Picnic

Date: October 2-10, 2009
Place: John Wright Theatre

For a listing of show times please go to: https://www.vendini.com/service/tickets/viewEvent.html?e=b114384f7457dbc71323da3359c3bad4&entry=1

Picnic
By William Inge
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis

Life will never be the same when a handsome mysterious stranger jumps off a train and into the lives of a group of women in a small, mid-western town.

2009 - 2010 Productions

Picnic
By William Inge
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis
October 2-10, 2009
John Wright Theatre

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
By Julie Marie Myatt
Directed by Kathleen McKinley
October 30- November 7, 2009
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre

University Dance Theatre
November 19-21, 2009
Lab School Theatre

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Ed EmanuEl
December 4-12, 2009
John Wright Theatre

Portable Dance Troupe
Ruth Griffin, Artistic Director
February 12-20, 2010
John Wright Theatre

Heathen Valley
By Romulus Linney
Directed by Brad Myers
March 12-20, 2010
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre

Time Again In Oz
Story by L. Frank Baum
Adapted by Suzan L. Zeder
Music by Richard Gray
Directed by J. Daniel Herring
May 7-15, 2010
John Wright Theatre

The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?

Date: Friday, October 2, 2009
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Peters Education Center
Student Recreation Center Bldg

The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry? Director Jim Thebaut gives audiences an in-depth awareness and education of the water crisis in the United States. Quoting film narrator, Jane Seymour, “As in the rest of the world, significant water problems exist in the Southwestern states because of severe drought, urban development, agricultural uses and population growth. The overwhelming need to solve these issues in the United States and the world is crucial through education and planning. The severity of the American water crisis cannot be underestimated.” 71 min.

Discussant: Dr. David Zetland (UC Berkeley)

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain: mhusain@csufresno.edu

CO-SPONSORED by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Map: http://www.csufresno.edu/ucomm/maps/pdf/CampusMapLTR8-09.pdf
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Cuban-American Author Margarita Engle to speak September 25

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno
2672 East Alluvial Avenue (just west of Willow
Clovis, CA

Clovis resident Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of three novels, written in free verse, for young people. The Poet Slave of Cuba : A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano , won the Pura Belpré and the Americas awards. The Surrender Tree : Poems of Cuba ’s Struggle for Freedom is a 2009 Newbery Honor book. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba , published in April 2009, is winning rave reviews.

The Arne Nixon Center Advocates, support group for the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at California State University , Fresno , invite everyone to hear Margarita Engle speak at their annual meeting. The meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 25, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno , and hosted there by the Norelma Walker Youth Library. The church is located at 2672 East Alluvial Avenue (just west of Willow ) in Clovis , California .

Following a reception at 6:00 p.m., the program will begin at 6:45 p.m. The author’s PowerPoint presentation, “Finding the Poetry in History,” will include family pictures.

The program will include a presentation of Jane Addams Award-winning books to the Arne Nixon Center by community activist Ellie Bluestein. The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award is a national award, given annually by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children’s book that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence. The Surrender Tree won for 2009.

The author’s books will be available for sale and autographing.

There is no admission charge for this event. Children aged ten and older are welcome if accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required by sending e-mail to mrianto@csufresno.edu or by calling (559) 278-8116.

International Coffee Hour: Dasha Henderer, Graduate Student in Linguistics

Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Place: University Student Union Room 309

Country: Estonia
Presenter: Dasha Henderer, Graduate Student in Linguistics

Estonia is a country of big aspirations. Though the smallest of the
former Soviet Republics, Estonia was one of the first countries to gain
its independence from the Soviet Union, and that was accomplished through singing!
Now Estonia is on a verge of being a superpower of the cyber world. Estonia
is home to the world’s first virtual trade fair, paperless government,
e-elections, and Skype. Currently, Estonia is leading the way in the
cyber defense of NATO. Come and join linguistics graduate student Dasha Henderer
for the breath-taking story of people with big hearts who can dream beyond
geographical borders and limitations of realities.

The room is different this week, so be sure to come to 309.

