Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA
CONTACT
: Lisa
Metcalf
561-297-3022,
lmetcalf@fau.edu
FAU Calendar of Events for the
Week of January 10, 2011
BOCA RATON, FL (January 10, 2011) –
Florida
Atlantic University will host the following events:
FAU Peace Studies Program Presents ‘Finding Meaning
and Direction in a Changing World with Dan
Millman’
This ticketed lecture is on
Thursday, January 13 at 7 p.m. in
FAU’s University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca
Raton campus. Tickets are $25 for adults, students K
through 12 receive free admission, FAU faculty, staff, students
and alumni receive free admission. For tickets and information,
call 800-564-9539 or visit fauevents.com.
Dan Millman is the author of the classic bestseller
“Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” and he is the subject
of the movie
The Peaceful Warrior. He has also written 15 other books
read by millions of people in 29 languages. Millman is a former
world-champion gymnast, martial arts instructor and college
professor. He teaches practical ways to live with greater clarity
and compassion with a peaceful heart and a warrior spirit.
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FAU’s Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies presents the lecture ‘The Farhud-The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust’ with author Edwin Black
This free lecture is on
Sunday, January 16, at 4 p.m. in
FAU’s Performing Arts Building, room 101, 777
Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. For information, call
561-297-2979.
Edwin Black is an award-winning,
New York Times bestselling author of 69 books. His work
focuses on genocide and hate, corporate criminality and
corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud and
historical investigation.
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FAU Hosts
Lecture Titled ‘John and Abigail Adams: Love and Marriage
in the New Nation’ by Professor Anna Lawrence
The free
program will take place
Thursday, January 20 at 2 p.m. on the
fifth floor of
FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus.
For information, contact Sara Landset at 561-297-3921 or
slandset@fau.edu
or visit
www.library.fau.edu/news/flyers/adams_flyer.pdf.
John and Abigail Adams left behind a fascinating set of
materials in their letters to each other, particularly the letters
they wrote while they were separated during the turbulent years of
Revolutionary America. Their relationship illuminates how
women’s roles changed during the Revolutionary and early
Republican era. FAU professor Anna Lawrence, Ph.D., will explore
how men and women related to one another in love and marriage,
using the Adams’ letters as a lens for understanding the
social waves of change in the Revolutionary era.
The
presentation is part of a lecture series that is being sponsored in
conjunction with the library’s current exhibition “John
Adams Unbound,” which explores the personal library of John
Adams, one of the nation’s founding fathers. The exhibition
was organized by the Boston Public Library and the American Library
Association Public Programs Office. This traveling exhibition has
been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities: great ideas brought to life.
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FAU University Galleries Hosts ‘Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years’
The free exhibition runs through
Saturday, January 22, at
FAU’s Schmidt Center Gallery, 777 Glades Road,
Boca Raton campus.
For more
information, call 561-297-2966 or visit
www.fau.edu/galleries.
The exhibition features Pettibon’s early graphic
works from the California punk rock era, and includes more than
200 examples of Pettibon’s aggressively powerful designs
created for the band Black Flag, whose lead vocalist was Henry
Rollins, and other well-known punk bands, including Sonic Youth,
Hüsker Dü, Circle Jerks and the Dead Kennedys. There
will also be a program of screenings, music and lectures that
celebrates the legacy of the California punk
culture.
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Fine Art Photographer Barry Seidman Presents ‘Natural Observations’
The free exhibition runs
through February 11, at the
Student Resource (SR) building, at
FAU’s MacArthur Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive,
Jupiter. For more information call 561-799-8105.
Fine-art photographer, Barry Seidman, will present his
latest work in a special exhibition, “Natural
Observations,”as part of the
Art in the Atrium series. A “Meet the
Artist” reception will be held Wednesday, January 12, from
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The SR Atrium is open Monday through Friday from
9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m.
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FAU Libraries Host ‘John Adams Unbound’ Exhibition on Founding Father’s Book Collection
The
free exhibition
runs through February 17, at
FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca
Raton campus.
For
information, contact Sara Landset at 561-297-3921 or
slandset@fau.edu
or visit
www.library.fau.edu/news/flyers/adams_flyer.pdf.
