Willson Center Announces Calendar for 2013 Spotlight on the Arts Festival
The Willson Center 
will sponsor a brimming calendar of events for the 2013 UGA Spotlight on the Arts, the nine-day festival’s second annual installment. With more than 15 individual events beginning Nov. 7, the festival’s opening day, and extending beyond Nov. 15, its nominal closing, the Willson Center will organize or support programs including an academic symposium, an art exhibition, panel discussions, a reading and lecture by a celebrated author and scholar, the local premiere of a new documentary by a UGA alum, and a four-day, multi-venue film festival.
The schedule, subject to unexpected changes and expected clarifications, is as follows.
Willson Center 2013 Spotlight on the Arts Calendar
THURSDAY, NOV. 7
2 p.m. • Special Collections Libraries Building Room 277 • Virginia Mary Macagnoni Willson Center Fellows Symposium featuring Rachel Gabara, Jamie Kreiner, Pablo Lapegna, Nicolas Morrissey, Thomas Peterson, Susan Rosenbaum
SATURDAY, NOV. 9
6–8 p.m. • ATHICA • Art opening for “Seen/Unseen,” Georgia Virtual History Project exhibit curated by Christopher Lawton (GVHP) & Hope Hilton (ATHICA)
MONDAY, NOV. 11
7:30 p.m • Ciné • Screening of Bayou Maharajah with intro and Q&A featuring director Lily Keber and producer Nate Kohn; reception to follow at 9:30
TUESDAY, NOV. 12
5 p.m. • Miller Learning Center Room 171 • Roundtable discussion: “Productive Communities,” featuring music producers Trina Shoemaker, Tom Lewis, Paul Reeves. Moderated by David Barbe, Music Business Program, co-organized by Susan Thomas, WC Athens Music Project research cluster
THURSDAY, NOV. 14
4 p.m. • UGA Chapel • Lecture/reading by Karima Bennoune, author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism. A special Spotlight on the Arts presentation in the WC Global Georgia Initiative co-sponsored by the UGA School of Law, the Dean Rusk Center, the African Studies Institute, and the Georgia Society of International Law
FRIDAY, NOV. 15
- 7:30 p.m. • CinéLab • Opening event for “Everyday People: The Film, Television, and Video Work of Jim McKay” – fundraising reception for Whatever It Takes with music videos screening and memorabilia exhibit
- 8:30 p.m. • Ciné • “Everyday People”: Screening of Tourfilm with intro and Q&A featuring David Daley, editor-in-chief, Salon.com
SATURDAY, NOV. 16
- 4 p.m. • Ciné • “Everyday People”: Screening of Girls Town with intro and Q&A featuring Jim McKay
- 7:15 p.m. • Ciné • “Everyday People”: Screening of Everyday People with intro and Q&A featuring Jim McKay
- 9:30 p.m. • Little Kings Shuffle Club • “Everyday People”: Screening of “Treme” episode “Saints” with intro by Jim McKay
SUNDAY, NOV. 17
- 2 p.m. • Ciné • “Everyday People”: Screening of Our Song with intro and Q&A featuring Jim McKay and Tim Johnson
- 4:30 p.m. • Ciné • “Everyday People”: Screening of Angel Rodriguez with intro and Q&A featuring Jim McKay
MONDAY, NOV. 18
- 1:25 p.m. • UGA Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre • “Everyday People”: Panel discussion on working in the film and television industries featuring Jim McKay, David Daley, and Nate Kohn
- 8 p.m. • UGA Tate Center Theatre • “Everyday People”: Screening of American Movie with intro and Q&A featuring Jim McKay