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Cecile Park |
Sept. 8, 12:30 & 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance
Hall: Cecile Park, piano. Assistant professor of piano at Ecole Normale
de Musique de Paris and an active performer with European orchestras, Cecile
Park will present performances of classical piano music. The event is part
of the Nix Living Heritage Fine Arts Series.
Sept. 12, 4:30 p.m., Drill Field: North Georgia
observes anniversary of 9/11.
NGCSU will commemorate those who died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the terrorist
attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania during a
ceremony on the Dahlonega campus on Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m. The event will
take place at the center of campus, where the NGCSU Corps of Cadets will be
on the parade field in formation. A 21-gun salute will take place to
remember those who lost their lives. The names of those NGCSU students
currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan will also be read as well as
students and alumni who have died in the conflicts in those regions. The
public is invited in attend this event. For more information, call
706-864-1793.
Sept. 12, 7 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium:
“Born Into Brothels” (2004). Winner of the Academy Award for Best
Feature Length Documentary in 2005, the film tells of the journey of
photographer Zana Briski and the children of prostitutes from Calcutta’s Red
Light District. Briski gives the children cameras and teaches them to take
pictures, helping them view their world with new eyes and find beauty in
unlikely places. History Professor Marc Gilbert will introduce the film,
which is rated R and is in Bengali and English with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the North Georgia Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall:
Yonah Brass. A brass chamber ensemble based in Cleveland, Georgia, Yonah
Brass will perform classical as well as traditional and modern American
music. The event is part of the Nix Living Heritage Fine Arts Series.
Sept. 25, 2 p.m., Drill Field: Military ceremony on parade field. The
NGCSU Corps of Cadets will stage a Distinguished Military Student Ceremony
on the university drill field at the center of campus on Sept. 25 at 2 p.m.
The award-winning Blue Ridge Rifles and the Golden Eagle Band will perform.
The top cadets in the military program will be recognized. For more
information, call 706-864-1793.
Sept.
26, 7 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium: “The Motorcycle Diaries”
(2004). Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song in 2005, Jorge Drexler's
"Al otro lado del río." Brazilian director Walter Salles's film recreates
the motorcycle journey of medical student Ernesto (Che) Guevara and his best
friend Alberto Granado across South America in 1952. The experience
profoundly affects both men and inspires Guevara to abandon the profession
he has trained for and dedicate his life to the struggle for social and
political justice in Latin America. The film is in Spanish with English
subtitles and is rated R. Language Professor Vicki McCard will introduce the
movie. Sponsored by the North Georgia Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
Sept. 26 through Nov. 1, Fine Arts Gallery, Hoag Student Center:
Photography Biennale & Symposium. This year’s exhibit features new work
by the North Georgia Photographic Society. Symposium speakers will include
prominent Atlanta gallery owners, art historians, and artists.
Symposium: Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.; reception 5–7 p.m.
Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Hoag Student Center
Auditorium: Fifth Photography Biennale & Symposium. The NGCSU
Photography Biennale & Symposium, funded by the J. L. Nix Living Heritage
Fine Arts Series, is held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates
Photography, the city’s month-long tribute to its vibrant photography scene
and wealth of outstanding photographers, which is held annually in October.
Symposium and Reception attendees: Please obtain parking permit and campus
directions from Public Safety, Main Entrance, South Chestatee Street. The
symposium, reception, and exhibition are free and open to the public. For
more information about the symposium or the exhibition, call: Pamela Sachant,
NGCSU Department of Fine Art, (706) 864-1512,
psachant@ngcsu.edu. Reception and exhibition opening: 4–6 p.m.
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Joe Chapman |
Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 2, 2:30 p.m., Gloria
Shott Performance Hall: Faculty Recital: An Evening with Chopin.
Piano Professor and Coordinator of Music Joe Chapman presents a recital
of works by the great Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin.
Oct. 10, 7 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium:
“Schultze Gets the Blues” (2003). Follow a zydeco music-loving salt
miner on a rejuvenating musical odyssey from Germany to Louisiana. Film
festival award-winner Horst Krause stars as the taciturn, barrel-shaped
Schultze, who is settling uneasily into retirement. He spends his days in
his small town polishing his garden gnomes, drinking with friends, visiting
his mother in a nursing home, and playing traditional polkas on his
accordion. Schultze comes to life when he hears zydeco on the radio and
becomes enthralled with the music and the culture. He performs it at a music
festival, scandalizing some of the locals, but his music club selects him to
represent the group in Texas at a sister-city celebration, and Schultze's
life begins to take unexpected detours. Rated PG. In German and English with
English subtitles. English Professor Thomas Austenfeld will introduce the
film. Sponsored by the North Georgia Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
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Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival |
Oct. 17, 7 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium:
Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival. The performance is free and open to
the public with limited seating available. Nikolai Massenkoff, international
acclaimed star of The Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival, founded the
Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival because of love for his Russian heritage.
