Play Looks at Women Soldiers
in Mexican Revolution, May 10
Students in a Chicano and Latino Studies theater class will present a play at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10 in the Commons, titled, "Soldaderas." The play is based on the Mexican Revolution, but is focused on women who became soldiers in the struggle because the older ones had lost children and husbands to the civil war, and the younger ones believed in a need for change where all can have equal rights in their society.
The play was written by Josefina Niggli, a Mexican-American woman who was completing her master's degree in North Carolina in the early 1930s and wanted to highlight the role of women in Mexico's difficult struggle. It is the earliest known work of literature which focuses on the "soldaderas" or women figures. The students performing this play - who are not drama students and represent different majors - have a variety of roles. While some are dancing, others sing, while others act. One student helped with the directing, and others worked on creative arrangements. "They are eager to perform before members of the campus community and the public in honor of Mother's Day, and to celebrate Latino heritage," says professor Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez.
EOP and LSS Honor Outstanding
Students Wednesday, May 17
The Educational Opportunity Program and Learning Skills Services will host a combined ceremony to honor outstanding students from 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17 in the Commons. Sonoma faculty and staff have mentored these exceptional students on their life-changing journey through higher education and the campus community, family and friends are invited to recognize them. The awards formally recognize students of the Educational Opportunity Program who have demonstrated academic achievement and distinguished themselves by their contributions to the community. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic accomplishment, obstacles overcome to pursue higher education, community service, leadership skills and professional promise.
Geri Olson on The History of Dolls, May 9
Professor Geri Olson leads the School of Social Science Brown Bag series with a presentation on the history of dolls from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, in Stevenson 2011. Olson will show slides on the dolls she has discovered while lurking
about the Harvard Museum, the Smithsonian Museum and other small museums around the country. In addition, she served as the curator of an exhibit of dolls created by forty-five Northern California artists and will show that body of work.
Faculty, staff, students and interested others are invited to attend.
Juried Student Exhibition Now on View
The University Art Gallery announces its annual Juried Student Exhibition which is on on view through Saturday, May 27. The works in the exhibition are selected each year by two jurors from the professional art world who visit the campus to view the work and talk to students about their careers and ideas about art. This year's jurors are Lucy Puls, artist and Professor of Art, UC Davis; and Cornelia Schulz, artist and Professor (Emeritus) of Art, UC Davis.
The exhibition features work in a variety of media--painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, and mixed media, which reflects courses offered in the art studio program at SSU as well as the students' own individual creativity. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; weekends, noon-4 p.m. Admission is always free. For more information, call 4-2295.