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| Monday, November 30, 2009 |
 | 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. |
 | A Christmas Carol - School Matinee Series
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
If you think A Christmas Carol is an old chestnut…if you think audiences can’t be thrilled anew by the greatest of all ghost stories…think again. In this adaptation by The Foothill Theatre Company and Philip C. Sneed, the story’s the thing that makes Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future come alive. It’s a tale of how isolation and self-interest withers the soul—a trajectory that can be reversed and redeemed only by embracing and contributing to the greater good.
CSF Education offers special performances for school groups to attend our production of A Christmas Carol, adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens. These weekday performances are a great way to introduce students to live theater at a reduced price. The show runs approximately two hours (including intermission) and is followed by an optional talkback with the actors. A study guide will be provided to prepare teachers and students for the production. Appropriate for ages 5 and up.
Click here to see all shows in this holiday series. |
 | 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. |
 | 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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 | "West African Drumming and Dance in American Universities" with George Worlasi Kwasi Dor
2:00 PM
West African Drumming and Dance in American Universities: The Resurrection of a Suppressed Genre
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology), The University of Mississippi
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 | Undergraduate Student Recital: Theresa Dunigan, soprano
4:30 PM
Donizetti - "Prendi per me sei libero" from L'elisir d'amore
Schubert - An die Nachtigall
Heidenröslein
Frühlingsglaube
Du bist die Ruh
Debussy - Ariettes oubliées
Donizetti - "Tous les trois réunis" from La fille du regiment
Harbison - Mirabai Songs
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 | 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. |
 | Doctoral Student Recital: Yeujin Kim, piano
7:30 PM
Bach - Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854 from The Well-Tempered Clavier Part 1
Messiaen - Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus
Liszt - Légendes, S. 175
Beethoven - Variations with Fugue on a Theme from Prometheus, Op. 35
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