Finckel-Han concert cancelled due to weather. Plans
underway to reschedule. For more information, please call (518) 372-3651.
Exhibits
Through Feb. 27
Dyson
Hall, Nott Memorial
“Friends: One Day, One Wrong Turn” about the effects of a November 2000 car crash
Jan. 20 through March 13
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Walter Hatke: Recent Work”
Opening reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Jan. 20, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Through Feb. 14
Burns Arts Atrium Gallery
“Moku Hanga at Union,” an exhibition of contemporary Japanese woodcuts. Gallery talk on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 11 a.m. with artist April Vollmer.
Through March 18
Social Sciences Gallery
Photographs from anthropology term in Tasmania
Events
Thursday, Jan. 20, 4:30 p.m.
Phi Beta Kappa Room, Schaffer Library
Philosophy speaker series presents Tamar Gendler of Cornell University
on “The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance.”
Thursday, Jan. 20, 5 to 7 p.m.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
Opening reception and gallery talk with Walter Hatke, May I. Baker Professor of
Fine Arts. “Walter Hatke: Recent Work” runs through March 13.
Friday, Jan. 21, 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center
Auditorium
Faculty meeting with Frank Messa '73, trustee and chair of the presidential
search committee.
Friday, Jan. 21, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles
Center
Women's hockey vs. St. Lawrence
Friday, Jan. 21, through Monday, Jan. 24, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center
Auditorium
Movie: Ladder 49
Saturday, Jan. 22, 2 p.m.
Pool, Alumni Gymnasium
Men's and women's swimming vs. Middlebury
Saturday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. St. Lawrence
Sunday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College chamber series presents David Finckel, cello, and Wu Han, piano
Monday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m.
Old Chapel
TV and stage comedian Byron Yee performs
his one-man show, Paper Son, about Yee's own journey in heartland
America to discover his Chinese heritage.
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 4:15 p.m.
Humanities 112
Students and Prof. Bonney MacDonald share experiences and photos from their
mini-term on American West at Double E Ranch in New Mexico
Friday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Vermont
Saturday, Jan. 29, 4 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Vermont
Friday, Jan. 28, through Monday, Jan. 31, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center
Auditorium
Movie: Shark Tale
Sunday, Jan. 30, 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College chamber series presents Emerson String Quartet in part 1 of all-Mendelssohn
program (part 2 set for Feb. 6)
Show focuses on Japanese woodcuts
“Moku Hanga,” the traditional printmaking
technique of Japan, will be
featured in an exhibition by eight woodblock artists living in North America in the College's Burns Arts Atrium Gallery through
Feb. 14.
A
gallery talk is scheduled for Feb.10, at 11 a.m. with April Vollmer, one of the
artists. Other artists are Suezan Aikins, Takuji Hamanaka, Daniel Heyman, Mike
Lyon, Bill Paden, Yasu Shibata, Keji Shinohara.
This
exhibition presents work by contemporary artists outside Japan, accomplished artists who cut
and print their own blocks to make original prints.
The
work of these artists demonstrates the possibilities of hanga woodcut as a
medium for contemporary expression. The exhibit explores a “flexible, non-toxic
printmaking process with a historical and cultural connection to Japan
and to an exciting period in world printmaking.”
‘Paper Son’ explores Chinese heritage
TV and stage comedian Byron Yee will perform his one-man show, Paper Son, about Yee's own journey in heartland America to discover his Chinese heritage on Monday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel.
Sponsored by Union's East Asian Studies program, the show is free and open to the public.
The comedic and heartfelt production, directed by Glen Chin, explores the passage of Yee's life from Oklahoma to San Francisco, where he learns the nature of poems carved into walls on Angel Island, and the touching stories of the “paper sons” (incoming immigrants who claim to be the sons of Chinese people who have already obtained U.S. citizenship).
Yee also recounts his own inept audition for the movie role of a wacky Chinese restaurant owner, realizing he was unable to speak the pigeon English the filmmakers were looking for. A search for a “real Chinese” accent leads to questions about his heritage, and to the surprising discovery in the National Archives of his father's immigration travails.
The show has enjoyed critical acclaim and sold-out runs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Yee grew up in Oklahoma where, he claims, his apartment was Chinatown. After he first took the stage at a local comedy club in 1983, comedy became the driving force of his life. In 1990, he moved to San Francisco, the “graduate school of stand-up comedy,” and began performing at the Punch Line Comedy Club and the infamous Holy City Zoo. He was featured on NBC's “Friday Night,” on Comedy Central's “Two Drink Minimum,” and for the past few years has been performing “Paper Son” at theatres, colleges, and universities throughout North America.
Yee trained with acclaimed solo performer Charlie Varon and with playwright Amy Freed at the American Conservatory Theatre. He holds bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and computer science, and he is a graduate of the University of San Francisco with an MBA in finance.
For further information contact Joyce Madancy of the East Asian Studies at (518) 388-6221 or visit the website at: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/EAS/CKJ/. More information on the show and the history behind it can be found at http://www.paperson.com.
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