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CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance Concert

CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company will present its annual spring performance. The performance will include the premiere of several new contemporary and aerial arts pieces, a guest performance by members of the Compañía Nacional de Danza Costa Rica and several repertory performances. Also to be held Feb. 25-27 at 8 p.m.

Guest Lecture: Photographer Billy Weeks

Billy Weeks, a two-time winner of the Gordon Parks International Photography award, will speak. The talk will focus on “the moment where the photographer past interacts with the subject present. In other words, what is it that attracts the photographer to make an image?."

Weeks' visit complements an exhibit of photographs from a "Life" magazine 1956 photo essay on segregation in the South will be on view at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries through March 31.

Dada Centennial Performances

An evening of performance and scholarship in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time. Presented by Ideas for Creative Exploration and the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA. To include a performance by visiting artist Luciano Chessa, re-enactments by students in music and theatre and film studies and a presentation by Jed Rasula, author of “Destruction Was My Beatrice,” the globe-spanning narrative of Dada published in 2015.



Lecture: Alice Aycock

Join Alice Aycock as she shares stories of her career as an artist and get an in-depth look at selected works from the artist’s oeuvre. Her large-scale pieces in earth and industrial materials pertain to themes of human and spatial relationships with nature, architecture and the built environment.

McBee Lecture: Earl Lewis

Earl_Lewis_-_web.jpgEarl Lewis, President of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, will give the Louise McBee Lecture.  Lewis, a noted social historian, was a former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He is the author and co-editor of seven books.

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