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Friday, February 13, 2009

OPERA HEROINES: THE PRICE OF LOVE

FRESNO STATE MUSIC ALUMNI CHAPTER presents

OPERA HEROINES: THE PRICE OF LOVE
with Melissa Wolfmann, lirico spinto soprano and Matthew Horton, piano

Date:Sunday, February 15, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Concert Hall on the Fresno State campus

Tickets are $12 general admission, and $7 seniors/students. For tickets call 559-278-2654 or visit www.csufresno.edu/music

Tickets will also be available at the door one hour before the performance.

The recital will feature arias from well-known operas such as Tosca, Aida, Otelleo, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Don Giovanni.

"HAVE A HEART" FOOD AND FUND DRIVE

Communication Department Student Group Launches "Have A Heart" Food and Fund Drive Benefiting Community Food Bank

Each year the period right after the Holidays is a difficult time for the Community Food Bank. Food supplies are always low, but the current economy makes the situation worse than ever. As you may know, the Community Food Bank not only supports Fresno but also outlying areas in the San Joaquin Valley that might be in need.

The "Have a Heart" food and fund drive was launched last February near Valentines Day. When the Fresno State community learned that every dollar donated allowed the Food bank to purchase $8 in food, they generously donated. Last year the campus donated over $1,200, allowing the Community Food bank the power to purchase almost $10,000 worth of food for needy families throughout Central California

This year's "Have a Heart" drive will take place from Tuesday, Feb. 17- Friday, Feb.20. Students from the Professional Communication Association will be taking donations in the Free Speech area those 4 days between 11:30 and 1:00. Every donation will make a huge difference!

If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to the Community Food Bank and send it to the Communication Department, Attention Craig Fowler - PCA. If you have questions, please contact Craig Fowler at crfowler@csufresno.edu or Evan Halstead at evan.halstead@gmail.com

AN EVENING WITH TUCKER SMALLWOOD, ACTOR, AUTHOR, VIETNAM VETERAN

Theatre Arts Department presents
An evening with Tucker Smallwood, Actor, Author, Vietnam Veteran

Reading and discussing his book Return to Eden

Date: Saturday, February 21st
Time: 7 p.m. Free
Place: Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building

Reception and book signing to follow

Limited Seating
R.S.V.P. to 278.5109 or pamd@csufresno.edu by February 18th

ABOUT TUCKER SMALLWOOD
Born in Washington, D.C. his early years included living for two years in Greece and two more in college in Munich, Germany. He received a BA in Speech/Television Production, from the University of Maryland. He began directing television and was then drafted into the Army in 1967.

Following his training, his service as an Advisor to Vietnamese troops in the Mekong Delta and his recovery from wounds received, he resigned his commission and moved to New York to study acting. He studied under Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. After being cast in the soap opera Somerset, he was required to leave school, because students were not allowed to work professionally.

He had an enduring relationship at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, as well as other roles in Broadway and regional theater productions. Additionally, he filmed more than 1000 television and radio commercials and PSA’s during that decade. During the ‘80’s, he appeared in The Cotton Club and Presumed Innocent.

In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and began his work in prime time television. After several years of guest starring roles on dramas and sit-coms, he chanced into the universe of science fiction with roles in the series SPACE: Above and Beyond, The X-Files and Babylon 5, as well as in the films CONTACT and DEEP IMPACT. Theatrically, he performed in several productions for the Mark Taper, Cast Theater and Odyssey Theater.
Tucker spent a season as a Xindi diplomat for Star Trek: Enterprise. He's generated controversy as God on the Sarah Silverman Program and the film Black Dynamite that premiered at Sundance in January '09.

Following his return to Vietnam in 2004, in the late summer of 2006, he published an anthology of essays entitled RETURN TO EDEN

The listing of all of his shows and characters can be accessed by typing his name (Tucker Smallwood) into IMDb.com.
Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Avenue
Fresno CA 93740
559.278.7512
pamd@csufresno.edu