Emory University - Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics and Mass Politics Friday, Aug 22, 2008 Atlanta, GA Drawing primarily from the University of New Mexico's unparalleled, 10,000-strong Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, this traveling exhibition features 75 works that document and explore Latin America's contemporary social and political history, as mirrored in five...

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"The Bomb that Healed" Exhibition Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 Atlanta, GA “The Bomb that Healed: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, Civil Rights, and the Temple Bombing of 1958.” Fifty years ago, white supremacists attacked Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation, The Temple on Peachtree Street. Exploding dynamite ripped through the stately building before sunrise on Oct. 12, 1958, leavi...

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Creativity & Arts Soiree Friday, Sep 05, 2008 Atlanta, GA *FREE* A Celebration of Emory's Creative Campus. Mix and mingle and enjoy a sampling of what’s in store in Emory’s 2008-2009 arts season of performing, visual, film and literary arts and celebrate the launch of Emory’s new Center for Creativity & Arts. RSVP to 404-712-9214 by Tuesday, Sept. 2, 20...

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Melissa Plamann, University Organist Recital Series Sunday, Sep 07, 2008 Atlanta, GA *FREE* An active soloist and accompanist, Plamann performs organ recitals in the United States, Germany, England and the Czech Republic. She has taught courses at Indiana University exploring her interest in the organ as an instrument of the church. Plamann began her organ study with Lorraine...

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Emory Cinematheque Presents “Venus” Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008 Atlanta, GA *FREE* (Roger Michell, United Kingdom, Color, 2006, 95 min.). Peter O'Toole stars in this bitingly funny and poignant portrait of an aging actor who still has a yen for the ladies, and strikes up an unusual friendship with a close friend's young niece. Screened in honor of author/screenwriter...

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