George Mason News

BETTER HOMES will celebrate its opening reception at SculptureCenter today, April 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition runs April 22 through July 22, 2013.

BETTER HOMES will celebrate its opening reception at SculptureCenter on Sunday, April 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition runs April 22 through July 22, 2013.

Tiffany Rea Fisher is the Associate Artistic Director of the Elisa Monte Dance. She received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College SUNY, where she co-founded ForArts, the school's first interdisciplinary presenting organization, which provided opportunities for students from different conservatories to create collaborative works.

Canadian visual artist Viktor Mitic has been invited to Washington, DC for a showing of his recent work of art titled 'Incident'. This timely and important art installation for 'The Newtown Project: Art Targets Guns' at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, will be a highlight at the Exhibit's opening weekend, April 5th and 6th. The installation will then move to George Mason University's main campus outside of Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, where it will be displayed near the George Mason School of Art Building, April 8th through the10th. Mr. Mitic's latest large scale installation piece is a bullet-riddled yellow school bus, which he turned into a work of aesthetic and thought-provoking art by using over 6,000 bullets fired from various assault rifles, shot-guns and semi-automatic weapons. 'Incident' was previously displayed in Toronto, Canada in 2012 and was dedicated to victims of gun violence.

Irresistible robot HEXBUGs will be on hand today, April 6 and tomorrow, April 7 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to highlight both fun and serious engineering in celebration of National Robotics Week April 6-14, 2013.

Canadian visual artist Viktor Mitic has been invited to Washington, DC for a showing of his recent work of art titled 'Incident'. This timely and important art installation for 'The Newtown Project: Art Targets Guns' at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, will be a highlight at the Exhibit's opening weekend, April 5th and 6th. The installation will then move to George Mason University's main campus outside of Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, where it will be displayed near the George Mason School of Art Building, April 8th through the10th. Mr. Mitic's latest large scale installation piece is a bullet-riddled yellow school bus, which he turned into a work of aesthetic and thought-provoking art by using over 6,000 bullets fired from various assault rifles, shot-guns and semi-automatic weapons. 'Incident' was previously displayed in Toronto, Canada in 2012 and was dedicated to victims of gun violence.

Irresistible robot HEXBUGs will be on hand April 6-7 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to highlight both fun and serious engineering in celebration of National Robotics Week April 6-14, 2013.

The Titanic sank because of good corporate decisions poorly applied and your business may be steaming toward the same fate. That's the claim of Joseph Mortati, author of the new business ebook, Collision Course: How Good Business Decisions Sank the Titanic.

Randy James' new dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, will hold its first annual week long, all-day Summer Intensive Workshop July 8-12 at Gina Gibney Dance, 890 Broadway in New York City. The Intensive will focus on preparing dancers (male and female) to explore and challenge themselves as complete artists in preparation for a professional career in the field.

Fiscal Press announced today that Toby Gold and the Secret Fortune by Craig Everett is among the ForeWord Review's 2012 Book of the Year Award list of finalists in the Juvenile Fiction category. Representing more than 700 publishers, the finalists were selected from 1300 entries.

The Hartt School's Hartt Opera Theatre presents Johann Strauss II's frothy comic operetta, Die Fledermaus, tonight through Saturday, January 31 through February 2, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, February 3, at 3:00 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.

NBC Sports Network's coverage of the 2012-13 college basketball season continues this week with five games and more than 10 hours of coverage, highlighted by a tripleheader on Saturday.

Virginia Opera, The Official Opera Company of the Commonwealth of Virginia, announces its 2013-14 Season that features four, brand-new mainstage productions and two Special Engagement productions that span comedy, drama, farce and grand opera. The Company's 39th Subscription Season will open with Falstaff in September, followed by The Magic Flutein November, Ariadne auf Naxos in February, and Carmen in March. Special Engagements next season will include performances of The Girl of the Golden West in January and Sweeney Todd in May.

NBC Sports Network will televise five live-event college sports contests across the next three days, including Top 15 college hockey teams on consecutive nights and a college basketball tripleheader on Saturday.

The Hartt School's Hartt Opera Theatre presents Johann Strauss II's frothy comic operetta, Die Fledermaus, Thursday through Saturday, January 31 through February 2, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, February 3, at 3:00 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups of 10 or more. For tickets and information, contact the University of Hartford Box Office in Lincoln Theater at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587, or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

College NBC Sports Network will televise five college basketball games this week, highlighted by a quadrupleheader on Saturday. In addition, the network will feature three college hockey contests featuring top 15 teams, with two being called by Mike ‘Doc' Emrick and Pierre McGuire.

NBC Sports Network will televise three college basketball games this week, plus one college hockey contest called by veteran NHL commentators Mike ‘Doc' Emrick and Pierre McGuire. In addition, NBC Sports college football studio host Liam McHugh will be on-site in Miami to file Notre Dame - Alab?ama reports from today through Monday.

Six D.C.-area playwrights have been selected to participate in the inaugural Playwrights' Arena as part of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Playwrights' Arena is a collaborative group of local writers dedicated to the support and development of each other's work and practice. The yearlong program commences in January 2013, and the inaugural members include Norman Allen, Randy Baker, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Heather McDonald, Danielle Mohlman and Shawn Northrip. Also in January as part of the Institute's programming will be the next installment of the Kogod Cradle Series featuring readings of The Age of Innocence, a new adaptation for the stage by Resident Playwright Karen Zacarías, January 14-16, 2013.

Juilliard Dance premieres four newly-choreographed works by choreographers Camille A. Brown (1st-Year Class), Emery LeCrone (2nd-Year Class), Susan Shields (3rd-Year Class), and Jarek Cemerek (4th-Year Class) in this year's New Dances: Edition 2012, under the direction of Artistic Director Lawrence Rhodes. All Juilliard Dance Division students perform on the program, and they have been working closely with these four innovative choreographers as they create new works on each of the Dance Division's classes.