Articulating an internal awareness of movement and posture has always been the most important element in Baden’s work. He has built harnesses, furniture, rooms, pathways and catwalks, all with the goal of impinging upon the viewer's movements and awakening a physical self-awareness that was previously unconscious. Baden tries to provoke a perceptual crisis that assaults the viewer’s confidence in the information that comes through the senses. His practice has always involved materials, just like any artist who makes objects. Ideally, however, he is less interested in the object than in the experience. He wants the viewer to enter the object (or the space) and have an experience that is visceral, internal, and sensorially cross-circuited.

Free and open to the public.

THE WORLD BEFORE HER

Director: Nisha Pahuja   Canada, 2012, 90 min; English & Hindi with subtitles

WINNER! BEST DOCUMENTARY! –Tribeca Film Festival

This vivid, award-winning documentary follows two passionate and ambitious young women in starkly contrasted parts of India. In Mumbai, Ruhi embarks on a beauty bootcamp in preparation for the Miss India beauty pageant, while in rural India, Prachi works and teaches at the right-wing Hindu fundamentalist camp for young women. The beauty business may be one of the only ways for an Indian woman to achieve a certain status, but both women are ultimately circumscribed by the livelihoods that claim to liberate them. Despite their best efforts, they remain firmly stuck in the patriarchal culture they inhabit. The stories told here may be deeply personal, but director Pahuja’s core question looms larger—what does the future hold? –Vancouver International Film Festival

UVSS Students: $5.75

SPECIAL FOR UVSS STUDENTS - 9pm shows (or later): $3.75

Seniors (65 & over), Children (12 & under): $5.75

Other Students: $6.75

Cinemagic Members: $6.75

Uvic Alumni, Faculty, Staff & their guests (1 only): $6.75

Non-members: $7.75

MATINEES all seats: $4.75

 

Percussionist Robert Phillips presents his Masters of Music graduating recital.

Reasons to be Pretty
by Neil LaBute

Directed by Christine Willes

Why do we care about being pretty when "Love is blind, sh#*!head. It is."Reasons to be Pretty takes us up close and personal with four friends and two relationships in this Tony Award-nominated, blue-collar, black comedy. A master of contemporary, realistic, in-your-face and four-letter-friendly dialogue, Neil LaBute mines the humour and painful truths that lay between self-image and self-esteem in our beauty-obsessed society. 

"…Some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.”  New York Times

All Seats: $7

Tickets will go on sale at 5:00pm on the day of the performance.

Vocalist Eve Richardson presents her first year graduate recital.

This workshop is for chairs, directors, deans and associate deans and provides an opportunity to gain an understanding of current legal issues within the Canadian post-secondary sector. Using case studies to illustrate their points, Kim Hart and Don Barnhardt will discuss a range of legal topics and will provide information on how to obtain appropriate guidance and advice on legal matters as they arise.

Please register here: https://confreg.uvcs.uvic.ca/?cid=1678

To complement the performances by the Lafayette String Quartet and the Molinari String Quartet of the music for string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern (February 14-16, 2013), the School of Music has invited music theorists Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota), Richard Kurth (UBC), Don McLean (University of Toronto) and Severine Neff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to present guest lectures and pre-concert talks on these works.

In this lecture, Severine Neff presents “‘The Air of Another Planet’: Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Stefan George’s ‘Entrückung’”

Severine Neff is past editor of Music Theory Spectrum, the author of the Norton Critical Score of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, and of numerous other writings on Arnold Schoenberg.

This is a special information session for high school students and parents interested in finding out more about admissions to the UBC MD Undergraduate Program/ Island Medical Program.  Several medical students will be present to share their experiences.

Time: 7pm - 8:30pm

Location: Medical Sciences Building, UVic

To complement the performances by the Lafayette String Quartet and the Molinari String Quartet of the music for string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern (February 14-16, 2013), the School of Music has invited music theorists Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota), Richard Kurth (UBC), Don McLean (University of Toronto) and Severine Neff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to present guest lectures and pre-concert talks on these works.

In this lecture, Severine Neff presents “A Piano Piece and a Painting: Schoenberg’s Tribute to Mahler,” a talk within an interdisciplinary panel (organized by Helga Thorson, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies), in connection with the exhibit “The Life and Art of Gustav Klimt: Celebrating 150 Years” (housed in the University Library, Room 025, February 10-14, 2013. The exhibit is sponsored by the Austrian Embassy in Ottawa and the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria).

Severine Neff is past editor of Music Theory Spectrum, the author of the Norton Critical Score of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, and of numerous other writings on Arnold Schoenberg.

Sculptor Mowry Baden is one of Victoria's most acclaimed, and often controversial, artists. A Governor-General's Award winning-artist, this Professor Emeritus also helped shape our Visual Arts department into the well-respected school it is today.

Free

Speaker: Catherine Léger, Department of French, University of Victoria

Sponsor: Department of French/Alliance française de Victoria

Note: The talk will be given in French, though questions may be asked in English.
For more information, please contact Catherine Léger, cleger@uvic.ca.

Free and open to the public

Astronomy Open House is sponsored by the UVic Department of Physics & Astronomy. This event is held every Wednesday from 8pm - 10pm from October to April and 9pm - 10pm from May to August. In January, April and December, the open house may not run regularly, please contact the Department of Physics & Astronomy by phone at 250-721-7700 or by email at physgen@uvic.ca to confirm.

Free and open to the public.

An Interdisciplinary Discussion: Panel of Papers, Viewing and Discussion of The Life and Art of Gustav Klimt Exhibit.
The event starts in MacLaurin Building,  room A 168 and continues in McPherson Library Lower Level, rooms A003 and A025.

Free and open to the public

Facilitators: Dorothy Lockyer and Julia Rochtchina, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Technologies such as laptops, iPads and iPhones allow the increasingly ‘technologically-oriented’ beginner and intermediate L2 language student to communicate in and engage with the target language through diverse typing activities, including email correspondence with the instructor or TA and participating in online chat forums. Thus, typing skills on the foreign language keyboard are becoming increasingly more important to teach students in earlier stages of language acquisition. This presentation looks at the preliminary results of integrating L2 typing in SLAV 101 and 201 classes.

Free. Regiter on LTC website http://ltc.uvic.ca