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Show FI'HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2002 Benefit concert Gerard Yun, assistant professor of music, will star in the benefit concert Shakuhachi: Music of Inspiration, Contemplation, and Enlightenment, today at 7:30 p.m., to raise funds for the Southern Utah Head Start program. The program will be performed at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church, 70 North 200. There will be a this unique blend of music, poetry, art and dancing at the concert. Ten percent of the concert’s proceeds will benefit the Southern Utah to feature Yun hauntingly beautiful sound has been heard within many movie scores and increasingly popular audio recordings. In the concert Yun explores both the ancient Buddhist literature and the modern possibilities of the instrument in combination with dance, modern instruments, poetry, and song. He appeared as the shakuhachi soloist on the recent Welcoming the World concert with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and the International Children’s Choir. of the proceeds toward the a bass shakuhachi which will be used a new composition DMD-PCS 586-6526 409 S. Main The World's Largest Concert, his first solo full-length concert, to be aired nationwide on March 14. Accompanying Yun in in Banff, Alberta, at the International Double Reeds Shakuhachi are Danielle Dubrasky, assistant professor of creative writing, who will Society Convention in August. Another portion of the funds read poetry, Julie Hutslar, who will be distributed between Head takes the place as an artist, Start and the SUU music student Terri Lauterbach-Cotts and Gerard Yu“ scholarship fund. Stephanie Whitney who The Japanese Shakuhachi is an choreographed the concert and will be ancient instrument that found its way from dancing. Brent Smith and John Van Wagoner China in around the eighth century. ‘will play the guitar and perform the vocals. From then, into the 16th century, it was Kyle Vincent will play the shakuhachi. played only as an instrument of meditation A new CD recording by Yun on the native by a particular sect of Zen monks. Tlute aud shakyhachi will be available at the Altnough simple in appearance, the concert. Proceeds from this recording will instrument and the music it produces are benefit local charity and arts organizations. remarkably complex. For more information on the concert, Today the shakuhachi is still considered a contact Yun at (435)-586-7893 or rare and unusual instrument, however, its @%@Mfi@%fifi% He also will appear in the upcoming PBS television special Head Start Program. A portion will also go purchase of instrument, 1o premiere yun@suu.edu. $1 I and community theatre actor/director Ken Brewer will be featured at today’s gathering of the SUU’s Reading Series. Brewer will literarily gratify audiences with readings from his numerous books, including The Place In Between, Lake’s Edge, Hoping For All, Dreading Nothing, To Remember What is Lost, The Collected Poems of Mongrel, Round Again: A Cycle of Poems and Sum of Accidents. Brewer’s presentation begins at 4 p.m. in the Braithwaite Center, Room 202. Recently retired from Utah State University, Brewer has just joined the language and literature department at SUU. He has published more than 300 poems throughout the United States and Canada. His work has appeared in numerous prestigious publications, including New York Quarterly, Poetry Review, The Pikeville Review, Pembroke Magazine, Literary Magazine Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Western American Literature Journal. In the last 30 years, Brewer has participated Skate Wake CEDAR CITY 583 S. MAIN 867-4263 He was also the editor for The Blue Fife: A Journal of Western Poetry. Most recently, he was the poetry editor for the Utah Centennial Anthology. The presentations are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the student off! I r : "1 IGet Acquainted Spec1all | 1810 Exam | Whitening | « Oral Exam - 2 Bitewing X-Rays (reg $295- Now $195) Now! you can get the in more than 200 readings. He has served as the director of the Mountain West Writers and ‘Western Writers Conference, a series of summer workshops conducted through USU. 00 Tooth Reading series continues today Poet, essayist, fiction writer, and university PAGE7] UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS I I sensational smile you deserve. 1 cALL TopAY l Transferable. Please share with your family, friends and co-workers! Offer expires 3/31/02 L I N . . . I l Cancer Screening |- Gum Disease Screening I I | I I Valid for new patients only. Not to bve combined with any other offer. Transferable. Please share with your family, friend and co-workers! Offer expires 3/15/02 ‘ organization, The Literary Guild, and the department of language and literature and also receive funding from the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Humanities Council. The reading series continues March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Whiting Room, Hunter Conference Center with Gailmarie Pahmeier, an accomplished poet from the University of Nevada. April 18 will be the Kolob Canyon Review, readings by students published in the Kolob Canyon Review, at 7 p.m. in the Braithwaite Center, Room 202. For more information contact Dubrasky at hedule Your Next Cleaning and Save!! AR TE nts only. Subject to exam by Dr. does not include ment. Not to be combined with 865-8138. Snow Apparel BriaAN HEAD 259 S.Hwy 143 6773010 Now Open until 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday UNIVERSITY STUD . COME RIDE THE MecrAMCAL BULL- $3-A RiDE! 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