A List 2/4/02 'REMAPPING THE GODDESS' THEME FOR SLU ARTS FESTIVAL CANTON - "Remapping the Goddess: Global Visions" is the theme of the St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts this year, to be held February 16 through March 7. Included will be a variety of performances, exhibitions, lectures, discussions and other events, all exploring "the shifting representations and cultic practices of female deities in their own locale and in translation to other contexts." The festival schedule follows; all events are open to the public, free of charge. - Saturday, February 16, at 9 p.m. in Eben Holden, Ember Swift in concert. - Tuesday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. in The Underground, Shakti: The Power of the Divine Feminine in India, slide lecture by Steven P. Huyler. - Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Griffiths 123, Female Deity/ Male Professor: Reflections on a Thirty-Year Relationship with the Goddess, slide lecture by Thomas Coburn; Whitney Kelting, respondent, Not all the Goddesses are One: A Look at Regional and Lineage Goddesses in India. (David B. Steinman Event) - Friday, February 22, at 3:30 p.m. in Griffiths 123, Kali's New Frontiers: A Hindu Goddess on the Internet, lecture by Rachel McDermott. (David B. Steinman Event) -Friday, February 22, 7 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, Conundrum by Horn Please. -Saturday, February 23, 2-5 p.m. in Herring-Cole, Re-Visioning the Queen of Sheba, lecture by Miri Hunter-Haruach. - Saturday, February 23, 7 p.m. in Gilbert Recital Hall, One World Spirituals, performance by Miri Hunter-Haruach. -Sunday, February 24, 3-5 p.m., Diva Doings, House of Image Gallery, Potsdam. -Sunday, February 24, 5-7:30 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel, When We Meet at the Stations: Sisters, What a Mourning!, Stephanie Johnson. Experimental, interactive slide/sound installation of 14 Stations of the Cross; reception following in Herring-Cole. - Monday, February 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Carnegie 10, Virgin of Guadalupe/La Guadalupana: A Community of Faith, slide lecture by Mary Teresa Giancoli. - Tuesday, February 26, at 8 p.m. in Griffiths 123, Hidden Goddesses in European Art, slide lecture by Dorothy Limouze. - Thursday, February 28, 12:40-1:40 p.m. in E.J. Noble Center Formal Lounge, When Women (do not) Walk in the Ways of Their Fathers: Jewish Tradition and Feminist Innovation, Charlotte Fonrobert. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Thursday, February 28, 2:20-3:20 p.m. in E.J. Noble Center Formal Lounge, 'Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation': Islamic Education as a Force for Change Among China's Minority Muslim Population, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Thursday, February 28, 8 p.m. in Gulick Theatre, Women, God, Power: Crossing Boundaries, Hyun Kyung Chung, Charlotte Fonrobert, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein, and Mary Hunt. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Friday, March 1, 4-5:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole, Catholic Feminism: Hybridity or Contradiction?, Mary Hunt; reception following for Catholic women in the North Country. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Friday, March 1, 6-7 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel, Salimist Manifesto: A Korean Ecofeminist Spirituality, Hyun Kyung Chung. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Friday, March 1, 7-7:30 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel, Community Ritual/Blessing led by Hyun Kyung Chung. (Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture) - Friday, March 1, 11 a.m.-noon in Carnegie 10, Subversive Viewing, Looking Through the Lens of the Ethical Video Activist, "Rise UP!," video showing with filmmaker Amey Kazymerchyk. - Friday, March 1, 1-5 p.m. in Sykes Common Room, Movement for Mass Movements: Embodied Non-violence Training, workshop by Denise Nadeau and Amey Kazmerchyk. - Thursday, March 7, 4:30 p.m. in the Brush Art Gallery, Encountering Shakti, gallery tour with Chandreyi Basu. As part of the festival, two exhibitions will take place in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery from February 19 through April 6. "Virgin of Guadalupena/La Guadalupana - A Community of Faith," photographs by Mary Teresa Giancoli, and "Shakti: Power of the Divine Feminine in India," photographs by Stephen P. Huyler and selections from the Georgana Falb Foster Collection, will be on view. For more information about the festival, contact Assistant Professor of Global Studies Kathryn Poethig, festival director, at 315-229-5650; for information or to arrange individual or group tours of the gallery, contact Director Cathy Tedford, at 315-229-5174.-30- Back To News Releases Back to St. Lawrence Homepage