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Campus Events October, 2000 |
Visiting writer reads selected poems
The Wells College Visiting Writer Series welcomes a poet to campus. On Wednesday, October 4, Rhina Espaillat will read selections from Where Horizons Go. The reading will be held at 8:00 pm in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall, and is free and open to the public.
Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic and writes in both Spanish and English. Where Horizons Go was selected by X. J. Kennedy for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1998.
The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several more writers will be on campus during the academic year. For more information about the series and readings, please call 315-364-3228.
German big band to play at Wells
The award-winning Smoke Revival Orchestra of Bad Arolsen, Germany, will perform at Wells College on Thursday, October 12. The band will play in the Sommer Student Center at 7:30 pm. The concert is free and the public is warmly invited to attend.
The 25 members of this German high school/college band are on an
American tour that includes a stop in the Finger Lakes after
performances at the German consulate in New York City and in Lancaster,
PA. The group will make Aurora its home base for four days beginning
October 9, compliments of Wells College. Band members range in age from
12 - 32 years, and the group's repertoire extends from the swing music
of the '40s to Latin to rockjazz.
In previous years, the Orchestra has presented its jazz repertoire to audiences from as far away as Western Siberia, Moscow, and Poland. These spirited young Europeans have recorded two CDs that attest to their outstanding playing and the quality of their rousing lead singers.
The relationship that culminates in the group's visit to Aurora began
two years ago when Wells German professor Waltraut Deinert returned to
Bad Arolsen, where she was raised. While there, she met Smoke Revival's
director and tour leader, Werner Sostmann. The two established an
exchange that took the Wells College chamber singers to Germany last
summer and now brings the German band to upstate New York.
Link to Smoke Revival Orchestra Web site
(photos, audio, history, etc.).
Performance poet Glenis Redmond comes to Wells
Performance poet Glenis Redmond will inspire and
captivate the audience on Saturday, October 14 when she comes to the
Wells College campus. Beginning at 8:00 pm in the Sommer Student Center,
Redmond will present her poetry in performances that cause the printed
word to spring from the page and dance, sing, weep, and laugh. The event
is free and the public is cordially invited to share in this uplifting,
thought-provoking evening.
Redmond tells stories with her poetry - from her life, her family, her African-American culture, and her sensitive observations from the world around her - inspiring audiences of all ages. She is a poet, educator, performer, and counselor all rolled into one passionate soul.
Although she began writing poetry at the age of 12, Glenis put literary pursuits aside to earn a masters degree and pursue a career in family counseling. While enrolled in a doctoral program, life circumstances caused her to rediscover her love of poetry. She has won numerous awards and scholarships, including placing in the top ten in 1996 and 1997 for the National Individual Poetry Slam Championship.
Redmond is the author of two published books, Naming It and If I Ain't African. She has also released a video of performance poetry, "Mama's Magic," and an audiotape entitled "Coming Forth." She has traveled the world and shared her poetry in performance, residencies, and workshops with audiences as varied as schools, juvenile detention centers, coffeehouses, performing arts centers, and educational television.
Wells College presents fall Book Arts lecture
"The Book Cover Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman" is the title of this fall's Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture to be held at Wells College on Wednesday, October 18. The event will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the college's Art Exhibit Room, and is free and open to the public.
Sue Allen, book cover designer and lecturer, will tell the tale of Sarah Wyman Whitman, an artist and society leader living in Boston's Beacon Hill area between 1890 - 1900. A charter member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, Whitman worked in the brilliant style representative of the turn of the century. Her extraordinary book covers are still an inspiration to designers and collectors around the world.
"My interest in Whitman's covers grew out of my own work designing covers for university and library publication," states Allen. "I look at all 19th century covers from the designer's viewpoint, and Whitman's work is truly remarkable."
Allen is currently writing a book entitled Gold on Cloth: American Book Covers 1830 - 1910. The volume describes the materials, technology, and changing styles that are found on 19th-century book covers, a subject that she has taught for the past seven years. Allen has an art school background and is trained in graphic design. She is a lecturer at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Wells College has an incomparable resource in the Book Arts Center, which consists of the Wells College Press and the Class of 1932 Bindery. The center functions as a learning center, sponsoring classes, exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, workshops and symposia in the fine arts, literary arts, bookbinding, printing, publishing, and related fields. It is a classroom, laboratory, and a library for information and inspiration, and serves as a magnet for all who wish to study the art of the book.
Victor Hammer, the world-renowned printer, founded the Wells College Press in 1941. Hammer operated the press until his retirement in 1948. In 1991, the college established the Book Arts Center in order to continue the Hammer tradition.
The lecture series is made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established and sustained through the generosity of Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60.
Philly's top female comic comes to Wells College
Comedienne Chris Rich returns to Wells College by popular demand. Rich will perform in the Sommer Student Center on Thursday, October 19 at 8:00 pm. The show is free and the public is welcome to attend.
Rich began her performing career as an actress/singer/dancer in numerous musicals: "I did Oklahoma! so many times I qualified for Farm Aid," she quips. From those beginnings emerged a comic who tries to hold her one-liners to the smooth, polished writing standard of a Noel Coward play, and strives to inject her musical impressions with some of the intellectual mischief of a Stephen Sondheim or Gilbert & Sullivan comedy piece.
