Monday Memo
 Winter sports completes the final weekend of regular season Reg Lilly to deliver 2010 Moseley Lecture Ying Quartet named Sterne Artists, festival collaborators UN teleconference wraps Focus Skidmore Saratoga Reads lists events for all ages Creative Thought at Work: Josh Dorman '88 Klezmatics to return for Perlow event Thoroughbred Athletics: Tournament bound! Faculty-Staff Achievements
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Daily Events
Monday 2/22
| Sixth Annual Jon Ramsey Honors Forum Lecture
Time: 5:00 PM Location: Palamountain Hall: Gannett Auditorium |
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Summer Job Info Session: Apogee Adventures of Brunswick, ME (Open to campus community only.)
Time: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM Location: Starbuck Center: 2nd Fl Conf Rm Apogee Adventures offers outdoor adventure travel to young adults. We provide students with safe, well-designed trips to spectacular outdoor locations. We travel in small, supportive, co-ed groups led by dynamic, responsible and well-trained leaders. In this environment, students learn about themselves and others through physical challenge and community service. Hiring for Summer Trip Leaders. |
Tuesday 2/23
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Apogee Adventures Interviews (Open to campus community only.)
Time: 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM Location: Starbuck Center: 204 Apogee Adventures offers outdoor adventure travel to young adults. We provide students with safe, well-designed trips to spectacular outdoor locations. We travel in small, supportive, co-ed groups led by dynamic, responsible and well-trained leaders. In this environment, students learn about themselves and others through physical challenge and community service. Hiring for Summer Trip Leaders. |
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| Noon-Curator's Tour: Fred Tomaselli
Time: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM Location: Tang Teaching Museum: Malloy Wing Noon-Curator's Tour: "Fred Tomaselli" with Ian Berry, Malloy Curator, Tang Museum |
| Religioius Life Dialogues
Time: 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM Location: Case Center: ICC Religious Life Dialogues?an opportunity to look at current issues from a religious perspective.2/23?Grieving a personal loss? Dialogue with Amy Mitchell, Skidmore Counseling Center. Led by Rick Chrisman, Religious and Spiritual Life Office. |
Wednesday 2/24
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| Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Research Lecture
Time: 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM Location: Palamountain Hall: Gannett Auditorium |
Thursday 2/25
| Honors Forum Spring Induction
Time: 5:30 PM- 7:00 PM Location: Palamountain Hall: Davis Auditorium |
| Opening Reception: Visual Poetry Exhibition
Time: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM Location: Case Center: Case Gallery The 6th annual Visual Poetry Exhibition in Case Gallery features original artworks by Skidmore students, faculty, and staff that explores the intersection of poetry and visual art. For more information or instructions on how to submit on February 22, contact mjablons@skidmore.edu or abernar1@skidmore.edu. Exhibition co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Art and Case Gallery and Schick Art Gallery (staff and student assistants). |
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| Concert: The Klezmatics
Time: 8:00 PM Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center The Klezmatics are globally-renowned world music superstars, and the only klezmer band to win a Grammy award. The Klezmatics emerged out of the vibrant cultural scene of New York City's East Village in 1986 with klezmer steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism and eclectic musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and punk. In the course of over twenty years and nine albums they have stubbornly continued making music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective and ecstatically danceable.
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Friday 2/26
| Alumni(Trustee) Back to Campus: Kareen Thorpe '02 - Foreign service & State Dept. (Open to campus community only.)
Time: 3:00 PM- 4:30 PM Location: Ladd Hall: 206 Kareen graduated Skidmore in 2002 with a Bachelor's in Linguistics. She then participated in the Teach English in China program, lived and taught English in China at two different Chinese universities for 2 years. She was then invited to become a Thomas R. Pickering Fellow of the Department of State and received a Master's in International Affairs at American University.Kareen is a Diplomat (Foreign Service Officer) and has worked at the Department of State in various capacities including at our U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, U.S. Embassy Kigali, Rwanda and she just returned from a tour at our U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Kareen is slated to be the Public Affairs Officer at our U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg and will be leaving Spring 2010. Kareen is competent in Kiswahili, French, Chinese, and Spanish.
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| "Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Pre-Professional Programs" (Open to faculty only)
Time: 3:30 PM Location: Ladd Hall: room 307 Grants Writing Workshop open to all faculty |
Saturday 2/27
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| Skidmore College String Festival featuring Sterne Virtuoso Series artists The Ying Quartet
Time: 8:00 PM Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center: Helen Ladd Concert Hall The Ying Quartet, as part of the Skidmore College String Festival Sterne Virtuoso Series |
Sunday 2/28
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Sunday Eucharist
Time: 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM Location: Wilson Memorial Chapel |
Ongoing Events
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[6/6 - 4/25] Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek
Location: Tang Teaching Museum: Tang Museum Amazement Park; Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek-a yearlong exhibition |
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[7/18 - 3/14] "Lives of the Hudson"
Location: Tang Teaching Museum: Tang Museum "Lives of the Hudson" exhibition at the Tang Museum |
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| [2/6 - 6/6] Tang Exhibition-"Fred Tomaselli"
Location: Tang Teaching Museum: Malloy Wing Tang Exhibition: "Fred Tomaselli" February 6 - June 6, 2010 This survey shows the trajectory of Tomaselli's career, from early experiments with photography and collage to recent paintings and prints that combine abstraction with allusions to current events. Tomaselli's paintings explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions. |
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| [2/9 - 3/28] Schick Exhibition: 2010 Skidmore Student Exhibition
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Saisselin Art Center: Schick Art Gallery Guest juror for this year's Skidmore Student Exhibition is NYC artist Dawn Clements. She will select a number of works in a variety of media that were completed by Skidmore students during 2009. Original ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, electronic media, fiber arts, metals, photography, printmaking, and sculpture will be submitted. About one third of submissions are typically chosen for exhibit, and around 200 entries are received annually. Visit the gallery website for details. |
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