Published: February 08, 2018
UT Continues Filmmaker Series with Women in Film and Television on Feb. 12
Attention film lovers: stop by The University of Tampa on Monday, Feb. 12, for a panel discussion by members of Women in Film and Television Florida and a screening of the award-winning short film Tiny Bacteria. The event begins at 7 p.m. in Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public.
Hosted by Dana Plays, UT professor of film, animation and new media, the program will feature members of Women in Film and Television Florida, including local casting director Rose Rosen and Tampa Bay filmmaker Victoria Jorgensen, who will show her film Tiny Bacteria. Jorgensen will also give a sneak preview of her new work Half an Hour.
Tiny Bacteria is a six-minute short film about Marthe Gellhorn, a journalist and travel writer who was Ernest Hemmingway's third wife (played by Eugenie Bondurant, best known for her role as Tigris in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2). Tiny Bacteria shows us Gellhorn's vulnerability and intricacy, and offers a simple slice of a complicated moment.
Jorgenson worked with choreographer Kellie Harmon to create the film as part of Creative Pinellas' 2017 Impact Returns Mentors Program.
For more information about the event, contact Plays at dplays@ut.edu or (813) 257-3161.
On Sunday, April 8, The University of Tampa’s 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series will conclude with a performance by the Philadelphia Brass, called “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life” by NPR’s Martin Goldsmith. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
The concert will have a special emphasis on American music, featuring works by Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and Frank Loesser, among others.
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
“There are a lot of stereotypes and studies that say boys aren’t as good in second language acquisition as females,” said Harrington, who worked with Assistant Professor Andrew DeMil on the research project, “Gender differences in Spanish Language Learning: Speaking Exams,” which they presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference in February and to the UT Board of Trustees March 22.
“We wanted to do a study of our own here at UT. In the previous year (DeMil) had studied reading comprehension of girls versus boys, so we wanted to study speaking this year,” said Harrington, of Maple Grove, MN. “The results were the same though. The boys aren’t any worse, if not the same, as females. They are just extremely underrepresented.”