Saturday, November 24, 2018

UA College of Humanities presents BENNUVAL!, an "out-of-this-world family-friendly variety show."

As OSIRIS-REx approaches the asteroid Bennu, a family-friendly variety show explores how space unites science and the humanities.

 

A true variety show, BENNUVAL! will feature Emmy Award-winning host Geoff Notkin, improv comedy from Unscrewed Theater, readings of space poetry the UA Poetry Center, music from ChamberLab composer Chris Black, and performances by the renowned acrobatic ensemble Cirque Roots.

 

BENNUVAL! will feature a “TED-style talk” from Lauretta about the origin of life and the importance of asteroids, including details about both the OSIRIS-REx mission and JAXA’s similar Hayabusa2 probe.  The  UA College of Humanities named Lauretta its Alumnus of the Year in 2017. Lauretta, who studied Japanese as one of his triple majors at the UA, says his humanities background has been valuable in working with colleagues in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.

 

More info: https://humanities.arizona.edu/news/bennuval-celebrates-spirit-human-curiosity

 

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $6 for students and CatCard holders, and are available at the Fox Tucson Theatre.

BENNUVAL! Presenters:

Geoff Notkin, Emmy Award-winning host and producer of Meteorite Men

Selections from the 2016 exhibit The Poetry of Spaceflight, UA Poetry Center

Unscrewed Theater improv comedy

Takashi Miura and Nathaniel Smith, UA Assistant Professors of East Asian Studies

Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator and UA Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry

Pearce Paul Creasman, UA Associate Professor of Dendrochronology and Egyptian Archaeology

Chris Black, ChamberLab composer

Cirque Roots

 

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