Lectures
STRAIGHT TROUBLE: HETEROSEXUALITIES IN A POST-CLOSETED SOCIETY- Sociology professor James Dean, presents a lecture in part of the School of Social Sciences Brown Bag Series. Noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. Stevenson 2011.
http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/.
PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS - Sociology professor Eric Williams presents a lecture in part of the 26th annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. 4-5:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/center.htm.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE E2DISP ANTIGEN DISPLAY SYSTEM AS A NOVEL HIV VACCINE APPROACH - Dr. Dina Kovarik, University of Washington, will explore new approaches to fighting HIV. Biology Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/home/colloquium.shtml.
INVISIBLE CHILDREN IN UGANDA - (left)A compelling presentation of the conflict in Uganda with accompanying screening of the acclaimed film "Invisible Children". Presented by Associated Students Productions. What Can I Do Lecture Series. 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17. Student Union MPR. (707) 664-2382 or http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0217700_2.shtml.
ATTORNEY AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER JIMMY BELL- Jim A. Bell, civil rights activist and motivational speaker, will discuss community leadership and diversity. Presented by Black Scholars United, Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality, SSU Student Union and Associated Students Productions as part of the Black History Month Celebrations. 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17. Cooperage. (707) 664-2382 or http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0217700.shtml.
HOMO-COMING: YONE NOGUCHI'S CLOSET AND TRANSNATIONALISM - San Francisco State Univeristy Ethnic Studies and Sexuality Studies Associate Professor Amy Sueyoshi (right) explores how immigrant poet Yone Noguchi wrote openly about the beauty of male same-sex love at the turn of the century only to declare heterosexuality in later writings. Sueyoshi argues that his life suggests limits and liberations of transnationalism and the power of personal will. Women's Health Lecture Series. Noon - 12:50 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17. Carson 68. http://www.sonoma.edu/WomenStudies/current_lectures.htm.
PEN-BASED COMPUTING - Professor of Computer Sciences and Engineering Sciences Bala Ravikumar explains currennt projects with pen-based computing. Engineering Science Lecture Series. Reception, 4 p.m. Lecture, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19. Salazar 2009A. http://www.sonoma.edu/engineering/lecture_series.
STRONG STUFF FOREVER - Mary Baker, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, discusses the need to preserve large volumes of quickly accessible digital content indefinitely in the future and examines strategies to safeguard digital assets over long time periods. Computer Science Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon, Thursday, Feb. 19. Salazar 2016. http://www.cs.sonoma.edu/cs_dept/events/index.html.
BACKING INTO WISDOM: THE DEEP MASCULINE AND ADULT DEVELOPMENT - Dr. Allen Chinen (right), Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco examines millennial old models of heroes and patriarchs through a unique group of fairy tales from around the world that offer a needed alternative of a model for mature masculine development and a vision of a post-patriarchal world, with an authentic reconciliation of masculine and feminine. 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 19. Student Union Multi-purpose Room. Presented by Associated Student Productions, the Student Union and the Depth Psychology MA Program. (707) 664-2382 or http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0219700.shtml.
Theater
PIRATES OF PENZANCE -In this comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, Frederic is, as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in a leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. Evert B.Person Theater. Tickets available at the door. Free for SSU students. Non-SSU students and seniors $8. Faculty, alumni and staff $12. General admission $15. Opening night is 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 20, with additional performances on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 22 at 5 p.m.; Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to purchase advance tickets online, visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/54383.
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES - The award-winning play based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women celebrates women's sexuality and strength. For more than twelve years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public. Directed by Kathryn Pomilla and Danielle Zelisko with special sponsorship by the Queer-Straight Alliance. Tickets available at the Student Union. Students $5, faculty $10, general admission $15. 8 p.m., Friday, Feb 13. 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb 14. 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb 15. Rachel Espinoza, (707) 664-2845, ssuvaginamonologues@gmail.com.
Films
TWILIGHT - (2008) (left) Based on the bestselling book by Stephanie Meyer, a teenage girls risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. Scene It Big Screen Movie Night. 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 14. Warren Auditorium. (707) 664-2804.
HOTEL RWANDA - (2004) Don Cheadle leads up the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwanda Hotelier who shelters threatened Rwandan natives during the genocide of 1994. Presented by Student Associated Productions and Black Scholarship United as part of the Black History Month Film Series. 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 18. Student Union Multi-purpose Room. Call (707) 664-2382 or visit http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/bhm.shtml.
SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN - (2002) (right)"Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's first film since THE BLUE KITE, is an exquisite remake of Fei Mu's classic melodrama about a sickly young landowner named Li-yan whose lovely, dissatisfied wife finds her passion for her old lover unabated. What's more, he happens to be her husband's oldest friend." New York Film Festival (2002), 116 min., in Mandarin w/English subtitles). 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 19. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/sfi/.
Galleries
HIDDEN TREASURES: SELECTIONS FROM THE SSU ART GALLERY PERMANENT COLLECTION - Many of the 16 artists shown are household names - Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky; others are names known to those more familiar with 20th century art history - Dubuffet, Appel, Bellmer; and many others are renowned Bay Area artists - Morehouse, De Forest, Linhares. These works have come to the SSU Art Gallery from generous donors - some who have been collectors their whole lives, some who have donated one piece, all of whom believe in public education and access to art. University Library Art Gallery open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; weekends, noon-5 p.m. Through Friday, March 13. Karen Brodsky at (707) 664-4240.
ART FROM THE HEART - 25th annual Art from the Heart party and (not so very) silent art auction. Art from the Heart features modestly priced works of art and other items, such as stays at local inns and hotels, theatre and museum tickets, and bottles of wine, that are sold during a silent auction. As always, the auction will be an exciting evening of art, music, food and fine wine that has become one of the oldest continually held fundraising events in the area and a "must" for novice and seasoned collectors alike. Proceeds from the auction benefit the Art Gallery's exhibition, publication, and lecture programs. $25 donation is suggested at the door; food and wine served. 6 - 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb 14. University Art Gallery. (707) 664-2295 or http://www.sonoma.edu/artgallery/heart.html.
