Night Moves - Dancing in and out of Film:

------Tuesday, February 24, 7 - 9 pm
------Room 102 (Art), Scales Fine Arts Center
------Free and open to the WFU community

Join Assistant Professor of Dance, Christina Tsoules Soriano, and members of her First Year Seminar class entitled FRAMED: Looking at the Moving Body in Film and Video as they examine some film excerpts from the works of Meredith Monk and Abigail Child, featured artists and lecturers at the Creativity Symposium next month. Soriano will also screen excerpts of other important dance films by filmmakers Maya Deren and Victoria Marks. Screening and discussions will be positioned around questions like: How do we enter the world of these films? How is the framed, moving body sometimes deconstructed in our views? How does the camera's personality determine how we view gender as a performed idea?

For more information contact Aimee Mepham at mephamam@wfu.edu or 336-758-2657.

<< Top image from Abigail Child | Bottom images from Meredith Monk

Creative ad-Ventures:
--------Faculty/Student Enterprise

--------Tuesday, November 18, 4:30 - 6 pm
--------DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
--------Free and open to the WFU community

Celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 17-23, with presentations from WFU faculty and students...

In the spirit of interdisciplinary and socially engaged creative practice, "Creative ad-Ventures" is a showcase of faculty/student venture projects that give students dynamic opportunities for direct experience in the growing world of arts, social and science entrepreneurship models. This event is sponsored by the Program for Creativity and Innovation as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week to promote innovative and diverse forms of creative practice that result in productive change in the world. "Creative ad-Ventures" features presentations on the following projects:

BioBotz, Inc.
Jed Macosko, Physics
Students Michael Metzmaker and Elizabeth Newman

CTS Dance
Christina Tsoules Soriano, Theatre/Dance

The Nyanya Project
Mary Martin Niepold, English/Journalism

For more information contact Aimee Mepham at mephamam@wfu.edu or 336-758-2657.

<< Images: BioBotz (upper), CTS Dance by Stephen Aubuchon (middle), Nyanya Project (lower)

Whose Right? A Neurofamilial Tangle
--------A Readers' Theater Production & Discussion
--------Directed by Richard Robeson, Adjunct Assistant
--------Professor of Social Medicine
--------UNC- Chapel Hill School of Medicine
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--------Tuesday, November 11, 5 - 6 pm
--------Room 3209, Worrell Professional Center
--------Babcock Graduate School of Management
--------Reynolda Campus
--------Free and open to the public

The Program for Creativity and Innovation is pleased to co-sponsor with The Program for Bioethics, Health and Society and the School of Law, a Readers' Theater production and discussion. Readers' Theater creates and presents performable case studies raising issues for discussion. This reading is presented by students in the Bioethics, Literature, and Law class in the School of Law and is open to all faculty and students.

The reading will be followed by student-led discussion with the audience of the ethical and societal issues it raises -- including end-of-life questions, deciding for others, and whether literature and theater provide new perspectives on questions usually addressed primarily through policy and law. For more information contact Aimee Mepham at mephamam@wfu.edu or 336-758-2657.

Freaky Media Night:
-----performance artists on the loose

--------Tuesday, October 28, 7 - 9 pm
--------Room 102 (Art) in the Scales Fine Arts Center
--------Free, food and drinks, open to the WFU community

Performance art is thrilling, racy, astonishing and edgy...
--------come find out why...

Pushing the boundaries of Hollywood and indie films, performance, video and new media artists have different agendas. Put your freak hat on and come on down to Scales to see new short shorts that warp time, blow your mind and blast your senses.

This is event is co-sponsored with the Student Art Gallery. The new media acquisitions that will be screened are made possible by a Reynolds Library President's Grant and the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Special thanks to the Art, Theatre and Dance and English departments.

<< Image: Abigail Child, Mirror World, 16mm film, 2006

Author, Richard Dooling, Speaks
-------on Creativity, Medicine, and Ethics

--------Tuesday, October 21, 3 - 5 pm
--------Room 1309, Worrell Professional Center
--------Free and open to the public

The Program for Creativity and Innovation is pleased to co-sponsor with The Program for Bioethics, Health and Society, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, a discussion with Richard Dooling, author of the novel Critical Care, the story of a young doctor ensnared in a legal battle over the fate of a comatose man. The writer, who is also a respiratory therapist, will discuss relevant connections that his fictional work has to the medical and legal professions as well as his creative process. Dooling is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Story.

Call for Submissions
Deadline: October 15, 2008

>> Click here for more information

Overview: This interactive symposium is designed to position creative engagement as a core literacy in today’s global environment and to model fresh, critical perspectives for creative research, collaboration and outcomes, between and among diverse disciplines and communities. The objective of the symposium is to stimulate new thinking about what creativity is, how it is practiced across cultural domains and what its potential applications can be, especially in relation to humane and sustainable outcomes and impact.