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[ Friday, Feb. 26, 1999 ]
Weekend spotlight
Performance artist wants you to join his show at HUB He'll pay 5 cents a pound for your junk. Yep, junk. Hub caps. That old record player with the bent needle. The colorful metal container that used to house your Winnie the Pooh Band-Aids. Granted, it is only 5 cents, but it is money. And if you bring enough stuff, you just might be able to buy a soda. Graduate student Gabriel Washington and students from his art class will present "Buffer Zone," a piece about the "junkyard of a boy's mind" at 7 and 9 p.m. today in the HUB Gallery. The production will feature junk provided by students, which Washington will collect from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the gallery. "It's about breaking down the space between students," Washington said. "We want to involve as much from other people's lives as possible." Even the junk. But in Washington's hands, the "junk" is the art working to cross the "buffer zone" between Penn State students. Because student contributions and involvement, as well as rock music, are important to the production, Washington prefers to call "Buffer Zone" a "rock 'n' roll biography." The Cameras, formerly known as Jason Likes Science, will perform with Washington. Washington's show is not the only art livening up the HUB today. All day long in the gallery, starting around 1 p.m., students will engage in various artistic activities, from DJ-ing to reading poetry (with an open mic around 1 or 2 p.m.) to lecturing on the death of art.
-- by Melissa Dugan
Ever seen the Philippine's traditional bamboo stick-clapping dance performed? No? Then you might call this a golden opportunity. The Penn State Filipino Association, meanwhile, gives it another name: Barrio Fiesta 1999. This year's gala, titled "Reflections: An Image Redefined," is set for tomorrow and will feature two parts: dinner at 5 p.m. in White Building and an 8:30 p.m. show in the HUB Ballroom. Dinner is sold separately and will dish out a variety of cultural cuisine, including roasted pig, the Philippine's trademark meal; pancit, similar to the Chinese lo mein and leche flan, a custard dessert, said Barrio food chair Liza Tapan. Tickets for the dinner are available at the Penn State Bookstore. Adult prices have been set on the rotisserie at $6, while children eat for $3. The show, on the other hand, is free. It will feature a lively traditional folk dance -- including the bamboo-clapping one, known to natives as tinikling -- as well as a few numbers that mix old and new by incorporating folk into modern hip-hop and funk, Tapan said.
-- by Nikki Petrowicz If you feel like you need more big band music in your life, there's a concert that's right up your alley. Inner Dimensions, a Penn State jazz ensemble, will be performing at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Recital Hall of Music Building I. This ensemble is a sub-group of the Centre Dimensions jazz ensemble. The ensemble will perform selections from Count Basie, Stan Kenton and other Big Band-era groups. But for those who enjoy a more mellow kind of sound, Susan Boardman and Timothy Shafer, both associate professors of music, will be performing songs by composer Arnold Schoenberg at 8 p.m. Monday at Recital Hall of Music Building I. Boardman will sing soprano and Shafer will play piano. Raymond Barr, professor and chair of the department of musicology at the University of Miami, will speak about Schoenberg's vocal music. -- by Gretchen Andes
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