It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Adapted by Joe Landry
from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra and Jo Swerling
Directed by Brad Myers

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940's radio broadcast.
This is a family friendly production!!!
Live pre-show of traditional and contemporary Christmas music starts 15 minutes before curtain

Read Donald Munro's preview at this link
http://fresnobeehive.com/2010/12/more_on_its_a_w.html#more

Visit us at
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
or call 278-2216 (noon - 4 p.m. weekdays)
to order your tickets

Symphonic Band and singers from Opera Theatre

A Holiday Cavalcade!

Symphonic Band and singers from Opera Theatre

Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010
Time: 3 pm
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

Tickets online: www.csufresno.edu/music

Tickets $7 Adult, $6 Staff/Senior, $5 Students/Children

Tickets online: www.csufresno.edu/music

Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian-Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian-Carlo Menotti

Dr. Anna Hamre, conductor
Dr. Anthony P. Radford, director

Opera Theatre, Concert Choir & The Bach Children's Choir

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Place: Concert Hall, Fresno State Music Building

Tickets online: www.csufresno.edu/music

Tickets $7 Adult, $6 Staff/Senior, $5 Students/Children

Romantic Triumph

California State University, Fresno
College of Arts and Humanities
Department of Music
Presents

THE FRESNO STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Maestro David Effron, guest conductor
Thomas Loewenheim, cello soloist

ROMANTIC TRIUMPH

Antonin Dvorak - CELLO CONCERTO
Ludwig van Beethoven - SYMPHONY NO. 5

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall
2770 E. International, Fresno

For more information, email: tloewenheim@csufresno.edu

Tickets are available at the door and at: www.csufresno.edu/music

Admission:
$15.00 General ; $10.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors ; $5.00 Students

End of the semester concerts!

Tickets available online at:

www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

Schumann Festival Part I-Piano Majors in Concert
Date: Friday, December 3, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Fresno State Wahlberg Recital Hall
Cost: Tickets: General - $7; Senior/Employee - $6; Student - $5

"Amahl and the Night Visitors" Concert Choir and Opera Theatre
Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall
Cost: Tickets: General - $7; Senior/Employee - $6; Student - $5

Fresno State Symphony Orchestra with Guest Conductor, David Effron and Cello Soloist, Thomas Loewenheim
Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Paul Shaghoian Hall
Clovis North Educational Complex
Cost: Tickets: General - $15; Senior/Employee - $10; Student - $5

A Holiday Cavalcade - Symphonic Band and Opera Theatre
Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Concert Hall
Cost: Tickets: General - $7; Senior/Employee - $6; Student - $5

SPECIAL EVENT

Raga Bop Trio drummer Steve Smith (Vital Information/formerly with Journey)
Date: Monday, December 6 , 2010

Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall (Fresno State Department of Music)
General $15 Staff/Senior $12 /Students ONLY $5

Tickets available online at:
www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

Please join us for this very special concert!

Raga Bop Trio with Vital Information/former Journey drummer Steve Smith

Date: Monday, December 6 , 2010
Tiem: 8:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall (Fresno State Department of Music)

General $15 Staff/Senior $12 / Students ONLY $5

Drummer Steve Smith, saxophonist George Brooks, and guitarist Prasanna - three remarkable musical talents expressing a distinctly twenty-first century perspective on global music - have collaborated on a new recording entitled Raga Bop Trio. Steve Smith, George Brooks and Prasanna released Raga Bop Trio in July 2010 on the AbstractLogix label. They are touring together as The Raga Bop Trio during November and December 2010.

The music of The Raga Bop Trio is unique in that the group’s direction is grounded in jazz, with its focus on groove, atmosphere and harmonic adventure, yet also deeply rooted in the rhythmic and melodic traditions of Indian classical music.

Steve Smith – Drumset and Konnakol
George Brooks – Tenor and Alto Saxophones
Prasanna – Electric and Acoustic Guitars

Please join us for this very special concert!

Tickets available online at: www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

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Fresno State-Department of Music
Audience Development Staff
Dr. Michael Caldwell, Project Supervisor
Chika Inoue, Graduate Assistant
Calvin Carr, Webmaster


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Del Saber del Campo, al Campo del Saber: (“From the agricultural field, to the field of knowledge”)

The Chicano and Latin American Studies Department invites the public and all former students to its celebration of:

Del Saber del Campo, al Campo del Saber: (“From the agricultural field, to the field of knowledge”)

Date: November 19, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm
Place: Satellite Student Union

ADMISSION: FREE!!!

A Forty-Year History of Struggle and Progress: Reflecting on 40 years of Chicano Studies on campus and celebrating the 40 year history of Los Danzantes de Aztlan, the first and most established Mexican Folkloric Dance program in Fresno.

With a special tribute to its founder Prof. Ernesto Martinez (1939-2010)

Program

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Soldatenko, CSU Los Angeles (Author of “Genesis of a Discipline”)
• Former Faculty Members: Dr. Alex Saragoza, UC Berkeley / Dr. Lea Ybarra, Johns Hopkins University / Prof. Ricardo Duran (Retired)
• Multimedia presentation of Los Danzantes’ history
• Special Performance by Los Danzantes de Aztlan
• Tributes by Ex-Danzantes
• Multimedia Tribute to Prof. Martinez

Sponsored by: College of Social Sciences, Chicano and Latin American Studies, Los Danzantes de Aztlán, Trabajadores de la Raza, Sigma Omega Nu, Nu Alpha Kappa.

