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Free Spot

The Best Things in Life Are FreeSatisfy your appetite for pure enjoyment without worrying about the check!

The Modlin Center offers a menu of free events designed to satisfy your craving for entertainment while leaving your bank account intact. Check the Free Spot for upcoming performances, lectures and master classes that are all free and open to the public. You’ll discover something for everyone!

October 2008

5

Sun
3:00 pm 

"You are in a place that is out of the world: Music and Torture"

This lecture marks the opening of the This is War exhibition presented by University Museums and features a lecture by NYU musicologist Suzanne Cusick...
7:30 pm 

Brian Jones and Friends

University of Richmond faculty member Brian Jones (drums/percussion) presents a concert featuring several of his friends from the Richmond jazz community.

7

Tue
7:00 pm 

Jepson Leadership Forum: "What Lincoln Was Up Against: The Context of Leadership"

Abraham Lincoln’s leadership can only be understood by grasping the challenges he faced. Those challenges included not only the Confederacy and its army but also a starkly divided northern electorate...

17

Fri
11:45 am 

Friday Free For All: "The Green Table"

Modlin Center for the Arts is pleased to present Friday Free For All: A Series of Free Performances. Performances feature a wide variety of music, theatre and dance at locations around campus and around town.

19

Sun
3:00 pm 

James Taylor concert CANCELLED

We're sorry to announce that this faculty recital has been cancelled. There are no plans at this time to reschedule.

22

Wed
7:00 pm 

"The Flaring Dark: Poetry & War"

In “The Flaring Dark” three 21st-century poets present their own work in the context of poetry's paradoxical tradition of obscuring and illuminating, mourning and celebrating...

24

Fri
12:30 pm 

University Museums Gallery Talk

Schuyler Swartout, ’11, speaker

26

Sun
3:00 pm 

Duo-Piano Recital

Faculty artist Richard Becker and his wife Doris Wylee-Becker play a duo-piano recital ...

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