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Norma Jean Calderwood Symposium presents this lecture in connection with the exhibition, “The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World.” The program will feature lectures by leading scholars of Islamic art, documentary films, with a live demonstration by calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya. The program includes: lectures and film, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; documentary screenings, 12:30-2 p.m.; calligraphy demonstration, 2-4 p.m. Free, tickets required (617 495 4544). Sackler Lecture Hall...
Despite the promotional efforts, only about 50 people attended the first symposium, which was broadcast live over the Internet from the FAS home page...
Ogletree spoke with The Crimson yesterday from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he addressed a symposium co-sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Brown v. Board of Education, which he chairs...
...protocols he developed at Bangarra for bringing traditional art practices into the contemporary world. For Adelaide's opening ceremony, tea-tree bonfires were lit along the Torrens river, symbolically uniting the three local tribes, the Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri. On the opening weekend, a Sacred Symposium was held on how to present "secret" ceremonial knowledge, while Page's creative network has eased the way for the commissioning of indigenous work. "Another cultural consultation!" cries an Aboriginal urbanite who goes bush in the Windmill Performing Arts' new play, RiverlanD. Well may she joke, but this could be Page's lasting legacy...
With Bangarra, Page has pushed the idea of Aboriginal art as a medium in which different cultures can converse. Can there be reconciliation on stage? That was the subject of the symposium, which brought together indigenous leaders such as academic Marcia Langton, Senator Aden Ridgeway and filmmaker Rachel Perkins. Perhaps the pithiest comments came from curator Djon Mundine, who spoke of Aboriginal arts as a soliloquy cast into a silent void. "We keep giving it to you people," he told a largely white audience. "We want something to come back...