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Show B2 CULTURE •• • • • • • •• • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • •• • •• • WEEKLY EVENTS • Confluence, a Drawing III and Painting III exhibit, on display on the 5th floor of the library from now until Feb. 2. Come see the talent of your fellow wolverines in this beautiful student exhibit. •• • Wednesday, Feb. 2 and Friday, Feb. 4: Back by popular demand, UVU Department of Theatrical Arts presents She Stoops to Conquer. 7:30 p.m. at the Noorda Theater. Wildly popular at the end of the 2010 theatrical season, this production is back for two shows only. Tickets are $7 with LIVID, $9-11 without. EVENTS ON CAMPUS Hidden Voices: Graffiti Art exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum, showing now until March 5. Featuring the art of youth culture and local urban artists, focusing on graffiti as an art form. • • THIS WEEK •• •• •• •• •• • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • Wednesday, Feb. 2: Bookstore iPod Kiss Off, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. UVU Bookstore is having a contest to see who has the strongest lips on campus by seeing which couple can hold an iPod between their lips for the longest amount of time. Get a partner and register by joining their Facebook page and emailing tryonhei@UVU.edu Selected teams will be contacted and winners will receive an iPod touch, a 2 gigabyte shuffle or a $25 gift card. Students HOMECOMING do Shakespeare PARADES SHOPPING CART ART By Keyra Kristoffersen Culture Writer Interested in doing Shakespeare plays as Shakespeare intended, students formed their own production company. Image by Alex Ungerman and Mark Oram By Kelly Cannon Asst. Culture Editor The mere mention of Shake- speare is enough to send most students into hiding, but for senior the- ater major Alex Ungerman and other UVU and BYU students, they took the seemingly confusing work of Shakespeare and made a production company. Nearly two years ago, Ungerman and fellow Wolverine Mark Oram founded the Grassroots Shakespeare Company. The company is based upon the concept of performing Shakespeare's plays as they were originally produced. "Plays were not always done the way they are today. There used to be a very different process," said Ungerman. "The whole concept of having a director and a scriptwriter and actors who just act really only happened in the last 100 years." In Shakespeare's time, there would only be a small troupe of actors who were given two weeks or less to create a production. "Sometimes actors would go off and memorize their lines on their own," said Ungerman about the actors of Shakespeare's time. "Then they'd come together the day of the performance and just put it up. And that's the idea we wanted to explore." Just like in Shakespeare's day, the Grassroots Shakespeare Cornpany has a troupe of actors who are dedicated to putting on a production after only two weeks of planning and rehearsing. The company has been widely successful. They have had two touring shows, performing Much Ado About Nothing in the summer of 2009 and Romeo and Juliet in 2010. Those shows featured several UVU students, including Kyle Oram, Robbie Pierce, Trevor Robertson and Eric Phillips, all of whom are active members of the UVU theater department and its productions. Besides exploring and utilizing the performance styles from the Renaissance, the GSC has other goals they aim to achieve. Ungerman said another one of their goals is to "Increase appreciation and awareness of Shakespeare performance in the community and to help college students have a fun, exciting experience with Shakespeare because it can be so dry and boring." The GSC also opens their doors to students and the community by hosting workshops. Each workshop focuses on a different aspect of the company. The most recent workshop, which occurred right before the beginning of the spring semester, focused on adapting and rewriting two of Shakespeare's plays. If you have any interest in being a part of the Grassroots Shakespeare Company, visit their website at www .GrassrootsShakespeare .com Occasionally, there are events in life — spectacles, if you will — that require ones presence in order to be truly believed: alien abduction, the election of Arnold the Governator and the UVU Homecoming Parade. Thankfully, that particular spectacle was witnessed by most of the school on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Representatives from nearly every group, club, organization and faction on campus gathered, sometimes weeks in advance, to create their respective personal icon using shopping carts, cardboard, balloons that attack and, in some cases, the cute but cheap ploy of small children in costume. These edifices of school spirit were then pushed, hauled and driven through the center of the school, tossing candy and tiny rubber basketballs to the passing class-goers and alum. Black eyes were evident, but the spirit never wavered. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences created a President Holland dummy complete with crown, while Clubs and Organizations thrilled female passerby with a shorts-only clad boy sunbathing as he was wheeled about. The Woodbury School of Business was so intent on their design that a committee was created to ensure a thorough use of available supplies. The irony should be lost on no one. The elaborate nature of the parade shows that it really is based in school spirit and not just the extra credit many professors are giving to members of the clubs and organizations. "When I join a club, I help. I join to help," says Elizabeth Merrill, a freshman in the English Department and first year member of the Latin Club. Elizabeth helped her club by playing the horse to the Latin Club's shopping "chariot" pulling it faithfully along the parade route. All of this gaiety was presided over by Willy the Wolverine and Mr. and Miss UVU while the green clad UVU Drumlin beat out heart-pounding performances for the cheerleaders and Dance Team to shake their pompoms to. Students, faculty, and alumni cheered the men's basketball team as they sang the good ole UV fight song. Go! Fight! UVU! Photos by Keyra Kristoffersen The shopping cart parade, part of Homecoming Week, was a grand success. Clubs and organizations all over campus participated in and attended the unique event. |