From left: Kurt Kemp, "Lost Cause (My Rotten Hand)", Kurt Kemp, "My Yellow Sleep"; Jane Fisher, "Old Master"

Faculty Art Show Now on View

The University Art Gallery is pleased to invite the campus community to the Art Faculty Exhibition which features the work of twelve artists, both permanent and visiting faculty, who teach at SSU. The permanent art faculty — Stephen Galloway (photography), Nathan Haenlein (printmaking), Kurt Kemp (printmaking/drawing), Jann Nunn (sculpture), Mark Perlman (painting), and Gregory Roberts (ceramic sculpture)--are well established professional artists, exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally. 
 
The work of six visiting faculty are also being introduced--Terry Berlier (2D Fundamentals), John Ferdico (photography), Jane Fisher (painting), Kirstyn Russell (photography), John Sappington (digital imaging), and Victoria Wagner--all rising stars in the Bay Area art world, who contribute to the variety of approaches to artmaking taught at SSU. The exhibition runs through Oct. 15. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; weekends, noon - 4 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays.  Admission to the gallery is always free. For information, call Carla Stone, 4-2295.

Faculty and Alumni Join in the Sonoma County Book Festival

Join writers, readers, and booklovers of all ages as the Seventh Annual Sonoma County Book Festival transforms downtown Santa Rosa into a city of books on Saturday, September 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This literary celebration centers on Old Courthouse Square, which will host poets, panel discussions, and over 60 exhibitors. All events are free, and there will be free wireless access in the square all day.

Featured SSU authors include: Professor Emeritus Gerald Haslam author of Haslam’s Valley, Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California and his newest novel, Grace Period; Professor Elizabeth Herron who is published in Orion, Parabola, EarthSpirit and Face to Face; Professor Leny Strobel, author of Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans and her newest book A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan; and Professor Emeritus J.J. Wilson who works closely with this festival furthering her desire to instill in others the love of books and reading. Other participating SSU alumni will include: Armando Garcia-Davila, Nancy Garcia, Lilith Rogers and Doug Powell.

Other featured authors will include noted nature writer Michael Pollan, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carolyn Kizer; mystery writers Marcia Muller and Sarah Andrews; Tolbert McCarroll (Brother Toby), Jeff Cox and Susan Swartz; James Dalessandro and poet Brian Turner, an Iraq veteran whose Here, Bullet won the Northern California Book Award. Authors will sign their books after each scheduled event and throughout the day. For a full schedule and more information, visit the festival Web site or call 527.5412.

Free French Films

French films are shown on campus during the semester on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Nichols 173. They are free to all, have subtitles in English and are organized by the SSU French Club.

The schedule includes:
September 20: Amelie
October 4: Pacte des loups / Brotherhood of the Wolf
October 18: Le placard / The Closet
November 1: La vie rêvée des anges / The Dreamlife of Angels
November 15: La Cité des enfants perdus / The City of Lost Children
November 29: Comme une image / Look at Me

What Can I Do? Lecture Series Opens With "Haiti: The UNtold Story"

 Associated Students Productions presents the inaugural evening of the What Can I Do? Lecture Series featuring the a film called Haiti: the UNtold Story on Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m in the Student Union MultiPurpose Room.  The thought provoking and eye-opening documentary will be followed by a question and answer period with journalist and director Kevin Pina and is free to all. “The world's first black-led republic and the first Caribbean state to achieve independence, Haiti's pride has been dented by decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship which have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas,” writes BBC News in their profile of Haiti.

Filmmaker Kevin Pina’s documentary shines a light on what he purports to be the hidden role of the international community in Hatian politics. The provocative and lively film takes the viewer into parts of Haiti where few Western journalists dare to tread and includes shocking footage of unreported human rights abuses. Pina’s documentary connects the tragic events in Haiti with what he assesses as foreign intervention designed to deter democracy.

Pina has lived and worked in Haiti for the past seven years.  In 2005, he was arrested by Hatian police while covering a controversial police action for allegedly disrespecting a magistrate and resisting arrest, a claim which Pina categorically denied.  After a week in jail, he was released without being charged. 

The independent journalist has reported extensively on FLASHPOINTS, a daily radio program on Berkley-based KPFA.  He is also an Associate Editor of the Black Commentatoronline magazine and the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP), an alternative news agency operating in Port au Prince.

 For more information, phone 4-2382 or visit www.sonoma.edu/as/asp