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Internationally acclaimed Barrage string ensemble performs at Transylvania with student participation

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Members of contemporary string ensemble Barrage rehearse for their performance at Transylvania. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Called a high-octane fiddle-fest, world famous contemporary string ensemble Barrage recently performed at Transylvania for an audience of Transylvania music students and middle and high school orchestra students and parents from the Lexington community. At Transylvania, Barrage presented their integrated program to educate, motivate and inspire string students. Eleven Transylvania music students and 120 Fayette County middle and high school orchestra students participated in the concert, the high schoolers and Transylvania students played two pieces with the musicians of Barrage and the middle school students played one. Barrage conducted a rehearsal/clinic with the students in the afternoon prior to the evening performance. Barrage conducts about 30 of these educational performances a year. Professor Ben Hawkins talks with Transylvania music students waiting to take the stage and rehearse with Barrage. Formed in Canada in 1996, Barrage has been described as “Stomp” meets “Riverdance.” The talented cast, which includes six violin players, one drum kit player, one guitar player and one bass player, is made up of an international group of musicians that all contribute an impressive array of multi-instrumental talents. The players are chosen during intensive audition calls that occur year-round and around the world. New players must train for several months before they are able to step onto the stage as full members of the touring cast. The show is on the road for over 30 weeks

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"Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men" lecture at Transylvania Tuesday, September 22, at 7 p.m.; free and open to the public

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Leading researcher and writer on topics of men and masculinity, Michael Kimmel, will speak at Transylvania University’s William T. Young Campus Center, Tuesday, September 22, at 7 p.m. The lecture, titled “Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men,” is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Kimmel is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity, The Politics of Manhood, and his newest book Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.  His documentary history, Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (Beacon, 1992), chronicled men who supported women’s equality since the founding of the country. This “inspiring, path-breaking collection of remarkable documents” (Dissent) was also called “meticulously researched” (Booklist) and a “pioneering volume” which “will serve as an inspirational sourcebook for both women and men.” (Publishers’ Weekly). Kimmel will speak to Transylvania students at two prior sessions on Tuesday. At 11 a.m., he will present “Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Women and Men in a New Millennium” in Haggin Auditorium and at 12:30 p.m., he will present “Globalization and its Mal(e) contents: Gender on the Extreme Right” in the faculty/staff lounge. Kimmel’s talks at Transylvania are part of Transy’s collaboration with the Women and Gender Studies program at Eastern Kentucky University and the Gender and Women’s department at the University of Kentucky. Kimmel

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Art professor Nancy Wolsk to give public lecture "Who’s/Whose Nude? Contemporary Women and the Nude" in the Morlan Gallery, September 17, at 7 p.m.

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania art history professor Nancy Wolsk will give a public lecture titled “Who’s/Whose Nude? Contemporary Women and the Nude,” Thursday, September 17, at 7 p.m. in the Morlan Gallery as part of the Figuration to Fragmentation exhibition. The 30-minute talk will be followed by a short question and answer period. Wolsk’s areas of research and specialization include the world of French painter Pierre Bonnard and representations of women and domestic interiors from 1900 to 1914, The Nabis (late 19th -century/early 20th -century French, avant-garde artists), representations of Parisian gardens, French art from 1890-1914 and the history of the city of Paris. At Transylvania, Wolsk teaches courses in art history, twentieth-century art and architecture and  women in art. In May 2004, she led a travel course to Florence, Italy with anthropology professor Barbara LoMonaco titled “Italian Women: Representations and Realities.” Figuration to Fragmentation: The Human Form in Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, which articulates a clear vision of the role of the figure in contemporary ceramics, opened Friday, September 11 and runs through Thursday, October 15. The exhibit is a collaboration between Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery and the University of Kentucky’s Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, and includes a diverse selection of artists. Tom Bartel, Kira Campbell, Sergei Isupov and Hunter Stamps’ work will be shown at Morlan, while Tanya Batura, Anne Drew Potter, Keith Wallace Smith and Liz Zacher’s work will be on display at Tuska. For a full listing of workshops,

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Norman Wirzba, professor of theology, ecology and rural life at the Duke Divinity School, will give Transylvania’s convocation Sunday, September 13

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Norman Wirzba, research professor of theology, ecology and rural life at the Duke Divinity School, will deliver the opening convocation to the Transylvania community on Sunday, September 13, at 7 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium.   His topic, “The Grace of Good Food,” continues the theme of this year’s First Engagements Community Book Project pick, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver.  Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. In particular, he focuses on understanding and promoting practices that will equip both rural and urban communities to be more faithful and responsible members of creation. Current projects focus on eating as a spiritual discipline, theological reflection as informed by place and agrarianism as a viable and comprehensive cultural force. Wirzba has published The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight. He has edited The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. He serves as editor for the book series Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism, published by the University Press of Kentucky.

Cindy Sheehan presents "Myth America" at Transylvania on Saturday, September 12

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Well-known peace activist Cindy Sheehan will give a talk titled “Myth America” on Saturday, September 12, at 7 p.m. in the Cowgill Center, room 102. A reception will follow. George Ella and Steve Lyon will perform music and poetry before Sheehan’s talk. The event is sponsored by Transylvania student group Progress, and it is free and open to the public, with limited seating. Sheehan is a Gold Star Mother, having lost her son Casey in combat in Iraq. She has spent much of the last six years working against war. She has written six books, met with the president, challenged lawmakers over the Iraq War, made many appearances on national media and has been arrested and jailed for her actions against the Iraq War. Her most cited activities were demonstrations at Camp Casey outside of President George W. Bush’s ranch in Texas.