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Related Link: Cultural Opportunities at IUBBy Ellen Mathia
The arts tradition and the arts of the future -- the 12th annual Arts Week at IUB embraces almost every medium of the arts in a daily schedule that gets underway tonight (Oct. 25) with a memorial video collage and program, a reception and a half-dozen other events.
What really makes this year's Arts Week distinctive, though, is that it's dedicated to founder Fran Snygg, who guided the event through the first 10 years and was a prime force in expanding recognition of the richly talented pantheon of artists at and from IU.
Snygg's death earlier this year at age 53 was a deeply felt loss to IU and the Bloomington community, but her life and contributions will be remembered during Arts Week with a video collage, "Choreography by Fran Snygg;" a tribute at the opening reception; and a program, "She Really Did It: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Fran Snygg."
The collage, featuring interviews and footage of Snygg teaching, choreographing and during rehearsals, will be presented at 5 p.m. in the Sweeney Lecture Hall of the Simon Music Center. The Arts Week opening reception follows at 6 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center lobby. At 8 p.m., the "She Really Did It" Snygg memorial program will be presented in the Auer Concert Hall.
Also scheduled the first evening are an "Octubafest" at 7 p.m. in the Ford Recital Hall and the following concurrent activities at 8 p.m.: Drums in the Night, by Bertolt Brecht in the T300 Studio Theater (southeast end of IU Auditorium); Big River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a Union Board production in the Creative Arts Auditorium at 10th and the Bypass; Later Life by A.R. Gurney at the Brown County Playhouse; Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin, winner of the Reva Shiner Full-length Play Contest, at 308 S. Washington St.; and Shakespeare's The Tempest in the John Waldron Arts Center.