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Saturday May 5th

Time Event Location

7 AM - 9 PM

The Harvard Photography Journal 2001 Exhibition
The Harvard Photography Journal displays selected original photographs from this year’s issue. Artists include senior thesis students Kit Cavender’01 and Mike Durcak’01

Holyoke Center Arcade
9 AM - 5 PM

Creature Features and Discovery Zones
Join us at the museum to explore your world in hands-on art, fact stations, and live animal demonstrations guaranteed to be both fun and educational for the entire family. Tickets $6.50 adults, $5 students and seniors, $4 children ages 3-18. Free to Harvard community or with ARTS FIRST Guide.

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street

11 AM-5 PM

Linden Street Open Studios and Sale
Students from the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies host open studios, exhibiting thesis work and senior projects. Work by teaching assistants also will be displayed.

6 Linden Street

11 AM-12:30 PM Sense and Sentences
In this collaboration between an artist and a philosopher, resident tutors Tami Marks and Tal Ben-Shachar exhibit visual images that deal with our approach to reality. The works provide a lens of optimism through which we can look at our world.

Leverett House G-Tower

11:30 AM ARTS FIRST Parade
Led by Grand Marshal John Lithgow ’67; Harvard Overseer and ARTS FIRST Planning Group Chair John Rockwell ’62; Harvard Arts Medal recipient Peter Sellars ’80; Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman; and the Harvard University Band, directed by Tom Everett. The parade will march down Massachusetts Avenue, past the Harvard Coop, and through Harvard Yard, ending in front of the Science Center.

Join the fun and march in the parade! Meet in front of Lamont Library, Harvard Yard by Quincy Street, at 11:15 AM.

11:30 AM -1:30 PM Picnic
All-you-can-eat picnic with welcoming remarks by John Lithgow ’67 and music by the Sunday Jazz Band (Lee Beatty, director; Danny Rhodes ’01, manager). Free for Harvard College students with ID, $6.50 general; payable at the ARTS FIRST tent.

ARTS FIRST Tent, Science Center Lawn

12 PM Bells
The churches of Cambridge ring their bells in chorus to herald ARTS FIRST 2001.
 
12-4 PM

Ceramics Studio
The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, offer hands-on demonstrations in wheel-throwing. More info at 495-8680.

Ceramics Studio

12 - 6 PM

Squash Court #2
Take one (1) large squash court. Cover all sides generously with paint. Fill with squash; stir. Now squash can hold court. Refreshments will be served. Matt Daniels ’01, Melissa Rudolph ’01, producers.

Adams House Artspace, 26 Plympton Street, C-entry

12:30 - 5 PM

Japanese Tea Ceremony
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chado Society perform the Japanese tea ceremony (Urasenke-style). Audience members will be served green tea and delicious sweets from Japan in an authentic tearoom. Demonstrations begin on the half-hour, with the final demonstration at 4:30. Eleanore Chadderdon ’03 and Jennifer Seo ’03, presidents.

East Asian Languages Department, 5 Bryant Street

1 PM

Outdoor Wind Music: New England Composers
The Harvard Wind Ensemble performs "Variations on America" and "Variations on ‘Old Jerusalem’" by Charles Ives, "Sand Paper Ballet" by Leroy Anderson, "Chester" Overture by William Schuman, and marches by R.D. Hall, G.W. Reeves, and R.G. Moore. The dance group TAPS will also perform. Thomas G. Everett, Wind Ensemble director; Lulu Henderson ’01, dance director.

Memorial Church Steps

1 PM

The Emperors New Clothes
Sunken Garden Children's Theater presents The Emperor's New Clothes. This endearing adaptation of Anderson's classic tale about two swindlers and a fashion—obsessed emperor promises to delight children of all ages. Adam Kline ’02, director; Katy Allen ’02, Alec Cooley ’02, Ray Courtney ’01, and Libby Shani ’02, producers.

Radcliffe Yard Sunken Garden, Appian Way
1-3 PM

Art and Instruments: Sundials
Visit the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments’ exhibit and sundial-making project for children age 9 and up.

Science Center Lower Level, Room B-6

1-5 PM

PERFORMANCE FAIR
Over 90 free student performances at 11 locations in four hours. Selected performances will be broadcast live on WHRB, 95.3 FM and online at www.whrb.org. All performances are wheelchair-accessible.

