UPCOMING EVENTS AT VASSAR COLLEGE
November 9 - 12, 2009
- Fall of the Berlin Wall Anniversary Event, 11/9
- Transnational Queer Lecture by Charles Batson, 11/9
- Herbstessen Feast, 11/9
- Launch of the Community Works Campaign, 11/11
- Performance: "The Deportee's Wife," 11/11
- Philosopher's Holiday Lecture by Matthew N. Smith, 11/11
- Lecture by Aaron Lansky, 11/11
- Soirée Ciné French Film Series, 11/11
- Bookstore Author Series: Michael Korda, 11/12
- Film Screening: "The Visitor," 11/12
- Experimental Theater: "A Streetcar Named Desire," 11/12-14
- Late Night at the Lehman Loeb, 11/12
Additional information is below and available at http://info.vassar.edu
UPCOMING ATHLETICS EVENTS AT VASSAR COLLEGE - Men's Squash, Kenyon Hall Squash Courts, 7:00pm. Vassar vs. Bard College, 11/11
Additional information is available at http://www.vassarathletics.com
EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA - Food/Democracy Movie Nights, Cafe Bocca, 11/10
- Sunset Sensation, Locust Grove, 11/12
- Half Moon Theatre's "Emerson High," Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 11/12-15
- Exhibition: Inaugural Gowns from 38 US First Ladies, Cunneen-Hackett, through 12/5
- Mill Street Loft Alumni Exhibition, Twisted Soul, through 12/17
Additional information is below.
General Announcement:
- Presented by the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities, the two-day conference, “Teaching and Learning the Hudson Valley: Building Capacity for Place-Based Education,” will be held at Vassar on November 13 - 14. Keynote speakers will include Peter G. Brown from McGill University; Congressman Maurice Hinchey from New York's 22nd Congressional District; and John Cronin, the director and chief executive officer of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries. Pre-registration and fee required.
http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091113-env-conf.htm
Monday, November 9
Fall of the Berlin Wall Anniversary Event
College Center, North Atrium
9:00am - 3:00pm
The 20th anniversary commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This day of activities, organized by the German Studies Department, includes a display of posters, films, and computer programs on topics ranging from children's culture and education in the former GDR to the chronology of the fall of the Wall, the reunified Germany.
http://campuscalendar.vassar.edu/mastercalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=Nghe9Mdf%2b6o9ewlJkd4Zr%2f38KdrFZqtGg0M1oNEcXxQ%3d
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Transnational Queer Lecture by Charles Batson
Rockefeller Hall, room 200
5:00pm
"Queer/ing Québec," is the topic of the lecture by Charles Batson of Union College, presented as part of the Transnational Queer: Genders, Sexualities, Identities lecture series. Through a focus on the play "Being at Home with Claude" by René-Daniel Dubois and its film adaptation by Jean Beaudin, Batson proposes a reading of Québec as a Queer space.
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Herbstessen Feast
College Center, Multi Purpose Room (223)
6:30pm
Hosted by the German Studies Department, the annual Herbstessen Feast features fabulous Würstchen (sausages), Kartoffelsalat (potato salad), and Kuchen (cake). In addition to the German cuisine, there is music and merriment. Advance $7 tickets are available at the table in College Center on Monday or are $9 if purchased at the door.
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Wednesday, November 11
Launch of Community Works Campaign
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Support Community Works, the philanthropic campaign whose mission is to provide financial assistance to local not-for-profit organizations. Funded by donations from employees and students of Vassar College, Community Works has funded 40 different institutions in the Hudson Valley since its inception in 2001. Recipients are selected each year by a committee of staff, administrators, faculty, and students. This year the ten recipients are: Battered Women's Services, Celebrating Community (John Flowers), Children's Media Project, Circles of Planned Parenthood, Dutchess County Arts Council, Dutchess Outreach, The Living Room, Queen's Galley, Real Skills Network, Inc., and Rural and Migrant Ministry. Once again, any donation above $25 automatically enters you into a raffle to win the campus parking spot of your choice for the 2010 calendar year.
http://communityworks.vassar.edu/overview.html
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Performance: "The Deportee's Wife"
Rockefeller Hall, Room 200
5:00pm
"The Deportee's Wife," a solo show by Giselle Stern Hernández, allows the audience to face hard truths about how race, class, white U.S. privilege and gender intersect within the structures of a broken immigration system.
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Philosopher's Holiday Lecture by Matthew N. Smith
Taylor Hall, Room 203
5:00pm
“Existential Values: Why We Need Them and Their Threat to Political Order." Matthew Noah Smith, assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University, queries if we “should give up our transcendent values for the sake of peaceful cohabitation with those of different values?”
