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Feb
20
DRUM TAO 20207:30pm
DRUM TAO 2020
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive Taiko drumming and innovative choreography in a show that has critics waxing lyrical about the group’s extraordinary precision, energy, and stamina. Time Out calls them “powerful, dynamic and unique,” and the Chicago Tribune says they are “extraordinarily talented...[with] incomparable muscular zeal” as they bring non-traditional flair to the rich heritage of Japanese drumming.
Recommended for all ages (4+)
Co-Sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center
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Feb
22
Vienna Piano Trio8:00pm
Vienna Piano Trio
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Concert Talk 7:15 pm
Celebrated for its infectious exuberance, and perennially fresh in its artistry, the Vienna Piano Trio has long been hailed as one of the “world’s leading ensembles of piano, violin, and cello” (The Washington Post). These stellar musicians bring their passion and razor-sharp performance skills to a richly diverse program that includes works by Haydn, Ravel and Mendelssohn.
The Trio was founded in 1988 by the Viennese pianist Stefan Mendl. His partners are the Californian violinist David McCarroll, a member of the trio since 2015, and the Austrian cellist Clemens Hagen, who joined in 2018. Together, the players embody the ensemble’s continuing commitment to bridging the traditions and practice of Europe and America. This philosophy stems from the trio’s early years and its mentoring by such ensembles as the Trio di Trieste, Haydn-Trio Wien, Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri and LaSalle quartets, and by the violinists Isaac Stern and Jaime Laredo.
Both sustaining and expanding the repertoire for piano trio, the ensemble complements the masterworks of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with new works — the product of collaborations with such leading contemporary composers as Friedrich Cerha, Georg Friedrich Haas, György Kurtág, Johannes Maria Staud and Jörg Widmann.
A Lenard Chamber Series Event
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Feb
23
Pete the Cat2:00pm
Pete the Cat
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
A Theaterworks USA Production
Everyone’s favorite rockin’ blue cat takes the stage in this musical performance. When the unsuspecting Biddle family takes in the fantastic feline, Pete the Cat rocks the family’s world with his strumming and strutting. Everybody loves Pete the Cat, well, everyone except Jimmy, the planet’s most organized second-grader. That all changes, of course, when Pete the Cat takes Jimmy on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Based on the New York Times #1 best-selling children’s books by authors Kimberly and James Dean, Pete the Cat is also a popular animated series on Amazon Prime Video.
Recommended for ages 5 and up
Media Sponsor: 100.9 K-Hits
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Mar
12
Cirque Flip Fabrique - "Blizzard"7:30pm
Cirque Flip Fabrique - "Blizzard"
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Guaranteed chills for the whole family! Cirque Flip Fabrique brings a fresh take on contemporary circus, coupled with an uncanny ability to have fun and move an audience. Blizzard is the story of a group of friends, each one different from the other, like snowflakes, exploring the awe and wonder of a winter storm. Take a crazy, fun, poetic and tender journey through winter, and get lost in a moment of white wonder. With some of the most exciting circus performers of the moment and original music performed live.
Recommended for all ages (4+)
Media Sponsor: 96.5 TIC FM
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Mar
14
The Chieftains8:00pm
The Chieftains
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
The Irish Goodbye
A CABARET EVENT
Doors Open at 7 pm
Cabaret fare and cash bar
The legendary Irish folk group returns to Jorgensen on their last-ever trip to the United States. After fifty-seven years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains remain as fresh and relevant as when they first began. The six-time Grammy Award winners have the ability to transcend musical boundaries to blend tradition with modern music. Come for a memorable evening of music, song and dance on this, their final journey.
Media Sponsor: CPBN cptv | wnpr
TICKETS: https://jorgensen.uconn.edu
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Feb
20
Film Screening: Cold War (2018)4:00pm
Film Screening: Cold War (2018)
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Film Screening of "Cold War" (2018). 88min
FREE Admission.
Cookies supplied by Insomnia Cookies
Set against the backdrop of the 1950s Cold War in Poland, two people of differing backgrounds and temperaments begin an almost impossible romance.
This is a historical period drams directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on 10 May 2018. Critics praised its acting, screenplay, direction and cinematography.
