September 9 | 8:00 PM
Adams Memorial Theatre
Gil & Moti: Laylah, The Creature Beyond Dreams ($3 Please call 597-2425 for reservations)
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Gil & Moti: Public Art of the Williams College Campus (Free Event)
September 3-10 (open as venue permits)
Various locations
Curated by Eva Grudin, Professor of Art History
Gil and Moti are Israeli artists who live and work as a duo in Rotterdam. They consider themselves "pan-media" artists, their media include installation,video, painting, writing and performance. As gay artists and Israeli immigrants to Europe, they gravitate towards creating art that concentrates on issues of difference and social coexistence. Several of Gil and Moti's recent projects attempt to bridge the divide between Jewish Israelis and Arabs. This past April and May, The Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center sponsored "Available for You," a two-month-long project through which Gil and Moti offered free and helpful services to anyone in the Arab community who might need them to cook, clean, build, run errands, etc. Williams College will be the first American site where they will show a selection of video and stills of "Available for You." In addition, at various public sites on campus Gil and Moti will project videos of their "Gay Wedding Project," broadcast many times on Dutch television. Another major undertaking by these two artists, "Sleeping with the Enemy," centers on their public and on-going search for an Arab lover with whom they could fall in love and who would move in with them. The quest and the lover will be the subject of Gil and Moti's performance, "Laylah, the Creature of our Dreams,"
Sponsored by: '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Art Department, Chaplain's
Office, Dively Committee, English Department, Gaudino Fund, History
Department,Lecture Committee,Multicultural Center, W. Ford Schumann '50
Endowment for the Arts, Williams College Jewish Association, Women's
and Gender Studies
September 15 | 7:00 PM
Images Cinema
Screening : Paradise Now
Introduced by Michael MacDonald, Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations
September 19 | 4:40 PM
'62 Center
Iris Bahr : Creating Characters Workshop
September 21 | Post Performance
Adams Memorial Theatre
Iris Bahr: Artist's Talk
Explaining the creative porcess
September 22 | 7:00 PM
Images Cinema
Screening: Imagining Peace
Introduced by Filmmaker Lisa Goessels
Post-Screening discussion moderated by Robert Scherr, Jewish Chaplain, and Parvin Hajizadeh, Adviser to the Muslim Students.
co-presented by the Muslim Students Union, The Bronfman Committee, the Wiener Lecture Fund, the program in Jewish Studies, and the Chaplain's Office
For more information, please call 413-597-2425.
September 21 | 2:00 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
$3 Students / $10
This
gripping one-woman show takes us into the colorful world of a Tel Aviv cafe, only
minutes before a suicide bomber enters. Here we are allowed entry into the
lives of numerous inhabitants from all strata of Israeli society, as well as
its observers and critics: eccentric, lost, hilarious souls whose lives,
quirks, and neuroses are channeled through Bahr's remarkable characterizations
and ability to bring humor to even the most dire and tragic of circumstances.
Winner of
the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.
Iris will
be signing her new book, “Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a
Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin,” after each performance in the lobby.
These
performances are made possible by the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Endowment for the
Arts and the Lipp Family Fund for Performing Artists. Additional funding for these
performances is provided by the Bronfman Judaic Studies Fund.
