Monday

Indie Coffee and Books: Coffee, Books, Events, High Tea and more!

• 7 pm: Stop by Indie Coffee for a movie and discussion of The Secret. Join Elizabeth Malone, professional life coach for the movie that Oprah is raving about, 404.378.7110
  

Sunday

Eddie's Attic Benefit

• Noon-5 pm: Last day to see Ancient Americas: The New Galleries at the Carlos Museum. The exhibit spans the ancient through the colonial eras, highlighting works from Mesoamerica, Central Americas and the Northern and Central Andes, 404.727.4282
• 6 pm: Eddie's Attic host a Benefit Concert for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention featuring Angela Motter, Tin Cup Prophette, Adam Klein, Earnest Quarles, Wesley Cook, Buck Buckley Band, Nutria and Steve Reynolds, 404.377.4976
• 7 pm: Several Dancers Core and Emory University Dance Program will present the Spring Fieldwork Showcase. The showcase is a culmination of the ten-week Fieldwork process and will feature works-in-progress by participating local artists. After the performance, the audience is invited to meet the artists and discuss the works viewed that evening, 404.373.4154
  

Saturday

• 7-11 pm: Foundation One Gallery presents Groundwork art show exploring emerging trends in progressive contemporary art. The exhibit showcases artists working within the lowbrow/ pop-surrealism movement as well as artists who explore urban contemporary aesthtic. The idea behind the show is to introuduce new trends in progressive contemporary art to the local community of art enthusiasts, 404.806.0925
• 7-11 pm: Art House presents SCAD student works on paper. Come support the broke college students, 404.377.7050
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Michelle Malone and Abi Tapia, 404.377.4976
• 10:30 pm: Performance artist Theresa Davis, rocker Blair Lott and The Poetry Book, a "verbal anthology" of classic poetry, are featured in Academy Theatre's Late Night Saturday, 404.583.1270
  

Friday

Eddie's Attic hosts An Evening with Shawn Mullins

with guest Matthew Kahler.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 8 pm.

$18 in advance, $20 at the door, $90 tables

404.377.4976

Hurray for A.S.C.!

A $10,000 grant from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis "100 Projects for Peace" program will help Agnes Scott students support an Atlanta-wide arts activism project entitled Fighting Domestic Violence, Creating Domestic Peace.

Students helping to plan Agnes Scott's Project for

Peace include, from left, Margaret McMillian '10, Nancy
Thebaut '08, Shannon Yarbrough '09, Rocio Rodriguez
'09 and Meg Beyer '10.

"We hope that Fighting Domestic Violence, Creating Domestic Peace will inspire community building, policy changes and awareness among all Atlantans of how individuals can fight against domestic violence through the decoration of a simple tile," said Nancy Thebault, Agnes Scott student organizer for the Saturday, May 26 project - part of the Decatur Arts Festival.

Of the 65 colleges and universities selected to be affiliated with the KWD 100 Projects for Peace program to confront domestic violence, Agnes Scott is the sole representative from Georgia.

Theatrical performances, musical ensembles, a picnic and the opportunity for each participant to paint a tile depicting how his or her life has been affected by domestic violence will ensure the day's memorable quality.

Read the complete article here.

Thursday

My Country, My Country showing at Indie Coffee and Books

• 5 pm: Come celebrate Indian culture and join the Agnes Scott community for a "Night Under the Stars!" This year's event will include Indian cuisine (vegetarian and non-vegetarian), mehndi artists, sand mandala making, performing from various Indian dance troups, kite-flying, a live DJ, a Bollywood film and more! Be sure to bring some extra cash, as all proceeds will be donated to the Adolescent Girls Program of the Jamkhed organization), 404.471.6000
• 6:30 pm: Elizabeth Dewberry and Jim Grimsley take part in a reading at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Dewberry is a nationally known novelist and playwright who is also an alumna of the Emory Department of English, 404.727.6861
• 7 pm: Nicole Chillemi performs at Jazz Nights at Scottish Rite in Oakhurst.
• 7:30 pm: Watch My Country, My Country at Indie Coffee and Books' monthly Indie Movie Night. Filmmaker Laura Poitras' fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary provides an inside look at war-torn Iraq from the perspective of a Baghdad citizen. The film follows Dr. Riyadh, a physician who serves the people in his community both as a health care provider and as an advocate in numerous areas of their lives. A critic of the U.S. occupations, Riyadh nonetheless supports democracy in iraq and decided to run as a candidate in the tumultuous 2005 elections, 404.378.7710
• 8:15 pm: Bollywood film at Agnes Scott's "Night Under the Stars" begins, 404.471.6000
  