Ambar Alvarez Soto, Degree Advisor
Evaluations Office
California State University, Fresno
Joyal Administration Building, Room 115
5150 N. Maple Avenue M/S JA 57
Fresno, CA 93740-8026
(559) 278-6097
ambara@csufresno.edu
http://www.fresnoah.org

Fresno State New Music Festival

Conundrum (New Music Festival)
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall
General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student FREE

Ann Moss and CMASH (New Music Festival)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall
General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student FREE

60x60 Sanguine Mix (New Music Festival)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall
General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student FREE

The Definiens Project (New Music Festival)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Concert Hall
General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student FREE

Fresno State Concert Choir (New Music Festival)
Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010
Time: 2:30 PM
Place: Concert Hall
General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student FREE

Ellipse Concert-Opera Theatre
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Time: 12:15-12:45 PM
Place: Henry Madden Library-Peters Ellipse
FREE

Fresno State Opera Theatre-Opera in the Country
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Time: 3:00PM

Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010
Time: 8:00PM
Place: Wahlberg Recital Hall
General $10 Staff/Senior $8 Student $5

Poet Kevin Clark

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010 Time: 7 p.m. (reception follows) Place: Fresno State’s Madden Library Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room (3rd floor, north)

Call 278-2403 for more information.

Sponsored by Fresno Poets' Association, The Madden Library and the MFA Program in Creative Writing

"The Cosmic Ray Laboratory of Armenia: Challenges and Prospects"

The Armenian Studies Program cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr. Anahid Yeremian, Stanford University

"The Cosmic Ray Laboratory of Armenia: Challenges and Prospects"

Date: Friday, October 29, 2010 Place: University Business Center, Room 191 Free admission and the public is welcome

Armenia's Cosmic Ray Laboratory is considered one of the top 5 such scientific stations in the world. Dr. Yeremian will discuss the achievements of the Lab and its challenges and prospects.

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Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Coordinator
Armenian Studies Program
5245 N. Backer Ave. PB4
Fresno CA 93740-8001

ASP Office: 559-278-2669
Office: 559-278-4930
FAX: 559-278-2129

Visit the ASP Website: http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu

Music Department Centennial Events - October

The Centennial Year at Fresno State Continues...

Join us for another series of excellent performances including The Jazztet, Horn Studio, Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, Keyboard Concerts presents Barry Douglas, The FRESNO NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL, and our Fall Opera Feature, "Opera in the Country"

Jazztet At “The Bucket” Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM Place: The Bucket (Center of Campus near the Fountain) Admission is Free

Food and beverages will be available for purchase
Tickets available online at:
www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

Fresno State Hornists in Concert Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010 Time: 8:00 PM Place: Wahlberg Recital Hall General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student $5

Jazz-O-Ween featuring the Fresno State Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble Date: Friday, October 29, 2010 Time: 8:00 PM Place: Concert Hall General $7 Staff/Senior $6 Student $5

Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts presents pianist BARRY DOUGLAS Date: Sunday, October 31 , 2010 Time: 3:00 PM Place: Concert Hall General $18 Staff/Senior $12 Student $5

San Fransisco Art Tour Bus Trip

Visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the de Young Museum

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond:Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Departure Time & Place: Leave the North Gym at 8 am

Purchase tickets at the USU Information Center
$20 Fresno State Students with valid ID
$30 General Public

Also that evening at the de Young Museum there is a Friday Night Soiree which will include a French menu at the cafe, live music, a movie screening and performance from Pacific Islander dancers.

For More Information Call 278-2741
www.auxiliary.com/USU
www.sfmoma.org
http://deyoung.famsf.org

Philosophy Department Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

Philosophy Department Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

Date: Friday October 15, 2010 Time: 2-3:30 PM Place: Henry Madden Library Auditorium Room 2206 (South Wing)

• What is philosophy good for today?
• How have philosophy and the university changed?
• What is the history of the philosophy department at Fresno State?

A panel of alumni and emeritus faculty discuss these topics as part of the College of Arts and Humanities Centennial Celebration.

• William Feightner, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, EFILM (BA Philosophy 1971)
• Ben Starr, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Modesto Junior College (BA Philosophy 1966)
• Wally Upton, Partner, Kimble, MacMichael and Upton Law Firm (BA Philosophy 1962)
• Dr. Jack Pitt, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fresno State
• Dr. James Slinger, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fresno State
• Dr. James Smith, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fresno State

To be followed by a reception in the Dean’s Courtyard (Music Building) at 4 PM

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information contact: Andrew Fiala, Chair, Department of Philosophy
afiala@csufresno.edu

Mass Communication and Journalism Centennial Hall of Fame Induction

The College of Arts and Humanities, Fresno State Alumni Association, and The Mass Communication and Journalism Alumni and Friends Chapter of California State University, Fresno, invite you to:

MCJ Centennial Hall of Fame Induction: Honoring Roger Tatarian, Class of 1938

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010 Time: 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. Place: Fresno State Smittcamp Alumni House

Join us to honor the legacy of this great professional, professor and friend – our own – Roger Tatarian.

Department of Mass Communication and Journalism
2225 E. San Ramon
Fresno, CA 93740
M/S MF 10
559-278-2087
559-278-4995 Fax

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Music Fresno State Symphony Orchestra Centennial Celebration

College of Arts and Humanities Department of Music Fresno State Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Loewenheim, conductor

Centennial Celebration

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: California State University, Fresno Department of Music Concert Hall

Program: Antonín Dvořák: CARNIVAL OVERTURE, OP. 92 Michael Torke: SAXOPHONE CONCERTO Aram Khachaturian: SYMPHONY NO. 3 – SYMPHONY POEM

Alan Durst, saxophone
Timothy Zerlang, organ
The Fresno State Alumni Trumpet Ensemble
Michael Caldwell, Christopher Craig, Eric Cymanski,Scott Dean, Dale Engstrom, Craig Erker, Ron Franklin, Mike Gunn, Jan Goyette, Paul Herrera, Joe Lenigan, Jeff LaRose,
Peter van der Paardt, Sean Salehi, Nathan Sobieralski

