College to host “Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical”

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa - The Lycoming College Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Theatre Department will present “Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical” performed by New York actress Karen Eterovich on Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The show is free and open to the public.

Eterovich also wrote the play, which is based on the life of novelist Jane Austen and highlights her contributions to the world of literature, her relationship with her family and her adventures as a “flirtatious butterfly” in rural England. Eterovich created “Cheer from Chawton” after performing in a play about Jane Austen.

She has performed the play at the Players Club in New York City and at the 2006 Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England, in addition to regional theatres, colleges and universities across the United States.

Austen is one of the most widely read English novelists, exhibiting such superior quickness of wit and intuition that nearly two centuries after her death, her works continue to inspire.

Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Founded in 1812 in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Art Gallery to host Alshaibi's "Flight" exhibit

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College will host an exhibit titled “Flight” by artist Sama Alshaibi in the Art Gallery located in Snowden Library from Sept. 16 through Oct. 17. An artist's reception sponsored by Lycoming’s art department and the women's and gender studies program will be held on Thursday, Sept. 16, from 4-5:30 p.m.

Alshaibi was born in Basra, Iraq, to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. Her works evoke the language of suffering, displacement and loss. She often uses her own body as both a protagonist and a site, linking struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted lives in bodily performances. Her auto-ethnographic approach is informed by her own history of living in war, the double negation to her familial homelands and her countless encounters with those policing borders from the undesired. Alshaibi is an assistant professor of photography at the University of Arizona.

A photographer, video artist and accomplished filmmaker, Alshaibi has exhibited in more than 20 countries. She is represented by Selma Feriani Gallery in London and in the United Arab Emirates by The Empty Quarter in Dubai. Recently, she was accepted in the prestigious Light Work artist-residency program in New York, exhibited her first solo exhibit titled “Zero Sum Game” in London and premiered her collaborative short dramatic film “End of September” at the 2010 Chicago Palestine Film Festival.

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College to host “Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical”

Art Gallery to host Alshaibi's "Flight" exhibit