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X-WR-CALNAME:Quiet\, Piggy! Women Monastics in Song and Silence
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DESCRIPTION:Brett Umlauf and Noah Arjomand will present a series of their a
 udiovisual collaborations that address the lives and music of women monast
 ics across millennia of history\, probing the complex relationships among 
 physical confinement\, intellectual freedom\, theocratic hierarchy\, and a
 rtistic expression. Between reflections on the continued relevance and pow
 er of song in the face of masculinist enforced silencing\, Brett and Noah 
 will share… \n\n \n\nBrett’s performance of the music of Hildegard of 
 Bingen\, who in 1179 resisted church authorities’ censorship forbidding 
 her convent from singing mass\;their animated music video for a compositio
 n of 17th-century Milanese nun Rosa Giacinta Badalla\, who in her day defi
 ed an edict against polyphonic music. Her motet celebrates 6th-century Sai
 nt Radegund’s escape from the royal palace to monastic life\;excerpts fr
 om a film collaboration with UCR experimental choreography MFA alumna Mari
 ia Bakalo on 9th-century hymnographer Kassia of Byzantium\, who declared 
 “I hate silence when it is a time to speak”--and legendarily spoiled h
 er chances of becoming empress with a sharp-tongued retort to the emperor\
 ;an excerpt of a new opera by Kate Soper\, in which Brett plays one of thr
 ee virtuous maidens put out as unicorn bait who slowly develop solidarity 
 and learn to resist patriarchal oppression. \n\nLunch provided\n\n \n\nReg
 istration is closed.\n\nTo be placed on the waitlist\, contact Jeanette Ko
 hl\, jkohl@ucr.edu. \n\n \n\nSpeakers\n\n \n\nBrett Umlauf (she/her) broug
 ht her "pealing\, focused sound" and "luminous yet earthy" (New York Times
 ) performances to NYC for over a decade with Morningside Opera\, Company X
 IV and SIREN Baroque and originated the roles of Peitho (HERE BE SIRENS) a
 nd Fleur (THE HUNT) in Pulitzer-finalist Kate Soper’s new music opera pr
 emieres. She is co-founder of the SUORE Project\, a trio dedicated to spot
 lighting works by unsung nun composers. Brett’s own travel-performance p
 roject HAZELNUT ROAD: Vows of Stability\, Acts of Mobility\, recently won 
 her a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Greece and Turkey. Brett holds a BA
  in Classics from Dartmouth College\, an MLIS from the Palmer School and a
  Performer Diploma in Historical Voice from Jacobs School of Music. She is
  currently a Visiting Specialist in Media & Cultural Studies at UCR.\n\n \
 n\nNoah Amir Arjomand (he/him) is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 
 Media & Cultural Studies at UCR. A filmmaker and media scholar\, Noah make
 s documentary\, narrative\, experimental\, and animated films and since 20
 10 has collaborated with music and theatre groups including Morningside Op
 era\, Wet Ink Ensemble\, SIREN Baroque\, Mercury Arts\, and SUORE Project.
  His first documentary feature film\, EAT YOUR CATFISH\, aired on POV on P
 BS and won the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. H
 e earned a bachelor’s in Public & International Affairs from Princeton U
 niversity\, a PhD in sociology from Columbia University\, and an MFA in sc
 reenwriting from UCR.\n\n \n\nSponsored by the Being Human Initiative at t
 he UCR Center for Ideas & Society.
LOCATION:College Building North
SUMMARY:Quiet\, Piggy! Women Monastics in Song and Silence
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.ucr.edu/event/quietpiggy
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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