Admission: $15.00 General $10.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors $5.00 Students
Tickets are available on-line and at the door
www.csufresno.edu/music

Linguistics Department Distinguished Alumni Panel

Linguistics Department Distinguished Alumni Panel

Chaired by Dr. Fred Brengleman and Dr. Chris Golston
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010 Time: 2:00-3:30pm Place: Fresno State: Peters Business Building, Room 192

Panel participants:

• DR. GEOFFREY GAMBLE, Retired President, Montana State University BA Linguistics 1965, MA Linguistics 1971
• ATHER FINNIAN MCGINN, Councilor to the Minister General of the Franciscans MA Spanish and Linguistics 1978
• DR. GERALD MCMENAMIN, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Fresno State MA Linguistics 1972
• NANCY FRAMPTON, Professor, Reedley College, MA English as a Second Language 1985, MA Linguistics 1986
• NORA MCKENNA, Teacher, BA English as a Second Language 1992
• ONDINE GAGE-SERIO, Lecturer, Fresno State, MA English as a Second Language 1991
• PHONG YANG, Lecturer, Fresno State, BA French 1995, MA Linguistics 2000

All are welcome!

For more information visit the following website: http://www.fresnostate100.com/cah/alumnipanels.htm

Mass Communication and Journalism Distinguished Alumni Panels

The Department of Mass Communication & Journalism invites you to join us for one of our Centennial Celebrations. On October 15, 2010, we will be hosting three Distinguished Alumni Panels. We are honored to have so many of our alumni join us. It is sure to be an exciting day. Please join us!

Mass Communication and Journalism Distinguished Alumni Panels

Date: October 15, 2010

Mass Communication and Journalism Print Journalism Panel
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Place: Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room
Henry Madden Library, 3rd floor

Moderator: Jim Tucker
Panelist: Mike Wise, Sports Writer, The Washington Post,
Anthony Marquez, Los Angeles Bureau Chief, Associated Press
Jim Boren, Vice president and editorial page editor, The Fresno Bee
Ray Steele, Publisher, The Fresno Bee, retired 2008
Tom Bohigian, State Director, Senator Barbara Boxer
Robert Gauthier, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist
Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 2007 Journalist of the Year, National Hispanic Journalists Association
Christopher Reynolds, Features reporter, L.A. Times

Mass Communication and Journalism Broadcast Journalism Panel
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Place: Peters Auditorium, PB191

Moderator: Jim Wilson
Panelists: Victor Hernandez, Director of Coverage, CNN North America
Stefani Booroojian, Anchor, KSEE 24, Fresno
Angelo Stalis, ABC 30 Weatherman
Jan Yanehiro, Author and Emmy-winning TV host
Luke Tang, CEO Computer Technologies, San Jose

Mass Communication and Journalism Public Relations/Advertising Panel
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Place: Peters Auditorium, PB191

Moderator: Betsy Hays, APR
Panelists: Jim Melikian, President/CEO, The Popcorn Man
Thomas McGurn, VP of Public Relations, BMW North America, retired 2007
Chris Finks, Finks Inc. Public Relations Firm, Portland, Oregon
Susan O-Dwyer, Director of Business Development, Habif, Arogeti & Wynne
Bruce Batti, President, Jeffrey Scott Advertising
Tamyra A. Pierce, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker--Media Effects Researcher


Associate Professor/Department Chair
Dept. of Mass Communication & Journalism
California State University, Fresno
2225 E. San Ramon Ave M/S MF10
Fresno, CA 93740

“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”

Date: October 7-9, 2010

Keynote Address

“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”
Dr. Nancy Gallagher

Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 5 pm
Place: Fresno State Peters Building 191

Dr. Nancy Gallagher is Professor of Middle East History and previous Chair of Middle East Studies Program at UCSB. Her areas of expertise and research include Comparative Gender History, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, and the Modern Middle East.

Dr. Gallagher teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including a Proseminar on Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa; Post colonial and Postmodern Discourses on Africa and the Middle East; Women and Gender in Middle Eastern history.

A scholar and mentor in Middle East Women’s Studies, Dr. Gallagher is Co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, a multidisciplinary, international organization affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association, for which she has served as Past-president.

Currently Dr. Gallagher is working on a book entitled “Women and Islam: Human Rights and Activism” under contract to Routledge Press. Her previous publications include:

Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (American University in Cairo Press, 2007). Early efforts by peacemakers in the world’s longest refugee crisis.

Femmes, Cultures, et Societes au Maghreb, 2 vols. Co-edited with Rahma Bouqia and Mounira Charrad (Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1996)

Approaches to the History of the Middle East, Interviews with Leading Historians (Ithaca Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996)

Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900 Cambridge University Press, 1983, Paperback edition, 2002

Dr. Corey Whitehead, Solo Flamenco Guitar Virtuoso

The Department of Music and The Henry Madden Library present: The Inaugural Performance of the 2010-2011 Ellipse Friday Concert Series featuring

Dr. Corey Whitehead, Solo Flamenco Guitar Virtuoso

Date: Friday, October 8, 2010 Time: 12:15-12:45 p.m. Place: Peters Ellipse, Henry Madden Library

MFA Faculty Reading

The MFA Program in Creative Writing Faculty will give a prose and poetry reading on:

Date:Thursday, October 7, 2010
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Henry Madden Library.

The event is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

For more information contact Dr. Connie Hales, connieh@csufresno.edu or 278-2359.

