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The Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Lecture: Randall Kenan: Haints and Boogers

Event date: 
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union
Admission: 
Free

Haints and Boogers: Making a Case for the Supernatural and Other-Natural in Southern Fiction

Award-winning novelist Randall Kenan focuses on the uses of the supernatural in folk stories from around the world as well as in southern ghost stories and the need to document the hurt and unhealed memories in the South. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kenan spent his childhood in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and held a position on the editorial staff of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for four years.

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
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Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Open Rehearsal: Arsenic & Old Lace and new dance works-in-progress

Event date: 
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Valborg Theatre
Admission: 
Free

Join us for "Open Rehearsal Night" as the university's highly acclaimed Department of Theatre & Dance prepares for its upcoming "Front of the Curtain Festival," scheduled for August 10 - 13, 2011.

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Movies on the Lawn: Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Event date: 
Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Location: 
Duck Pond Field
Admission: 
Free

Pack a late night snack, bring your blanket or lawn chair, and join us for movies under the stars featuring these and other short films!

Bag It

Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, "everyman" Jeb Berrier embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our planet and lives. We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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boxoffice@appstate.edu
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(800) 841-ARTS or (828) 262-4046

Triad Stage: The Sunset Limited

Event date: 
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Valborg Theatre
Admission: 
$20 / $10

The American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, has described Triad Stage as "one of the most promising emerging theatre companies from around the country." In this riveting drama, an African-American ex-con saves the life of a white professor on a subway platform in New York City, even though the professor didn't wish for such deliverance. The incident leads the two men back to a Harlem apartment where hope and despair clash in a battle that shakes both men to the core of their existence. Is one an angel? Is the other completely lost?

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Film series: Mad Hot Ballroom

Event date: 
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Farthing Auditorium
Admission: 
$10

Pre-film talk at 8pm; film starts at approximately 8:30pm.

Ballroom dancing goes from lame to cool for a group of New York City students in this insightful documentary, which follows a group of 11-year-olds as they learn to dance old-school styles, including the merengue, rumba, tango, foxtrot and swing. Candid interviews capture the kids' initial reluctance at learning ballroom dance and their transformation into serious competitors determined to win a citywide competition.

Rated PG; Directed by Marilyn Agrelo (2005); 105 minutes

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
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Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Film series: Séraphine

Event date: 
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Farthing Auditorium
Admission: 
$10

Pre-film talk at 8pm; film starts at approximately 8:30pm.

Awestruck by the vibrant and imaginative artwork of uneducated housekeeper Séraphine Louis, German art critic, Wilhelm Unde, takes the promising painter under his wing. Though her neighbors and others dismiss Séraphine's work, Unde is determined to turn the obscure French artist into a star in this revelatory biopic.

Unrated; Directed by Martin Provost (2008); 125 minutes

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Film series: Mao's Last Dancer

Event date: 
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Farthing Auditorium
Admission: 
$10

Pre-film talk at 8pm; film starts at approximately 8:30pm.

11-year-old peasant villager Li Cunxin is chosen by Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy to study ballet in far-off Beijing, where he trains for seven grueling years to become one of China's greatest dancers. His efforts win him the opportunity to dance in America, opening his eyes to a new love and the possibility of a dramatic defection from China in this remarkable true story based on Cunxin's autobiography.

Rated PG; Directed by Bruce Beresford (2010); 117 minutes

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
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Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble

Event date: 
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Rosen Concert Hall
Admission: 
$18 / $16.20 / $10

Left: Gil Morgenstern. Right: Hiromi Fukuda.

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
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Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble

Event date: 
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Rosen Concert Hall
Admission: 
$18 / $16.20 / $10

Clockwise from top left: Gil Morgenstern, Dan Panner, Benjamin Ho

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Event date: 
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Farthing Auditorium
Admission: 
$28 / $24.92 / $16 / $15 / $10

"A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans... They raise the bar, and then they jump over it." - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

Sponsor: 
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Contact name: 
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
Contact email: 
boxoffice@appstate.edu
Contact telephone: 
(800) 841-ARTS or (828) 262-4046