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                       HAPPENINGS AT DUKE

    Events beginning Monday, Sept. 19 through Sunday, Oct. 2

Please note:  When applicable, contacts are listed for news
reporters who would like to obtain media passes and photographs or
to arrange interviews.

Call the 24-hour Duke Arts Hotline at 1-800-681-ARTS for arts
events.

GENERAL INTEREST

Monday, Sept. 19

     12:30 p.m.  Leon Forrest, award-winning novelist and professor
of African American studies at Northwestern University, will
discuss creative writing at a brown-bag luncheon. Seminar Room 103,
Lilly Library, East Campus. Free to the public; sponsored by Duke's
African and Afro-American Studies Program. For more information,
contact Edwina S. Daye, 684-2830.

     4 - 5 p.m. "The Relationship of Protest to Literature and the
Role of Character and Voice in Fiction," lecture by novelist Leon
Forrest. Room 139, Social Sciences Building, West Campus. For more
information, contact: Edwina S. Daye, 684-2830.

     4 p.m.  "World Headlines: The Mexican Elections: What happened
and Why?" Panel discussion with Professor Blanca Torres, El Colegio
de Mexico and Duke Latin American Visiting Scholar, and Chris
Welna, department of political science. 2122 Campus Drive, West
Campus. Sponsored by the Center for International Studies.  For
more information, call 684-8749.

Saturday, Oct. 1

     9 a.m. - noon  Duke Gardens Annual Fall Chrysanthemum, Bulb
and Perennial Sale.  Anderson Street entrance to Duke Gardens.

Sunday, Oct. 2

     2 p.m.  The Annual Interfaith Blessing of the Animals Service. 
Bring the animals in your care.  Faith perspectives, music and
liturgical dance will be offered along with a blessing of the
animals.  Duke Chapel quad, West Campus.

                         Ongoing events

     2 p.m. Duke Gardens free tours, Thursdays and Sundays from
September through November, weather permitting. Tours begin at the
gardens' main gate located off Anderson Street. Free parking.

ART

                  Opening and Ongoing Exhibits

Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus

Friday, Sept. 22

     5 p.m.  Duke University Museum of Art: "After Hours," a
monthly gathering to allow people to visit the museum after
business hours.  At 6 p.m. museum director Michael Mezzatesta will
lead a tour of the Blaffer exhibition.

     "Italian and Dutch Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah
Campbell Blaffer Foundation," an exhibition of 34 Old Master
paintings dating from the 14th to 18th centuries. 

     "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War," documentary
photographs by Carole Gallagher. The exhibition comprises
approximately 50 black-and-white photos with accompanying text that
have resulted from Gallagher's decade-long collection of portraits
and interviews of people whose lives were affected by nuclear bomb
testing in the U.S.  Exhibit runs through Oct. 30.  

     "The Matter of History: Selected Works by Annette Lemieux." 
Lemieux's multi-media works include images, texts and objects
associated with World War II and the Holocaust. Exhibit includes
recent paintings and sculpture by the Boston-area artist. Through
Oct. 30.  

     Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11
a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For general
information, contact (919) 684-5135.

Institute of the Arts Gallery, Bivins Building, East Campus

     "Four Decades at Duke: Duke Photographers' Candid Views,"
Photographs by Jim Wallace, Les Todd, Bruce Feeley and Chris
Hildreth, Duke University photographers. Continues through Sept.
29. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Center for Documentary Studies

     "The Eye of Childhood," children's drawings collected by
Robert Coles. Lyndhurst House, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

Brown Gallery, Bryan Center 

     "Pretty, Primal, Pissed," paintings in mixed media by Duke
graduate Tom Buhrman, runs through Sept. 30. For more information,
call (919) 684-2911.

Touchable Art Gallery, Eye Center
     Arts and crafts by people with visual impairments.

     "Works from Around the World" and other selections by Bynum
artist Clyde Jones are on display in the Cornea Waiting Room, which
is open Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours vary; call Peggy
Young at (919) 286-3361 for more information.

Hanks Lobby Gallery of the Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan
Center

     "Big Paintings of Color" by Jim Kellough. The exhibit can be
viewed when the theater is open for public events, 45 minutes
before showtime.

MUSIC

     Auditions: The Duke Symphony Orchestra invites community
musicians to audition for the 1994-95 season. Rehearsals are held
on Mondays (in 019 of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building) and
Wednesdays (in Baldwin Auditorium), both on East Campus, from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, call conductor Lorenzo Muti at
660-3324.

Monday, Sept. 19

     8 p.m. Institute of the Arts: "Black Umfolosi."  Close vocal
harmonies, traditional war dances and songs of love and modern
society from Zimbabwe. Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center,
West Campus. Tickets are $6 for students, $12 general admission,
available by calling 684-4444 or at the door.

