Culture

Arts Scene: Funny feminism at Cyrano's; graffiti art at the International Gallery

Theater

Pheromones and politics

An acclaimed academic author and esteemed professor of women's studies yearns to steal back the slacker poet whom her roommate stole from her 13 years ago in "Rapture, Blister, Burn." The comedy is both a somber assessment of human nature and a rollicking discussion of feminist theories as trippy as a think piece from The Atlantic magazine. It's also brilliantly funny. Cyrano's current production features an extraordinary cast doing some of the best work in recent seasons. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday through April 24. Tickets are available at centertix.net.

Literature

UAA speakers

The UAA Student Bookstore will present a talk by David Stevenson, director of the college's Creative Writing program and book reviews editor for The American Alpine Journal. He'll talk about his recent book, "Warnings Against Myself: Memoirs of a Superstitious Mountaineer," at 7 p.m. Friday, April 8. Author Ishmael Hope will give readings from his first poetry collection, "Courtesans of Flounder Hill," at 1 p.m. Saturday. Education researcher Kathryn Ohle will discuss her project to promote early literacy by providing children's books in Alaska Native languages at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Parking is free on Fridays and Saturdays and for the Monday event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot. Stevenson's talk will take place in Room 307 of the UAA/APU Consortium Library and the others will take place in the bookstore at the Student Union Building.

Art

Tagging as art

Will Kozloff is the featured artist at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art this month. His exhibit, "In Sympathy for the Hand," fuses fine art with street art in an exhibition of taggings on board. The gallery is also hosting the annual UAA Sculpture Student Exhibition with work on the theme of decomposition. Some of the student artists will speak at a group artist talk in the gallery coming up at 7 p.m. Friday, April 15. There will be refreshments at that event, which is free and open to the public.

Mike Dunham

Mike Dunham has been a reporter and editor at the ADN since 1994, mainly writing about culture, arts and Alaska history. He worked in radio for 20 years before switching to print.

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