Arts and Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment Calendar: January 12 to January 26

SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, January 12
-- "The Colored Museum," open audition, 3 to 5 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center. For more information, call (814) 865-7586.

-- "Rent," 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

Saturday, January 22
-- Universes' "Slanguage," 8 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

Sunday, January 23
-- "Junie B. Jones," Theatreworks/USA, 2 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

MUSIC
Friday, January 14
-- B.B. King, 8 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center.

Sunday, January 16
-- Mozart Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Timothy Hurtz, featured oboist, 3 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. For tickets, call (814) 234-8313.

Wednesday, January 19
-- Ying Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

FILMS
Wednesday, January 12
-- "Geography Skills: Map Symbols, Map Grids and Latitude," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.

Wednesday, January 19
-- "Rough Science: All Mapped Out," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.

Thursday, January 20
-- "La Fleur du mal (The Flower of Evil)," 6:30 and 9 p.m., 113 Carnegie.

Wednesday, January 26
-- "Many Ways to See the World," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.

SEMINARS
Thursday, January 13
-- Carlo McCormick on "The Downtown Show: The New York Scene 1974-84," 2:30 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.

EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- Anne Grout, ceramic artist, Exhibit Cases, through Jan. 16.

-- Artist Eugene Grigsby Jr. and sculptor Woodrow Nash, Robeson Gallery, Jan. 19 through Feb. 27.

-- "Calculations for the Perfect Woman," by Donnamaria Bruton, Jan. 18 through March 16.

Palmer Museum of Art
-- "Recent Acquisitions," Works on Paper Gallery, through Jan. 23.

-- "The Seligmann Portfolio," by Kurt Seligmann, through Jan. 30.

Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Double Vision: Stereo Cards and Their Descendants, The First Visual Mass Media," 201A Pattee, through February.

-- "Changing the Joke/Slipping the Yoke: Humor in African-American Fiction," by Pia Deas, 109 Pattee Library, through March 11.

-- "Endangered Peoples: Struggling to Survive in a Global World," 109 Pattee Library, through March 11.

-- "Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," featuring posters designed by Penn State students, Pattee Library exhibit area, through March 11.

-- Display on the Dec. 26 tsunami, The Maps Library.

For a full listing of University Park activities, including sporting events, go to the Web at http://events.psu.edu/ and for a detailed listing of upcoming Conference and Institutes' conferences, visit the Web at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conferences.html

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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