Empire of Illusion :The End of Literacy and the Triumph of the Spectacle

LEON S. PETERS ETHICS LECTURE

Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: 8 – 9 p.m.
Place: Henry Madden Library
Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room

Pulitzer prize–winning author and journalist Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues in his new book, Empire of Illusion, that we now live in two societies. One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and
magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by The Ethics Center at Fresno State, the Leon S. Peters Foundation,
The Printise J. Womack Lectures endowment fund, and the Henry Madden Library

Contact Andrew Fiala @ afiala@csufresno.edu or visit The Ethics Center's web site at www.csufresno.edu/ethicscenter

Centennial Music Events! ...and MORE!

Please join us in celebration of our rich history of musical excellence at Fresno State!

Thursday, October 7, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
University Bands in Concert - Centennial Salute
Wind Orchestra and Symphonic Band
Guest Artists: Dr. Lawrence Sutherland, Conductor * Tom Ashworth, Trombone
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Friday, October 8, 2010 12:15 PM
Henry Madden Library
Peter's Ellipse (2nd Floor)
Ellipse Concert-Corey Whitehead, Guitar
FREE EVENT

Friday, October 8, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Gala Centennial Concert featuring Outstanding Alumni and Emeriti Faculty
General $15 Senior/Employee $15 Student $10

Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
History of Jazz Band "A" (1969-1999) with Dr. Larry Sutherland - Alumni Jazz Combo
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Monday, October 11, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Jazz Composers Orchestra Centennial Tribute w/ Fresno State Jazz Orchestra
General $7 Senior/Employee $6 Student $5

Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:00 PM
Fresno State Concert Hall
Fresno State Symphony Orchestra
General $15 Senior/Employee $10 Student $5

Tickets available online at:
www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml

Find us on facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fresno-CA/Fresno-State-Department-of-Music-Events/281595384490

The Cello Ensemble in Concert

The Third Annual Fresno State Cello Festival presents:

The Cello Ensemble in Concert
Works by Beethoven, Haydn, Hufft,Rimsky-Korsakov, Villa-Lobos and more...

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

Department of Music, California State University, Fresno

Admission:
$10.00 General
$8.00 Faculty/Staff/Seniors
$5.00 Students

Tickets are available on-line and at the door

www.csufresno.edu/music

The River Ran Red

Date: Friday, October 1, 2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane building 121

Film Screening

The River Ran Red (2008) details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 min.

Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc
Discussant: Dr. J Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)

Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.

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
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Music Gala Centennial Concert

California State University, Fresno Department of Music Gala Centennial Concert

Date: Friday, October 8, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

TICKETS: $15 GENERAL - $10 STUDENTS

But tickets online at: www.csufresno.edu/music

Featuring our outstanding ensembles

• Jazz Orchestra (Alan Durst, Director), Concert Choir (Anna Hamre, Conductor),
• Wind Orchestra (Gary Gilroy, Conductor) & Symphony Orchestra (Thomas Loewenheim, Conductor)
• Emeriti Faculty Conductors: Arthur Huff, Lawrence Sutherland, Gary Unruh
• Alumni Soloists: Tom Ashworth (Trombone), Mike Dana (Guitar), Brian Hamada (Drums),
• Larry Honda (Saxophone), Timothy Zerlang (Organ), Fresno State Alumni Trumpet Ensemble
• World Premieres: “Centennial Tribute’ by Alumnus Composer John Bliss &
• “Magnificat-First Movement” by Kevin Memley--
  

Fresno State-Department of Music
Audience Development Staff
Dr. Michael Caldwell, Project Supervisor
Chika Inoue, Graduate Assistant
Calvin Carr, Webmaster

Department of Music Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

California State University, Fresno Department of Music Centennial Celebration Distinguished Alumni Panel

Date: Friday, October 15, 2010
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

John Bliss, M.A. Music Performance in Composition and Conducting, 1996
Production Staff Composer and Arranger, United States Air Force Band, Washington D.C.
Composer of “Centennial Tribute” for the Fresno State Centennial

Larry Engstrom, B.A. Music Education, 1981
Director of the School of the Arts, University of Nevada

Mike Dana, B.A. Music Composition, 1975, M.A. Music Composition, 1989
Former Chair, Department of Music, Fresno City College

Larry Honda, B.A. Music , 1976
Chair, Department of Music, Fresno City College

Michelle LaTour, B.A. Music Performance, 1989, M.A. Music Performance, 1991
Soprano Opera Singer. Visiting Lecturer in Music, Voice, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Marcus Nance, B.A. Music Performance, 1988
Broadway, stage and screen actor, Toronto Canada

Richard Woods, B.A. Music 2004
Vocal Music Director, Roosevelt High School

Dr. Tim Zerlang, B.A. Music Performance, 1983, M.A. Music Performance, 1983
Lecturer in Piano and University Carilloneur, Stanford University
Director of Music, St. Marks Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Moderated by

Dr. Michael Caldwell, B.A. Music Performance, 1984
Chair, Department of Music/Chair, Academic Senate, California State University, Fresno
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Fresno State-Department of Music
Audience Development Staff
Dr. Michael Caldwell, Project Supervisor
Chika Inoue, Graduate Assistant
Calvin Carr, Webmaster

Fresno Art Hop!

Come tour the vibrant local art scene in Fresno with downtown maven, Peter McDonald, Dean of Library Services!

Date: Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $5 per person
(Tour is limited to the first 25 guests.)

Please email Dean McDonald with you and your guest(s) names.

Contact: pmcdonald@csufresno.edu

Peter McDonald
Dean of Library Services
Henry Madden Library
Fresno State
559-278-2403

Fresno State Theater Military Discount

Thank you for your service!!

Discount for those that have served in the military

Purchase your tickets at the Military Discount and put in the code: GIBILL

and receive your tickets at the student price of $10 each a savings of $5 per ticket

No Limit

www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts or call 559-278-2216

"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"

CineCulture, together with The College of Arts and Humanities, and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism present:

Presentations by Robert Fisk & David Barsamian

"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"

Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191

Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area

Film Screening: Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls “Shooting Death.”

Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno, McLane 121

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.

Discussant: Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for three decades, and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He was named British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of the only two Western journalists in the city at the time), from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/

Also sponsored by Fresno Center for Nonviolence.

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.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.

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

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Pulitzer Prize WInning Play at Fresno State: A Soldier's Play

A Soldier's Play
By Charles Fuller
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis

In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered.

Winner for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Date: October 1-9, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM (2:00 PM Sunday)
Place: Fresno State, John Wright Theatre

Tkts: http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts/performances/current_season.shtml

DOG DAYS: Part II

DOG DAYS: Part II will be held on Friday, September 24th from 11:30-4:00pm in front of the Satellite Student Union. Make sure you register by September 10th to reserve your spot. Freshmen who have not yet registered can call the DOG DAYS Office at 278-4885 to register.

As a freshmen you are required to meet with your advisor before registering for your second semester. Why not meet your major department, meet other new freshmen and get lunch all for the cost of nothing!

Schedule of Events:

11:30-12:30 Check-In/ Lunch/ Academic Club Fair

12:00-12:15 University Welcome

12:15-1:00 Freshmen Mixer

1:00-4:00 Major Presentations (various times and locations)

Centennial exhibition of Fresno State's history through photos

The Henry Madden Library is currently hosting an exhibition of photographs documenting the 100-year history of California State University, Fresno.

The exhibition runs through Sept. 27 at the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery on the second floor of the library’s Table Mountain Rancheria Tower.

A detailed timeline highlights Fresno State’s evolution through the decades from a state normal school training teachers for the region to a 21st-century university offering training in scores of fields through eight academic colleges and schools.

Showcased are some of the best and most-treasured historic photos from the University Archives, as well as memorabilia that highlights Fresno State's enduring strong connection with the community.

For additional Centennial events, see www.fresnostate100.com.

Earth (1998): Film Screening and Discussion with Bapsi Sidhwa

Film Screening

Date: Friday, September 17,2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121

Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Earth (1998): Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and directed by Deepa Mehta, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.

Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.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, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).

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

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"

CineCulture, together with The Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and the MFA Program in Creative Writing presents:

Presentations by Bapsi Sidhwa

"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"

Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 12 noon
Place: Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191

Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area

Internationally acclaimed author Bapsi Sidhwa was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women's issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India, The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been translated and published in several languages. Her novel Water is based on Mehta’s film of the same name. Her anthology City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore was published in 2006. Sidhwa’s play, An American Brat, was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston March 2007 and received critical acclaim. Her play, Sock ’em With Honey, played in London in 2003.

Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany and the 2007 Primo Mondello Award in Italy. Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.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, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).

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

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Micmacs

Date: September 10, 2010
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

September 10: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous work includes Amelie and The City of Lost Children. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/

For more information:
Contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

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, course # 76089)

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

Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

College of Arts and Humanities Accolades

Please take a moment to congratulate the following College of Arts and Humanities faculty

Izzy Einsidler, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts

• Named as the new 'Point Person' for Fresno county for Senator Barbara Boxer's campaign
• Will be designing lighting for the new StageWorks Fresno company this fall

Benjamin Boone

• Received the Provost Award for Scholarship
• Jazz CD made the charts this summer

Michael Caldwell

• Received the Provost Award for Service

Congratulations to the Arts and Humanities Staff who received tenure in Fall 2010

• Steven Church, English Department
• Candice Egan, Mass Communication and Journalism
• Gloria Medina-Sancho, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
• Shane Morman Communication
• Timothy Skeen, English

Fresno State Receives 1 Million-Dollar Endowment to Create Arts Center

The Business Journal
Written by Business Journal staff
Tuesday, 17 August 2010

An anonymous donor has made a $1 million endowment for California State University, Fresno, for the creation of a Center for Creativity and Arts, announced President John D. Welty today.

According to the university, the center will create interdisciplinary, university-wide thematic exhibitions involving all of the schools and colleges at Fresno State. The center won't occupy any particular physical space, but would use existing spaces on campus depending on the needs of the exhibition, whether it be a gallery, lecture hall, performance space or other uses.

The endowment, from a donor who wished to remain anonymous, will create the John and Madeline Perenchio Arts Exhibition Endowment and the Andrew and Dorothea Perenchio Museum Studies Internship Endowment.

Andrew and Dorothea Perenchio are the parents of Los Angeles billionaire Jerry Perenchio, a Fresno native and former chairman and CEO of Spanish-language television network Univision.

The Center for Creativity and Arts concept was created last spring when Fresno State was asked to assist the Fresno Art Museum through financial problems. The center's exhibitions will include cinema, music, dance, theatre, readings, lectures and hands-on learning opportunities.

"This rich array will provide students and the broader community easy access to through-provoking art, visiting guest artist is and lecturers and stimulating educational programs," according to a university statement.

Each year the center will focus on a theme, with the first being "Labor, Immigration and Migration."

Citing an example of the interdisciplinary concept for the center using the "Labor, Immigration and Migration" theme, "the Department of Chicano and Latin American studies might present on the history of political-economic relationships between the global north and the global south; the Women’s Studies Program on feminist organizing around migration and economic exploitation in Guatemala; while the Department of Criminology could report on the relationship between labor migration and the Juárez murders," according to the university.

Artistic programming around the theme could include music, lectures, dance, plays, movies, book readings, participatory art, exhibitions, poetry and history writing assignments.

College of Arts and Humanities Associate Dean José Diaz will serve as the center's interim director.

