Washburn professor to give concert
Topeka Pianist Shiao-Li Ding will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Garvey Fine Arts Center on the Washburn University campus.
Ding will perform works by Robert Schumann, Alban Berg and Sergei Prokofieff.
A native of Beijing, China, Ding is an assistant professor of music at Washburn. She previously taught at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Boston Conservatory of Music. She has won numerous piano competitions.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Jewish Film Festival unveils diverse lineup
Overland Park The third annual Kansas City Jewish Film Festival at the Rio Theatre, 7204 W. 80th St., features a lineup of offerings as diverse as episodes of the popular Israeli soap opera "Florentene" and a documentary about the man who led The Beatles to worldwide success.
The festival opens at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday with the French film "Dad on the Run" about a Jewish entertainer who bungles part of his son's circumcision.
On Sunday at 10:45 a.m., the short documentaries "Hot Bagels," "Gefilte Fish" and "Delta Jews" will run, followed by "The Brian Epstein Story," a look at The Beatles' manager that begins at 2 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., "What I Saw in Hebron" presents eyewitness accounts of a 1929 pogrom where 67 Jews lost their lives.
On Monday at 7:30 p.m., the Israeli drama "Vulcan Junction" centers around a rock band on the eve of the Yom Kippur war in 1973.
Tuesday's 7:30 p.m. film "From Swastika to Jim Crow" explores the lives of German professors who fled the Nazis and later became influential teachers at predominantly black colleges in the southern United States. Director Steven Fischler will speak after the movie.
Six episodes of "Florentene" will run at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 31, at the Fine Arts Theatre, 5909 in Mission.
Opening night tickets are $10, and admission is $6 for all other shows. For $25, there also is a festival pass (for all movies except "Dad on the Run"). For additional information, call (913) 327-8000 or visit the Web site at www.jewishkc.org/arts.htm#Season>.
Celebrities gatherfor comics convention
Kansas City, Mo. An astronaut and the Catwoman will make appearances at the Planet Comicon convention from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Overland Park International Trade Center, 115th and Metcalf.
Special guests include Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman on the "Batman" television series; Alan Bean, Apollo 12 astronaut and painter; and Lou Ferrigno, who starred in "The Incredible Hulk" and "King of Queens" television series.
Comic creators making appearances include Steve Lieber, William Stout, Phil Moy, Jeff Moy, Jai Nitz, Mike Huddleston, Russ Heath, Terry Moore, Mark Schultz, Dwayne McDuffie, Mark Waid, Anna Maria Cool, Rick Stasi, Phil Hester, Ande Parks, Rick Burchett, Dustin Nguyen, Mike Worley, Alonzo Washington and Jennifer Janesko.
Admission is $10 a day or $12 for both days for adults; $5 for youths ages 6-14; and children under 6 are free.
For more information, call (913) 345-1069 or visit the Web site www.planetcomicon.com.
KU art students showing works in KC
Kansas City, Mo. Three Kansas University art students are showing their works through April 15 in an exhibit titled "Times and Speeds" at the Dirt Gallery, 1323 Union St., Kansas City, Mo.
Aaron Strock works with enlarged thermographs and drawings traced and drawn from photographs, his imagination and the world around him. Utilizing rice paper in ink, acrylic, charcoal and pencil, he contrasts lightness and weight, delicacy and strength.
Brock Batten's works reflect his immediate, contemporary surroundings through the use of a highly stylized, constructed approach. His photographic works combine banal imagery and deliberate manipulation of light and movement.
Hesse McGraw deals with issues related to reality, construct, identity and subculture.
Cranbook Academy leader to give lecture
Gerhardt Knodel, director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will give a Hallmark Symposium Series lecture from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium on the Kansas University campus.
A master in several media, Knodel's recent work includes a woven wall-curtain for a project designed by architect Michael McKinnel in Reading, Pa., and a stairwell project for Seimen's Corporation. His large pieces range from a woven screen spanning the full height and length of a four-story atrium to a stained glass and fabric oculus that forms the visual center for a project designed by architect Kenneth Neuman.
Knodel has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Switzerland, Poland, England and Canada.
He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Foundation for the Arts and the United States/Japan Fellowship Commission. In 1993, Knodel was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Crafts Council.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Morley's book looks at construction issues
Michael Morley, author of "Building with Structural Insulated Panels," will give a talk and sign copies of his book from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 29 at The Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh.
Morley, a Lawrence builder, will describe a new technology in construction that uses panels of thick foam core clad on both sides with plywood or strandboard.
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