After the film, Professor Friedemann Weidauer, German Studies at UConn, will hold a short discussion about the period.
Rating: 92% by Rotten Tomatoes
This screening is part of the Human Rights Institute Film Series at UConn.
A short discussion follows with Friedemann Weidauer, Professor of German at UConn.
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Feb
24
Meditation Monday in the Galleries 4:30pm
Meditation Monday in the Galleries
Monday, February 24th, 2020
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Join us on Meditation Mondays in the Benton Museum galleries for a guided meditation. All levels are welcome to foster your wellbeing and enjoy meditating among the art.
This program is open to students, staff, faculty, and the community.
First come, first serve with a maximum of 30 participants. Please arrive between 4:15 and 4:30pm to check in at the front desk. Late arrivals will not be granted access.
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Feb
27
ISSS Coffee Hour2:00pm
ISSS Coffee Hour
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Let's travel to Poland!
Stop by for an interactive presentation about the Polish culture and to see the museum's temporary exhibition on DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print. The museum's exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland
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Feb
28
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue12:15am
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue
Friday, February 28th, 2020
12:15 AM - 12:45 AM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Learn to look with a critical eye
Friday, February 28th
12:15–12:45pm
Tap your powers of observation and
investigate a single work of art through
close looking and discussion with
Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/
Academic Liaison.
The focus of this month's subject is a sculpture "Mother and Child" (1945) by.Isabel Case Borgatta (American, 1921-2017), from the museum's collection.
Develop your critical thinking skills by learning to look at objects in detail. This skill is useful in navigating everyday life, your job or studies. -
Mar
5
FIRST THURSDAY AT THE BENTON4:30pm
FIRST THURSDAY AT THE BENTON
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
04:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
FREE and FUN for everyone!
Open house in partnership with the Beanery, WHUS & SHaW.
5:00–8:00
WHUS DJ's live in the galleries (DJ Kalabi Yau and others)
5:00-7:30
Visit with cute Therapy Dogs
4:30–8:00 in the Museum Galleries
• Giveaways
• Hands-on activities
• Scavenger Hunts
• See new art
• Get a new sticker
• Enjoy Live DJ music
4:30–8:00 in the Beanery
• 25% off coffee & espresso drinks
• Open Mic
Bring your dorm mates, friends, co-workers, or family.
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Feb
20
Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett7:00pm
Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Storrs Campus Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle, Downtown Storrs
For its first installment of the 2020 Spring Puppet Forum Series the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Professor Jane Bennett on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs.
Dr. Bennett, of Johns Hopkins University, is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary political theorist and philosopher best known in the puppetry world for her work on "the material world in performance," especially her influential bestseller Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Drawing from her forthcoming book Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman, Professor Bennett will speak at the Thursday Puppet Forum about Whitman's sense of "lively materiality" and the implications such ideas for puppetry studies and other subjects. Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program.
Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment, (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman.
Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. Come early, and experience our puppet exhibitions, as well as the video resources in our library nook. Forums will be broadcast via Facebook Live. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu. -
Feb
21
Colloquium With Jane Bennett9:00am
Colloquium With Jane Bennett
Friday, February 21st, 2020
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Storrs Campus UConn Humanities Institute Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor 369 Fairfield Way Storrs, CT, 06269
The UConn Puppet Arts Program and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut present a Colloquium with Jane Bennett on Friday, Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at the UConn Humanities Institute on the 4th floor of UConn’s Homer Babbidge Library.
The colloquium will include research presentations by UConn scholars including Associate Professor of English Kathleen Tonry, who will consider connections between Jane Bennett’s work and the 15th-century history of the book; Professor of Art History Elizabeth Athens, who will consider 18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s representations of nature; and Ballard Institute Director John Bell, who will examine Jane Bennett’s influence on contemporary puppetry studies. The presentations will also include short puppet responses to Walt Whitman poems by students in Dr. Matthew Cohen’s Hand Puppetry class. The colloquium offers an opportunity to engage in conversation about Walt Whitman and American poetry, political theory, puppetry studies, object-oriented ontology, and philosophy with Dr. Bennett. This event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program.
Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend the colloquium, please contact Dr. Matthew Cohen at matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu. -
Feb
29
Raccoon Tales performed by Brad Shur11:00am
Raccoon Tales performed by Brad Shur
Saturday, February 29th, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Storrs Campus Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle, Downtown Storrs
As part of its 2020 Spring Puppet Performance Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut is pleased to present "Paul Vincent Davis's Raccoon Tales," performed by Brad Shur of Paper Heart Puppets on Feb. 29, 2020 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs. This performance will take place in conjunction with the grand opening of two new exhibits, "Paul Vincent Davis and the Art of Puppet Theater" and "Shakespeare and Puppetry," on Feb. 29, 2020 at noon.
The animals in the forest are always getting into trouble playing tricks on each other. Will they learn their lessons? This hand-puppet show includes three humorous tales inspired by the Native American stories of the Seneca Tribe: "How the Fox and the Raccoon Trick Each Other"; "Why the Blue Jay is Blue and the Gray Wolf Isn't"; and "Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail." This show is 45 minutes long and is recommended for ages 4+.
Brad Shur is the founder and lead performer for Paper Heart Puppets, based in Poughkeepsie, NY. From 2009-2017, he served as the Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace Theater where he created many of his own shows and studied with Master Puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis. Brad is proud to have the opportunity to help keep his mentor's work alive by performing Paul's show, "Raccoon Tales," on Feb. 29.
On Feb. 29 at noon the Ballard Institute will open two new exhibits, including an exhibit of Paul Vincent Davis’s work titled "Paul Vincent Davis and the Art of Puppet Theater." There will be free refreshments at noon and a tour at 12:30 p.m.
Ticket Prices: Adults: $12; Members/Seniors: $10; Students: $8; Kids: $6 (12 years and under).
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, by calling 860-486-8580, or online at http://bimp.ticketleap.com/raccoon-tales/. A surcharge will be added to any purchases made online. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ballard Institute on the day of performance starting at 10 a.m. There will be open seating and no reservations. Visitors can park in the Storrs Center Garage located at 33 Royce Circle. Parking is free for the first two hours and $1 per hour thereafter, with a daily maximum charge of $8. For more information about these performances or if you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860-486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu. -
Feb
29
Raccoon Tales performed by Brad Shur2:00pm
Raccoon Tales performed by Brad Shur
Saturday, February 29th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle, Downtown Storrs
As part of its 2020 Spring Puppet Performance Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut is pleased to present "Paul Vincent Davis's Raccoon Tales," performed by Brad Shur of Paper Heart Puppets on Feb. 29, 2020 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs. This performance will take place in conjunction with the grand opening of two new exhibits, "Paul Vincent Davis and the Art of Puppet Theater" and "Shakespeare and Puppetry," on Feb. 29, 2020 at noon.
The animals in the forest are always getting into trouble playing tricks on each other. Will they learn their lessons? This hand-puppet show includes three humorous tales inspired by the Native American stories of the Seneca Tribe: "How the Fox and the Raccoon Trick Each Other"; "Why the Blue Jay is Blue and the Gray Wolf Isn't"; and "Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail." This show is 45 minutes long and is recommended for ages 4+.
Brad Shur is the founder and lead performer for Paper Heart Puppets, based in Poughkeepsie, NY. From 2009-2017, he served as the Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace Theater where he created many of his own shows and studied with Master Puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis. Brad is proud to have the opportunity to help keep his mentor's work alive by performing Paul's show, "Raccoon Tales," on Feb. 29.
On Feb. 29 at noon the Ballard Institute will open two new exhibits, including an exhibit of Paul Vincent Davis’s work titled "Paul Vincent Davis and the Art of Puppet Theater." There will be free refreshments at noon and a tour at 12:30 p.m.
Ticket Prices: Adults: $12; Members/Seniors: $10; Students: $8; Kids: $6 (12 years and under).
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, by calling 860-486-8580, or online at http://bimp.ticketleap.com/raccoon-tales/. A surcharge will be added to any purchases made online. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ballard Institute on the day of performance starting at 10 a.m. There will be open seating and no reservations. Visitors can park in the Storrs Center Garage located at 33 Royce Circle. Parking is free for the first two hours and $1 per hour thereafter, with a daily maximum charge of $8. For more information about these performances or if you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860-486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.
