PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 24, No. 20, May 5, 2005

brief notes

Sheet music displayed
Exhibit explores American culture
Two exhibits exploring a changing and challenging America as depicted by Tin Pan Alley have opened at the UI.

“Portraying American Femininity Through Melody and Art” looks at evolving American womanhood as seen through the lens of music and sheet-music cover artwork produced from the turn of the century through the 1920s. “The Long Good-Bye,” also drawing on sheet-music covers, focuses on the genre of “good-bye” music that World War I provoked and Tin Pan Alley provided.

The free public exhibits run through June 30 at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, 236 Harding Band Building.

The sheet music was drawn from the James Edward Myers Collection, which the archives acquired in January. Items in the collection span nearly 150 years (1836 to 1985) and three genres – country, military and popular music. Of particular interest are the covers designed for Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, and John Philip Sousa.

The Sousa Archives is open 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Appointments are encouraged but not required. For more information, call 217-244-9309 or e-mail sousa@uiuc.edu.

University YMCA
It’s time to ‘Dump & Run’
The University YMCA will soon be accepting donations for its Dump & Run fundraiser. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 9 through June 4, and from Aug. 1 to 9, the YMCA will accept donations of items to be sold at its annual garage sale in late August.

Donations may be a variety of reusable items that students might otherwise dispose of as they move out. Potential donations include nearly new clothing, furniture, working electronic items, backpacks, bicycles, school supplies, jewelry, winter clothing, shoes, kitchen items, CDs, books, computers, artwork, toys, sports equipment, non-perishable food, soap and other household goods. The fundraiser will help reduce litter and consumer waste as well as provide inexpensive items for students to purchase this fall.

The YMCA also is seeking volunteers to help with the program. Volunteers receive a T-shirt and may shop the sale before it opens to the public.

The garage sale will be Aug. 25-27. For more information, contact Rachael Dietkus at 337-1500 or rachael@universityymca.org.

Spurlock Museum and Japan House
Japanese paper art demonstrated
Artist Lily Nakao will give several demonstrations and a workshop this month on how to create chigiri-e pictures. Chigiri-e is a Japanese art form in which colorful torn pieces of paper are turned into intricate works of art that resemble watercolor images.

Nakao will demonstrate the art form at 7 p.m. May 19 at Spurlock Museum. This free event is held in conjunction with the museum’s Focus Gallery exhibit “Following the Paper Trail From China to the World” and is co-sponsored by the UI Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and a gift from Sara de Mundo Lo.

In addition, Nakao will teach a workshop from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. May 22. During the workshop, participants will learn the art form and practice creating their own pictures. Pre-registration is required. More general information can be found at www.uiuc.spurlock.edu or by calling 333-2360. Registration forms are available by calling Kim Sheahan at 244-3355.

Nakao also will demonstrate chigiri-e during Children’s Day at Japan House from 1 to 3 p.m. May 21.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Summer play scheduled announced
The summer Studio Theatre Company, formerly known as Summerfest, will present three American classics this summer – “My Three Angels,” by Sam and Bella Spewak; “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” by Neil Simon; and “Broadway,” by Philip Dunning and George Abbott. The performances will rotate Tuesday through Sunday from June 17 through July 31 in the Studio Theater of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

In “My Three Angels,” directed by William G. Martin, three convicts must help a close-knit family regain the holiday spirit as they face eviction on Christmas Eve.

“Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” directed by William R. Jenkins, centers on a middle-aged man who has decided that he was “missing in action” during the sexual revolution and attempts to join in with explosive results.

The murder mystery “Broadway,” directed by Sue Lawless, takes audiences members back to a time when bootlegging, crime and corruption thrived because of Prohibition.
Tickets also are on sale for a benefit show to support the Apprentice/Internship Programs offered by the Summer Studio. A performance of “Broadway” followed by a musical revue of Prohibition era songs in the lobby of Krannert Center will begin at 7:30 p.m. July 21 and 22. The Apprentice/Internship Program is open to high school students who wish to gain experience in the production and performance processes.

For more information and to purchase tickets visit KrannertCenter.com.

WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert
Arcadia Chamber Players featured May 8
The Arcadia Chamber Players will perform varied chamber works at 2 p.m. for the May 8 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert. The concert will be at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion and is free and open the public. It also will be broadcast live on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with host Vic Di Geronimo.

