Calendar highlights

Jin-Wen Yu presents “Intervision’
“Intervision,” a cross-cultural and multimedia dance concert featuring new and recent works by choreographer Jin-Wen Yu will be presented Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9, at 8 p.m. in Lathrop Hall.

This spring, Jin-Wen Yu Dance will premiere a new work, “Family Pictures,” with music by Aurio Corra. Yu and his dancers collaborated with members of the UW Health Sports Medicine tai chi class taught by Blair Mathews to create this 15-minute multimedia community dance. Using tai chi as a sharing movement vocabulary and video presentation of pictures, the dance paints universal family themes through individual pictures.

Other concert highlights include: “Duet #4,” a nine-minute duet with music by Peter Jones; “Passage,” a 10-minute group dance with music by Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir and performances by UW students; and “Chinese Dance Series,” a 20-minute dance in four sections choreographed by Yu.

Tickets: $15 and $10. Reservations, information: 262-1640 or 236-9459.

Symposium to screen Taiwan film, pop culture
Taiwanese cinema has proven to be one of the most significant cultural forces on the international scene. A symposium March 7-9, 4070 Vilas Hall, showcases films and filmmakers who have won global audiences and reshaped the Western conception of film art.

Talks will look at these films in relation to regional or global trends. Guests include two major figures in the Taiwanese film industry and popular culture, Peggy Chiao and Wu Nien-jen.

More information: 262-3643, eas@intl-institute.wisc.edu, or: http://www.wisc.edu/commarts/cinema.htm.

Library sale offers 15,000 books
More than 15,000 books on almost any subject will be on sale in a fund-raiser for the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries March 13-16.

The public sale helps fund an annual lecture series, special purchases for the libraries’ collections, preservation projects and a visiting scholar support program. In the past four years, nearly two dozen campus libraries received more than $100,000 through a small-grant program supported by the book sales.

The sale will be in 116 Memorial Library. A preview sale ($5 admission) will be 5-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 13. The regular free public sale will be 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., March 14-15. On Saturday, March 16, 10:30 a.m.- 2 p.m., patrons can bring bags and fill each for $2. Information: 265-2505, Friends@library.wisc.edu.