Lectures
VISITING ARTIST: TOM MARIONI - (left) Tom Marioni is a pioneering Bay Area conceptual artist & author. Marioni founded the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) as "a large-scale social work of art." Marioni is also a sculptor who has created a large body of work in drawing and printmaking. Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Thurs., Feb. 26, noon. Art Building 102. http://www.sonoma.edu/art/visitingartists/.
LUNCH WITH BUGS: THE ELEGANT SIMPLICITY OF BIO-TERRORISM- Political Science professor David McCuan examines the global impact of bio-terrorism. School of Social Sciences Brown Bag Series. Tues., Feb. 24, noon. Stevenson 2011. http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/.
"THE WISHING YEAR" - Noelle Oxenhandler, English, reads from her new memoir, "The Wishing Year: A House, A Man, My Soul..." Both comic and serious, the book is a chronicle of Oxenhandler's attempt to set aside her skepticism and launch a year's "experiment in desire." Oxenhandler's essays have appeared in national and literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, VOGUE, Tricycle and "O" Magazine. She is the author of two previous non-fiction books, "A Grief Out of Season" and "The Eros of Parenthood." Writers on Writing series. 6 p.m., Tues., Feb. 24, Schulz 3001.
FROM ASHES TO LIFE: MY MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST - Lucille Eichengreen (right), author and a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen, presents a lecture as part of the 26th annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. 4 - 5:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 24. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/center.htm.
WHAT AN ACTUARY ACTUALLY DOES - Nick Franceschine, North Bay Pensions, discusses actuaries, the business professionals who attempt to forecast the financial consequences of future events. M*A*T*H* Colloquium Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/math/nsf/colloquium.shtml.
AUTHOGRAPHY IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: REGULATION AND ROLE IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DIESESE - Jessica Young, University of Washington, examines neurodegenerative disease. Biology Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/home/colloquium.shtml.
BEYOND BINARIES: GENDER SPECTRUMS - Stephanie Brill is the co-founder and Director of Gender Spectrum Education and Training, a featured speaker on issues of the developmental stages of gender variance in children, and co-author of The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals. She will introduce a multi-dimensional framework that seeks to counter the prevailing binary gender system and explores how children frequently experience the interrelated notions of biological sex, gender expression, and gender identity. Women's Health Lecture Series. Noon - 12:50 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 24. Carson 68. http://www.sonoma.edu/WomenStudies/current_lectures.htm.
WORLD OF WORK CAREER AND SUMMER JOB FAIR - More than 80 employers are expected , with full-time, part-time, summer and internship opportunities for students at all levels. Students are encouraged to bring resumes. 11-3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26. Student Recreation Center. (707) 664-2196.
DNS SUMMER OF FEAR 2008: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE 16 BIT NONCES - Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium, received a phone call from a guy who said he'd found a way to insert any data he wanted anywhere in the DNS. He spent the next six months trying to coordinate a global patch event. Now this fantastic story of heroism and buffoonery can finally be told. Computer Science Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon, Thursday, Feb. 26. Salazar 2016. http://www.cs.sonoma.edu/cs_dept/events/index.html.
DARYL "DMC" MCDANIELS - Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, one third of the multi-platinum hip-hop group Run-DMC, talks about the history and future of hip-hop music from an insider's perspective including its potential to socially and politically influence the youth of America and the world. He also will look at the impact of finding out about being adopted and his search to find this other family members he never knew. Associated Students Productions, the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality. Free to SSU students, faculty and staff; $10 general public. 7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23. Evert B. Person Theater. (707) 664-2382 orhttp://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0223730.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. His nurse, who is hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, about to celebrate his 21st year, rejoices that he has completed his servitude and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. By the end of the opera, the pirates, a dotty Major General, his large family of beautiful but unwed daughters, and the timid police force, all contribute to a cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name. Evert B. Person Theater. Tickets available at 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, February 28 at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to purchase advance tickets online, visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/54383.
Films
HIGHER LEARNING - (1995) Tyra Banks and Laurence Fishbourne head up a cast depicting the experience of some of the first black freshmen at Columbus University. Presented by Student Associated Productions and Black Scholarship United as part of the Black History Month Film Series. 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25. Student Union Multi Purpose Room. Call (707) 664-2382 or visit http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/bhm.shtml.
RIALTO $1 MOVIE NIGHT: THE WRESTLER - (2008) Decades after headlining as a professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson makes ends-meet by performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and New Jersey community centers. As his sense of identity slips away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life -- trying to reconnect with his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), and striking up a romance with an exotic dancer (Marisa Tomei) who is ready to start a new life. Presented by Associated Student Productions and Rialto Cinemas. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 at the Rialto Cinemas, Santa Rosa. SSU students, faculty and staff may purchase tickets at the Student Union front desk. Nominated for two Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. (707) 664-2382 or visit http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0224700.shtml.
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY - (2006) (Thai) A rising international star, Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul made his first American breakthrough with the audacious TROPICAL MALADY, a love story remarkable for its tenderness and originality of vision. Those same qualities shine through his wonderful new film, a reverie based on the director's memories of growing up as the son of physicians. The movie is broken into two distinct but analogous parts: One focuses on a female doctor in a small-town clinic, the other on a male doctor at a big city hospital. What unites the stories of Apichatpong's superb eye for nuances of feeling, anti-nostalgic nostalgia, and alluring knack for finding marvelous vignettes." - New York Fim Festival (105 min., in Thai with English subtitles) Tickets are free to SSU students with I.D., $3.50 for SFI members and children under 12, $4.50 to non-SSU students with I.D., senior citizens and SSU faculty and staff, $5 for general admission. 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb 26. in Darwin 103; 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 and 4 p.m. Sunday, March 1 in Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. 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. The University Library Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; weekends, noon-5 p.m. Through Friday, March 13. Karen Brodsky (707) 664-4240 or visit http://library.sonoma.edu/about/gallery.html.
CONTEMPORARY WARRIOR: SCULPTURE BY WANXIN ZHANG - With a collection of clay figures intended as a reference to the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, whose mausoleum was discovered through four pits excavated starting in 1974, Zhang explores his own inner warrior and represents the world he sees through an artistic kaleidoscope. On view until Sun., March 22. Tues.- Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.; weekends, noon- 4 p.m. Carla Stone. (707) 664-2295.
MIGRATION/ IMMIGRATION: HUNG LIU - Born in China, Oakland painter Hung Liu combines Western and Chinese traditions to create larger-than-life images that often make use of anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, as subject matter. Many of her paintings and prints incorporate imagery from photographs taken during China's Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Thurs., Feb 26 through Sun., March 22. Tues.- Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.; weekends, noon- 4 p.m. Carla Stone. (707) 664-2295.
