ARTS CALENDAR
FALL 2011 SEPTEMBER 14 – SEPTEMBER 23
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VISUAL ART BABSON COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 1 – SEPTEMBER 19. Sign Up for Ceramics Courses. Ceramics Studio (Trim). RSVP Here is some basic information on the ceramics studio: “Create and take risks, Love and feel loss, Experience success and failure; This is the challenge of our work and of our lives.” Richard Hilton, co‐founder of Edgecomb Potteries <link to http://www.edgecombpotters.com/ Equipment: ten potters' wheels, two electric kilns, a pug mill, a slab roller, sculpting tools, portable wood working tools and worktables. Fall 2011 Ceramics Studio Classes: Sign up by Sept 19 at 12pm Tuesday: (starting 9/20 and ending 11/29) 4:00‐6:00pm “Intro to Wheel” taught by Joy Aginsky Joy Aginsky is a functional potter, creating thrown‐altered ceramics inspired by the high art nouveau era, botanical life, and the movement of line. Her passion in ceramics began in her teens and she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in 2004. She studied under notable ceramic artists James Lawton and Chris Gustin, and quickly developed an interest in the unpredictable beauty of atmospheric firing. In the summer of 2004 Joy began teaching ceramics at Buck’s Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp, one of the premiere art camps in the country. While developing communication through art, Joy became inspired with the science of expression and decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Science for Communication Disorders from Southern Connecticut State University. She currently enjoys a career as a speech‐language pathologist where she combines creativity and research to help children communicate with the world around them. Joy has been an active member of the Babson community teaching ceramics since 2007. Tuesday: (starting 9/20 and ending 11/29) 6:30‐8:30pm “Intro to Clay” taught by Josephine “Jody” Burr
Josephine Burr is a sculptor and ceramic designer with 20 years' experience exhibiting and teaching in clay. She received her MFA in Artisanry/Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and was Director of Education and Studio Operations and Artist‐in‐Residence at Greenwich House Pottery, one of the largest and oldest ceramic art centers in New York City, from 2002‐2007. Ms. Burr has taught at Harvard University, UMass Dartmouth, and Babson College as well as numerous art centers, and exhibited her work nationally. Her porcelain work was featured in Calvin Klein's Home Collection in 2006. In addition to her artwork, Ms. Burr is currently Chief Operating Officer of Anomia Press, a small publishing business run by Ms. Burr and her husband Andrew Innes. Anomia Press publishes and markets the Mensa award‐winning card game Anomia, which came to market in 2010 and sold over 25,000 copies in its first year. Ms. Burr's ceramic sculpture incorporates minimalist forms with richly layered surfaces, using traditional ceramic processes as well as other media such as wax encaustic, graphite, and print transfers. She focuses on layering imagery and texture to evoke a sense of memory and time in her pieces. Her work will be on view in Babson's Hollister Gallery in early 2012 . Thursday: (starting 9/22 and ending 11/10) 4:00‐6:00pm “Intro to Hand‐building” taught by Stephanie Osser Stephanie Osser is an “illustrator in clay.” She started her career as illustrator for the New England Aquarium, illustrated children’s books and eventually came to specialize in food illustration for cookbooks and editorials for New York publishers. Stephanie received her ceramic education from the fine teachers and supportive atmosphere of the Harvard Ceramics Studio. She works in porcelain and stoneware, specializing in bas‐relief tiles and hand‐built sculpture. She often makes casts of her more detailed pieces and then re‐uses parts of her molds in new creations. Her work celebrates special family moments, musical themes, flora, fauna, and people who inspire her. Her ceramics have appeared in Clay Times, Ceramics Monthly, and are published in Lark books:“500 Pitchers” and “500 Animals in Clay.” She has exhibited in many juried shows across the country. In 2006, she was an artist‐in‐residence at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. She is currently studio manager here at Babson College. See Stephanie's work at www.StephanieOsser.com Non‐class use, with permission of Stephanie Osser, will run from 9/20‐11/30. Stephanie Osser is in the studio 8 hours per week for kiln firings and maintenance. Contact: Stephanie Osser, Studio Manager Please contact her at: sosser@babson.edu 781‐239 ‐5888 (office)
