Signing: theater, poetry,
music come to Ballroom
A form of communication many of us are
fortunate enough not to have to rely on as our
basic means of exchange is the topic of a lecture
and demonstration Friday sponsored by the EMU
Cultural Forum at 8 p.m. Signed theater and
music will be both explained and performed by
Ms. Timothy Near and the Wallflower Order
Dance Collective.
In her performance, Near will explain sign
language as a creative art form. She will perform
several taped songs in sign, interspersed with
discussion on methods of interpreting lyrics,
choosing signs which most faithfully present the
song writer's intentions, how to endow the signs
with the rhythms of the songs, and how the
interpreters style of signing can vary according to
the personality of the singer and style of the
music.
Eugene’s own Wallflower Order will perform
a few live songs to demonstrate the relationship
between singer and signer in live performance.
The performance of a poem written by a deaf
poet, Dorothy Miles, will also be signed and
danced by the collective.
In conclusion, the audience will be given the
opportunity to learn a song in sign and to give
Opera star gives
Failing lecture
International opera star and Yale University
voice professor Phyllis Curtin is slated to deliver
the first of the 1979-80 Henry Failing lectures
Sunday.
Curtin, who has performed in leading roles at
the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera
and La Scala, will speak at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Her
address, “The Human Voice: First Line of Com
munication,” is open to the public without charge.
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Timothy Near
feedback. An interpreter will be provided for Near.
Near began signing concerts in a desire to
communicate her sister’s, Holly Near, songs with
her deaf friends. She also began encouraging
concert promoters to make their events accessi
ble to the hearing impaired by providing inter
preters and doing outreach. That was 1976. The
work is slow, but it is gaining momentum. For
example, last June Near was invited to interpret
the Anti-Nuke Survival Sunday Concert at the
Hollywood Bowl. More than 18,000 people got the
opportunity to experience signed music.
Tickets for the performance-demonstration,
in 353 Gerlinger Annex, are $2.50 for the general
public and $1.50 for University students and
children under 12. Tickets are on sale at the EMU
Main Desk, Backstage Dancewear, the University
Bookstore and Book and Tea.
EMU Cultural Forum
The eyes have it this week as photography and art work
abound around campus.
For beginners, A.D. Coleman, former New York Times
photography columnist, will give a free public lecture Friday
in 107 Lawrence and present a workshop Saturday. The
lecture, titled “Photography Now: Critical Perspectives for
the 80’s," is at 7:30 p.m. Coleman will speak on the work of
contemporary photographers and the challenges it presents
to critics and the public. Coleman will lead an all-day work
shop Saturday. Participants will explore various concepts
and ideas in contemporary photography, and are asked to
bring their portfolios. The fee for the workshop is $30 for the
general public and $25 for students. For further information
and registration, call 683-4269. Coleman is the author of the
controversial book The Grotesque in Photography, and wrote
Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-78, a
major volume of collected essays. He is currently a con
tributing editor to the photography magazine Camera 35.
Across campus, in Lawrence Hall’s ground floor lobby,
the School of Architecture and Allied Arts is presenting
original sketches and working drawings of several of
Eugene’s early buildings by the late W.R.B. Wlllcox, who
served as University’s architecture department head from
1922 until his death in 1947. Also included in “W.R.B. Willcox:
Selected Northwest Work," are original sketches of buildings
Willco, designed in the state of Washington. Photographs of
a model which Willcox made as a proposal for a memorial to
Louis Sullivan, a well-known Chicago architect who practiced
during the late 1800s, are also included Willcox designed
several Eugene buildings before retiring from practice to give
full attention to teaching at the University.
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