Gertrude Stein, honored Oct 6-14, NY

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Gertrude Stein, honored October 6-14, 2001


GERTRUDE STEIN SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 11a.m. to 7p.m.
An all-day symposium on the life, work, and influence of Gertrude Stein*
(free to the public, limited seating)


Main Building, New York University,  Room 703 (also known as the Somerville Theatre)
Washington Square East between Waverly and Washington Place.
Organized by Bevya Rosten
*Presented in conjunction with the Gertrude Stein Octoberfest (October 12,13,14) and the Drama Department of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts production of Four Saints in Mexico (Stein's Mexico and Four Saints in Three Acts) (October 6-14).  Four Saints box office:  998-1860


11:00-11:15 a.m.        Introduction and Opening Remarks.
11:15-11:30 a.m.        Audio of Gertrude Stein reading from her own work.
11:30a.m.-12:00 p.m.   Filmmaker Steven Watson introduces screening of his documentary about the original production of Four Saints in Three Acts.


12:00-1:30 Panel One: Stein's Landscape:  Politics, Love and Art


Panelists:  Jane Bowers, Professor of English, Hunter College,
Author of They Watch Me as They Watch This: Gertrude Stein's Metadrama and
Gertrude Stein.
Richard Howard, distinguished poet, and leading translator from the French.
Anne-Marie Levine, poet, concert pianist and scholar, author of Euphorbia.
Catharine Stimpson, Professor and Dean of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science, co-editor, New American Library collection of Stein's works and author of new            book about Stein.
Wendy Steiner, Cultural critic and scholar, Richard L Fisher Professor Of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary Portraiture of Gertrude Stein, moderator.


1:30-300        Lunch Break
3:00-3:15       Reading from Stein's essay "Plays."
3:15-4:45       Panel Two: Stein's Influence on Contemporary Performance Practices
Roundtable discussion with directors Larry Kornfeld and Ruben Polendo and playwrights Mac Wellman and Maria Irene Fornes.  Theatre director Bevya Rosten, moderator.


5:00-6:30       Panel Three: Stein's Legacy in Language
Panelists:  Bruce Andrews, poet, author of 2 dozen volumes of poetry, Professor of Political Science, Fordham U.
Richard Foreman, director/playwright.
Charles Bernstein, David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at SUNY- Buffalo, author of more than twenty collections of poetry and essays.
Ulla Dydo, leading Stein scholar, editor, The Stein Reader and The Letters of      Thornton Wilder and Gertrude Stein (also moderator).
Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer-Prize winning cultural critic, the New York Times.


6:30-7:00       Reception


AN OCTOBERFEST IN CELEBRATION OF GERTRUDE STEIN FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 13, 14
a tribute to the mother of us all with selected works by Stein and her creative progeny


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, 2nd Avenue/10th Street
10:30 p.m.,$7, $4 students and seniors.  No reservations necessary.


Poets and actors read and perform works by, and influenced by, Stein.MARIA IRENE FORNES (premiere reading of her adaptation of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) SALLY SILVERS, LE-ANN BROWN, TONY TORN,  ANNE-MARIE LEVINE, BRUCE ANDREWS, REBECCA SCHULL and many other surprise artists.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 8 p.m., Judson Memorial Church, 4th Street between Thompson and Sullivan Streets.  Free and open to the public. First come, first serve.


SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE JUDSON POETS THEATRE
Cabaret performance of early Stein works at Judson by original performers.
Featuring AL CARMINES, LARRY KORNFELD, JEFF WEISS, YVONNE RAINER and many more.


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 8 p.m., Judson Memorial Church, 4th Street between Thompson and Sullivan Streets.  Free and open to the public.  First come, first serve.


SHORT DANCE AND THEATRE WORKS written by and based on STEIN's writings (*Entire program will last approximately 2 l/2 hours)


Dance:
WENDELL BEAVERS, MARY OVERLIE and PAUL LANGLAND SALLY SILVERS and BRUCE ANDREWS


Theatre:
A Play Called Not and Now directed by Bevya Rosten.
Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights directed by Willa Bepler.
Three Sisters Who Were Not Sisters directed by Emily Hill.
The Making of Americans.  Excerpt from new version by Leon Katz
performed by The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre.


Bevya Rosten, producer.
Arthur Bartow
Artistic Director
Dept. of Drama, Undergraduate
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
Room 306, 721 Broadway
New York, NY   10003
212/998-1854 (voice mail)
212/998-1855 FAX