Next Generation Leaders & Philanthropy In Tough Economic Times

The American Humanics Student Association At California State University, Fresno

Invites You To Join Us For A Special Presentation

“Next Generation Leaders & Philanthropy In Tough Economic Times” by Dr. Robert F. Long

Visiting distinguished professor of nonprofit leadership at Murray State University in Kentucky and former vice president for programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium (PB191)
University Business Center at Fresno State
(Free admission and relaxed parking in UBC lot.)

Celebrating a DECADE of Dedication (116 Nationally-certified American Humanics’ Graduates, 2001-2010)

Who should come to this presentation?

Anyone interested in having an impact on our Valley or in the nonprofit sector more broadly!
Nonprofit managers & leaders, Donors & philanthropists, Business leaders, Students & academics, Elected officials & policy-makers

In his 15 year career with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Long served as a program director, senior program officer, and vice president for programs. Before joining the Foundation in 1993, Bob served as the endowed McElroy Professor of Youth Leadership Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He is a member of a number of organizations, including the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation Board of Directors, Woman & Philanthropy, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Bob earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in educational leadership and evaluation from the University of Illinois. He studied the effects of financial decline on the leadership of community education programs. His current interests include the relationship between youth development and community development and the role of service in building the capacity of young people to become contributing members of society. Bob has developed programs and published in the areas of youth leadership, diversity, nonprofit management, and philanthropy.

Co-sponsored by:
American Humanics Program at Fresno State
American Humanics Student Association at Fresno State
Associated Students, Inc. (CSUF)

HUMANICS (HYOO-MAN-IKS): THE EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE PERSON
—in spirit, mind, and body—for leadership in service to humanity


___________________________________________________

Matthew A. Jendian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Chair of Sociology
Director, American Humanics Nonprofit Administration Program

California State University, Fresno
Social Science Building, Room 218
5340 N. Campus Dr., M/S SS97
Fresno, CA 93740-8019

559-278-2891 (phone)
559-278-6468 (fax)
matthewj@csufresno.edu

http://www.humanics.org
http://www.fresnoah.org/donate
http://www.csufresno.edu/ah
http://www.csufresno.edu/sociology

Author of: Becoming American, Remaining Ethnic (2008)
https://www.lfbscholarly.com/product-detail/becoming-american-remaining-ethnic-the-case-of-armenianamericans-in-central-california

“Don’t let the excuse that you can’t do everything prevent you from doing the something you can do.”
- Matthew A. Jendian, Ph.D. (2010)
___________________________________________________

University Theatre Season Tickets on Sale Now!!!

The 2010 -2011 Season includes

A Soldier’s Play
October 1-9

Eastern Standard
October 29- November 6

It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
December 3-11

Centennial Symphonic Dance Project
In collaboration with the Music Department
February 24-27

Servant of Two Masters
March 25-April 2

The Glass Menagerie
May 6-14

The University Theatre offers incredible live entertainment at a price that can't be beat!

6 shows for only $65 per person for faculty and staff
and only $50 for students.

Download a brochure at www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts or drop by the box office in the Speech Arts building for a printed copy. Requests for multiple copies (maximum 25) should be sent to universitytheatre@csufresno.edu. Please include your campus mail stop.

Single tickets to all productions go on sale September 13th.

Box office – 278-2216

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave SA 46
Fresno CA 93740
559.278.7512
559.278.7215 - FAX
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Next Generation Leaders & Philanthropy In Tough Economic Times

The American Humanics Student Association At California State University, Fresno Invites You To Join Us For A Special Presentation

“Next Generation Leaders & Philanthropy In Tough Economic Times” By Dr. Robert F. Long

Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium (PB191)
University Business Center at Fresno State
(Free admission and relaxed parking in UBC lot.)

American Humanics @ Fresno State

Celebrating a DECADE of Dedication (116 Nationally-certified American Humanics’ Graduates, 2001-2010)

Visiting distinguished professor of nonprofit leadership at Murray State University in Kentucky and former vice president for programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Who should come to this presentation?

Anyone interested in having an impact on our Valley or in the nonprofit sector more broadly!
Nonprofit managers & leaders, Donors & philanthropists, Business leaders, Students & academics, Elected officials & policy-makers

In his 15 year career with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Long served as a program director, senior program officer, and vice president for programs. Before joining the Foundation in 1993, Bob served as the endowed McElroy Professor of Youth Leadership Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He is a member of a number of organizations, including the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation Board of Directors, Woman & Philanthropy, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Bob earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in educational leadership and evaluation from the University of Illinois. He studied the effects of financial decline on the leadership of community education programs. His current interests include the relationship between youth development and community development and the role of service in building the capacity of young people to become contributing members of society. Bob has developed programs and published in the areas of youth leadership, diversity, nonprofit management, and philanthropy.

Co-sponsored by:
American Humanics Program at Fresno State
American Humanics Student Association at Fresno State
Associated Students, Inc. (CSUF)

HUMANICS (HYOO-MAN-IKS): THE EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE PERSON
—in spirit, mind, and body—for leadership in service to humanity

Glassblowing Class

Glassblowing Class with Joseph Morel

Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010

Could you become the next Dale Chihuly? Translate your creativity and imagination into a work of art with the skills you learn in a glassblowing class with instructor and artist Joseph Morel.

Appropriate for beginning, intermediate or advanced students, this course includes an introduction to the media, followed by instruction in using your imagination to create your own personal vision in glass. This glassblowing class will expand students’ skills and help them develop new techniques with glass as an art form. Students will concentrate on the glass disciplines required for proficiency in executing designs. Working in series, students will explore variations on their design theme.

Class begins on Saturday, August 28. Call 559.278.0333 or visit www.csufresno.edu/cge/glass for details.

