Community Arts Calendar

Imagination & Place Exhibition: Photographs by Tim Forcade

• Reception: October 17, 7 – 9p.m.
• Gallery Talk: October 21, 7p.m.

Bottles: Ceramics Curated by Ben Ahlvers

• Reception: October 17, 7 – 9p.m.
• Gallery Talk TBA

November

November 8, 2008 Regional Choreographer’s Showcase and All-Day Conference, Lawrence Arts Center Informal Showcase, 4:30pm Formal Showcase with invited regional companies, 7:30 pm Regional gathering of choreographers and dance companies. This day-long event includes workshops, panel discussions , master classes and two performances.

December

December, 2008 A Kansas Nutcracker Lawrence Arts Center Dec 12, 13 & 19, 20 at 7:30 pm and Dec 14 & 21at 2:00pm. Community and professional dancers and actors perform in this original, unique dance drama set in territorial Kansas

Dates TBA

Dates TBA Springfield Regional Arts Council Residency 2 school and 1 community performance November or January

January 2009, Dates TBA Marysville Residency Marysville, KS-Valley Heights, Axell, Blue Rapids 3 days of School Residencies and 1 day public performance

January

January 27, 2009 First Step House Concert January 27, 2009, 7:00pm Lawrence Arts Center Annual concert in celebration of the residents and staff at First Step House, a halfway home for women in recovery.

February

February 16- 19 940 Concerts for Youth of All Ages Lawrence Arts Center February 16- 19, performances for Lawrence and area schools, times TBA February 22, public matinee 2:00 pm This concert introduces students to contemporary dance, as well as reinforces literacy goals for K-5th grade.

February 11, 2009 Fredonia Residency Fredonia, KS High School performance and two workshops

April

April 24-25 New Works Concert Lawrence Arts Center 7:30pm Annual concert of new works by artistic director and company members.

September-April

Additional events scheduled throughout the year, including school performances through KC Young Audiences, Inc., Wonderscope Children’s Museum workshop and other Lawrence community events.

(Dates and times subject to change. Check website for updates)

Nov 16, 2008 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Music recital at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire.

Sunday, April 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
1245 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence

JoAnn Doll, a Lawrence High School senior, was named winner of the winds, brass, and percussion division as well as the overall competition winner of the LCO's 2009 Stephen Paul Wunsch Young Artists Competition. She will join the orchestra in performing the Allegro movement of C.P.E. Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Flute and Orchestra.

The orchestra will also perform W. A. Mozart's Divertimento in F, K.138, and two British works for string orchestra, the nostalgic and popular Capriol Suite of Peter Warlock, and Sir Edward Elgar's moving Elegy, Opus 58.

Following the concert, please join us at a reception, to meet the musicians and to honor our young artists.

For ticket and program information, please visit the LCO website: www.lawrencechamberorchestra.org, or call (785) 691-7824.

Lawrence Women's Chorale present Christmas Around the World. Friday, Dec. 5 at 8:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont, Lawrence. Admission is $6, Seniors and Students are $5.

A Christmas Story
by Jean Shepherd, Adapted by Phil Grecian

Remember the leg lamp? The pink bunny pajamas? the Holy Grail of Christmas presents: "a genuine Red Ryder 220-Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle " and the little boy with his tongue frozen to the flag pole? The whole family will enjoy this affectionate, wacky, and heart warming portrayal of the typical Christmas joys and troubles in small-town Depression-era Indiana.

(Nov. 28, 29, 30, Dec. 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14)

The Queen of Bingo
by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy

Where can two sisters on the other side of fifty, who want to add a little zest, fun and excitement to their lives, find it? Bingo! Sis and Babe are sisters and best friends who have played Bingo together for years because they love it. This hilarious comedy even features an audience participation bingo game where the lucky winner comes away with a frozen turkey.

(Jan. 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and Feb. 1)

Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley Pulitzer and Tony Award Winner

This gripping story of suspicion is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. The provocative investigation of truth and consequences is set in 1964, as Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.

(Feb. 26, 27, 28, March 1, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Moonlight and Magnolias
by Ron Hutchinson

When the screenplay for his new epic, “Gone With the Wind,” doesn't work, legendary producer David Selznick sends for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of "The Wizard of Oz." Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay for one of the most beloved films of all time. Frankly my dear, hilarious fun!

