Eastman House Exhibitions

Almost since its invention, the camera has been used to record the most difficult aspects of the human condition: war and its aftermath, genocide, and famine. Today's barrage of images on television, in newspapers, and online reminds us that such things persist in the present as much as in the past.

In winter 2007 George Eastman House undertakes a series of exhibitions and programs on these events that address the role of photographs in our personal and collective experience of such dark times.

Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour
January 20 through April 22, 2007
DARFUR/DARFUR
January 20 through April 22, 2007
Know War
January 20 through April 22, 2007
Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited
February 17 through May 6, 2007

Eastman House Programs

Community Day
April 1, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Performance by the Eastman School of Music woodwind quintet Undertones from 2 to 3 p.m. in the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition gallery. The Undertones features flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and French horn.


• Interpretive dance performances by AfriKuumba Dance and Drum in the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition gallery at 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m., focusing on famine and relief. Performing will be dancers from the University of Rochester and local Sudanese children.


• Pittsford Mendon High School Men's Choir will perform on the grand staircase in the house at 3 p.m.

Lecture with Leslie Thomas, Curator of DARFUR/DARFUR
April 5, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Dryden Theatre.
Lecture by Leslie Thomas, founder of the DARFUR/DARFUR organization and curator of the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition on view at Eastman House through April 22. She will talk about her experience creating, curating and organizing the DARFUR/DARFUR grass roots project. Included with museum admission.

Photography Lecture: Don Fox
6:30 p.m. Thursday April 12
Lecture titled "Face to Face: Images from a Different War" with Vietnam veteran Don Fox, who will present photographs from his time serving in Vietnam.

As Chief Announcer for Armed Forces Vietnam Radio Network, Don Fox had lots of free time on his hands. So in 1967 he bought his first "serious" camera at the Army PX outside of Saigon and started documenting the anguish and the dignity of ordinary Vietnamese people caught in the crosshairs of history. Upon returning to "the world," he stashed the 700+ Ektachrome slides in a cardboard shoebox where they lay moldering in damp cellars as he moved on into a life of broadcast journalism and teaching.

Yet decades later, when he could no longer ignore the filmy memories of the faces lurking in his basement, he gathered the emotional strength to revisit those slides, but by that time they were faded and mildewed beyond any hope, he thought, of resurrection. The past continued to pull him to those haunting images until 2004 when he decided to dedicate an entire year to digitally repairing and remastering these images of a heretofore ignored chapter of American – and his own personal – history. Curtis Theatre. Included with museum admission (free to members).

WITNESS Poetry Reading
April 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Potter Peristyle.
Please join us at the Museum for an evening of poetry, read by the winners of our High School Student Juried Poetry Contest. Joining them will be slam poetry performers commissioned through Writers and Books. An open mic will be available during the event. Light Refreshments will be served. Made possible with the generous support and participation of BOA Editions, Just Poets, and Writer & Books.

Eastman School of Music performances at George Eastman House
March 4, March 25, April 1, April 8
On Sundays in March and April, as part of the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition, there will be live music by Eastman School of Music musicians in the Brackett Clark Gallery from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Geva Theatre

Geva Theatre Center's Nextstage
March 20 through April 8
Performances of the play Nine Parts of Desire, March 20 through April 8 (Nine Iraqi women share the true stories of their lives before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. A riveting, unsettling, politically charged play that will leave you filled with awe – and with profound questions of how we help and harm our fellow man. "A Triumph. Thrilling. An example of how art can remake the world." The New Yorker) (For ages 17+)

Visit www.gevatheatre.org for more information

Nazareth College

Exhibition
March 3rd through 31st
Exhibition Rwanda/After, Darfur/Now that illustrates genocide crises in Rwanda and Darfur, featuring photographs by Michal Ronnen Safdie (photographer also featured in Eastman House's DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition), on view March 3 through 31. Nazareth Arts Center, main lobby. Free and open to the public.

