Arts News from the Chronicles

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Slingshot Festival

The third annual Slingshot festival got off to a rousing start last night and the action continues through Saturday: Musical highlights of the festival will include DJ sets by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DJ Windows 98 (Win Butler of Arcade Fire) as well as performances by Jamie XX, Nosaj…
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Ambartsumian named Regents Professor

It is with great pleasure that we join in celebration of the naming of Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian as a Regents Professor: Regents Professorships are bestowed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on faculty members whose scholarship or creative activity is…
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Keith Wilson exhibition, lecture, tour

In addition to his lecture, Wilson will give interpretive tours of the School of Art building on River Road March 26 at 6 p.m. The tours—known as the Cave and Mountain Tours, in which he describes as performances where he adopts the persona of a tour guide—are meant to create new relationships to…
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Learning social entrepreneurship through movement

          Thinc week is March 23-27 on campus, and one of the many highlights will be a dance workshop led by Stanford University dance instructor Aleta Hayes, who uses dance and free movement as a route to leadership and collaboration: What new ways can we relate to one…
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CORE Dance Concert

UGA's CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company's dance, aerial dance and multimedia concert continues Friday and Saturday Feb. 27- 28 at 8 p.m. and Sunday March 1 at 6 p.m. in the New Dance Theater in the dance building on Sanford Drive. "The Human Soul Connection" will guide the audience…