(April 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, May 1, 2, 3)

Crazy For You
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Book by Ken Ludwig

From the stages of New York to the wilds of Deadrock, a 1930’s playboy pursues a life in song and dance. It's high energy comedy with mistaken identity, plot twists, fabulous dance numbers and classic Gershwin music, including "I Can't Be Bothered Now," "Bidin' My Time," "I Got Rhythm," "Naughty Baby," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "But Not for Me," "Nice Work if You Can Get It," "Embraceable You" and "Someone to Watch Over Me."

(June 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21)

Nov. 22

7:30 PM Saturday Nov. 22 Lawrence Arts Center (Admission FREE)

Staged Reading of Charlie Parker's Underpants A New Romantic Comedy by KU Student Ben Smith

Directed by Paul Stephen Lim

Associate entry in Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Spawn of Horrorshow - October 24th, 25th, 30th and 31st : The zombies are gone, or are they? The follow-up to last years highly successful Halloween show promises (maybe) to answer that question while questioning the answers. It will keep you on your toes, alert and definitely more aware of the things that go bump in the theater

Lobby Hero - February 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th - Written by highly acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan, Lobby Hero is set in a Manhattan high-rise apartment lobby and tells the story of a young security guard who discovers that the lobby of a busy hotel is the last place he should have tried to escape the problems in life. He becomes intertwined in a series of events and circumstances in which he must deal with people he never would have dreamed he would know.

Ten-Minute Play Showcase - May 29th, 30th, June 5th and 6th - EMU's annual collection of 10-minute plays by local playwrights.

Nov 20–21, 2008

7:30 pm, Lied Center of Kansas This University Dance Company concert features a masterwork choreographed by dance legend José Limón.

April 16–17, 2009

7:30 pm Lied Center of Kansas This concert features a classic work by Tony and Emmy Award-winning choreographer Twyla Tharp.

Street Scene by Kurt Weill
Directed by Tazewell Thompson
November 7, 8, 9** & 14, 15, 2008
Crafton-Preyer Theatre

Book of Days by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Boone Hopkins
December 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (2:30 & 7:30 p.m.), 7**, 2008
Inge Theatre

January 2009

The Dept. of Theatre & Film and University Theatre at the University of Kansas will host the Region 5 meeting of The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Chandra O. Hopkins
February 9, 10, 11, 13, 14*, 15**, 16, 2009
Inge Theatre

How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert
Lyrics & Music by Frank Loesser
Originally staged by Abe Burrows
Directed by Mechele Leon
February 27, 28, March 1**, 5, 6, 7, 2009
Crafton-Preyer Theatre

Anna in the Tropics
Directed by Julie Pratt
April 2, 3, 4*, 5**, 8, 9, 10, 11*, 2009
Inge Theatre

Tree of Life-Origins and Evolution
Creative Campus
April 24, 25, 2009
KU Lied Center of Kansas

Unless noted, all performances are at 7:30 p.m.
* 5:00 p.m.
** 2:30 p.m.

August 28

Artist Lecture

: Gonkar Gyatso

Co-sponsored with The Center for East Asian Studies / Born in Lhasa in 1962 Gonkar Gyatso’s artistic career charts the course of contemporary Tibetan history, documenting a creative engagement with what it means to be Tibetan in the 21st century. Currently based in London, he was the recipient of a Leverhulme fellowship in 2003 and became ’Artist in Residence’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and North America. Through his art, Gyatso charts the subtle shifts in identity and belonging caused by constant migration, exploring the hybrid fusion of cultures and tradition in contemporary global society. http://www.sweetteahouse.co.uk/artists/gonkar_gyatso/ SMA Auditorium / 7-9 PM

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September Programming & Events

9.11

Senior Session: Gilded Gossip

This program is geared toward senior citizens, but open to all SMA 19th-Century Gallery / 10 AM

9.11

Gallery Talk: Barbara Brackman on Quilts: Flora Botanica

Brackman is honorary SMA curator of quilts Kress Gallery / 5:30 PM

9.13

It Starts With Art! Childrens art appreciation classes for ages 5-14: Turning Time

