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April 5, 2005
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April 5 |
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Lyceum Series Guest Artist Mark Russell, 7:30 p.m., Somsen Auditorium
- Celebration of the Book presents: Li-Young Lee, 7 p.m., North Lounge, Lourdes Hall
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German Roundtable Meeting, Noon, Lutheran Campus Center Library
- Online voting for 2005-06 Student Senate begins
- Auditions for Directing Class Scenes, 6-7:30 p.m., Magnus Theatre, Performing Arts Center
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| Wednesday |
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April 6 |
- New University Brown Bag Dialogues, Noon, Maxwell Teleconference Center, GL 137 Rochester and streaming video
- Athenaeum Event Series presents: Native American Educational Experiences: A Reading, 1 p.m., Library Athenaeum
- Baseball vs. St. Cloud State, 2 p.m., Loughrey Field
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| Thursday |
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April 7 |
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Residential College International Music Series presents: Percussion Group Cincinatti Explorations of World Music , 7-9 p.m., Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
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| Friday |
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April 8 |
- Elementary Choral Songfest, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Main Stage and Somsen Auditorium
- Workshop for Middle and High School Students with Guest Artists, TBA
- Women's Softball vs. Wayne State, 2 p.m., Maxwell Field
- Grad Finale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Student Activities Center
- Registration due for Art Club Museum Bus Tour
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| Saturday |
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April 9 |
- Relay For Life Cancer Walk, 5 p.m.-7 a.m., Courtyard
- Day of Percussion, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Performing Arts Center
- WSU Percussion Group, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center
- Antique Book Appraisal, Winona Public Library
- Theatre and Dance Department Theatre Trip: Shakespeare's "As You Like It," 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis
- Women's Golf, Best Western Riverport Inn Invitational, Cedar Valley Golf Course
- Softball vs. Moorhead, 9 a.m., Maxwell Field
- Softball vs. Northern State, 1 p.m., Maxwell Field
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April 10 |
- Student Recital, Marie Lang, 4 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
- Women's Golf, Best Western Riverport Inn Invitational, Cedar Valley Golf Course
- Softball vs. Crookston, 11 a.m., Maxwell Field
- Softball vs. Bemidji State, 3 p.m., Maxwell Field
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News and Events
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| WSU Rochester Center Hosts Transfer Planning Session |
Students interested in attending the Winona State University Rochester Center are encouraged to attend a special Transfer Planning Session, on Wednesday, April 13, from 5-7 p.m., at the University Center Rochester.
The event includes information about the Winona State University Rochester Center departments and programs, the Rochester campus, Student Services and career opportunities. Those attending can also meet with faculty and staff.
Information is also provided on how current community college, technical college or four year college students can transfer to Winona State University. The session also discusses how the 2+2 Program works and what options are available for graduate school or work after the bachelor’s degree.
Registration is scheduled from 5-5:30 p.m., followed by a welcome with refreshments and door prizes. |
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| WSU Presents "Native American Educational Experiences: A Reading" |
Winona State University presents "Native American Educational Experiences: A Reading" as part of the Athenaeum Event Series: Spring 2005 Wednesday, April 6, at 1 p.m., in the WSU Library Athenaeum. The presentation is led by Florestine Kiyukanpi Renville.
The Athenaeum is located on the south side of the second floor of the library. It will seat approximately 60 people.
Renville has a bachelor's in journalism from South Dakota State University. She is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Tribe. Renville also edits and publishes her own publications, Ikce Wicasta and The Common People's Journal, and is one of four co-authors of Shaping Survival: Essays by Four American Indian Tribal Women. The book's authors recount their educational experiences in BIA schools, off-reservation public schools and Indian mission schools, and how those experiences shaped their views on individual, family and community survival. Renville will be reading from the book. |
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| WSU Holds Winona Experience Information Fair |
| The Winona Experience Student Communication Committee at Winona State University hosts an Information Fair Wednesday, April 13, and Thursday, April 14, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., in the Student
Activities Center, at Kryzsko Commons.
The event allows students to visit several different booths and pick-up information on how the Winona Experience will impact their lives.
There is also a question and answer session scheduled, "Talk With Us," from Noon-1 p.m., in the Art Tye Lounge, at Kryzsko Commons. This session allows students to speak with other students and faculty members regarding questions related to the Winona Experience.
If you have questions regarding the Winona Experience Information Fair, contact Carol Anderson, at 457-5019. |
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| Department of Music Presents Annual Minnesota Day of Percussion |
The Winona State University Department of Music and the Minnesota Chapter of Percussive Arts Society presents the Annual Minnesota Day of Percussion Saturday, April 9.
From 9 a.m.-noon, there are free concerts by high school and college percussion ensembles; from
1-4 p.m., free clinics with Percussion Group Cincinnati are held; and at 4:30 p.m., there are free door prizes.
