‘Emma was Here’ Explores Death with Dignity

Mail Tribune – Posted Nov. 10 2016

ROW 211 FILMS, a Rogue Valley production company composed of Southern Oregon University alumni, is planning to make its first independent feature film in 2017: “Emma Was Here,” a poignant drama about a terminally ill young woman’s decision to end her life via Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act — but not before journeying to the coast to have the vacation of a lifetime with her sister and closest friends.

A reading of the screenplay, written by Daniel Rester, will be from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, in the Arena Room, Stevenson Union Building at SOU, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. Tickets are free, but donations are encouraged to help support the making of the film. The concept trailer will be shown after the reading, which is being sponsored by the SOU Film Club.

Learn more about ‘Emma was Here’ on the full article.

Dancing with the Rogue Valley Stars: Bailey Aldrich

KDRV.com – Posted Nov. 9 2016

MEDFORD, Ore. – The annual Dancing with the Rogue Valley Stars is this weekend.

Tonight, we take a look at our next star, Bailey Aldrich. She will be dancing the American Rumba with her partner, Anton Drummond.

 

Learn more about Dancing with the Rogue Valley Stars on the full article.

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B Street Theatre’s Family Series Presents ROBIN HOOD

broadwayworld.com Sacramento – Posted Nov. 9 12016

Darek Riley, who received his bachelor of fine arts degree in acting/performance from SOU, plays Robin Hood in Greg Banks’ adaptation of “Robin Hood” at Sacramento’s B Street Theatre.

Learn more about B Street Theatre’s ROBIN HOOD on the full article.

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SOU Presents ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’

Mail Tribune – Posted Nov 8, 2016

Small-time gangster Arturo Ui sets out to take over the Chicago cauliflower trade by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition in Bertolt Brecht’s surprisingly contemporary and comical take on the rise of fascism in a free society.

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” — written in just a few weeks in 1941 by the German playwright while he waited for a visa to leave Finland for America — is a satirical allegory of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany prior to World War II.

Learn more about SOU’s ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ on the full article.

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Hitler Look-Alike Found On Stage

Ashland Daily Tidings – Posted Nov. 7 2016

Bertold Brecht left Germany shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. But Brecht’s dislike of Hitler waned little in self-exile, resulting in the play “The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui.”  Audiences recognize a Hitler-like figure in Arturo Ui, a Chicago mobster trying to monopolize the cauliflower market.  Yes, cauliflower.

Learn more about ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ on the full article.

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Students Create Round-the-Clock Drama

Mail Tribune – Posted Nov. 5 2016

CENTRAL POINT — About 40 students from two local high schools got a concentrated taste of the play production process Friday and Saturday nights.

For the first time, Crater Renaissance Academy’s annual 24 Hour Play Cabaret event, in which students perform short plays written only the night before, has expanded to include a second high school’s drama students, Rogue River High School’s troupe, the Arden Ensemble.

Learn more about the 24 Hour Play Cabaret on the full article.

Gallery Devoted to Faculty Art Work

The Siskiyou – Posted 11-4-2016

The artistic practices of Southern Oregon University’s employees aren’t limited to the Oregon Center for the Arts.

Over the weekend, The Center for Visual Arts opened an exhibition showcasing art from SOU staff, faculty, and administration. Appropriately titled, “I Show Work at Work” the show “seeks to provide an opportunity for non-student employees across SOU to exhibit their artistic practice, no matter what the medium,” according to CVA Galleries Facebook page.

Learn more about the faculty art gallery on the full article.

Schneider Museum Exhibits Work of Famed Women Artists

Ashland Daily Tidings – Posted  Oct 27, 2016

From a large image of exuberantly colored flowers by Polly Apfelbaum to an intimate series of spider prints by Louise Bourgeois, the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland is showing works normally seen only in big cities or in textbooks on contemporary art.

The new exhibit, “Art on Paper: 10 Women Artists from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation,” opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at the museum, located on the Southern Oregon University campus. The exhibit continues through Jan. 7.

Learn more about ‘Art on Paper’ on the full article.

Opening Reception: I Show Work at Work

The Stevenson Union Gallery is excited to announce a group exhibition called I Show Work at Work! This showcase seeks to provide an opportunity for non-student employees across SOU to exhibit their artistic practice, no matter what the medium. Through this, it is the hope that departments and students across SOU will cultivate stronger connections not only between each other but with the arts in general!

The exhibition will be on view through February 9, 2017.

Learn more about ‘I Show Work at Work’ on the full article.