Two Union
College seniors — Juliane Moran and Chelsea S. Woodard — will present a
joint exhibition of their paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings May 24
through May 29 in the Arts Atrium Gallery.
A reception with the artists is
set for Thursday, May 27, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Moran's works, titled “In Mom's
Eyes,” is a collection of vivid floral paintings and prints based on digital
pictures taken by her mother. The paintings range in size from 28×30 inches to
40×62 inches, and the prints range in size from 3×5 inches to 9×9 inches.
Woodard's works, titled “Picture Album,” consist of
large paintings and works on paper. Her large paintings focus primarily on
people. The other works are watercolors and drawings.
This exhibition
is sponsored by Internal Education Fund and the Union College Arts Department.
Bob Dylan at San Remo Coffeehouse, Schenectady, Jan. 13, 1962
“Rolling Thunder: The Fifth Annual Bob Dylan Birthday
Celebration” is set for Thursday, May 27, at 6 p.m. in “The Sanctuary” at Old
Chapel at Union College.
The evening is open to the public and free. (A suggested
$5 donation will go to the Chris Ryan Scholarship Fund.)
In the fall of 1975, Dylan donned a gray felt hat and hit
the New England road with a wild and woolly cast of
characters the likes of which the rock world had never seen. Allen Ginsberg
stroked his beard and chanted at Kerouac's grave. Joan Baez donned a wedding
gown that fit her “like a snake.'' Roger McGuinn kept his attaché case phone close,
just in case he got shot. And pickers and hangers-on like Ramblin' Jack
Elliott, T Bone Burnett, Ronnie Blakely, Mick Ronson and Joni Mitchell made the
scene as surreal as they could on a nightly basis. Through it all, the thunder
never stopped. As playwright and tour scribe Sam Shepard put it, “Dylan's
cowboy boot heel drove a hole through the floor …”
“The Sanctuary gang can't hope to re-create the visionary
madness that was Rolling Thunder, but they will try,” said Dale Metzger,
organizer of the event.
The contemporary cast includes emcee Michael Eck, Los
Ramblers, The Rumdummies, Bryan Thomas, Greg Haymes, Mitch Elrod, Albie, Tom
Raider, Chris Busone, Zimmerbeat, Mario Sevayega, Roadside Blues Band, Carl
Smith, Dana Monteith's Iowa 80, Joe Pasko, Jason
Martin and others.
The evening starts with a barbecue outside of Old Chapel.
A pub menu and beverages will be available. And cake, naturally, will be served
to all who sing a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” to Bob, celebrating his
63rd birthday on May 24.
Old Chapel is located near the center of the Union campus,
accessible from the Union Street
entrance.
For more information contact Dale Metzger at 388-6124
(dalemetz99@aol.com) or
IDEAS, a new electronic
undergraduate journal on Asia created by Union students,
has issued a call for papers.
Members of the editorial board are
soliciting colleges and universities in the Americas,
Asia and Europe. The first issue
of the e-journal is scheduled for fall 2005.
The mission of IDEAS (International
Digest for the Expression of Asian Studies) is to encourage and support
undergraduate excellence in Asian Studies, according to Prof. Linda Patrik,
faculty advisor. It aims to build bridges between undergraduate researchers in
the Americas
and in Asia through their academic and artistic work.
Plans are to publish research
papers, artwork and multimedia pieces including new experiments in
technological media and digital art. “We want to explore the creative
possibilities offered by an electronic journal that cannot be offered by a
regular paper journal” Patrik said.
Members of the journal's editorial
board are Nat Brown, Aaron Edelstein, Sascha Donn and Beth Lee-Herbert. Tomas
Gold is the web designer. Angel Hart is graphic artist.
Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, and R. Douglas
Geivett, professor of philosophy in the Talbot School of Theology at Biola
University, La Mirada, Calif., will debate “Does God Exist?” on Monday, May 24,
at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel.
Geivett specializes in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and
philosophical theology. His published books include Contemporary
Perspectives on Religious Epistemology, co-edited with Brendan Sweetman
(Oxford University Press, 1992), Evil and the Evidence for God (Temple
University Press, 1993), and In Defense of Miracles, co-edited with Gary
R. Habermas (InterVarsity Press, 1997).
Shermer is director of the Skeptics Society, and the host of the
Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech. He is the author of Why People Believe
Weird Things (W. H. Freeman, 1997) and How We Believe: The Search for
God in an Age of Science (W. H. Freeman, 1999). His analysis and
debunking of Holocaust denial can be found in his book Denying History,
co-authored with Alex Grobman (in press). He has his own radio show, Science Talk With Michael Shermer, on
NPR. He has contributed to documentaries aired on A & E, The
Discovery Channel, and the Learning Channel.
The debate has been organized by
students of Psychology 135: The Psychology of Religion, and the Psychology
Department.
The
1993 award-winning play, Six Degrees of
Separation, will be performed by Theater Union through Saturday, May 22 at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m.
The
play, directed by Prof. Joanne Yarrow, is based on a true-life incident. It reveals
in alternately comic and dramatic portrayals, the delicate “threads of chance”
that mysteriously wend through our lives.
The
plot centers on an urbane conman's sophisticated incursion into the lives of Manhattan's Upper Eastside gentry. Arriving bloodied and battered
on a couple's doorstep after being “mugged,” he reveals that he is Sidney
Poitier's son and their son's college chum. Intelligent, articulate, and witty,
the young man soon inveigles his way into their lives. The dénouement comes
when his ruse unravels and the couple learns that others in their social set
have been similarly scammed. Yet, their lives have been touched by their shared
experience.
“[The
play] presents us with a myriad of social issues and questions,” Yarrow explains.
“John Guare, the playwright, brings to the stage the subjects of homosexuality,
racism, classism and the indirect relationship we have to all other human
beings on this planet. The play is an act of self-reflection through
storytelling and the sharing of an experience. It questions our morals, our
values, our depth, our reality, our humanity and above all our imagination. It
is a play that lets you laugh, cry and think. The play is about the imagination
and, as one of the characters states: 'The imagination is not our escape – it is
the place we are all trying to get to.'”
Theater
Union's production is different, Yarrow says,
in that “We are setting it in the present time, in a cocktail bar with the
audience sitting on three sides of the theatre.”
The
play won an Oliver Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
For
tickets and information, call the Yulman Theater box office at ext. 6545.