781‐454‐7442 (cell) 781‐239‐5895 (ceramic studio) GENERAL DETAILS about Ceramics at Babson: All classes are non‐credit. Ceramics Studio access requires a Babson OneCard. Once registration and payment have been received, OneCards will be granted permission to enter the Ceramics Studio. CLASS FEE REFUND POLICY: Partial refund after the first class only. Overview of fees: Classes listed below 1. Formal classes: $80 for enrolled students (Babson, Olin, Wellesley) /$160 for staff and faculty (8 classes) includes use of studio outside class time. 2. Non‐class studio use for experienced potters: $80 for enrolled students (Babson, Olin, Wellesley) $200 for staff and faculty between 9/20‐11/30. (Above fees include all materials & kiln firings) REGISTRATION: With the launch of the new web page, we have had some delays in reviving our online payment system with MC/Visa. We hope to have this up and running by 9/12 at www.babson.edu/sorenson click on "Take a Class!!!"Or contact Sorenson Center for the Arts, at sorenson@babson.edu or 781‐239‐5622 Note that Stephanie spent this summer on an exciting artist‐in‐residency program in Denmark. If you have a good deal of experience, Stephanie is still hiring student staff. Please contact her ASAP. SEPTEMBER 14. 6:30PM – 8:30PM Babson UN PRME Studio Workshop. Studio in Sorenson Visual Arts Center. RSVP The studio workshop dates of the UN PRME initiative will be on Wednesday, September 14 from 6:30‐8:30pm and on Friday, September 16 from 12‐2pm. The location will be the Studio in Sorenson Visual Arts Center (attached to Trim). Check out this presentation on how Sorenson Center for the Arts and the Green Tower are taking action for the UN PRME initiative!! :
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=14Fs1eTEW4Jm9cRlPxU9ytgL6IKMmzbE9ZoijAov _WHyzepwKQa2I9XmnHmX6&hl=en Also, we’ll have 2 open studio sessions when you can come in during your freetime! The first one on Tuesday, September 20 from 6‐9pm and the second one on Wednesday, September 21 also from 6‐9pm in the Studio. SEPTEMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 30 Education Abroad Photo Contest. Office of International Programs. RSVP In celebration of Education Abroad at Babson, the Office of International Programs (OIP) is sponsoring a campus‐wide Education Abroad Photo Contest. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to enter up to two photos to Samantha Stanley mailto:sstanley@babson.edu between Sept. 1 ‐ Sept. 30. The photos will be displayed in Reynolds, Olin, and on the OIP Facebook page from October 12 ‐ 21. A panel of judges will select photos from each category to be entered into the contest. The photos on the OIP Facebook page will be eligible for the viewer’s choice award. All photos will be on display, but only the photos that are selected by the judging panel and for the viewer’s choice award will be in the contest. All members of the Babson community can participate in voting for their favorite photo from the selected photos in each category. The winning photo from each category will be announced on November 2 at the Employee Coffee and via the Babson Buzz. The finalists and winners will be on display in Reynolds and Olin from November 3 ‐ 10. The winner will receive a gift certificate to have their photo professionally framed! Other prizes awarded for 2nd, 3rd, and Viewer's choice award. If you have recently returned from an educational experience overseas, the Education Abroad Photo Contest is a great way to share your experience and contribute to the global understanding of the greater Babson community. Share your story with a photo! Please visit the OIP website for more information on the contest SEPTEMBER 13 – OCTOBER 28 Behind the Image II. Hollister Gallery. RSVP Come celebrate Babson's first art show of the Fall‐ Behind the Image II: where the pathways of the creative process are revealed through
sketchbooks, photographs and preliminary drawings that are the source material for 5 amazing Boston based painters. Featuring art from Dana Clancy, Lisa Costanzo, John Guthrie, Crist i Rinklin, and Joe Wardwell. Opening Reception, Sept 13 5pm‐7pm. Artist Talk, Sept 20 1pm‐1:30pm. Exhibit Hours, 9am‐7pm. WELLESLEY COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 20 – OCTOBER 23 The Standing Reserve. Jewett Art Gallery. RSVP Featuring works by the studio art staff of the art department. Opening Reception September 20th, 4:45‐6PM.
