CU-Boulder Events

Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	5:00 PM

Main Campus - CU Museum (Henderson Building)

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 (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	5:00 PM

Main Campus - CU Museum (Henderson Building)
Room: 2nd Floor Gallery

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 (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	5:00 PM

Main Campus - Old Main
Room: 3rd Floor

CU alumna Lelia Hinkley graduated in 1915 and arrived in Peking, China in 1921 to work as the secretary of the national board of the YWCA.

Hinkley’s remarkable stories, told through her photos, collection of exquisite textiles and impeccably detailed letters, are part of the temporary exhibit at the CU Heritage Center on display through June, 2010.

UMC Art Gallery: Fast/Slow/High/Low (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	10:30 AM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	5:30 PM

Main Campus - University Memorial Center (UMC)
Room: Art Gallery

This is a duo exhibition of new work from Scott Raby and Jason Sheppard. This exhibition will be open from Monday, Jan. 11 to Friday, Feb. 14. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. It would be great to see you at the opening on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 4:30 p.m.!

Plant/Insect Interaction: The Blanket Flower & Schinia Moth (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	12:30 PM

Main Campus - CU Museum (Henderson Building)

Schinia masoni, a moth, is bright red and yellow and yet is perfectly camoflaged: when it rests on the blanket flower that is. The moth positions itself so that its reddish wings are over the red disk flowers and its yellow thorax rests on the golden ray flowers. Learn more about this fascinating interaction and check out specimens during this informal conversaton, as Tim Hogan, Botany Collections Manager, and Virginia Scott, Entomology Collections Manager, bring their respective expertise to the topic. Cookies will be served. Event will take place between 12 -12:30 PM at the CU Museum of Natural History, Bio Lounge.

Women's Resource Center - "Rumor Has It" (2/9/2010)

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	12:30 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	1:30 PM

Main Campus - University Memorial Center (UMC)
Room: 416

"Rumor Has It" is a program the Women's Resource Center put together to help provide a connection between students, staff, and faculty and campus resources, as well as to build community while having difficult conversations about issues affecting women on and off campus. "Rumor Has It" meets on Tuesdays from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the WRC. For more information please visit www.colorado.edu/womensresourcecenter.

Weekly Schedule

2/2 Hip Hop and Gender Violence: What's the Connection? Jessica Ladd-Webert and Davian Gagne

2/16 Feminism 101: What does it mean to you? Lorraine Bayard de Volo

2/23 Representations and Exploitation of Women in the Media Michelle Miles

3/2 What Should a Healthy Relationship Look Like? Jessica Ladd-Webert

3/30 People of Color and the Queer Community Kevin Correa and Tanya Greathouse

Kitchen Table (2/9/2010)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	5:00 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	7:00 PM

Main Campus - University Memorial Center (UMC)
Room: 416

Kitchen Table is a casual, networking, social gathering for conversation about the experience of women of color and multiracial women.

Students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend. Enjoy food and music, network, strategize and relax together, while creating an affirming and empowering oasis.

Kitchen Table meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. For more information, please click here.

STAND Informational Meeting (2/9/2010)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	6:00 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	7:00 PM

Main Campus - University Memorial Center (UMC)
Room: 325

Join us for our STAND Informational Meetings every Tuesday from 6:00-7:00. Learn and talk about the genocide in Sudan and how we as students can make a difference. Plan events to spread awareness to the student body. Lobby with Congress to make effective change for countries like Sudan, Burma, and the Congo.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email us at stand@colorado.edu.

Improve Your Public Speaking Skills (2/9/2010)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	7:00 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010	End Time:	8:15 PM

Main Campus - Koelbel Building

Are you afraid of public speaking? If so, join our friendly and supportive club and you will: * Learn to communicate more effectively * Improve your presentation skills * Increase your leadership potential * Become more successful in your career * Build your ability to motivate and persuade * Reach your professional and personal goals * Increase your self confidence.

Graduate Student Recital: James Baumgardner, tenor (2/9/2010)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2010	Start Time:	7:30 PM
End Date:	2/9/2010

Main Campus - Imig Music
Room: Grusin Music Hall

Donizetti - "Quanto è bella" from L'elisir d'amore

Barber - Mélodies passagère

Copland - Selections from Old American Songs

Fauré - Poème d'un jour

Wolf - Selections from Italienisches Liederbuch

Donizetti - "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore