University of Idaho Events for March 23-29
Friday, March 13 2009
March 13, 2009
Written by Jeremy Bennett
MOSCOW, Idaho- The following is a list of University of Idaho-sponsored events for the week of March 23-29. Events will take place in Moscow, and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, March 24
Cooking Demonstration
Noon
Student Recreation Center, Classroom
1000 Paradise Creek St. in Moscow
Verna Bergmann will demonstrate "The Egg and You: Creating Your Own Quick, Healthy Inexpensive Meal." Free samples and recipes will be available. No registration is required.
University Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series
12:30 p.m.
Idaho Commons, Whitewater Room
875 S. Line St. in Moscow
Adam Sowards, professor of history, will present "Narrating Nature: Telling Stories about the Columbia River." The University Interdisciplinary Colloquium is a series of lectures by distinguished members of the University of Idaho faculty and staff presenting and describing their approach to teaching and/or research in their respective disciplines. For more information, call (208) 885-5997 or visit www.class.uidaho.edu/uic/.
Alternate Routes to Gaining Experience
5 p.m.
Idaho Commons, Horizon Room
875 S. Line St. in Moscow
A Career and Professional Planning center workshop for students interested in the Peace Corps, Americorps, JET or CORO. For more information visit www.capp.uidaho.edu.
Wednesday, March 25
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival Presentation
Noon
Idaho Commons, Whitewater Room
875 S. Line St. in Moscow
Presentation by filmmaker Sonya Rosario and Amy Trice, former chief of the Kootenai Tribe as a preview to the evening's screening of “Idaho’s Forgotten War: A Lost Tale of Courage.”
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival presents “Idaho’s Forgotten War: A Lost Tale of Courage”
7 p.m.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main in Moscow
In 1974, Amy Trice declared war on the U.S. government. The then-chief of the Kootenai Tribe saw it as a way to save her people who had lost their lands, culture and hunting rights. Trice’s story, told through the motion picture “Idaho’s Forgotten War: A Lost Tale of Courage,” is one of five films to be featured at the University of Idaho’s Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival March 25-28. Trice and film director Sonya Rosario will be at the film’s screening on opening night.
Screening of "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas"
7 p.m.
Student Union Building, Borah Theater
The Indie Foreign Film Series presents "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas." Set during World War II, it's a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. For more information, visit www.sub.uidaho.edu/IndieFilms.
Reading by Poet B.H. Fairchild
7:30 p.m.
College of Law Courtroom
711 Rayburn in Moscow
As part of Creative Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, B. H. Fairchild will read from his works in the College of Law Courtroom.
Student Saxophone Recital
7:30 p.m.
Lionel Hampton School of Music Recital Hall
1010 Blake Ave. in Moscow
Phillip Morin will perform on saxophone. For more information, contact the Lionel Hampton School of Music at (208) 885-6231.
Thursday, March 26
History, Culture and Society: Cross-Disciplinary Lecture Series
12:30 p.m.
Administration Building, Room 330
851 Campus Drive
John Mihelich, assistant professor of anthropology, will speak at the "History, Culture, and Society: Cross-Disciplinary Contacts and Exchanges in the Humanities and Social Sciences" lecture series.
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival Presents “Maria Tallchief” and "We Shall Remain"
7 p.m.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main in Moscow
“Maria Tallchief” documents the life and artistry of America’s first prima ballerina, Tallchief, who danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the New York City Ballet. The evening also will include a preview of PBS’s new American Experience series, "We Shall Remain," which tells Native history from a Native perspective, presented by American Experience series manager, Jim Dunbar.
Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers
7:30 p.m.
Hartung Theatre
625 Stadium Way in Moscow
The original music composition and dance choreography for Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers represents one of the few fully collaborative efforts at the university between two departments. The dance and music departments work together on the production from conception to performance. The student talent showcased during DDD is phenomenal, evident by not just the uniqueness of the music, dance and ensembles, but also by the power of the entertainment. It is co-directed by Dan Buckvich from the Lionel Hampton School of Music and Greg Halloran from the Dance Department in the College of Education. All dances are performed to original, live music and composed by faculty and students. Also will run March 27-28 at 7 p.m., with a Saturday, March 28, matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the University of Idaho Ticket Office at (208) 885-6466, and from www.TicketsWest.com. The cost is $8 to $11.
Friday, March 27
Book Signing by Gundars Rudzitis
2 p.m.
University of Idaho Bookstore
706 Deakin Ave
Gundars Rudzitis, professor of geography, will sign copies of his book "Future Visions of a Sustainable Palouse."