“
John Adams
Unbound,” a traveling exhibition, explores the personal
library of John Adams, one of the nation’s founding
fathers. The colorful panel exhibition showcases selections from
a collection of 3,500 books that Adams willed to the people of
Massachusetts. The collection, deposited in the Boston Public
Library in 1894, provides insight into how Adams shaped American
history and how he was shaped through his lifelong dedication to
reading and books. In conjunction with the exhibition, the
Wimberly Library is featuring a companion exhibition of more than
100 rare books and pamphlets from its Marvin & Sybil Weiner
Spirit of America Collection and a lecture series.
The
“John Adams Unbound”
traveling exhibition was organized by the Boston Public Library
and the America Library Association and made possible by a major
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas
brought to life. The exhibition is based upon the gallery
exhibition of the same name mounted by the Boston Public Library
in 2006, the first public display of Adams’s complete
3,500-book collection.
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FAU Jupiter Library Gallery Hosts ‘The Superhero Project’ on Loan from Belgium
The free exhibition is on display
through
Friday,
March 11,
at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery,
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter.
For
more information on the exhibition, call 561-789-8530 or visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
“The Superhero Project” exhibition features
prints and a video from a project by Abner Preis, an
interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Rotterdam,
Netherlands. As research for “The Superhero
Project,” which is on loan to FAU from The Harlan Levey
Projects in Brussels, Belgium, Preis traveled to different
cities dressed as a superhero and documented his interactions
with the public. The artist’s recent work has included
paintings, sculptures, books, installations, video and
performances. The library’s hours are Sundays from 12:30
to 11 p.m.; Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.;
Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 6
p.m.
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FAU Jupiter Library Gallery Hosts ‘13 Views of Mt. Hood’ by Tom Virgin
The free exhibition is on display
through
Friday,
March 11,
at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery,
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter.
For information,
call
561-799-8530
or visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
“13 Views of Mt. Hood,” an exhibition of
woodcut prints, features 13 views of Oregon’s tallest
mountain created in woodcut prints by Tom Virgin, a Miami artist
and printmaker who uses woodcut printing to link himself to his
upbringing and grandfather’s carpentry skills. Virgin, an
educator, tells stories through images. The
library’s
hours are Sundays from 12:30 to 11 p.m.; Monday through
Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 6
p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.
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FAU Jupiter Library Gallery Hosts ‘Lose the Game’ by Brian Reedy
The free exhibition is on display through
Friday,
March 11,
at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery,
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter.
For information, call 561-799-8530 or visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
The “Lose the Game” exhibition features woodcut prints by Brian Reedy, a Miami artist, who chooses to use wood cuts because of the graphic quality it gives his images. The library’s hours are Sundays from 12:30 to 11 p.m.; Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.
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FAU Libraries Host ‘Bessel Display of Music Scores’ from Russian Publishing Firm
The free exhibition is on display
through Friday, March 25, at
FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus.
For information, contact the library’s Special
Collections and Archives department at 561-297-3787 or e-mail
lysca@fau.edu.
The Bessel Archives are part of the Richard Beattie Davis
Music Collection by special permission of Marina Bessel Baring and
Dinette Bessel, granddaughters of the founders of V. Bessel &
Co. Among the music scores are a numbered copy of the first edition
of the full score of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, ‘The
Story of Tsar Saltan,’ first editions of
Rimsky-Korsakov’s three penultimate operas, and operas by
A.N. Serov, A. Rubinstein and N. Tcherepnin. Bessel, a famous
Russian music publishing firm, was founded in St. Petersburg in
1869 by Vasily Vasilyevich Bessel and his brother, Ivan. Davis, a
music collector and the FAU benefactor who established the Richard
Beattie Davis Collection at FAU Libraries, knew Basil Bessel, a son
of Vasily Bessel Jr., and his daughters, Marina Bessel Baring and
Dinette Bessel. Davis passed away in England in September 2008, but
his wife, Gillian Davis, lives in England and continues to winter
in Boynton Beach and volunteer at the Davis Collection.
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