CFA Annoucements

CFA Centennial____________________________________________

What is the Beaux Arts Ball? A costumed art party to celebrate the College of Fine Arts centennial anniversary

What do you get for your ticket price? food, beverages, music, various entertainment, oxygen bar and costume prizes! Prizes awarded in these categories:

Flashiest
Most Gorgeous
Most Audacious
Shadiest Character
Most Light-hearted
Special prize for Group Enterprise

$40 for Students
$75 for Alumni, Faculty, Staff

Call 412-268-2407 or visit the School of Drama box office in the Purnell Center for the Arts between noon- 5 p.m. February 28 is the last day for tickets!

Campus Events____________________________________________

Developed by two students at Entertainment Technology Center, this project (PeaceMaker) has attracted significant interest from governments abroad, US politicians, schools in public policy, elementary and secondary schools interested in conflict resolution and all the related topics. I've seen a demo of this project and it's incredible. Don't miss the opportunity to experience and learn about the development of this project!
cathy


Monday February 20th
4:30PM - Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

The PeaceMaker project:

PeaceMaker is a cross-cultural political video game simulation of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict which was developed under the auspices of the
Entertainment Technology Center.

In PeaceMaker, the player takes the role of either the Israeli or
Palestinian Prime Minister. The player must act and react to in game
events in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before
his or her term in office is up. Peace is a fragile and difficult goal to
achieve, but as this game will show, it is the only way to resolve one of
the longest running conflicts mankind has ever faced.

In this session members of the PeaceMaker team will demonstrate the
playable game and discuss the ins and outs of its production. Attendees
will learn how the game was built to provide a balanced view of the
conflict as much as possible and how it mixes real-world reports and
fictional gameplay experiences to provide a unique approach to the player.

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Hadrian Predock of Predock Frane Architects will present a lecture of his work on Monday, February 20th at 6:30 in the Theater of the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is the Hans Vetter Memorial lecture, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture and the Heinz Architectural Center of the Carnegie Museum of Art. All are welcome to attend. Please forward this message to any interested parties.

www.arc.cmu.edu/lectureseries
www.predockfrane.com/

Predock_Frane Architects was established in Santa Monica, California in 2000 as a collaborative research and development architecture studio. For the last five years, the firm has attempted to weave together a series of explorations that deal with oppositions, analogues/site specificity, the erosion of traditional disciplinary boundaries and environmental intelligence. They feel that these areas are present in the current world landscape, ripe with potential, yet under-explored in the built world.

Architectural Record named Predock_Frane one of ten emerging international architects in 2002. This year Predock_Frane was selected as one of eight architects by the Architectural League of New York for the emerging voices lecture series. They recently won a series of awards for The Center of Gravity Foundation Hall - a Zen Buddhist Monastery in Northern New Mexico, and for the new Family Room at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Last year they were chosen as one of six architects to represent the United States in the US Pavilion at the 2004 Biennale in Venice Italy, and were short listed as a finalist for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Current Projects include: the Transcending Type exhibition at the Yale school of architecture, The Inn at the French Laundry in Yountville, CA in collaboration with Antoine Predock, a hybrid contemporary art space and restaurant in Phoenix, AZ, an artist studio in Venice, CA, a writers space in Los Angeles, a housing project in Los Angeles, and ‘twin residences’ in Pacific Palisades, CA. They have been published widely and have lectured throughout the country.

John Frane was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received his BArch in 1993 from the University of Texas at Austin. Hadrian Predock was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received his MArch in 1993 from Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

PGH Events________________________________________________

Opera Theater presents an exciting double bill of Benjamin Britten's beloved Noye's Fludde and multifaceted artist Jay Bolotin's innovative, woodcut motion picture opera, The Jackleg Testament, March 2-5. Enjoy two thematically connected but artistically divergent pieces in this one thrilling evening of opera!
Opera Theater is joined in retelling the ageless tale of Noye's Fludde by talented young performers from the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) who take on the roles of the animals onboard Noah's ark. In addition to the children's voices, the voice of God, a skeptical Noah, and a very reluctant Mrs. Noah are all heard in this imaginative musical adventure. The opera also features the orchestra as hammers during the ark's construction and raindrops hitting the roof during the flood.

This familiar tale is energized by the original designs of local elementary and middle school students who created masks and animal designs for the production under the guidance of artist Cindy Snodgrass.
THE JACKLEG TESTAMENT

"A remarkable film . . . vividly imagined . . . darkly funny . . . an uplifting experience"-- San Diego Union Tribune


Internationally celebrated artist-musician Jay Bolotin conjures up a unique view of the story of Adam and Eve in The Jackleg Testament, the first movie-opera made from woodcuts. In this innovative film, Nobodaddy (the voice of God, sung by Bolotin) glides through a woodcut Garden of Eden, inhabited by Jack (sung by lyric tenor Nigel Robeson), Eve (sung by Karen Berquist), and a wily Serpent (sung by Wagnerian bass-baritone Monte Jaffe).

Opera Theater is the only performing arts company presenting The Jackleg Testament which has been touring leading American visual arts spaces in the U.S. since its debut in May 2005. The Jackleg Testament follows the acclaimed Opera Theater world-premiere of creator Jay Bolotin's sculpture opera LIMBUS.

Although The Jackleg Testament is an animated film, parental discretion should be used with younger children since it contains strong language and figure nudity that some parents might find inappropriate. Parents with young children are encouraged to view images from the woodcut opera at http://www.semantikon.com/medium/jaybolotinfeature.htm to determine if it is suitable for their children.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS:

Thursday, March 2 7pm

Friday, March 3 8 pm

Saturday, March 4 8 pm

Sunday, March 5 3 pm



CAPA Theater, Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts

111 Ninth St., Downtown Pittsburgh

Tickets

$20; $15 students and children

Call for family and group discounts.

For show information or to purchase tickets, please call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org

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WIN THE WICKED LOTTERY!

Seats for $25

Lottery begins Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at The Box Office at Theater Square, 655 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh


A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of $25 seats will be held daily for WICKED, beginning with its first performance Wednesday, February 22, 2006, and continuing through its engagement, Sunday, March 5, 2006 at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts.

Each day, 2 hours prior to curtain, ticket buyers can arrive at the Box Office at Theater Square, located at 655 Penn Avenue diagonally across from the Benedum Center, to have their names placed in a hat where 30 minutes later, names will be drawn for the limited orchestra-level seats at $25 each. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person, cash only.

WICKED, the smash hit Broadway musical, tells the story of two unlikely friends and their remarkable odyssey in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for one of the most spellbinding musicals in years.

WICKED features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething") based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical is directed by 2003 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...). WICKED features set design by Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Tony Award winner for Candide and Sweeney Todd), costume design by Susan Hilferty (Tony nominated for the recent Into the Woods), lighting design by Kenneth Posner (Tony nominated for Hairspray) and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King and the recent Man of La Mancha). Stephen Oremus is the show's musical director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.

WICKED, is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.


WICKED began performances on Broadway on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at The Gershwin Theatre and continues to be the top-grossing show on Broadway. For more information about WICKED, log on to www.wickedthemusical.com.

A limited number of tickets to WICKED ($29-$72.50) may still be purchased at the Box Office at Theater Square from 7 a.m.-9 a.m. Performances will be held Tuesday-Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. There will be a special matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, and an ASL-interpreted performance will be held on Sunday, March 5, at 1 p.m. For box office information, please call (412) 456-6666 or visit www.pgharts.org.