Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 9:00pm - 11:00 pm
Contact: union@duke.edu
Sponsor: Duke University Union
Where: Page Auditorium

Reserved Seating

Why:

Adults                  $45, $40, $35
Duke Students     $25, $20, $15
Duke Employees  $25, $20, $15

Murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery, the cornerstones of the sultry and alluring Broadway musical hit. Based on the 1926 play by the same name, CHICAGO is the story of seductive nightclub dancer Roxie Hart who finds that the road to fame can be a trail of blood. Throw in a cunning lawyer and a bit of razzle dazzle and Roxie goes from cold hearted
killer to the toast of the town.

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 9:00pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: Elizabeth Thompson (ethomps@duke.edu) or Joyce Kurpiers (jck17@duke.edu)
Sponsor: Duke University Department of Music
Where:

"Interpersonal Beats" (Sheafer Theater, Feb. 20, 8pm)

Program:
Quentin Conrate, Veux-tu me faire de la soupe pour le reste de ma vie.
Henry Cowell, Quartet Euphometric
Alex Kotch, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
C.R. Kasprzyk, Degradations IV-b
Toru Takemitsu, Distance de Fée
Terry Riley, In C

• Quentin Conrate's piece is a world premiere created for [dnme]. Conrate is a visiting Art History graduate student from France;
• C.R. Kasprzyk is currently on the music faculty at Bluefield College in Virginia. Degredations IV-b will be presented in a new version arranged especially for [dnme];
• Alex Kotch, a current Duke graduate student in composition, wil perform in his work Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and piano.

Why:

"Interpersonal Beats" (Sheafer Theater, Feb. 20, 8pm)

Program:
Quentin Conrate, Veux-tu me faire de la soupe pour le reste de ma vie.
Henry Cowell, Quartet Euphometric
Alex Kotch, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
C.R. Kasprzyk, Degradations IV-b
Toru Takemitsu, Distance de Fée
Terry Riley, In C

• Quentin Conrate's piece is a world premiere created for [dnme]. Conrate is a visiting Art History graduate student from France;
• C.R. Kasprzyk is currently on the music faculty at Bluefield College in Virginia. Degredations IV-b will be presented in a new version arranged especially for [dnme];
• Alex Kotch, a current Duke graduate student in composition, wil perform in his work Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and piano.

Date: Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:00pm - 7:00 pm
Contact: Jessi Bardill, dukepowwow@gmail.com
Sponsor: Native American Student Alliance
Where: Duke Main West Quad
Why: Come enjoy the diversity of cultures in Native America! We'll have dancers, drummers, singers, and vendors for food and wonderful Native crafts. Grand Entry at noon. More info to come...

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:00pm - 11:00 pm
Contact: Chamindra Goonewardene, chamindra.goonewardene@duke.edu
Sponsor: DUU and Mi Gente
Where: Page Auditorium
Why: If you haven't heard already, PABLO FRANCISCO is going to be at Duke on January 23rd(this Wednesday!). Tickets are already on sale and are going fast. $15 for Duke students, $20 for everyone else ? make sure to buy yours today. Pablo is hilarious, and you won't want to miss him. Tickets are available at the box office or at http://tickets.duke.edu. Get yours now. Click on the following link to see more of Pablo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPBvFXf9Q2U

Date: Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: Rachel Wolf, sexworkersart@gmail.com
Sponsor: Duke Student Health & Duke International Women's Health Alliance
Where: Reynolds Theater, West Campus

Why: SEX WORKERS' ART SHOW
Sunday, February 3 at 7:00pm
Reynolds Theater, West Campus

The Sex Workers' Art Show (www.sexworkersartshow.com) is a cabaret-
style performance done by workers in the sex industry--phone sex
operators, prostitutes, strippers--to express their creativity and
genius; the show's topics vary from prostitute\'s rights and the
humor to be found in the work to the dark side of the industry and in
history.

Come out and join the Healthy Devils for this great performance!
Tickets are FREE, so bring your friends! We will be handing out
tickets at the door, but please email sexworkersart@gmail.com so that
we can get an estimate of numbers.

Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 8:00pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: sabrosura@duke.edu
Sponsor: Sabrosura Graduate Students
Where: Page Auditorium
Why:

Come see graduates and undergraduates perform together in the first annual Duke University Dance Exposition. This promises to be the event of the year, as this is the FIRST EVER opportunity to see ALL of Duke's premier dance groups come together, under one roof, and present the best that they have to offer. Tickets are free, but they must be picked up on the Bryan Center Plaza on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (or at the door if tickets are still available). Get there early to reserve your seat! Doors open at 6:30 pm

Featured Performance Groups: Chinese Folk Dance, DefMo, Laysa, Sabrosura, United In Praise Dance, On Tap, Dance Slam, Momentum, Dance Black

Check out the Facebook group for more information: http://duke.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8553556069&ref=mf

Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 8:30pm - 8:30 pm
Contact: Elizabeth Thompson, Publicist (ethomps@duke.edu, 919-660-3333); Joyce Kurpiers, Publicity Asst. (jck17@duke.edu, 919-660-3333)
Sponsor: Duke Music Department
Where:
Why:

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 6:30pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: jao12@duke.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community at Duke
Where: Richard B. White Auditorium

Why:

Schedule of Events:

• 5:30pm: small reception in lobby of Richard White lecture hall
• 6:00pm: a talk on "Buddhism and Modernity" by guest speaker
                Sandy Gentei Stewart, Abbott of the NC Zen Center at Pittsboro
• 7:00pm: film screening - one short film and one feature film (see below):

(1) Present (dir. Jacqueline Kim, 2006, 11 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)
Part metaphor, part pun, part cautionary tale, Present depicts a futuristic and surreal café experience for a young couple. The film juxtaposes a sterile, calm dining area ("Welcome home" is the waitress' refrain) with a noisy, threatening and chaotic scene outside.