The day of percussion ends with an evening concert featuring Percussion Group Cincinnati with the WSU Percussion Ensemble. The concert is held on the Performing Arts Center Main Stage.
Tickets to the evening concert cost $5 for adults, and $3 for students and senior citizens.
For more information, contact Cathy Schmidt, Department of Music, at 457-5256
Percussion Group Cincinnati are in residence at WSU from Thursday, April 7, through Saturday, April 9.
Percussion Group Cincinnati’s appearance is made possible in cooperation with the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, Inc., through funding from the Minnesota State Legislature, and support from the International Music Series in the WSU Residential College at Lourdes Hall.
For more information on Percussion Group Cincinnati, visit their website at: www.pgcinfo.com. |
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| Art Club Sponsors Museum Bus Tour |
The Winona State University Art Club is sponsoring a museum bus tour on Sunday, April 24. All members of the campus community and general public are invited to participate.
Featured on the itinerary is the newly expanded Walker Art Museum, which opened a week earlier with all new exhibitions. The adjacent Walker Sculpture Garden and Cowles Conservatory is also available. The tour includes the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Weisman Art Museum on the University of Minnesota campus. The late afternoon ends in Dinkytown, next to the University of Minnesota campus, where participants can dine at local restaurants.
Departure time on the coach bus is 8 a.m., on Sunday morning, from Watkins Hall, at Winona and King Streets. The tour returns to Winona by 9:30 p.m.
The cost of the trip is $17 for students and $20 for all others. Pre-registration is required. Transportation and admission to all museums is included. Participants provide their own lunch and dinner. To register for the trip, sign up and make payments in the Art Office, in Watkins Hall, Room 204, by April 13. Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis. Be sure to include the names of all participants, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. For more information, call 457-5393.
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| WSU Hosts Relay For Life Cancer Walk |
| The second annual Winona State University Relay For Life cancer walk is on Saturday, April 9 to Sunday, April 10, from 5 p.m.-7 a.m., in the WSU courtyard. The event takes place in the Winona State University courtyard.
For more information, contact Cassie Lynch, at cjlynch1453@webmail.winona.edu or 474-1464.
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Student Senate Holds Elections |
The Winona State University Student Senate holds elections from Tuesday, April 4, through Friday, April 7, online at www.winona.edu/studentsenate. This website also offers information about each candidate. The Student Senate represents students and has an influence on how the money students pay at WSU is spent.
For additional information, contact Dusty Finke, president of WSU Student Association and Student Senate, ddfinke6356@webmail.winona.edu.
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Auditions Held for Directing Class Scenes |
Auditions for a set of 20-minute scenes directed by students enrolled in the THAD Department's Play Directing course are held Tuesday, April 5, from 6-7:30 p.m., in the Magnus Theatre of the Perfomring Arts Center. No prior acting experience is necessary.
The student directors will be looking to cast about 23 roles (13 male, 10 female) in excerpts from modern and contemporary plays by Mary Chase, Christopher Durang, Sarah Kane, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Scott McPherson, Neil Simon and Tom Stoppard.
The scenes will rehearse approximately 2-3 weeks and be performed once between April 23 and April 28 before an audience of friends and students enrolled in the course. Actors cast in a scene may apply their work toward earning 1 credit in THAD 100-Theatre Activities next semester. Contact David Bratt, THAD department, PAC 206 (X5241) for more information. |
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WSU Hosts Poet Li-Young Lee |
Winona State University's "Celebration of the Book 2005" series presents poet Li-Young Lee on Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m., in the North Lounge of Lourdes Hall. Lee published three books of poetry: Rose (1986), The City in Which I Love You, which won the Lamont Poetry Award, and Book of My Nights (2001). He also published a memoir of his family's flight from China to Indonesia to America, The Winged Seed, which is described as a book-length prose poem.
Lee's poetry often begins with a focus on his family and soon grows outward to meditate on the sweetness of life in proximity to death and the spiritual nature of our common lives. His poems are anthologized and translated into several languages.
Lee gives readings of his work at hundreds of literary festivals and colleges around the country. He has won many literary awards, including the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.
Lee's appearance at WSU is sponsored by the John S. Lucas Great River Reading Series, the WSU Residential College and the WSU English department.
Lee's reading is also part of WSU's Celebration of the Book. The "Celebration of the Book" is a semester-long event intended to highlight the importance of the book as both an object and a cultural wellspring. It has been organized by the Consortium for Liberal Arts Promotion and is sponsored by WSU's Department of English, History, Geoscience, Education and Art; the Residual College; the WSU Library; the WSU Foundation and Sutton Hoo Press.
For more information, contact James Armstrong, 457-5418, or jarmstrong@winona.edu.
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