This is the second season of performances for The Arcadia Chamber Players. Flutist Mary Chapman, clarinetist Marina Antoline, cellist Sylvia Liu and pianist Debra Sutter present three chamber music concerts each year and sponsor a chamber music competition for young musicians.

The WILL-FM Second Sunday Concerts are a joint venture of WILL-FM, the UI School of Music and Krannert Art Museum.

Managing obesity
Forum focuses on benefits of soy foods
To help address the problem of obesity, the UI will host a forum May 25-26 to examine the role that soy foods can play in managing a person’s weight.

The forum will bring together food-industry representatives, health-care professionals, dietitians and university scientists to review the latest research. The event is sponsored by the Illinois Center for Soy Foods, the National Soybean Research Laboratory, and the department of food science and human nutrition at Illinois. The soybean industry and Illinois Soybean Checkoff Board are helping to fund the forum.

Topics will include the challenge facing the U.S., human studies on soy and weight loss, industry perspectives, and the economic, cultural and sociological impacts of obesity.
The forum will be at the Hawthorn Suites, 101 Trade Center Drive, Champaign.

Program and fee information and a registration form are available online (www.obesityandsoy.uiuc.edu). Registration also can be made by fax at 217-244-1707 or by mail to Megan Puzey, 170 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody, MC-637.

Additional information is available by calling 217-244-1706 or by e-mail at obesityandsoy@uiuc.edu.

May Ally Meeting
Screening of ‘Daddy and Papa’ is May 6
From noon to 1:30 p.m. on May 6, the May Ally meeting will feature a screening of “Daddy and Papa.” The meeting will be held in the newly renovated Office of LGBT Concerns, located in Room 323 of the Illini Union. “Daddy and Papa” is a documentary about four gay male families. After the screening, participants will have a chance to discuss the film and talk about families headed by gay or lesbian parents. Cookies and soda will be served. More information about the film is available at http://daddyandpapa.com/.

For more information about the meeting, contact Curt McKay at curtb@uiuc.edu or 244-8863 or Anita Hund at ahund@uiuc.edu.

Town Hall forum
New research initiative explored
Researchers from all disciplines are encouraged to attend a town hall forum as part of an ongoing campus initiative to build strength and national competitiveness in translational biomedical research.

The forum, from 1 to 5:30 p.m. May 12 in the Beckman Auditorium, will explain the significance of translational research among current goals of the National Institutes of Health, describe recent university activities to promote research and gain funding in this area, and invite input from faculty members across campus.

Translational research has been defined by NIH as the process of applying ideas, insights and discoveries generated through basic scientific inquiry to the treatment or prevention of human disease.

The forum, titled “Developing Directions for Translational Biomedical Research at the University of Illinois,” will help the campus identify key needs and opportunities and will guide strategic investment in this area.

The keynote speaker is Belinda Seto, deputy director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and a liaison to the Office of the Director on the NIH roadmap initiatives. She will describe the role of translational research within the NIH’s long-range plan to stimulate interdisciplinary research and reshape clinical research to accelerate medical discovery.

Holly Falk-Krzesinski, director of Life and Biomedical Sciences Strategic Initiatives at Northwestern University, will talk about plans for an Illinois Expanded Regional Translational Research Center uniting Northwestern, the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and the UI campuses at Urbana and Chicago.

Campus speakers at the forum include Chancellor Richard Herman; acting Provost Jesse Delia; Chip Zukoski, vice chancellor for research; and Herb Whiteley, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and chair of the Campus Translational Research Advisory Committee.

For more information, contact Whitely, 217-333-2760.

School of Art and Design
Graduate student art exhibition
The School of Art and Design will host the 2005 BFA Graduate Exhibition at Krannert Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view May 12-15 in the East Gallery and 20th Century Gallery at the museum. This new program is a schoolwide effort designed to give graduates an opportunity to show their work to the community. A celebration of seniors and their achievements will take place at the opening reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. May 12. The exhibition will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 13 and 14 and from noon to 5 p.m. May 15.

In addition, the annual School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition will continue through May 8. The exhibition focuses on eight areas of specialization: photography, industrial design, sculpture, painting, narrative media, metals, ceramics and graphic design.

UI media conference
Donahue, Hersh among speakers
Media consolidation and freedom of the press will be the themes for a May 10-11 conference at the UI, featuring a prominent group of journalists, artists, activists, media executives, policy-makers and scholars.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, the keynote speaker, will headline a group that includes former talk-show host Phil Donahue, broadcast journalist Amy Goodman, Washington correspondent John Nichols and author Naomi Klein, among others.

