Connections
2006-2007 Events Schedule
"Clashing discords, loss of equilibrium,
'principles' overthrown, unexpected drumbeats,
great questionings, apparently purposeless
strivings, stress and longing... This is our harmony."
- Vasily Kandinsky, 1911
Harmony is generally understood to
suggest agreement, accord, congruity, while Dissonance is thought of as
harmony's opposite - discord, cacophony, harsh disagreement. The truth,
though, is that dissonance - or what is heard as dissonance - acts upon
harmony, changing over time our conception of both what is discordant,
and what is pleasingly concordant. Clashes of difference - in music, in
politics, in social relations, in our perceptions of the world around
us - reveal new kinds of complexity and call upon us to ask ourselves,
Do I still believe what I used to? Have I changed my mind? Richer and
more complex harmonies often emerge from moments of dissonance. What
once took us aback begins to seem quite reasonable, even alluring.
The modernist composer Arnold Schönberg drew attention to this relationship when he used atonality to "emancipate dissonance." Rejecting the sweetness of consonance, he used chords that were unresolved, that produced tension, in order to celebrate quest over comfort, action over respite, inquiry over satisfied knowing. Dissonance, he maintained, would shake us out of complacency and demand that we hear with new ears, see with new eyes, think with new perspectives, and reach toward new harmonies rendered more intricate and more true by inclusion of the sounds of difference.
In 2006-07, Denison University's McGregor Connections Initiative will consider the role of dissonance in creating new harmonies. Speakers and events throughout the year will help us consider how progressive change occurs in a wide range of settings - personal, socio-political, artistic and scientific.
The following list of events are sponsored or co-sponsored by the McGregor Connections Initiative. For more information on a particular event, please contact Marlaine Browning at browningm@denison.edu.
Fall 2006
Friday
September 1
8:00 pm, Swasey Chapel
Opening
Convocation by Laurie Anderson
Note: There will also be a screening of "Home of the Brave" on
8/31 at 7:30 pm in Slayter Auditorium, and a conversation with Ms. Anderson on
9/2 at 10:00 am in Mulberry Lab.
Tuesday,
September 12
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
Film title TBA.
Tuesday,
September 19
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
"American
Movie" Film Screening.
Thursday,
September 21
Time & Location TBA
Gayatri
Reddy
Tuesday,
September 26
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
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Tuesday,
October 3
7:30 pm, Burton-Morgan Lecture Hall
Jan
Willis
Thursday,
October 5
4:30 pm, Location TBA
Lila
Abu-Lughod
Tuesday,
October 10
4:30 pm, Location TBA
Kelly
Brown-Douglas
Tuesday,
October 10
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
"Hell
House" Film Screening.
Wednesday,
October 11
8:00 pm, Slayter, 3rd floor
Teatro
Luna
Thursday,
October 12
11:30 am, Higley 105
"An Informal Conversation with
Christine Todd Whitman"
8:00 pm, Swasey Chapel
Formal
Lecture - Christine Todd Whitman
Tuesday,
October 17
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American
Eccentricities" film series
"Guerilla:
The Taking of Patti Hearst" Film Screening.
Thursday,
October 19
11:30 am, Slayter Auditorium
Keith
Boykin
Tuesday,
October 24
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
"Slasher"
Film Screening.
Tuesday,
October 31
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
"Hell's
Highway" Film Screening.
Wednesday,
November 1
Time and Location TBA
Sharon
Holland
Monday,
November 6
5:00 PM, Doane Dance Studio
Compagnie
Tche'Tche'
Tuesday,
November 7
7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
"American Eccentricities" film series
"Divine
Trash" Film Screening.
Wednesday,
November 8
Time and Location TBA
Paul
Berliner & Mbira masters
Thursday,
November 9
11:30 am, Location TBA
Spiral
Q Puppet Theater
This performance is the culmination of a week-long residency and
puppet-building workshop.
Thursday,
November 9
4:30 pm, Burton-Morgan Faculty Lounge
Various
Groups, "An Informal Conversation on Art & Politics"
Thursday,
November 9
7:30 pm, Slayter 3rd Floor
Naicco
Cultural Performance
Friday, November 10
7:30 pm, St. Edward's Catholic Church,
Granville Denison Chamber
Singers, "Dissonance & Consonance in Choral Harmony"
Thursday,
November 30
7:00 pm, Location TBA
Opening Reception to Arts week
8:00 pm, Doane Dance Studio
"ReMoving
History" dance performance
Friday,
December 1
8:00 pm, Doane Dance Studio
"ReMoving
History" dance performance
Saturday,
December 2
6:00-9:00 pm,
8:00 pm, Doane Dance Studio
"ReMoving
History" dance performance
Monday,
December 4
8:00 pm, Higley
DEUCE
Art Opening
Tuesday,
December 5
8:00 pm, Cleveland Hall
Studio Art Foundation
Opening
Wednesday,
December 6
8:00 pm, Burke Recital HallStudent Composers
Concert
Thursday,
December 7
8:00 pm, Mulberry Mix Lab
Multimedia
Art Opening
Friday,
December 8
5:00 pm, begin in Cleveland Hall
Closing
Reception for classes that participated in Arts Weeky
Spring 2007
Monday,
January 22
Time and location TBA
MLK Convocation, Tsidii
Leloka
Wednesday,
January 24
Time and location TBA
Tracy
West
Tuesday,
February 6
8:00 pm (vans leave earlier) Southern
Theater, Columbus
Ladysmith
Black Mombaza
Wednesday,
February 7
7:30
pm, location TBA
"Two Days in October" film screening
Based on Dave Maraniss' book, They Marched Into Sunlight
Thursday,
February 8
11:30 am, location TBA
Dave
Maraniss
Thursday,
February 22
4:30 pm, location TBA
Jaggar,
Held, Robinson
Wednesday,
February 28
4:30 pm, location TBA
Emilie
Townes
Thursday,
March 1
Time TBA, reception in
Monday,
March 5
4:30 pm, location TBA
Dan
Boye "The Physics of Sound" Jorg Schlinke residency begins
Thursday,
March 8
11:30 am, Slayter Auditorium
John
Prendergast
Thursday,
March 22
Stacy Levy residency begins
Thursday,
March 29
6:00 - 8:00 pm, Slayter third floor
DIRE
Sudanese dinner
Tuesday,
April 10
4:30 pm, Burton-Morgan Auditorium
Patricia
McFadden
Thursday,
April 12
11:30 am, Slayter Auditorium
Richard
Rodriguez
Thursday,
April 26
7:30 pm,
Monica Vorbeck, "Resonances: A Sample of Contemporary Art from