2014 Spotlight on the Arts
The University of Georgia spotlights its arts programs and venues during an annual nine-day festival that includes concerts, theater and dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film festivals, discussions on the arts and creativity, and more. The 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival will be held Nov. 6-14.
David Daley – Willson Center-Grady College Digital Media Fellowship Lecture
November 7, 10:10 a.m., Grady College, first floor, studio 1
David Daley, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, will visit the University of Georgia for the second time as the inaugural Willson Center – Grady College Digital Media Fellow. His visit is co-sponsored by the Willson Center and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Daley was culture editor and executive editor of Salon, an online journal of news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment, before being named editor-in-chief in 2013. He is the former features editor of Details magazine, and the former lifestyles manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He is also editor of the online literary journal FiveChapters.
Spotlight • Slingshot
November 8, 4 p.m.-9 p.m., College Square, downtown Athens
The Willson Center and the Music Business Program of the Terry College of Business present a special Spotlight on the Arts installment of the Slingshot festival of music, electronic art, and technology. Spotlight • Slingshot is a free public concert on College Square in downtown Athens featuring five acclaimed local and national acts, many including UGA graduates and attendees.
Complete details, including the lineup and schedule, will be announced soon.
Nels Pearson – “Beckett’s Crossing”
November 10, 3 p.m., Miller Learning Center, room 148
Dr. Pearson of Fairfield University specializes in Twentieth-Century British Literature, Literacy Modernism, and Irish Literature with a focus on modernism in its historical and political contexts, especially Irish and British modernism as they relate to imperialism, nationalism and national identity, and debates surrounding the concept of cosmopolitanism.
His articles have appeared in ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth Century Literature, Irish University Review, Conradiana, European Joyce Studies, Studies in Scottish Literature, and The Victorian Newsletter. He is the co-editor of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate, 2009), and he is completing a book entitled Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett.
Barry McGovern – Performances from Samuel Beckett
November 10, 8 p.m., Ciné
Barry McGovern (born 1948) is an Irish stage, film and television actor. He will give a performance of the poetry and prose of Samuel Beckett in a special appearance sponsored by the Consulate General of Ireland in Atlanta.
McGovern is a former member of the RTÉ Players and the Abbey Theatre Company. He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television, as well as written music for many shows, and co-written two musicals and directed plays and operas. He is known internationally for his award-winning one-man Beckett showsI’ll Go On and Watt, which the Gate Theatre presented at the 1985 and 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival, respectively. McGovern revived I’ll Go On for a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA for the Center Theatre Group in 2014.
Panel Discussion – “Surviving Outside the Box”
November 11, 7 p.m., Ciné
The Willson Center hosts a panel discussion with local visual artists moderated by Dana Bultman, associate professor of Romance languages and Willson Center associate academic director for public programs. Panelists include Andy Cherewick, Jill Biskin, and Jim StipeMaas.
Been in the Storm So Long: Remembering 1864 and 1964 in 2014
November 15, 8 p.m., Margaret Mitchell House, 990 Peachtree Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30309
Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Rickey Bevington hosts a stellar line-up of local scholars, poets, artists, and musicians in a far-reaching roundtable discussion of the coincident anniversaries of the 1864 Battles of Atlanta and 1964 Civil Rights Act. Panelists include U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey; artist Robert Morris; singer-songwriter Caroline Herring; and historians Robert Pratt, Brett Gadsden, and Joseph Crespino. Come join this important public forum on how our divisive past can be transformed into collective meaning.
Sponsored by the Atlanta History Center, the UGA History Department, the Woodruff Library at Emory University, and the Willson Center.