Wednesday

Melissa Greener performs at Eddie's

• 7 pm: The Georgia Center for the Book presents Stephen Bach, author of Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend, offering a stunning new biography of one of the 20th century's most fascinating and controversial figures, known as Hitler's filmmaker, Leni iefenstahl. In Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, Bach debates the moral intricacies of this artist working under the Nazi regime, and present evidence that Riefenstalh was herself, part Jewish, 404.370.3070
• 7:30 pm: Several Dancers Core in partnership with Emory University Dance Program present the Spring 2007 Fieldwork. Fieldwork consists of facilitated performing and viewing of works-in-progress for artists of all disciplines, with artist feedback, 404.373.4154
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Ryan Montbleau Band and Melissa Greener, 404.377.4976
• 10 pm: The Doug Dank Project returns to PushPush Theatre. Each week, guest monologists will be providing the inspiration for a bevy of ground-breakingly funny (or possibly heart wrenching) scenes, 404.377.6332
  

Tuesday

Emory Big Band

• 7:30 pm: Eddie's Attic hosts its Comedy Night, 404.377.4976
• 8 pm: Kenny Barron and Gary Motley perform with the Emory Big Band. Barron and Motley first share the stage on duo pianos, and then Barron performs with Big Band as Motley directs, 404.727.5050
  

Monday

Paula Deen comes to Decatur

The Georgia Center for the Book hosts Paula Deen. The TV chef will talke about her focky road to fame and fortune in her new book, Paula Deen: It Ain't About the Cookin' (written with Sherry Suib Cohen). This is not a cooking demonstration. The event takes place at Emory's Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Doors open at 6 pm, event starts at 7 pm, 404.370.3070

Sunday

Story Hill performs at Eddie's

• Oakhurst welcomes everyone to the Earth Day Celebration. Visit www.oakhurstgarden.org for a schedule of events, 404.377.0494
• 6 pm: Imitation As Art at Emory's Performing Arts Studio. The Arts at Emory invites you to night of music as Emory's Early Music Ensemble performs. Canzonas, fugues and other imitative works fill out the program of music written before 1750, 404.727.5050
• 7 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Kate Campbell and Storyhill, 404.377.4976
  

Saturday

Stop by Art House in East Decatur Station

Celebrate Earth Day at Oakhurst this weekend

• Oakhurst welcomes everyone to the Earth Day Celebration on April 21 and 22. The Decatur Recreation Department, the Oakhurst Business Association, the Oakhurst Community Garden Project and the Oakhurst Presbyterian Church are sponsoring the events throughout the weekend, 404.37730494
• 8 am-12 pm: Birding at the Carlos Museum. A virtual aviary exists within the walls of the Carlos Museum and birders of all ages are invited to search the galleries for feathered friends. No binoculars are required, just a scavenger hunt as a guide and a keen eye to spot osprey, falcons, condors, ibis, pelicans and vultures wherever they may perch. Atlanta ceramic artist Ana Vizurraga demonstrates how to shape birds from clay, then ornithologist Chris Showalter and biologist Trecia Neal of Fernbank Science Center show native birds captured briefly in their mist nets. Birds will be released back to the woods, 404.727.4282
  
