October 27, 1994: Vol26n8: CFA: The Line Up GRAND OPENING EVENTS For information on and tickets for events being held as part of the Grand Opening Festival, call the Center for the Arts box office, 645-ARTS. Tickets also are available through all Ticketmaster outlets. Friday, Oct. 28 Grand Opening Reception, 6-9 p.m. in the Atrium. Tanzfabrik, Berlin Dance Co., "Projekt X," based on UB Professor Raymond Federman's book "A Voice in the Closet," 6 p.m., Drama Theatre. Pre-performance talk, 5:30 p.m. A Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, Professor Marta Braun, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, "E-J. Marey: Movement, Modernism and Motion Pictures," lecture with slides and film clips, 7 p.m., Screening Room. The Canadian Brass, featuring a variety of classical and popular musical selections ranging from Bach to Fats Waller, 8 p.m., Mainstage. Presented by the QRS Arts Foundation, with pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Poetry Presentation, Professors Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Mac Hammond, 3 p.m., Screening Room. Tanzfabrik, Berlin Dance Co., "Projekt X," based on UB Professor Raymond Federman's book "A Voice in the Closet," 6 p.m., Drama Theatre. Pre-performance talk, 5:30 p.m. A Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, Thom Anderson, California Institute of the Arts, will screen and discuss film "Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer," and James L. Sheldon, Philips Academy, will screen and discuss his videodisc "Eadweard Muybridge: Motion Studies," 7 p.m., Screening Room. Sunday, Oct. 30 Poetry Presentation, Professors Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis and Mac Hammond, 3 p.m., Screening Room. A Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, James L. Sheldon, Philips Academy, "Making the Muybridge Laserdisc: The Old Technologies and the New Technologies and the Study and Teaching of Cultural History" lecture with discussion, 7 p.m., Screening Room. Amherst Saxophone Quartet, world-renowned performers and UB Department of Music Artists-in-Residence, 8 p.m. Drama Theatre. Bruce Cockburn, Columbia recording artist and award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, 8 p.m., Mainstage. Wednesday, Nov. 2 Wednesdays at 4 Plus, poetry reading by Clayton Eshleman, 4 p.m., Screening Room. Friday, Nov. 4 The New Technologies and Access to and by the Third, Fourth and Fifth Worlds, screenings of "Small Happiness: Women in a Chinese Village" Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, and "A Little for My Heart and Little for My God," Brita Landoff, 7 p.m., Screening Room. The Threepenny Opera, with direction by Saul Elkin, choreography by Linda Kurdziel-Formato, and musical direction by Charles Peltz, 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Saturday, Nov. 5 The New Technologies and Access to and by the Third, Fourth and Fifth Worlds, screenings of "Video in the Villages" and "The Spirit of TV," Vincent Corelli; "The Drums of Winter," Sarah Elder and Leonard Kammerling, and discussion by Sarah Elder, director, Alaska Native Heritage Project, 7 p.m. Screening Room. The Threepenny Opera, with direction by Saul Elkin, choreography by Linda Kurdziel-Formato, and musical direction by Charles Peltz, 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Sunday, Nov. 6 Pick of the Crop & Famous Friends, dance and music ensemble, 3 p.m., Mainstage. Pre-performance talk, 2:30 p.m. Poetry Presentation, Professors Susan Howe, Dennis Tedlock and Charles Bernstein, 3 p.m., Screening Room. The New Technologies and Access to and by the Third, Fourth and Fifth Worlds, screenings of "Hands on the Verdict: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising," Elizabeth Canner and Julia Meltzer, and "Not Channel Zero Premiere," Black Planet Productions, followed by discussion by Tom Poole, Black Planet Discussions, 7 p.m., Screening Room. The Threepenny Opera, with direction by Saul Elkin, choreography by Linda Kurdziel-Formato, and musical direction by Charles Peltz, 2 and 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Wednesday, Nov. 9 Wednesdays at 4 Plus, poetry reading by Elizabeth Willis and Ted Pearson, 4 p.m., Screening Room. Music Department Showcase, featuring UBuffalo Symphony, and UB Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Mainstage. Thursday, Nov. 10 Roadside Theatre, Appalachian Storytelling Theatre presented by Ujima Theater Co., 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Pre-performance talk, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11 Celebration of Independent Film, Video and Digital Arts, 7 p.m., Screening Room. Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Maximiano Valdes, 8 p.m., Mainstage. Roadside Theatre, Appalachian Storytelling Theatre presented by Ujima Theater Co., 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Pre-performance talk, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 Celebration of Independent Film, Video and Digital Arts, 7 p.m., Screening Room. Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, 8 p.m., Mainstage. Roadside Theatre, Appalachian Storytelling Theatre presented by Ujima Theater Co., 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Pre-performance talk, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 Poetry Presentation, Raymond Federman, William Sylvester and Irving Feldman, 3 p.m., Screening Room. Celebration of Independent Film, Video and Digital Arts, 7 p.m., Screening Room. Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Wednesday, Nov. 16 Wednesdays at 4 Plus, bilingual poetry reading by Ann Portugal and Oliver Cadiot, 4 p.m., Screening Room. Thursday, Nov. 17 Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, born in the spirit of the new age and ushered in by the French Revolution, Harriet Simons, conductor; Gary Burgess, director. 8 p.m., Mainstage, with pre-performance talk at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18 Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Monument, Zodiaque Dance Company performance inspired by the work of Miles Davis, 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Off Beat Cinema, "A Night at the Opera," 8 p.m., Screening Room. Saturday, Nov. 19 Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, born in the spirit of the new age and ushered in by the French Revolution, Harriet Simons, conductor; Gary Burgess, director. 8 p.m., Mainstage, with pre-performance talk at 7:30 p.m. Monument, Zodiaque Dance Company performance inspired by the work of Miles Davis, 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Off Beat Cinema, "Citizen Kane," 8 p.m., Screening Room. Sunday, Nov. 20 Brilliant Traces, critically acclaimed play directed by Gerald Finnegan, 8 p.m., Black Box. Monument, Zodiaque Dance Company performance inspired by the work of Miles Davis, 8 p.m., Drama Theatre. Exhibits Faith in Doubt: A Speculation on the Function of Humor in Contemporary Art, featuring work of nine young artists, University Art Gallery. Through Dec. 22. The Faculty Show, new work by UB's faculty of professional practicing artists, photographers, illustrators and designers, Art Department Gallery. Through Nov. 11. Jim Stone, Photographs, Nov. 17-Dec. 15, Art Department Gallery.