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The 2007 IU Summer Music Festival -- an international feast of plenty

Summer Music Festival Attracting an impressive array of internationally renowned musicians and showcasing some of the extraordinary faculty and student talent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, the upcoming IU Summer Music Festival (June 17-Aug. 4) promises sonorous and visual splendor. The festival features more than 30 events in Bloomington, including the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer.  Full Story

 ‘Inconvenient Stories’ of Vietnam vets focus of IU Art Museum exhibition

Wolin exhibit photo

No thinking American alive during the Vietnam War era was untouched by the turbulence of that time. "Inconvenient Stories: Portraits of Vietnam War Veterans" by Jeffrey A. Wolin -- a photography exhibition opening at the Indiana University Art Museum (IUAM) on June 15 -- gives an unflinching account of 50 men and women who fought and lived the war in Vietnam.

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 IU Writers' Conference celebrates 67th year

Indiana Writer's Conference

Already a hotbed of creative energy, the Indiana University Bloomington campus will play host to approximately 100 additional poets, fiction and non-fiction writers from June 10-15. Now in its 67th year, the Indiana University Writers' Conference annually attracts an impressive lineup of prominent writers and students of creative writing.

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 Juneteenth Freedom Celebration has music, pageant and a parade

2006 Juneteenth

Indiana University and its Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center will present the ninth annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on June 30 in Bloomington. Long celebrated among African Americans, Juneteenth is a day set aside to honor the memory of those who endured slavery and those who progressed from slavery to freedom.

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 The Neon Lights are Bright

In an apartment in Queens, just around the corner from fellow IU graduates, a young woman starts her day with decaffeinated tea. It's good for the throat, she says. In her line of work, keeping one's voice in top shape is crucial. Also important is keeping the body fit. This singer's morning may include a yoga class. She might go to an acting class, or perhaps practice one of the (at least) four instruments she plays. The daytime schedule includes running errands, making calls. Pretty standard stuff, she says. But at 6:30 p.m., she heads to Broadway. Read more about this IU graduate's experiences, in this story that was featured in the Indiana Alumni Magazine.

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 An IU East partnership leads to creative thinking

Joey

After working together for a year on photography and writing skills, Honors Program students at Indiana University East and second graders at Crestdale Elementary School have displayed their work through June 29 in a gallery exhibit reflecting their project, "Literacy through Photography." Through the project, students were motivated to express themselves in writing and speaking, to look at the world more closely, to learn more about each other, and to foster creativity, curiosity and a lifelong love of learning.

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 Images of Native Americans exhibited at Mathers Museum

Wanamaker Collection

One of Indiana University's most important artistic, cultural, and historical treasures is currently on exhibit in Images of Native Americans: The Wanamaker Collection at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. This renowned collection features more than 8,000 images taken between 1908 and 1923, and is recognized as the largest and one of the most important collections of photographs of Native Americans by a single photographic enterprise in the United States.

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 Previous issue

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The May 10, 2007, issue of Live at IU features the 2007-2008 season at the IU Auditorium. Also in this issue are stories about Joshua Bell's appointment to the IU Jacobs School of Music faculty, a new grant awarded to the IU Archives of Traditional Music, a preview to this year's Bloomington Early Music Festival, details about the 2007 Mini University, a feature on a student at the IU Jacobs School of Music who has won the highest honor for a research document, and details on the new "Helen Clouse Plaza."

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