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WEEKLY CALENDAR

highlighting Stanford arts events, exhibitions, lectures and performances

NOV. 8-15, 2018

highlights

Young man getting a haircut.

Performance: Barber Shop Chronicles

FOUR PERFORMANCES: THURSDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 8-10, 7:30PM. NOV. 10 MATINEE, 2:30PM. ROBLE STUDIO THEATER.

A play presented by the London-based Fuel with the National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Barber Shop Chronicles traverses African barbershops in Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra and London, where besides haircuts, customers and barbers take in and share confessions, wisdom, advice and stories. Told by writer Inua Ellams, who emigrated from Nigeria to London as a teenager, this work captures the way community and culture come to life in everyday gathering spaces. Tickets are going fast for all four performances. The Saturday matinee has the most availability.

Persian singer Parissa.

11th Bita Prize for Persian Art: Parissa

FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 6:30PM. CEMEX AUDITORIUM.

The recipient of the 11th Bita Prize for Persian Arts is master vocalist of classical Persian music (radif) Parissa, for a life dedicated to preserving the best of Iranian classical music and elevating the role of women in this tradition. As part of the Bita Prize celebration, Parissa will perform a few songs with Dara Afraz, setar, and Emile Richard, percussion.

Free

Woman looking through a film camera.

Presidential Artist talk: Kerry Tribe

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 4:30PM. OSHMAN HALL, MCMURTRY BUILDING.

The work of artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe explores complex subjective experiences through highly restrained, time-based forms. Her films, videos, performances and installations offer meditations on perception and cognition, exploring topics germane to neuroscience and philosophy alike. In her talk, Tribe will share excerpts from a selection of works that focus on questions around memory, perception, empathy and communication, suggesting that encounters with art might provide unique opportunities to collectively examine human experience in profound and generative ways.

Free

tonight, thursday, nov 8

Stanford writers in conversation: novelist and physician Daniel Mason

7:30PM. BISHOP AUDITORIUM, LATHROP LIBRARY.

Daniel Mason, clinical assistant professor with the Department of Psychiatry, discusses his most recent novel The Winter Soldier and the essential aspects of the writer’s craft with Sara Houghteling, author and former Nancy Packer Lecturer in Continuing Studies.

Free

friday, nov 9

Stanford Wind Symphony fall concert

7:30PM. BING CONCERT HALL.

Russell Gavin, guest conductor for the Wind Symphony, presents the fall program: John Mackey's Xerxes; Gustav Holst's First Suite in E-flat for Military Band; Steven Bryant's Suite Dreams; Richard Strauss' Suite in B-flat, Op. 4; David Del Tredici's Acrostic Song, arranged by Mark Spede; and Ron Nelson's Rocky Point Holiday.

saturday, nov 10

Stanford Chamber Chorale: Dawn of Night

8PM. MEMORIAL CHURCH.

Stephen Sano directs the Chamber Chorale in an evening of contemplative choral music featuring William Harris’ Bring us, O Lord God; Tarik O’Regan’s Alleluia, laus et Gloria; and selections from Stephen Chatman’s cycle Dawn of Night.

sunday, nov 11

Stanford Philharmonia fall concert

2:30AM. BING CONCERT HALL.

Paul Phillips conducts the Philharmonia’s fall program: Ottorino Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 1; Gabriela L. Frank's Elegía Andina; Lukas Foss' Renaissance Concerto with Carol Wincenc, flute soloist; and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, "Classical."

monday, nov 12

Saroyan Prize for Writing celebration and reading

4:30PM. BENDER ROOM, GREEN LIBRARY.

Celebrate the winners of the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing with reading by the two winners, Hernan Diaz (In the Distance) and Robert Moor (On Trails: An Exploration). Registration is requested.

Free

tuesday, nov 13

What the Archive Cannot Hold: Violence, Dispossession, and the Writing of Post-Ottoman Art Histories

5PM. ENCINA HALL WEST, ROOM 219.

Mapping different registers of loss, this presentation focuses on the errant itineraries of dispossessed and 'lost' artworks from the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic.

Free

wednesday, nov 14

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

7:30PM. BING CONCERT HALL.

Among the foremost interpreters of the work of Arvo Pärt, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform his Fratres, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, and Adam’s Lament among other works.

thursday, nov 15

Case Studies at the Cantor: Damien Hirst’s The Void

1:30PM. CANTOR ARTS CENTER.

Marci Kwon, assistant professor of Art and Art History, and Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History, discuss The Void, a mirrored medicine cabinet filled with thousands of colorful pills fabricated by the artist.

Free

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