• 11-5 pm: Last day of Alejandro Aguilera and Radcliffe Bailey: Pitching at Emory's Visual Arts Building and Gallery. Atlanta artists Aguilera and Bailey present their installation on Black and Cuban baseball leagues, 404.727.6315
• 7-11 pm: April Showers at Art House's opening reception. The artist collective known as MINT joins forces with Art House to bring forth an innovative group show. Using umbrellas for their sculptural quality, each artist brings a different feeling to the collection of work, 404.377.7050
• 8 pm: The History of Short Film Improv 101 at the Academy Theatre. Improv at its best! Join Laughing Matters as they take your suggestions of people, places and things and develop scenes, skits, poems, operas, songs and sketches. All is unrehearsed, on the fly and performed once and only once. Every show is different and is customized for your group, 404.525.4111
• 10:30 pm: Academy Theatre's Late Night Saturdays offer its usual unusual mix of entertainment. Free form jazz combo Night Flight, storyteller Sharon Mathis and vocalist Chimere, 404.583.1270
  

Mark Your Calendar!

Dear DAA Blog Readers,

You are cordially invited to the Decatur Arts Festival Poster Unveiling on Thursday, May 3, 5-7 pm, at the Depeaux (the Cajun restaurant moving into the Old Depot by the tracks in downtown Decatur).

We’ll have a large outdoor tent, free food, free wine and free beer. Plus you can meet the poster artist and take home a FREE, signed 2007 Decatur Arts Festival poster!

Friday

See it at Onstage Atlanta

• 8 pm: Onstage Atlanta presents Bash (latterday plays) by Neil La Bute, writer of The Shape of Things and In the Company of Men. This is a lurid trilogy of modern day horror stories from the darkest side of human nature. Seemingly earnest all-American good-hearted people making confessions in the dark lead to startling and unnerving revelations about the potential for lust, amibtion and hatred in all of us, 404.897.1802
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic hosts Clay Cook's Birthday Bash, 404.377.4976
• 8 pm: PushPush presents DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra 2nd Annual Farewell Concert. Described as having "one foot in the 30's and one foot on Mars," the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra is the ultimate in self-contained variety show band, 404.377.6332
• 8 pm: Emory Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus perform at the Schwartz Center. The two groups along with soloist will team up to perform a program that includes Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, 404.727.5050
• 8 pm: Theatre Decatur presents The Dixie Shticks for one night only! The hottest musical parody troupe in the South sings familiar tunes like you've never heard them before. From Bush to Hillary, from Suicide Bombers to Botox, nothing is safe from their twisted wit! 404.373.5311
  

Decatur Arts Festival Brochures

The Decatur Arts Festival Program will be out on May 3rd.
Until then, check out the information on this lovely brochure.

The Decatur Arts Festival brochures are here!
What's that? The images are too fuzzy?
Then get your own clear, crisp copy.
Stop by a Decatur business sometime night week or email us
and we'll send you as many Arts Festival brochures as your
little heart desires.

Thursday

Last day to see Jessica Dodd's work at Art House

• 11 am-6 pm: Last day of the Jessica Dodd's photography exhibition at ArtHouse. A photography student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Dodd uses a style all her own to evoke emotions from those viewing her work, 404.377.7050
• 7-9 pm: Jazz Nights at Scottish Rite will feature Joe Gransden. He's performed worldwide and released four CDs under his own name. Renowned for the hard bop approach of his trumpet, Gransden's singing voice has been compared to that of Chet Baker and Frank Sinatra.
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Joe Shaver and Larry Jon Wilson, 404.377.4976
  

Wednesday

See Black Orpheus at Emory

• 7:15 pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents Cathy J. Kaemmerlen at the Decatur Library. A local performer and storyteller, Kaemmerlen has produced a wonderful collection of stories about Georgia's Steel Magnolias, who were both dignified and defiant as General Sherman marched his troops through their homelands. General Sherman and Georgia Belles include the tales of Mary Ann Harris Gay of Decatur and Minerva McClatchey of Mariette, 404.370.3070
• 8 pm: Emory's White Hall 208 hosts a viewing of Black Orpheus. French director Marcel Camus earned the Palme d'Or at the Canne Film Festival for his dazzling film version of the play by the noted Brazilian composer-poet Vinicius de Moraes, 404.727.6123
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Tyler James, Andy Davis and Gregory Douglass, 404.377.4976
  

