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From YouTube: smARTS: Towson University Celebrates 150th Year (Winter 2016)

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Arts and Humanities celebrate Towson's 150th year.

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Hello!, I'm carolyn black-sotir and welcome to smarts,.

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Your guide to the arts and culture in baltimore, county.

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Here's what's ahead. time: flies! towson university is 150 years, old!.

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We take a look at how the arts and humanities are celebrating this milestone.

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next,, we'll preview, the upcoming "take, a leap".

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Baltimore county dance, celebration.

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then, enjoy a performance by goucher dance, right here in the studio.

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Then, we'll speak with michael repper,, who heads up the chamber music society of maryland, and the music in the great hall concert. Series.

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We'll meet artist and educator, linda popp.,.

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And then, we'll get smarter with some beautiful art dolls.

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By baltimore county artist, sandra street.

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there's a lot ahead,. So let's get started.

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It's not every day we get to celebrate a 150th birthday,.

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But smarts now has the chance to toast towson university on this milestone.

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Through the decades,, the arts and humanities have been central.

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To the university's academic programs,, as well as an important part of our cultural community.,.

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We have with us louise miller, executive director of the towson university 150th celebration.

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Welcome to smarts!, you are so busy!.

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Well, there's a lot going on to celebrate 150 years.

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Yeah,, so where do you even start?.

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Well,, we actually put together a focus group.

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And we actually have a steering committee and nine planning committees,.

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Because we're so celebrating for an entire year.

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Oh my goodness! and we're almost halfway: through.

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( laughing ) congratulations!.

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But, you know,, we've been in baltimore county for 100 years.

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Oh, okay, so..., oh, interesting.

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So, give us a little history on the anniversary., so our first 50 years were downtown.

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And we moved to towson in 1915,, where the university purchased 88 acres.

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So, stevens hall --, the current stevens hall --.

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Was the administration building back then.

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lovely,, beautiful building.

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A hundred years old --, along with newell,.

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Which was the dorms, and the plant,, the electrical plant.

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And those were the three buildings,, the three original buildings.

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You've come a long, way, baby,, huh?, yes! wow!, so how many students attend towson now?.

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We have a little over 22,000., wow! yes. and while we started as the teacher's college,.

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Our college of health professions is now the largest college.

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We produce one in four nurses for the state of maryland.

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Do you really? yes. wow,, that's impressive.,.

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Also, our doctorial programs,, the first ones,, were in the college of health professions..

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There's a big demand. yeah. now you're also known for arts and humanities.

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Yes, big program. and you reach out into the community in many ways.

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yes, we do. yeah.

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Well, we also produce maybe a hundred--.

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Over a hundred performances, exhibitions, lectures, --.

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Many of them free, open to the public.

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This year,, we have center stage on campus,, which was very exciting.

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They're renovating their theatre..

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We also do a lot in the community.

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for instance, ailey ii,, the dance company,.

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When they come in for their performances,, we bring in baltimore county--.

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Bus baltimore county students in for free performances.

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Terrific!, many of them have never been on a college campus or seen a live performance.

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Oh,, that's a fabulous opportunity., it really is.

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it's the kind of thing I remember being a young student --, it's a seminal moment and something that really can change a student's, life.

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Yeah, really very much. so, all right,, so I know that the university's doing a lot of different things. --.

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Every department, every discipline -- for the 150th., but since this is an arts... and culture show,.

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I'd love to know what's happening specifically in those terms,.

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As far as the celebration.

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Well, again, every college is doing something individually.

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One of the things that is happening is there's a speaker series.

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Okay. and each college is bringing in a visiting speaker.

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they're doing master classes,, but then they're also doing something that's open to the public.

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In the fall, we had four speakers.

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One was ira, flatow., oh,, sure!.

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Yes, that was wonderful. oh, gosh.. I love him.

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He spoke on how science is sexy, now,, which was great.

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And so we have three in the spring, and they're very diverse, from--.

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The college of fine arts is bringing in dj spooky.

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Oh! yes, yes...

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For those of us who are not as hip as you are,, who is dj, spooky?.

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So, he does a lot of turntable music...

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Yeah. and there will be a performance- that's open to the public,.

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But he'll also be giving master classes.

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he's a producer, he's a composer -- really exciting speaker for us in the arts.

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The college of liberal arts actually has written an anthology,.

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Has produced an anthology as part of what they're doing.

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So writings by alumni, all put into a book--.

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Oh, wonderful! ...published by our students.

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They have their own publishing company, and it's called "amid. The roar".

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And it's available on amazon for a whopping ¤5.

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( laughter ) a book most people can afford.

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So, yeah,, so the college of fine arts is actually doing a collaboration with all the departments.

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Which is something they don't get to do. Normally.

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So, peter wrey,, a faculty member in theatre,.

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Has actually written a piece called "dance on bones.".

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I'm not sure of the title.

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But it'll bring in all of the different disciplines,.

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So art, music, film, theatre.

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It's pretty exciting!.

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Yeah, well this--. I mean, the list is endless.

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we're putting up a website, of course, where people can go, get all the information, but--. Thank you. So much.

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best wishes to you and congratulations on a job. Well, done, louise.,.

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I appreciate it. thanks so much. so, on campus or off,. We invite you to take advantage of all the arts and culture experiences in the baltimore area,.

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And here are some ideas for your calendar.