EVENTS CALENDAR
Events CalendarMQR Special Hopwood Edition
The winter 2007 edition of the Michigan Quarterly Review will feature works and essays by and about recent Hopwood Award-winning authors. The edition will be co-edited by Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein. MQR invites manuscripts by Hopwood Award winners from 2000–2005. Deadline for manuscripts is May 15, 2006. Send mss. to MQR, 3575 Rackham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Both prize-winning work and new work are invited.
Beginning in the winter term of 2006, the University of Michigan will observe the 75th Anniversary of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards. In recognition of this bequest and its legacy, the anniversary will take the form of an ongoing celebration including no less than 12 separate events scheduled during the term and beyond, all open to the public.
All events are sponsored by the Hopwood Awards Program in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Music and Theatre Department, the University of Michigan Department of English, the Office of Vice President for Communications, and the Special Collections Library, with media sponsorship by Michigan Radio and Michigan Television.
January
January 12
Reading by Hopwood Award Winner Elizabeth Kostova
5:00pm
Rackham Amphitheater
915 E. Washington
Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan where, as a student, she won the Hopwood Award for her novel, The Historian, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
January 24
Alice Fulton Poetry Reading at the Hopwood Underclassmen Award Ceremony
3:30pm
Rackham Amphitheater
Alice Fulton’s work has been included in five editions of the Best American Poetry series and in the 10th Anniversary edition of The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988–1997. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, The Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, and the Emily Dickinson and Consuelo Ford Awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems also have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Parnassus, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and many other magazines.
Fulton is the author of Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems, Palladium, Powers of Congress, and other works. She is a past faculty member of the U-M Department of English. The winner of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Fulton recently was elected the Ann S. Bowers Professor in English at Cornell University.
Visit Alice Fulton’s web page at Cornell > >
Hopwood Film Festival
Mondays from January 30–February 20
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
7:00pm
Many Hopwood Award winners have gone on to enjoy successful careers in Hollywood. The 2006 Film Festival showcases three former winners, and Avery Hopwood himself, Monday evenings at the Michigan Theater.
All films are open to the public. For ticketing information, please visit the Michigan Theater website.
Related U-M mini-course. Professor Peter Bauland will teach a mini-course on the subject of these films. The Wednesday afternoon class will meet in Auditorium B in Angell Hall, from 4:00pm-5:30pm.
The public is invited to sit in on any of the class sessions. Students who are interested should register for the class as usual; prior permission is not needed.
For more information, please email Prof. Bauland at pbauland@umich.edu.
Film Schedule
January 30 – Gold Diggers of 1933
February 6 – The Misfits
February 13 – Bonnie and Clyde
February 20 – Body Heat
January 30
Gold Diggers of 1933
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
7:00pm
From the play by Avery Hopwood
The festival kicks off with Gold Diggers of 1933, the iconic film based on Avery Hopwood’s play The Gold Diggers. Starring Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, this light-hearted Busby Berkeley musical contains such well-known tunes as “We’re in the Money” as it follows the story of three Broadway showgirls and their lives and loves.
February
February 6
Hopwood Film Festival: The Misfits
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
7:00pm
Screenplay by Arthur Miller
Directed by the legendary John Huston, The Misfits stars Marilyn Monroe (Miller’s wife at the time), Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift. This unconvential western, released in 1961, garnered Huston a nomination for a Directors Guild award.
Please see January listing for more information.
February 8
Lecture and Reception for the Opening of the Exhibit “Avery Hopwood’s Legacy: Literary Descendents at Michigan”
8:00pm
Special Collections Library
7th Floor, Hatcher Graduate Library
This exhibit of photos, books, and papers by Hopwood Award-winning authors Henry Van Dyke, Nancy Willard, Marge Piercy, and Emery George will be on display daily.
The exhibit is open to the public, and will run from February 6 to June 24.
The Gold Diggerswritten by Avery Hopwood
Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
911 N. University
February 9th at 7:30pm
February 10th and 11th at 8:00pm
February 12th at 2:00pm
Under the direction of Philip Kerr, The U-M Theatre Department’s performances of Hopwood’s widely popular, long-running 1919 play will take place at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Live music will be performed by Phil Ogilvie’s Rhythm Kings, with musical direction by James Dapogny.
February 10
Panel Discussion: Avery Hopwood, Then and Now
2:00pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
530 S. State Street
Hopwood scholars Jack Stanley and Jack Sharrar and playwright Bruce Kellner will participate in a panel discussion on Hopwood’s impact and legacy, moderated by Nicholas Delbanco and Philip Kerr.
February 13
Hopwood Film Festival: Bonnie and Clyde
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
7:00pm
Screenplay by David Newman
Winner of two Oscar® Awards and numerous other accolades (including a Writers Guild of America Best Screenplay award for former Hopwood winner Newman), this seminal 1967 film stars Warren Beatty and then-newcomer Faye Dunaway as the infamous bank robbers. Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons also star; Parsons won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work.
Please see January listing for more information.
February 20
Hopwood Film Festival: Body Heat
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
7:00pm
Screenplay and direction by Lawrence Kasdan
Released in 1981, the steamy Body Heat introduced Kathleen Turner to film audiences, and also starred William Hurt, Mickey Rourke, and a pre-“Cheers” Ted Danson. The film was written and directed by former Hopwood winner Lawrence Kasdan and is considered a modern classic of the “film noir” genre.
Please see January listing for more information.
April
April 6
Reading by Hopwood Award Winners Elwood Reid and Porter Shreve
5:00pm
Residential College Auditorium
701 E. University
Elwood Reid is the author of the novel If I Don't Six and the short story collection What Salmon Know. He spent two years working in Alaska as a carpenter. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His latest novel is D.B. (Doubleday, 2004).
Porter Shreve’s first novel, The Obituary Writer, was published by Houghton Mifflin in June 2000. He has co-edited six anthologies and published fiction and nonfiction in many journals and magazines, including Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times. Drives Like a Dream (Houghton Mifflin, March 2005) is his second novel.
April 21
Celebrating 75 years of the Hopwood Awards
Hopwood Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony
Hopwood Lecture: “Losers,” by Charles Baxter
3:30pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 E. Washington
A former U-M faculty member, Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction, and the editor of other books. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. His most recent novel is Saul and Patsy (Pantheon 2003); he recently published the essay collection Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (Graywolf Press, 1998).
A reception for contestants and Mr. Baxter will follow the reading and presentation ceremony.
Visit Charles Baxter’s website
April 22
Release of The Hopwood Award: 75 Years of Prized Writing and Signing of Works by Hopwood Awardees
10:00am–noon
Shaman Drum Bookshop
311–315 S. State Street
Order the book from University Press > >
Marking the history of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award, The University of Michigan Press will release its compendium of works by Hopwood Award-winning writers of note, The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett, with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco.
Photos of Hopwood writers and copies of their works will be displayed in the windows of the Shaman Drum Bookshop for this event, and books by past Hopwood Award-winning authors included in the anthology will available for signing by their authors.
May 15
Entry Deadline, MQR Special Hopwood Edition
The winter 2007 edition of the Michigan Quarterly Review will feature works and essays by and about recent Hopwood Award-winning authors. The edition will be co-edited by Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein. MQR invites manuscripts by Hopwood Award winners from 2000–2005. Deadline for manuscripts is May 15, 2006. Send mss. to MQR, 3575 Rackham, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Both prize-winning work and new work are invited.
