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Atlanta Sacred Chorale: Season Finale
Emerson Concert Hall
1700 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 8 p.m.
Season Finale: "Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs"
Harkening back to the inception of Atlanta Sacred Chorale over 25 years ago, the Season Finale will meander among these three time-honored genres of various faith traditions through centuries of sacred music. Enjoy an entire evening dedicated to these beloved musical forms, handed down from generation to generation. Reception with Eric and the singers following.
Recommended Parking
Fishburne Parking Deck
Lowergate South Parking Deck
University Event Topic: Arts
Director: Eric Nelson
Type of Art: Music - Vocal, Choral, & A Cappella Performances
Series: Atlanta Sacred Chorale
Event Open To: All
Cost: $20; $15 discount category members; $10 Emory students
Contact Name: Arts at Emory Box Office
Contact Phone: 404.727.5050
Contact Email: boxoffice@emory.edu
More info: www.atlantasacredchorale.org
Matthew Coolidge - Public Lecture: "Anthropogeomorphology and the Search for Meaning in the Built American Landscape"
Oxford Road Building
1390 Oxford Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 7 p.m.
Matthew Coolidge is the founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, an education and research organization based in Los Angeles, established in 1994. The CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history in order to increase and diffuse information about how land in the United States is apportioned, utilized, and perceived. The Center produces public programs including tours, lectures, and events, publishes books, and web resources, including a web site with a searchable database of “unusual and exemplary” land use in the United States.
This event is co-sponsored with Art Papers LIVE! and W Atlanta-Downtown.
University Event Topic: Arts
Department/Organization: Visual Arts Program
Type of Art: Visual Arts & Art History - Exhibitions, Lectures, & Events
Event Open To: All
Cost: Free--No Ticket Required
Contact Name: Faith McClure
Contact Phone: 404.727.6315
Contact Email: faith.mcclure@emory.edu
More info: visualarts.emory.edu
A Blessing on the Moon (Workshop Performance)
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7 p.m.
A Blessing on the Moon
based on the novel by Joseph Skibell
Music by Andy Teirstein
Libretto by Andy Teirstein and Joseph Skibell
Excerpts from the opera & panel discussion with the actors and creative team.
Sponsored by the Emory Center for Ethics and the Ethics and the Arts Initiative, The Atlanta Opera, The Creative Writing Program and the Goldwasser Fund.
University Event Topic: Arts
Artist: Joseph Skibell & Andy Teirstein
Type of Art: Music - Vocal, Choral, & A Cappella Performances
Series: Goldwasser Series
Event Open To: All
Cost: Free--No Ticket Required
Contact Name: Carlton Mackey
Contact Email: cmackey@emory.edu
Steven Badgett Artist Talk
700 Peavine Creek Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7 p.m.
Steven Badgett is an independent artist and founding member of SIMPARCH, an artist collective founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico (1996) specializing in large-scale, interactive installations that examine simple architecture, building practices and site specificity. Badgett is the recipient of a New Mexico Arts Council grant and residencies from the Atelier de Pointoise in France, the Brandenberischer Kunsterein in Germany, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles. SIMPARCH received a Creative Capital grant in 2009 and exhibited in the 2002 Documenta as well as the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York.
Sponsored by the Visual Arts Department & Gallery and Emory Friends of Visual Arts.
University Event Topic: Arts
Department/Organization: Visual Arts Program
Artist: Steven Badgett
Type of Art: Visual Arts & Art History - Exhibitions, Lectures, & Events
Series: Emory Friends of Visual Arts Lecture
Event Open To: All
Cost: Free--No Ticket Required
Contact Name: Faith McClure
Contact Phone: 404.727.6315
Contact Email: faith.mcclure@emory.edu
More info: visualarts.emory.edu
A Blessing on the Moon - Excerpts from the opera and panel discussion
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7 p.m.
Synopsis: A Blessing on the Moon is a new music-theater work composed by Andy Teirstein, and based on the novel by Teirstein’s collaborator, Joseph Skibell (the novel was published by Algonquin Books, 1997). Joseph Skibell often describes A Blessing on the Moon as “a novel masquerading as a folk tale.” Andy Teirstein describes his musical adaptation as “an opera masquerading as a folk spiel.” The journey of Chaim Skibelski, who has just been shot dead, and his Rabbi, who is now a crow, as they wander through Poland searching for an afterlife, lends itself easily to the genre of music-theater. Words, music and movement can be expressive of the edges of experience explored in the magical realism of this epic narrative, which contains wry humor, poetry, and a sharp sense of each character's perspective, even extending to the Polish family that has moved into the protagonist’s home, and the German soldier who has shot him.
University Event Topic: Arts, Community, Diversity, Entertainment, Special Event
School: Emory University
Department/Organization: Center for Ethics
Building/Room: Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Ethics & the Arts Initiative, The Atlanta Opera, The Creative Writing Program and The Goldwasser Fund
Contact Name: Chantel Smith
Contact Email: chantel.lashay.smith@emory.edu
More info: www.ethics.emory.edu…
"come celebrate with me: The Work of Lucille Clifton" (open end date)
Ongoing through Tuesday, August 27, 2013
This exhibition includes a family reunion of writings by Clifton taken from her archive in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). They range from her earliest poems in her delicate penmanship, to poems composed on her beloved Videowriter word processor, to last works composed at writer’s workshops, dashed off in an email, or found in her many daybooks, often written in her distinctive lowercase style. Curated by Amy Hildreth Chen and Kevin Young. Check MARBL hours at bit.ly/op6q9e. A companion exhibition, “She Sang So Sweet: Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Literature,” curated by Chen and featuring Clifton’s career as a children’s author, is on display in the Concourse Gallery at the Level 2 main entrance.
