Auditions for Fall 2009

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

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
By Julie Marie Myatt
Directed by Kathleen McKinley
October 30- November 7, 2009

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

General Audition
Tuesday, August 25
6:00 p.m.
John Wright Theatre, Speech Arts Building

Audition Requirements:

• Completed Audition Form
• Acting Resume
• One memorized monologue, no more than two minutes
• Students without a memorized monologue will be assigned material at the audition

Scripts are available in the Theatre Arts Office
Information about each play is available at http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts/Auditions.htm

Callbacks

Wednesday, August 26
4:00 p.m. - Arturo Ui - JW
7:00 p.m. - Picnic - JW
7:00 p.m. - Jenny Sutter - Woods

Thursday, August 27
4:00 p.m. - Picnic - JW
7:00 p.m. - Arturo Ui - JW
4:00 p.m. - Jenny Sutter - Woods

Theatre Arts: 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

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

Academic Leadership: Magic, Witchcraft, or Sorcery?

DEANS’ SERIES

Reflections from the “Dark Side”: Conversations about Leadership in the Academy

Bill Covino, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium, UBC 191

Academic Leadership: Magic, Witchcraft, or Sorcery?

With reference to rhetorical touchpoints such as Kenneth Burke's dramatism, J.L. Austin's speech acts, and Mary Daly's Wickedary, I will consider the ways in which our administrative discourse works magic, and how my training in rhetoric has led me to prefer generative magic-discourse (the synergy of multiple perspectives) to arresting magic-discourse ("Stop in the name of the Law!").

William A. Covino became Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs on July 6, 2009. The Provost is the university’s chief academic officer, providing leadership for the University’s eight schools and colleges, grants and research, the library, continuing and global education, and other academic units of the university. The Provost coordinates and implements academic goals, educational policy, curricular planning and development, academic program review, academic personnel actions, faculty and staff development, resource development and allocation, assessment, professional and regional accreditation, and strategic and master academic planning. Provost Covino came to California State University, Fresno after serving as Provost at California State University, Stanislaus, and as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and San Diego State University. Covino’s administrative priorities and accomplishments have included developing and expanding distinctive academic programs, building greater support for applied scholarly research, improving student learning outcomes, increasing fundraising and partnership opportunities, and encouraging community engagement across the curriculum. His undergraduate and graduate teaching has included courses on rhetoric and literature, and his scholarly record features numerous chapters, articles, and reviews, as well as five books on rhetoric, literacy, imagination, and persuasion. Provost Covino received a PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Join us for dialogue and lively conversation on leadership and professional development!

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

2009 – 2010 Lecture Series: Phebe McClatchy Conley Lecture

2009 – 2010 Lecture Series featuring Distinguished Alumni Intellectual and Artistic Exploration

Date: September 3, 2009
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Peters Educational Center

Phebe McClatchyConley Lecture
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jodi Magness, Ph. D.
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Magness, noted Religious Studies scholar and anthropologist, will survey the archaeological remains at Qumran and discuss their relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Magness participated on 20 different excavations in Israel and Greece, including co-directing the 1995 excavations in the Roman siege works at Masada. From 1997-99 she co-directed excavations at Khirbet Yattir in Israel. From 2003-2007, Professor Magness co-directed excavations in the late Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. Professor Magness’ book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine. Professor Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003) was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of non-fiction on the archaeology of Israel.


For additional information please contact the College of Arts and Humanities at 559.278.3056 our visit our website at http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/

CINECULTURE: FALL 2009

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

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

Film Screenings: 5:30 McLane Hall 121, exceptions noted*

Week 1: August 28 No Film*

Week 2: September 4: Kung Fu Hustle
Discussant: Ed EmanuEl
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/plotsummary

Week 3: September 11 “Z” (Fresno FilmWorks)*
http://www.rialtopictures.com/z.html
Special Screenings: Monday, September 14, Lab School 134: 2-4 p.m.*
The Rescue & Together We Are Free
Discussants: Invisible Children Organization Representatives

Week 4: September 18 Viva La Causa
Discussant: Delores Huerta
http://www.doloreshuerta.org/
http://brownvboard.org/programs/200810vivalacausa.htm

Week 5: September 25 Time & Tide
Discussant: Julie Bayer (filmmaker)
http://www.wavecrestfilms.com/

Week 6: October 2: The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?
Discussant: David Zetland
Week 7: October 9 (Fresno FilmWorks)*

Week 8:October 16: The Canary Effect (Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Heritage Month)
Discussant: Hector Cerda & Panelists to be announced

Week 9: October 23: World Without Men
Discussant: Fatemeh Keshavarz

Week 10: October 30: AUn Poquito De Tanta Verdad (A little bit of so much truth)
Discussant: Peter McLaren
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/mclaren/

Week 11: November 6: The Battle of Algiers
Discussant: David Barsomian
http://www.alternativeradio.org/barsamian.shtml

Week 12: November 13 (Fresno FilmWorks)*

Week 13: November 20 : To Be Announced

Week 14:NOVEMBER 26-28 THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week 15: December 4 Iran: Hot Tea, Cool Conversations
Discussant: Brenden Hamilton (filmmaker)
http://www.iranthemovie.com/