| This week's arts briefs: Poetry reading Bach's Lunch Exhibit at Harrisburg Opera road trip HUB-Robeson Galleries exhibits Variety of events at Bryce Jordan Center |
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This photo of Paul Robeson
and his accompanist Alan Booth appearing at "Lift Every Voice,"
an American Labor Party-sponsored rally to protest discrimination in Rochester,
N.Y. in 1956,
is among those on display in the exhibit "Paul Robeson: Photographs by Julius
Lazarus.
The exhibit is on display in the Robeson Gallery on the University Park campus
through May 14.
Photo © Julius Lazarus/Special
Collections, Rutgers University Libraries.
Romanian poet Liliana Ursu will give a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The reading will be in English and is open to the public.
Ursu is one of Romania's leading poets and has been a Fulbright Scholar twice previously at Penn State. Her collections of poetry in English translation include The Sky Behind the Forest (Blood-Axe Books) and Angel Riding a Beast (Northwestern University Press).
The Singing Lions will perform at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus.
The Singing Lions, directed by Matt Doebler and Darci Halloran, consists of 16 singers, an accompanist and a technical support group. The group will perform selections chosen from their tour repertoire.
The free, 20-minute concert is sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Music and the University Lutheran Parish.
After the concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge in Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
The inaugural exhibit in the Morrison Gallery of Penn State Harrisburg's new library features the work of Shiremanstown photographer Robert Willis.
Willis photographed the scenes, titled "Streets of Mexico," while participating in the June 1999 Penn State Harrisburg Health Education international study program to Mexico.
The gallery exhibition is free to the public during regular library hours through March 17.
Opera lovers can sign up now for a bus trip to the Pittsburgh Opera to see Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata," which will take place on Sunday, April 16. A chartered bus will depart from Rec Hall on the University Park campus at 8:30 a.m. and will return around 10 p.m.
The trip is being organized by the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and the Italian Club. To reserve tickets or for more information, call Sherry Roush at (814) 865-1133 or e-mail slr21@psu.edu.
"WTW Architects, Designing the HUB-Robeson Center: From Concept to Completion," is on display in the HUB-Robeson Center Art Alley on the University Park campus through April 17.
WTW Architects is a Pittsburgh-based architectural, planning and interior design firm in business for more than 40 years. For the HUB-Robeson Center, the team included the services of several other design firms.
For more information, check the Web at http://www.psu.edu/HUB/Galleries/ or contact the HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State, 241 HUB-Robeson Center, University Park, Pa. 16802-6601; phone: (814) 865-2563; fax: (814) 865-0812.
MTV's Invasion Tour, featuring Bush and special guest Moby, will be on stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. Tickets are $22 for reserved seating and general floor admission. There will be a limited amount of general floor admission tickets available.
Bush has scored numerous hit singles and sold seven million copies of their debut album, Sixteen Stone. The band, which played at The Bryce Jordan Center on April 15, 1996, followed up with their second release, Razorblade Suitcase and their latest release, "The Science Of Things."
Moby is one of techno's brightest stars, but works outside of techno conventions.
Grammy Award nominee Ricky Martin will play at The Bryce Jordan Center at University Park at 7:30 p.m. June 28. Tickets for the concert will go on sale at 8 a.m. March 3 at the Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium and select Uni-Mart locations. Seats for the show are $40, $55 and $75 and wristbands will be distributed from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 2 and from 6 to 7 a.m. March 3. Customers can also charge tickets by phone at (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336.
Martin, best known for his hit single "Livin' La Vida Loca," recently performed at the 42nd Grammy Awards, where he was up for several awards, but did not win any Grammys.
The U.S. Hot Rod Monster Jam rides into The Bryce Jordan Center at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 25. Tickets are $13 for reserved seating, $5 for children 12 and under, and are on sale now.
The extreme racing styles of Grave Digger, Wild Thang, Destroyer, Iron Warrior, Thrasher and Rambo will keep fans on the edge of their seats. Super Truck races representing NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and John Andretti also will be featured in this monster truck event.
Tickets for these events can be purchased at The Bryce Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, selected Uni-Mart ticket outlets, Commonwealth Campus ticket outlets, or by calling (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336.