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Emory University Center for Ethics 1531 Dickey Drive

Atlanta, Georgia 30322 www.ethics.emory.edu

Igniting the Moral Imagination of 21st Century Leaders®

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“All art requires courage” (Anne Tucker)

This courage is required of both the creator of the art and the viewer of the work. The courage required to create and to engage with art can be used as momentum for moving forward in addressing the issues found within art.

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ETHICS and the ARTS INITIATIVE

The Emory University Center for Ethics announces its 2010 Ethics & the Arts Initiative. The goal of Ethics & the Arts is to encourage ethical dialogue and debate through and about the arts and to partner with signature Atlanta Community organizations to demonstrate the way art challenges our perspectives. The production of art, its role in public conversation, its preservation, and its presentation all provoke us to confront ethical challenges, sometimes in startling new ways. The Center for Ethics sees art as central to its mission to Igniting the Moral Imagination of 21st Century Leaders.TM Ethics & the Arts Initiative

To establish a platform for multidisciplinary artistic expression on the Emory University campus

To Partner with key art constituents in the Atlanta community To educate students, visitors, stakeholders, and faculty about the role of arts in the

history of movements for social change To teach and promote Atlanta art culture to the Emory Community, visiting students

groups, Atlanta public schools, and other Atlanta universities. To build bridges in music, painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, film in order to reach new

generations To highlight art as a fundamental vehicle for ethical inquiry and social change. To explore the ethical issues surrounding the production, preservation, and presentation

of art To support artists trying to encourage ethical conversation with their art

The Ethics & the Arts Initiative includes:

THE ETHICS ART CAFÉ THE FREE SPEECH ART CAFÉ

ETHICS @ THE MOVIES

ROTATING ART EXHIBITS

PERMANENT ART COLLECTION

CREATIVITY AND ARTS PROGRAMMING

ETHICS & THE ARTS UNDERGRADUATE SOCIETY

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS:

WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER

ALLIANCE THEATER HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS

WONDERROOT V-DAY ATLANTA

AND OTHERS

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ETHICS @ the MOVIES

a fresh new approach to ethical discussion.

The First Tuesday of Each Month we will gather to WATCH a thought provoking film, DISCUSS the themes/ethical issues which emerge from the film, CONNECT with local community organizations

actively involved in addressing these issues and/or with writers, directors, actors, subjects of the film.

The Center for Ethics has welcomed Dan Keplinger, Regina Kelly, and Judith Helfand

Dan Keplinger was the subject and writer of the 2000 Oscar winning documentary King Gimp. Susan Hadary and Bill Whiteford produced both of these documentaries. Video Press, University of Maryland distributes it to schools and professional training programs. KING GIMP was featured on HBO. In addition to the OSCAR, it has also won the Peabody Award and was nominated for a national Emmy.

American Violet is based on the life of Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics. It is a 2009 drama directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. One day, while Dee (Nicole Beharie) is working a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Michael O'Keefe) leads a drug bust, sweeping Dee’s housing project. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the women’s county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer. In 1963, filmmaker Judith Helfand’s mother was prescribed the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. But technology is rarely a benign midwife. In 1990, at age twenty-five, Helfand was diagnosed with DES-related cervical cancer. She went home to her family to heal from a radical hysterectomy. There she picked up her camera. Her video diary, A Healthy Baby Girl, was shot over five years and goes beyond loss to document mother-daughter love, family renewal, survival, political awakening, and community activism.

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The Emory University Center for Ethics Provides Space for Rotating Art Exhibits

17 Degrees Ain’t Nothing, focuses on the lives of 5 local individuals who are experiencing the hardship of living without a permanent place to call home. This exhibit accompanies a documentary film by the Center’s own Carlton Mackey and local Atlanta Artist Dane Jefferson. 17 DEGREES AIN'T NOTHING brings to the forefront issues surrounding homelessness in Atlanta. It places the story of 5 local individuals in the context of a global conversation about the economy, the recession, and the real life impact of it. It is a glimpse into their lives and a peering into our own.http://www.17degreesaintnothing.com

Mothers of a Nation is about a group of Ugandan women living with HIV and their fight for survival through sustainable farming methods. These photographs are in conjunction with a short film West shot on 16MM. Narrated by Florence, a 55 year old woman that has been living with the virus for over 13 years, the film weaves together 16MM footage of the women living and working as their stories of betrayal and suffering unfold, ultimately leading to voices of strength and hope. http://www.ansleywest.com/fine-art/documentary1/mothers-of-a-nation-jinja-uganda/

Women in War Zones is comprised of riveting images by Melanie Blanding who graduated from Western Kentucky University in May 2006. Shortly before graduation, Melanie was awarded the Alexia Foundation grant for a photographic story proposal, which led to her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo during 2006 with Scott Blanding and Brad LaBriola. Melanie hopes that her photographs will be used to have a positive impact on the lives of those she documents. http://www.womeninwarzones.org/

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The Emory Center for Ethics Presents World Premiere of Testaments of the Heart

