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February 2019

Rock stars of musical innovation, a quirky

Quaker comedian and independent

documentaries brimming with whimsy,

skateboards and insights into the human

condition populate the budding spring season

at Mary B Martin School of the Arts at East

Tennessee State University

“Innovation is the theme for our spring

season,” says Anita DeAngelis, director of the

Martin School of the Arts “Our ticketed events

feature musical artists and a

storyteller/comedian who are pushing the

boundaries in each of their fields, and our

three South Arts filmmakers this spring have

also been lauded for their ground-breaking

techniques and ways of addressing cinematic

storytelling.”

The stars come out in February, beginning with a film about the dark secret shared by the three sisters of the world-renowned

piano quintet, The 5 Browns “Digging Through the Darkness,” on Monday,

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On Monday, Feb 18, the award-winning

documentary film “306 Hollywood,” which

chronicles a journey through the life of two

siblings’ late grandmother, based on the

objects she left behind, will be shown in the

ongoing South Arts Southern Circuit Tour

of Independent Filmmakers series The

free film begins at 7 p.m in the Ball Hall

auditorium.

“All three of our spring Southern Circuit

Tour of Independent Filmmakers films and

filmmakers have been part of the

Sundance Film Festival,” DeAngelis says

“I think it’s an acknowledgment that the

quality of films that we have with Southern

Circuit is very high, and all three films this

spring have been praised for their

innovative techniques and ways of

addressing their topics.”

Feb 4, is the featured event for An

Evening of Health, Wellness and the Arts, co-sponsored annually by the Martin School, the ETSU College of Public Health and the Gold Humanism Society

In “Digging Through the Darkness,”

filmmaker Ben Niles unveils The 5 Browns’ journey through the disclosure of the

family’s struggle with a painful past and the subsequent healing brought by music and social justice for the sisters, survivors of child sexual abuse

Sisters Deondra and Desirae will attend the free 7 p.m screening at the

Millennium Center, as well as a 6 p.m reception, and hold a question-and-answer session with the audience after

the film screening They will also work with ETSU piano students while on campus

Later that week, on Feb 22, the Sybarite5 string quintet brings its innovative

programming – from Bowie to Radiohead and Akiho to Assad – and new sounds to Johnson

City for a 7:30 p.m performance at First Presbyterian Church Their mission, they

say, is to engage the senses and redefine the rules, and music reviewers have taken notice

“It’s important for us to look at classical music from different angles and perspectives and with a sense of adventure,” DeAngelis says “I think Sybarite5 will help us do that.”

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Another adventurous artist, Peterson

Toscano, brings a “quirky” look at issues –

including sexism, racism, privilege, gender,

LGBTQ and climate change – in late

February as the storyteller, actor and

activist visits campus Toscano, a Quaker

from Pennsylvania and self-proclaimed

Bible scholar, will present “Everything is

Connected – A Collection of Stories –

Most Weird, Many True” on Thursday,

Feb 28, at 7:30 p.m in ETSU’s Bud

Frank Theatre, Gilbreath Hall.

On Thursday, March 7, two more young

music luminaries bring their unique

repertoire of classics and new music to

Johnson City Lawler + Fadoul, the duo of

flutist Zara Lawler and marimbist Paul

Fadoul, will perform at 7:30 p.m in

Mathes Hall.

The duo promises “an unexpected

mélange of classical virtuosity, lively

commentary, theatrical flair and a small

dose of indie rock sensibility.”

“The combination of flute and marimba

may seem a bit odd,” DeAngelis says, “but

I’ve seen Lawler + Fadoul a couple of times

and their performances are unique and

often playful One piece may include old

commercial jingles, while another may be

based on their reaction to dust jackets

They exemplify the fact that art is not

created in a vacuum.”

March dawns with the South Arts Southern

Circuit Tour documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” a film that director

RaMell Ross calls “a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks.” Adapting author and screenwriter James Agee’s concept of

organizing by light and mood, Ross follows the ordinary lives of his Deep South subjects

through 11 days, from sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, as their lives progress through college and fatherhood “Hale County” is free

and screens Monday, March 4, at 7 p.m in the Ball Hall auditorium.

Next in the Martin School spring season of

innovation is pianist Christopher Taylor, performing at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church, on Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m Taylor has performed and won

piano competition honors around the globe, as well as being known for his agility on the

Steinway double-keyboard piano In addition

to piano chops, Taylor holds a mathematics degree from Harvard and is celebrated for his innovations in computer programming and philosophy

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The spring season closes on Monday,

April 15, with “Minding the Gap,” another

free Southern Circuit documentary film

screening, in the Ball Hall auditorium at 7

p.m In this award-winning film, three

young men bond together to escape

volatile families in their Rust Belt

hometown As they face adult

responsibilities, unexpected revelations

threaten their decade-long friendship

Click here to view or print a pdf of the Mary

B Martin School of the Arts Spring 2019

brochure and calendar

“We have quite a season of extraordinary artists and arts experiences,” DeAngelis says “We can’t wait to share it with the campus and the community.”

For more information about the Martin School of the Arts’ spring events or tickets, visit

www.etsu.edu/martin or call 423-439-TKTS (8587) All Martin School events are open to the public For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346

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