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Friday, March 25, 2011
Dayton artist creates governor’s award
Dayton photographer and printmaker Francis Schanberger has been selected to create the 2011 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio from his “Forces of Nature” collection.
A native of Philadelphia who has lived in Dayton since 2005, Schanberger’s distinctive work draws upon his backgrounds in art and science. Before earning an MFA in photography and digital imaging, he received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and cell biology.
The annual Governor’s Awards will take place at noon Wednesday, May 12, at the Columbus Athenaeum, 32. N. Fourth St.
Among the seven statewide winners are Michael Kenwood Lippert from Dayton, who will be honored in the arts education category, and the law firm of Freund, Freeze & Arnold of Dayton, business support for the arts.
Reservations for the awards and Arts Day Luncheon can be made online at www.oac.ohio.gov. Tickets are $50 and include lunch and a dessert reception. All proceeds go to the Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation. Deadline for registration is Monday, April 11, 2011. Seating is limited.
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TweetUD LitFest has readings, writing, slam
LitFest 2011 at the University of Dayton Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, will feature writing workshops, public readings, a poetry slam and a dance performance.
Sponsored by the University of Dayton English Department, the two-day event at several campus locations has the theme “A Sea of Diversity: Rising Tides, Rising Authors.” All activities are free and open to the public.
Featured guests on Friday will include award-winning poets Kwame Dawes and Kathy Fagan. On Saturday, there will be public readings by four-time novelist Katrina Kittle, a Dayton native, and Frank X Walker, co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and founder of the Bluegrass Black Arts Consortium.
Also that day, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company will perform “Lyric Fire,” a tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar. As usual, the festival will close with a poetry slam.
For a complete schedule, go to the University of Dayton LitFest 2011 Facebook page or http://community.udayton.edu/artssciences/english/LitFest2011index.php.
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Tweetk.d. lang coming to fraze
Singer-songwriter k.d. lang is coming to Fraze Pavilion in Kettering for a concert on Wednesday, June 29.
The outdoor venue has also added, on Thursday, Aug. 4, the ’60s-saturated “Happy Together Tour,” featuring Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Association, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams and Flo & Eddie of The Turtles.
Mountain Heart will play Aug. 9 in a $2 Tuesday concert.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 2, for k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, plus a special guest yet to be announced. Prices are $46 for plaza, $41 for orchestra and $26 for lawn/terrace. Limit is four tickets per person on the first day of sales.
Seats for “Happy Together” are $45 in the plaza, $35 in the orchestra section and $22.50 for lawn and terrace, also at Fraze or through Ticketmaster, (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.
Visit www.fraze.com for more about the season.
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TweetLockwood stages drama about AA’s founders
Anyone familiar with Dayton community theater over the past few decades might find it hard to believe, but Dodie Lockwood hasn’t directed for 20 years.
She’s taking on the challenge again for a special production of the award-winning drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, “Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” May 31-April 3 at the Dayton Playhouse, 1301 E. Siebenthaler Ave.
She has had her cast attend AA meetings as part of their research into the characters and the issues the play raises.
The local premiere will feature Geoff Burkman as Bill Wilson, the New York stockbroker whose drinking threatened his career, marriage and life; and Dave Williamson as Dr. Bob Smith, the surgeon who fought addictions to alcohol and pills for much of his life.
Times are 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for students at www.daytonplayhouse.org or by calling (937) 424-8477.
The play was written by husband and wife Samuel Shem, who was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty for three decades, and Janet Surrey, a clinical psychologist.
Dr. Shem, also a former playwright in residence at the Boston Shakespeare Company, will give the commencement address (on “How to Stay Human in Medicine”) at the Wright State University School of Medicine on May 27.
The authors plan to produce the play again off Broadway in 2012.
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