MEDIA CONTACTS: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu or
Stacia Smith
561-297-2971, ssmith@fau.edu

Florida Atlantic University's
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Events for the Weeks of January 17 and January 24

Tuesday, January 18 through Saturday, January 29
Art Exhibition: "Me, Myself and I"
Tuesday through Friday, 1-4 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m.
Schmidt Center Gallery, FAU Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road
Free and open to the public
Information: 561-297-2966
Contemporary selection of international artists who explore issues of biography and self-identity including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography and video. Artists include Anthony Goicolea, Sofia Hulten, Guy Richards Smit, Natalia Benedetti and the artist team of Diana Shpungin and Nicole Engelman.

Thursday, January 20, 7 p.m.
Book Signing
Barnes & Noble bookstore, 1400 Glades Road, Boca Raton
Information: 561-392-8478
Alan L. Berger, FAU director of Holocaust and Judaic Studies and Raddock Eminent Scholar in Holocaust Studies will sign copies of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature, a book he coauthored.

Thursday, January 20 and Friday, January 21
Ceramics Demonstrations and Lectures
Demonstrations: Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visual Arts Building, Room 112
Lecture: Thursday, 5 p.m.
Social Science Building, Room 250
Information: 561-297-3870
Free and open to the public.
Bonnie Seeman, professor of art at the University of Miami, will present the workshops and slide lecture.

Friday, January 21, 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 22, 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 23, 2 p.m.
Theatre Presentation of "The Afghan Women"
Studio Two Theatre, FAU Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road
Admission:$10; All proceeds to benefit International Orphan Care - Afghanistan Project
Information: 561-297-3810
The play, written by Emmy and Peabody award-winner William Mastrosimone, tells the story of an Afghan-American female physician running an orphanage in war-torn Afghanistan. A warlord on the run from government soldiers enters the orphanage with plans to use the children as human shields until he gets to the Pakistan border. After exhausting all other possibilities, the physician persuades three women who are taking refuge with her to help kill the warlord.

Saturday, January 22
Collaborative Art Show of Sculpture Society, Potters' Guild and Painters' Forum
Visual Arts Building Courtyard and Studios
Admission: Free
Information: 561-297-3870

Tuesday, January 25 through Saturday, April 9
Art Exhibition: "southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Artists"
Tuesday through Friday, 1-4 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m.
Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road
Free and open to the public
Information: 561-297-2966
The exhibition, which features art made in a variety of media including ceramics, painting, sculpture, video and environmental installation, is a highly selective exhibition, presenting a small number of artists in order to show several examples of often large-scale works by each artist. The artists selected are predominantly either younger emerging artists or more mature artists whose work has not received attention outside their home state or region.

Friday, January 28, 12 noon
Lecture: "False Papers: The Tension Between Testimony and Story in a Holocaust Memoir" with Robert Melson
Majestic Palm Room, University Center, FAU Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road
Free and open to the public
Information: 561-297-2979
Melson is a professor of political science and is former acting director of the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue. He is the current president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which he helped to found in 1995.

Sunday, January 30, 2 p.m.
Concert: The Florida Woodwind Quintet with the world premier of Arthur Weisberg's "Five by Five"
Schmidt Center Gallery, FAU Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road
Tickets: $15; FAU faculty, staff, alumni and students: Free
Information: 561-297-2977

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