Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of five award winning books on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations

Evenel St. Vil taught English and Computer Science at the University of Port Au prince prior to the devastating 2010 earthquake. Now, nearly two years later, he works with the AFYA Foundation of America, based in Yonkers, to direct life-saving medical supplies to Haitians in need. St. Vil is the manager for the AFYA Foundation Rehab Project, which trains Haitians to assess and treat patients as Rehab Techs, and Adaptive Builders, which creates products for the disabled. He is the point person in Haiti and has aided AFYA to create an independent team in Haiti which promotes and provides good health to all. Come hear an amazing story of recovery and resilience as told by Evenel St. Vil, Danielle Butin, and Sarah Schuyler of AFYA foundation. Sponsored by THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS and THE HEALTH ADVOCACY PROGRAM.

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

"Un pas de côté" (A step aside) is the third film produced in partnership with the French filmmaker Michel Charron and Brazilian dancer and choreographer Anamaria Fernandes.  This documentary, produced with the co-sponsorship of the French Ministry of Culture, portrays some dance workshops Anamaria Fernandes develops with young people with autism in the city of Thorigne Fouillard.  Discussion with Anamaria follows the film. Sponsored by the Dance Program. 

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

Elia Kazan Film Festival Hosted by Friends of the Bronxville Public Library Starts Saturday, January 21

Four of Kazan's classic films will be screened, starting with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Lloyd Nolan.

On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden, follows on Saturday, February 18, at 2:00 pm

On Saturday, March 17, at 2:00 pm, the film festival continues with A Face in the Crowd, starring Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith.

Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, is the final Kazan film in the festival and will be screened on Saturday, April 21, at 2:00 pm.

All films will be screened in the Yeager Community Room at the Bronxville Public Library.  Admission is free.

201 Pondfield Road Bronxville, NY 10708

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

TRACY FULLERTON: Provocations in Play: Experimental Designs from the USC Game Innovation Lab

Rebooting college access, revolutionizing freshman orientation, and reinterpreting the work of Henry David Thoreau – all provocative subjects to take on as the focus of experimental game projects.  There are many different approaches to experimental game design; some designers focus on mechanics, others on narrative or aesthetics.  For the designers at the USC Game Innovation Lab, each individual project requires its own unique approach, but all demand a careful balance of risk taking and irreverence, balanced with an open process and willingness to allow the project to evolve.  This talk will look at several new and current projects, their inspirations and outcomes. 

Donnelley Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Sponsored by the Blavatnik Fund for Art & Technology and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Fund for Experimental Film

Tracy Fullerton, M.F.A., is an experimental game designer, professor and director of the Game Innovation Lab at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she holds the Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment. 

Facebook link:  

http://www.facebook.com/events/238586732885896/

Be sure to mark your calendars for this year’s annual Students for Students Scholarship Fund (SSSF) Auction in Reisinger Auditorium.  This year, we’ve extended the hours of the silent auction from 11:00am-5:20pm, and the live auction will start at 6 o’clock sharp. Like any SSSF event, all funds raised will go directly to support student scholarships.  This has always been a popular event, full of entertainment and cool items like movie posters, frosted-minutes-earlier vanilla cupcakes, and gift baskets.  You can have a fun time just by showing up. 

Students! Don’t miss your opportunity to win the #1 Housing Lottery Number!  All you have to do is show up for the live auction.As always, the SSSF Auction is only possible through donations from members of the SLC community (that means you!), so please consider donating an item or service to SSSF.  You can offer almost anything – a piece of artwork, vintage clothing, a session of foreign language tutoring, even old books! 

If you are interested in donating an item or service, you may stop by the Office of Student Affairs on the second floor of Bates and fill out an item donation form. If your item is non-perishable, you can drop it off in Student Affairs.  Perishable items (such as baked goods) may be brought to the auction on February 24.  All non-items (such as services) can be emailed to jgloe@sarahlawrence.edu.  The deadline for donations is Friday, February 16 at noon.