Her act covers a wide range of absurdities, including travel, fashion, wrestling, and today's society. One critic raved: "Chris Rich is unbelievably good. From the minute she took the stage, she could do no wrong. Not just a stand-up, she's a versatile cabaret performer who incorporates character sketches and song parodies into an act that's a pure joy." LaSalle College's student newspaper The Collegian says, "Her show has been unrivaled since her appearance. She had the audience rolling!"
Chris was selected by a Philadelphia Magazine poll as Philly's Funniest Female. She has been featured on many cable comedy events, including a HA! Comedy Network special with Kevin Meany. She's done several USO tours, packing and unpacking daily throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, and Japan.
Friday and Saturday, October 20 and 21
The Wells College Theatre Department performs An Evening of Laughter and Lampoons
The Wells College Theatre Department invites you to
experience An Evening of Laughter and Lampoons on Friday and Saturday,
October 20 and 21. The production will begin at 7:30 pm each night in
Phipps Auditorium. The cost for the evening's entertainment is $4 for
students with ID and children, $5 for senior citizens and members of the
Wells community, and $7 for the general public.
An Evening of Laughter and Lampoons features four thought-provoking one-act comedies that are sure to leave the audience weak from laughter. The inaugural play, Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit, features an eclectic mix of the past's most prominent female figures. In the play, mental health becomes a matter of historical proportions when characters such as Gertrude Stein and Joan of Arc devise a diabolical plan to save the Women's Ward from the Men's Ward.
In Words, Words, Words, by David Ives, three research monkeys in
captivity contemplate existence and whether "to be or not to be" when
they are put to the test and must produce Shakespeare's Hamlet in order
to gain freedom.
Tina Howe's play about a dentist and his patient will have you buzzing
with laughter as you go "under the drill" and examine life in terms of
loose fillings and recurring dreams about Teeth.
If you like only the barest essentials, Tom Stoppard's classic The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet is the play for you. This ode to efficiency crams every dramatic pause and punchline of Shakespeare's original into one-quarter hour. Come see why critics have referred to each of these plays as being "a hit, a very palpable hit!"
An Evening of Laughter and Lampoons applies the combined directing talents of Professor Susan Forbes and technical director Joseph DeForest. Professor Forbes holds a B.F.A. in Acting/Directing from Kent State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from Ohio University. Her directing credits include Tartuffe, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nunsense, Crimes of the Heart, and Acts of Menace. In addition to her directing experience, Professor Forbes has also acted in numerous plays, including Top Girls, As You Like It, and The Club. DeForest holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from the State University of New York at Cortland. He has served as Wells' technical and scenic director since 1993. DeForest's professional directorial credits include Sleuth, The Rainmaker, and Godspell.
An Evening of Laughter and Lampoons is also compiled of many talented
actors. Wells students appearing in the production are Nicolle Brending,
Maeve Gould, Darlynne Stefanko, Khady Kamara, Mary Moskowitz, Diana
Gallego, Lisa Knight, Angela Dockwiller, Kristen Wilson, and Catherine
(Katie) Mack. For tickets and information, call the Wells College Box
Office at 315-364-3456.
Also available:
Photo from Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit
Renowned Welsh poet in residence at Wells College
Leslie Norris, renowned Welsh poet and short story writer, will be in residence at Wells College the week of October 30 - November 3. He will read from his works on Tuesday, October 31 at 8:00 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
Author of numerous works of poetry and fiction, including Collected Stories and Collected Poems, both published in 1996, Mr. Norris is revisiting Wells to celebrate the publication of two new books: Albert and the Angels, a Christmas story for children published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Norris's Ark, a collection of his poems for children first published in 1988 and recently reprinted by the Wells College Press. Wells Press had published an earlier volume of his poems, Holy Places, in 1998.
Regarded as among the foremost contemporary writers in English, Mr. Norris has been the recipient of many honors and awards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain and the Welsh Academy, and serves currently as Humanities Professor of Creative Writing at Brigham Young University, where he has taught since 1983.
Like his fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, Mr. Norris is a celebrated reader of his own work. He is this year's Virginia Kent Cummins Writer-in-Residence at Wells College.
The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several more writers will be on campus during the academic year. For more information about the series and readings, please call 315-364-3228.
Wednesday, October 4 - Saturday, November 4
Two sculptors exhibit as one
The diverse sculpture of Rochester artists Richard
Metzgar and Paul Bartow will be merged into one show at Wells College in
October. An opening reception honoring the artists will be held on
Wednesday, October 4 at 7:00 pm in the String Room Gallery. The show
runs through November 4 and is free and open to the public.
Both sculptors received master in fine arts degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and are stipend recipients from the New York Foundation on the Arts. Bartow and Metzgar are collaborating to make connections between their two bodies of work and create new visual linkages through the use of organization and placement.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Wednesday nights 7:00 - 9:00 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
Work from "Object Series 1998" by John Bartow
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September, 1999
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March, 1998
February, 1998
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