Tuesday

Between the Lines at Foundation One Gallery

• Last day to see Between the Lines at Foundation One Studios. The exhibit includes new works by Zach Johnsen and Charlie Owens. Between the Lines presents to the public the ideas, roughs and processes that artists go through to deliver the "final product" of their imagination, 404.806.0925
• 7 pm: The Carlos Museum hosts Dr. Jeffery Spier from the classics department at the University of Arizone. Dr. Spier dilivers the annual Laszlo-Excalibur Lecture titled The Cosmos in Miniature: Masterpieces of Greek Gem Engraving, 404.727.4282
• 7:15 pm: The Georgia Center for the Book presents Andrew Carroll at the Decatur Library. In his new book Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War, Carroll gives us an extraordinary, moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revoluntion to the fighting in Iraq, 404.370.3070
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Melissa Ferrick, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: The Arts at Emory and coordinator Richard Pryor invite you to a night of music with the Emory Chamber Ensembles. Trios, quartets, quintets and sextets of different instrumentation perform a variety of chamber music, 404.727.5050

Monday

Cafe Scientifique at Indie Coffee

• 6 pm: Documentaries and Films from Africa at Emory showing Zimbabwe de la liberation au chaos. Director Michael Raeburn started out decades ago as a supporter of Robert Mugabe. Bow with disillusionment he is forced to realize that the "liberator" Mugabe has become a dictator. In a very personal film that at the same time maps out the history of modern Zimbabwe, Raeburn links together archival materials with footage of the current situation, 404.727.6123
• 7-9 pm: Indie Coffee presents Cafe Scientifique Series: How Climate Has Changed History with Dennis Blanton, Fernbank Museum of National History. Climate Matters: Global Change, Global Effects is a joint program of Fernbank Museum, Emory University and GA Tech, 404.378.7110
  

Sunday

Chris Trapper performs at Eddie's

• 2 pm: Last day to see Aethelred the Unready at Theatre Decatur. In the 10th century, there lived a king who was...well, shall we say, not living up to his potential. Come see this new historical tragicomedy by Atlanta's premier local playwright Mark Shalloe abou the reign of England's King Aethelred, 404.373.5311
• 5:30 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Cowboy Envy, 404.377.4976
• 8:30 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Chris Trapper and Sons of William, 404.377.4976
  

Saturday

Dots at MudFire

Agnes Scott's Studio Dance Theater

• 3-11 pm: The New Street Arts and PushPush Theater invite you to its 10th Birthday Benefit Bash! An indoor/outdoors, day-long festival of fun celebrating 10 years of Atlanta's only theater dedicated soley to the growth of Atlanta's talent, 404.377.6332
• 5-8 pm: Boswell Gallery will be host to an exclusive fine art show for artist Marianne B. The event will be held at Heliotrope in Decatur, featuring Marianne's newest large-scale mixed media works on canvas, 404.377.4778
• 5-9 pm: MudFire Gallery invites you to the artist reception and exhibit opening of functional and sculptural works in clay with the focus on the lovable polka dot. The gallery has invited a group of ceramic artists who specialize in polka-dotty embellishment. Works on display will include traditional stoneware pottery with bashful pinpoint dots, luscious porcelain with 3-D Skittle-like burst of color, designs from nature executed painstakingly a-la-Seurat and large wall hangings with entrancing dottified layers of texture and color, 404.377.8033
• 7:30 pm: Mocha Match hosts Literary Latte, calling all writers to come out and read your work before a live audience in a cozy atmosphere, free and open to the public, hosted by Indigo Ink, 404.377.7788
• 8pm: Agnes Scott's Studio Dance Theatre presents Spring Forward: A Celebration of Dance at Presser Hall, Gains Chapel. Studio Dance Theatre, the student performing ensemble at Agnes Scott College will perform dynamic dance works of the past and present. Featuring choreography by New York artist Mary Seidman, a reconstruction of a 1967 Charles Weidman clasic, Ballet Variations by legendary Marius Petipa and new work by faculty member Bridget Roosa. $5 general admission (cash only) free for ASC community, 404.471.6430
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Terry Flynn, Matthew Ryan and Moe Loughran, 404.377.4976
• 10:30 pm: Jazz artists lead the way at the Academy Theatre's next Late Night Saturday. The featured performers include the popular duo Night Flight and vocalist Chimere. Joining them will be inimitable storyteller Sharon Mathis, 404.583.1270
  