Be sure to mark your calendars for this year’s annual Students for Students Scholarship Fund (SSSF) Auction in Reisinger Auditorium.  This year, we’ve extended the hours of the silent auction from 11:00am-5:20pm, and the live auction will start at 6 o’clock sharp. Like any SSSF event, all funds raised will go directly to support student scholarships.  This has always been a popular event, full of entertainment and cool items like movie posters, frosted-minutes-earlier vanilla cupcakes, and gift baskets.  You can have a fun time just by showing up. 

Students! Don’t miss your opportunity to win the #1 Housing Lottery Number!  All you have to do is show up for the live auction.As always, the SSSF Auction is only possible through donations from members of the SLC community (that means you!), so please consider donating an item or service to SSSF.  You can offer almost anything – a piece of artwork, vintage clothing, a session of foreign language tutoring, even old books! 

If you are interested in donating an item or service, you may stop by the Office of Student Affairs on the second floor of Bates and fill out an item donation form. If your item is non-perishable, you can drop it off in Student Affairs.  Perishable items (such as baked goods) may be brought to the auction on February 24.  All non-items (such as services) can be emailed to jgloe@sarahlawrence.edu.  The deadline for donations is Friday, February 16 at noon.

Winter Open Concert

Marshall Field Room 1

The Manhattan String Quartet is well known for their interpretation of 20th century classics, and are critically acclaimed as one of America's leading ensembles; a national treasure possessing thrilling virtuosity.

Based partly on his book PARADIGMS LOST, and his language column for Esquire magazine, this talk concerns current abuses of the English language, where they come from, and how they could conceivably be diminished.

Sponsored by the Writing Institute.

The 14th Annual Women's History Conference focuses on the ways in which women have used their art as means of liberation.  Historically, women have seen and represented as protectors and transmitters of culture, yet, although some women gained recognition as artists, many more struggle to be seen, heard, and taken seriously.  As in other disciplines, women bring their own diverse voices and points of view to the canvas, writing table, music stand, stage and street.  From Renaissance painters to contemporary hip hop and performance artists, women represent their particular journeys as singular personalities and as members of various groups.  Whoever they are and from wherever they hail, their expression expands our global understanding of women's history.  At its core, the Women's History Conference is about women's activism, which throughout time has employed artistic expression.  Participants of the conference are invited to attend a performance of In the Blood, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzi Lori Parks that tells the story of a mother, Hester, and her five fatherless children, trying to find help to make their lives successful.  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 1, 2, 3 at 7 p.m. in the Open Space Theatre.

The 14th Annual Women's History Conference focuses on the ways in which women have used their art as means of liberation.  Historically, women have seen and represented as protectors and transmitters of culture, yet, although some women gained recognition as artists, many more struggle to be seen, heard, and taken seriously.  As in other disciplines, women bring their own diverse voices and points of view to the canvas, writing table, music stand, stage and street.  From Renaissance painters to contemporary hip hop and performance artists, women represent their particular journeys as singular personalities and as members of various groups.  Whoever they are and from wherever they hail, their expression expands our global understanding of women's history.  At its core, the Women's History Conference is about women's activism, which throughout time has employed artistic expression.  Participants of the conference are invited to attend a performance of In the Blood, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzi Lori Parks that tells the story of a mother, Hester, and her five fatherless children, trying to find help to make their lives successful.  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 1, 2, 3 at 7 p.m. in the Open Space Theatre.

The landmark musical SPRING AWAKENING is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years.  Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable SPRING AWAKENING.

Open Concert - Performances : Friday March 9 at 7:30pm, Saturday March 10 at 7:30pm

A campus wide concert open to any student in the College who wants to make and/or perform a dance.

The landmark musical SPRING AWAKENING is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years.  Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable SPRING AWAKENING.

Open Concert - Performances : Friday March 9 at 7:30pm, Saturday March 10 at 7:30pm

A campus wide concert open to any student in the College who wants to make and/or perform a dance.

