CHSBS Events
Student Art Exhibit
"Creative Minds Inspired by African American Culture," a student art exhibit of paintings, poetry, music and sculptures created by the students of ENG 329, will be showing in the Center for Inclusion and Diversity (UC 108) through February 1-29 from 8a-5p weekdays. Submitted by Sarah Avery, x7318, Office of Diversity Education, UC 110-C, wojto1sa@cmich.edu.
An artist reception for the "Creative Minds Inspired by African American Culture," a student art exhibit of paintings, poetry, music and sculptures created by CMU students (especially ENG 329: African American Literature), will be held in the Center for Inclusion and Diversity (UC 108) February 1, 2012, from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Join us in speaking with the artists and learning more about their creations. Submitted by Sarah Avery, x7318, Office of Diversity Education, UC 110-C, wojto1sa@cmich.edu.
Journey Through the Jungle: A Fascinating Look at Life in the Rainforest
Friday, February 10, 2012
103 Rowe Hall
4 to 6 p.m.
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The Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Central Michigan University will unveil its new exhibit, "Journey Through the Jungle," during an opening reception Friday, February 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Rowe Hall on the campus of CMU. The exhibit features a children's section that includes a replica bat cave and tribal hut, as well as photos and displays of trees, animals and people who live in the rainforest. The exhibit also features live critters and a display on rainforest conservation.
The opening reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Tricia Kierst at (989) 774-3829 or cmuseum@cmich.edu.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, February 15
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Army Core Value - Personal Courage
Presented by Major (Ret) InSung Oaks Lee
Wednesday, February 15
Park Library Auditorium
5:30 p.m.
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MAJ Insung Lee Commissioned in 1973 from CMU as an Armor Officer, he has held numerous positions during his military career spanning from 1973-1994. Topics presented will include how to prepare for the military and/or civilian sector, communication skills, art of negotiations and much more.
The goal of the series - which is named in honor of COL William B. Nolde, former CMU Military Science Professor who was the last official casualty of the Vietnam War - is to promote the importance of leadership both in the Military and in American society as a whole. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Military Science Department at 989-774-3049.
Scrabble Tournament
Thursday, February 16
6 to 9 p.m.
Anspach 003
Show your skill with words! Proceeds from the $10 entry fee go to the Writing Circle and Temenos to support student publications. Refreshments will be provided. For more information or to register to play, contact CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
CMU University Events presents "The Will"
A Play by Sandra Seaton
Thursday, February 16 (CANCELLED)
For more information, contact University Events at 989-774-3000 or cbotix@cmich.edu.
Writing the Will: Dramatizing the African American Past
Presented by Sandra Seaton
Friday, February 17 (CANCELLED)
American Indian Boarding School Film Series
Friday, February 17
A Windigo Tale (1:32mins) ● 1pm in the Bovee University Center Auditorium, Central Michigan University
Filmed on Six Nations Reserve in Ontario and in the Ottawa Valley, A Windigo Tale is Ojibway poet Armand Garnet Ruffo's directorial debut. Produced on a shoe-string budget, in demanding conditions, the film ignites the screen with determination and heart and tells a powerful story of intergenerational trauma and healing.
Shot in HD, Ruffo's feature-length film moves between the breathtaking beauty of a road trip in autumn and the stark winter landscape of a First Nations community. Harold, a Native grandfather (Gary Farmer), desperate to save his troubled grandson Curtis (Elliot Simon) from a life on the street, shares the dark secrets of their family and community. In an isolated village, an estranged mother, Doris (Jani Lauzon), and daughter, Lily (Andrea Menard), must reunite to exorcise the voracious Windigo spirit tied to a painful past. Inspired by Ojibway spirituality and based on the history of the residential school system, where generations of Native children were forcibly removed from their families and aggressively assimilated into Euro-Canadian society, A Windigo Tale is both a chilling and redeeming drama.
Fallen Feather (94 mins) ● 3pm in the Bovee University Center Auditorium, Central Michigan University
The Fallen Feather provides an in-depth critical analysis of the driving forces behind the creation of Canadian Indian Residential Schools. Using historical source documents, survivors' personal testimonies and detailed analysis from community leaders, the film explores in detail, the Federal Governments primary motivation in the creation of these Schools. While examining the influences of Indian wars, Sir John A MacDonald's National Policy, Land Claims issues, the film details how all of these events and visions contributed to the development of these Schools. The film argues that the lasting effects that First Nations in Canada suffer today, can be traced back directly to their experiences within these schools. Finally, we as Canadians are all challenge to re-examine our shared history.
Saturday, February 18
Older Than America (1:41 mins) ● 3pm at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways
Originally released in 2008, the film explores and highlights the impact of the "culture-killing" effects of the typical Native American experience of US sponsored boarding schools in the 1900s and other inter-social relationships between the Native American people and the dominant European based American culture. The film also suggests ways for Native Americans to regain their own cultural identities.
Indian School (60 mins) ● 5pm at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways
Docementary featuring interviews from survivors and survivor descendants from the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School. Produced in 2010-2011 by Detroit's American Indian Services, Inc. of Detroit.
This film series is co-sponsored by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, CMU's Native American Programs, and the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. For more information, contact 989-774-3829 or marti6jc@cmich.edu.
The Bernard Woma Ensemble
Saturday, February 18
6:00 p.m.
Staples Hall, School of Music
The Bernard Woma Ensemble plays traditional drumming and xylophone music from the Upper West region of Ghana, drumming music from many different regions of Ghana, and new, innovative compositions Bernard has written.The Bernard Woma Ensemble has performed with New York Philharmonic, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra.