If you have any further questions, please email me (Fumi Niizeki) at
fuuko@csufresno.edu

*** International Coffee Hour, Exploring Global Diversity on Campus for
the Past 16 Years (1993-2009) ***

Time & Tide

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: McLane 121

Time & Tide (2005). This film is a poetic and thought-provoking documentary about a land and its people heading towards irreversible tragedy. The story is told through the eyes of a group of expatriates from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu. On their way, they reminisce about the Tuvalu from their memories and eagerly anticipate arriving in their beloved homeland. But their nostalgia quickly gives way to reality and they find themselves ill-prepared for the Tuvalu that awaits them. A multi-million dollar deal with an internet company has brought new development, altering the landscape. As the islanders struggle to deal with severe cultural change due to globalization, a greater threat looms, driven by climate change resulting from global warming. The film takes an unflinching look at the ironic and tragic fate of this remote island country, walking the line between hope and unimaginable loss, painting an honest and endearing portrait of a land and its culture on the brink of extinction.

Discussant: Julie Bayer & Josh Salzman (filmmakers)

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge . CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain: mhusain@csufresno.edu

http://www.wavecrestfilms.com

For more information:

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

“How can religions work together to benefit local communities?”

Yarmulkes, Hijabis, & Red Dragons
A Fulbright Experience in Wales

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 3:30-4:45
Place: Music Building 160

“How can religions work together to benefit local communities?”

Please join Dr. Vincent Biondo as he reports on his recent experience as a Fulbright Scholar to the UK in Cardiff, Wales. For six months in Wales, Biondo interviewed Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders about inter-faith and inter-ethnic tensions. Biondo’s Fulbright research builds on earlier research he conducted in Los Angeles, CA for the Ford Foundation and in Manchester, England for the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Dr. Vincent Biondo is Assistant Professor of Western Religious Traditions in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.

Sponsored by The Philosophy Department, CSU-Fresno

Free Admission, Open to the Public
For more information contact the Department Chair Andrew Fiala: afiala@csufresno.edu

Artist Talks: Suzanne Lacy (Multi-Media Public Practice) & Faith Wilding (Performance Artist)

MULTI-MEDIA PUBLIC PRACTICE, SUZANNE LACY

Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Conley Art 101

Internationally-known artist Suzanne Lacy helped revolutionize the idiom of public art, remaking a tradition of static monuments into a dynamic realm of social transformation. She is the editor of a leading book on the theory and practice of public art, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, and Chair of the MFA Program in Public Practice at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.

PERFORMANCE ARTIST, FAITH WILDING

Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Conley Art 101

Faith Wilding is co-founder of the international performance group SubRosa, a “reproducible cyberfeminist cell” aimed at raising awareness about issues of women’s and men’s social and physical health. She is co-editor of Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices, and Chair of Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

All events are free and open to the public. For additional information go to:

astudiooftheirown.org or contact Dr. Laura Meyer at lmeyer@csufresno.edu

Artist Talks: Vanalyne Green (VIdeo Artist) & Nancy Youdelman (Sculptor)

VIDEO ARTIST, VANALYNE GREEN

Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Place:Alice Peters Auditorium

Award winning video artist and Fresno State alumna, Vanalyne Green, will show clips of her work, from early feminist video to her current multi-disciplinary project, The Road to Voting. Green is currently Professor and Chair of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, UK.

SCULPTOR, NANCY YOUDELMAN

Date: September 17, 2009
Time:3:00 PM
Place:Alice Peters Auditorium

Sculptor and Fresno State faculty member Nancy Youdelman will reflect on the historic Feminist Art Program and its influence on her sculptural practice, which combines women’s and girls’ garments with old photographs, letters, and other domestic ephemera.

All events are free and open to the public. For additional information go to: astudiooftheirown.org

London 2010

The College of Arts and Humanities announces:

LONDON 2010

(formerly known as London Semester)

Offered as a 3-Week Winter Session

December 27, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Spend three weeks in the heart of London with Professors Joyce Aiken and Linnea Alexander touring the best of London’s art galleries and seeing the best of British theatre. London will be your classroom with frequent study visits to museums, historical sites, art galleries and more, and possible day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Greenwich, Cambridge, and Canterbury.

Students can earn 6 units of GE credit that satisfies Area 1C and the Upper Division Writing Requirement by enrolling in:

Art 100TZ London Art Tours (3 units)
Hum 101TWZ The British Experience and Writing Workshop (3 units)

Financial Aid is available for eligible students. London 2010 is also open to students and community members not matriculating for a degree.

