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Gallery Exhibition: The La Defense Photographs
Tuesday, 2/2/2010 - Tuesday, 3/9/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery
- free
Photographer Robert Alters MIT degree is in the photography of architecture. His art disregards both the rules of photography and, explicitly, architectural photography. The large-scale ink jet printsprinted on cotton rag paper or canvascreate a purposeful contradiction of surface and feeling.
Of this work Alter writes: The La Defense Portfolios are for me a way to observe and try to understand the corporate and commercial world that we are building for ourselves and that we must inhabit. The photographs have been taken over the past six years and are my exploration into this somewhat confusing and intimidating oversized world.
My photographs are not condemnations or political statements. They are visual interpretations of the awe and diminution that we humans feel in the presence of these giants. www.alterarts.blogspot.com
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
February 2010
Lois Lowry Radio Interview on AM 1280 WPKZ
Tuesday, 2/9/2010 7:00 AM-8:00 AM
Online
Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
This spring the community is invited to explore the writings of Lois Lowry through literature circles and book reading clubs, a public discussion and culminating in an evening conversation with Ms. Lowry.
Sponsored by: AM 1280 The Pulse WPKZ
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Harrod Lecture Series
Tuesday, 2/23/2010 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall
- free
Peter Staab, assistant professor of mathematics, will present Magic Square.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Ellis Paul
Saturday, 2/27/2010 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Percival Hall, Percival Auditorium
- $18 adults, $15 seniors, $7 under 18
Bostons own troubadour Ellis Paul has been one of the leading voices in the singer/songwriter genre that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style in the 1990s. Since then, Paul hasnt slowed down one bit, with 14 albums to his credit and numerous Boston Music Awards. His music has appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. With his soaring vocals and heartfelt storytelling, Paul is part poet and part singer, an impressive talent whose keen insight into lifes ways and means might just make you sit up a little taller and listen a little more intently.
Sponsored by: Worcester Magazine, 90.5 FM WICN Public Radio
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
March 2010
Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community
Tuesday, 3/2/2010 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall
- $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.
Sponsored by: WITS (Women in Todays Society)
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community
Tuesday, 3/2/2010 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall
- $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Lois Lowry Talking about Lois Lowry
Tuesday, 3/9/2010 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Music)
- free
Lowry references The Giver in her Newbury Award speech: The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.
It is very risky.
But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom.
Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
Join fellow book lovers and readers as we delve into two of Lois Lowrys most well-known booksThe Giver and Number the Stars. Fitchburg State faculty scholar Dr. Patricia Smith will facilitate our discussion.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Gallery Exhibition: Quoted Paintings Ten Years and Counting: My Love Affair with Vermeer
Tuesday, 3/23/2010 - Tuesday, 4/20/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery
- free
Terri Priest, known as an abstract painter for decades, began appropriating Vermeer images since 1998. In her Vermeer Women series, she combines Vermeer's women with quoted images from recognized paintings of such 20th-century artists as Georgia O'Keefe and Roy Lichtenstein. Regarding this series, Priest says:
Art History has always provided the impetus for my work. As an 18-year-old art student, I fell in love with the works of the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist painters, but when I saw Vermeer's Lady with a Maidservant at the Frick Museum in New York; I realized how much I had yet to learn. Vermeer's responses to natural light, his unerring eye in the design and execution of the painting had much to teach me. Much later, and many more visits to the Frick Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, set the course. It was the isolation and anonymity of Vermeer's characters that encouraged me to create my own narratives.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Venice, Verona and Urbino: Visual History through Architecture
Wednesday, 3/24/2010 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall
- Free
Why is the architecture of Venice so fascinating to tourists; and what does it reveal about the time in which it was built? Other Italian towns and citieslike Urbino and Veronahave entirely different architectural forms that reveal different developmental stories: from the perfection of Renaissance form in the hill town of Urbino to the Mannerist forms of Verona. Professor Wadsworth has taught for two summers with the Fitchburg State program in Verona, traveling and shooting architectural images as much as possible. Fascinated by these varying styles, she has been inspired to research this more thoroughly. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Faculty Research and Scholarship Award.
Sponsored by: the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Conversation with Lois Lowry
Tuesday, 3/30/2010 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall
- $10/general public; $7/faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Lois Lowry is a prolific and wide-ranging author; and considered a significant voice in young adult literature. This evenings conversation with the author concludes a month-long focus on Lowrys books and provocative ideas.
Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
April 2010
Cherryholmes
Saturday, 4/10/2010 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Weston Auditorium
- $25 adults, $22 seniors, $7 under 18.
With their roots based in bluegrass, Celtic, and jazz music, the good ol fashioned family band Cherryholmes has stormed to the top of the music world since winning the 2005 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Award for Entertainer of the Year. Sure, theyre kind of kitschy but nearly no one in the traditional bluegrass circuit can mimic their downright flying fingers and ripping musicianship.
Parents Sandy and Jere (on mandolin and upright base, respectively) Cherryholmes are the foundation of the six-member band, with children Cia, Skip, BJ and Molly at the forefront of the groups hard-driving instrumental virtuosity and explosive vocal harmonies. With stylistic choreography, their own lighting design and various styles of original songs written by members of the band, Cherryholmes is a group unlike any other, sure to get your feet tapping, put a smile on your face and maybe even move your to do some dancing in the aisles.
Sponsored by: Enterprise Bank, Sentinel & Enterprise
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Taste of Piedmont
Thursday, 4/22/2010 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA
- $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Taste of Piedmont
Friday, 4/23/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA
- $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Mr. Razionales talk is sponsored by the Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
May 2010
Italian Book Club: Va' dove ti porta il cuore (Follow Your Heart) by Susanna Tamaro
Wednesday, 5/5/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Center for Italian Culture (4th floor)- Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
- free
One of the best-selling Italian novels of recent years, Va' dove ti porta il cuore is a bittersweet story that takes the form of a letter written by an elderly woman to her granddaughter, from whom she is estranged. As she looks back over her life, the woman explores universal questions about life and death, love, parent-child relationships, and even profound questions of the soul. The book is presented using a newly developed techniqueLingualityeach page having its own translated glossary (from Italian to English) while retaining the original writing. Facilitated by Assistant Professor Rala Diakite.
Sponsored by: Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Imaginary City: So Percussion
Friday, 5/7/2010 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Weston Auditorium
- $22 adults, $20 seniors, $7 under 18
Many of us have heard the expression found art to describe objects not usually considered art, and generally have some other function, but still can be found to be aesthetic, intriguing and beautiful. Now think of what something like found music might sound like and what sort of instruments might be used, how the simplest objects might be plied with the greatest of skill and artistry.
Think tea cups and brake drums, gardening tools and planks of wood. And think orchestration and symphonics, drumming and rhythm, acoustic, electronic and the ordinary becoming extraordinary. Put them all together and youve got the fantastic, indescribable sounds and mesmerizing performances of the Brooklyn quartet So Percussion. Since 1999, when they met at the Yale School of Music, this foursome has merged percussion with emotions, resulting in music called astonishing and entrancing by Billboard Magazine, and brilliant by the New York Times. Join So Percussion in a performance where even a flower pot and a piece of aluminum can sing its inner song.
Sponsored by: Unitil, 90.5 WICN Public Radio, NEFA
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
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Ongoing Events
Gallery Exhibition: The La Defense Photographs
Tuesday, 2/2/2010 - Tuesday, 3/9/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Photographer Robert Alters MIT degree is in the photography of architecture. His art disregards both the rules of photography and, explicitly, architectural photography. The large-scale ink jet printsprinted on cotton rag paper or canvascreate a purposeful contradiction of surface and feeling.
Of this work Alter writes: The La Defense Portfolios are for me a way to observe and try to understand the corporate and commercial world that we are building for ourselves and that we must inhabit. The photographs have been taken over the past six years and are my exploration into this somewhat confusing and intimidating oversized world.
My photographs are not condemnations or political statements. They are visual interpretations of the awe and diminution that we humans feel in the presence of these giants. www.alterarts.blogspot.com
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
February 2010
Lois Lowry Radio Interview on AM 1280 WPKZ
Tuesday, 2/9/2010 7:00 AM-8:00 AM
Online Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
This spring the community is invited to explore the writings of Lois Lowry through literature circles and book reading clubs, a public discussion and culminating in an evening conversation with Ms. Lowry.
Sponsored by: AM 1280 The Pulse WPKZ
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Harrod Lecture Series
Tuesday, 2/23/2010 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - free
Peter Staab, assistant professor of mathematics, will present Magic Square.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Ellis Paul
Saturday, 2/27/2010 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Percival Hall, Percival Auditorium - $18 adults, $15 seniors, $7 under 18
Bostons own troubadour Ellis Paul has been one of the leading voices in the singer/songwriter genre that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style in the 1990s. Since then, Paul hasnt slowed down one bit, with 14 albums to his credit and numerous Boston Music Awards. His music has appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. With his soaring vocals and heartfelt storytelling, Paul is part poet and part singer, an impressive talent whose keen insight into lifes ways and means might just make you sit up a little taller and listen a little more intently.
