UPCOMING EVENTS AT VASSAR COLLEGE
November 2 - 5, 2009
Additional information is below and available at http://info.vassar.edu
UPCOMING ATHLETICS EVENTS AT VASSAR COLLEGE- Women's Volleyball, Kenyon Hall Gymnasium, 7:00pm. 11/2, Vassar vs. SUNY Purchase
Additional information is available at http://www.vassarathletics.com
EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA- Historic Home Tour, Maple Grove Historic Site, 11/4
- Lunch 'N Listen Concert Series, First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 11/4
- Conference: Environmental History of the Hudson River, Fishkill Holiday Inn, 11/5-6
- Gala at the 'Cakes, Babycakes Cafe, 11/5
- The Good Woman of Setzuan, Oakwood Friends School, 11/5 - 7
- Half Moon Theatre's "Emerson High," Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 11/5 - 15
Additional information is below.
General Announcements:
- Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. The College will provide transportation to the two voting polls (Arthur May Elementary School and the Poughkeepsie Town Hall) where Vassar students who are registered in New York State will vote. A van will leave from Main Circle every half hour starting at 12:00pm and ending at 8:00pm. The van will stop long enough at each location for students to vote and then will return to campus. For additional information about student transportation, poll location, and where to vote, see http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091103-vote.html.
- 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.html
Monday, November 2
Potpourri
College Center, North Atrium
Until 5:00pm
Potpourri, a little bit of everything. (Goods for sale.)
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Tuesday, November 3
Election Day Transportation to Polls
Main Building, Main Circle
12:00 - 8:00pm
The College provides transportation to and from the two voting polls where Vassar students who are registered in New York State vote. A van leaves from Main Circle every half hour starting at 12:00pm and ending at 8:00pm to the two voting poll locations: Arthur May Elementary School and the Poughkeepsie Town Hall. The van stops long enough at each location for students to vote and then returns to campus.
http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091103-vote.html
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Lecture by Peter Andreas
Rockefeller Hall, room 300
5:00pm
Peter Andreas, director of the international studies program and associate professor of political science at Brown University, will examine the 1992-95 battle for Sarajevo, the topic of his recent book "Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo."
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http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091103-polisci-peter-andreas.html
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November 4
Film Screening: "Goodbye Solo"
Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, -Rosenwald Screen Room (room 109)
5:00pm
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's latest film, "Goodbye Solo" was awarded the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize. "New York Times" critic A. O. Scott noted that this film has “an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.” (Lecture by Bahrani on 11/5.)
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http://www.goodbyesolomovie.com/
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Soirée Ciné French Film Series
Chicago Hall Video Auditorium
7:00pm
"Cleo de 5 à 7" (1962) by Agnès Varda is "the first fully-achieved feature by the woman who would become the premiere female director of her generation" (Molly Haskell). 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 5
Bookstore Author Series: Eleanor Garrell Berger '64
Vassar College Bookstore
3:00pm walk; 4:00pm lecture
Alumna Eleanor Garrell Berger '64 is the author of "Stepping Out, A Tenderfoot’s Guide to the Principals, Practices and Pleasures of Countryside Walking," a detailed travelogue based on Berger’s own experiences in walking more than 1000 miles of pathways. She shares her passion for writing and an insider perspective of walking outdoors in this special Bookstore Author Series prestentation. At 3:00pm she demonstrates countryside walking around the Vassar campus; at 4:00pm she discusses "Stepping Out" in the bookstore; an informal discussion with Berger continues in the Retreat at 5:00pm.
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Lecture by filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, Rosenwald Screening Room (109)
5:00pm
A lecture by Ramin Bahrani, who received the 2008 Independent Spirit Award's "Someone To Watch" prize. He is the writer-director of "Goodbye Solo" (screening 11/4) as well as the internationally-acclaimed films "Man Push Cart" and "Chop Shop,"
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http://www.goodbyesolomovie.com/cast_and_crew.html
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C. Mildred Thompson Lecture by Richard Aldous
Sanders Classroom Spitzer Auditorium (room 212)
5:30pm
Richard Aldous, an acclaimed biographer and professor of history at University College, Dublin, discusses "Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship." Sponsored by the History Department.
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http://history.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/091105-history-r-aldous.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 features a performance by Jon Roth '10.
http://fllac.vassar.edu/events/calendar/
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EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA
Wednesday, November 4
Historic Home Tour
Maple Grove Historic Site
Poughkeepsie
Tour of Maple Grove, a mansion built in 1859 and on the National Register of Historic Places. Maple Grove, 24 Beechwood Avenue, Poughkeepsie, 10:00am - noon. Free.
www.maplegroveny.org
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Lunch 'N Listen Concert Series
First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Poughkeepsie
Vocalist Dianne Serkowski and pianist Susan Russell perform a selection of Broadway show tunes. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 325 Mill Street, Poughkeepsie, 12:45pm. Free.
http://www.firstevangelicallutheranpok.org/lunchlisten.htm
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Thursday, November 5
Conference: Environmental History of the Hudson River
Holiday Inn Motel and Conference Center
Fishkill
A two-part symposium examining the past 400 years of how natural attributes of the Hudson River Valley influenced human uses and consequences for the ecology and environmental health of the Hudson River Valley. November 5 - 6. Holiday Inn Motel and Conference Center, 542 Route 9, Fishkill, NY. Registration fee: HRES Members $115; Non-Members $135.
http://hres.org/calendar/hres/2009-11-05.html
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Gala at the 'Cakes
Babycakes Cafe
Arlington
A semi-formal, three-course dinner to support the Vassar Haiti Project's educational initiative in Chermaitre, Haiti. Babycakes Cafe, 1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Arlington, 6:30pm. $40. Reservations (845) 485-8411.
http://projects.vassar.edu/haiti
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The Good Woman of Setzuan
Oakwood Friends School
Poughkeepsie
Performance of Bertolt Brecht's drama "The Good Woman of Setzuan." Oakwood Friends School, 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, 7:30pm. November 5 -7, $10. (845) 462-4200 ext 217.
http://www.oakwoodfriends.org/
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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. Is it love? A crime? Does love trump a wrong? This new play examines the complexities of human relationships and how we each arrive at our version of what is moral. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar Street (right off Main Street, near the train station). November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 8:00pm; November 8 and 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. [A limited number of free tickets for the 11/5 preview performance are available for Vassar students (only). Email roczula@vassar.edu to reserve a free ticket.]
http://www.halfmoontheatre.org/
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