Come learn more about London 2010
Orientation Meetings will be held at Kremen Education Building, Room 140, on the following dates and times:

• Sunday, September 20, 2009- 4 to 6 pm
• Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 4 to 6 pm
• Sunday, November 15, 2009- 1 to 5 pm

For more information, please contact Carla Millar at 559/278-3056

College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno
2380 E. Keats Ave.
MS/MB 99
Fresno, CA. 93740

559.278.3056
fax: 559.278.6758
http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/

Viva La Causa Fim Screening & Conversations with Delores Huerta sharing over 50 yrs of Activism

Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: McLane 121

“Conversations with Delores Huerta sharing over 50 yrs of Activism” 4 p.m., McLane 121
Discussant: Dolores Huerta

Viva La Causa (2008). This film illustrates how thousands joined a movement for justice to help the most exploited people in our country — the workers who put food on our tables. The film focuses on the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, a seminal event in the march for human rights. As racist rhetoric pollutes the immigration debate, the film could not be timelier. This film tells the story of how the powerless stood up to the powerful and gained their victory, not by violence, but by their strong will.

The events are cosponsored by College of Arts & Humanities, Associated Students Inc., Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute, Mass Communication & Journalism, Communication and Women's Studies Departments at California State University Fresno, Fresno Free College Foundation, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu

A Studio Of Their Own: The Legacy Of The Fresno Feminist Experiment

FEMINIST ART RECEPTION AND SYMPOSIUM SEPTEMBER 17-18:
A STUDIO OF THEIR OWN: THE LEGACY OF THE FRESNO FEMINIST EXPERIMENT

Symposium events and artists’ reception are free and open to the public!

Artist Presentations—Vanalyne Green and Nancy Youdelman
Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 2-4 pm
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium

Artists’ Reception with performances by subRosa and Karen LeCocq
Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 5-8 pm
Place: Phebe Conley Art Gallery

Artist Presentations—Faith Wilding and Suzanne Lacy
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 10am-12pm
Place: Conley Art 101

Panel Discussion moderated by art historian Moira Roth
2-4 pm, Fresno Art Museum, Bonner Auditorium

A Studio of Their Own: The Legacy of the Fresno Feminist Experiment is on view in the Conley Art Gallery through October 9, 2009.

The exhibition and symposium shed light on the beginnings of the feminist art movement at Fresno State in 1970, and the national and international careers of program alumnae.

For further information, visit the exhibition website at astudiooftheirown.org
or contact Professor Laura Meyer at lmeyer@csufresno.edu

Invisible Children

Invisible Children Film Screenings

Date: Monday, September 1, 2009
Time: 2 P.M & 3 P.M.
Place:Lab School 134

September 14: The Rescue & Together We Are Free. Representatives from Invisible Children will be screening two back to back films. The Rescue (36 min.) covers the past six years of Invisible Children's movement, bringing the history of Africa's longest running war into modern context. The second film, Together We Are Free (39 min.) is a follow up film about the International Rescue event. It tells the story of the supportive community which formed, as caravans of youth traveled across the world to extend their support, modeling the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement. Consequently, a bill was introduced to Congress which calls on the United States to bring an end to this war and assist in rebuilding the affected region. Please join us for these encouraging stories of youth making a difference in policy change, followed by discussion.

Discussants: Invisible Children Organization Representatives
http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjp5gatfyzk

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu

For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

The Ethics of Reading the Bible

Fall 2009 Ethics Center Lecture Series

Date: December 2, 2009
Time: 7 PM - 8 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium, University Business Center

Robert Maldonado, The Ethics of Reading the Bible

Robert Maldonado will explore the layers of meaning found in ancient scriptures. He will raise questions about the significance of religious texts and the value we place upon them. His theme is how the way we read influences the value we get out of our texts.

Robert Maldonado has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union. He is the former Chair of the Philosophy Department at Fresno State, an expert on the Gospel of Mark, and a serious origamist.