MUSIC WELLESLEY COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 22. 7PM Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo: Say Yes. Multifaith Center. RSVP Nigerian born Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is one of the most saught after poetry slammers in the country. A 2010 TED Global Fellow and a powerful songstress, her lyrical prowess and vocal talents invoke the spirit of soul shakers Nina Simone, Sade, Lauryn Hill, and Amy Winehouse. Her song, Yellow Brick Road, was chosen this year as the official theme song of the USA Network’s Fairly Legal. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON SEPTEMBER 22. 7PM11PM College Night at the MFA. 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. RSVP The MFA is always FREE for University Members (Babson College), and tonight we are throwing a party just for you. This is the place to see and be seen! ART. MUSIC. FOOD. FREE
Join thousands of college students from all over Boston to enjoy all that the MFA has to offer! Take the Babson Shuttle to MFA or take the Green Line E train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop, or the 39 bus, or any train to Kenmore—it’s just a short walk to the MFA. ART. MUSIC. DANCE PARTY. ENTERTAINMENT. SNACKS. PRIZES: You’ll just have to come to see what we are giving away!
DANCE BABSON COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 12 – SEPTEMBER 14 Babson Dance Ensemble Tryouts. Chandor Dance Studio. RSVP NO MATTER WHERE YOU DANCE...BDE WANTS TO SEE YOUR SKILLS! As one of the largest organization on campus, BDE hosts over 60 members annually to perform in three show‐stopping performances each semester. Dance styles range from hip hop to jazz to tap to contemporary to African...anythin g you can think of, we've covered it before! 9/12‐ BDE Info Session at 7pm in Sorenson Blackbox 9/13‐ Girls Tryout Pt.1 (you will learn 30 sec. jazz, lyrical, and hip hop pieces) from 7:3010:30pm in Webster Chandor Dance Studio 9/14‐ Girls Tryout Pt. 2 (show us what you got with an original solo piece) from 8 9pm in Webster Chandor Dance Studio. Boys Tryouts from 910pm (you will learn a 30 sec hip hop piece and feel free to show us a solo piece if hip‐hop's not your style) For more information about BDE and tryouts, please contact Edlyn Wang at ewang2@babson.edu. SEPTEMBER 15 – SEPTEMBER 16
Rock Around the Clock DanceaThon. Barefoot Park. RSVP Babson Dance Ensemble is going to start off the school year right as we Rock Around the Clock with a 9‐hr charity Dance‐A‐Thon in order to benefit the Children’s Hospital Boston! The act of standing on our feet for 9‐hours straight is to give our participants a better understanding of the struggles, both mental and physical, that the children experience every single day. Through our effort s, we wish to provide the children with... hope, inspiration, and strength in their journey to recovery. Each hour a member of BDE will be teaching a 30‐sec dance routine to keep you, your friends, and even faculty actively dancing. Feel free to comment below if you have any special requests for any songs. Once the clock hits midnight, we’ll be throwing down with one of our dance circles. You can battle solo, duo, or in a group, just bring your fiercest moves and you’ll walk away with a gift card to either Qdoba, Comella’s, or Dunkin’. There will be tons of hamburgers, hot dogs, and goodies for all that donate to our cause. You can also donate here: https://howtohelp.childrenshospital.org/events/pfp/?ID=SL0157&Name=rockarou ndtheclock So remember to outlook calendar “Rock Around the Clock” and come join your favorite dancers as we grill up some hamburgers and hot dogs while shakin’ what our mamas gave us!
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LITERARY BABSON COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 20. 5PM – 6PM Babson Global Book Club : France. Park Manor South, Conference Room 122. RSVP Our Babson Global Book Club is back! This semester, we will focus on the country of wine, cheese and lovely long lunches—France. We will read a trio of books that examine French culture from inside and outside perspectives. Xinghua Li, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, Michèle Oshima, Director of the Sorenson Center for the Arts, and Lisa Towns, Manager of the Bookstore, formally welcome you to join our monthly meetings! The books will be available at the Babson Bookstore. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! For more info, email: moshima@babson.edu. Look forward to seeing you there! The first selection is Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French. In 1999, Canadian journalists Nadeau and Barlow moved to Paris for a 2 year fellowship to study France’s culture and economy in an effort to understand why the French resist globalization. They began by examining this puzzle: How dies a country with “high taxes, a bloated civil service, a huge national debt, and over‐regulated economy, over –the‐top red tape, double‐digit unemployment, and low incentives for entreprenuers” also boast the world’s highest productivity index and rank as the third largest exporter and fourth biggest economic power? By delving into France’s cultural and political history, the authors show how it all works. Chapters are devoted to the French obsessions about WWII and the war in Algeria and how these events still shape attitudes and policies/ Other chapters explore the French insistence on precision in language, their sense of private space, and the effects of immigration. In an era of irrational reactions to all things French, here is an eminently rational answer to the question, “Why are the French like that?”