Friday

Drama Queens at Theatre Decatur

• 7 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Caroline Aiken and Young Friends, 404.377.4976
• 7:15 pm: Georgia Center for the Book hosts author Deborah Rodriguez. Don't miss hearing Rodriguez tell her amazing story of how she gave up her job in Detroit to open a salon and cosmetology school in Kabul, Afghanistan. In Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, Rodriguez tells why she opened the salon and school and how she and other brave women of Kabul continue to resist the resurgent opressive Taliban, 404.370.3070
• 8 pm: Theatre Decatur presents its Festival of New Plays with Drama Queens. The festival features new works by three of Atlanta's premier women playwrights, directed by three of Atlanta's finest women directors. The first festival of its kind at Theatre Decatur, Drama Queens strives to cultivate and develop new voices in American theatre. Come out and see something new! 404.373.5311
• 8 pm: Agnes Scott's Studio Dance Theater presents Spring Forward: A Celebration of Dance at Presser Hall, Gaines Chapel, 404.471.6430
• 8 pm: Color: A Spectrum of Sound concert at Emory's Schwartz Center. Emory University and Scott Stewart, the Director of Emory's Wind Ensemble, invite you to a night of music and color. The concert features Lori-Gene, informal visual artist-in-residence with the Emory Music Department, 404.727.5050
• 9:30 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Caroline Aiken and Freebo, 404.377.4976
  

Thursday

Diego Velazquez

• 5 pm: The Arts at Emory invite you to participate in a distinquished lecture on Diego Velaquez given by Svetlana Alpers. Alpers is a major figure in the field of art history in the late twentieth century, Emory's White Hall 208, 404.727.6123
• 6 pm: Edward Mendelson, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden, and editor of Auden's complete works, will speak on W.H. Auden and the Case of the Imaginative Conscience at Emory's White Hall 208, 404.727.6123
• 7 pm: DeKalb County Libraries invite you to a musical treat. Enjoy West African rhythm and drumming by ConunDrums, an all-women percussion ensemble, 404.370.3070
• 7 pm: Oakhurst Jazz Nights. The Moonlighters Jazz Band performs featuring the best jazz standards from the thirties, forties and fifties.
• 8 pm: Eddie's Attic presents Richard Shindell, 404.377.4976
• 8 pm: Agnes Scott presents Phi Beta Kappa, visiting scholar, Barry Schwartz, speaking on The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action in the psychology department of Swarthmore College, Mary Brown Bullock Science Center, Teasley Lecture Hall, 404.471.6000
  

Wednesday

Jackie Robinson

• 5-6pm: Agnes Scott presents the creation of plays, a 10-minute play festival at the Winter Theatre in the Dana Fine Arts Center, 404.471.6248
• 7pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents author Jonathan Eig at the Decatur Library. The year was 1947 when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first black man to play for a major league baseball team. Eig's new book, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, is a drama-filled account of the year the courageous Robinson broke the color line and forever changed baseball and American history, 404.370.3070
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Alice Peacock, Peter Bradley Adams and Craig Cardiff, 404.371.9583
• 8pm: Emory's White Hall 208 presents Street of Shame, Ugetsu Monogatari's final fim that provides a sympathetic portrait of women working in a Tokyo brothel, 404.727.6123
  

Painting Classes

Don't miss this opportunity to get one on one instruction from one of Atlanta's most popular and well received artists. Spaces are filling up for the Art Instruction Series with Dawn Kinney Martin.

1st Series: Wednesday April 11, 18, 25 & May 2
2nd Series: May 16, 23, 30 & June 6

Time: 6:15-8 pm

Where: Boswell Gallery in Decatur

Cost: $175

Class size is limited and first come first serve. Feel free to contact the gallery to reserve your space today, 404.377.4778.

Freestyle Poling Classes! (note: NOT pole dancing classes)

Decatur's favorite dancer, Blake Dalton


What: beginner level freestyle poling and sword dance classes
(visit www.crossovermovementarts.com to get a better idea of what this is)
When: Every Saturday at 2pm
Where: Sever Dancers Core Studio in downtown Decatur
How: All you need to bring is yourself wearing comfortable clothes and the $10 class fee
Why: Well, apart from getting a great workout, when else are you going to get a chance to do some freestyle poling?

Tuesday

• 4pm: The Carlos Museum hosts AntiquiTEA. Enjoy complimentary tea and scones as Dr. Jessica Stephenson discusses a late eighteenth-century processional cross from Ethiopia and illustrates the reinterpretation of European imagery according to Ethiopian African traditions of healing and protection, 404.727.4282
• 5-6 pm: Agnes Scott presents a creation of plays, a 10-minute play festival at The Winter Theatre in the Dana Fine Arts Center, 404.471.6248
• 7pm: The Carlos Museum hosts a lecture with Dr. Beth Alpert Nakhzi, associate professor at The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. The lecture, Hear O'Israel: Religion and Cult in Biblical Times is sponsored by the Department of Middle Easter n Studies, 404.727.4282
  

Monday

A scene from Sullivan's Travels

• 7pm: Emory's White Hall 208 willing be showing Sullivan's Travels. Incorporating many of the same themes of The Time of Your Life, this 1941 comedy by one of Hollywood's classic directors follows a lighthearted movie director as he seeks to find the meaning of life by hitting the road with only a dime in his pocket. Sullivan's Travels was an inspiration for th 2000 film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 404.727.6123
• 7:15pm: Mary Alice Monroe will be at the Decatur Library as part of the Festival of Writers. The popular South Carolina romance author visits to discuss her latest novel, Swimming Lessons, a heartwarming tale set on the Isle of Palms near Charleston where lives are changed during one magical summer, 404.370.3070
  

Decatur Arts Festival Update

As the official event planners for the Decatur Arts Festival, people are constantly telling us how great our jobs are - sitting around, planning a weekend-long party/festival. While this is true most of the time, once in a while we actually have to do some work. For example, we're currently organizing the 140+ artists participating in the Artists Market, creating the Festival Program, finding sponsors, lining up the music acts, marketing, mapping out artists tents... Of course we couldn't do any of this without our great Arts Fest committee. Nevertheless, the point is that planning for the 19th Annual 2007 Decatur Arts Festival is well under way. Here are some behind the scene shots from the Decatur Arts Festival office as proof:

Future Doors of Decatur doors, just hanging out in the backyard of our office.
If you're interested in painting a door, call us at 404.371.9583

Artists correspondence.
Almost everything is done online, thanks to zapplication.org, but once in a while we have to use the ol' envelope/letter technique.

The official office copy of the Artists Market layout.
(Hint: the odd rectangular shape in the center is the Old Courthouse on the Square, the little boxes are the artists' tents and the blobs with x's are trees).

So there you have it. We are constantly updating the website, so check it out every once in a while to get more details on the festival. Soon to come is a complete listing of the festival's artists and ArtWalk participants, www.decaturartsalliance.org.

