DURHAM -- A series of films by playwright Ariel Dorfman and Andy Warhol are among the films that the Duke Screen/Society organization will show this spring.
The Warhol series continues Thursday and Feb. 11 with two of the artist's documentaries, to be screened at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
The Dorfman series begins Feb. 2 with "My House is on Fire" and "A Promise to the Dead." This series continues Feb. 16 with "Death and the Maiden," and March 2 with "Deadline" and "Prisoners in Time."
A complete schedule and synopses are available at http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php.
Films will be shown in the Griffith Film Theater (Bryan Center, West Campus) the Richard White Auditorium (East Campus), or the Nasher Museum Auditorium, and all events will be free and open to the public.
Full Frame seeking festival volunteers
DURHAM -- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival seeks volunteers for 13th annual event, to be held April 8-11.
The festival needs volunteers to help out in many areas including ushers, ticket takers, box office, photographers, drivers, IT support, set-up and tear down, and outreach.
The sign-up is once again online. Visit www.fullframefest.org/volapp.php to fill out the form that allows volunteers to fill out an area of interest and availability.
Applicants must attend two pre-fest meetings in the evening (in March) and work 3 five-hour shifts during the festival.
Volunteers get to see films, and receive a free T-shirt and snacks.
For more information, contact Volunteer Coordinator Nic Beery at Volunteer@fullframefest.org and (919) 883-7472
Films focus on themes of resistance, control
DURHAM -- A film series at Duke University will explore what control and resistance mean in various societal contexts, and will include an audience discussion led by Duke faculty members and special guests.
The films, which are free and open to the public, each start at 7 p.m. and take place in the Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center on Duke's West Campus. Free parking is available in the Bryan Center parking deck.
This Screen/Society series is sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics in conjunction with the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image.
Remaining films in the series are Feb. 23, "The Yes Men Fix the World"; March 23, "Dhamma Brothers"; April 13, "The Mosque in Morgantown."
For more information, visit http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/events/ethics-film-series.
Deep Dish presents songwriters series
Deep Dish Theater will celebrate the first anniversary of its Words to Music, the Songwriters Up Close Series, with an intimate night of acoustic performances today at 8 p.m.
The show will feature local veteran musicians Dex Romweber, John Howie, Jr., and Holly Harding Baddour.
Romweber, a fixture of the American music underground scene, is the former frontman for Flat Duo Jets. As part of the Dex Romweber Duo with his sister, Sara Romweber, he has performed across the United States and Europe, touring with acts such as Cat Power and Southern Culture on the Skids.
Howie has been cultivating a distinctive brand of honky-tonk and country rock since 1996 when he formed the Two Dollar Pistols. He has recorded seven albums, toured heavily in the United States and Europe, and shared the stage with such artists as Merle Haggard, Billy Joe Shaver, and Carlene Carter.
Baddour has recorded and toured in a band with Tom Maxwell of Squirrel Nut Zippers and Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five.
Tickets for the show are $12, available at the Deep Dish box office in University Mall, Wednesday to Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m., at www.deepdishtheater.org, or (919) 968-1515. Deep Dish is in Chapel Hill's University Mall, on Estes Drive and U.S. 15-501.
Pianist Kuerti to perform at Duke
Pianist Anton Kuerti will perform today at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Theater at Duke University. His all-Beethoven program features his rarely heard masterpiece 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C Major.
Here are other artists who will perform this week as part of the Duke Performances spring series. For tickets or other details, call 684-4444 or visit www.dukeperformances.org.
Vocalist Luciana Souza, guitarist Romero Lubambo, and percussionist Cyro Baptista perform in Reynolds Theater at 8 p.m. Saturday. Souza's crystalline voice "traces a landscape of emotions that know no boundaries" (Entertainment Weekly.)
Duke's Ciompi Quartet will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Nelson Music Room, with guest artists Yoram Youngerman, viola; Nancy Green, cello; Philippe Castagner, tenor; Jane Hawkins, piano.
Also, starting Monday, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet will be at Duke for a weeklong residency in preparation for two performances with jazz pianist Jason Moran and the Bandwagon January 29 and 30, at 8 pm in Reynolds Theater.
--Compiled by Cliff Bellamy
