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