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Sunday, Oct. 26 - Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008
Nature (Re)Made: Genomics and Art
October 26–December 7
A growing number of artists have sought inspiration in genomics and biotechnology, including choreographer Liz Lerman, whose Ferocious Beauty: Genome (to be performed at the Williams Center on November 14. The artists included in Nature (Re)Made conduct explorations revolving around genetic research and the effect of biotechnology in health care and environmental concerns. Thursday, November 13, 4:00-6:00 pm, Lecture by Ellen Levy, Williams - Room 108 Monday, Nov. 17 - Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
Ten Thousand Villages SALES Festival
As part of Lafayette's annual participation in International Education Week, the International Students Association is seeking to raise awareness of the grave food crisis in Zimbabwe. To raise financial support for the thousands of starving people there, we are holding a Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale: Monday November 17-21 at 11-1pm & 5-7pm. This is a great opportunity to buy great gifts for those special people. Free gift wrapping. Come stop by and see what you might find!
ISA room, Farinon Student Center
Thursday, Nov. 20 - Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
7 p.m.
Sweet Fringe Sixteen
Original plays, theater pieces, performance art and a stroll down medieval memory lane with ax and crowbar: something different every evening. College Theater celebrates the new, different, and almost profound in the 16th annual challenge to think about theater in new ways...for free!!
NOTE TIME CHANGE! Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
12 - 1 p.m.
Education in Asia
If you are interested to know why your fellow Chinese classmate finishes his math homework in a jiffy while you toil the whole night, then come and know the secrets behind it! Free Food will be provided!!!
This brownbag is a part of International Education Week 2008 hosted by International Students Association (ISA). Marlo Room Center, Farinon Student Center
12 p.m.
Philadelphia Chapter Leopard Luncheon
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Lafayette Alumni Association cordially invites you to join them for the November Leopard Luncheon. The presentation topic will be Lafayette-Lehigh #144.
Reservations are requested. Questions? Contact Event Coordinator John "Bruiser" Kinard '52, (215) 885-4794. Make your check payable to the Philadelphia Chapter of the Lafayette Alumni Association and mail to: John Kinard '52 209 Buttonwood Way Glenside, PA 19038 12:15 - 1 p.m.
Externship Orientation
Find out what to expect and what is expected of you! Required for students planning an Externship.
CAREER SERVICES 224 Oechsle Hall
Price: Free
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Knee Deep and Risin' Round Table Discussion
Knee Deep and Risin', created by Jim Toia and Noah Vawter, is a multimedia installation of video and audio feeds from both waterways. Infrared sensors, triggered by visitors' moving the exhibition screens, activate live and recorded video and audio, simulating flood events from fresh perspectives.
Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery at Williams Visual Arts Building
Price: Free
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Knee Deep and Risin' Reception for the Artists
Knee Deep and Risin', created by Jim Toia and Noah Vawter, is a multimedia installation of video and audio feeds from both waterways. Infrared sensors, triggered by visitors' moving the exhibition screens, activate live and recorded video and audio, simulating flood events from fresh perspectives.
Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery at Williams Visual Arts Building
Price: Free
6 p.m.
Central Pennsylvania Chapter Annual Dinner
The Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Lafayette Alumni Association cordially invites alumni, parents, and friends to the chapter's annual dinner featuring Barry McCarty, former Dean of Enrollment Services. Barry will discuss recruiting prospective students from the Far East.
6:00 p.m. Cocktail reception (cash bar) w/ light hors d'oeuvres 7:00 p.m. Dinner REGISTER ONLINE! CLICK BELOW Questions and/or assistance registering for this event? Contact Alumni Affairs, alumni@lafayette.edu or (610) 330-5040. 7:30 p.m.
LALV Annual Dinner with Head Footbal Coach Frank Tavani and Lafayette Senior Football Players
Join Lafayette Head Football Coach Frank Tavani and the senior members of the Lafayette football team for the LALV's annual dinner at the Pomfret Club.
Event cost: $30; the LALV kindly ask for you to consider defraying the cost of its student guests with a player sponsorship of $15 or more. Reservations with payment in full and a check made out to "Lafayette College-LALV" should be made by Thursday, November 6. Please send to: Chas Snyder '78 2354 Second Street Easton, PA 18042 Questions? Contact event chair June Vail '79, (610) 258-0552 or jav115@rcn.com or Ted Veresink '68, tjv8145@yahoo.com The Pomfret Club 33 S. 4th St. Easton, PA 18042
Price: $30 (includes the Pomfret Club's famous full hot buffet); cash bar is available
8 - 10 p.m.
AIDS Awareness Speaker Daniel Bauer (Rescheduled)
Daniel Bauer has appeared on WB, FOX and NBC networks; and has delivered mind-blowing productions at sold out arenas across the globe including the United States, Europe, Russia, Central America and the Caribbean.
While on the rise to becoming one of the world's greatest magicians and escape artists, at the launch of a second world-tour, in 2002, he was diagnosed with HIV. Daniel Bauer, today, stands strong in the fight against the perceptions and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and speaks out. He has led motivational workshops, lectures and speeches across the nation sharing deep personal experiences of what it is like to live with HIV / AIDS and what it could be like to live with HIV / AIDS if people will only listen and take action to change the climate of bias and prejudice. Sponsored by QuEST. 8 p.m.
The John Hatfield Lecture, Friends of Skillman Library
"Reading Culture, Reading Race." Karla F.C. Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English, Law, and Women's Studies at Duke University, will deliver the annual Hatfield Lecture on themes from her recent book, BOOKMARKS, a study of the literary convention among black authors to list and reference the books they have read in their autobiographical writings.
Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
Price: free and open to the public
11 - 5 p.m.
Knee Deep and Risin'
The Grossman Gallery, in the Williams Visual Arts Building, is one block from the Delaware River and sits directly over the Bushkill Creek. Both bodies of water have overflowed their banks in recent years. Knee Deep and Risin', created by Jim Toia and Noah Vawter, is a multimedia installation of video and audio feeds from both waterways. Infrared sensors, triggered by visitors' moving the exhibition screens, activate live and recorded video and audio, simulating flood events from fresh perspectives. Knee Deep and Risin' is an interdisciplinary project by Lafayette College's Department of Computer Science, Department of Art, Grossman Gallery, Community Based Teaching Program, and the Lehigh Valley Performing Arts High School.
Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery at Williams Visual Arts Building
Price: Free
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