Using the Time/Frame exhibition as a starting point, students explore ways to depict time before designing and drawing their own time machine / $ / To enroll, contact Jessica Johnson, SMA Education Department, 785.864.0137 or smakids@ku.edu or visit our website to enroll online. Central Court & Galleries / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM

9.18

Film: 49 Up

Shown in conjunction with Time/Frame / How do people change over time? Can the adult already be found in the child of seven? What account would you give that child of the life you have lived since? These are the questions that have been explored, with mounting tension and surprise over four decades, in one of cinema’s most remarkable enterprises, the Up series. In 1964, England’s Granada Television "World in Action" team interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-olds from across England, asking them to describe their lives and hopes. Over the years, Granada has tenaciously pursued the Up series, revisiting the children every seven years as they have grown up, navigating the divides between childhood dreams and adult reality. As 49 Up revisits questions of love, marriage, career, class and prejudice — deftly inter-cutting footage from earlier films with contemporary interviews — it discovers surprising ruminations about the Up film series itself as well as unexpected turns in individual lives as they enfold over time. SMA Auditorium / 5:30 PM

9.25

Senior Session: Prairie Print Makers

This program is geared toward senior citizens, but open to all SMA Reception Room / 10 AM

9.25

Lecture: Dr. Matthew P. McKelway on Waves of Images: The Market for Fan Paintings in Late Medieval Kyoto

Murphy Lecture Fund / Co-sponsored by the Kress Foundation Department of Art History / McKelway is Associate Professor of Japanese Art History at Columbia University. SMA Room 211, please use west entrance / 5 PM

9.27

It Starts With Art! Childrens art appreciation classes for ages 5-14: It’s About Time

Artist Wendell Castle explores the scientific concept of time with his art clocks and students will do the same, building their own clock from found objects. / $ / To enroll, contact Jessica Johnson, SMA Education Department, 785.864.0137 or smakids@ku.edu or visit our website to enroll online Central Court & Galleries / 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM

October

Sunday, Oct. 26

The Harlem Quartet
Sunday, Oct. 26 – 2 p.m.

November

Wednesday, Nov. 5

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, Nov. 5 – 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 9

Soweto Gospel Choir
Sunday, Nov. 9 – 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Sweeney Todd
Wednesday, Nov. 12 – 7:30 p.m.

December

Saturday, Dec. 13

Boston Brass & The Brass All–Stars Big Band
Saturday, Dec. 13 – 7:30 p.m.

The Lawrence Art Guild is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity created to promote art awareness in Lawrence and surrounding areas. We support the creative growth of its members and area artists. Meetings are held on the third Monday evening of each month, 6:30p.m. to 9:00p.m., in the Lawrence Public Library auditorium at 707 Vermont Street. The first half hour of our meeting covers old and new business of the Lawrence Art Guild with the "Artists' Forum" beginning at 7:00 pm.

December 6, 2008

Holiday Art Fair, Saturday, December 6, 2008, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Fine Art/Fine Craft, over 50 artists, 10:00am-6:00pm. Free Admission.

Meetings held on the third Tuesday of each month at 9:30am, and on the Monday preceding the third Tuesday at 7pm, at Plymouth Congregational Church. Public welcome.

Lawrence ArtWalk

Fri. Oct. 24, • 7-9pm: RECEPTION AND POSTER SIGNING (occurs during the Fall Downtown Gallery Walk) Meet the recipient of the Lawrence ArtWalk 2008 Featured Artist Award, Marty Olson, who will be signing copies of this year's poster. Venue: Wink Eyewear, 806 Massachusetts October 25, 2008 10:00 am- 6:00 pm
October 26, 2008 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Meetings are the first Tuesday of every month at the Lawrence Arts Center.

LPA @ ARTWALK this Fall

October 25th and 26th
Saturday - 10am - 6pm
Sunday - noon - 6pm

In the Lobby of the Lawrence Arts Center.

Exhibits and Displays

October

Downtown Tuesday Painters
Dates: Oct 1-31
Location: All spaces

Lawrence ArtWalk
Artists Dian Hauser, Karen Ohnesorge and Laura Kimble will exhibit their art and be on hand to meet with participants in the 2008 Lawrence ArtWalk.
Dates: Oct 25-26
Location: Auditorium