Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Wahlberg Recital Hall
Admission: Free
California State University, Fresno Department of Music Presents: Fresno State Hornists In Recital
The Fresno State French Horn students perform solo and ensemble works by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Saint-Seans, Humperdinck, R. Strauss, and Abbott.
A very special arrangement of movie music entitled “Titanic Fantasy” will be performed by a 12-part horn ensemble with percussion.
Information:
Dr. Thomas Hiebert
Professor of Music
(559) 278-4096
e-mail: tomh@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
“Balancing Truth with Fiction: The Role of Literature in Global Communication”
CineCulture, together with The College of Arts and Humanities Middle East Studies Program, announces:
Presentations by Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor, Persian & Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
Fatemeh Keshavarz is a published poet in her native language (Persian), writes poetry in English, and is the author of several books and journal articles. Her latest book, Jasmines and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran, blends personal memoir with literary analysis and social commentary. As a public intellectual, she takes interest in the broader implications of cultural education for world peace. In May 2007, she was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly on this topic. And she has been guest of NPR on various occasions. The show “Speaking of Faith” which featured her in the hour-long episode “The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi,” received the Peabody Award in April 2008. She was awarded the 2008 Hershel Walker Peace & Justice Award by People’s Weekly.
Title of Presentation: “Balancing Truth with Fiction: The Role of Literature in Global Communication”
Friday, Oct. 23, 2 P.M.
Peters Business 191
Film Screening: 5:30 P.M.
Location: McLane 121
Children of Heaven. Directed by Majid Majidi, this uplifting story of family and love received numerous film festival awards and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. When Ali loses his sister Zahra’s school shoes, they dream up a plan to stay out of trouble; they’ll share his shoes and keep it a secret from their parents! But if they’re going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch
their step on what rapidly turns into a funny and heartwarming adventure!
Farshi with English subtitles. 88 minutes, Rated PG.
For more information:
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. CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Presentations by Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor, Persian & Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
Fatemeh Keshavarz is a published poet in her native language (Persian), writes poetry in English, and is the author of several books and journal articles. Her latest book, Jasmines and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran, blends personal memoir with literary analysis and social commentary. As a public intellectual, she takes interest in the broader implications of cultural education for world peace. In May 2007, she was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly on this topic. And she has been guest of NPR on various occasions. The show “Speaking of Faith” which featured her in the hour-long episode “The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi,” received the Peabody Award in April 2008. She was awarded the 2008 Hershel Walker Peace & Justice Award by People’s Weekly.
Title of Presentation: “Balancing Truth with Fiction: The Role of Literature in Global Communication”
Friday, Oct. 23, 2 P.M.
Peters Business 191
Film Screening: 5:30 P.M.
Location: McLane 121
Children of Heaven. Directed by Majid Majidi, this uplifting story of family and love received numerous film festival awards and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. When Ali loses his sister Zahra’s school shoes, they dream up a plan to stay out of trouble; they’ll share his shoes and keep it a secret from their parents! But if they’re going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch
their step on what rapidly turns into a funny and heartwarming adventure!
Farshi with English subtitles. 88 minutes, Rated PG.
For more information:
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. CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
"Welcome Home Jenny Sutter" : Free Veterans' Advanced Performance
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009Time: 8 PM (No latecomers)
Location: California State University Fresno
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
5201 N Maple Ave (inside Speech Arts Building)
The Thursday, October 29, 2009 is open to veterans and one guest ONLY. Maximum theater capacity is 75 people.
RSVP is REQUIRED. Please RSVP by no later than Tuesday, October 27, 2009. You may RSVP by email me at tcrabb@csufresno.edu. For ticket receipt purposes. Please include name of Veteran when you RSVP.
Additional performance dates are open to the general public. Please go to the end of the email for additional performance dates, time and prices.
"Welcome Home Jenny Sutter"
LOOKING INSIDE WAR’S SILENCES
Jenny Sutter (Kelsey Oliver) is home from Iraq. She's a 30-year-old Marine, minus her lower right leg. With a mind filled with horrific memories. Those memories were bad enough while she was overseas. They are unbearable now that she's back in Southern California.
Jenny is struggling to return to civilian life — from the mundane struggle of putting on a pair of pants to the deeper struggle of finding meaning to her life. Jenny is in no shape to return to Oceanside, where her mother is taking care of her two kids.
How the kindness of strangers and Jenny's own inner strength allow her to finally make an attempt to return to the reality of civilian life is the ambitious subject of "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter," by Julie Marie Myatt, that made its world premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
On a whim, Jenny decides to accompany the ditsy stranger she meets in the smelly waiting room of a Los Angeles bus station to Slab City. Once there, Jenny finds that Slab City, a ragtag camp ground in the California desert, is chock-a-block full of souls just as lost as she is, each trying to run from their own unpleasant reality.
