Oct. 2

A Shining Heritage: Contemporary Taiwanese Lacquer Art from the Wang Collection
2:00 pm   Lecture- "History and Techniques of Lacquer Arts"    Reception with the artists to follow.

Headley- Whitney Museum

Lacquer Demonstration and Workshop

2:00- 5:00pm   Make a lacquer plate with the Wang family, or observe their techniques. $20/ $10 student workshop fee. Free for observers. Registration/ RSVP information here.

Room 101, UK Reynolds Building

7:00 pm    An exploration of the joyful and ecstatic devotional music from the central Himalayas of India. Renowned singer, drummer, healer, and recording artist Pritam Bhartwan will perform alongside Stefan Fiol, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Cincinnati.

Niles Gallery, UK Fine Arts Library

3:30 pm    Musicology Longyear Lecture by Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College

Niles Gallery, UK Fine Arts Library

6:00pm Chinese Arts Reception- Live music, painting, calligraphy, hands-on puppets. FREE!

7:30pm   Opening night of the UK Theatre production. Tickets at SCFA Box Office.

"The Monkey King" mixes acrobatics, Chinese opera, martial arts, and puppetry into an adventure appropriate for all ages. Travel with the Monkey King into Cloud Kingdom to seek life-extending peaches and to come face-to-face with the Buddha.

More shows on Oct. 8, 14, 15, 16.

Guignol Theatre, UK Fine Arts Building

Oct. 8

Throat Singing Demonstration

3:30 pm   Dr. Theodore Levin and Sayan Bapa of Huun Huur Tu will discuss and demonstrate throat singing techniques, as well as other aspects of the music of Huun Huur Tu.

Briggs Theater, UK Fine Arts Building

Oct. 8

Huun Huur Tu

7:30 pm   The Tuvan throat singers. Using traditional instruments and drawing subtly on 20th century composers, funky rhythms, and the palette of electronica, Huun Huur Tu transform ancient songs into complex acoustic compositions.

Tickets at SCFA Box Office.

Recital Hall, Singletary Center for the Arts

2:00pm    A dance-theater work by Lakshmi Sriraman and Aniruddhan Vasudevan based on Tamil women poets' work on different forms of love and conflict.

Recital Hall, Singletary Center for the Arts

4:30pm   Reception with the artist.

President's Room, UK Singletary Center for the Arts

7:30pm    "Tea with Me" and other compositions by Simply Dance-- Bruce Wilson and Chika Utsunomiya.

Carrick Theater, Transylvania University

5:00pm    Lecture by artist, Joel Feldman.
Two pieces, "Caochangdi" (2009) and "Markets and Malls" (2010-2011), are on display in the Lexington Art League's downtown gallery Sept. 16- Nov. 11, mimicing the constant and rapid shifting juxtaposition of images that confront a visitor to either the Caochangdi neighborhood of Beijing or the ubiquitous shopping venues in Hong Kong.

Niles Gallery, UK Fine Arts Library

5:00pm    A lecture by Eugene Wang, Harvard University

Room 118, UK Whitehall Classroom Building  

Oct. 14

After-Shock and After-Image

A Chinese Neorealist Painter's Engagement with the Real in the Postmedium and Post-Earthquake Situation

5:00pm    Keynote lecture for the Chinese Visual Culture Symposium by Eugene Wang, Harvard University

President's Room, UK Singletary Center for the Arts

Contested Ground: Visual Culture in China after 1989

9:00am- 5:30pm    Chinese visual culture symposium. Full Schedule

Briggs Theater, UK Fine Arts Building

5:00pm    Film Showing. A 1986 film set in 1939 in Northern China on the Loess Plateau of Shanbei in Shaanxi province. This film is "one of the most important films to appear in the 1980s, not just in China, but in the whole of global cinema. ...marked by a genuine attempt to create a 'new' kind of cinema.(in) its use of colour, composition and framing and its use of sound to evoke an 'unknown' time and place." - The Case for Global Film.

Room 118, UK Whitehall Classroom Building

Sept. 15 -

Nov. 10

A Shining Heritage: Contemporary Taiwanese Lacquer Art from the Wang Collection

Color and Form: A Selection of Japanese and Japan-Inspired Ceramics

Headley Whitney Museum

Sept. 16 -

Nov. 11

Culture Flux

Lexington Art League Downtown Gallery 200 East Main Street, Mezzanine

Sept. 28 -

Oct. 16

President's Room, UK Singletary Center for the Arts