Spotlight UB Performing Arts Series
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Spotlight UB is pleased to present a season of theatrical productions, movies, comedy, concerts and readings in the Student Center's fifth floor, acoustically-designed Performing Arts Theater. The diversified programming spans the arts from jazz pianists to poetry, dramatic performance to classical music.
Upcoming Spring 2010 Events:
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozke Shange's lush and lyrical choreopoem, will be directed by Nicolle McQueen and Kimberley Lynne with choreography by Lisa Mion, February 18-20, 8pm. Featured actors include: Jaye Adami, Antoine Hays, Emily Jeffries, Terry Johnson-Bey, Shamija Moncur, Linda Osodi, Rain Pryor, Victoria Williams, and Dafney Winkler. Tickets are $20 general, $15 staff and seniors, and $5 students and available online and will also be onsale an hour before each show. Donations for The House of Ruth will be collected preshow and during intermission. The House of Ruth is in need of: Pampers in sizes 4 and 5, pull-ups in sizes 4T-6T, baby wipes, bookbags, women's hairbrushes, new socks and undergarments for women and children, deodorant, new bath towels and washclothes and new or used twin sized sheets.
African American Arts Festival, February 25-26, co-sponsored with the Office of Diversity:
- Abu the Flutemaker, 11:30AM, Thursday, 2/25, free to the public
- the African Heritage Festival, noon,Thursday, 2/25, featuring The Baltimore Lab School students choir and dance, New Hope Academy drumming, KIPP Ujima Village Academy band or choir and The Empowerment Academy choir and dance. The event is free to the public.
- Slam Poetry Night with poet Gayle Danley and Open Mike, Thursday, 7pm, tickets $5 general and $2 student
- and the Visions Band on Friday, February 26, 8pm, tickets $10 general and $5 students
Poulenc Trio www.poulenctrio.com with Metropolitan principal clarinet, Anthony McGill, March 26, 8pm, co-produced with An die Musik, tickets $20 general, $15 seniors and staff and $10 students. Radio personality Jonathan Palevsky will provide concert commentary.
Innovative chamber music group, Aspen Ensemble, Wednesday, April 14, 8pm, will return to perform a program of Schubert, Laura Schewendinger, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Brahms. The Aspen Ensemble, comprised of Nadine Asin, David Perry, Victoria Chiang, Michael Mermagen, and Rita Sloan, will be joined by radio personality Jonathan Palvesky. Tickets are $5 UB students, $10 general students, $20 seniors and UB faculty and staff and $25 general admission and are available online at www.etix.com. Parking for this event is free of charge in the Maryland Avenue garage with a voucher from the box office.
Kendra Kopelke's Hopperville, a poetic exploration of Edward Hopper's paintings, April 6, time TBA, free of charge to the public.
Spotlight UB and Vox Theatre present Darren Goins' one-man play, Double Tap, that explores the culture's obsession with tapping in the digital age, Tuesday, April 20, 7pm, free of charge to the public.
Classical pianist Robert Jordan, May 2, 4pm, tickets $20 general and $10 students and seniors.
Purchase tickets to Student Center Performing Arts Theater events via www.etix.com -- search under University of Baltimore. As with all online ticketing services, ETIX will charge a minimal processing fee.
All events are held in the Student Center Performing Arts Theater on the fifth floor of 21 W. Mt. Royal Avenue.
Parking for Spotlight events is available for patrons in the UB Maryland Avenue garage at Maryland and Biddle for $7 with a chaser ticket. The chaser tickets are available at the Spotlight box office at the event.
If any audience members require an event to be interpreted for the deaf, please email spotlightub@ubalt.edu with that request. Requests can only be honored at two weeks prior to performance.
For updates on UB Theatrical Society information, please visit the Theatrical Society page on the Center for Student Involvement link, http://salink.ubalt.edu.
Photo above of One Particular Saturday courtesy of Joan Weber.