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  • Hubbard Street 2 to Perform in CFA as Part of KeyBank Dance Series
    10/1/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Hubbard Street 2 on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Zodiaque Dance Company to present "VOICES...that dance" Oct. 14-17, 21-24
    10/1/04
    The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company: "VOICES...that dance," Oct. 14-17 and 21-24 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Literary Series Events for October Include an Indie Lit Luau, Discussion of "Aural Embodiment" and a Balkan Poetry Festival
    9/30/04
    The University at Buffalo literary series, "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," continues in October with a variety of events, including a presentation by three very distinguished Balkan writers, and one by the director of the internationally recognized UB Poetics Program.
  • The UB Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts to present "Spinning Into Butter"
    9/30/04
    The Center for the Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present "Spinning Into Butter," October Oct. 14-17 and 21-24 in the Black Box Theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Are the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox Cursed?
    9/30/04
    Technically speaking, the Chicago Cubs are "cursed," and the Boston Red Sox are "jinxed," according to a renowned anthropologist at the University at Buffalo who studies the origins of cults, superstitions and cultural identities.
  • Feldman's Collected Poems Will Be Subject of Reading
    9/30/04
    Irving Feldman, a poet whose work has brought him recognition as a MacArthur Fellow and SUNY Distinguished Professor, will read from his latest book at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 in 250 Baird Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Department of Music Announces October Schedule
    9/24/04
    Pianist Leon Fleisher open the University at Buffalo Department of Music's concert schedule for October with a recital at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus. Among the other performers appearing at UB in October are the Meridian Arts Ensemble, the Cassatt String Quartet and the Slee Sinfonietta, UB's professional chamber orchestra. All October concerts are among the more than 50 inaugural events celebrating the investiture of John B. Simpson as UB's 14th president.
  • Exhibition to Celebrate Lifelong Career of UB Art Professor Harvey Breverman
    9/24/04
    In celebration of the lifelong career of Harvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Art and internationally renowned artist and educator, the UB Art Galleries will present "Harvey Breverman: Humanist Impulses, Selected Paintings, Drawings, Prints."
  • Landmark American Musical "Rent" to be Performed at UB Feb. 22-23; Tickets Go on Sale Sept. 24
    9/22/04
    The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning landmark American musical Rent, written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, is coming to the Mainstage Theatre at the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo for two performances, to be held Feb. 22-23 at 8 p.m. Tickets for all performances will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Sept. 24.
  • Monkeys and Humans Form Categories in Strikingly Different Ways, New Research Shows
    9/21/04
    The ability to form categories is a crucial cognitive ability shared by humans and animals. It plays an important role in the way in which humans and animals behave toward objects in their worlds.