Sponsored by The Ethics Center at Fresno State
For more information contact Andrew Fiala: afiala@csufresno.edu
Or check the Ethics Center's website: http://www.csufresno.edu/ethicscenter

“Leadership as Art: Knowledge, Critique, Creativity, Intuition, and Magic Within the Matrix of Power”

THE DEANS’ SERIES PRESENTS:

College of Arts & Humanities
Dean Vida Samiian & Associate Dean José Díaz

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Place: HML, Auditorium 2206

“Leadership as Art: Knowledge, Critique, Creativity, Intuition, and Magic Within the Matrix of Power”

Reflections from the “Dark Side”: Conversations about Leadership in the Academy. Join us for dialogue and lively conversation on leadership and professional development!

Vida Samiian, Ph.D.
Vida Samiian is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Linguistics. She joined Fresno State in 1983 after receiving her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA, specializing in Syntax and Iranian Languages. Her research has focused on the structure of non-verbal phrasal categories in Persian, and more recently on impersonal verbs in Iranian languages.

Born and raised in Iran, Dr. Samiian, taught at Tehran's Free University in 1979-80, and has been an activist for women's rights and civil rights in Iran and the United States.

She is co-organizer of the International Iranian Linguistics Conference, which is held in Europe every two years. She has been the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a special initiative titled Fresno Conversations on Pluralism and Identity in 1995.

She currently serves as PI for a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education to launch a Middle East Studies program at Fresno State.

José A. Díaz, Ph.D.
Prior to joining the Music Faculty in 1982, José A. Díaz was actively engaged as a performing musician with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Mexico and across the state of Texas. Since coming to Fresno he continues to contribute to the professional musical and cultural life of the central San Joaquin Valley as performer, adjudicator, clinician, and guest speaker for various musical organizations. Since 1986 he has held the Honorable Edward and Anita Shanahan Principal Endowed Principal Oboe Chair with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, one of California’s most prominent regional orchestras, and performs regularly with the Fresno-based Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and the California Wind Quintet.

Dr. Díaz unpublished dissertation “A Pedagogical Study for Oboe of Four Orchestral Works by Maurice Ravel” has made its way into oboe studios throughout the world. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Díaz currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Fresno Coalition for Art, Science, and History, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Education Subcommittee, the Youth Orchestras of Fresno, and is a Site-Evaluator for the Accreditation Commission of the National Association of Schools of Music. He was appointed Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Humanities in 2004. José’s many responsibilities as Associate Dean include development and cultivation of collaborative educational programs with artistic and cultural organizations in the Central San Joaquin Valley.

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

Z at THE TOWER THEATER

CineCulture, together with Fresno Filmworks, presents:

Z
Date: September 11, 2009
Time: 5:30 and 8:15 p.m.
Place: THE TOWER THEATER
815 E. OLIVE AVENUE, FRESNO
tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

Z. The recently restored 1969 French political thriller directed by Costa Gavras presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963. With its satirical view of Greek politics, its dark sense
of humor, and its chilling ending, the film captures the sense of outrage about the military dictatorship that ruled Greece at the time of its making. Rated PG, 127 min. French with English subtitles.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

For more information:

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. MCJ 177T [Fall CLASS Registration # is 76962] and the class time will be 5 - 7:50 p.m.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu

Author Margarita Engle to speak September 25

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m
Place: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno
2672 East Alluvial Avenue (just west of Willow)
Clovis, CA

Clovis resident Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of three novels, written in free verse, for young people. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, won the Pura Belpré and the Americas awards. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom is a 2009 Newbery Honor book. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba, published in April 2009, is winning rave reviews.

The Arne Nixon Center Advocates, support group for the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at California State University, Fresno, invite everyone to hear Margarita Engle speak at their annual meeting. The meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 25, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, and hosted there by the Norelma Walker Youth Library. The church is located at 2672 East Alluvial Avenue (just west of Willow) in Clovis, California.

Following a reception at 6:00 p.m., the program will begin at 6:45 p.m. The author’s PowerPoint presentation, “Finding the Poetry in History,” will include family pictures.

The program will include a presentation of Jane Addams Award-winning books to the Arne Nixon Center by community activist Ellie Bluestein. The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award is a national award, given annually by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children’s book that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence. The Surrender Tree won for 2009.

The author’s books will be available for sale and autographing.

There is no admission charge for this event. Children aged ten and older are welcome if accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required by sending e-mail to mrianto@csufresno.edu or by calling (559) 278-8116.