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2/1/99

EDUCATIONAL EVENTS COMPLEMENT SLU GALLERY EXHIBITION

CANTON - A series of educational programs has been scheduled in 
conjunction with the exhibition on view in St. Lawrence University's 
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, "Visions That The Plants Gave Us," which 
runs through March 13.
	The exhibition includes art inspired and influenced by "visionary 
plants" integral to cultures and religions around the world. All events 
are open to the public, free of charge; programs scheduled as part of the 
exhibition are:
	* Monday, February 8, 7 p.m., Room 123, Griffiths Arts Center: A 
lecture by exhibition curator Luis Eduardo Luna, senior lecturer in Spanish 
at the Swedish School of Economics and associate professor of anthropology 
at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil; a 
reception will follow in the gallery.
	* Tuesday, February 9, 7 p.m., Room 123, Griffiths Arts Center: A 
lecture, titled "Contemporary Visionary Literature: Writing Ayahuasca," by 
Professor of Modern Languages Steven F. White.
	* Wednesday, February 10, 4:30 p.m., Brush Art Gallery: A lecture 
by Kim Hewitt, doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, titled 
"LSD and Changing Ideas of Mental Illness: William Burroughs' and Dilworth 
Wayne Woolley's Experiments with Hallucinogenic Drugs."
	* Monday, February 15, 7 p.m., Room 123, Griffiths Arts Center: A 
lecture titled "Esthetics of Healing in Shamanic Traditions," by Carolina 
Robertson, professor of music and ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland.
	The gallery welcomes individuals and groups for guided tours. For more 
information, call 315-229-5174, or visit their web site, at www.stlawu.edu/gallery.

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