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CAS to sponsor high school poetry contest
Aspiring high school poets can showcase their creative talents by participating in the UB Poetry Contest, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).
The contest, which is designed to offer encouragement and motivation to young poet by drawing upon the highly talented faculty of the Department of English, is open to all current high school students. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis, writer-in-residence in the Department of English, will serve as judge.
Winning poets will read their work and prizes will be awarded at a special Poetry Awards Ceremony, to be held on April 3 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The first-place winner will receive $200, the second-place winner will receive $100, the third-place winner will receive $50 and four fourth-place winners will receive $25 gift certificates to Borders or Chapters. Twenty-three poets also will be recognized for achieving honorable mention.
All winners will receive an autographed copy of "Practical Gods," Dennis' collection of poetry that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.
All entries must be in English, no more than 25 lines, and typed in a 10- or 12-point font on a single sheet. Only one poem per contestant may be submitted
A completed entry form must accompany each poem. The forms may be obtained at the CAS Web site at http://cas.buffalo.edu/outreach/poetry/index.html.
No email or fax submissions will be accepted; entries must be mailed to Michele Bewley, UB Poetry Contest, University at Buffalo, CAS Dean's Office, 810 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, N.Y., 14260.
Entries must be postmarked by Feb. 6. Winners will be notified by mail no later than March 22.
For further information, contact Bewley at mrbewley@buffalo.edu or 645-2711.
Baryshnikov to perform in CFA
The Center for the Arts will present "Solos With Piano or Not…An Evening of Music and Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pianist Pedja Muzijevic" at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Mainstage theatre in the CFA, North Campus.
The Center for the Arts performance will be one of the first stops on an international solo performance tour by Baryshnikov that will begin on Jan. 23. In addition to Buffalo, the tour will visit Holyoke, Mass., and include engagements in Burlington, Vt.; Heilbronn, Germany; London, England; Miami; Los Angeles; Seattle, and Scottsdale, Ariz. The tour will conclude in Boston.
The program will include works by American and European choreographers. Lucinda Childs has created a new solo, "Opus One," for Baryshnikov set to Alban Berg's "Sonata for Piano Op. 1." Ruth Davidson Hahn, a former principal dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Group, has set her solo to Robert Schumann's "Whims, Why, Fable" from "Fantasy Pieces Op. 12." Tere O'Connor's piece, "Indoor Man"—his third for Baryshnikov—is performed to tango music by Conlon Nancarrow and David Jaggard. Cesc Gelabert's "In a Landscape" is set to John Cage's song of the same title, and Michael Clark's "Rattle Your Jewelry" is set to the music of the Beatles.
Baryshnikov also will perform Eliot Feld's "Mr. XYZ," which he recently premiered as part of Ballet Tech's Joyce Theater season. The music comprises four songs performed by Leon Redbone.
The proceeds from the tour will be used for the construction of the Baryshnikov Arts Center, slated to open in late summer 2004. Located on the top three floors of the new, six-story complex, "W 37th Street Arts" in New York City, the Baryshnikov Arts Center will include four dance studios, office space and access to a 299-seat theater. The center will be an international, interdisciplinary home for young and established artists to use as a creative laboratory, a meeting place and a performing space in which to experiment and create new work.
Tickets are $55, $50, $45 and $35 and may be obtained at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations
For more information call 645-ARTS.
UCI to host computer training
The Resource Center of the University Community Initiative (UCI) will host a "Computer Basics Workshop" from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday in 100 Allen Hall, South Campus.
The workshop, which is sponsored by the Western New York Computer Society, will offer group training in the basics of computer use. Topics to be addressed include how a computer works, how to set up and connect a computer, how to load software, how to get and use Internet access and how to use email. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
The workshop is free, but reservations are required as capacity is limited to 30 persons.
For reservations, contact UCI at 829-3525.
School of Informatics to sponsor workshop on "tissue informatics"
The School of Informatics, in conjunction with UB's Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, will present an interactive workshop on "tissue informatics" from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday in the Roswell Room, Health Sciences Library, South Campus.
The workshop, made possible through funding from the National Science Foundation, will explore such topics as opportunities for virtual collaborative laboratories, international networking and "machine vision" for rapid, hyper-quantitative analysis of tissue sections.
For further information, contact the School of Informatics at 645-6481 ext. 1177, or the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces at 829-3560.