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Related programs and exhibitions

The Lessons of Likeness
Oct. 1, 7 p.m., Sonja Haynes Stone Center Auditorium

Gurganus ("Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All") reprises this multimedia lecture with a lengthy subtitle -- "Being a true history of Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Walt Whitman (with an added 3 percent of narrative speculation)." He first presented it at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery last spring.

Katharine Whalen and her Jazz Squad
Oct. 4, 4 p.m., Ackland courtyard

Renowned Squirrel Nut Zippers front woman with music from the 1950s. Cash bar and light food available.

Circa 1958 gallery tour
Oct. 10 6-7 p.m.

With Roni Feinstein, guest curator for "Circa 1958."

Performing Circa 1958: An Evening of Jazz
Oct. 21, Gerrard Hall

Music professors join students in exploring important jazz milestones in a concert of music by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

An Evening of John Cage and Others
Nov. 5, Gerrard Hall

Joint performance by faculty and students of the music department presents one version of John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra.

Community Day
Nov. 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Storytelling, dressing up like people in Ackland works and making your own art are just some of the ways art lovers can celebrate the museum's 50th anniversary.

An Evening of Voices
Dec. 1, Gerrard Hall

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents an evening that puts the literature and theater of the late 1950s in contrast to its predecessors, offering readings from children's literature, poetry and theater.

For details: www.ackland.org