University Event Topic: Ongoing Event
Artist: Lucille Clifton
Type of Art: handwritten poetry drafts, photographs, personal artifacts, original material
Department/Organization: MARBL-Manuscript Archives & Rare Book Library
Event Open To: All
Cost: Free
Building/Room: Robert W. Woodruff Library
Contact Email: marbl@emory.edu
More info: bit.ly…
Georgia voters pass charter school amendment
Brookhaven elections yield few winners
DeKalb names interim police chief
DeKalb County's Police Chief Retires
North central DeKalb residents considering creating own city
2013 county departmental budget requests up $44 million
City of Decatur considering several annexations
DeKalb County Schools to implement balanced calendar this fall
Brookhaven commission moves toward cityhood
Clarkston City Council considering reduction in size, mayor’s term
Eye on the Street
The Next Monopoly? What “Pandemic” teaches us about public health
By Sherline Lee
Even for an epidemiologist who works in public health preparedness and response, being asked to explain to the public what we do at CDC can be difficult.
That said, sometimes opportunities to talk about public health drop into your lap. A few months ago I was catching up with my friend Austin, an engineer for a large corporation. It turned out that while on long-term assignments he and his team had recently taken to playing the board game, “Pandemic.” One might think that an infectious disease would make for a strange game premise, but to my surprise it’s been gaining a loyal fan base. Of note, the game has recently profiled by Wil Wheaton on his “Geeks and Sundry” tabletop videocast seen by more than 350,000 viewers and positively reviewed on many board game sites.
What? You Think Public Health is Fun?
When I asked Austin about why his teammates enjoyed Pandemic, he pointed out that the game differed from many others in that it was designed to make players collaborate, not compete. In addition, players had to learn not only their own roles but the roles of other players in order to attempt to outsmart the disease as it tried to spread city to city across the globe.
Finding out that your job is the premise of a game your friend likes to play is amusing. However this conversation provided me with an opportunity to reflect further. As it turns out, I had played this game several years ago with a fellow CDC epidemiologist who had a connection to one of the developers. She asked my team, who was also working on developing educational activities, to play the game with her to provide feedback on potential new roles for a planned expansion to the game and the gameplay itself.
I remember our team talking to her about how well the game reflected the reality and values of public health. We also discussed how the game forced players to think beyond themselves and about the other people around their game table. Public health response, after all, is all about the collaboration of multiple disciplines that function best when they do it together. Public health professionals know that containing a pandemic requires practitioners all over the world to be well equipped and to be able to communicate just as well as game players around the same table.
Something’s Missing…
If there was one thing that did bother me, it was that among the five roles which players could pick from (i.e., archivist, medic, operations expert, scientist, and researcher), there was no epidemiologist. However, as I looked at the new version my friend Austin was playing, I was relieved to see an epidemiologist had finally joined the ranks in the expanded form of the game. That role, alongside seven new ones, became part of the “Pandemic” game world.
While I’m sure these additions were made to change the gameplay and offer new things for fans to play, I also think it reflects a subtle message about public health. We continue to plan with many specialists inside the agency along with local, state, national and international partners on a daily basis, getting ready to respond and “beat disease at its game.”
On a more personal note, I keep hoping to run into other friends and acquaintances that have played the game. After all, each fan of “Pandemic” I encounter represents another opportunity to talk about what we do in public health preparedness. And every game player might someday also become a fan of public health.
Sherline Lee is a CDC epidemiologist works in the Healthcare Preparedness Activity program (http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/healthcare) in the Division of Strategic National Stockpile and collaborates on developing tools with public health, healthcare, and emergency management partners.
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Shih Tzu Found on South McDonough at W. Hill St.
Weekly Adoptables: Phoebe Is Ready and Waiting
Hi, my name is Phoebe. I’m a very sweet Lab/Terrier mix. I know everyone says they’re sweet, but it’s true about me, ask the shelter volunteers! I have a great personality; I’m very cuddly and loving. I would love to be your walking or jogging companion or to snuggle on the sofa and watch movies with you on a rainy afternoon.
I attend Charm School; that’s the training the shelter has to help us learn good manners. I’m very charming; just look at me in my cute little dress. I have learned to Sit, to Look at you or to Touch your hand on command. I’m learning to walk nicely on a leash; they say I’m learning very quickly. If you adopt me you can help me learn even more good things. The nice people at the shelter want to make sure that I continue to learn so there is a $250 training package to whoever adopts me.
I came to the shelter in November 2012; that’s a long time. Each day I patiently wait and hope someone will take me home. I really want a person or family of my own. Please come to the shelter and take me for a walk or play with me in the yard; I like toys, but most of all I would enjoy just being with you.
Phoebe is an adult; she is vaccinated, spayed and heartworm negative.
Contact the Dekalb County Animal Shelter at Jsmartinez@dekalbcountyga.gov and dekalb.volunteer.coordinator@gmail.com
Shelter Details:
DeKalb County Animal Services
845 Camp Road
Decatur, Ga. 30032
404-294-2165
Shelter Hours
Monday - Wednesday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Check out pictures & details of all our wonderful dogs & cats available for adoption
Dog Adoption Fee: $95
Includes spay/neuter, vaccinations, and heartworm test
Cat Adoption Fee: $75
Includes spay/neuter, vaccinations, and FIV/FELV test
Dogs & Cats over 5 years old/Adopter over 55 years old: $40
