Arts
and Entertainment
Penn State Intercom......May 24, 2001
 "Comfy
Cozy" is a working display
of muslin pillows printed with copies of pages from books in the Paterno
Family Humanities Reading Room, second Floor Pattee Library on the
University Park campus. Created by Harry Hacker, a graduate student
in the School of Visual Arts, the pillows will remain for use in the
reading room until July 1. |
Juried exhibit to open
"Images 2001," a juried group exhibit sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, will be exhibited June 19-July 19 at the Robeson Gallery of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
A reception will be held at 6:45 p.m. June 22 at the gallery.
The exhibit consists of paintings, drawings, hand-pulled prints, photography, mixed media and small sculpture. The show was juried by Frederick R. Brandt, curator of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of Postwar Painting and Sculpture and consulting curator of 20th Century Design and Decorative Arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, both in Richmond.
Music at Penn's Woods
Gerardo Edelstein will be music director for the Music at Penn's Woods 2001 festival, which features the theme "Continental Encounters."
The conductor served with the Richmond Symphony and Virginia Commonwealth University, winning first prize for innovative music programming from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
The festival includes a new ticketing system, Admission Passports. The passport costs $24 a person and is good for admittance to all symphonic concerts. Individual tickets cost $12 for adults and $4.50 for students.
All concerts will be held at Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
The schedule is as follows:
* Friday, June 29: 7:30 p.m., chamber concert;
* Saturday, June 30: 7:30 p.m., festival orchestra, "European Souvenirs";
* Sunday, July 1: 3 p.m., chamber concert;
* Thursday, July 5: 7:30 p.m., festival orchestra, "The Challenge of Colors";
* Saturday, July 7: 7:30 p.m., festival orchestra, "Let's Tango!";
* Sunday, July 8: 3 p.m., chamber concert;
* Thursday, July 12: 7:30 p.m., chamber concert;
* Friday, July 13: 7:30 p.m., chamber concert;
* Saturday, July 14: 7:30 p.m., festival orchestra, "Beethoven's Best."
Call (814) 863-0255 or (800) ARTS-TIX for tickets. All chamber music concerts are free.
Tintypes exhibited
A selection of 19th-century American tintypes will be exhibited through Aug. 15 in the B. and H. Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibit Room in 201A Pattee Library on the University Park campus.
The exhibit is drawn from a teaching collection on the social history of photography.
For information, call Sandra Stelts at (814) 865-1793
Library exhibits
A number of exhibits are taking place over the summer in Pattee and Paterno Library on the University Park campus. Shows include the following:
* "The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Charles W. Mann Jr. Crystal Palace Collection," through Aug. 1, The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library.
* "Pennsylvania Amusement Parks: The Charles and Betty Jacques Amusement Park Collection," through Aug. 15, The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library.
* "The Digital Photography Studio, Student Photographs," extended to Aug. 10, the Candace and Patrick E. Malloy III Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library.
* "Overlooked Visions of the Past Century," from the University Libraries by Caroline Russo, extended to Aug. 10, the Candace and Patrick E. Malloy III Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library.
For information about exhibits, call (814) 865-0401.
Monkeys, Dennis Miller to play
The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus will roar with laughter and resonate with some daydream believing this summer when a Comedy Series and the Monkees both hit town.
Miller will headline a Comedy Series that begins with his performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 14. Miller is host of a half-hour, live talk show, HBO's "Dennis Miller Live," now in its seventh season. He also will be behind the mike for a second season as the color commentator on ABC's "Monday Night Football."
The series continues with the Comedy Central Night featuring Lewis Black, Greg Giraldo, Eddie Ifft and Todd Barry at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 7, and concludes with the Laf Arts Festival featuring Bobcat Goldthwait, Robert Schimmel, Wendy Liebman and Kevin Meany at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.
Tickets for the entire series are $79.50 and $66.50. Tickets are $39.50 and $32.50 for Miller's performance, $27.50 and $24.50 for the Comedy Central Night and for the Laf Arts Festival.
The Monkees will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 1. Tickets are $35.
The '60s band had hits with "Last Train To Clarksville," "I'm A Believer," "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You," "Daydream Believer," "Valerie" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday."
Joining the Monkees will be Natural, which recently signed with Lou Pearlman. Pearlman is famous in the music industry for developing the pop groups NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys.
Tickets for both events are available at The Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, selected Uni-Mart ticket outlets, Commonwealth campus ticket outlets, by phone at (800) 863-3336 or (814) 865-5555, or online at http://www.bjc.psu.edu/