COMING UP

Kessel Presents Art History Research from Native American Cultures

"Folding Native American Culture into the Art History Canon" is the topic of Art History professor Karen Kessel’s lecture on Thursday, Nov. 29, at noon in Schulz 1121. The event is part of the Arts and Humanities Forum.  Kessel is working on a guide for developing collections of images of Native American art for college art courses, to be published by the Visual Resources Assocation, an international professional organization.  It will include sources of images and reference materials to aid in cataloguing. Her intent is to promote broadening the scope of art history coverage, where this discipline has long been pretty narrowly focused on the history of Western Civilization. She will present a brief description of the project and  then show some examples of contemporary Native American art, in a 20-minute session.

ABOVE, Karen Kessel and the drawing she made from a Northwest Coast Tlingit shaman's oystercatcher dance rattle in the Thaw collection .

Founder of the NAMES Project
Memorial Quilt Here, Nov. 27

Associated Students Productions, Residential Life and the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality brings AIDS activist Cleve Jones to campus at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27 in the Cooperage.

 Jones' career as an activist began in San Francisco during the chaotic 1970s when he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk (City Supervisor), and soon began work as a student intern in Milk's office. After Milk was assassinated, Cleve devised the idea of the Candlelight Memorial March. At this time, Jones had been working to help the community deal with the invasion of AIDS in the gay community, which had killed over 1000 gay men.

Jones added a new element to the Milk Memorial March after asking marchers to write the names of friends who have died from this epidemic on a placard which would be made into a large quilt. Since then, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to become the world's largest community arts project, memorializing the lives of over 85,000 Americans killed by AIDS.

 "Whether I'm speaking to an audience in Kansas, California, or Massachusetts, the story most people want to hear is of how the Quilt began. Somehow hearing the story seems to give comfort and continuance to what is beyond understanding." Admission is free. For more information call 4-2382 or online at www.sonoma.edu/as/asp.

Local and Global Sex Trafficking
Subject of Special Events

Sexual trafficking and modern day slavery is the topic of discussion on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. in Schulz 2015A & B. A film and speaker address the topic of sex trafficking in the discussion, "Addressing Slavery Today:  Local and Global Sex Trafficking." There is no charge for the event.

"The Day My God Died" is a feature length film documenting the horror of modern day slavery narrated by Tim Robbins and Winona Ryder. Girls as young as age seven are taken from rural villages in Nepal and sold to serve as sex slaves in the brothels of Bombay. A brief discussion at the end of the film provides information on the United States' role in the trade. The speaker, Marie DeSantis, director of the Women's Justice Center, will address the local impact of sex trafficking.

On Monday, Dec. 3, there is fundraiser at the Himalayan restaurant Shangri-La at Wolf Den Plaza across from the University. A portion of the day's profits go to Maiti Nepal, a shelter in Nepal that offers rehabilitation services for victims of trafficking. These events are sponsored by the students of the Hutchins School LIBS 320A class, the Women's Justice Center, Shangri-La Restaurant and the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action. For additional information, contact Alana Miller, 799-7465, alananmiller@yahoo.com.

More events...

FALL DANCE CONCERT: STUDENT DANCE ENSEMBLE The annual Fall Dance promises the sheer excitement and vitality of student choreography and performance. Featuring a wide range of movement styles including contemporary dance and hip-hop, be prepared to move, charged up, delighted and surprised! Directed by Nancy Lyons, choreography and performance by SSU Dance Ensemble. Presented by Center for Performing Arts. Admission is $8. SSU students admitted free. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29 and Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 31. Dance Studio Theatre, PE 1. 4-2235.

HAVING A GOOD TIME SINGING: INDIAN SINGING ENSEMBLE Laxmi G. Tewari, Director, presents "Indian Singing Ensemble is Fun." Noon, Thursday, Nov. 29. Ives 119. 4-2235.

BROADWAY FORBID! MUSIC THEATRE SCENES WORKSHOP Lynne Morrow, director. Partake in the exuberance as Music Theatre students present an original revue written by the students themselves and featuring a varied potpourri of songs from the rich American Musical Theatre repertoire. Presented by Center for Performing Arts. 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29 and Friday, Nov. 30. Ives 119. 4-2235.