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What does it mean to be American? Inspired by this proverbial question, master playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith challenges preconceptions of theater and national identity in the play House Arrest: A Search for American Character in and Around the White House, Past and Present. This fourth production of St. Olaf's 2007-08 theatrical season takes a provocative look at life in the nation's capital, traveling through time to reveal the evolution of the American character. Performances will be held March 5-8 at 7:30 p.m. and March 8-9 at 2 p.m. in St. Olaf's Haugen Theatre. For tickets, $8 each, contact the St. Olaf box office at 507-786-8987. Read more at stolaf.edu. Start: 4:30 pm
Open at 4:30 until 9:00 or so, enjoy local cheese from Just Food Coop, fine art, a sip of wine, and, at 8:00? a possible premier performance by an aspiring Northfield acoustic guitarist... The place to be... Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Basinger, currently the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University, will speak at St. Olaf on Thursday, March 6, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Viking Theater in Buntrock Commons. The lecture, sponsored by the Boldt Teaching Chair in the Humanities, is free and open to the public. Read the rest of the story at stolaf.edu. | ||
ArtOnWater presents new works in pottery by Northfield's longtime artists Chris and Sue Holmquist (you must see their giraffe lamp) and Laura Meddaugh's ('Miro Miro on the Wall') whimsical dimensional watercolors. 
Those who heard film expert and archivist Jeanine Basinger speak at St. Olaf College several years ago know that audience members at her upcoming appearance on the Hill are in for a wealth of up-close-and-personal anecdotes about Hollywood.