Decatur CD Performance

Athens, GA's Modern Skirts will be playing an in-store performance at Decatur CD,
Saturday at 2pm.
www.myspace.com/modernskirts
Plus, EVERY disc in the store will be on sale for 20% off.
404.371.9090

Saturday

Academy Theatre hosts Twinhead Theatre

• noon-8pm: Last day of MudFire Gallery's Kyle Carpenter Exhibition. The Ashville, North Carolina native comes to Atlanta for his annual solo exhibtion of new functional pottery entitled Contemporary Tradition, 404.377.8033
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Richard Bicknell, Denice Franke and Jeff Talmadge, 404.377.4976
• 10:30pm: Twinhead Theater and Performance Group heads the bill at the Academy Theatre's next Late Night Saturday. Twinhead, the series resident theatre company and one of the most eclectic performance groups in the area, will offer Histories and Huzzahs, two short ironies that deal with foundations - of American, and of the Rorschach test, Hermann Rorschach. Joining them are folk rocker Sean Kagalis and performance poet James Walsh, 404.525.4111
  

Friday

Darden Smith performs at Eddie's

• 12pm: The Carlos Museum presents Canadian virtuoso pianist Philip Thomson with a program of Chopin and Liszt, 404.727.4282
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Robinella, Darden Smith and Mare Wakefield, 404.377.4976.
  

Thursday

Will Scruggs performs at Oakhurst

• 6pm: Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library hosts Galway Kinnell Poetry Reading. American poet Galway Kinnell's writing career spans more than five decades. In 1983 he received both the Pulitzer Prize and theh Nation Book Award for Selected Poems. In 2002 he was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of American, 404.727.6861
• 7-9pm: Jazz Nights at Scottish Rite return with its free concert program. Will Scruggs and Audrey Shakir perform. At only 26 years of age, saxophonist, vocalist and band leader Will Scruggs is one of the most exciting young artists on the jazz scene today.
• 7pm: The Carlos Museum hosts Janine Antoni in Mindfulness, Love and the Creative Process. Antoni is a practicing Buddhist and a celebrated, innovative visual artist known for using her own body in the making of her art. Sharon Salzberg, a prominent teacher and mentor of the Buddhist community, will conduct a dialogue exploring how the qualities of mindfulness and love, as deepened through meditation, enhance the creative process, 404.727.4282
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Letters to Mary and Trina and Tomi (of three5human), 404.377.4976
  

Wednesday

An Autumn Afternoon at Emory

• 8pm: An Autumn Afternoon screening at Emory's White Hall 208. Ozu's last film, one of a handful he shot in color, reflects his ongoing obsession with family life. It also contains an extraordinary amount of sake drinking, 404.727.6123
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents No More Kings, Y O U, Helios and The Breakdown, 404.377.4976
  

Tuesday

A royal tomb in Macedonia, Greece

• 7pm: The Carlos Museum presents a lecture with Dr. Gene Borza, Professor Emeritus of ancient history at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Borza discusses "Treasures of the Macedonian Royal Tombs," 404.727.4282
• 8pm: The Emory Music Department and Director Richard Prior invite you to a night of music at the Schwartz Center. Student trios, quartets, quintets and sextets of differeent instrumentation will perform a variety of chamber music, 404.727.5050
  

Monday

Waiting for Happiness

• 6pm: Documentaries and Films from Africa: Waiting for Happiness at Emory's White Hall 208. In this film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, seventeen year old Abdallah visits his mother in the small coastal town of Nouadhibou before he emigrates to Europe. He is unable to speak the local language and therefore feels like an outcast, 404.727.6123
• 7pm: A Sample of Writing by William Saroyan at Emory's Schwartz Center will be performed. The staged reading features selections from William Saroyan's other fiction and essays related to the themes in The Time of Your Life. The reading will be performed by Blake Covington, Michael Evenden, Penny Flick, Lora Hogan, Donald McManus and Pat Miller, 404.727.5050
• 7pm: The Carlos Museum hosts a lecture with Dr. Jodi Magness. The Society for Biblical Literature and the Carlos Museum welcome Dr. Magness, Professor of Religious Studies at the Universitiy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presenting "Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James," 404.727.4282
  

Sunday

Jen Chapin

Eddie's Attic presents Jen Chapin and Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun, 7pm.
404.377.4976