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Religious Art and Drama Festival Opens Tomorrow With Folk Mass
Tuesday, April 27.1965
WALTER BLISS, Omaha junior, rehearses "The Killers." a production to be presented during the Religious Arts Festival this week.
To witness the Christian message as portrayed through the world of art and drama is the theme of the second KU Festival of Religious Arts and Drama.
Sponsored by the Ecumenical Committee on the Arts, the five-day festival opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday with a performance of "Rejoice," a contemporary Folk Mass. The work was written a few months ago by students at the General Theological Seminary in New York, according to the Reverend Thomas Woodward of Trinity Episcopal Church, where the Mass will be performed.
FATHER WOODWARD said that the Mass draws its inspiration from sources as diverse as the traditional plain song and the Beatles. In it, the traditional music of the church is replaced by a modern folk song idiom. Instead of the usual organ
accompaniment, guitars string basses, and banjos will be used.
The Ecumenical Committee at KU represents nine religious groups on campus who "plan and coordinate the churches' participation in the arts at the university," Father Woodward said.
In the past, the committee has sponsored performances of J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio and T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party."
Contemporary poetry will be read by Terrence Williams at Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St., at 8 p.m. Thursday. Williams is head of the special collections department of Watkins Library and also editor of "Broadside Poems," a collection of penny poems that has appeared on campus and has also been offered for sale in San Francisco and New York City.
WILLIAMS WILL read from Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Leventov, Gary Snyder, William Stafford, and X. J. Kennedy.
Williams said, "Students are more aware of what is going on in the world than they were in the past. These readings reflect the concern of the students in their works.
"Churches are bending to the needs of students now—students will no longer tolerate religious cliche. These poets do not use cliches, but they are spiritual." Williams added.
A movie, "Five Finger Exercise," will be this year's commercial film presentation. Based on the New York Critic's Award play by Peter Shaffer, the movie stars Rosalind Russell, Maximillan Schell, and Richard Beymer.
An evening of drama will be presented Saturday night, starting at 8:30. Actor-in-Residence William Kuhike will present, in the "old-time shouting method," readings of works by the eminent American Negro poet, James Weldon Johnson, and Vachel Lindsay.
ALSO INCLUDED in the evening of drama will be a number of short presentations, including an excerpt from Eugene Ionesco's "The Killers," and other scenes from contemporary American theatre.
A film parable, "Sunflower," will be screened Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union. The movie is avantegarde, and is concerned with the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.
A continuous event of the festival is an art exhibit in the gallery of the Wesley Foundation. It brings together a collection of paintings and sculpture that use the human form to reveal the story of Christianity, Rev. Simmons said.
Included in this exhibit are four paintings of the New York artist Joachim Probst.
Events of the entire festival are offered without charge.
Expert on Burma To Speak Friday
Prof. Trager, one of the foremost Burma specialists in the country, is an advocate of a more forceful and positive American policy in Southeast Asia.
Frank N. Trager, professor of international affairs at New York University, will speak on "The U.S. Role in Southeast Asia" at 3:30 Friday afternoon in Dyche Auditorium.
The lecture is sponsored by the Committee on East Asian Studies and the Department of Political Science.
Sigma Chi's Don Hats For Derby Day Fete
The Sigma Chi's will be in the spotlight this weekend as they sponsor their 12th annual Derby Day.
With the sounding of the whistle at 7:20 a.m. Friday, women from all living groups will start snatching black derbies from the heads of Sigma Chi's. Any Sigma Chi wearing a black derby will be open game for any woman. The "derby snatch" will end at 5:20 p.m.
"THE WOMEN GET a point for their living group every time they succeed in stealing a derby." Ban Hudson, Ft. Scott senior and chairman of Derby Day said.
Festivities will continue at 1 p.m. Saturday near the Chi Omega house where a parade will start to the Sigma Chi house. The Derby Day queen candidates will ride in the parade also.
"Events will start at 2 p.m. when the lighting of the 'infernal smudge pot' takes place," Hudson said. "This is a take off on the Olympics and the lighting of the eternal torch."
The first sporting event will be a limbo contest. One woman from each team will limbo underneath a limbo stick and the woman who goes the lowest of all will win.
IN the "egg swat," contestants will form a circle in the tennis court, with each having an egg on her head and a daily Kansan in hand.
THE DERBY DAY queen will be selected at the festivities Saturday. There will be candidates from every living group. The winner will be presented with the Miss Derby Day Trophy.
Musical buckets, which is similar to musical chairs, will make women display their running and fighting ability.
The bat race is the next event, followed by a tug-of-war between living groups.
"It will be the survival of the fittest because the girl with an egg still intact at the end of the game will be the winner." Hudson said.
Two trophies will be awarded to the first and second place teams. These will be judged on the most overall points in all events.
"There will also be a trophy awarded to the individual with the highest number of points," Hudson said. "It will go to the woman who jocks it up the most."
Certificates will be presented to all the first and second place winners in every event.
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