He has performed more than two decades both nationally and internationally
to great acclaim. These performances included: Carnegie Hall; Olympic
Stadium in Seoul, Korea before a live audience of 90,000 people; over 100
performances at the International Division of Epcot Center's World Stage in
Florida; with major symphony orchestras – San Francisco, Baltimore,
Edmonton, Honolulu, Palm Beach, Flagstaff, London, Edmonton and in 2005 will
appear with the Cincinnati Symphony; major performing arts centers; national
and international television, including Sudwestfunk (Baden, Baden, Germany)
and the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. For more information, call
706-864-1643.
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| Blue Ridge |
Oct. 20, 12:30 & 7:30 p.m., Hoag Student Center
Auditorium: Blue Ridge. Back by popular demand after last year’s
successful concert, this nationally known group features straight-ahead
bluegrass that combines raw mountain soul with contemporary virtuosity and
drive, performed by some of the most accomplished Nashville recording
artists active in bluegrass music today. The event is part of the Nix Living
Heritage Fine Arts Series.
Oct. 24, Military Review: Dr. Daniel S. Papp, the senior vice chancellor
for Academics and Fiscal Affairs of the University System of Georgia, will
be the guest speaker at a Military Review on the Drill Field of NGCSU in
Dahlonega. The Golden Eagle Band will perform, beginning at 3:50 p.m., with
the full review beginning at 4 p.m., featuring a performance by the
precision drill team, the Blue Ridge Rifles. Nine cadets who earned 4.0
grades during the spring semester will be recognized, and the NGCSU faculty
and staff will be honored during the ceremony. In case of rain, the review
will take place in the Memorial Hall Gymnasium. The event is free and open
to the public.
Oct. 24, 7 p.m., Gloria Shott Auditorium: “The
Wedding Banquet” (1993). Winner of the Golden Bear Award at the 1993
Berlin Film Festival and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, this
was an international hit by director Ang Lee. A Chinese yuppie living in New
York decides that a marriage of convenience is the perfect way to prevent
his parents – who live in Taiwan – from discovering he is gay. But his plans
backfire when his parents insist on coming to the wedding. The R-rated film
is in Mandarin and English. History Professor Chris Jespersen will introduce
it. Sponsored by the North Georgia Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Auditorium:
Victoria Jordanova, an accomplished harpist, will perform her
interpretations of poetry by the Cervantes Prize poet Jose Hierro.
Oct. 28-31, Mars Watch 2005 will take place at
the North Georgia College & State University planetarium on Sunset Drive.
The 30-minute planetarium presentations begin at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. encore
shows based on demand) in the Health & Natural Sciences Building. At 9:30
p.m., the NGCSU observatory will be open, weather permitting, for viewing of
the night sky. The observatory is located on Day Drive off Highway 9
(driving toward Dawsonville), four miles from campus. For more information
call 706-864-1510.
Oct. 29, 2 p.m., Hancock Park, Dahlonega Concert in
the Park: Golden Eagle Band. Director of Bands Andy David leads the GEB
in a concert of American music from the military band tradition.
Oct. 31, 6-8 p.m., Halloween events at NGCSU: Dahlonega community
members and their children, ages 2-11, are invited to celebrate Halloween on
the North Georgia College & State University campus. University residence
life staff members and Gamma Sigma Sigma service sorority members are
sponsoring trick-or-treating in Donovan Hall, as well as carnival events on
the Lewis Annex Hall patio. For more information on this community event,
with lots of fun for both children and area residents, call 706-864-1902.
Nov. 2–5, 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 6, 2:30 p.m., Hoag
Student Center Auditorium: "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" by Steve
Martin. Hilarity reigns in this intelligent comedy when two passionate
young geniuses on the verge of fame, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, meet
in a Paris bistro and end up in an uproarious battle of ideas about art,
science, and life. Time and space become relative and...you never know who
you’ll meet at the Lapin Agile.
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Nov. 4-6, NGCSU campus: National Leadership
Challenge Weekend. NGCSU, nationally recognized for its leadership
development programs, has designed a weekend for those interested in
enrolling in North Georgia’s Corps of Cadets program. The three-day event
gives participants the chance to push themselves to new limits and
accomplish feats like rappelling off a 30-foot wall and completing
high-ropes obstacles. Select college-bound students will have the
opportunity to test their minds and bodies and discover the leader within!
The NGCSU Cadet Recruitment Center sponsors the weekend. For more
information call 888-413-9366 or e-mail
cjwatkins@ngcsu.edu. Cost is $45 per person.