Elia Kazan Film Festival Hosted by Friends of the Bronxville Public Library Starts Saturday, January 21

Four of Kazan's classic films will be screened, starting with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Lloyd Nolan.

On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden, follows on Saturday, February 18, at 2:00 pm

On Saturday, March 17, at 2:00 pm, the film festival continues with A Face in the Crowd, starring Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith.

Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, is the final Kazan film in the festival and will be screened on Saturday, April 21, at 2:00 pm.

All films will be screened in the Yeager Community Room at the Bronxville Public Library.  Admission is free.

201 Pondfield Road Bronxville, NY 10708

Sarah Lawrence College alumna Amanda Foreman will read and discuss her book on the involvement of Great Britain in the US Civil War, which had been named one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2011.  Presented by Friends of the Library. 

Come hear critic John Simon share highlights from his illustrious career in the arts as an author and a critic of film, theatre, literature and music.

Sponsored by The Writing Institute.

A leading expert on child development and social policy, Dr. Joan Lombardi will speak about early childhood development in the US, looking back and moving forward.  Lombardi served in the Department of Health and Human Services as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in Administration for Children and Families and the first Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau, among other positions.

Part of Soulagraphie, a durational performance event looking at 20th century America from the point of view of genocides, which aims to create channels of dialogue through art and conversation. 

Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there.  A graduate of Harvard College, he received his PhD in political science at Harvard in 1982.  After teaching at Harvard and at the Naval War College (Department of Strategy), he served on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, then joined SAIS in 1990.  His most recent book is Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002); other books include (with John Gooch) Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War.  In 1991-93 he directed the US Air Force's official multi-volume study of the 1991 Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey.  He has served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, and as a member of the Defense Policy Advisory Board of the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as other government advisory bodies.  From 2007-2009, he was Counselor of the Deparment of State, serving as Secretary Condoleeza Rice's senior adviser on strategic issues. 

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Senior Recital: Wells Albritton and David Hauss, jazz duo

Elia Kazan Film Festival Hosted by Friends of the Bronxville Public Library Starts Saturday, January 21

Four of Kazan's classic films will be screened, starting with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Lloyd Nolan.

On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden, follows on Saturday, February 18, at 2:00 pm

On Saturday, March 17, at 2:00 pm, the film festival continues with A Face in the Crowd, starring Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith.

Splendor in the Grass, starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, is the final Kazan film in the festival and will be screened on Saturday, April 21, at 2:00 pm.

All films will be screened in the Yeager Community Room at the Bronxville Public Library.  Admission is free.

201 Pondfield Road Bronxville, NY 10708

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Sungrai Sohn, conductor

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Metropolitan Opera star, German-born Gerhard Siegel, has been applauded around the world singing leading roles in Wagner operas.  Siegel recently starred in Siegfried, an HD Live Performance from the Met.  Dobner, an international prize winner and recording artist, toured Germany as one of the most sought after collaborative pianists.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as students in the Writing Institute share their recent work.

Jonathan Yates, conductor

Bronxville Cinemas, 84 Kraft Avenue

Senior Recital: Kristian Holt, voice, piano, jazz

Suna Chung on piano.  Sungrai Sohn directs.

Glenn Alexander, director

Artists in residence

Westlands South Lawn (rain location: Reisinger Concert Hall, 6:00 p.m.)

Jonathan T. King, director

Fasa Foli: African Balafon and Djembe Ensemble.

Westlands South Lawn (rain location: Reisinger Concert Hall)

Fomoro Diobate, Andy Algire and Jonathan T. King, directors

Spring Concert - Performances: 

Program A:  Friday May 4 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 7:00pm

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Samantha Friedman, Voice

Spring Concert - Performances: 

Program A:  Friday May 4 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 7:00pm

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Spring Concert - Performances: 

Program A:  Friday May 4 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 7:00pm

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Patrick Romano, director

Spring Concert - Performances: 

Program A:  Friday May 4 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm, Sunday May 6 at 7:00pm

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Sungrai Sohn, director

Suna Chung, piano

Glenn Alexander, director