Bernard Woma is from the Gbaane clan of the Dagara people in Northwestern Ghana. He was awarded the title of "Best Xylophonist" at the local Kakube festival. In 1989, after moving to the south of Ghana, Bernard joined the National Dance Company as a solo xylophonist. In 1993, he was appointed master drummer of the company. He has shared the performance stage with renowned artists such as Maya Angelou, Yo Yo Ma, and Glen Velez. He has performed for international dignitaries and presidents such as U. S. president Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. He was recently honored as the cultural resource person for President Barack Obama's family when they visited Ghana.
The performance is sponsored by the Collective for Music Research and Cultural Study, CCFA, School of Music, and Department of English. For more information, contact Sarah Riegler at riegl1s@cmich.edu.
Writing Circle Workshop
Thursday, February 23
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, February 29
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series
R They Watching U? Technology, Privacy and Identity
Wednesday, February 29
7:00 p.m.
Bovee U.C. Auditorium
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Forum facilitator is Justin Hayes-Smith (SASW). "Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series" is not a lecture series - it's more like a town hall meeting called to discuss important events and topics in the news. Each forum is an opportunity for all participants to collaborate in thinking through the issues, identify problems, and consider solutions.
Wellspring Literary Series
Featuring: Caitlin Horrocks
Monday, March 12
7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Art Reach Center (111 E. Broadway St.)
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Caitlin Horrocks is author of the short story collection This is Not Your City, a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her work appears in The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her awards include the Plimpton Prize and a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship. She lives in Grand Rapids where she is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University.
The Wellspring Literary Series provides a forum for the Mt. Pleasant and Central Michigan University community to hear the work of established and emerging regional writers as well as works-in-progress by CMU graduate writing students and faculty writers. Created and facilitated by Robert Fanning, a poet and CMU professor, Wellspring is a partnership between the English Department at CMU and the Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan. For more information, contact Robert.fanning@cmich.edu or call 989-774-3172.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, March 14
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Community Gardens and Sustainability
Presented by Brigitte Bechtold
Friday, March 16
12 to 1 p.m.
Anspach 257A
For more information, contact Brigitte Bechtold at 989-774-3160 or becht1bh@cmich.edu.
The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
As Viewed Through the Extraordinary Experiences of Two Survivors Who Outwitted Their Killers
Presented by Robert Melson
Wednesday, March 21
Bovee UC Rotunda
7:00 p.m.
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Robert Melson is the keynote speaker for the spring 2012 Dr. Harold Abel Endowed Lecture Series in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide. In his talk he will juxtapose and discuss two extraordinary instances from the memoirs of two survivors of genocide, Grigoris Balakian, who survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1918, and his father, Willy Mendelsohn, who survived the Holocaust with Melson and his mother. Balakian's memoir, "Armenian Golgotha," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2009. His father's story appears in "False Papers: Survival and Deception in the Holocaust," published by the University of Illinois Press in 2000.
His talk will interpolate some of the history of the two genocides, and it will conclude by asking two questions: What do the two stories illustrate about the motives of the killers and the apparent success in outwitting them of the two survivors? And what if anything do these experiences teach us about our common humanity?
Melson is Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, where he taught political science and was a charter member of the Jewish Studies Program. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the presentation. For more information, visit the Abel Lecture Series website or contact Rae Barrett at 989-774-1287 or barre1rm@cmich.edu.
Writing Circle Workshop
Thursday, March 22
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series
Elections 2012: The Power of the Primaries
Tuesday, March 27
7:00 p.m.
Bovee U.C. Auditorium
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Forum facilitator is Jeffrey Drury (CDA). "Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series" is not a lecture series - it's more like a town hall meeting called to discuss important events and topics in the news. Each forum is an opportunity for all participants to collaborate in thinking through the issues, identify problems, and consider solutions.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, March 28
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Griffin Policy Forum
Monday, April 2
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Powers Hall Ballroom
Panelists for the Spring 2012 Griffin Policy Forum are Jill Alper, Dewey Square Group; Rusty Hills; John Truscott, Truscott Rossman; Rick Wiener, Wiener Associates. The moderator is Rick Pluta of Michigan Public Radio Network. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Griffin Endowed Chair website.
Wellspring Literary Series
Featuring: Jack Ridl
Monday, April 9
7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Art Reach Center (111 E. Broadway St.)
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Jack Ridl's newest collection, Losing Season (September, 2009, CavanKerry Press), chronicles a year of hope and defeat on and off the basketball court in a small town. Ridl grew up in both the world of basketball, where his father was a well-known head coach at Westminster College and the University of Pittsburgh and the world of circus, inherited from his mother's family. Ridl is the author of Broken Symmetry (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Outside the Center Ring, from Puddinghouse Publications, and Against Elegies, which was selected by Sharon Dolin and former Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the 2001 Chapbook Award from The Center for Book Arts in New York. Ridl recently retired from teaching at Hope College for more than 37 years. Ridl lives along a creek that winds into Lake Michigan with his wife, Julie, two dogs and two cats. His daughter is the artist, Meredith Ridl.
The Wellspring Literary Series provides a forum for the Mt. Pleasant and Central Michigan University community to hear the work of established and emerging regional writers as well as works-in-progress by CMU graduate writing students and faculty writers. Created and facilitated by Robert Fanning, a poet and CMU professor, Wellspring is a partnership between the English Department at CMU and the Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan. For more information, contact Robert.fanning@cmich.edu or call 989-774-3172.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, April 11
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
Writing Circle Workshop
Wednesday, April 25
Anspach 003 (Writing Center)
4:00 p.m.
The Writing Circle invites all students, faculty and staff to attend a creative writing workshop. Bring a piece in progress or attend to socialize with other writers and give feedback. For more information, contact Darla Nagel at CMUWritingCircle@gmail.com.
