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| Monday, November 16, 2009 |
 | Navajo Weaving Workshop with Lynda Teller Pete, Master Navajo Weaver (Multi-Day Event)
All Day
Refresh your spirit and creativity in these classes with the tranquil art of Navajo weaving. Beginning students will have the opportunity to learn the art of weaving from Master Navajo Weaver, Lynda Teller Pete. Lynda, a 5th Generation Navajo Weaver, has garnered two First Place Blue Ribbons at the Santa Fe Indian Market for her Navajo tapestries. While instructing and demonstrating, Lynda will share her personal stories and experiences, allowing participants the chance to gain fascinating insights into the world of Navajo weaving. |
 | Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
In May of 2009, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition entitled Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes.
Presented in three iterations of 20-30 Navajo textiles each, the
exhibit will showcase the breadth and depth of the Museum's Joe Ben
Wheat Southwestern Textile Collection, considered to be one of the
world's best collections of Navajo textiles.
A full slate of public and school programming will accompany
the exhibit, including a grand opening event; hands-on workshops for
adults, parents and children; guided tours; movie showings featuring
movies with Navajo directors, producers, and actors; and programs and
demonstrations on natural dyes and textile conservation.
Judy M. Newland, Faculty Associate and Exhibit Developer at the Arizona
State University Museum of Anthropology is the Guest Curator for the
exhibition. |
 | Weaving Memory: Monotypes by Melanie Yazzie
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Artist Melanie Yazzie's prints are inspired by the textiles from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's Joe Ben Wheat Collection and by memories from Yazzie's childhood with her grandmother Thelma Baldwin, a weaver in Wide Ruins, Arizona. |
 | Americans In a Changing China: 1920-2008
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Documenting China, Contemporary Photography and Social Change is a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit.
The exhibit encompasses three eras of change in China, which is a
timely subject as China and its status on the international stage is
changing so rapidly. Apart from Hinkley’s experience abroad, the
exhibit also includes views of more recent change in China through an
exhibit on loan from Bates College Museum of Art and the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service from April 11 to June 7, 2009.
It illustrates the country’s development during the past 25 years
through the lenses of seven Chinese photographers. For more information, please click here. |
 | Resistencia Visual: Woodblock Prints from the Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Extended by popular demand!
The UMC Art Gallery, located near the Reception Desk on the second floor of the University Memorial Center, presents a wide variety of art work from national, international, and local artists. |
 | The Tunnel of Oppression
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Tunnel of Oppression is a program that through visual representation aims at portraying the different forms of oppression that exist today within our society. These include racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, sexism, domestic violence, classism and eating disorders. We hope that this will be an educational experience that will encourage others to be conscious of these topics and help create needed change.
This program contains strong content that may bring an emotional experience.
People can walk through at their own pace.
Monday Nov. 16, 11am-6pm
Tuesday Nov. 17, 11am-6pm
Wed. Nov. 18, 1pm-9pm
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 | Transgender Day of Remembrance (Multi-Day Event)
Join us in honoring and remembering the lives of amazing transgender and gender variant individuals. A exhibit will be located on Norlin Quad from 11am - 4pm daily from Monday Nov. 16th through Wednesday Nov. 18th.
This event is co-sponsored by the GLBT Resource Center, Queer People of Color, Queer Initiative, the Transgender/Genderqueer Taskforce, Gather/Transform, Chancellor's Standing Committee on LGBT Issues, The Women's Resource Center and the Gender Violence Prevention Taskforce. |
 | Wellness Warriors
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
In this workshop, you will work with yoga, mindfulness skills, guided visualization, philosophy, poetry, nutritional exploration, and interpersonal sharing to progress toward wellness. Learn to trust the unknown, overcome limiting habitual patterns, unveil new possibilities, beome alert, awake, and open to others.
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 | The Courage to be Imperfect
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Do you think you're a perfectionist? Is your perfectionism getting in the way of your ability to enjoy life? Explore alternatives to perfectionism with other interested CU students. For more information please visit Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). |
 | Insider And Outsider Perceptions Of Islam And Muslims In Today's World
4:00 PM
Join us for an International Education Week panel discussion. Prof. Fred Denny, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, will be moderating a discussion between CU-Boulder international and U.S. students on the topic of "Insider and Outsider Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Today's World"
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 | Mock Interviews for Student Teachers
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Be prepared for the upcoming job fairs and interviews. Practice interviewing with a human resources representative or university supervisor. Improve and refine your interviewing skills and receive constructive feedback from professionals. This event is open to current student teachers only. Sign up through your CSO account. Search on Career Events, then Mock Interviews for Student Teachers. For questions, call Judy Hlawatsch, 303-492-8519, or e-mail her at hlawatsc@colorado.edu. |
 | Graduate Student Recital: Tyler Benjamin, euphonium
4:30 PM
Bourgeois - Concerto, Op. 114
Sparke - Summer Isles
Wurst - Tennessee Sour Mash
Wurst - Finite Entertainment
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| Study Abroad! The Cradle of European Jewish Culture in Venice
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Spend three weeks exploring Venice and nearby regions of Italy! This 3-week, 3-credit program covers the development of Jewish culture in Venice from the middle ages to the present day with CU-Boulder Professor Robert Adler Peckerar. Explore this citta degli ebrei (the city of the Jews) and venture outside of Venice with overnight excursions to Piedmont and Trieste. For more information, attend this interest meeting or please click here. |
 | Free HIV Testing for Students
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Know your status. Every Monday, free, confidential, rapid HIV testing is available for CU students in the GLBT Resource Center in 227 Willard Hall on a walk-in basis. Testing is provided by Wardenburg, and results will be given at the end of a 20-minute session.
All CU students welcome. First-come, first-served. |
 | Monday Night Bowling
6:00 PM
Join us for Monday Night Bowling. For a great deal of $7 per person, you will enjoy two hours of bowling, shoes and soft drinks. Come alone or bring your friends! The Connection is on the 1st floor at the UMC. |
 | First Person Cinema Presents Ernie Gehr
7:00 PM
Gehr has a terrific program of films for you. Seriously! Almost all brand new. Urban? Yes. His approach is to try to be alive, responsive, and truthful to the moment and the materials at hand. Sometimes the sensual/kinetic character and potentials of the medium become the springboard for a film, and sometimes it's an intuitive response to daily life in San Francisco.
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| Fran Maier Lecture
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Using Achbishop Charles J. Chaput's thought in his book Render Unto Caesar as grounding, the talk will look back into the work of Jesuit scholar John Courtney Murray on the relationship of Church and state, religious liberty and the role of faith in American political life; and forward to some of the radically new challenges facing Catholics in the decades ahead. |
 | Radical Artists: Jewish Art in Diaspora
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
What is modern Jewish art? What is its place in our secular, multi-cultural art world? How does it convey Jewish diasporic experience; does it declare or affirm our hyphenated (Jewish-American) identities? Professor Zemel will explore these questions through consideration of work by cutting-edge contemporary artists including Hannah Wilke, Ken Aptekar, and Tobaron Waxman.
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 | The Church and Totalitarian Democracy
7:00 PM
This lecture will examine the relationship between Church and state, religious liberty and the role of faith in American political life as well as looking forward to some of the radically new challenges facing Christians in the decades ahead. This free lecture is hosted by the Aquinas Institute.
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 | Graduate Student Recital: Catherine Compton, soprano
7:30 PM
Grieg - Haugtussa, Op. 67
Verdi - La Seduzione
Non t'accostare all'urna
Brindisi
Stornello
Bernstein - La Bonne Cuisine
Offenbach - "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" from Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Delibes - "Sous le dôme épais" from Lakmé
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