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UH’S CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE ARTS Working to inspire new forms of creativity and collaboration, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston launches its slate of student works with a unique undertaking that incorporates the audience’s own thoughts and words into the program. “The Leviathan Project,” the first student production from the center’s “Collaboration Among the Arts” course, will be presented Saturday, April 23 in UH’s Fine Arts Building. The event is free and open to the public. “Leviathan” requires entering patrons to divulge specific thoughts on a card. Each card will trigger certain actions within the room such as a pianist who will develop music reflective of what people have written. Visitors also will be guided to headphones to hear a person’s “first kiss” tale and can read selected literary quotes adorning the walls. “The idea is to create a sense of something greater than the individual and to make everyone aware of their commonalities,” said Chris Olexy, graduate student in UH’s School of Art. “By making this project dependent on audience participation, we are making the piece collaborative with the audience.” Olexy’s group also consists of students from UH’s Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music and School of Theatre and is being overseen by Nick Flynn, assistant professor of English. Funded by a $20 million grant from George and Cynthia Woods Mitchell, the center is an alliance of UH’s Blaffer Gallery, the Creative Writing Program and the schools of art, music and theatre. Its first course, “Collaboration,” began this spring with assistance from visiting artists Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen. Three other student projects will be presented in May. For more information about the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, visit http://www.uh.edu/newsroom/centerforarts/ or http://www.class.uh.edu/mitchellcenter/.
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