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This new exhibit gives you an opportunity to see a fresh installation of SAM’s renowned Chinese art at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Started by Dr. Richard E. Fuller, the founding director of the Seattle Art Museum, and his family from the early decades of the last century, the collection contains representative works from each dynastic period, and it is particularly strong in jades, ceramics and sculpture. Subsequent directors and curators of Chinese art have strengthened other areas of the collection, notably painting, calligraphy, bronzes, and, most recently, contemporary Chinese art.

Information provided by: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=13165

1400 E Prospect St (in the lovely Volunteer Park on Capital Hill!)
Seattle, WA 98112
Tuesday–Sunday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.–9 p.m.
Monday: closed
$3.00 student tickets!

Yes, The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie of all time, so I had to open with that one. But I could have chosen quite a few more. Many literary theorists claim that there is a basic formula for literature just as predictable as the “boy meets girl, girl loves boy, girl runs away from boy, boy and girl reunite” romantic movie formula, stemming from Greek myths. This coming Tuesday, James Clauss from the Classics Department and the Honors College will be lecturing on the enduring power of myths in modern cinema. Additionally, a few film students will be showing their own cinematic renditions of myths!

Tuesday March 4th
7:30pm
Kane 210

The wonderful Seattle Arts & Lectures series has brought such amazing talents to our city as Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, Edward Albee and more to discuss their works and the greater literary world.

With honor, the Seattle Arts is welcoming Eavan Boland to the stage this coming Monday, March 2nd. A professor of English at Stanford, Boland is a leading voice amongst Irish women writers. She has written ten volumes of poetry and several books highlighting the private struggles and intimate joys of Irish women. Courting the case of social justice, Boland’s new book Domestic Violence speaks to the clash of violent desires and a natural tendency to nurture in today’s society.

Furthermore, if you have a question for Ms. Boland, you may submit it at sal@lectures.org and she will possibly answer it on stage!

Intiman Theatre
7:30pm
201 Mercer Street
http://www.lectures.org/poetry.html

Everyone who enjoys KEXP knows that they are conducting their annual tele-thon money-drive at the moment. As much as I love the station to pieces, those DJs know how to sell themselves! So if you’re looking for another way of getting your KEXP kick for the week without their regular music-lineups, why not consider an internship with them?

An internship for Programming, Underwriting, and Web Development is available for UW students! It is a work-day internship, ranging from 10-20 hours a week.

For more information please visit:
http://www.kexp.org/support/internships.asp 

On Sunday March 2nd, author David Smith-Ferri will be reading from his recently re-published work, “Battlefield Without Borders: Iraq Poems” at the Seattle Public Library downtown. This heart-wrenching analogy contains a majority of poems that were written when David was visiting Iraq. The analogy sold out so quickly and was so successful that an amended version was published in Nov. 2007 with twelve additional poems.

Not only is the content pertinent to our everyday lives as Americans-at-war, but the funds from the book’s sale go to the Direct Aid Initiative, which provides medical aid to Iraqi refugees around the world.

Join David this Sunday to listen about his experience in Iraq through his difficult, beautiful poetry.

1000 4th Ave
Seattle, Washington 98104
2pm-3:30pm

I step outside with Haider
to kick a deflated soccer ball in the rocky yard.
For half an hour we are two boys with a ball,
defying time, celebrating the present moment.
Beyond us, the Saddam City ghetto breaks like a wound,
oozing in every direction.
Somewhere in the Persian Gulf, battleships gather.
I cannot yet see how brightly Haider’s future will flash,
but as I put the ball down and prepare to leave,
I can hear its concussive blast.
-David Smith-Ferri, excerpt from “Visiting Ahmed’s Family”

OKOK Art Gallery down in Ballard is presenting a startling, beautiful showing of Jen Stark and Diem Chau’s “In Effect” portfolio. This endeavor by this Seattle duo aims to communicate beauty through the simplest of means; the intricate from common materials. The use of plates, cups, thread by Chau is a toolbox of simple vision… one that leads to fascinating expressions of what we consider aesthetically pleasing. Stark’s forte is sculptures carved with an x-acto knife through multiple layers of card stock, representing an infinite quality to beauty.

Here are a few samples of the artists’ work:

Jen Stark:

Diem Chau:

Exhibition runs until March 4th.
OKOK Gallery
5107 Ballard Ave. N.W.
Seattle, WA 98107
206.789.6242
info@okokgallery.com

Gallery hours are:
Tuesday through Saturday 12 to 6
Sunday 11 to 5

Entanglement draws a symbolic acoustic line between two distant locations, SOIL and 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle. A hyper-directional sound beam linearizes the acoustics of the two galleries creating the illusion of a single, infinite line of sound into which both sites get trapped. This fragile acoustic construction can be physically disturbed by the participants at each location. Using their body, participants can interfere with the acoustic waveguide, spilling over particles of the linear sound field into the room as they block their transit to the other site. The piece not only provokes the “entanglement” of the participants with their own sonic perception locally but also remotely, as the acoustic shadow of their bodies gets cast onto the other space. In this way, Entanglement explores the concept of “tele-absense” (rather than tele-presence), using a virtual acoustic channel to telematically project the disembodied presence of participants interacting with the acoustic waveguide.

This collaborative installation is part of the Ultrasonic Sound Beams in Media Arts research project, supported by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington. For more information, visit http://www.dxarts.washington.edu/entanglement/

Show closes Saturday, March 1.

The galleries are open Wed. to Sat. Noon to 5PM:

911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave. N

SOIL Gallery
112 Third Ave. S

Honors photography student Jason Hirata and painting major Kathy Liao are giving a talk today.

They’re the winners of the School of Art Open juried by Billy Howard of Howard House. Come see 1000 lbs of sand and a medical grade animal respirator in action as well as evocative portaits. The Jacob Lawrence gallery will be open from 12-4PM in the art building and then at 5:30 Jason and Kathy will talk about their work downstairs in the Parnassus Cafe.

Part of the ArtsLink Presents Parnassus Emerging Artist Series. Free refreshments!

This Friday, February 29th, from 3:00pm -5:00pm, the School of Music is holding a valuable information session on this summer’s “Jazz in Paris” quarter. In Paris, students interested in the history and art of jazz music will be led by internationally-recorded jazz-ician, Michael Brockman. Professor Brockman will connect the theoretical intricacies of jazz music with actual performances at the Annual Jazz Festival in Paris. What’s better than taking what you learn in the classroom (if you can call Paris a classroom) out into actual practice!

No music-skill is necessary, nor is any French required. To find out more, attend this Friday’s session:
Music classroom 101
3:00pm-5:00pm

So you never had the chance to take Dinosaurs 101 at the UW? I didn’t either. (shucks). But if you’re looking for a Steven Spielberg-worthy Saturday afternoon, hop down to the Burke Museum and check out this special presentation by the museum. The more impressive dinosaur artifacts are being brought out and discussed for this afternoon. Likewise, there will be special activities discussing fossils that can be found throughout the Northwest.

New this year: See the incredible, 21-foot-long, 145 million year old ichthyosaur fossil recently installed in the museum. Get up close to the newest giant marine reptile, the nothosaur, which will be on view inside its crate for the first time in the Burke lobby.

Indulge your inner child and help break open actual shale rock with UW paleontologists. Find a fossil and you get to take it home (assuming it isn’t Holy-Grail stature).

Information provided by: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/dinoday2008/index.php