COMING UP

Nicolas Bouvier set off across Europe in a small Fiat like many of those whose travels in the 60s meant slow meanderings in a small car.

Switzerland’s Answer to Jack Kerouac

A talk by Professor Stéphane Pétermann on Nicolas Boivier, the Swiss author, traveller and photographer, will be offered at 3 p.m. on February 26 in Schulz 3001. Petermann, assistant diplomé du centre de recherches at Lausanne University, will give the lecture as part of the Swiss Consulate’s celebration of La Fete de la Francophoie. Rory McLean has called Bouvier, an enlightened world traveller, "Switzerland’s answer to Jack Kerouac."

He says " Bouvier’s work is at once intimate and real, concentrated on knowing the Other through personal and sometimes mystical experiences of an errant and vagabond soul." In conjunction with this lecture, the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures will screen Bouvier’s film Le Hibou et la Baleine immediately following the talk at 4 p.m. Both events are free and open to the campus community. For further information, contact Suzanne C. Toczyski, 4-4177.

See Wikipedia's entry on Bouvier.

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TODD BARRICKLOW — Graduating with distinction in 1992 from SSU, Barricklow was an Artist in Residence in the Arts/Industry Program at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin in 1999. He shows regularly and works from his studio and home in Santa Rosa, where he works in ceramics, printmaking and metal. He makes an appearance as part of the Visiting Artists Lecture Series at noon, Tuesday, February 26 in Art 102. Greg Roberts, 4-3042.

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French Club Offers Films

Join the SSU French Club for the Spring 2008 CINE-CLUB, an offering of free French films open to all students, staff and faculty as well as to the public. All films take place on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m.in the Erin Fisher Room of the Student Union. This semester, the following films are featured:

February 26: Poupees Russes/Russian Dolls (a sequel to L'Auberge espagnole)
March 11: Le Petit Lieutenent (X. Beauvois, 2005)
April 8: Un Coeur en Hiver/A Heart in Winter(C. Sautet, 1992)
April 22: Trois Couleurs: Rouge/Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
May 6: Le Diner de Cons/The Dinner (Veber, 1998)

Third Annual Choral Society Soiree Features Clerestory

The Sonoma County Choral Society host its third Annual Soiree for a fund-raising event featuring the Sonoma County debut of the new Bay Area male a cappella ensemble Clerestory. There will be a private concert and reception at the home of Donald and Maureen Green on Saturday, March 8 at 7:30 pm. $150 per person. Tickets are available at www.sonomachoral.org or check to SSU/SCCS, Music Department 1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Info: Bob Worth, worth@sonoma.edu.