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Feb. 11, 2005
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Feb. 11 |
- Friday Faculty Forum, Noon-2 p.m., Captains Room, Lower Level Dining Room, Kryzsko Commons
- Renaissance Madrigal Banquet and WSU Choirs, 6 p.m., Lourdes
- Frances Moore Lappe Presentation, 7 p.m., Science Laboratory Center Auditorium
- Job Fair Registration due, 4:30 p.m., Career Services, Gildemeister, Room 110
- THAD Department's Play Directing Course Auditions, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Magnus Theatre of the Performing Arts Center
- Women's Basketball vs. Minnesota State Moorhead, 6 p.m., McCown Gym
- Men's Basketball vs. Minnesota State Moorhead, 8 p.m., McCown Gym
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| Saturday |
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Feb. 12 |
- Renaissance Madrigal Banquet and WSU Choirs, 6 p.m., Lourdes
- Guest Artist Masterclass: The Ancia Saxophone Quartet, 10 a.m., Performing Arts Center
- Guest Artist Concert: The Ancia Saxophone Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center
- Muffin Ball Tournament, Noon, Maxwell Field at Midwest Wireless Stadium
- Minnesota Southeast Technical's "Hangar Dance," 7-11 p.m, Winona Airport Campus, 110 Galewski Dr.
- Women's Basketball vs. Northern State, 6 p.m., McCown Gym
- Men's Basketball, 8 p.m., McCown Gym
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| Sunday |
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Feb. 13 |
- Women's Tennis vs. UM-Duluth, 9 a.m.
- Women's Tennis vs. UW-La Crosse, 3 p.m.
- Deadline for submissions to Satori, Midnight, Minné 302
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News and Events
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| WSU Presents "Art of the Book and Artistic Serial" |
"Art of the Book and Artistic Serial" is open at Paul Watkins Gallery and is on view through March 3.
Participating La Crosse printmaker Lisa Schoenfielder and Iowan bookbinder Julia Leonard present artists’ slide talks on Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 1:30–2:30 p.m., in Stark Hall Auditorium, followed by an artists’ reception in the Gallery until 5 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
The exhibit includes a range of examples of limited-edition books, including fine press books and artists’ books. Individual prints of artwork published in some of the books are also on display, as well as other prints by those artists. Eight artists are included in the exhibition, among them printmaker and St. Mary’s professor, Preston Lawing, and local poet and bookbinder Chad Oness.
Paul Watkins Gallery is located in Watkins Hall. Gallery Hours are Monday – Friday 8a.m.– 4 p.m. and Wednesdays 8 a.m.–8 p.m. For more information, call 457-5395. |
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| WSU Music Department Presents The Ancia Saxophone Quartet |
The Winona State University Music Department presents: The Ancia Saxophone Quartet, Saturday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m., in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
Ticket prices are $10 for adults, and $5 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the door.
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet is a professional saxophone quartet based in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The quartet has performed concerts and workshops in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ancia Quartet has appeared frequently on MPR. The ensemble's performances include music of different eras, from medieval to contemporary, with stops at the intervening centuries. Their music ranges from the sophisticated to the whimsical. Programs are designed to not only touch the audience's emotions but also stimulate the intellect. |
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| Japan Club Holding Card Sale |
The Japan Club is holding a card sale the rest of this week in the Lower Hyphen of Kryzsko Commons.
The cards cost $1 each and are made with traditional Japanese paper.
This is a fund-raiser for the upcoming Japan Fair, which will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26, includes hands-on cultural activities, performances and Japanese food. |
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| Black Cultural Awareness Association Presents "Thirsty for Diversity" |
Winona State University's Black Cultural Awareness Association presents "Thirsty for Diversity," a Black History Month movie series each Thursday night, in the Student Activities Center, of Kryzsko Commons Student Union.
The next movie showing is Ray, on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 6 p.m.
The Black History Month event is free and open to all university students and employees, as well as the general public. Free snacks and pop are provided. |
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| WSU Presents Dancescape 2005 |
The Winona State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents Dancescape 2005, Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 17-19, at 7:30 p.m., on the WSU Performing Arts Center Main Stage. A matinee performance is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m.
This annual dance event features original choreography and performance by WSU students, faculty and guest choreographers in a range of new dance works.