See Performance Fair Listings
2 PM

The Glass Menagerie
The elusive "gentleman caller," the southern family, the shy girl who owns the glass menagerie: This production revisits Tennessee Williams’ coming-of-age story to highlight its ambiguities, poignancy, and immediacy. Alison Wood ’01, director/producer; Kathy Bencowitz ’03, sets/production; John Herndon ’04, stage manager; March Jimenez ’96, lights; Abigail Joseph ’04, costumes; Tariq Yasin ’04, tech. Tickets: $5 general, $4 students, $3 Adams House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office and at the door during the half hour before curtain.

Adams House Pool Theatre, 26 Plympton Street, C-entry
5-7 PM

Exhibition of Broadsides and Work from the Current Year
The Bow & Arrow Press presents a display of prints, broadsides, and books created by undergraduates and members of the Harvard community. On Sunday the public is invited to a letterpress demonstration from 3 PM to 5 PM.

Adams House Bow & Arrow Press, 26 Plympton Street, C-entry
6-9 PM

Group Art Show: Vaküm Pakt
A group art show featuring photography, sculpture, painting, and video by Harvard undergraduates, including work by artists published in The Advocate. Receptions will be held Sunday at 2 PM in both Adams House and Eliot House.

Adams House Artspace, 26 Plympton Street, C-entry; Eliot House Art Space

7:30 PM

Odeon
The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents your typical boy-answers-French-man’s-cell-phone, gets-abducted-by-mafiosi, meets-girl-loses-girl-gets-girl story. A young, fresh play about the beauty of things, Odeon, by James Carmichael ’01, is about the wonder, sadness, and adventure of (not so) everyday life. Not recommended for children, due to adult language. Free; tickets are available at the Loeb Drama Center box office. James Carmichael ’01, director; Cary McClelland ’02 and Carrie Roby ’03, producers.

Experimental Theatre, Loeb Drama Center

8 PM

TAPS 101: Rhythm Through Time
TAPS presents the history of rhythm through a humorous interpretation of a historical study course. Complete with professor and head teaching fellow, this performance combines fabulous tap dancing with a comical skit, promising an evening of lively entertainment. Lulu Henderson ’01, dance director; Micaela Chatman ’02, producer; Adam Robbins ’02, administrative director; Ridgely Meyers ’02, business coordinator. Tickets: $5 general, $3 students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office and at the door.

Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard
8 PM

Into the Woods
The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic club invites you to follow your favorite fairy-tale characters as they clumsily chase their dreams, causing their lives to collide hysterically on the mainstage. This enchanting musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine presents an unlikely storybook tale marked with intrigue, deception, adultery, and hope. Featuring Jim Augustine ’01 as The Narrator; Adrien Finlay ’03 and Jenny Marsh ’03, producers; Sara Heller ’02, director; Michael McNabb ’02, musical director; Steven Anderson ’01, vocal director. Tickets $7 general, $5 students, available at the Loeb Drama Center box office and BosTix.

Mainstage, Loeb Drama Center
8 PM

The Glass Menagerie
The elusive "gentleman caller," the southern family, the shy girl who owns the glass menagerie: This production revisits Tennessee Williams’ coming-of-age story to highlight its ambiguities, poignancy, and immediacy. Alison Wood ’01, director/producer; Kathy Bencowitz ’03, sets/production; John Herndon ’04, stage manager; March Jimenez ’96, lights; Abigail Joseph ’04, costumes; Tariq Yasin ’04, tech. Tickets: $5 general, $4 students, $3 Adams House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office and at the door during the half hour before curtain.

Adams House Pool Theatre, 26 Plympton Street, C-entry
8 PM

F.J. Haydn with Friends Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus
performs Haydn's "Missa D-moll" and Mozart's "Serenata Notturna." Tickets $14, $10 general; $9, $6 students and seniors, available at Harvard Box Office. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall

Sanders Theater
8 PM

Crimson Dance Team: Johnny's Angels
Special guests in clude On Thin Ice, the Harvard Callbacks, and the '04 Steppers. Maya Horii '02, Maritess Panlilio '02, and Vedra Chandler '02, captains. Tickets: $8 general, $5 students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office; $10 and $7 at the door.

Lowell Hall
8:30 PM

"12 Angry Men"
Quincy House Dining Hall (not handicapped accessible) Quincy House presents a dramatic production directed by Daniel Stewart '03. Tickets: $3 general, $2 students, available at the Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center and at the door.

Quincy House Dining Hall

9:45 PM

Quincy House Coffeehouse
All are invited to an open mike event in Quincy House. Quincy Junior Common Room

Quincy House. Quincy Junior Common Room

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