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SoFA gallery provides experiences from classroom to Japan

By Margaret Ely · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:59 p.m.

Although Tina Newberry, associate professor in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, has been teaching at IU for three years, Friday was the first time she saw any of her students’ work displayed in the school’s gallery. Those students are the 21 undergraduates enrolled in Newberry’s painting seminar this fall, and their paintings are hung in the SoFA’s center and west gallery for the BFA Painting Exhibition. The exhibition, as well as the School’s Overseas Study Exhibition, opened Tuesday and ended Saturday.

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Musical Arts Youth Orchestra jazzes up Waldron Arts Center

By Kirk Bradtmiller · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:47 p.m.

The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra presented a small audience of family and friends  with a night of toe-tapping jazz music on Friday at the John Waldron Arts Center. The performance consisted of two groups of aspiring musicians whose ages ranged from 12 to 18. The musicians, who come from local middle schools and high schools, gather once a week to practice and express their love for jazz under the guidance of IU graduate student Ben Mathews.

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Paper art, calligraphy on display at Wandering Turtle for solstice exhibit

By Almondia White · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:43 p.m.

Both craft work with cut paper and Chinese calligraphy are on display from now until Dec. 29 at the Wandering Turtle Art Gallery downtown. With displays by Deborah Klein and Donna Eder, the gallery’s annual solstice exhibit recognizes “the long winter night” season and awaits the “rebirth” season, which is spring, said Rachel DiGregorio, the gallery’s assistant manager.

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City announces Buskirk grant winners

Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 2:09 p.m.

The Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District and the City’s Parks and Recreation Department announced the winners of the 2010 Buskirk-Chumley Theater grants.

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‘The Nutcracker’ to show at MAC

By Lily Miller · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:22 a.m.

Visions of sugarplums will sparkle from the stage of the Musical Arts Center this weekend, as the IU Opera and Ballet Theater opens its annual production of “The Nutcracker” on Friday.

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‘Potpourri’ to mix black art styles, history

By Keiara Carr · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:12 a.m.

The African American Choral Ensemble, African American Dance Company and IU Soul Revue will take the stage for the African American Arts Institute’s 16th-annual “A Potpourri of the Arts in the African American Tradition” concert 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.   The theme for this year is “Above and Beyond.”

Fair Trade

World culture gifts are Fair Trade

By Danielle Paquette · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:09 a.m.

A small, black sign propped amid second floor walking traffic turned heads and sparked interest at the Indiana Memorial Union on Thursday. “Live fair, make fair, trade fair, buy fair,” one student read to her friend. The two turned right into the Christmas light-illuminated Frangipani Room, where the fifth annual International Fair Trade Market was in full swing.

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'Parentheses of Blood' explores politics through satire

By Carly Bassen · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:03 a.m.

In “Parentheses of Blood” by Sony Labou Tansi, directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, the mockery of corruption is bound to stir shrieking humor. The production opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday with additional shows Saturday and the next week at the Wells-Metz Theatre to close the Theatre and Drama Department’s fall season.

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Straight No Chaser to perform at Murat

By Almondia White · Thursday, Dec. 3,2009 11:59 a.m.

This Saturday at the Murat Theatre, a cappella group Straight No Chaser will be performing songs from both of their holiday albums and they are expected to sing songs from other popular artists.

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Renowned IU pianist returns to Germany

By Jackie Kochell · Thursday, Dec. 3,2009 12:40 a.m.

Menahem Pressler, an IU distinguished professor, has played concerts all over the world, but none were as significant as his performance at the Magdeburg Opera House on Nov. 22.

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Weekend Warrior Princess

By Alexa Altman · Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 8:10 p.m.

The motorheads at Harley Davidson have left their tire tracks all over the fashion industry. This season’s insanely badass moto-chick look has everyone from Balmain to Jean Paul Gaultier falling to their knees and begging for mercy.

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Fair trade market benefits global artists

By Danielle Paquette · Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 8:08 p.m.

Fair Trade Bloomington, a nonprofit organization created by IU’s Students in Free Enterprise organization, will offer items from more than 30 countries at its fifth annual International Fair Trade Market in the Frangipani Room. Shoppers are invited to browse the artisan-made goods from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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