Screening of “Water”
Noon
Memorial Gym, Room 109
1001 University Ave. in Moscow
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi, India. It is part of the Women’s Center Film Series.
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival Presents “Frozen River"
7 p.m.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main in Moscow
"Frozen River" received the grand jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and an Academy Award nominee for best actress and best screenplay. The film takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women – one white, one Mohawk, both single
mothers faced with desperate circumstances – are drawn into the world of border
smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Rated R for language.
Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers
7:30 p.m.
Hartung Theatre
625 Stadium Way in Moscow
The original music composition and dance choreography for Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers represents one of the few fully collaborative efforts at the university between two departments. The dance and music departments work together on the production from conception to performance. The student talent showcased during DDD is phenomenal, evident by not just the uniqueness of the music, dance and ensembles, but also by the power of the entertainment. It is co-directed by Dan Buckvich from the Lionel Hampton School of Music and Greg Halloran from the Dance Department in the College of Education. All dances are performed to original, live music and composed by faculty and students. Also will run Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the University of Idaho Ticket Office at (208) 885-6466, and from www.TicketsWest.com. The cost is $8 to $11.
Saturday, March 28
Student Vocal Recital
4 p.m.
Lionel Hampton School of Music Recital Hall
1010 Blake Ave. in Moscow
Vocalist Errin Patton will perform a vocal recital. For more information, contact the Lionel Hampton School of Music at (208) 885-6231.
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Festival presents “I Look at Indians, I Look at Myself" and "The Exiles"
7 p.m.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main in Moscow
“I Look at Indians, I Look at Myself" follows an urban Indian as he performs his daily routine and ponders what it means to be a Native in an environment where Native culture is buried under the weight of high-density living and global consumerism. The evening also includes a screening of "The Exiles." Presented by Sherman Alexie and Charles Burnett, "The Exiles" is a recently restored and critically acclaimed 1961 film about Indians from reservations who had relocated to Los Angeles. It chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles – transplants from Southwest reservations – as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance. Gritty, realistic and far ahead of its time, in a period when Hollywood films featured noble savages, the script for was created exclusively from recorded interviews with the participants and with their ongoing input during the shooting of the film. Native American writers and activists have long considered the film as one of first works of art to portray modern life honestly and as an important forerunner for the cultural renaissance of American Indian fiction, poetry, filmmaking and theater starting in the 1970s. Erik Daarstad, a cinematographer from "The Exiles,, will speak at the screening.
Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers
2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Hartung Theatre
625 Stadium Way in Moscow
The original music composition and dance choreography for Dancers, Drummers, Dreamers represents one of the few fully collaborative efforts at the university between two departments. The dance and music departments work together on the production from conception to performance. The student talent showcased during DDD is phenomenal, evident by not just the uniqueness of the music, dance and ensembles, but also by the power of the entertainment. It is co-directed by Dan Buckvich from the Lionel Hampton School of Music and Greg Halloran from the Dance Department in the College of Education. All dances are performed to original, live music and composed by faculty and students. Tickets are available at the University of Idaho Ticket Office at (208) 885-6466, and from www.TicketsWest.com. The cost is $8 to $11.
Sunday, March 29
Student Vocal Recital
4 p.m.
Lionel Hampton School of Music Recital Hall
1010 Blake Ave. in Moscow
Vocalists Miranda Taff and Victoria Cook will perform. For more information, contact the Lionel Hampton School of Music at (208) 885-6231.
Borah Symposium: "Building Health, Building Peace"
7 p.m.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Center
508 S Main St
The four-day symposium begins with a documentary film presentation of “Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma." An introduction and commentary will be provided by representatives of Doctors Without Borders. The 88-minute documentary explores the act of triage as the ultimate humanitarian nightmare. Racing against time with limited resources, relief workers make split-second decisions: who gets treatment; who gets food; who lives; who dies. Director Patrick Reed follows Orbinski on a heart-wrenching journey back to the lands and people whose life-and-death struggle marked him forever. Orbinski accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières as their president, and was a field doctor during the Somali famine and the Rwandan genocide. The film is produced by Peter Raymont of White Pine Pictures, the creative team of the Emmy Award-winning "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire." The Borah Symposium is sponsored by the university’s William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation, a separately endowed foundation at the University of Idaho established in 1929 to honor and continue the work of Idaho Sen. William Borah on behalf of peace. For more information, visit www.martin.uidaho.edu/borah.
Student Cello Recital
7:30 p.m.
Lionel Hampton School of Music Recital Hall
1010 Blake Ave. in Moscow
Mari Hubbe will perform on cello. For more information, contact the Lionel Hampton School of Music at (208) 885-6231.
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