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Dean's Lecture Series: David Simon

Dean's Lecture Series: David Simon

Dean's Lecture Series: David Simon

College of Arts and Humanities Thursday, March 1, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
The College of Arts and Humanities presents David Simon in Conversation for the 2011-2012 Dean's Lecture Series.

UMD Professor of American Studies Sheri Parks moderates this lecture.

"Learning to catch how people really talk is the way you show what's true in everything.”
-David Simon

EVENT "SOLD" OUT!

Watch LIVE Here:We will stream the David Simon presentation at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 1 LIVE. You will need the free Silverlight plug-in to watch the stream.




“Surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America…no other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.” So said Jacob Weisberg in 2006 writing in Slate about HBO’s five-season crime drama The Wire, set in Baltimore and co-created, produced, and written by UM alum David Simon. Just about every other critic agreed. Join us for a candid conversation with the passionate, irascible former crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun who, after spending a year with the city homicide squad and on a West Baltimore drug corner, wrote two works of narrative non-fiction that went on to become award-winning television series - The Corner, an HBO miniseries winning three Emmy Awards in 2000 and NBC’s critically acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Streets. Simon is currently at work on the HBO drama Tremé which centers on a group of local musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. He also writes for The New Yorker, Esquire and The Washington Post, among other publications.

In collaboration with the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studiesand the Graduate School.

Ticket price:Free: Tickets required. See below.Day-of reservations:Reserve a ticket: Starting Thursday, March 1, 11:30AM, you may reserve up to two free tickets in-person or over the phone: 301.405.ARTS (2787). No online reservations. Pick up ticket: You must pick up your reserved ticket from the Ticket Office between 4:30PM and 5PM. At 5PM, we will release any remaining tickets to the standby line. No exceptions. Enter venue: At 4:30PM we will form a line in the Center Pavilion for ticket holders waiting to enter the Gildenhorn Recital Hall. We will begin seating around 5PM. You must have a ticket in hand before queuing in this line.

Note: Although we start accepting reservations at 11:30AM, we will not distribute tickets until 4:30PM. You must have a ticket to enter the venue.

Standby line:

If any reserved tickets are not picked up by 5PM, we will release them on a first-come, first-served basis to patrons in a standby line. We will form the line outside starting at 4:30PM. We are unlikely to release any tickets to the standby line.

Note: If you have reserved a ticket, you do not need to wait in the standby line at 4:30PM. Please go inside to the Ticket Office and pick up your ticket before 5PM.

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Add to Calendar 03/01/12 5:30 PM 03/01/12 7:30 PM America/New_York Dean's Lecture Series: David Simon The College of Arts and Humanities presents David Simon in Conversation for the 2011-2012 Dean's Lecture Series.

UMD Professor of American Studies Sheri Parks moderates this lecture.

"Learning to catch how people really talk is the way you show what's true in everything.”
-David Simon

EVENT "SOLD" OUT!

Watch LIVE Here:We will stream the David Simon presentation at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 1 LIVE. You will need the free Silverlight plug-in to watch the stream.




“Surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America…no other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.” So said Jacob Weisberg in 2006 writing in Slate about HBO’s five-season crime drama The Wire, set in Baltimore and co-created, produced, and written by UM alum David Simon. Just about every other critic agreed. Join us for a candid conversation with the passionate, irascible former crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun who, after spending a year with the city homicide squad and on a West Baltimore drug corner, wrote two works of narrative non-fiction that went on to become award-winning television series - The Corner, an HBO miniseries winning three Emmy Awards in 2000 and NBC’s critically acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Streets. Simon is currently at work on the HBO drama Tremé which centers on a group of local musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. He also writes for The New Yorker, Esquire and The Washington Post, among other publications.

In collaboration with the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studiesand the Graduate School.

Ticket price:Free: Tickets required. See below.Day-of reservations:Reserve a ticket: Starting Thursday, March 1, 11:30AM, you may reserve up to two free tickets in-person or over the phone: 301.405.ARTS (2787). No online reservations. Pick up ticket: You must pick up your reserved ticket from the Ticket Office between 4:30PM and 5PM. At 5PM, we will release any remaining tickets to the standby line. No exceptions. Enter venue: At 4:30PM we will form a line in the Center Pavilion for ticket holders waiting to enter the Gildenhorn Recital Hall. We will begin seating around 5PM. You must have a ticket in hand before queuing in this line.

Note: Although we start accepting reservations at 11:30AM, we will not distribute tickets until 4:30PM. You must have a ticket to enter the venue.

Standby line:

If any reserved tickets are not picked up by 5PM, we will release them on a first-come, first-served basis to patrons in a standby line. We will form the line outside starting at 4:30PM. We are unlikely to release any tickets to the standby line.

Note: If you have reserved a ticket, you do not need to wait in the standby line at 4:30PM. Please go inside to the Ticket Office and pick up your ticket before 5PM.

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