nter for Advanced Study presents the Nakatani Gong Orchestra on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Orpheum Theatre, 346 N. Neil Street, Champaign.
The Nakatani Gong Orchestra offers a unique, transformative experience for performers and audiences as rich harmonies produced from multiple layers of bowed gongs envelop listeners. A specialized training workshop on gong performance and conduction techniques developed by Nakatani will be offered on the day of performance to fifteen local participants from campus and community.
Tatsuya Nakatani is an acoustic sound artist and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. He has released over eighty recordings in North America and Europe, and has an extensive touring schedule. In addition to his solo performances, he conducts the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, a mobile community musical engagement project.
Nakatani will lead a participatory workshop on collective improvisation on Wednesday, September 6, 7pm-9pm in the Orchestra Rehearsal Room, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin, Urbana
Cosponsors: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Division of Musicology, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Orpheum Children's Science Museum, School of Music
For more information about this initiative, please consult the CAS website at https://cas.illinois.edu/improvisers-exchange/.
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Center for Advanced Study MillerComm2018 presents “The Russian Revolution as the Mirror of Third World Aspirations” by Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies and George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asia History, Trinity College on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana.
What did the Russian Revolution look like from India or Egypt or Southern Africa? What aspirations did it carry, what sentiment did it hold for people held in thrall of European colonialism? Why was it that these anti-colonial movements celebrated when Japan defeated the Tsarist forces in 1904 and then when the ordinary Russian people rose up in 1905? Why did Gandhi, sitting in South Africa, praise the rebels of 1905 and see in them something to emulate? What then did '1917' mean to the emergent Third World Project? These are the questions central to this presentation.
Hosted by: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
In conjunction with: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Spurlock Museum
Thanks to the Center for Advanced Study for these information items.
