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MEMBERS ONLY PREVIEW Friday, October 22, 2004 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dr. Richard M. Leventhal, the Museum's new director, invites Museum members to a special preview of Track of the Rainbow Serpent. 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Reception 6:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.: Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Richard M. Leventhal, Williams Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum 6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Lecture by Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday, Exhibition Curator and University of Pennsylvania Professor of Anthropology R.S.V.P. by October 18. $10 per person in advance; $20 at the door. To R.S.V.P. or to request an invitation, call 215/898-4890 or email events@museum.upenn.edu. For information on becoming a Museum member, click here. PUBLIC OPENING CELEBRATION Saturday, October 23, 2004 Noon to 4:00 p.m. G'day! Join us for an afternoon of down-under fun. Track of the Rainbow Serpent opens with a day of Australian festivities. Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday offers a lecture at 1:30 p.m., when she will speak about her family connection to the Wolfe Creek Crater, and how she came to understand the crater's meaning in Aboriginal culture. Visitors can also accompany the Curator on a special tour of the exhibition at 2:30 p.m., when she will explore the stories behind the paintings and provide a personal glimpse into the lives of the artists and the Aboriginal culture. Other activities, all free with Museum admission donation, include: · Three performances by musician Harold Smith, the "Didjdude," featuring the music of the traditional Australian didjerioo at noon, 2 and 3 p.m. · A 12:30 p.m. lecture by Jeffery Klein of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy on the scientific origins of the 300,000-year-old Wolfe Creek Crater, the second largest rimmed meteorite crater in the world and the inspiration for many of the paintings in the exhibition. · Two performances of Aboriginal folktales by storyteller Tom Lee at 1 and 3 p.m. · A 3:30 p.m. screening of "Rabbit Proof Fence," a film based on the true story of a 14-year-old half-caste Aboriginal girl who led her younger sister and cousin on a 15,000 mile journey across the outback to escape from the government-run boarding school that took them from their families in 1931. · A special ongoing craft workshop that allows children to try their hands at a common Aboriginal painting technique, making compositions using only dots! Children's Workshop WHAT'S DOT TO DOT DOWN UNDER? Saturday, November 6, 2004 10:00 a.m. to Noon In this "Anthropologists in the Making" program, children ages 8 through 12 explore the art and folk-tales of Australia's earliest inhabitants. Inspired by Track of the Rainbow Serpent, the children can create their own compositions using only dots! $10 materials fee. Pre-registration is required: 215/898-4016. |
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