Cultural Enhancement Series
You are invited and encouraged to join us for Western’s 2007-2008 Cultural Enhancement Series. All events are free and open to all students, faculty and community members.
This year, the Cultural Enhancement Committee is offering an additional incentive to students to take part in these entertaining and enlightening lectures and performances—besides free admission!
You will accumulate 'electronic raffle tickets' based on the number of events you attend. For example:
1 event = 1 ticket
2 events = 3 tickets (1 ticket + 2 tickets)
3 events = 6 tickets (1 + 2 + 3)
4 events =10 tickets (1 + 2 + 3 + 4)
The more events you attend, the greater your probability of winning. The same is true regarding the benefit to you in terms of your learning! Be sure to bring your Big Red ID Card to each event - we will swipe your card after each event to record your attendance, and use this record to generate your electronic raffle tickets. The drawing will be for one of two $500 book awards, and will be announced in mid-April. All full-time undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for the drawing.
Watch the Herald for details. For more information about the Series or the raffle, please call the Potter College Dean’s Office at 745-5204.
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Mamadou Diabate |
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Jeff Corwin Emmy winner Jeff Corwin has been working for the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems around the world since he was a teenager. He is perhaps best known as the host of The Jeff Corwin Experience on the cable channel Animal Planet. Jeff has been a strong and vocal advocate for ecosystem protection, addressing a 1993 session of the United Nations General Assembly on the need to conserve neotropical rain forests. Jeff has been collaborating on the production of an upcoming CNN documentary exploring threats facing our planet. This show will air on CNN as well as the Discovery channel in October. Corwin will talk about species loss, human overpopulation, deforestation and global warming, and the implications of those factors for the future of the earth. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Campus Activities Board. |
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Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem, writer, activist, and architect of the women’s movement, began her investigative work as a journalist when she took a job for three weeks as a Playboy bunny and wrote an expose of the women’s working conditions. Soon after, she helped establish the Women’s Action Alliance, and in 1972 founded and became the first editor of Ms. magazine. For almost forty years, Steinem has been one of the country’s most committed advocates for equality and social justice. An astute observer of American culture, she said, “The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.” Steinem’s eloquence and compassion reverberate through all her writing and speaking. |
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Cantus Cantus was founded in the fall of 1995 when a few college friends gathered on the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Since then, Cantus has created a programming style that is unlike any other ensemble performing today. The group’s repertoire spans many periods and genres, including Gregorian chant, Renaissance motets, contemporary works, art songs, folk music, spirituals, and pop. By combining poetry, song, and theatre, Cantus has changed the face of American vocal music and blurred the division among chamber music, choral music, art and entertainment. International Record Review says: “What [Cantus does] is enchanting. The singers - solo quality all - produce a wonderfully warm, gutsy and masculine |
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