Events Sponsored by the UMBC Friends of the Library & Gallery
Upcoming Friends of the Library & Gallery Events:
Theatre with Dinner - Friday, April 26, 2013 -- please note change of date!:
- The play will be Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, presented by the UMBC Department of Theatre and directed by Eve Muson.
- The UMBC Department of Theatre describes the play as follows:
“When the two gents, Valentine and Proteus, leave Verona to seek their fortunes in Milan,
their boyhood friendship turns to rivalry when they both fall in love with the Duke's daughter,
Sylvia--even though she is promised to a rich suitor and Proteus is already engaged to his hometown sweetheart,
Julia. Proteus sets out to betray both friend and fiance, only to find that Julia and Sylvia
have a thing or two to teach him about loyalty and love. One quick-witted (and one not-so-quick-witted) servant,
some bawdy outlaws, and a faithful canine companion make this one of
Shakespeare's most lighthearted romantic comedies. ”
- The event will begin at 5 p.m. on the 7th floor of the Library with a wine and soft drink reception.
Dinner will commence at 6 p.m., with remarks by director Eve Muson after dinner at approximately 7 p.m.,
and the play will be held in the new UMBC Theatre, in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, at 8 p.m.
- Tickets are priced at $35 per person. Reservations will be accepted for individuals, couples or full tables for up to 8 people.
Tickets include the reception, dinner and admission to the play.
Please use the accompanying reservation form and make checks payable to "UMBC Foundation."
- Parking for this event will be provided on the top level of the Walker Avenue Parking Garage at hooded meters.
For handicapped parking, spaces are normally available at the foot of Walker Avenue.
Please contact us if you have special needs regarding parking.
- Transportation between Library and New Theatre will be provided
for those who request it on the registration form.
- The Friends of the Library & Gallery sponsors Theatre with Dinner events not to raise money
(the costs are barely covered by the ticket price)
but to provide an enhanced experience of the Theatre production and a good time for all participants.
- Reservation info:
- Please use this form for reservations:
Reservation Form
and send with checks payable to "UMBC Foundation," to this address (reservations should be received by April 10, 2013):
Friends Theatre with Dinner
UMBC Library
Baltimore, MD 21250
- For inquiries and last minute reservations, call 410-455-2356.
A Celebration of Writing and Art: the Release of Bartleby 2013
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Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Library Gallery.
- A Celebration of Writing and Art: the Release of Bartleby 2013, UMBC's creative arts journal, marking its 33nd year of publishing the best of UMBC students' prose, poetry, and art. The event will feature readings by the authors of selected poetry and prose in the new issue, and artistic interpretations of their work by students from Visual Arts.
- A reception, sponsored by the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund, will follow the program.
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This event will be free and open to the public.
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For more information on Bartleby, see:
the Bartleby home page.
Events in Planning: watch this space for news of additional events
which are in planning.
CANCELED DUE TO CAMPUS CLOSURE - We hope to reschedule for Fall, 2013:
Helen J. Burgess - March 25, 2013: 4 p.m., Library 7th floor -- "The Problem with Print: publishing born digital scholarship."
- Dr. Burgess will discuss some of the difficulties for academics seeking to work and publish outside traditional "print-bound" models of humanities scholarship - including issues of professional evaluation and distribution - and show some examples of "born digital" works that would benefit from a new model of publishing.
- A reception, sponsored by the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund, will follow the program.
- Dr. Burgess is an Assistant Professor of English in the Communication and Technology track.
She is active in the new media research community as editor of the online journal Hyperrhiz:
new Media Cultures, and technical editor of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.
Dr Burgess is coauthor of Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Enounters with Mars and Biofutures:
Owning Body Parts and Information, both titles published in the Mariner10 interactive
DVD-Rom series at the University of Pennsylvania Press.
She has interests in multimedia and web development,
open source and open content production, electronic literature, and science fiction.
More Information on Dr. Burgess
Dr. Helen Burgess
