*All lectures and events are free unless otherwise noted.
"THE 2% SOLUTION" - Focus the Nation streams an interactive web-cast with Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green-jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences weigh in with cell phone voting. Focus the Nation. 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30. Cooperage.
CONVERSATION CAFE - Student Sustainability Coalition host brings professors from different disciplines, community members, graduate and undergrad students together to discuss "sustainability" including live web feeds and videos from universities across the state. Focus the Nation. 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31. Cooperage.
PUBLIC VIEWING NIGHT AT SSU OBSERVATORY - View Mars, Orion, and friends. 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1. SSU Observatory. For details and map go to http://www.physastro.sonoma.edu/observatory/pvns08.html
COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE - A multi-media, multi-medium performance event created by student composers, dancers, designers and technicians. Center for the Performing Arts. 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 and Sunday, Feb. 3. Evert B. Person Theatre. (707) 664-2353. Call in advance for tickets.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW - Celebrating two decades of musical collaboration in the wonderful world of lieder, Carol Menke, soprano, and Marilyn Thompson, pianist, perform the works of Robert Schumann, Joseph Marx, Gabriel Faure, Federico Mompou, Olivier Messiaen, and the English songs of Robert Sheldon. They will be joined by a surprise guest artist! Center for the Performing Arts. 8 p.m.. Saturday, Feb. 2. Ives 119. (707) 664-2353. Call in advance for tickets.
A TRIBUTE TO THE BLUES - The Faculty Jazz Sextet presents classic blues from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane and contemporary blues from Barbara Dennerlien and Jessica Williams. Pete Estabrook, trumpet; Charlie McCarthy, saxophones; John Simon, piano; Randy Vincent, guitar; Mel Graves, bass; George Marsh, drums with featured guest bassist Jason Carr. Center for the Performing Arts. 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2. Warren Auditorium. (707) 664-2353. Call in advance for tickets.
FILMS
AFTER LIFE - (1999, in Japanese w/English subtitles) A diverse group of people arrive at a drafty institution where they are offered condolences on their recent deaths and told they must select a treasured memory which will be recreated on film and recollected for eternity. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m., Friday, Feb 1, and 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3. Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall. FREE for SSU students w/ID. (707) 664-2606
RESIDENTIAL LIFE
ANNUAL RES LIFE FOOTBALL GAME - 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 27. South Lawn - across from Alicante and Burgandy Buildings in Sauvignon. (707) 664-4033.