Featured guest artists this year include Canadian pianist Erik Brisson, Minneapolis costume designer Linnae Enockson and choreographer Kim Nofsinger, from Murfreesboro Tennessee State University. Selected choreography by WSU dance alumni Tony Bartholomaus, Avin Honecker Sherman and Alanna Duffy and local choreographer Genevieve Draskoci-Johnson will also be showcased.
The 50-member cast and crew of Dancescape are the students of WSU. Student choreographers whose works were selected by audition are Ken Abbott, Allison Engelsma, Susie Soukaseume and Andy Waldron.
WSU Professor Peggy Sannerud and student designers Becky Bishop, Skee Reumping, Nate Wagner and Jamin O'Malley designed the production's lighting, joined by WSU costumer Susan Bratt and sound designer Dani Lobello.
Wynn Fricke, Twin Cities choreographer and WSU faculty member, has created a piece entitled "Figure Ground," set to Taiko drumming, a version of which premiered at the Zenon Concert in Minneapolis in November.
In collaboration with local pianist, Brisson, and six WSU dancers, Gretchen Cohenour, WSU professor, will premiere "In a Landscape" with music by John Cage and set design by WSU art student, Chun Lok Mah.
"Pull" is a jazz dance piece choreographed by Draskoci-Johnson that embodies the pulsing energy of Massive Attack.
In "Valley of the Jig," Duffy and Honecker-Sherman explored the idea of integrating modern moves in with traditional Irish dance.
Duffy describes the piece as "a fun and lively piece. It will have the viewer picturing dancing pixies among a thousand shades of green in a far-off meadow of mist and grass."
Engelsma says "with the use of recorded and live Brazilian music she choreographed a piece to portray feminine grace. Vocalist Lisa Michaels, senior WSU student, gives the piece a unique beauty and cohesive feeling of group dynamic."
Ken Abbott's modern piece, "Horizon," along with Fricke's, "Figure Ground,"
was selected to represent WSU in the adjudicated concert at this year's American College Dance Festival.
"Afrimerica" is Soukaseume's interpretation of how movement and dance of Africa has influenced her movement and dance style here in the U.S.
Soukaseume's solo, "Impermanence," is about trying to reach someone who is unattainable.
"It is dedicated to loved ones who have had their lives cut short, passing away at an early age," she said. "It is very emotional and has a powerful meaning to me."
The Dancescape box office is open from noon to 5 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, through Feb. 19 and one and a half hours before each show.
Tickets are $5 for senior citizens and WSU students and $7 for the general public.
For ticket information, call the WSU box office at 457-5235.
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| WSU Black Cultural Awareness Association Presents Soul Food Dinner |
The Winona State University Black Cultural Awareness Association invites families, friends and the community to attend the annual Soul Food Dinner, Saturday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m., in the East Cafeteria, of Kryzsko Commons.
This year’s dinner features a “Harlem Renaissance Revisited” theme including a performance by Beasley’s Big Band: a group of musicians dedicated to playing great big band jazz. The nineteen piece big band has a diverse membership that ranges in age from 31 to 80 years old. Chuck Beasley is the band’s leader, lead alto sax player and chief musical arranger. He is an experienced music educator with more than twenty years of teaching experience. Chuck has been playing in big bands professionally after leaving the Air Force at the end of World War II.
The Soul Food Dinner menu includes southern fried catfish and chicken, macaroni and cheese, green beans, collard greens, sweet potato pie and peach cobbler.
Tickets may be purchased Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Cultural Diversity Office, and in the Lower Hyphen, of Kryzsko Commons from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for adults, $10 for students and children under the age of four eat for free. |
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| WSU Presents Deanne Mohr |
Winona State University's Faculty and Guest Artist Series presents a recital by Deanne Mohr, WSU assistant professor of music, Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the WSU Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
An accomplished performer, Mohr has appeared as a soloist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, was featured in the 1996-1997 Début concert series in Montréal, and has been recorded for the Radio-Canada program, Les jeunes artistes, and CBC Saskatchewan's Ambience. She has received numerous scholarships and awards, including first prize in the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association Concerto Competition (1994) and the 1992 Florence Bowes Scholarship Competition, and third place in the piano division of the 1992 CIBC National Music Festival.
As a faculty member of WSU, Mohr is active as a pedagogue, chamber musician, accompanist and soloist.