The journalists participating are “really a who’s who of prominent independent journalists,” according to Robert McChesney, the director of the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research, the sponsor of the event.

Titled “Can Freedom of the Press Survive Media Consolidation?,” the conference is the first for IIMPR, which was established last fall in the College of Communications at Illinois, traditionally a leader in the field of media studies.

“The conference is going to be a chance to really get this issue into play, get it talked about, enlighten a lot of us and have a discussion on not only the effects of media consolidation, but how we as a society want to address it if we accept that it is a legitimate concern,” said McChesney who also is a professor in the Institute of Communications Research at Illinois.

The conference is free and open to the public, and the discussion will be framed for a general audience, McChesney said.

Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New Yorker magazine, broke the story in 2004 of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He will speak at 5 p.m. on May 10 to open the conference. His talk, “The Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib,” will be in Foellinger Auditorium. The talk also is part of the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm series.

The conference then will formally open later that evening with a panel discussion in Foellinger Auditorium featuring remarks from Goodman, Klein and U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont.

The rest of the conference will be a series of four panel discussions on May 11 in the Festival Theater at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The schedule of panel discussions and the panelists is online at www.iimpr.org.

UI Library exhibit
Career of Judge Wood examined
An exhibit chronicling the “long and extraordinary” career of federal judge Harlington Wood Jr., a high-ranking public servant who, among other critical roles, served as chief negotiator for the U.S. Department of Justice at Wounded Knee, S.D., is running at the UI, his alma mater.

Titled “Judge Harlington Wood, Jr.: A ‘Most Lincolnesque Man,’ ” the exhibit largely focuses on Wood’s role during the 1971 MayDay demonstrations in Washington, D.C., the 1972 political conventions at Miami Beach and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee. Wood helped with negotiations between protesters and law-enforcement agencies, and coordinated the government’s on-scene response.

The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs through May 10 at the Rare Book and Special Collections Library, Room 346 Library.

Wood, 85, who lives in Petersburg, Ill., gave his papers to the Library’s Illinois Historical Survey and Lincoln Room in 2003 and 2004.

Among the items on display are artifacts, photographs and presidential certificates, many of them chronicling Wood’s time in the Justice Department. For example, the exhibit includes a 1971 permit he issued to anti-war protesters; correspondence from Warren E. Burger, J. Edgar Hoover, William Rehnquist and Donald Rumsfeld; and a memo detailing the immigration status of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

More about the collection is at www.library.uiuc.edu/ihx/woodcollection.htm.

For more information about the exhibit, contact Groves at 217-333-1777 or agroves@uiuc.edu.

International exhibit
Political imprisonment commemorated
An international touring exhibit marking the 25th anniversary of the incarceration of two Puerto Rican political prisoners in U.S. federal facilities will open May 7. “Not Enough Space” is free and open to the public and will continue throughout May on the first floor of the Main Library.

The exhibit commemorates the imprisonments of Oscar López Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres, who are serving 70- and 78-year terms respectively. López Rivera, arrested in 1981, is in the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.; Torres, arrested in 1980, is in the correctional institution in Oxford, Wis. Both were convicted of seditious conspiracy (attempting to overthrow the U.S. government).

A reception, also free and open to the public, will precede the opening at 2 p.m. at the University YMCA. Two winners of the Young Chicago Authors’ fifth annual “Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam” will perform.

According to its national organizers, the Chicago-based National Boricua Human Rights Network, the exhibit aims to educate viewers about Puerto Rican political prisoners, the reasons for their imprisonment and their “inhumane treatment and living conditions.”
Ann Bishop, a UI professor of library and information science, is on the local organizing committee for the exhibit, whose presentation in Champaign-Urbana is sponsored by the UI-based Community Informatics Initiative.

For more information contact Bishop at 217-244-3299 or abishop@uiuc.edu, or Jorge Félix, curator of the exhibit, at 773-486-8345 or FelixJorge@msn.com.

May 16-20
Employees encouraged to bike to work
A local campaign is encouraging people to leave their cars in the garage and ride their bikes to work May 16-20. The effort coincides with National Bike to Work Week. This is the first year for the local campaign that will lobby for employee incentives for biking, better bike paths and fewer cars on the roads.

Anyone with a bicycle they’re not using may donate it to be raffled off to Urbana school students that week.

For local information, e-mail cumpston@uiuc.edu. For information about the national program, go to www.bike-to-work.com/.

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