Tuesday, Sept. 20

     8 p.m.  Zap Mama.  A five-woman a capella group from Zaire and
Belgium, who render bird calls and car engines, Renaissance
madrigals, African counterpoint, American spirituals and more. Page
Auditorium. Tickets now on sale at Page Box Office, 684-4444. $8
for Duke students with I.D. and $12 for the general public,
reserved seats. Group discounts are available. Sponsored by the
Duke University Union On Stage Committee. For more information,
contact Dana Kling, 684-2911.

Friday, Sept. 23

     8 p.m. Opening concert, Duke Jazz Series, Fall 1994. Tenor
saxophonist and composer Sam Newsome launches this fall's series
honoring saxophone legend Sonny Rollins. Newsome studied at Berklee
College of Music, jammed with Donald Byrd and Roy Haynes and played
with Mickey Bass' big band and the Terence Blanchard Quintet.
Baldwin Auditorium. Tickets prices: students, $7 and general
public, $10. Tickets at the door on the evening of the performance
or from Page Box Office, 684-4444, or Ticket Master, 834-4000. 
Media contact: Susan Ashley Wilson, 660-3333. 

Saturday, Sept. 24

     8 p.m. "Encounters with the Music of our Time: The Voice of
the Walls." Guest composer-conductor Sidney Corbett will direct his
composition, "The Voice of the Walls," and soprano Joan Heller,
versatile and acclaimed vocalist, will be featured in Luciano
Berio's theatrical tour-de-force for female singer "Sequenza III."
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus. Admission is
free. Media contact: Susan Ashley Wilson, 660-3333. 

     10 p.m. Mecca Normal with Peter Jeffries and Trash presented
by Duke University Union, WXDU and the Coffeehouse. Tickets are $5.
The Coffeehouse, East Campus. For more information, call 684-2911.

Friday, Sept. 30

     8 p.m. "Waxwings: Vocal Duets from the 20th-Century American
Repertoire," featuring songs from composer Robert Ward's operas
Roman Fever and Lady Kate, Stephen Jaffe's Fort Juniper Songs and
Timothy Hoekman's Margarets, with Terry Rhodes, soprano, Ellen
Williams, mezzo-soprano, Thomas Warburton and Stephen Jaffe, piano,
and Ciompi Quartet members. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. Media
contact: Susan Ashley Wilson, 660-3333.

     8 p.m.  "Mappamundi and the Original ArtSchool Jazz Ensemble."
Musical traditions of the Balkans performed by noted Triangle-area
musicians.  Part of the Institute of the Arts' Living Traditions
series. Tickets are $12 for the public, $6 for students and are
available by calling 684-4444. Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan
Center.  

Saturday, Oct. 1

     8 p.m.  Duke Jazz Series: Valery Ponomarev, Russian trumpeter
and composer will perform with the Duke Jazz Ensemble. Ponomarev
has worked with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and has
performed with Benny Golson, Charles Mingus, the Lionel Hampton and
the Mercer Ellington orchestras. Tickets are $10 for public, $7 for
students. They are available by calling Page Box Office at 684-4444
or Ticket Master at 834-4000 and also will be available at the door
before the performance.  Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus.

     8 p.m.  Chamber Arts Society: Takacs String Quartet.  Reynolds
Industries Theater, Bryan Center.  SOLD OUT

     10 p.m.  Southern Culture on the Skids with Three Day Stubble
presented by Duke University Union, WXDU and the Coffeehouse.
Tickets are $5 at the door. The Coffeehouse, East Campus.  For more
information, call 684-2911.

Sunday, Oct. 2

     8 p.m. Faculty Recital with Terry Mizesko, bass trombone; Tim
Stewart, trumpet; accompanied by Donna Jolly, piano; assisted by
Keith Jackson and Michael Kriss, trombone. Nelson Music Room, East
Duke Building, East Campus.

THEATER

Friday, Sept. 23

     8 p.m. The Mabour Mines Theater Company in "Reel to Real." 
Written and directed by Frederick Neumann.  Part of the Institute
of the Arts' New Directions series. An interplay of film noir,
video and live performance. Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan
Center, West Campus. Tickets are $12 general admission, $6 for
students and available from (919) 684-4444 or at the door.       
     

Saturday, Sept. 24

     8 p.m.  Teatro Hugo & Ines, "The Adventures of Ginocchio." 
Peruvian Hugo Suarez and Bosnian Ines Pasic extend the boundaries
of mime, creating a puppet theater of the absurd with a handful
of props and body parts. Tickets are $12, $6 for students and are
available at the door or by calling (919) 684-4444.  Reynolds
Industries Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.  

Thursday, Sept. 29

     7:30 p.m.  "The Claudia and Charles Show," featuring poet
Claudia Menza and Charles Frye, a novelist and writer on black
cultural matters including African philosophy. The 75-minute
program, scripted by John Calder, presents their work in the
context of a husband and wife engaged in dialogue.  Their
dialogue deals with the problems as well as the joys of their
relationship, including situations that stem from their racially
mixed marriage. For more information call 660-3651.  Juanita
Kreps Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies, Lyndhurst House,
1317 W. Pettigrew St.
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