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“Star-Spangled Girls”
7:00 p.m. Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts (theatre production)
R-MC celebrates Women’s History Month with a nostalgic tribute to women in uniform. “Star-Spangled Girls” is performed by the Touring Theatre of North Carolina and based on letters, interviews, and memorabilia from the Women Veterans Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
In this play, five composite characters reunite 20 years after the end of World War II. Featuring 1940s era music, the women reminisce about “enlistment, basic training, love, segregation, and service at home and abroad.’
This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by The Committee on Assemblies and Special Events (CASE) and the Office of Student Affairs.
Contact: Pam Cox (804) 752-3712, pamelacox@rmc.edu |
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Calculus: The Musical!
7:00 p.m. Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts (musical)
Calculus: The Musical! is a comic “review” of the concepts and history of calculus.
Using musical parodies that span genres from light opera to hip hop, the performers introduce and illuminate concepts as limits, integration and differentiation. With their unique comic style they dramatize some high points of calculus’ history. From Archimedes to Riemann, the quest for the instantaneous rate of change and the area under the curve comes to life through song!
Musical tributes to The Beatles, Gilbert & Sullivan, Petula Clark and even Eminem include just a few of the artists who have inspired this engaging and educational lesson that is nothing at all like your textbooks. Calculus: The Musical! promises to be entertaining to the arithmophobe and rocket scientist alike.
This event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Pam Cox (804) 752-3712, pamelacox@rmc.edu
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March 17
Guitarist Giacomo Fiore – Concert and Master Class
7:30 p.m. St. Ann’s Performing Arts Building (concert)
Master Class 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. St. Ann’s Performing Arts Building
Guitarist Giacomo Fiore’s performances range in style from contemporary and avant-garde music to the fingerstyle-influenced melodies of his Italian youth.. In June 2011, Fiore released his third independent CD, “Colors: Modern Music for Guitar,” which includes works for classical and resophonic guitar by Britten, Harrison, Takemitsu and Tippett. His other CDs include "Tones from an Open Heart" (2005), his original compositions, and "Genteel" (2009), a selection of classical, popular and world-music pieces showcasing the various formative influences in the artist's career.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information about the master class, contact Andrew McEvoy at AndrewMcEvoy@rmc.edu.
Contact: Pam Cox (804) 752-3712, pamelacox@rmc.edu
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photo credit:
Grace Matthews
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“Faith Ringgold: More Than 50 Years”
7:00 p.m. Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts (lecture)
This event is free and open to the public. General admission tickets must be reserved.
Faith Ringgold is one of the most significant African-American artists of our time. Her art, which includes painting, collage and quilts, is highly politicized and argues against both racial and female oppression. Since the 1960s, her groundbreaking work has been challenging stereotypes of both race and female identity and has been engaging audiences in a meaningful dialogue about prejudices and misconceptions.
In her presentation, “Faith Ringgold: More Than 50 Years,” Ringgold will discuss the evolution and development in her work, beginning with her political images of the 1960s, framed by her personal accounts about the Civil Rights movement in the “American People Series,” to her current work in pictorial quilts and other forms of visual expression. Her thought-provoking exploration of her ever-evolving work will provide audiences with insights into her lifelong concerns as an artist, activist, author and teacher.
This lecture is the culmination of R-MC’s three-part, interdisciplinary women’s studies series, “Survivors.” It is sponsored by the Art History Department and is supported by The Committee on Assemblies and Special Events (CASE), the Payne Fund, the Office of Student Affairs, Women’s Studies and the Jefferson/ Mattys FYEC.
This event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Charlotte Parrish (804) 752-7238, cparrish@rmc.edu
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