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Town Paper Picker Press |
Boston China Town Neighborhood
Center - BCNC
885 Washington
Street, Boston, MA, 02111
Forum
Theater: Tuesday, April 21th
Visual Arts
& Poetry: Thursday, April 23th
Music &
Photography: Saturday, April 25th
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The Cultural
Agents Initiative
and
The Boston China Town
Neighborhood Center
Proudly
Present:
Paper Picker Press
Workshop
for
Artists and Educators
For
more information Contact:
Marcela
Mahecha,
mahecha@fas.harvard.edu |
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 For more information
contact: Marcela Mahecha,
mahecha@fas.harvard.edu
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Art Forum Speaker Series:
Alfredo Jaar
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Tuesday, April 21th
3:00-6:00pm
Wednesday, April 22th 6:00-8:00
pm
CGIS South, S-020 Concourse Level, 1730
Cambridge
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ARTISTS ON THEIR ART
Art Forum Speaker
Series: Alfredo Jaar
Considered
one the most influential artists of our time,
Chilean Alfredo Jaar has produced, over the last
few decades, haunting installations, filled with
muted images which, in their relentless
unavailability, remind the viewers of their
passivity in a number of crimes against humanity
which have occurred or are occurring under their
complacent watch. Jaar's work has been shown
extensively around the world. He received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was named a
MacArthur fellow in the year 2000. More than
thirty publications have been published on his
work by some of the most distinguished
intellectuals and art historians. In It is
Difficult, Jaar will present and discuss his
latest projects produced around the world, in
which he continues to question and denounce the
power structures at play as well as
unrelentingly challenge the spectator's
political inaction. In collaboration
with the Harvard Department of History and Art.
For more
information Contact:
Marcela Ramos, mvramos@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/programs/art_forum |
"The Archeology of
Fiction: Nation, Culture, and Mary
Shelley's The Last"
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Thursday April 23rd, 6:00 -
7:00pm
Room 133, Barker
Center
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The Humanities Center at Harvard Event:
Seminar on Victorian Literature and
Culture
Chairs: James Buzard, John
Picker, John Plotz
Maria Koundoura ( Emerson
College
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New Histories of the Book
in South Asia
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Friday, April 22nd
4:00-5:00pm
K-050,
CGIS-Knafel.
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Chairs: Ann Blair, Robert Darnton, David D.
Hall, Leah Price
Abhijit Gupta ( Jadavpur
University , Calcutta ). Cosponsored by the
South Asia Initiative.
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Maria Tatar in conversation
with Homi Bhabha: "Enchanted Hunters: The
Mystery and Beauty of Horror in Childhood
Reading"
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Monday, April 27th
6:00-7:00pm
Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle
Street,
Cambridge
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Presented
by the Humanities Center at
Harvard.
Ticketed Event: **$5
tickets available at Harvard Book Store
beginning April 6**
Followed by a
screening of Pan's Labyrinth; tickets to
screening are available at the Brattle
Theatre.
Seating is limited; open to the
public.
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Do You Believe in the Power
of Art?
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Tuesday April 28th
6:00-8:00pm
Massachusetts State House, 24
Beacon Street, Boston,
MA
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Violence
Transformed 2009
This event celebrates
the transformative possibilities of using art to
confront the prevalence of violence in our
communities. Over 20 visual artists will
be represented in an innovative exhibition, and
for one night only dance, spoken word, musical
performers will come together to harness
creativity, civic engagement and social
activism. Come and draw inspiration from the
artists at work in our area. Art can lead us to
a more positive place. It is a refuge we can all
share, a sanctuary we can all visit, and an
expression of resilience from which we can all
learn.
For more information visit:
www.violencetransformed.com
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Featured Article
I
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Sylvia
Molloy
Thurday, April 23,
6pm
Harvard Hall, Room 202 |
Sylvia Molloy is an
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities,
from New York University
Presented by the
Humanities Center at
Harvard
Respondents:
Doris
Sommer Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of
Romance Languages and Literatures and of African
and African American Studies
and
Diana Sorensen James F. Rothenberg
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
and of Comparative Literature; Dean of Arts and
Humanities
Seating is limited;
open to the public.
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Featured Article
II
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"Literature that
Changed My Life"
NEW DUE
DATE:
Monday April
27th
$500
Prize
in books from Harvard University Press
to the best essay
Perhaps a novel,
a poem, story, or a play has had a profound
effect on you. We invite students of Harvard
College to submit a short essay (600 word limit)
about the impact of a work of literature on your
life. By its nature, creativity is an
exploration beyond known forms. And
imaginative writing explores the unfamiliar, so
fiction is not a distraction as much as it is a
stretch of intelligence and sensibilities.
Tell us
how a book changed your life.
Deadline:
April 27th, 2009
Awards reception:
Late April
Send submissions
to:
cultagen@fas.harvard.edu
For more
information contact: Julia Havard,
julia.havard@gmail.com |
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