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Emory Receives Rare Judaica Stamp Collection
Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies has received an extraordinary stamp collection that includes every stamp issued by the state of Israel, as well as supporting materials and stamps issued all over the world featuring Jewish themes.

Emory Conference to Explore Lynching in America
"Lynching and Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies," a conference examining painful chapters of violence in American history, will take place at Emory University Oct. 3 - 6. The three-day event is being held in conjunction with "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," the first Southern exhibition of the critically lauded photography retrospective currently on display at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.

Emory Presents Dave Brubeck Festival And Symposium
Emory University's Department of Music has organized a five-day festival and symposium exploring the contributions of Dave Brubeck to the arts and humanities on Oct. 1-5, 2002.

Theater Emory Presents Arthur Kopit's "Discovery of America"
The first full production of Theater Emory's 20th season is appropriately "Discovery of America," a work-in-progress by Tony Award-nominee Arthur Kopit that runs Oct. 9-26. The play looks at the earliest exploration of the Americas, encouraging audiences to see what the Europeans found and how they re-shaped it

Irish Poet O'Siadhail to Give Reading
Award-winning Irish poet Michael O' Siadhail will be reading from "The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust" on Wednesday, Nov. 13

Dance Company Presents Fall Concert, "Connecting Voices"
"Connecting Voices," the Emory Dance Company Fall Concert, will be a program of diverse works, premieres and historic works featuring choreography and direction by Emory dance faculty and Atlanta-based guest artists. Performances of "Connecting Voices" will be Friday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 9 at 8 p.m.

Emory 2002 Holiday Concerts
Emory celebrates the beginning of the holiday season with several concerts to get the community into the spirit. These include annual favorites at Emory as well as Oxford musical events.

Theater Emory Presents Brave New Works II
A special installment of Theater Emory's Brave New Works Jan. 27-Feb. 22 marks the inauguration of the theater laboratory in Emory University's new Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, which officially opens Feb. 1.

Contemporary Arts Emory Weekend, March 21-23
The Contemporary Arts Emory Weekend, March 21-23, part of the Schwartz Center Opening Festival, offers an array of visual and performing arts through four events on campus: "Sound Stage: A New Music Theater Work About Making Music," The SITI Company's theater piece "Room," the dance premiere "Triptych for V" and the opening for the "Emory Chairs Project," featuring 37 works of sculpture on display through April 17.

Artists Discuss Religion & Art at Emory Symposium
Emory's David Goldwasser Symposium, an exploration of spirituality and the arts, will bring together three of the most articulate and inspiring figures in the arts to discuss the artistic shaping and re-imagining of moral, religious and spiritual traditions.

Theater Emory Presents Woolf in SITI Co's "Room"
The late English writer Virginia Woolf is again at the forefront of arts and letters more than 60 years after her suicide in 1941, but this time because of the Hollywood film, "The Hours." Theater Emory offers yet another view of Woolf through a dramatic sampling of her lifetime writings, created by The SITI Company, featuring actress Ellen Lauren.

Concert Hall to be Named for Cherry Logan Emerson
Cherry Logan Emerson of Atlanta has provided more than $1 million in support of the state-of-the-art concert hall under construction in the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University.

Emory's 2002-2003 Candler Series to Feature Jazz, Classical Music and Contemporary Theater and Dance
Arts at Emory's 2002-2003 Flora Glenn Candler Series will include four concerts by internationally renowned classical artists and additional special events featuring critically-acclaimed jazz, theater and dance performers.

Emory Dance Company's "Naked" April 24-27
The 2003 Emory Dance Company's Spring Concert, "Naked," will premiere Thursday, April 24. "Naked," featuring 10 new works choreographed by students of the Emory Dance Program, overflows with diverse choreographic offerings ranging from contemporary ballet to dynamic modern works.

Theater Emory's "Three Sisters" Asks Meaning of Life
The performance of "Three Sisters" marks the beginning of Theater Emory's research into the work of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). The story centers on the Prozorov family and especially the three sisters--Olga, Masha and Irina--who long to understand the reason for their existence.

Emory Completes $36.6 Million Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
After two years of construction and nine years of planning the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University will open Feb. 1, 2003. The center opening marks the start of a four-month multidisciplinary festival celebrating the diverse and burgeoning arts programs and series of Emory.

Theater Emory Announces
20th Anniversary Season
Theater Emory embarks upon its 20th season with a repertoire that reflects its role as a professional theater company affiliated with a research university. It is a season dedicated to cutting edge work, the development of new plays, and the beginning a research cycle into the writings of Anton Chekov.