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Tapestry by Tommye M. Scanlin
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Nov. 10 through Jan. 20, 2006, Fine Arts Gallery,
Hoag Student Center: "Echoes of Appalachia." Images and objects inspired
by the traditions and landscape of Appalachia. Artists Diane Getty of
Sewanee, Tenn., Tommye McClure Scanlin of Dahlonega, and Pat Williams of
Clarkesville exhibit fabric collage and tapestry.
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Reception: Thursday, Nov. 10, 5–7 p.m.
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Humoresque |
Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium: Humoresque:
Serious Songs on Silly Subjects. NGCSU’s Madrigal Singers join with the
Dawson Community Chorale, both under the direction of Lee G. Barrow, for an
enjoyable evening of “serious sillyness”: concert music in a variety of
styles with texts and subjects that range from whimsical plots to weird
poems to witty puns.
Nov. 12, 4 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall: All-American Piano Celebration. In this 18th annual celebration, students of all ages and their teachers from around North Georgia present a concert of piano music written by American composers.
Nov. 14, 6:15 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium: Celebrate National
French Week with desserts and door prizes at 6:15 p.m., then the film “A
Very Long Engagement” (2004) at 7:15 p.m. Reuniting Audrey Tautou and
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the star and director of the hugely popular “Amelie,”
this film is set in France near the end of World War I. It involves the
search for one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed
under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an
almost-certain death. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary
nature of secrecy, the unpredictability of war, and the enduring passion,
intuition and tenacity of the human heart. The film is rated R, and is in
French with English subtitles. Language Professor Brian Mann will introduce
this film. Sponsored by the North Georgia Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
Nov. 15 & 17, 7:30 p.m., Hoag Student Center
Auditorium: Symphonic Band Fall Concert. Andy David conducts the
ensemble in two evening concerts which will feature standard works from the
wind band repertory, as well as cutting-edge contemporary compositions.
David Gillingham’s “Heroes Lost and Fallen – A Vietnam Memorial” will anchor
the program.
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| Le Belle Voci |
Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22, 12:30 p.m., Health & Natural Sciences Auditorium: Le Belle Voci & Patriot Choir. Invited to perform at the 2006 Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, Le Belle Voci will present its conference program, including selections by Allen Koepke and new works by Rick Bartlett. In keeping with tradition, the university’s Patriot Choir will present a varied program of patriotic music, love songs and spirituals. Both ensembles are directed by John Broman.
Nov. 29, 12:30 p.m. and Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., Dahlonega
Baptist Church: Handel’s Messiah. The NGCSU Singers, soloists and
chamber orchestra, under the baton of John Broman, will present the
Christmas portion of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, one of the
most well-known and beloved oratorios in the choral repertory.
Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., Hoag Student Center Auditorium:
Small Ensembles. Various student ensembles perform a variety of music
designed specifically for chamber groups.
Dec. 1, 12:30 p.m. and Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Hoag
Student Center Auditorium: NGCSU Jazz Orchestra. The NGCSU Jazz
Orchestra and small ensembles will present music from the traditional big
band repertoire, as well as innovative compositions by present day jazz
artists. Works planned for the two concerts include “Evidence,” a Thelonious
Monk composition as recorded by the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, and
Charles Mingus’ “Gunslinging Bird.”
Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall:
Student Recitals, Voice & Instrumental. NGCSU music students perform a
wide variety of literature to demonstrate what they have learned during the
past semester.
Dec. 6, 12:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall:
Student Recitals, Voice & Instrumental. NGCSU music students perform a
wide variety of literature to demonstrate what they have learned during the
past semester.
Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall:
North Georgia Chamber Symphony. Conductor Laurin Smith leads the Chamber
Symphony in a variety of popular classics and holiday favorites ranging from
Johannes Brahms to Irving Berlin. Guitar instructor Richard Knepp joins the
Symphony in a performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s ever-popular Guitar Concerto
in D Major.
Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Gloria Shott Performance Hall: Student Recitals, Piano. NGCSU music students perform a wide variety of literature to demonstrate what they have learned during the past semester.
Dec. 17, 10 a.m., Memorial Hall Gymnasium: Commissioning ceremony for
new Army lieutenants. Maj. Gen. Robert W. Mixon Jr., commander of the 7th
Infantry Division and Fort Carson, Colo., will speak at commissioning. A
reception will follow the ceremony in the atrium of the Military Leadership
Center.
Dec. 17, 1 p.m., Memorial Hall Gymnasium: Fall Commencement ceremony.
The graduation speaker is Dr. Carol Miller, associate professor of physical
therapy and 2004 NGCSU Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning.
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