It's the only time when we get to see in one place the work of the whole department. Black Maria Film Festival planned The Department of Cinema is sponsoring the Black Maria Film and Video Festival at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in LH-6. The festival, a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, honors the origins of motion picture making in America with Thomas Edison and his Black Maria film studio. An annual open competition for independent media artists, the Black Maria Festival results in a highly varied and provocative collection of new works offered for exhibition through its travelling showcase tour hosts. Among the judges of the festival is Mark McElhatten, cinema alumnus and former adjunct lecturer in cinema.
Admission is free.
The University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Timothy Perry, will present its final concert of the 1999-2000 season with, Music of the British Isles, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 16, in the Watters Theater in the Fine Arts Building. The concert will celebrate music of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a broad program covering three centuries of British tradition. The concert includes marches, popular melodies and other works by Coates, Alford, Elgar, Sullivan, Webber, Holst and more. Conductor Perry has given recitals and has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, Republic of Taiwan, South America, the Caribbean and Europe. He was the guest conductor and clinician with professional, semi-professional and school ensembles in the United States and Taiwan.