Office of Communications
December 6, 2010 - December 12, 2010
Scope Weekly

Monday Memo


Fall 2010 Scribner Seminars

Skidmore Cares gears up to meet community needs
Now in its fifth year, the program is again coordinating the efforts of students, faculty, and staff on behalf of those in need.

Music abounds as semester nears end
A number of concerts featuring student performers are scheduled.

Fall orchestra concert to celebrate composer Howard Hanson
The Skidmore orchestra also will "consecrate" Ladd Concert Hall at Thursday's performance.

Skidmore, Empire State to collaborate on immigration panel
Experts from each school will be featured in the conversation, which will be open to the public and streamed on the web.

Faculty-Staff Achievements
Victor Cahn and Evan Mack have new publications; Paul Arciero records an "Academic Minute" on avoiding weight gain during the holidays.

Thoroughbred Sports Update
Swimming and diving, ice hockey, and men's basketball top an action-packed weekend.

Daily Events

Monday 12/6

 

Skidmore Jazz Ensemble
Time: 8:00 PM- 10:00 PM

Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center

Mark Vinci, Coach


Skidmore Mobility Solutions Presentation
Time: 8:00 PM- 9:30 PM

Location: Palamountain Hall - Gannett Auditorium

Skidmore's ES-351 Sustainable Mobility Solutions class, under the direction of Jeff Olson, would like to invite you to a presentation and discussion about transportation at Skidmore. For the past several weeks, our class has been developing a Master Plan for transportation at Skidmore. This document, which will be completed by the end of the semester, will address issues of sustainability, safety, and feasibility for various mobility projects around campus. Once the document is completed, we plan to present our findings and visions with students, faculty, and staff at a public presentation. Our hope is to inspire interest across disciplines and fuel future transportation initiatives. Your attendance and input at this evening presentation would be greatly appreciated in helping us develop strategies for a more sustainable campus.


Tuesday 12/7

 

Women's Basketball vs. Potsdam
Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Williamson Sports and Recreation Center


 

Ice Hockey vs. Plattsburgh
Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Saratoga City Rink

 

Men's Basketball vs. Castleton
Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Williamson Sports and Recreation Center


Wednesday 12/8

The Skidmore Shop Holiday Sale and Fashion Show
Time: 11:15 AM- 11:00 PM

Location: Case Center - The Skidmore Shop and The Spa

Our annual Holiday Sale at The Skidmore Shop. A full day of fun. A chance to win up to 50% on your purchase (with some exceptions). Also enter to win two great prizes courtesy of Apple Computers. And then later that evening we will have our annual Skidmore Shop Fashion Show with great musical acts and food.


Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass
Time: 12:10 PM- 1:00 PM

Location: Wilson Memorial Chapel

Mass.


Classical Indian Dance Showing
Time: 5:30 PM

Location: Dance Center - Dance Theater

The Classical Indian dance class will perform with live musicians.


 

Skidmore String Ensembles
Time: 8:00 PM- 10:00 PM

Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center

Skidmore's talented string students present selections from the classic string literature.

Michael Emery, Coach


Thursday 12/9

Giving Circle Fair Trade Holiday Craft Sale - Information Table
Time: 10:30 AM- 3:30 PM

Location: Case Center

Mark Bertrand from The Giving Circle will be selling hand-crafted jewelry, scarves, hand-woven baskets and wooden sculptures from Jinja, Uganda.


Teach-In: Sex Trafficking in the U.S.
Time: 5:30 PM- 7:00 PM

Location: Case Center - Spa


FEATURED EVENT
 

Skidmore College Orchestra
Time: 8:00 PM- 10:00 PM

Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center

Anthony Holland, Music Director Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture (Op. 124) Maroney: The Ever-Fixed Mark Hanson: Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" Dohnanyi: Wedding Waltz


Friday 12/10

 

Men's Basketball vs. Trinity
Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Williamson Sports and Recreation Center


Drastic Measures A Capella Jam
Time: 8:00 PM

Location: Arthur Zankel Music Center

The Drastic Measures and guests will be performing a wide variety of a capella arrangements to raise money for ASPIRe NY, a local charity for teenagers with autism.


Sunday 12/12

 

Roman Catholic Mass
Time: 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM

Location: Wilson Memorial Chapel

Roman Catholic Mass.


Ongoing Events

FEATURED EVENT
  [7/17 - 4/17] Opener 20: Paula Hayes: Understory
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tang Teaching Museum - Payne Room
The Tang Museum is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. For information call 518-580-8080.

Paula Hayes creates living artworks that intimately connect people with the natural environment and each other. Her glass terrariums and indoor plantings fill the Tang's Payne Room, transforming it into an oasis-like setting for dinners and conversations around her custom designed table settings and dinnerware.


FEATURED EVENT
  [7/17 - 1/2] Opener 21: Suzanne Bocanegra: I Write the Songs
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tang Teaching Museum - Malloy Wing
The Tang Museum is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. For information call 518-580-8080.

From wall arrangements that map the work of the 17th century Flemish painter, Jan Brueghel the Elder, to a sound piece made in collaboration with a mathematician and classically trained opera singer, Suzanne Bocanegra's work springs from creative dialogues with a range of collaborators. Her most recent pieces have spilled out of the studio, taking the form of live performances that layer music, dance, theater, and audience interaction.


FEATURED EVENT
[9/7 - 1/2] Eye Rhymes
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tang Teaching Museum - Winter Gallery
The Tang Museum is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. For information call 518-580-8080.

Each of the works of art displayed in Eye Rhymes contains pictorial and linguistic elements that refuse to coexist but instead vie for the viewers attention-both sides grappling for power. While language can equalize, illuminate or de-saturate the image in front of us, the same image can just as easily intensify, distort or even betray the words we read.


FEATURED EVENT
[9/18 - 2/27] The Jewel Thief
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tang Teaching Museum - Wachenheim Gallery
The Tang Museum is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. For information call 518-580-8080.

"The Jewel Thief" combines works by sixty artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art. Through experiments with scale, color, material and space the exhibition will create an immersive environment that raises questions about art, and display and enables fresh takes on the specific works.


[10/9 - 2/27] Elevator Music 17: Peter Edwards
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tang Teaching Museum - Elevator
The Tang Museum is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. For information call 518-580-8080.

"Elevator Music 17 features a sound and light based sculpture by sound artist and instrument builder Peter Edwards. Describing himself as a "self-taught electrical engineer", Edwards' atypical approach to electronics has produced a unique and highly personalized outpouring of fantastical instruments. Edward's new work, consists of a cluster of reactive light and sound emitting orbs descending from the ceiling of the Tang's capacious elevator.


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