WELLESLEY COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 20. 4:30PM Distinguished Writer Series: Lydia Davis. The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for Humanities. RSVP Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis in 2009. Davis is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust. Her translation of Madame Bovary was released in the fall of 2010. SEPTEMBER 22. 4:30PM Poetry and Personal Narratives: The JudeoSpanish (Latino) Culture as an Imagined Community and a Portable Homeland. The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for Humanities. RSVP In the words of Michal Held, author, professor, and researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Research on Jewish Language and Literatures, the Jewish language has historically functioned as a “Portable Homeland.” In her lecture, Held will explore confluence of Jewish and Spanish culture and language by reflecting her own Ladino history as well as collected personal narratives from her book Come, I’ll Tell You / Ven Te Kontare. In doing so, she will raise questions about the journey toward finding refuge in imagined communities.
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the arts at babson. the arts at wellesley. the arts at olin. [art clubs] BFAA –Babson Fine Arts Association Contact cbao1@babson.edu Pottery Club Contact david.gardner@students.olin.edu Art Club Contact tiama.hamkins‐indik@students.olin.edu Studio Art facilities at Babson Babson Ceramics studio – Open to experienced potters/sculptors $75/$150 fee for 8 weeks Babson Wet Photography Lab – Open to experienced photographers with the permission of the instructor. $75/$150 fee for semester Drawing/Painting Studio – Available to use with the permission of staff. Contact Sorenson@babson.edu
[music clubs] Ask Michèle Oshima moshima@babson.edu how you can take private music lessons at Wellesley. Babson College Radio Contact eshea2@babson.edu Babson Entertainment Initiative Contact tjoyce1@babson.edu Babson Musicians Union Contact cdevlin1@babson.edu Babson/Olin Jazz Ensemble Contact jbroganjazz@gmail.com BrandeisWellesley Orchestra
Anyone wishing to audition for the Brandeis‐Wellesley Orchestra should contact Neal Hampton, the director, at hampton@brandeis.edu. Rocket Pitches Contact alamb1@babson.edu Conductorless Orchestra Contact Diana.dabby@olin.edu Powerchords Contact Jessica.rucker@students.olin.edu Jazz Sarah.waksom@students.olin.edu Wellesley College: Choir, Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Chamber Music Society, Wellesley BlueJazz, and Yanvalou. Performing Arts Facilities at Babson Carling‐Sorenson Theater – State of the art 441 seat proscenium theater. Park Manor Central Band Room – Open to all musicians. Equipped with bass, guitar amps, drum set, electric piano, and instrument lockers. Sorenson Piano Practice Rooms – Open to the Babson community ‐ first come first serve. Contact Sorenson@babson.edu Roger’s Pub – Available for student shows and equipped with a small stage, lights, and sound reinforcement. Contact pbaptiste@babson.edu
[dance clubs] AMAN Contact ebawa1@babson.edu Babson Dance Ensemble (BDE) Contact atoorock1@babson.edu BAPSA Contact jchan4@babson.edu ODP Contact tiama.hamkins‐indik@students.olin.edu Butterfingers Contact Zachary.brass@students.olin.edu OFAC Contact Kevin.simon@students.olin.edu Performing Arts Facilities at Babson Sorenson Dance Studio – Studio with wood floor, two mirrored walls, and dance bar Contact Sorenson@babson.edu
[theater clubs] Babson Players Contact kliszka1@babson.edu TheatreWorks Contact tba Vagina Monologues Contact agreenslet1@babson.edu FWOP Contact megan.elsenbeck@students.olin.edu
[film clubs] FILM. Tuesdays. 9pm. Olin Auditorium. contact Eli.Sheldon@students.olin.edu CINE. Contact irahvar1@babson.edu
[literary clubs] Babson Literary Magazine Contact litmag@babson.edu