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CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT: SHORT LEAD

SFSU College of Creative Arts events for February

 SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, 2001 - The following is a list of upcoming events for February sponsored by the San Francisco State University College of Creative Arts. For more information on all events, visit: www.sfsu.edu/~allarts

Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile": Feb. 8-9, 8 p.m.; Feb. 10, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Feb. 11, 8 p.m.; Feb. 15-16, 8 p.m.; Feb. 17-18, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Little Theatre, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (at 19th Ave.), San Francisco. $10 general. $8 students, seniors. All tickets for the preview performance on Feb. 8 are $8. Tickets may be purchased at the Creative Arts Box Office (on the SFSU campus, Creative Arts Building, Room 129) or by calling (415) 338-2467.

Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" (translation: agile rabbit) tells the humorous account of a fictitious meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Parisian bar at the beginning of the 20th century. Presented by The Players' Club, the play is completely designed, funded, produced, directed, built and acted by SFSU students.

"A Dozen Shorts: First-Class Films and Second-Class Rates": Feb. 10, 6 p.m. McKenna Theatre, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (at 19th Ave.), San Francisco. Free.

"A Dozen Shorts: First-Class Films and Second-Class Rates" features 12 short experimental, documentary and narrative films from SFSU cinema students who will earn their master of fine arts degrees in 2002.

Morritz Eggert, piano: Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (at 19th Ave.), San Francisco. Free.

German composer-pianist Moritz Eggert will offer a recital of recent works by living German composers, including the U.S. premiere performances of Hans Werner Henze's Sonate - from Wilhelm Killmayer's Douze Etudes Transcendentales - Wolfgang Rihm's Klavierstück, Enno Poppe's Theme mit 840 Variationen, Helmut Lachenmann's Guero, and his own Hammerklavier.

Morrison Artists Series presents Brentano String Quartet: Feb. 18, 3 p.m. McKenna Theatre, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (at 19th Ave.), San Francisco. Free.

Since its inception in 1992, The Brentano String Quartet (Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin, Misha Amory and Michael Kannen) has been singled out for technical brilliance, musical insight and stylistic elegance. Its festival appearances have included the Festival De Divonne in France, Chamber Music Northwest, the Green Lake Festiv al, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival and Chautauqua. Acclaimed as "indispensable" by San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, the Morrison Artists Series has presented an annual program of free recitals by prominent chamber music ensembles since 1952.

Art Exhibition: "Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Place": Feb. 25-March 22, open Mondays - Saturdays, noon - 4 p.m. Opening reception Feb. 25, 2-4 p.m. Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts Building, Room 238, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (at 19th Ave.), San Francisco. Free.

"Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Place" is curated and organized by SFSU art professors Barbara Foster with Candace Crockett and Sylvia S. Walters. The exhibition includes work by Wes Christensen, Timothy Cummings, F. Scott Hess, Margo Humphrey, Stephen Namara, Paul Pratchenko, Greta Snider, M. Louise Stanley, Marta Thoma, Ruprecht Von Kaufmann, Ruth Weisberg and Joseph Wolek.

For details, call (415) 338-1358 or visit: www.sfsu.edu/~allarts



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