During his brief visit to Central Florida, the director will share stories of his life and career, as well as personal viewpoints about the current state of American and global affairs.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone stops by Rollins College
Super-secret Fox Fest after party!
If this catches you on a particularly ho-hum Saturday, I encourage you to head out to Fox Fest, the outdoor music festival at Rollins College, presented by WPRK, open to the public and totally free. Regular festivities kick off at 1 p.m. today, (Saturday, April 13) and the full schedule of bands and DJs are...
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Eddie Huang reads from his memoir at Rollins College
Tuesday, March 19 – Eddie Huang Reading 7 p.m. Mills Memorial Hall, Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park 407-646-2000 rollins.edu free Bigmouth strikes again! Chef, memoirist, dedicated shit-talker and Rollins grad Eddie Huang has had a big two weeks since we put him on our cover (“Huang time coming,” Feb. 27): The self-dubbed...
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Author Azar Nafisi featured in Rollins College’s Winter With the Writers
Nafisi, who finally left Iran in the mid-1990s, wrote about this experience and the impact this exercise had on the lives of these oppressed women in her bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and earned Nafisi a reputation as...
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Orlando Shakes hosts Sense and Sensibility dance party
To celebrate the opening of their staging of Sense and Sensibility, Orlando Shakes is throwing a pleasant dance party of their own, and they’ve asked choreographer W. Robert Sherry, director of dance at Rollins College and a gifted teacher, to show you the moves.
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“Lucy” paleoanthropologist Dr. Donald Johanson presents lecture at Rollins College
The accomplished paleoanthropologist dedicated his life to digging up the evidence that would fill out holes in the timeline of our existence, dating back 4 million years, and his work has turned a lot of heads.
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U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer speaks at Rollins College
Verveer, who also served as Clinton’s chief of staff when she was the First Lady, co-founded the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit that invests in helping women leaders in emerging nations become pioneers in economics, politics and social change.
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Bach Festival Society Presents Brooklyn Rider
On this trip, they will once again work with local music students, including visits to all six of the elementary schools that participate in A Gift for Music, the nonprofit stringed instrument training program.
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Bach Festival Society presents Paul Galbraith
For this opening concert of the Bach Festival Society’s 2012-2013 Visiting Artist Series, Galbraith will perform Hindemith’s “Harp Sonata,” Bach’s “Lute Suite” and selections by Spanish composers Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, Miguel Llobet and Federico Moreno Torroba.
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Cornell Fine Arts Museum opens two new art shows
In recent years, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum has been our best, most consistent source for challenging nationally touring exhibitions of new art, and this fall looks to be no different, with two very different but complementary shows.
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