CINECULTURE FILM SERIES: FALL 2010

House of Flying Daggers (2005)

Friday, September 3, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Directed by Yimou Zhang . The year is 859 AD, and China's once flourishing Tang Dynasty is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest and most prestigious of these rebel groups is the House of Flying Daggers, which is growing ever more powerful under a mysterious new leader. The film differs from other wuxia films, in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film. Mandarin with English subtitles, PG-13, 119 minutes

Discussant: Ed EmanuEl

(Fresno Filmworks: Micmacs) (2009)
Friday, September 10, 2010*

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Ave., Fresno

http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.

Earth (1998)

Friday, September 17, 2010

Time: 5:00 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction Reading and Q &A with aurthor Bapsi Sidhwa

Friday, September 17, 2010

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: Peters Building 191 (parking relaxed in UBC lot)

Co-sponsored by MFA Program in Creative Writing
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/

Directed by Deepa Mehta. Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.

Shooting War

Friday, September 24, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Robert Fisk

Afternoon Interview/talk: Time/location to be announced

Friday, September 24, 2010

Time: TBA

Place: TBA

Co-sponsored by Mass Communication & Journalism Department & Fresno Center for Nonviolence

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. In the afternoon he will give a talk (interview format with David Barsamian and MCJ faculty journalists). Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls Shooting Death.

The River Ran Red (2008)

Friday, October 1, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)
Co-sponsored Armenian Studies Department
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc

This film details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 minutes.

Women Without Men (2010)*

Friday, October 8, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: Peters Building 191

Discussant: Shahrnush Parsipur
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities & the 3rd Annual Middle East Studies Conference

http://www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com/
In her feature-film debut, Women Without Men, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British and American backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film weaves together the stories of five individual women during those traumatic days, whose experiences are shaped by their faith and the social structures in place. Looking at Iran from Neshat’s point of view allows us to see the larger picture and realize that the human community resembles different organs of one body, created from a common essence.
Pharsi with English subtitles, 95 minutes.

Friday, Which Way Home (2009)

October 15, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussants: Berta Gonzalez & Eduardo Gillet Juarez

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/which-way-home/index.html
The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “ The Beast.” Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.This 2010 Oscar nominee for “best feature documentary,” shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness. English & Spanish, 90 minutes.

Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction (2010)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Monte Thompson (filmmaker)
http://www.speciesalliance.org/video.php
Co-sponsored by WILPF

This is the first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If current trends continue, scientists warn that half or more of all plant and animal species on Earth will become extinct within the next few decades. Call of Life investigates the scope, the causes, and the predicted effects of this unprecedented loss of life, but also looks deeper, at the ways in which both culture and psychology have helped to create and perpetuate the situation. The film not only tells the story of a crisis in nature, but also in human nature, a crisis more complex and threatening than anything human beings have ever faced before. 80 min.

Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009)

Friday, October 29, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussants: Rob Hauer (Director of Photography)
http://www.marinathemovie.com/

This is the first feature film ever made about the hidden lives of the Zabbaleen People. Enter the extraordinary world of seven-year-old Marina. Through her magical eyes, you'll be led into the never-before-seen Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. Marina spends her days riding flying elephants, befriending mystical pigeons, and dodging out of control butcher knives; she even confronts an evil witch. Despite common misconceptions, all this can happen in a documentary. The film transforms a squalid landfill village into a beautiful, dream-like portrait of family, childhood, and spirituality. Arabic with English subtitles. 70 minutes.

Luna Fest

Friday, November 5, 2010

Time: 7:00 -9:00 PM

Place: Satellite Student Union*

A film festival showing films by, for, and about women while raising fund for the Breast Cancer Fund.

November 12, 2010 (Fresno Filmworks)*

International Education Week
Special Screening: Lion’s Den “Leonera” (2008)

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Time 5:30 PM

Place: Peters Building 191

Discussant: Kathryn Forbes
http://www.leoneralapelicula.com/index-en.html
(Relaxed parking in UBC parking lot)

Director Pablo Trapero. After waking to find her apartment a bloody mess, with her ex-lover Nahuel dead and her ex-lover Ramiro (Rodrigo Santoro) wounded, Julia (Martina Gusman) finds herself pregnant and in prison. Incarcerated with other mothers, she gives birth and tries to raise her son behind bars. As she continues to push for a new trial, Julia also deals with her formerly estranged mother, Sofía (Elli Medeiros), who now wants to take her son from her. Argentina, Spanish with English subtitles. 113 minutes.

November 19: Film to be announced

Friday, November 19, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Lynn MacMichael

All About Dad (2009)

Friday, December 3, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Place: McLane Hall 121

Discussant: Mark Tran (Filmmaker)
http://www.allaboutdadmovie.com/

Mr. Do (Chi Pham) has raised his kids to be good Catholics and to live up to his unrealistic expectations. His son Ty (David Huynh) is abandoning pre-med to chase a less practical dream, while Linh (Yvonne Truong) is keeping her fiancé’s Buddhist background a secret. However, they aren’t the only kids with secrets in the Do family. It’s time Dad faces the truth that his kids have grown up. Delightfully hilarious, yet mixed with great tenderness and humanism, All About Dad addresses the familiar theme of old world father vs. new world kids with deftness and originality. It’s a masterful family portrait that’s sure to resonate with any family. 80 minutes.

For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

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 course # 37395].

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu

Author, Nick Flynn & Clay Artists, Jason Briggs and Holly Hanessian

CSU Summer Arts invites you to attend two events this afternoon and evening. Tickets are available by calling the Summer Arts Box Office, 559-278-5109, or going online to www.csusummerarts.org

Nick Flynn Reading

Nick Flynn is a guest artist in residence with the CSU Summer Arts "Writing the Memoir" course.

