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| Friday, November 20, 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. |
 | On-Campus Interviewing Ends
All Day
On-Campus Interviewing Ends. To schedule for next semester please contact Cherie.Wilcox@Colorado.EDU or 303-492-7433. |
 | Spirit Day
All Day
Spirit Fridays are an opportunity for our faculty, staff and students to show their pride in our world-class university. This is about expressing our spirit for everything we are proud of at CU-Boulder. Are you a Theatre Buff? How about a Film Buff? Sports Buffs, Arts Buffs and all other kinds of Buffs can show their university pride on Spirit Friday.
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 | Dream Benders: Unlock Your Unconscious
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Dreams are amazing windows into our lives and reveal powerful messages that can help develop personal insight and give us clues about what to do next in life. In this workshop, you will learn to explore your dreams and interpret the language of dream imagery specific to your life. Please come prepared with a dream in mind.
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 | 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. |
 | Guest Master Class: Douglas Humpherys, piano
1:00 PM
Douglas Humpherys is Chair of the piano department and Associate Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music as well as Artistic Director of the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition. |
| Technology for the Classroom
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Using Wikis to Facilitate Student Writing
Anna MacBriar, Faculty, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
In this workshop Dr. MacBriar will discuss how wikis can be used in the classroom to help build learning communities and facilitate self-reflection across a variety of academic and non-academic writing contexts. |
 | OASIS: Community Circle
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
OASIS is a student group working to create a vital community dedicated to meaningful connections, healthy activities, and community. NOT a formal therapy or support group.
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 | International Coffee Hour
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The first International Coffee Hour of the Fall semester is Friday, August 28th. Join us for excellent conversation and a free refreshment. Across from Baby Doe's in the UMC Grill. All CU students, staff and faculty welcome! Sponsored by the Office of International Education, CU International and CU Parents Association. |
 | (Cancelled) Doctoral Student Lecture Recital: David McArthur, piano
4:30 PM
William Bolcom's Compositional Style in the Garden of Eden |
 | CU Club Tango
7:00 PM
Come to CU Club Tango to learn what the Argentine Tango craze is all about. Meet new people and learn some new moves. No partner required, just wear soft-soled shoes and come ready to dance! Join us every Friday in the basement of Carlson Gym. Beginner classes start at 7pm and intermediate at 7:45pm followed by an open dance.
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 | Gifts from Unknown Islands, a multi-media collaboration
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
A collaboration of performance art, sound, design and technology which includes animated projected imagery; shaped, sculptural projection screens; biological images captured by microscope and more. The approximate 1.5-hour evening includes a talkback/ discussion with the artist/producer. |
 | Many Faces of Hubble
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Explore the construction and use of the Hubble Space Telescope in this show about the people behind the scenes, and various careers in space. From scientists to engineers to astronauts, this show contains interviews and stories that reveal the humanity behind the science and technology. |
 | Laser: Red Hot Chili Peppers
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Come enjoy a selection of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' greatest hits complimented by Fiske lasers and special effects! |
 | Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
10:45 PM - 11:45 PM
Music, video, lasers, and special effects meet in Fiske’s presentation of the timeless classic album, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. |
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