March calendar of events
February 18, 2009
EXHIBITS
Through March 6
Exhibit: “LA Woman: A Gallerist’s Eye.” Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday. Exhibit features six Los Angeles artists represented by Mary Leigh Cherry, Wake Forest graduate and director of the Cherry and Martin Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
Free. (336) 758-5585
Through March 22
Exhibit: “WFU Art Department Exhibition.” Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday. Exhibit features 40 multimedia works by 13 Wake Forest art department faculty and staff members.
Free. (336) 758-5585
March 18-20
Exhibit: “Mirror World.” Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. Exhibit features a video projection installation by Abigail Child.
Free. (336) 758-5585
Through May 16
Exhibit: “Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World.” Museum of Anthropology. 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Bilingual (English/Korean) traveling exhibit features 19th and early 20th-century Korean funerary figures exhibited outside of Korea for the first time.
Free. (336) 758-5282
MARCH EVENTS
March 3
Other: Grapevine Pruning Clinic. 9 a.m. - noon. Reynolda Gardens. Drop-in clinic on pruning grapevines. Participants will assist John Kiger, Reynolda Gardens assistant manager, and vegetable garden volunteers with grapevine pruning in formal gardens and should bring their own pruners.
$5; free for Friends of Reynolda Gardens. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-5593
March 3-4
Other: 7th Annual Phyllis Trible Lecture Series: “Scandalous Women and Religious Traditions.” Brendle Recital Hall. Features Elizabeth A. Clark, Yvonne Chireau, Jane Crosthwaite, Emilie M. Townes, Wilma Bailey and Phyllis Trible. $100; free to students with valid ID and WFU faculty and staff; http://divinity.wfu.edu/trible-lectures.html; (336) 758-5121
March 5
Film Screening & Discussion: “NO!” The Rape Documentary. 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall, Room 111. Features discussion with filmmaker Aishah Simmons.
Free. (336) 758-3553
March 10
Science Café: “The Cell Story: Take a Virtual Voyage to Discover the Secret World Inside Your Cells.” 6 p.m. Foothills Brewing Company. Features Jed Macosko, assistant professor of physics, Wake Forest University, explaining how his research helps fight cancer, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. Features 3-D animated film depicting the inside of a living cell.
Free. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-3485
March 17
Tuesday Gardening Series Plus: Planting the Healing Garden. 12:30 p.m. Reynolda Gardens, Education Wing. Features landscape designer Sara Edi Simmons-Fife, Sweetgrass Design.
$5; free for Friends of Reynolda Gardens. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-3485
Film Screening: Films of Abigail Child. 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall, Room 111.
Free. (336) 758-3892
Book Reading: Kim Addonizio. 7:30 p.m. DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall. Fiction and poetry reading by award-winning author/poet Kim Addonizio.
Free. (336) 758-5383
March 18
Museum Lecture: Abigail Child. 4:30 p.m. Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. Features Abigail Child discussing her past work and current video installation, “Mirror World,” in the Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery. In conjunction with Creativity: Worlds in the Making symposium.
Free. (336) 758-5585
Opening Reception: Abigail Child: Mirror World. 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery. Opening reception for video projection installation by Abigail Child. In conjunction with Creativity: Worlds in the Making symposium.
Free. (336) 758-5585
March 18-20
Special Event: Creativity: Worlds in the Making—A National Symposium. Part symposium, part festival of the imagination, a three-day event featuring individual and panel presentations with performances, a gallery exhibition and participatory working sessions.
Registration required; some events free. http://www.wfu.edu/creativity/symposium.htm; (336) 758-3383
March 19
Music: “In C.” 11 a.m. Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery. Features Wake Forest string students and guests performing Terry Riley’s “In C.” In conjunction with Creativity: Worlds in the Making symposium.
Free. (336) 758-5364
Lecture: “The Accelerating Universe: A Decade On.” 4 p.m. Olin Physical Laboratory, Room 101. Features Joshua A. Frieman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago and Fermilab. In conjunction with Creativity: Worlds in the Making symposium.