Mr. Flynn's recent memoir published in January 2010, The Ticking is the Bomb, came out to critical acclaim. His first memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France's Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. In addition, the book is being develped into a film starring Robert De Niro and Casey Affleck scheduled for release in 2011.

Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Fresno State, Wahlberg Recital Hall

$7 students/seniors/staff; $10 general

Jason Briggs and Holly Hanessian, Clay Sculpture Lecture/Presentation

Jason Briggs and Holly Hanessian are guest artists with the "Clay as Medium for Sculpture" course being offered by CSU Summer Arts. Each artist will give a lecture and present examples of their clay sculpture work and installations.

Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time: 8 pm
Place: Fresno State Conley Lecture Hall

$7 students/seniors/staff; $10 general

Jacqueline Doumanian
Community Relations Specialist
Fresno, CA 93710
559-241-6090
559-241-6094 fax
www.csusummerarts.org

CSU Summer Arts - Week 2

The second week of CSU Summer Arts features incredible events by award winning animators, authors, and clay artists plus the ever popular student culminations. All events are reasonably priced and student culminations are free. Events are held on the California State University, Fresno, campus.

For expanded information, check out our full calendar at http://www.csusummerarts.org/public_events_calendar/index.shtml or call the Box Office at 559-278-5109.

Here's the second week line-up:

Leslie Heywood, Reading
Monday, July 5, 2010
6:30 pm - Conley Lecture Hall
$7 students/seniors; $10 general

Andrew Gordon, Animation Lecture/Slide Presentation
Monday, July 5, 2010
8 pm - Wahlberg Recital Hall
$10 students/seniors; $15 general

Nick Flynn, Reading
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
6:30 pm - Wahlberg Recital Hall
$7 students/seniors; $10 general

Jason Briggs & Holly Hanessian, Clay Lecture/Slide Presentation
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
8 pm - Conley Lecture Hall
$7 students/seniors; $10 general

Susan Hayre Thelwell, Photography Lecture
Thursday, July 8, 2010
7 pm - Conley Lecture Hall
$7 students/seniors; $10 general

STUDENT CULMINATIONS:

Date: Thursday, July 8
Time: 4 pm
Writing the Memoir, Part 1 - Conley Lecture Hall

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 10 am Multimedia/Photo Book - Conley Art Gallery & Conley Lecture Hall

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 10 am Clay Sculpture - Conley Art Gallery

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 11 am Urban Bush Women - John Wright Theatre

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 1:30 pm Animation - Wahlberg Recital Hall

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 3 pm Writing the Memoir, Part 2 - Wahlberg Recital Hall

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 4:45 pm Sword & Forcery - John Wright Theatre

Date: Friday, July 9
Time: 7:30 pm Auditioning for the Broadway Musical - Wahlberg Recital Hall


Jacqueline Doumanian
Community Relations Specialist
CSU Summer Arts
1530 E. Shaw Avenue, Ste. 119
Fresno, CA 93710
559-241-6090
559-241-6094 fax
www.csusummerarts.org

College of Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Honors Symposium

Date: Wednesday May 19, 2010
Time: 5:45-7:45pm
Place: Fresno State
Kremen School of Education, Room 172

A dessert and coffee reception will follow in the Dean’s Gallery
Featuring presentations of the theses and creative projects completed in partial fulfillment of the College of Arts & Humanities Honors Program by:

• Christine Andrews: “Political Philosophy in Richard II”
• Melissa Freeman: “Chukchansi Dictionary”
• Abdullah Hanifi: “Medicine through the Ages”
• Dawn Hart: “Urban Narratives”
• Leigh Murray: “Thursday’s Child: An Appalachian Ballad Opera”
• Brice Nakamura: “Interpreting The Matrix”
• Mary Stratemeyer: “English Kingship and Arthurian Legend”

Please join us to celebrate the achievements of the Spring 2010 Honors Cohort

All students, faculty, staff, and friends are welcome

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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/

Terribly Happy

Date: May 7,2010
Times: 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue

Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:

Terribly Happy (2009). Directed by Henrik Ruben. Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Terribly Happy displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging. Danish with English subtitles, 90 min, not rated.

For more information:

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

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

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 course # 37395].

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

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

Time Again in Oz

University Theatre presents

Time Again in Oz

Dates & Times:
May 7-8 and 11-15 at 8 p.m.
May 9 & 15 at 2 p.m

Location: Fresno State, John Wright Theatre

The play is a musical adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s Ozma of Oz. In this re-imagined version, Dorothy (Sarah Lofgren), Bill (her pet chicken – Molly Kelly) and her Uncle Henry (a crotchety old man in a wheelchair – Matthew McGee) are transported to Oz by a wild storm at sea. Time has been stopped in Oz for what seems like years. After run-ins with the Gnome King (Edward Anderson) and the Wheelers, Dorothy is sure she doesn’t want to have another adventure here. But she soon finds herself embroiled in Oz affairs.

For more information, call 278-2216 or visit http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave
Fresno CA 93740
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

The Best of Broadway!!!

Fresno State Symphonic Band and Opera Workshop Present

The Best of Broadway!!!

Date: Thursday, May 6th,2010
Time: 8 pm
Place: Fresno State Concert Hall

Tickets: $6 general admission; $5 students/seniors/staff

A 90 minute revue of some of the biggest hits of The Great White Way from the past 70 years!

The program includes songs from Camelot, Les Miserables, West Side Story, and many more! Come enjoy an evening of your favorite Broadway show tunes!

For more information, please contact Tim Anderson in the Music Department
278-2166; tanderson@csufresno.edu

Timothy Todd Anderson
Associate Director of Bands
California State University, Fresno
2380 E. Keats Ave., M/S MB 77
Fresno, CA 93740-8024
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