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Bryan Ferguson |
Bryan Ferguson, Film Director and Johnson C. Smith Alumnus
"The Death of Murphy"
Charlotte Film Premier and Q&A with Director
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Bryan Ferguson has been writing for various projects for the last 10 years. He began performing spoken word poetry with the band Urban Abstract and later wrote and directed his own theatrical productions on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University, where he graduated in 1999 as an English major. A founding member of the Black Ink Monks, Inc., Ferguson followed his JCSU graduation with the highly competitive graduate film program of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he began developing scripts for the screen. As Ferguson has honed his skills as an effective filmmaker, his styles and tastes have fallen into varying light and dark comedic subject matters. His last film,
The Death of Murphy, is a comedy about a man fighting against his own bad luck, and earned Ferguson the Spike Lee Fellowship at NYU.
The Death of Murphy has been screened in various international film festivals such as the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Festival du Cinema de Paris. Currently, Ferguson lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he is writing other feature-length scripts, as well as acting and working as a DJ. The screening of
The Death of Murphy at JCSU will be the film’s Southeast U.S. premier. |
Lyceum Series
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Calendar
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Fall 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - Patrice Gaines, Award Winning Journalist
"The Power of One: Making Change, Making Connections"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Winston Crisp, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs,
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“WE THE PEOPLE . . .
The United States Constitution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Dr. Arlie Petters , Mathematician
"Science, Entrepreneurship, and Financial Success"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - Al Young, California State Poet Laureate
and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Leon Bates, Pianist
Recital
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
SPRING 2009
THE FINE ARTS EXAMINE THE MEDICAL ARTS
An Exhibit of Commissioned Paintings about the Training for and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery
Sponsored by The Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois
(Johnson C. Smith students can earn two Lyceum credits by attending the events connected with the Medical Arts Exhibit)
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
EXHIBITION
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
January 12 through January 30, 2009
Edward E. Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies
HOURS
Monday through Friday, Noon-5:00 p.m.
(Free Parking in Gymnasium Lot, Next to Crutchfield Center)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - David McKay, Curator; James Fullwood, Johnson C. Smith University Alumnus
"The Fine Arts Examine the Medical Arts"
Lecture
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
William Shakespeare’s
“The Comedy of Errors”
Performed by
The American Shakespeare Center Touring Company
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - Bryan Ferguson, Film Director and Johnson C. Smith Alumnus
"The Death of Murphy"
Charlotte Film Premier and Q&A with Director
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Poet
Fourteenth Annual World of Words
Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Indigo Moor, Poet
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 27, 2009 - Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Fourteenth World of Words
Poetry Festival
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell AuditoriumM
7:30 p.m.
Thursday - Friday, April 2 - 3, 2009 - The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge
Drama Guild Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
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