Free. (336) 758-5510
Secrest Artists Series: Meredith Monk. 7:30 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall. Features Meredith Monk, composer, singer, director/choreographer. In conjunction with Creativity: Worlds in the Making symposium.
$18/$15 public; free with WFU ID. (336) 758-5295
March 19-21
Other: Rose Pruning Clinic. 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. March 19-20; 8 a.m. – noon March 21.
Reynolda Gardens. Drop-in clinic on pruning roses. Participants will assist members of the Winston-Salem Rose Society in the All-America Rose Selections section of the formal gardens and should bring their own pruners and heavy gloves.
Free. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-3485
March 20
Special Event: 22nd Annual Business Law Symposium: Corporate Governance and Climate Change. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. Featured speakers include James Fanto, Brooklyn Law School, and Herman F. Greene, Greene & Franklin PLLC.
Free. (336) 758-5719
March 21
Other: Rose Care Clinic. 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Reynolda Gardens, Education Wing. Features members of the Winston-Salem Rose Society discussing all aspects of rose selection and care.
Free. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-3485
March 22
Family: Cultures Up Close Workshop: Music of the Buk Drum. 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Museum of Anthropology. Workshop for elementary-age children and accompanying adults featuring a learning activity and craft. Topic details at wfu.edu/moa. Limited space; registration required.
$7/child; $5/child MOA Friends; adults free. (336) 758-5282
Music: Student Recital featuring flutist Lauren Klinzing. 3 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall.
Free. (336) 758-5364
March 23
Other: Battle of the Bands. 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Manchester Plaza. Features Wake Forest student bands competing for title “Springfest Battle of the Bands Champion.”
Free. (336) 758-5697
March 24
Tuesday Gardening Series Plus: “Mixing it Up—Edible Plants in the Ornamental Landscape.” 12:30 p.m. Reynolda Gardens, Education Wing. Features Alice Parrish, Parrish Landscaping, discussing how to choose and care for plants that combine taste and beauty.
$5; free for Friends of Reynolda Gardens. www.reynoldagardens.org; (336) 758-3485
Dance: USA Break Dancers. 7 p.m. Manchester Plaza. Features the comedic talents and cutting-edge dance choreography of Klown, Ill Will, Ready and Mini Me.
Free. (336) 758-5697
Music: Concert Choir Home Concert. 7:30 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall. Fundraising concert for Wake Forest Concert Choir’s International Touring Fund.
$10; $5 for students; free for students with WFU ID. (336) 758-5364
March 26
Lecture: “Appalachian Grass Balds and Treeless Polish Mountains: Coping With a Riddle and a Conservation Controversy.” 3 p.m. Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Room 204. Features Peter Weigl, professor of biology, Wake Forest University.
Free. (336) 758-4713
Lecture: “Sound Ideas: Between the Bowery and the BBC.” 4:30 p.m. Tribble Hall, Room C216. Features Debra Rae Cohen, author and assistant professor of English, University of South Carolina.
Free. (336) 758-5383
Music: Music from the Courts of Medieval Europe. 7:30 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall. Features the Wake Forest Consort including Teresa Radomski, soprano; Selina Carter, early strings; Helen Rifas, harp; and Stewart Carter, early winds.
Free. (336) 758-5364
March 29
Music: Student Recital featuring harpist Jaqueline Ely. 3 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall.
Free. (336) 758-5364
March 31
Tuesday Gardening Series Plus: Meet the Author of “Flowers and Herbs of Early America.” 12:30 p.m. Reynolda Gardens, Education Wing. Book discussion and signing with author Lawrence Griffith, curator of plants, Colonial Williamsburg.
$5; free for Friends of Reynolda Gardens. (336) 758-3485
Lecture: An Evening with Tory Belleci from “MythBusters.” 7 p.m. Benson University Center, Room 401. Features Tory Belleci from Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters.”
Free. (336) 758-5697
Press Contacts:
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(336) 758-5237
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