(2) How to Cook Your Life (dir. Doris Dörrie, 2007, 93 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)
"The food will taste better when the cook is joyful" pretty much sums up the Buddhist philosophy explored in the new film How to Cook Your Life. The quote comes from Edward Espe Brown, a California Zen teacher, one of the founders of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. Filmmaker Doris Dörrie follows Brown in culinary action, surrounded by clearly adoring disciples, at Austria's Scheibbs Buddhist Center and, in California, the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Mountain Center. This last venue is where the younger Brown began cooking as a self-described "arrogant, bossy, short-tempered know-it-all"" and from where he first conceived and wrote his landmark The Tassajara Bread Book. Brown eventually united his love of cooking with the teachings of Zen priest and mentor Suzuki Roshi, whose early advice was "when you wash the rice, wash the rice, when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots, when you stir the soup, stir the soup."

About the guest speaker: Born in 1938, Sandy Gentei Stewart became interested in Zen when he was 16 and heard Alan Watts speak on the radio. At age 29 he heard a radio interview with Joshu Sasaki Roshi and immediately knew he had found his teacher. In 1971 he was ordained as a Zen teacher (Osho) and became Vice-Abbot of the Cimarron Zen Center (now Rinzai-ji in Los Angeles). In 1975 he was appointed abbot of the Jemez Bodhi Mandala (now Bodhi Manda) in Jemez Spriongs, New Mexico. Three years later he moved to North Carolina with his wife Susanna and step-daughter Lara. Sandy has been the guiding force behind the North Carolina Zen Center since its inception in the early 1980's.

Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - 8:00pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: jao12@duke.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community at Duke
Where: Richard B. White Auditorium
Why:

Two rarely seen documentary films:

(1) The Mountain of Signs (dir. Mika Johnson, 2003, 30 min, Japan, in English, Color, DVD)
A young woman moves to Tokyo. Her quest to find spiritual values hidden in the modern city leads her to take photographs and ends in a pilgrimage to an ancient Buddhist cemetery in the mountains of Koyasan. Set amongst the neon lights and crowds of Tokyo and the graves and forestry of Koyasan, The Mountain of Signs explores the relevance of Buddhist values to modern-day spiritual practices. As its protagonist assimilates into the hyper-accelerated pace of life in Tokyo, she adopts the practice of photography as a coping mechanism. Following the zuihitsu literary tradition of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book and the Buddhist priest Kenko's Essays in Idleness, the film traces the subtle links between ostensibly random subjects through images, aphorisms, anecdotes, and observations. From the lurid maze of urban desires to the sanctuary of Buddhist tradition, The Mountain of Signs reveals not a path to enlightenment, but rather a transformation of ideals.

(2) The Wheel of Time (dir. Werner Herzog, 2003, 80 min, Germany, in German, English and Tibetan, Color, DVD)
Noted German filmmaker Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man/The White Diamond) marvelous documentary gives us an eyewitness report on the annual Buddhist pilgrimage gathering of some 500,000 of the faithful in May of 2002 (the Year of the Horse) in Bodh Gaya, India, the site where the Buddha some 2,500 years ago found enlightenment under the bo tree. Herzog (who claimed to have once walked from Munich to Paris) magically captures their lengthy pilgrimage to the Holy Mt. Kailash in Tibet (covering more than 3000 miles) and the monks' creation of the intricate sand mandala (“the wheel of time”) along with many secret rituals that have never been seen before on film. Herzog also takes us to a considerably smaller gathering in a convention hall in Graz, Austria, during the same year, where the Kalachakra ("Wheel of Time") ritual was presided by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. The Wheel of Time delivers a personal and introspective look at what Buddhism really means to its most ardent followers, as well as gives outsiders an intimate look into a fascinating way of life.

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 8:00pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: jao12@duke.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community at Duke
Where: Richard B. White Auditorium

Why:

(1) Yonder (dir. Mika Johnson, 2006, 20 min, USA, B/W, DVD)
The story of Yonder follows a man who is lost in his dreams. There, in a world that mirrors his sense of loss and isolation, he comes face to face with his spiritual double in what becomes a quest towards the re-creation of his identity.

(2) Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert) (dir. Doris Dörrie, 2000, 109 min, Germany, in German, Japanese, and English with English subtitles, Color, DVD)
Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav (Gustav-Peter Wöhler) could hardly be more different as brothers: the former is an utter slob and the latter a practising feng-shui expert. When Uwe's wife leaves him suddenly, taking the entire contents of their flat and the children with her, he turns to his brother for a shoulder to cry on. As Gustav is about to embark on a Buddhist retreat to Japan, Uwe has no choice but to tag along - much to his brother's alarm. En route, their midlife crisis turns into a midnight crisis when they get lost in Tokyo's neon jungle and can't find the way back to their hotel. It's down and out in Asia's brave new world. With no papers, credit cards, directions, and with no Yen in their pockets, they wander through a kaleidoscopic alien environment where the simplest everyday things become major, often comical, challenges. They have to survive by their wits and certainly never expected the Zen concept of "leaving everything behind" to be like this. Life in the monastery is an immersion of a more subtle kind. The mundane and the sublime - where does the one stop and the other start? What does cleaning the floor have to do with cleansing your heart? Still, the enigma of enlightenment keeps them going. But although it often seems just within their grasp, it continues to elude them. And yet, even if they don't fully realize it, at the very core of their being, it's changing them...