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http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091111-philosophers-holiday-msmith.html
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Lecture by Aaron Lansky
Sanders Classroom, Spitzer Auditorium (room 212)
5:30pm
Aaron Lansky, author of "Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued One Million Books" and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, discusses his book and the evolving vision of Jewish cultural education.
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Soirée Ciné French Film Series
Chicago Hall Video Auditorium
7:00pm
"Le Rayon Vert" (1986) by Eric Rohmer, is ". . . a fascinating picture of isolation and loneliness that's eminently ponderous - but thoroughly engrossing." (Jamie Russell, BBC). Presented in French with English subtitles. Part of this semester's Soirée Ciné "Beneath and Beyond the French New Wave" French film series.
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Thursday, November 12
Bookstore Author Series: Michael Korda
College Center, Bookstore
5:00pm
Michael Korda, national bestselling author and editor, discusses his book "With Wings Like Eagles," a history of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
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Film Screening: "The Visitor"
Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, Rosenwald Screening Room (109)
5:45pm
Join Amnesty International and the Film Department for a screening of "The Visitor," an award-winning film that beautifully examines the unacceptable practice of immigrant detention in the United States.
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Experimental Theater: "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Hallie Flanagan Davis Powerhouse Theater Black Box Theater
8:00pm
"A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Estefi Fadul '10.* Reservations are required, limited general seating. Additional performances on 11/13-14. The Box Office is located inside the Powerhouse Theater and is open Monday - Friday, 1:00 - 5:00pm. 845-437-5584 or boxoffice@vassar.edu. (*senior project in drama)
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http://drama.vassar.edu/productions/index.html
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Late Night at the Lehman Loeb
Open until 9:00pm
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Not your typical happy hour . . . Come spend yours with Pablo, Vincent, Georgia, and Jackson! Please join us for special tours, films, entertainment provided by student groups and local performers, and refreshments. This week junior Max Kutner performs covers and original music.
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EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA
Tuesday, November 10
Food/Democracy Movie Night
Cafe Bocca
Poughkeepsie
Screening of the "Future of Food," sponsored by the Poughkeepsie Farm Project. Cafe Bocca, 14 Mount Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie, 7:00pm. Free.
www.cafebocca.net
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Thursday, November 12
Sunset Sensation
Locust Grove
Poughkeepsie
Enjoy a magnificent Hudson River sunset while sipping fine wines from Arlington Wine & Liquors paired with delicious culinary creations from Lola's Cafe, prepared by featured chef Eddie Kowalski. Locust Grove, 2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie, 5:30 - 7:30. Reservations suggested. Tickets $24 in advance or $26 day of (as available).
http://www.lgny.org/calendar/calendar.html
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Half Moon Theatre's "Emerson High"
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
Poughkeepsie
Half Moon Theatre Company presents "Emerson High," a new play by Jim Knable, directed by Jeremy Dobrish, a regular at Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater and former artistic director of adobe theatre company. An outstanding cast of experienced actors perform this new work about what happens when a 16-year-old girl and her high school band teacher fall in love. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar Street (right off Main Street, near the train station). November 12, 13, 14 at 8:00pm; November 15 at 3:00pm. Tickets are $18.00 - $20.00 and available online (http://halfmoontheatre.cmail1.com/t/y/l/ultrll/kyhimzh/r), by phone (888.718.4253), or half an hour prior to showtime.
http://www.halfmoontheatre.org/
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Through December 5
Exhibition: Inaugural Gowns from 38 US First Ladies
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
Poughkeepsie
An exhibition of reproduction inaugural gowns of First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Roslyn Carter. The gowns were researched at the Smithsonian Institute, then designed and fabricated by Philadelphia dressmaker Dina Arzt in 1975 for the 1976 US Bicentennial. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie. On view through 12/5. Monday - Friday, 10am-4pm. Free.
http://cunneen-hackett.org/
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Through December 17
Mill Street Loft Alumni Exhibit
Twisted Soul Gallery and Restaurant
Poughkeepsie
On view are works by alumnae/i of the Mill Street Loft program, including Leigh Bromer, Alexandra Jaffer, Chelsea Lewyta, and Michael Petruzzo. Twisted Soul Gallery and Restaurant, 47 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Mon-Thurs: 11am-8pm; Fri. and Sat. open until 10pm.
http://www.millstreetloft.org
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http://localsearch.poughkeepsiejournal.com/sp?aff=1002&eventId=71805&skin=100
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