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An outreach partnership between the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Base Line Middle School comes to fruition this month as Base Line eighth graders dive into the Copenhagen Project.
The Denver Center Theatre Company's production of "Copenhagen" is scheduled to run March 12 to May 10. Â鶹ÒùÔº from Base Line Middle School will study the play with scholars from CU-Boulder and attend a special matinee show on April 17.
Winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play, Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" depicts what might have happened during a mysterious 1941 meeting in occupied Denmark between Werner Heisenberg, head of Nazi Germany's nuclear research, and his half-Jewish mentor and old friend Niels Bohr.
CU-Boulder adjoint professor of physics and Nobel laureate Eric Cornell will visit Base Line to speak with students about the play on April 11. Cornell's wife, Celeste Landry, taught math at Base Line last year.
A schedule of events and photo opportunities follows:
April 1 - Base Line Middle School eighth graders begin reading the play.
April 4 - Anthony Powell, "Copenhagen" director and Rob Morgan, "Copenhagen" scene designer, will visit Base Line at 9:25 a.m. to talk to the entire eighth grade class. Morgan will bring a model of the set. Powell and Morgan will talk for 30 minutes.
April 8 - CU-Boulder graduate students Heather Beasley, Matt Beasley and Nancy Brown will work with eighth graders in three groups beginning at 7:45 a.m. and ending at 2:34 p.m. CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny will visit the school from 1 p.m. to 1:35 p.m. for photos with Base Line Middle School students and teachers.
April 11 - Nobel laureate and CU-Boulder physics Professor Eric Cornell will speak to the entire eighth grade class at 12:25 p.m.
April 14 - From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in CU-Boulder's Eaton Humanities Building, a panel of experts will convene for a symposium called "Copenhagen: History, Science and the Arts - Making Connections." Panelists include: Nobel Prize-winning CU-Boulder physics Professor Carl Wieman, physics Professor Allan Franklin, history professor and former Los Alamos resident Lee Chambers, regional theater pioneer Zelda Fichandler, theater critic Sylvie Drake, scientist and author Lawrence Cranberg and production director Anthony Powell. A reception will follow the panel discussion.
April 17 - At approximately 11:30 a.m., Base Line Middle School students and chaperones will board buses and depart for a special 1 p.m. matinee performance of "Copenhagen" at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
In June, an awards assembly will be held at Base Line Middle School to honor the winners of a student contest. Â鶹ÒùÔº will be encouraged to enter an essay, art project, musical composition, multimedia project or other creative expression of their reaction to the Copenhagen Project. Winners will receive savings bonds. The exact date and time of the event are yet to be determined.
Funding for the April 17 matinee show for the students was made possible in part through funding provided by the CU-Boulder Office of Community Affairs.
Contact Jeanne Manning for more information at (303) 499-7838.