Arts @ Deree

When: Opening: Friday, February 22, 18:00 – 22:00
Duration: February 22 – March 23, 2019

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts as part of the Arts Festival 2019

Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 14:00 – 18:00, Sat: 12:00 – 16:00

Guided tours by ACG students every Tuesday during Activity Hour (13:40-15:00)

Participating Artists: Α-dash (Zoe Hatziyannaki, Eva Isleifs, Noemi Niederhauser), Natasa Biza, Kostas Christopoulos (with the students of the 8th studio of painting of ASFA Olga Vlassi, Thanos Kardoylas & Katerina Messini), Effie Halivopoulou (in collaboration with Deree – The American College of Greece alumnae Dimitra Prifti and Afroditi Andreou and the student Aliki Ntounia), Dimitris Ioannou, Lito Kattou, Georgia Kotretsos, Jesper List Thomsen, Petros Moris, Yiannis Papadopoulos/Olga Mexa, Cally Spooner

curated by Elpida Karaba

Lecture Series in Art History

Maria Sardi, PhD

When: Thursday, February 7, 13:40–15:00 (Activity Hour)

Where: Center for the Arts Auditorium

Organized by: the Art History Society

Free entrance

Entitled Cavafy’s Homer by Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College

When: Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 19:00

Where: Pierce Theater

Organized by: The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation, in collaboration with Patakis Publishers

Reception to follow

Open to the public / Free admission

Daniel Mendelsohn

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, is the author, most recently, of the acclaimed memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, named a Best Book of 2017 by numerous US publications and winner of the Prix Méditerranée in France. His other books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy; and two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians. He teaches literature at Bard College.

A workshop by
Steve Snyder
Jazz Professor, DePauw University

When: Tuesday, October 16, 18:00 – 20:30

Where: Music, TV and Digital Studios, Pierce

Organized by: Music Department

18:00 – 18:45

Open to all students who want to watch the Jazz and Popular Music Ensemble work with Professor Snyder on the course repertoire.

18:45 – 20:30

Improvisation basics workshop for singers and instrumentalists.

A lecture and workshop by

Mark Rabideau
Director of the 21st Century Musician Initiative, DePauw University

When: Tuesday, October 16, 13:40 – 16:20

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge

Organized by: Music Department

The Power of Hope: 21st Century Artists as Agents of Change
13:40 – 14:55, Lecture

The lecture re-examines an artist’s curiosity, creativity, and collaborative nature as essential attributes for identifying the problems we are best equipped to solve, creating innovative solutions for positive change, and building teams to move ideas to action.

Heroes and Dreams
15:05 – 16:20, Workshop

The workshop challenges participants to reflect upon the attributes they most admire within their artistic heroes, and reflect upon how our own one-of-a-kind gifts, can guide us toward inventing the future we hope to inhabit.

The Music Theatre Workshops [I] and [II], present a devised performance based on German literature and music

When: Wednesday, June 20, 14:00, Open Rehearsal 19:00

Where: Performance Black Box Theatre

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Free admission and open to the public

For more information please contact 210 600 9800 ext. 1456

DR 3762 Theatre as Collaborative Practice Presents Understand Me adapted from Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

When: Monday, June 18, 20:00

Where: Black Box Theatre, CN Building

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Director Emma Avedissian

Free admission and open to the public

For more information, please contact 210 600 9800 ext. 1456 or [email protected]

“How We Think About Time: Proposals for a Future World”

When: Monday, June 11, 19:00

Where: Deree – Upper Level Library

Organized by: The American College of Greece in collaboration with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece

Open to the public / Free admission

The Kimon Friar Lectureship was established at The American College of Greece in honor of the poet, anthologist and first major translator of Modern Greek poetry who made Modern Greek literature known abroad and opened up new prospects for its study outside Greece. Kimon Friar bequeathed part of his personal library and manuscripts to the College.

This year, the Kimon Friar Lecture is being organized in collaboration with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece as part of Fulbright’s 70 years of educational and cultural exchanges between Greece and the United States. The Lecture will be delivered by Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change (Prentice Hall & IBD, 1987); The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility (Routledge,1994); Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety (State University of New York Press, 1996); Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002); Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Paradigm Publishers/Routledge, 2009); and her most recent long essay memoir, Losing Helen (Red Hen Press, 2016). She also works closely with the World Economic Forum’s program on art and culture.

Both Friar and Becker were Fulbright scholars to Greece: Kimon Friar was a US Fulbright Research Scholar in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens, 1954-55. Carol Becker, was a US Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature/American Studies at the Ionian University 1988-1989.

The Visual Arts program invites you to the opening of the Annual Student Exhibition 2018

When: May 4 – 12, 2018

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Opening: Friday May 4, 19:00 – 22:00
Duration: May 4 – 12, 2018
Opening hours: Monday – Friday: 15:00 – 18:00,  Saturday 12:00 – 16:00

Featuring SENIOR PROJECTS in the ACG Gallery and Student Projects in Graphic Design, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Digital Image at the ACG Art Gallery, the Art and Design studios, and outdoor spaces near the ACG Art Gallery.