Film
Feb 12th, 7:30pm
Film and talk with Maud Dahme at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, titled "The Hidden Child." Of the 1,600,000 Jewish children who lived in Europe before World War II, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. "The Hidden Child" is Dahme's own story of courage, hope and bravery in the face of evil and death. Today, Dahme devotes her life to the Holocaust and genocide education. Shults Center, Forum. Free and open to the public.

Theatrical Performance
March 4th and March 6th
Rochester Children's Theatre presents the play And Then They Came for Me:  Remembering the World of Anne Frank at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. Recommended for grades 6-12. Holocaust survivor Eva Schoss (whose story is told in the play) will appear for a talk-back after both performances at Nazareth College Arts Center's Callahan Theater. Tickets are $12.  Call the Arts Center Box Office at (585) 389-2170.

Theatrical Performance
April 20th through 28th
Nazareth College presents Cabaret April 20 through 28 (musical deals with Nazi issues). Nazareth Arts Center, Callahan Theater. Call the Nazareth box office at (585) 389-2170.

Lecture
March 21 and 28
Lectures at 7:30 p.m. March 21 and 28 titled "Pursuing the Truth of Genocide." Speakers to be announced. Nazareth Arts Center, A-14. Free and open to the public.

Lecture
Feb 13
Panel discussion titled "Reflections on the Holocaust" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, featuring Maud Dahme, local Holocaust survivors, and March of Rembrance and Hope participants. Shults Center, Forum. Free and open to the public.

Visit www.naz.edu/genocide for more information

WXXI

Interview on 1370 Connection at noon on Thursday, Jan. 18 about "Witness" and DARFUR/DARFUR.

Features on TV programs Assignment the World and Homework Hotline focusing on AfriKuumba drum and dance company's dance specific to the Darfur crisis, featuring dancers from the University of Rochester and local Sudanese children.

Visit www.wxxi.org for more information

Memorial Art Gallery

Lecture on Native American Art
7 p.m. Thursday, March 1
G. Peter Jemison presents a lecture on the painting Famous Names (1998) by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Quick-to-See Smith's provocative piece is reflective of her Flathead Salish heritage and includes elements of modernism. Jemison is a Heron Clan member of the Seneca nation of Indians, an artist and the Historic Site Manager at Ganondagan State Historic Site. His essay on Famous Names is featured in the publication Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. $2 general admission; MAG members and U of R students free

Visit mag.rochester.edu for more information

BOA Editions Ltd

Poem "Those Whom We Do Not Know" by Naomi Shihab Nye to serve as catalyst for the poetry contest in local high schools. Poems to be displayed at George Eastman House.

Visit www.boaeditions.org for more information

WITNESS Poetry Reading
April 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Potter Peristyle.
Please join us at George Eastman House for an evening of poetry, read by the winners of our High School Student Juried Poetry Contest. Joining them will be slam poetry performers commissioned through Writers and Books. An open mic will be available during the event. Light Refreshments will be served. Made possible with the generous support and participation of BOA Editions, Just Poets, and Writer & Books.

AfriKuumba Dance and Drum Inc.

Dance being created about food, famine, and relief. To be performed in gallery space at George Eastman House amidst DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition, featuring dance class from University of Rochester and local Sudanese child dancers. Performances at 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, April 1.

United Nations Association Of Rochester

Darfur to be theme of Rochester and Syracuse gathering of Model UN conferences in March.

Writers & Books

In conjunction with George Eastman House and BOA Editions, Writers & Books is facilitating a poetry contest for high school students. The winning entries will be displayed at George Eastman House.

WITNESS Poetry Reading
April 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Potter Peristyle.
Please join us at George Eastman House for an evening of poetry, read by the winners of our High School Student Juried Poetry Contest. Joining them will be slam poetry performers commissioned through Writers and Books. An open mic will be available during the event. Light Refreshments will be served. Made possible with the generous support and participation of BOA Editions, Just Poets, and Writer & Books.

Visit www.wab.org for more information