PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE SHOW: In keeping with a two-year tradition, the WC Musicians' Union presents a student concert in tribute to Pink Floyd, on April 20 at 9 P.M. in the Campus Center. This show is comprised entirely of Pink Floyd's music, spanning several albums and featuring WC musicians with a few special guests.
(From a WC Musicians' Union Press Release)
SPRING DANCE CONCERT: The Washington College Dance Company will present its spring dance Concert on Thursday, April 19, and Friday, April 20, in Tawes Theatre. Under the artistic direction of Professor Karen Lynn Smith, the performances on Thursday are at 1:15 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. and on Friday at 6:30 P.M. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend.
The program presents a variety of dance styles - ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, modern, and ethnic dance. Works include a collaborative jazz piece- Butterfly; two tap numbers, Spy Break and Destiny's Child, choreographed by Jen Daley, It's My Life, a mixture of ballet, jazz, and modern dance, with choreography by sophomore Jillian Fletcher; three modern pieces, Penitentiary Philosophy by senior Renee Paquin, Fool of Me, choreographed by freshman Jenae Manns, and Wade in the Water by Professor Karen Smith; a dance from India entitled Chhum Chhum Baje Payelia, choreographed and performed by international student Sunipa Saha; a contemporary ballet collaborative piece-All or Nothing; plus two solos and a duo . Performers include Amanda Baldwin, Colleen Costello, Jen Daley, Emily Lemmons, Jillian Fletcher, Shaina French, Jenae Manns, Sarah McLaughlin, Anita Palac, Theresa Polhaus, Inga Raeuschel, Renee Paquin, Sunipa Saha, Karen Lynn Smith, Candace Turner, and Katherine Werner.
For information call the Dance Program at 410-778-7237.
(From a Washington College Press Release)
DINSHAW TO SPEAK ON GENDER AND QUEER STUDIES: Dr. Carolyn Dinshaw, professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University, will address the topic "Gender Studies, Queer Studies: Local and Global Perspectives" on Wednesday, April 18, at 4:30 P.M. in the Sophie Kerr Room of Washington College's Miller Library.
Sponsored by the Sophie Kerr Committee, the talk is free and open to the public.Dr. Dinshaw believes that dialogue on the issues of gender and sexuality gains greater complexity and detail when viewed with a long historical lens and she is fascinated by the forms that bodies and pleasures might have taken before they were specifically formulated into modern sexualities in the West. With David M. Halperin, she is founder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke University Press), the leading scholarly journal in the rapidly expanding field of queer studies. Her current research articulates queer literary-historical studies with the insights of postcolonial studies.
(From a Washington College Press Release)
WC WASTE: STUDENTS PROMOTE WASTE MANAGEMENT: On April 16 at 12:30 P.M.
on the campus lawn, WC will experience its first ever waste audit. A waste audit is a waste composition study that provides an excellent snapshot of what is in the college's waste stream. Selected trash from various areas of the school will literally be dumped on the college lawn and sifted and sorted by composition. Percentages will then be derived to see how much waste is produced that could be reused, reduced and recycled.Studies of this kind form a basis for designing environmentally friendly, cost effective waste management plans that promote reduction, reuse and recycling. The results will be used by the Student Environmental Alliance (SEA) to gain support in the college administration for the institution of a "Green Campus" program. No programs of these kind currently exist at the college.
The goal of the SEA is to promote student environmental awareness and to persuade the college administration towards instituting the environmental responsibility that its own environmental studies major, classes and center advocate.
This study is one of many activities that the SEA has planned for the month of April and Earth Day. To volunteer or gain more information about this activity, other activities or the SEA, contact:
Andrew Miller 410-810-3507, Andrew.Miller@washcoll.edu.
(From a Student Environmental Alliance Press Release)
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