A List 2/14/00 SLU ARTS FESTIVAL 'RECONSIDERING VIETNAM' CANTON -- The St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts, February 21 through March 8 on campus, has as its theme "Reconsidering Vietnam." The schedule for the festival follows: January 31 - March 10 Exhibition, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery Featuring the work of Tran Luong, An-My Lê, C. David Thomas and Hien Duc Tran. Monday, February 21 7:30 p.m., Formal Lounge, E.J. Noble University Center Poetry reading by Vietnamese poets Vang Anh and Ly Lan. Wednesday, February 23 7:30 p.m., Gulick Theatre, E.J. Noble University Center Three Seasons, an award-winning film about contemporary Vietnam. Discussion in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center immediately following. Thursday, February 24 4:30 p.m., Griffiths Arts Center Room 123 Discussion with artists Tran Luong, C. David Thomas and Hien Duc Tran. Reception in Brush Gallery immediately following. Friday, February 25 2:30 p.m., Griffiths Arts Center Room 123 Lecture: Phong Nguyen, Vietnamese-American ethnomusicologist, on Vietnamese music. 7:30 p.m., Room 10, Carnegie Hall Return With Honor, an award-winning documentary account of the ordeal and heroism of American pilots who were prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Saturday, February 26 10 a.m., Griffiths Arts Center Room 123 Phong Nguyen and his ensemble of Vietnamese musicians, leading a workshop for area musicians and music teachers; others welcome. 8 p.m., Gulick Theatre, E.J. Noble University Center "An Evening of Vietnamese Music, Dance and Song" presented by the Phong Nguyen Ensemble, the most widely recognized music ensemble in the United States dedicated to the promotion of traditional Vietnamese music, dance and song. (This event is made possible, in part, by public funds through the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence Counties by the North Country Library System.) Monday, February 28 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Griffiths Arts Center "Voices from the Vietnam War" by Sweetland Storytellers Jeannine Laverty and Susan Spivak. The voices of the men and women of the Vietnam War are taken from oral histories, diaries, letters, poems, novels and memorabilia left at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, February 29 7:30 p.m., Formal Lounge, E.J. Noble University Center Lecture: William Duiker, Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian History, Pennsylvania State University, "In Search of Ho Chi Minh." Wednesday, March 1 8 p.m., Common Room, Sykes Residence Hall Reading/lecture: author Tobias Wolff (This event is also part of the St. Lawrence Writers Series.) Thursday, March 2 7:30 p.m., Formal Lounge, E.J. Noble University Center Lecture: Joe Duemer, Clarkson University English professor, "A Beginner's Guide to Vietnamese Poetry." Monday, March 6 7:30 p.m., Formal Lounge, E.J. Noble University Center Poetry reading/discussion: John Balaban, professor of English at the University of Miami and author of After the War, Cao Dao Vietnam and Locusts at the Edge of Summer, New and Selected Poems. Tuesday, March 7 7:30 p.m., Gulick Theatre, E.J. Noble University Center Regret to Inform, a moving documentary film about American and Vietnamese war widows. Wednesday, March 8 7:30 p.m., Griffiths Arts Center Room 123 Lecture: Paul Hendrickson, "Robert McNamara, Vietnam and the Wounds of Memory." Paul Hendrickson is author of The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. For more information, call 315-229-5217, or consult the St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts web site.-30- Back To News Releases
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