The program includes pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Francis Poulenc. Mohr's husband, Eric Brisson, is the narrator.
For additional information, please contact Deanne Mohr, dmohr@winona.edu. |
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| Aviation Safety Seminar is Rescheduled |
The Winona State University Airway Science program announces that the Aviation Safety Seminar originally scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 10, from 7 to 10 p.m., at Max Conrad Field in Winona, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 22. The seminar date had to be adjusted due to scheduling conflicts.
The Aeronautics Division of the Minnesota Department of Transportation Aeronautics (MnDOT) in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical (MSC-ST) and Winona State University (WSU), present the Aviation Safety Seminar at the MSC-ST Aviation Airport Campus at Max Conrad Field in Winona.
The program is led by Rick Braunig, aviation representative of MnDOT; Marlan Perhus, FAA air carrier inspector; Steve Szymanski, FAA flight service specialist; Mark Schreier, FAA air traffic controller; and Dr. George Bolon, director of Airway Science Aviation at Winona State University.
Attendance at this program qualifies pilots for the ground portion of the FAA Wings Safety Program. A variety of subject areas of interest to all pilots will be covered.
This is the only program of this type in the southeastern Minnesota region this year. All pilots and interested individuals are welcome. For more information contact George Bolon, at 507-452-2220.
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| WSU Offers Travel Study |
Winona State is offering Travel Study opportunities for hands-on learning in locations across the country.
Probable locations are; Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota; Fort Robinson and Santee Indian Reservation in Nebraska; Bear's Lodge in Wyoming; and Wounded Knee, Sage Creek, Bear Butte and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The next informational meeting is on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 6:30 p.m., in Memorial Hall, Room 209.
For more information, contact James Reidy, at jreidy@winona.edu, or Rob Brault, at rbrault@winona.edu.
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| Applications Available for Student Senate |
| Applications are currently available for a number of open positions on the student senate. Positions include: Graduate Senators, College of Education Senators, College of Nursing Senator, Junior Class Senator and Sophomore Class Senator.
For those interested, applications are available in the Student Senate Office. Applications will soon be available online, at www.winona.edu/studentsenate.
Applications are due back to the Student Senate Office on Tuesday, Feb. 15. The election is during the week of Feb. 22. |
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| Admission Possible Now Hiring College Graduates |
Admission Possible, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income young people in the Twin Cities gain admission to college, is now hiring for more than 20 full-time positions starting next fall. These positions are ideal for recent college graduates.
For complete job descriptions and application instructions, visit www.AdmissionPossible.org. Go to home page and click on the link labeled "Employment" on the left-hand side of screen.
All applictions are due by March 21.
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| Career Services Offers Job Fair 2005 |
Winona State University Career Services offers Job Fair 2005 on Friday, Feb. 18, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Job Fair 2005 gives Winona State juniors and seniors an opportunity to interact with a variety of employers to explore future employment or internship positions. Some employers will schedule interviews to take place at the Job Fair, and students can network and gather information about the job market.
The registration fee is $15. To register, stop by Career Services by Friday, Feb.11, until 4:30 p.m., in Gildemeister, Room 110.
For more information, visit http://www.mnsujobfair.org. For a complete list of employers attending, stop by Career Services, or visit www.winona.edu/career/.
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| Winona State University Hosts Frances Moore Lappe |
Author and activist Frances Moore Lappe speaks at Winona State University on Friday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., in the WSU Science Laboratory Center Auditorium.
Lappe, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, speaks on the connections she sees between hunger and democracy, issues she has focused on since the 1971 publication of her acclaimed book, Diet for a Small Planet.
Lappe has been traveling and writing for 30 years on behalf of what she refers to as "living democracies," including Minnesota farmers' struggles to maintain a say in environmental issues, food production and market share.
Questions, discussion, refreshments and book-signing will follow Lappe's talk. This event is co-sponsored by the Land Stewardship Project, WSU Departments of Political Science, Communication Studies and History, the social work and women's studies' programs, Women Involved in Living and Learning and the WSU Residential College.
This event is free and open to the public, but freewill donations will be accepted to benefit the Land Stewardship Project's work on farming and democracy issues.
For more information, contact Tamara Berg, tberg@winona.edu. |
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