There is Lou (Kelsey Deroian), who never stops talking. Lou is addicted to absolutely everything and frantically trying to quit them all. But she is generous and empathetic and Jenny hooks up with her if only to find a temporary place to alight.
There is Buddy (Matthew McGee), physically twisted from the abuse he suffered as a child but spiritually straight and gentle. Buddy is the self-appointed preacher to the community, giving a message of love and hope to his unlikely congregation.
There is Donald (Bryce Earp), trying desperately to appear indifferent because he cannot bear to care so much.
And Cheryl (Kelly Derry), Lou's "therapist," who got her "training" from her experience as a hairdresser in the miniscule desert town of Hemet.
All of these misfits reach out to Jenny in one way or another. And gradually — against her instincts — Jenny allows them to get through.
Kathleen McKinley directs. Gwenna Merriman has designed the set, lit by Izzy Eisnidler and Stephanie Bradshaw designed the costumes.
Playwright Julie Marie Myatt grew up in a military family. She has said that she wanted to explore the experiences of the first generation women who have served in combat positions and who can't simply seamlessly reintegrate into civilian life.
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
October 30-November 7, 2009
All Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. except on Sunday when it begins at 2:00 p.m. Closed on Monday
Ticket Prices:
General Admission: $17
Fresno State Faculty/Staff, Alumni Association Members*, Seniors (60 +) & Non - Fresno State Students (Under 5 not admitted) and Military: $15
Fresno State Students*: $10
*ID Required
Box Office Hours
Monday – Friday - Noon to 4 p.m.
North Entrance Speech Arts Building
Phone - 278-2216
Web Site - http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
E-mail - pamd@csufresno.edu
Friday, October 16, 2009
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Fresno: May 2010
Mark your calendar now!
The Madden Library’s Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.
Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.
The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.
Submissions are invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length to be presented in breakout sessions on May 14. The Call for Papers information is found at www.arnenixoncenter.org/events/oz_con_call_for_papers.shtml.
Community sponsors include The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno Pacific University, and The Fresno County Public Library. Planning is still underway; some projects are dependent on the future generosity of donors. As plans progress, information will be posted on the Center’s web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org. The Center’s spring newsletter will include a schedule and a registration form.
For more information about the Oz conference and its underwriting opportunities, please call 559.278.8116 or e-mail Arne Nixon Center curator Angelica Carpenter at angelica@csufresno.edu.
The Madden Library’s Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.
Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.
The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.
Submissions are invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length to be presented in breakout sessions on May 14. The Call for Papers information is found at www.arnenixoncenter.org/events/oz_con_call_for_papers.shtml.
Community sponsors include The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno Pacific University, and The Fresno County Public Library. Planning is still underway; some projects are dependent on the future generosity of donors. As plans progress, information will be posted on the Center’s web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org. The Center’s spring newsletter will include a schedule and a registration form.
For more information about the Oz conference and its underwriting opportunities, please call 559.278.8116 or e-mail Arne Nixon Center curator Angelica Carpenter at angelica@csufresno.edu.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Novelist Steve Yarbrough
Date: Thursday October 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Peters Auditorium (REC CENTER)
Free and Open to the public
Please join us to welcome our good friend and nationally acclaimed fiction writer Steve Yarbrough back to Fresno for a wonderful literary evening. You will be glad you did!
Fall 2009 MFA Writers Reading Series at California State University, Fresno
Steve Yarbrough A PEN/Faulkner finalist, has received the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His book Safe from the Neighbors is forthcoming from Knopf (January, 2010) He is the author of four previous novels and three collections of stories. Formerly the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Fresno State, he now teaches at Emerson College and lives with his wife in Boston
For additional info please contact Dianna Lewis, English Dept. 559.278.2553
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Peters Auditorium (REC CENTER)
Free and Open to the public
Please join us to welcome our good friend and nationally acclaimed fiction writer Steve Yarbrough back to Fresno for a wonderful literary evening. You will be glad you did!
Fall 2009 MFA Writers Reading Series at California State University, Fresno
Steve Yarbrough A PEN/Faulkner finalist, has received the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His book Safe from the Neighbors is forthcoming from Knopf (January, 2010) He is the author of four previous novels and three collections of stories. Formerly the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Fresno State, he now teaches at Emerson College and lives with his wife in Boston
For additional info please contact Dianna Lewis, English Dept. 559.278.2553
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