Thursday, August 28, 2008

DØRUMSGAARDSEMINAR in Polytechnic Society - Autumn program available now!

Polytechnic Society/Culture and Media Group: This autumn we will remember and study Arne Dørumsgaard's works, e.g. how he interpreted poems from China, Japan and Korea.

Arne Dørumsgaard was a Norwegian multi-artist who lived in Marzio, Northern Italy. He was a singer, a composer, and collector. Thanks to his large collection of early recordings, we can now listen to all recordings made by Edward Grieg in Paris 1903. Eventually he gave his whole music collection to Stavanger city, thus contributing to the birth of Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound (courtesy for the photo, imported from REC's website).

Polytechnic Society Autumn 2008. We've just finished hectic preparation of the autumn program in Polytechnic Society of Norway, and a number of interesting meetings and seminars are offered. For example, in our group Culture and Media, we are coarranging five meetings, including two particular book-related meetings (cf. authors Galtung and Dørumsgaard), one theatre performance backstage talk (Riksteatrets new Zivil play), and one visit to the new house for Dance in Oslo.
Here I like to point to the planned day seminar at Litteraturhuset in Oslo to present and discuss the works of Arne Dørumsgaard - especially his book series on Eastern poems and societies. More info on this artist's works and life in links below.

Note the respective dates for arrangements of the Culture and Media group:
- 29 Sept 18.30 Meeting with Galtung and others
- 14 Oct 18.00-20.00 Vulkan, Dansens Hus
- 6 Nov 18.30 Zivil performance with backstage talk, Riksteatret (discount for PF members)
- 18 Nov 10.00-15.00 Dørumsgaard-seminar

Most welcome, see details and terms in our folder (soon to be distributed) or on Polytechnic society's website:
See more in pdf file on http://www.polyteknisk.no/
For info on Dørumsgaard, see e.g.,
- From A&B publishers, we learn about the 25 issues book series (in Norwegian):http://www.abforlag.no/

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