(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced their schedule of virtual events for February 2021. Events range from video tours to webinars, book readings to dance and theatrical performances. All events are free and available to the public.
Natural and Conventional Signs, an exhibition tour by Ryan Gander, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts - February 5-26 video tour available on-demand; Live Guided Tour and Conversation with the Artist - February 9 at 12:00pm. Live Guided Tour and Conversation via Zoom with advance registration. Natural and Conventional Signs is an exhibition in which U.K. artist Ryan Gander presents a selection of new works directly guided by his research at Princeton undertaken during his time as a Hodder Fellow (2019-2020) and made during a period of reflection while the world paused amid a global pandemic. Gander invites an audience into his studio-cum-gallery, Solid Haus in rural Suffolk, a two-hour drive east of London, digitally for the first time. There he has assembled a show in which the works have duality in meaning and utility; subverting the signs, tropes, and markers seen in the everyday world to shine new light on how we position ourselves in relation to the values of time, money, opportunity, attention and privilege. Princeton faculty member David Reinfurt engages Gander in a live guided tour of the exhibition and conversation February 9.
Accessibility: The live guided tour and conversation will be live captioned. Guests needing other access accommodations in order to participate in this event are invited to contact the Lewis Center at [email protected] at least 2 weeks in advance. For more information, to view the video tour online, and to register for the live guided tour and conversation, click here.
“Irish Hobo, Buddhist Monk, Anti-colonial Celebrity: The Strange Story of U Dhammaloka / Laurence Carroll,” presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies - February 5 at 4:30pm; Virtual via Zoom Webinar. Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and associate researcher at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales, Paris, Laurence Cox presents a lecture, based on his recent book, The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire, with Alicia Turner and Brian Bocking.
Accessibility: This event will be live captioned. Viewers in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least 2 weeks in advance at [email protected] For more information and Zoom link, click here.
Reading in Translation: New Student Work, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing - February 17 at 5:30pm; Virtual via Zoom. Six Princeton students studying literary translation read from their recent work, hosted by faulty member Larissa Kyzer. Accessibility: Viewers in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least 2 weeks in advance at [email protected] For more information and Zoom link, click here.
Premiere of 40th annual tour of Thomas Edison (formerly Black Maria) Film Festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Visual Arts and Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium - February 20 at 8:00pm; Virtual via Zoom Webinar. The 40th annual tour of the Thomas Edison (formerly Black Maria) Film Festival kicks off virtually with a premiere screening of several top award-winning films followed by an audience Q&A with filmmakers and Festival Director Jane Steuerwald. Accessibility: Viewers in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least 2 weeks in advance at [email protected] For more information and Zoom link, click here.
Reading by Ottessa Moshfegh and seniors from the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creating Writing on February 24 at 6:00pm; Virtual via Zoom Webinar. A reading by bestselling, award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ottessa Moshfegh and five seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.
Acessibility: Viewers in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least 2 weeks in advance at [email protected] For more information and Zoom link, click here.
"1921 and 2021: The Partition of Ireland, Then and Now," presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies on February 26 at 4:30pm; Virtual via Zoom Webinar. Scholar and critic Fintan O’Toole delivers the annual Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on “1921 and 2021: The Partition of Ireland, Then and Now.” O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, is a columnist for The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton.
Accessibility: This event will be live captioned. Viewers in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least 2 weeks in advance at [email protected] For more information and Zoom link, click here.
Performing Healing: Rituals & Repetition, an exhibition by Diana Chen, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts - Through May 2021; Virtual online at 185nassau.art Princeton senior Diana Chen presents Performing Healing: Rituals & Repetition, an exhibition of new work exploring the therapeutic role of rituals and repetition during times of crisis and change. Using found objects, personal items and other memorabilia, the work depicts healing as an alchemical performance in which we re-live, re-tell and re-enact through simple repetitions of movement. Drawing inspiration from Buddhism, Jungian psychology and creation myths, the work seeks to re-trace the symbolic journey from distress and fragmentation to healing and wholeness. For more information, click here.
Princeton Dance Festival Reimagined, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance - On-demand through May 2021. The exciting, innovative, reimagined virtual edition of the annual Princeton Dance Festival recorded in December features diverse, professional choreographers bringing their unique aesthetics to the question of dance in the COVID era working with Princeton dance students. In works led by Peter Chu, Francesca Harper, Rebecca Lazier, Dean Moss, Silas Riener, and Olivier Tarpaga, students explored the intersections of dance and multimedia performance, digital animation, filmmaking, site-based work, and music. Each evening is a completely different and unique experience followed by a recorded question and answer session with the choreographers.
Accessibility: Video content is closed captioned. To view the recordings, click here.
All Her Power: 50th Anniversary of Princeton Undergraduate Coeducation Theater Project, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater - On-demand through May 2021. The first undergraduate co-ed class arrived at Princeton University in the fall of 1969. In celebration of this milestone in 2019, the Program in Theater facilitated journalistic research by three generations of Princeton women—current students, professional artist alumnae, and the first generation of graduating women—to culminate in a theatrical event exploring the experiences of women at the University. Students were paired with professional artist alumnae to research and create new, short performances about women who graduated from Princeton in the first few years of co-education at Princeton. The process, led by Program in Theater Director Jane Cox and Lecturer in Theater and Princeton alumna Suzanne Agins’97 working with student-alumnae pairs, culminates in this filmed archive of the work in collaboration with theater and visual arts alumna Milan Eldridge ’20.
Accessibility: The film is closed captioned. To view the film on-demand and read more about the project, click here.
