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| Friday, November 06, 2009 |
 | Resistencia Visual: Woodblock Prints from the Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists (Multi-Day Event)
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. |
 | 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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 | 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. |
| Friday Forum with Faculty
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Friday Workshop: Putting Your Teaching Portfolio Together
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Are you getting ready to go on the job market? Are you wondering how your portfolio
might compare with portfolios from other applicants? In this workshop we analyze and
compare portfolios. |
 | (Cancelled) Events Calendar Orientation Brown Bag
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Join University Communications for a brown-bag orientation and training session for the campus-wide Events Calendar. The session will include:
- New feature tour
- How to use the submission form
- User resources
Bring your lunch and learn about this valuable tool. Drinks will be provided. Click the "register" icon above to reserve your space in this seminar. |
 | Master Class: Marianne Gedigian, flute
2:00 PM
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| Technology for the Classroom
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Using Ning to Create a Dynamic Course Site
Juliette Bourdier, Doctoral Candidate, French and Italian
In this workshop, Juliette Bourdier will discuss the online tool Ning and how it can be used to create interactive course sites. Ning is a free, user-friendly, web-based platform that can function as a course management system or as a private area to communicate with the students. Ning comes with a number of built-in features such as a blog, a discussion forum and a chat tool. You can further customize Ning using the many free apps developed by third parties (video chat and video conferencing for example). |
 | 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. |
 | Professor Peter Stallybrass Lecture: Why We Need To Know How To Write
4:00 PM
Professor Stallybrass will deliver a lecture that reconsiders the relationship between manuscript and print culture. Peter Stallybrass, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, and Director of History of Material Texts at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of (with Allon White) The Politics and Poetics of Transgression; (with Ann Rosalind Jones) Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, books on Marx and Benjamin Franklin, and numerous essays on technologies of cultural production. |
| Early Music Ensemble
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Fantini – Sonata detta del Nero
Fantini – Sonata detta del Niccolini
Vivaldi – Concerto for Viola d’Amore
Handel – "Let the Bright Seraphim" from Samson
Bach – Suite in B Minor
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 | Graduate Student Recital: Sarah Stoneback, trumpet
4:30 PM
Jolivet - Concertino pour Trompette
Peaslee - Nightsongs
Vizzutti - Cascades
Britten - Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury
Vizzutti - Salutations
Méndez - Scherzo in D Minor
Clarke - Carnival of Venice
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 | 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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| China Through the Lens of Piano Music, a multi-media recital featuring pianist Hsing-ay Hsu
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The performance presents CU music faculty and award-winning pianist Hsing-ay Hsu and her perspective on Chinese culture through the music of China.
The production includes a wide variety of Chinese piano music from ancient melodies to new commissions.
Interwoven film segments show a historical and philosophical overview of Chinese aesthetics, and the Chinese experience as lived by Ms. Hsu and her family.
Reserve your seat: http://chinathroughthelens.eventbrite.com/
Get more information: http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/hsingay/ |
 | Doctoral Student Recital: Marcin Arendt, violin and Shu-Wei Tseng, piano
7:30 PM
Mendelssohn - Sonata in F Major for Violin and Piano
Franck - Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano |
 | Tales from Nicaragua: Assessing the Potential for Life on Mars (with Dr. Brian Hynek)
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The search for signatures of past life on Mars is a daunting task. Yet, Mars seems to have had all the ingredients for life to persist in its early history: abundant water, biochemical elements and energy sources for reproductive and metabolic functions. As speculated for Earth, life on Mars may have arisen in hot volcanic environments, relying on chemical energy from interactions of hot water and rock. Come travel into steaming volcanoes deep into the heart of the Americas to find out if Martian life could have existed in similar settings. |
 | Movie Night - District 9
9:00 PM
In this science-fiction thriller, an extraterrestrial race is kept in slum-like conditions in South Africa after their star ship strands them on earth. Although their welcome has been worn with the majority of the population, they find an unexpected ally in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
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 | Laser Queen
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Galileo, Galileo, magnifico! Enjoy the best of this legendary glam band whose guitarist, Brian May, now has a PhD in astrophysics! See it to believe it at Fiske. |
 | Laser Pink Floyd: The Wall
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 The Wall. |
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