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Poet, former UIndy prof Alice Friman to speak April 1

Weekly View — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:09:01 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — Poet, professor and former local resident Alice Friman will return April 1 for a reading and discussion at the University of Indianapolis.
Now living in Milledgeville, Ga., where she is poet-in-residence at Georgia College, Friman is professor emerita of English and creative writing at UIndy, where she taught from 1971 to 1993. The New York City native earned her master’s degree from Butler University and was among the founders of the Indiana Writers Center.
Friman will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in Room 210 of UIndy’s Lilly Science Hall, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. Admission is free to the event, which is the final installment of this year’s Kellogg Writers Series at UIndy.
She has published six full-length collections of poetry, most recently The View from Saturn (LSU Press, 2014). Her previous book, Vinculum, won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. Friman is included in Best American Poetry 2009, received a 2012 Pushcart Prize and has won fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Indiana Arts Commission, among many other honors.

UIndy Opera Theatre to present musical ‘Kismet’

Weekly View — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:09:17 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — Expect romance, intrigue and music in an exotic medieval setting when the University of Indianapolis Opera Theatre presents the Broadway classic Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night on Feb. 7 and 8.
Admission is free to both performances, which begin at 7:30 p.m. in the elegant Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave.
UIndy’s biennial Opera Theatre production is a collaboration between the Departments of Music and Theatre. The cast of more than 20 includes Zach Cardwell as the Caliph of Baghdad; Elisabeth Kleinsmith as his love interest, Marsinah; Darrin Isaac as her father, the wily Poet; Glen Hall as the Wazir, a power-hungry official; Hannah Holmes as the Wazir’s beautiful wife, Lalume; Ron Dukes as the Imam; and Sean Manterfield as the Caliph’s adviser, Omar.
The Tony Award-winning musical, with book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, opened on Broadway in 1953 and has spawned many revivals as well as film and TV adaptations. Many of its songs, written by Robert Wright and George Forrest based on themes by Alexander Borodin, became hits in their own right, including “Stranger in Paradise,” “And This Is my Beloved” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” Music for the show is provided by a live pit orchestra of student and professional musicians.

Forms in Silver at UIndy

Weekly View — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:10:06 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — Photographers Gayle Moore and Tom Potter work primarily in large-format, black-and-white photography using film and silver-based processing, which makes each print unique. Their books, Wild Harmonies and Sensual Harmonies, are part of the permanent photographic collection at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y. Their work will be featured Aug. 26-Sept. 27 at UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. There will be a reception on Sept. 9 from 4-7 p.m. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays. For more information call (317) 788-3253 or visit www.uindy.edu/arts/art