http://calendar.uoregon.edu Upcoming events from the University of Oregon's Duckhenge calendar http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=8988 Museum of Natural and Cultural History: Is music a universal language? What is an instrument? What is considered beautiful music? Every culture in the world makes music - there is a great diversity of traditions, as well as many commonalities. Explore musical instruments from many continents and learn about the people who use them and the role music plays in their cultures. Watch videos of master musicians demonstrating instruments from India, Ireland, Japan, Zimbabwe and Oregon. Visitors also have a chance to try their musical talents on a range of instruments. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9031 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: Marché Museum Café provides the perfect complement for visiting the museum with Wednesday Wine Nights. Wines and petit plats (little plates) are $4.00 each every Wednesday night. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9073 Museum of Natural and Cultural History: From the controlled beauty of classical ballet to the vivacity of salsa, dance can be found in nearly every culture on Earth. "Shall We Dance" is the result of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker's year of travel across the United States, documenting the huge variety of styles (from tap to tango, salsa to swing) and dancers he encountered. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9193 East and West Entryway Corridors, Knight Library: Comic books have a rich history in American culture, and an exhibit now on display in Knight Library profiles the work of one of the major players in the development of the comic book genre, Gardner Francis Fox. In addition to producing scripts for a phenomenal number of popular comic books, Fox was an extraordinarily prolific writer in other genres as well: westerns, science fiction, espionage, crime, swashbucklers, sorcery, historical fiction, erotica, women's romances, and fantasy novels. His work appeared under his own name and ultimately under some 36 pseudonyms, both male and female. In 1967 Gardner Fox's literary agent, August Lenniger, encouraged him to donate his papers to the University of Oregon. The exhibit draws on a rich variety of materials from the collection, now housed in Special Collections and University Archives. The full collection contains Fox's personal collection of about 950 comics, many containing the stories he scripted, as well as his manuscripts, correspondence, fan letters, and research notebooks. The exhibit offers a tour of the history of comic books through the genre's various "ages," including the Golden Age, Atomic Age, and Silver Age. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9181 Mills International Center, Erb Memorial Union: The Mills International Center Gallery and the Cultural Forum invite you to experience India in a new way. During fall term the photography of local photographers Mark Morris and Ankush Vimawala will be displayed in the Mills International Center (located in the EMU above the post office), in the Aperture Gallery and Buzz Café both in the Erb Memorial Union, at the University of Oregon. The Ohio-born and India-raised Ankush Vimawala now works as a software engineer in Eugene while enjoying hobbies such as photography and playing the Indian hand drums (Tabla). His photography has been showcased at various places such as the Eugene Mayor's art show and art galleries around the country. We invite you to the Exhibit's opening reception on Friday October 23rd from 6:30-9 p.m. in the Mills International Center where Ankush will be playing with his band, Bindaas. Mark Morris' and Ankush's photography translates the eclecticism of Indian culture--the colors and the chaos. "Fundraising for an Indian family" -- Photographer Mark Morris will donate the money of any piece sold for the family he supports in India. The exhibit was curated by the Mills Center Exhibit Curator Kelly Tavares. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9225 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - The third annual K-12 exhibition, NewArt Northwest Kids continues in 2009 with locations and a theme to complement the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's fall exhibition, "Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero." In 2008 the JSMA received more than 350 artworks from more than 35 schools throughout the Southern Willamette Valley. To accommodate the growing response the exhibition will be displayed in the North and South Hallways on the JSMA's first floor. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9202 Browsing Room, Knight Library: - A staged reading of a new play by Jordan Harrison that imagines a world where all libraries have been digitized and no print culture remains (or, so the government thinks...). Discussion with the playwright to follow. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9059 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - Come enjoy a full bill of superhero cinema each month. Richard Herskowitz, film curator, Houston Cinema Arts Society and UO Arts and Administration faculty member, has unearthed three rarely screened but artistically exciting superhero feature films, to be preceded by a classic Max Fleischer Superman cartoon and a surprise short subject. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9275 Craft Center, Erb Memorial Union: - Registration for Craft Center Winter workshops begins, online or in person. Be sure to register early for the best selection of classes! http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9060 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - The UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Museum of Natural and Cultural History offer free admission on home games during the 2009 Ducks Football Season. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9287 Browsing Room, Knight Library: - The University of Oregon Libraries' music series, A Little Knight Music, will present its fall 2009 offering with a concert of classical saxophone quartet music performed by the Infinity Saxophone Quartet. Music by Caryl Florio, Samuel Adler, Alfred Désenclos, Perry Goldstein and Eugène Bozza will be featured. The concert will be followed by a reception for the artists. The Infinity Saxophone Quartet is a new music group dedicated to artistry and musical integrity. Idit Shner (soprano sax), Sean Fredenburg (alto sax), Jesse Cloninger (tenor sax) and Amy Eisenstadt (baritone sax) make up the group. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9061 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - Enjoy the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art with free admission the first Friday of every month. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9263 Browsing Room, Knight Library: - John Willinsky, a visionary leader and author in the area of digital scholarship and open access, will explore the future of academic publishing in this talk, which is part of the Year of the Book series. With faculty appointments at both the Stanford School of Education and the department of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia, Willinsky has been an innovator in the field of open access. As founder of the Public Knowledge Project, he developed the Open Journal Systems for serials publishing and, more recently, the Open Monograph Press for book-length works. He also played the lead role in convincing the Stanford School of Education to adopt an open access deposit mandate for all of its faculty members. Willinsky describes his research as focusing on "analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation." He argues that the use of new publishing technologies and new economic models will improve access to scholarly work for the advancement of public knowledge. A reception will follow the talk. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9062 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - Join us for this much-anticipated special reception honoring the students whose work is on view in "NewArt Northwest Kids: Heroes and Heroines." The Jordan Schitzer Museum of Art's Holiday Family Day and Open House follows. http://calendar.uoregon.edu/showanitem.php?refid=9224 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: - Join us for this much-anticipated special reception honoring the students whose work is on view in "NewArt Northwest Kids: Heroes and Heroines." Our Holiday Family Day and Open House follows. The third annual K-12 exhibition, NewArt Northwest Kids continues in 2009 with locations and a theme to complement the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's fall exhibition "Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero." In 2008 the JSMA received more than 350 artworks from more than 35 schools throughout the Southern Willamette Valley. To accommodate the growing response the exhibition will be displayed in the North and South Hallways on the JSMA's first floor.