COMING UP

SSU Wind Ensemble and SRJC Concert Band Perform

The Sonoma State University Wind Ensemble, under the musical direction of Andy Collinsworth, performs their first ever musical collaboration with the Santa Rosa Junior College Concert Band. The program commemorates some of the greatest wind band literature written during the past 100 years. The concert showcases Gustav Holst's "First Suite in E," William Shumann's classic "Chester," Frank Ticheli's sizzling "Vesuvius" and more.

The performance takes place Fri., March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Person Theatre. Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets, or through the Center for Performing Arts Box Office at 4-2353. The Box Office is open Mon.-Fri., noon-5 p.m. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors, $10 for FANS (faculty, alumni, stafF) and $12 general admission. For more information, visit the Center for Performing Arts website.

CASE Online Speaker Series Webinar with Sheila J. Curran

The CASE Online Speaker Series, hosted by SSU Alumni Relations, presents the "Alumni and Student Career Service: New Ways to Create Institutional Value in Troubled Economic Times" webinar. Learn how building a career community can help to brand institutions, promote alumni engagement and encourage financial support.

The presenter is Sheila J. Curran, Career Strategy Consultant for Curran Careers Consulting and former executive director of the Duke University Career Center. the seminar also includes and interview with Mike Sciola, director of the Career Resource Center at Wesleyan University, and one of the leaders in the alumni and student career services field.

The webinar is open to all, and Alumni Relations encourages everyone to attend as a guest on Thurs., March 5 from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. in Stevenson 1034. RSVPs are requested. RSVP to michelle.covington@sonoma.edu.

"Marriage for All: Race Challenges and Marriage Equality"

In this installment of the Queer Studies Lecture Series, Andrea Shorter speaks on the ways in which race related to Proposition 8 and its aftermath.

Shorter is the campaign director of "And Marriage For All," a public education campaign connecting issues of race and marriage equality. She is also co-chair of the Bayard LGBT Rustin Coalition, Northern California's largest black LGBT political organization. The lecture takes place Tues., March 3 from noon-12:50 p.m. in Carson 68. For more information, visit the Queer Studies Lecture Series website.