO Young Artist Institute alumni round out the cast. MDLO Music Director Louis Salemno conducts and Claudia Zahn directs this new production, in collaboration with scenic and lighting designer Harry Feiner.

Opportunities

Take a class in Studio A
Studio A is the non-credit art class space in the basement of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union for UMD students, staff and community members. The Studio A spring course and workshop listing is online now, and spring classes start February 2nd! Visit the class listings to see what is being offered and to sign up! Classes and workshops include topics from Drawing and Painting, Taichi, Embroidery, Photography, Ceramics, Dance, Yoga, Guitar, and Adobe Suite.

Visit Studio A at stamp.umd.edu/StudioA

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