Testaments of the Heart is an unprecedented marriage of images and music that evokes the humanity and creativity of those who were interned during World War II. The unique program will begin with a two-month exhibit of photographs from Ann Weiss’ moving book THE LAST ALBUM: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which captures the images confiscated from the victims of Auschwitz concentration camp. The photo exhibit will open in multiple venues around Emory campus, including the Center for Ethics, the Emory Visual Arts Gallery, the School of Medicine, the Rollins School of Public Health, and Cannon Chapel. Ann Weiss will visit Emory over the course of the exhibit to tell the stories behind these provocative photos, including talks to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. The highlight of Testaments of the Heart will be a moving and provocative theatrical concert on September 28th at the Schwartz Center. The program will feature music written in the internment and concentration camps of World War II, performed live by Atlanta-based musicians accompanied by narration of the stories behind the music. Professor Francesco Lotoro, who will attend this premiere, has been heroically saving and cataloguing this music, gathering it from all over the world and recording it for posterity. In addition, Ann Weiss’ photos will be integrated into the program. Testaments of the Heart will be the first time the images and music of the victims of the Nazi regime has ever been presented together. In fact, most of the music being presented on the evening of September 28th has never before been performed in front of a live audience. Please join us for this unique and moving event. http://www.testamentsoftheheart.org

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The Center for Ethics Introduces:

The Ethics & the Arts Society is a Multidisciplinary Student Art Organization established to create a platform for artistic identity and expression on the Emory University campus. It’s mission is to foster an increased awareness of the role of ethics in the arts, to connect students with and educate students about local organizations in the arts, to give students a platform to create and exhibit art, to serve as a forum to increase the utilization and advancement of art as a vehicle for positive social change, to utilize art as a means of broadening and enriching the conversations about pressing ethical issues, and to develop unique programming in the arts such as the Free Speech Art Café.

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CONNECTING WITH THE COMMUNITY

The Emory Center for Ethics Renews Relationship with Alliance Theater

The Center for Ethics is pleased to announce the 2010 season of its partnership with the Alliance Theater. Last year, the Center presented a dramatic reading of the 2009 winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, TENNIS IN NABLUS. This year, readings of award-winning playwright Pearl Cleage’s play “The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years” and the 2010 Kendeda winner, “Carapace,” will be presented at the Center.

“The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your

Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years” A world premiere by Pearl Cleage

Directed by Susan V. Booth

Synopsis: Every year since Emancipation, the Nacirema Society of Montgomery, Alabama introduces six elegant African-American debutants to a world of wealth, privilege and social responsibility. This year, at its 100th anniversary, with young love brewing, old flames simmering and national media attention on hand . . . what would dare to go awry? A sparkling new romantic comedy.

Pearl Cleage, award winning playwright of Blues for an Alabama Sky and Flyin’ West, and New York Times best-selling author of Oprah book club selection What Looks Like Crazy on an

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Ordinary Day, invites you into this glamorous world where folks still dress for dinner. For the ladies of the Nacirema Society, bus boycotts and freedom marches don’t hold a candle to the importance of making the perfect entrance… or plotting the perfect blackmail.

Carapace

A World Premiere by David Mitchell Robinson Winner! 2010 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition

Synopsis: Jeff is a man on a mission to do right by his daughter on her 23rd birthday. First – figure out where she lives. Second – find an open pet store. Third – navigate his Oldsmobile past the wrecked 35W Bridge. Fourth – stop for a drink. Just one. “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" sings Bruce Springsteen on the radio – and Jeff knows a last chance when he sees it.

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The Ethics Arts Café

The Ethics Art Café is an Ethics Arts Symposium held each fall. In partnership with the Wonderroot Community Arts (Voted Best Advocate for the Arts and Best Public Art Project by Creative Loafing), this event brings to Emory University’s campus local artists whose work is focused on addressing social issues and whose motivation for creating art is its potential to bring about social change. This year’s Ethics Art Café will be November 18, 2010 from 7-9pm. For more information email [email protected]

The Free Speech Arts Café

The Ethics Art Café precedes the Free Speech Art Café so that it may inspire young student artists to focus their work on pressing ethical issues. Its function is to help student artists begin to view art as a vehicle for social change. A component of the Free Speech Art Café is the “Annual Student Visual Art Competition,” Students have the opportunity to present their work to the Emory community which includes photography, film, sculpture, paintings, sketches, and digital illustrations. In addition to this visual art display and competition, the evening is infused with student performances of spoken word, dance, and music.

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The Free Speech Art Café has also been the occasion to announce and unveil the winners of other campus wide competitions hosted by the Center for Ethics such as the 20th Anniversary Logo Contest. The winning entry graces the upper-right corner of this brochure! This year’s Free Speech Art Café promises to be productive and exciting. It will be hosted this year by the Center for Ethics’ newly formed Ethics and the Arts Society.

In Partnership with VDAY Atlanta, The Center for Ethics welcomes Playwright Eve

Ensler and Dr. Denis Mukwege

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COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Emory University Partners Include: The Visual Arts Department The Center for Women The Center for Creativity and the Arts Film Studies Department Disability Studies

For More Information about the Ethics and the Arts Initiative Contact:

Carlton Mackey [email protected]

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