Open to all, with free admission

For more information, please contact Niki Kladakis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1456, or at [email protected]

When: April 30, 2018, 19:00

Where: Black Box Theatre (CN Building)

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Reflections off a Wall by Stelios Troullakis
(Based on Mark Ravenhill’s “Over There”)

Re-start/Re-end by Katerina Pentea
(Based on excerpts from various texts)

Traceless Lives by Nadja Mattioli
(Devised performance)

When: May 2, 2018, 19:00

Where: Black Box Theatre (CN Building)

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Out Cry by Nancy Lappa
(Based on parts of Tennessee Williams’ “Out Cry”)

Anger Management by Alexandros Al-Akaila
(Based on parts of Sadie Hasler’s “Pramkicker”)

Pin-ion(s) by Iony Moschovakou
(Based on Paul Gallico’s novel “The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk”)

For more information, please contact: Niki Kladakis, 210 600 9800 ext. 1456 (8:30-16:00) or email at [email protected]

When: April 30, 2018, 19:00

Where: Black Box Theatre (CN Building)

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Reflections off a Wall by Stelios Troullakis
(Based on Mark Ravenhill’s “Over There”)

Re-start/Re-end by Katerina Pentea
(Based on excerpts from various texts)

Traceless Lives by Nadja Mattioli
(Devised performance)

When: May 2, 2018, 19:00

Where: Black Box Theatre (CN Building)

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Out Cry by Nancy Lappa
(Based on parts of Tennessee Williams’ “Out Cry”)

Anger Management by Alexandros Al-Akaila
(Based on parts of Sadie Hasler’s “Pramkicker”)

Pin-ion(s) by Iony Moschovakou
(Based on Paul Gallico’s novel “The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk”)

For more information, please contact: Niki Kladakis, 210 600 9800 ext. 1456 (8:30-16:00) or email at [email protected]

ARTS FESTIVAL 2018

Music Department Faculty Recitals

When: Thursday, March 22 – Friday, March 23

Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Thursday, March 22
19:00
7th Level Auditorium
Cycle of CNS by M. Hadjidakis
Effi Minakouli, mezzo soprano, and Christine Tokatlian, piano.
F. Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op.49
D. Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Dimitris Mousouras, violin, Leslie Jones, cello, and Christine Tokatlian, piano.

Friday, March 23
19:00
7th Level Auditorium
Sultry, by Joe Pass for solo jazz guitar
Tres Notas Para Decir Te Quiero by Vicente Amigo
Angelos Matsopoulos, electric and flamenco guitar.
With Deree students: Christos Papadopoulos, cajon, and Aspasia Nistikouli, bass.
The Phos Duo will perform works from their recent album “Expanded Matrix” which has received outstanding reviews by “Jazz in Europe”.
The Phos Duo: Sami Amiris, piano, and Antonis Ladopoulos, saxophone.

When: March 20 – April 24, 2018 (Easter closure: March 31- April 15)

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Opening: Tuesday, March 20, 18:00 – 22:00

Curated by Poka—Yio

Participating artists: 2WO+1NE=2, Accidental Queens, ActiVista, Loukia Alavanou, Eliza Alexandropoulou, Margarita Bofiliou, Anastasia Douka, Dora Economou, Georgia Fambris, Marina Gioti, Florence Jung, Demi Kaia, Eleni Kamma, Irini Karayannopoulou, Em Kei, Laur M, Marianne Maric, Rilène Markopoulou, Dawn Nilo, Patriarchy, Maria Polyzoidou, Frances Rich, Despina Sevasti, VV, Amalia Vekri, Eva Vretzaki.

ARTS FESTIVAL 2018

A Circus Performance by John Paul Zaccarini

When: Saturday, March 17, 19:30

Where: Blackbox Theater, CN Building

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Free admission

For more information, please contact [email protected] or 210 600 9800, ext. 1456

ARTS FESTIVAL 2018

The Actor’s Wheel Company presents “Children of the Birds”

Plymouth Marjon University, UK

Director: Kimberley Sykes

When: Friday, March 16, 19:30

Where: Blackbox Theater

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Free Admission

For more information, please contact: 210 600 9800, ext. 1456
[email protected]

ARTS FESTIVAL 2018

Music Department
Workshop – Masterclass – Lecture

When: Friday, March 16 – Tuesday, March 20

Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Performing Brecht
Friday, March 16
16:00-19:00
7th Level Auditorium
A music and theater workshop that addresses key issues in performing Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, led by Professors Themelis Glynatsis, Maira Milolidaki and Effi Minakoulis.
The workshop will include a faculty performance of selected songs by K. Weill and B. Brecht.
Maira Milolidaki, soprano
Dimitris Anousis, piano
Open attendance, please register in advance to participate in the workshop as space is limited. Contact: [email protected]

Piano Masterclass – Faculty Recital
Monday, March 19
15:00-19:30
7th Level Auditorium
Internationally acclaimed soloist Professor Dimitris Toufexis will give a masterclass to talented young pianists.
Open attendance, please register in advance to participate in the masterclass as space is limited. Contact: [email protected]

“Mythological and Contemporary Monsters”
Tuesday, March 20
15:00-15:45
7th Level Auditorium
An interdisciplinary presentation on art video animation and digital music composition will be presented by Florentia Oikonomidou, Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean, and Dahlgren Ekonomides, Associate lecturer, Deree – The American College of Greece.

ARTS FESTIVAL 2018

The Visual Arts Program in collaboration with the 13th Animfest 2018 presents Clay Animation Workshop by Rony Oren, Animator and Academic

When: Friday, March 16, 15:00 – 16:30

Where: New Painting Studio (NPS), Pierce

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing ArtsFrances Rich School

Free Admission

For more information, please contact: 210 600 9800, ext. 1456
[email protected]

When: March 16 – 24

Where: Deree – The American College of Greece

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Art History, Contemporary Dance Practice, Graphic Design, Music, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts

Please see program here.