Culture Desk, "UGA hosts arts festival" - The Daily Citizen - Dalton, GA, USAFriday, August 15, 2008
Athens, GA: Music, drama, art and poetry will enliven the University of Georgia campus during the first UGA Arts Festival, a four-day celebration to be held Sept. 4-7 at the Performing and Visual Arts Complex to coincide with the dedication of the new Lamar Dodd School of Art building.
The festival will feature numerous performances and exhibitions, all open free to the public.
Featured events include a performance of French playwright Yasmina Reza’s award-winning comedy Art and readings by internationally known poet and translator Coleman Barks.
Also on hand will be the Amadeus Trio as part of the Franklin College Chamber Music Series.
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On Friday, Sept. 5, events will include an outdoor stage sponsored by UGA’s Music Business Program; performances by the CORE Concert Dance Company and the Amadeus Trio; and a reading, “Lion of the Heart,” performed by Coleman Barks, who will be accompanied by Art Rosenbaum, who is equally well known for his work as an artist and as a music folklorist.
Barks is known worldwide as a poet and translator of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.
Rosenbaum is a painter, muralist and illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. Both Barks and Rosenbaum are retired UGA faculty members.
For additional information visit http://www.uga.edu/artsfestival/
[Picture from http://www.sufism.org/books/lion.html].
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