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Embry-Riddle’s Arts & Letters Series Features Wide Variety of Talent

Daytona Beach, Fla., Sept. 6, 2006 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will become a cultural mecca during its 2006-2007 Arts & Letters Series, with such highlights as a French pianist, a string trio, a Japanese storyteller, a one-woman show on scientist Marie Curie, and plays by Shakespeare and Edmond Rostand. In addition, Embry-Riddle professors will read from their new novels, discuss African and American relations, and analyze the popular TV show Lost.

All Arts & Letters events will be held at 7 p.m. on Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus at 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd, and all events are free unless noted otherwise, with donations gratefully accepted. Parking is free. For more information, call the Humanities and Social Sciences Dept. at (386) 226-6668 or visit www.erau.edu/arts.

Forgotten Florida: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida
Now and ongoing, Willie Miller Instructional Center atrium and hallway. Free.
An exhibit from Daytona Beach Community College’s Southeast Museum of Photography showcases photos taken in Florida during the Depression by such prominent artists as Dorothea Lange.

Fiction Readings by Drs. Chris Vuille and Linda Straubel
Thursday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m., Academic Complex, Room A109. Free.
Two Embry-Riddle professors who are authors of historical novels will share their favorite chapters at this reading. Dr. Vuille, a professor in the Physical Sciences Dept., will read an excerpt from his latest novel, Einstein’s Daughter: The Story of Lieserl, a fictionalized account of the life of Einstein’s real-life out-of-wedlock daughter. Set in Nazi Germany during WWII, this adventure/romance features fictionalized true-to-life action sequences in the air and on the high seas. Vuille’s novel will be published this year.

Dr. Straubel, a professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Dept. and chair of the Arts & Letters Committee, will read from her novel-in-progress, Mystic Fruit, a coming-of-age story set in the late 1960s in New York and California.

Pianist Marylene Dosse
Friday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium
Admission is $5; free with Embry-Riddle ID card
Dosse is an internationally praised classical pianist known for her melodic interpretations. Her accomplishments include winning first prize in the Paris Conservatory and recently completing a successful televised tour of China. At Embry-Riddle she will perform an all-Chopin program. French by nationality, Dosse is a professor of music at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Lynnette Porter Analyzes Lost
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium. Free.
The author of the acclaimed new book, Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide, will explain the many mysteries of this fascinating TV series as both pop culture and scholarly phenomena concerned with the spiritual aspects of technology and destiny. The sale and signing of the book will follow the presentation. Dr. Porter is a professor in Embry-Riddle’s Humanities and Social Sciences Dept.

Storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto
Friday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium. Free.
One of Japan’s most celebrated artists, storyteller Yamamoto uses origami (folded paper), music, and audience participation as a magical introduction to Japanese culture and the art of simplicity. Mythological character masks and puppets, amazing flowers, and a six-foot-long dragon, all made from origami, charm the audience as Yamamoto shares stories from ancient Japan. See www.kunikotheater.com. The performance is funded in part by the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Monday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium
Admission is $5; free with Embry-Riddle ID card
One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies involves two sets of couples whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their foray into the play’s fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies and the impish Puck reside. The play is performed by Tragical Mirth, a touring troupe of the American Shakespeare Center, in an audience-friendly, unplugged style.

Cyrano de Bergerac
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium
Admission is $5; free with Embry-Riddle ID card
The touring troupe Tragical Mirth will present Edmond Rostand’s classic play about a man endowed with wit, literary talent, and bravery, but cursed by a huge nose. Cyrano, believing that the beautiful Roxane could never love him as he is, uses his poetry to help the handsome but slow-witted Christian woo Roxane for himself. Years pass and Cyrano finally learns the answer to the question he could never ask.

Dr. Mohamed Camara on Africa and America
Friday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium. Free.
In honor of Black History Month, the chair of Embry-Riddle’s Black History Month Committee will discuss his unique insights on the future of African and American relations, drawing from his brilliant career as a published scholar, professor, correspondent, and speechwriter for former Guinea president, Sékou Touré. Dr. Camara is a professor in Embry-Riddle’s Humanities and Social Sciences Dept.

Manya: A Living History of Marie Curie
Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium. Free.
In this one-woman drama, Susan Marie Frontczak portrays the struggles and triumphs of scientist Marie Curie, from the political oppression of her childhood, to scientific emergence and fame, to the tragedy that forced her into single motherhood. See www.storysmith.org/manya. The performance is co-sponsored by the Women’s History Month Committee, the Diversity Initiative, and the Women’s History Month Committee.

High Velocity Strings
Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m., Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium
Admission is $5; free with Embry-Riddle ID card
This dynamic string trio will perform music that ranges from classical to classic acid rock. High Velocity Strings is a half-acoustic, half-electric music group, consisting of professional string players as well as aspiring musicians as young as 10.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 32,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States and Europe, and through online learning.

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