Meadows Dance
The spring edition of the Brown Bag Dance Series kicked off on March 2 in the Bob Hope Lobby of the Owen Arts Center. The event, which is held twice a year, features a lunchtime performance by Meadows Dance students.
The performances include 10 to 15 short ballet, modern and jazz works. This marks the 26th season of the dance series. The Brown Bag Dance Series is free to attend. For more information call 214-768-2718.
The Documentaries of Fred Wiseman
Fred Wiseman, one of the world’s greatest living documentary filmmakers, presents his film “Titicut Follies” at 6:30 p.m. on March 3 in the Hughes-Trigg Theater. The film, which was shot in 1967, was Wiseman’s first movie.
It shows the conditions of the inmates at the Massachusetts State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, and what they had to endure – which included being force-fed through nasal tubes. Wiseman is a law professor turned filmmaker who chronicled the exercise of power in American society by focusing on the everyday travails of the least fortunate.
He has won many awards, including Emmys, a Dupont Award, a MacArthur grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Peabody Award.
SMU will showcase five of Wiseman’s films in a month-long series, ending in a free, public lecture with Wiseman on April 14.
Meadows Museum Thursday Evening Lecture
The chair of the classics department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Dr. Rex Wallace, will present a free lecture in the Bob Smith Auditorium in Meadows Museum on March 5 at 6 p.m. Dr. Wallace’s lecture is in conjunction with the Meadows Museum exhibition, “From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany,” and will explore Etruscan inscriptions.
These inscriptions will provide insight into the Etruscan language, which is only understood because of information gained by careful examination of archaeological contexts. For more information call 214-768-4677.
Meadows Opera
Theatre
The Brown Bag series features a preview of Meadows’ new musical, “The Two Orphans” by Kim D. Sherman and Theresa Rebeck, along with other moments from different Broadway musicals. Visiting artist and Broadway musical director Kimberly Grigsby will direct the performance. The theater performance starts at 1 p.m. on March 6 in the Taubman Atrium in the Owen Arts Center and is free to the public.
