Fine Arts Events at Randolph College

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July 30   Monday
WildCat Theatre Conservatory - Summer Camp K-12
Thoresen Theatre, Leggett Hall
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September 16   Sunday
2 P.M. 21st Annual Helen Clark Berlind Symposium
Maier Museum of Art

September 22   Saturday
7:30 P.M. Guest Artist Recital: David Sadlier, tenor, with Lelia Sadlier, piano
Wimberly Recital Hall, Presser Hall

September 26   Wednesday
8 P.M. Poetry Reading by Camille Dungy
Alice Ashley Jack Room, Smith Memorial Building
Former R-MWC professor Camille Dungy is author of Smith Blue (Southern Illinois UP, 2011), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Book Prize, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen, 2006). Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf.

October 5   Friday
4 P.M. 2012 Greek Play "The Seven Against Thebes"
Dell, Outdoor Areas

October 30   Tuesday
7:30 P.M. Amernet Quartet
Wimberly Recital Hall, Presser Hall
Amernet Quartet, string quartet

November 14   Wednesday
8 P.M. Visiting Writer Series: Baron Wormser
Alice Ashley Jack Room, Smith Memorial Building
Visiting Writer Series with Baron Wormser

January 26   Saturday
7:30 P.M. Guest Artist Recital: Kevin Ayesh, piano
Wimberly Recital Hall, Presser Hall

February 17   Sunday
3 P.M. Guest Artist/Faculty Recital: Alycia Hugo, flute, and Sean Beavers, guitar
Wimberly Recital Hall, Presser Hall

March 20   Wednesday
8 P.M. Poetry Reading by Ira Sadoff
Alice Ashley Jack Room, Smith Memorial Building
Ira Sadoff is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently True Faith (BOA Editions). His previous books include Barter, and Grazing (both U. of Illinois), a novel, O. Henry prize-winning short stories, and The Ira Sadoff Reader (a collection of stories, poems, and essays about contemporary poetry). He is the recipient of a Creative Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Fellowship from the Guggenheim foundation. His poems have been widely anthologized, including in the Harper Anthology of American Literature, and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Great American Prose Poems, and The Best American Poetry 2002 and 2008. His newest critical book, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of Culture, on the relationship between poetry and culture, was published in 2009 by the University of Iowa Press. Former poetry editor of The Antioch Review and co-founder of The Seneca Review, he has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the MFA programs at the University of Virginia, Warren Wilson College, and currently teaches at Colby College and the MFA program at Drew University.