Emory Awards DuBois Biographer Honorary Degree May 12
Atlanta native David Levering Lewis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, received an honorary doctor of letters degree and delivered brief remarks during Emory University's 158th commencement ceremony Monday, May 12, for 3,302 graduates. University President William M. Chace, who will be retiring to the English department faculty this fall, also presided over his last commencement Monday.

Theater Emory Presents Theater From Contemporary India
Theater Emory's Sept. 12-13 festival, "Contemporary Indian Theater," celebrates more than 5,000 years of theater tradition in India while demonstrating how that rich and vast heritage speaks to contemporary issues in both eastern and western cultures.

Emory Receives Major Gift to African-American Studies Archive
A portion of the Hatch/Billops Collection in New York--an extraordinary collection assembled during the past 35 years--has been given to Emory by the collectors. The Emory archive will be known as the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives at Emory University.

Theater Emory Unveils "Dating and Mating in Modern Times"
Theater Emory presents the world premiere of Elizabeth Wong's "Dating and Mating in Modern Times," a series of monologues performed by seven actresses on the joys and pitfalls of today's fast, frenzied and sometimes frustrating world of sex and relationships. Covering topics such as cybersex, speed dating, hookups and penis envy, this wild and woolly full-length play opens Saturday, Sept. 20 and continues with nine performances through Oct. 4 in the Mary Gray Munroe Theater.

Theater Emory Presents Contemporary, Urban "Midsummer Night's Dream"
Shakespeare's classic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is re-imagined as a modern, urban fairytale in Theater Emory's upcoming production. The play's characters will begin in the fast-paced, efficient and capitalism-driven world of high finance and will travel through the surreal fairy-world of art and creativity, learning about themselves and each other along the way.

Jim Grimsley Given Georgia Author of the Year Award
Jim Grimsley, senior resident fellow and director of Emory University's Creative Writing Program, has been named Georgia Author of the Year for fiction for the second time. He is recognized for his most recent novel, "Boulevard" (Algonquin Books, 2002).

Annual Celtic Christmas Concert Presents Irish and Southern Holiday Themes
The annual Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert at Emory University portrays the Christmas traditions of the Celtic lands, many of them dating back to medieval times, through music, dance, poetry, song and story. The concert also shows how those traditions have had a direct influence on the ways in which many Southerners, particularly those in the Appalachian region, continue to celebrate Christmas.

Emory Dance Company Presents "Six Senses" Fall Concert
The Emory Dance Company fall concert, "Six Senses," features choreography by three guest artists and Emory dance program faculty members George Staib II, Gregory Catellier and Sheri Latham. The performances will be in the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio Nov. 20-22 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 3 p.m.

Emory Visual Arts Faculty Offer Two Fall 2003 Exhibitions
Photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, film/video and sculpture by Emory visual arts faculty will be featured in two dynamic exhibitions this fall: "Rivers and Ruins: Panoramic Landscape Photographs of the Deep South" and "The Visual Arts and Beyond by Emory University Faculty."

Emory Great Directors' Series Offers Diverse International Films
Emory celebrates the advancement of film scholarship and research in its film studies department by presenting "Great Directors'," a three-month series featuring the major works of filmmakers from around the world.

Emory Acquires Important Yeats/Gonne Letters
Emory has augmented its world-class Irish literary archives with the correspondence of Irish actress and activist Maud Gonne and the poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats. Among the 370 letters of Gonne to Yeats and 30 of his to her are several that have never been published.

Emory Presents "12 Black Classicists" Exhibit, Lecture
"12 Black Classicists," a photography exhibit honoring 12 African-American intellectuals who made groundbreaking achievements in academia immediately following the Civil War, opened at Emory University Nov. 5.

Theater Emory to Premiere Gunderson's "Leap"
Theater Emory will present the world premiere of "Leap," a play exploring science, art and creativity written by award-winning playwright and Emory University senior Lauren Gunderson, who already has had work produced Off Broadway.

Edward Beckett Presents Recital of 20th-Century French Music
Renowned flautist Edward Beckett will present a recital of 20th-century French music at Emory University's Cannon Chapel, 515 Kilgo Circle on March 23 at 8 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

Emory Friends of Dance Presents Illustrated Lecture on Black Women’s Identity in Modern Dance
The 2003-2004 Emory Friends of Dance Lecture Series presents “Big-Legged Women: Tina Turner, Modern Dance and New Notions of Black Women's Identity” by Veta Goler of Spelman College.