Edwardsville, IL (PRWEB) January 15, 2012
Legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold will be the topic of a total-length higher definition film?narrated by writer Curt Meine?that will carry on the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville?s Arts & Problems series Feb. 2 and 3, on the mainstage in SIUE?s Katherine Dunham Hall. Meine also will be on hand to solution queries following the showing.
Sponsored by the Madison County Regional Office of Training and the SIUE Wildlife and Conservation Biology Club, the film will be shown twice?when at seven:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, and yet again at the identical on Friday, Feb. three. Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time highlights the environmentalist?s extraordinary profession, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement.
For a lot more than 25 years, SIUE?s Arts & Troubles series has brought excellent performers and distinguished speakers to Southwestern Illinois. The official media sponsors for A&I are the Edwardsville Intelligencer and KWMU-FM, although the series official hotel sponsor is Hampton Inn and Suites. The 2011-12 Arts & Issues season is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state company.
Arts & Problems Director Grant Andree explained the film is a fascinating view of one particular guy?s contribution to a motion that has become a global phenomenon. ?The story of Aldo Leopold is the best instance of how a single man or woman can make a difference,? Andree mentioned. ?This film is an exciting documentary that I?m certain our audience will find riveting.?
An early leader with the U.S. Forest Service, Leopold pioneered wildlife conservation and wilderness management tactics. Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and writer primarily based in Prairie du Sac, Wis., and is a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, director of conservation biology and background for the Center for People and Nature, and a study associate with the International Crane Foundation.
Meine?s doctoral dissertation encompasses a biography of Aldo Leopold, published as ?Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work.? Meine has undergraduate degrees from DePaul University in Chicago and a graduate degree in land resources from the Institute for Environmental Scientific studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leopold, who is thought to be by several the father of the U.S. wilderness system, was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer and outside enthusiast. Born in 1887, Leopold studied the organic planet at an early age, observing, journaling and sketching his surroundings.
He graduating from the Yale Forest College in 1909 and sought a career with the newly established U.S. Forest Service in Arizona and New Mexico. Later, he became supervisor of the Carson Nationwide Forest in New Mexico. In 1922, he was instrumental in developing the proposal to manage the Gila National Forest as a wilderness region, which became the initial this kind of official designation in 1924.
Transferred to Madison, Wis., two many years later, Leopold continued to examine ecology and the philosophy of conservation, and in 1933 published the very first textbook in the field of wildlife management. Later, Leopold wrote a book that was geared for standard audiences examining humanity?s relationship to the all-natural planet.
A minor more than a year right after his death in 1948, Leopold?s collection of essays, “A Sand County Almanac,” was published. With far more than 2 million copies sold, it is a single of the most respected books about the environment ever published, and Leopold has come to be regarded by a lot of as the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century.
Tickets for the Feb. 2-three displaying of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time are available via the web site: artsandissues.com or by calling the SIUE Fine Arts box office, (618) 650-5774.
EDITORS: The 2011-12 Arts & Issues photos appropriate for print are available at http://www.siue.edu/artsandissues/PhotoIndex.shtml
Other Arts & Troubles events for 2011-12 series season incorporate:
Ken Waldman and the Secret Guests: From Madison County to Moose Pass?Wednesday,
Feb. 22, 2012, seven:30 p.m., SIUE?s Meridian Ballroom
Ken Waldman, ?Alaska?s Fiddling Poet,? comes to SIUE with an all-star cast. Waldman will transport the audience to the grandeur of Alaska by way of poetry, storytelling, conventional music and dance. This 1-time only event will contain the North Carolina duo Appalachian Roots featuring Ira Bernstein and Riley Baugus. They will be joined by Arkansas native banjo player and singer Allison Williams, Memphis bluesman and multi-instrumentalist Andy Cohen, Austin banjo player and fiddler Jerry Hagins, as nicely as Chicago fiddler, guitarist and banjo player Jordan Wankoff and West Virginia native fiddler Rachel Eddy.
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India Presents Sambhavya?Friday, March 16, 2012, seven:30 p.m., The Wildey Theatre in downtown Edwardsville
The beauty and tradition of classical Indian dance honed to close to perfection will be on display when the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble performs for the Arts & Troubles series at the newly renovated, historic Wildey Theatre in downtown Edwardsville. Nrityagram was founded in 1990 near Bangalore as a complete immersion dance neighborhood, and is considered 1 of the foremost dance businesses in India.
The Combined Orchestras of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and SIU Carbondale, featuring violinist David Kim, concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra?Wednesday, March 28, 2012, seven:30 p.m., at the theater in SIUE?s Dunham Hall.
Sponsored by Commerce Bank
The orchestras of the two Southern Illinois University primary campuses will be mixed for 1 fascinating evening, featuring David Kim, a native of Carbondale who has been concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999. Kim?s numerous solo engagements close to the world have integrated the orchestras of Dallas, Pittsburgh, Capetown, KBS (Korea) and Moscow, as nicely as the Buffalo and Seoul philharmonics, the Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and quite a few orchestras across North, Central and South America.
Arts & Problems and the SIUe Xfest welcome
The Squonk Opera presenting Edwardsville: The Opera?Wednesday, June 6, 2012, seven:30 p.m., the theater in SIUE?s Dunham Hall
Sponsored by the SIUE Credit Union
Squonk Opera is a multimedia performance troupe from Pennsylvania, ?Edwardsville: The Opera? is element of its ?hometown opera? series. Squonk will weave hometown documentation and video with its authentic musical score, delivering a heartfelt toast and punk-vaudevillian roast to our city at the exact same time. Even though highlighting the distinct characteristics of every neighborhood, This avant-garde group?s special performances combine music, sound and picture with revolutionary video, slapstick comedy and unexpected surprises. Squonk Opera has carried out on Broadway, in Europe and South Korea, across the United States, and in a Pittsburgh junkyard with earthmovers and choreographed cranes.
Arts & Concerns is a series of distinguished speakers and performers that supports the academic mission of the University. Students meet and examine troubles with renowned speakers in workshops, dinners, receptions and classes. College students in music, theater and dance work straight with going to artists in master classes. Arts & Troubles also offers students opportunities to get experience in unique occasions creation, administration, fundraising and development.
SIUE delivers the benefits of a modest, liberal arts college with the very low tuition prices of a state university. Our emphasis on undergraduate schooling, complemented by faculty research, produces practical programs for student learning. Positioned in the second most populated region of the state, this Illinois university draws college students from all 102 Illinois counties, 42 states and 50 nations.
The SIUE College of Arts and Sciences combines foundational education with varied and highly-specialized coursework. Faculty assist students explore diversity of tips, experiences and people although studying to assume and live as fulfilled, productive members of a global society. The School offers 44 degree programs in the arts, humanities and social and organic sciences.
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