InCite 2010: What's Past Is Prologue

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Feb 16, 2010, 09:00 ET

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Boston University College of Fine Arts returns to New York for its third annual InCite Arts Festival, themed "What's Past Is Prologue." The festival features performances, exhibits, and film screenings running March 4–10 at venues throughout Manhattan. A complete festival schedule and ticket information is available online at www.bu.edu/cfa/incite or by calling 617-353-3350.

The festival, which has been highlighted by The NY Times and The Washington Post over the past two years, features the new play diventare; the contemporary one-act opera Antigone; Reunited, an exhibition of the work of professional painting and sculpting alumni; a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 by the Grammy-nominated Boston Baroque period orchestra and chorus; and a showcase and exhibit of graduating theatre performance and design students. Jim Petosa, Artistic Director of the InCite Arts Festival and Director of the BU School of Theatre, explains, "For this year's festival, we're embracing the idea of the past as prologue. All the artistic events conspire to create a unique multidisciplinary InCite Arts Festival that explores how refractions and reflections of the images of the past are indeed a prologue to the future."

For the first time, InCite branches out beyond the College of Fine Arts to feature two "satellite events" from the larger Boston University community. The first, "I Remember Better When I Paint," is the screening of a documentary film about the positive impact of art and creative therapies on people with Alzheimer's, and is presented by the BU School of Medicine Alzheimer Disease Center. The second, "The Redstones NYC," is the screening of an annual festival of short films by graduate and undergraduate film and television students, presented by the BU College of Communication and sponsored by Sumner Redstone, chairman of VIACOM.

The InCite Arts Festival, originally conceived to share the dynamic artistic strengths and synergy of Boston University's College of Fine Arts schools of Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, offers programming that boasts an eclectic and compelling combination of titles and artists. The addition of events from the College of Communication and School of Medicine to this year's festival evolves the InCite concept toward its long-term vision of embracing arts-related initiatives from throughout Boston University, with the College of Fine Arts leading the way.

SOURCE Boston University