Sponsored by: Worcester Magazine, 90.5 FM WICN Public Radio
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
March 2010
Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community
Tuesday, 3/2/2010 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall - $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.
Sponsored by: WITS (Women in Todays Society)
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community
Tuesday, 3/2/2010 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall - $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Lois Lowry Talking about Lois Lowry
Tuesday, 3/9/2010 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Music) - free
Lowry references The Giver in her Newbury Award speech: The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.
It is very risky.
But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom.
Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
Join fellow book lovers and readers as we delve into two of Lois Lowrys most well-known booksThe Giver and Number the Stars. Fitchburg State faculty scholar Dr. Patricia Smith will facilitate our discussion.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Gallery Exhibition: Quoted Paintings Ten Years and Counting: My Love Affair with Vermeer
Tuesday, 3/23/2010 - Tuesday, 4/20/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Terri Priest, known as an abstract painter for decades, began appropriating Vermeer images since 1998. In her Vermeer Women series, she combines Vermeer's women with quoted images from recognized paintings of such 20th-century artists as Georgia O'Keefe and Roy Lichtenstein. Regarding this series, Priest says:
Art History has always provided the impetus for my work. As an 18-year-old art student, I fell in love with the works of the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist painters, but when I saw Vermeer's Lady with a Maidservant at the Frick Museum in New York; I realized how much I had yet to learn. Vermeer's responses to natural light, his unerring eye in the design and execution of the painting had much to teach me. Much later, and many more visits to the Frick Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, set the course. It was the isolation and anonymity of Vermeer's characters that encouraged me to create my own narratives.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733.
Venice, Verona and Urbino: Visual History through Architecture
Wednesday, 3/24/2010 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - Free
Why is the architecture of Venice so fascinating to tourists; and what does it reveal about the time in which it was built? Other Italian towns and citieslike Urbino and Veronahave entirely different architectural forms that reveal different developmental stories: from the perfection of Renaissance form in the hill town of Urbino to the Mannerist forms of Verona. Professor Wadsworth has taught for two summers with the Fitchburg State program in Verona, traveling and shooting architectural images as much as possible. Fascinated by these varying styles, she has been inspired to research this more thoroughly. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Faculty Research and Scholarship Award.
Sponsored by: the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Conversation with Lois Lowry
Tuesday, 3/30/2010 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - $10/general public; $7/faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Lois Lowry is a prolific and wide-ranging author; and considered a significant voice in young adult literature. This evenings conversation with the author concludes a month-long focus on Lowrys books and provocative ideas.
Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
April 2010
Cherryholmes
Saturday, 4/10/2010 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Weston Auditorium - $25 adults, $22 seniors, $7 under 18.
With their roots based in bluegrass, Celtic, and jazz music, the good ol fashioned family band Cherryholmes has stormed to the top of the music world since winning the 2005 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Award for Entertainer of the Year. Sure, theyre kind of kitschy but nearly no one in the traditional bluegrass circuit can mimic their downright flying fingers and ripping musicianship.
Parents Sandy and Jere (on mandolin and upright base, respectively) Cherryholmes are the foundation of the six-member band, with children Cia, Skip, BJ and Molly at the forefront of the groups hard-driving instrumental virtuosity and explosive vocal harmonies. With stylistic choreography, their own lighting design and various styles of original songs written by members of the band, Cherryholmes is a group unlike any other, sure to get your feet tapping, put a smile on your face and maybe even move your to do some dancing in the aisles.
Sponsored by: Enterprise Bank, Sentinel & Enterprise
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Taste of Piedmont
Thursday, 4/22/2010 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA - $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
A Taste of Piedmont
Friday, 4/23/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA - $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Mr. Razionales talk is sponsored by the Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
May 2010
Italian Book Club: Va' dove ti porta il cuore (Follow Your Heart) by Susanna Tamaro
Wednesday, 5/5/2010 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Hammond Campus Center, Center for Italian Culture (4th floor)- Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library - free
One of the best-selling Italian novels of recent years, Va' dove ti porta il cuore is a bittersweet story that takes the form of a letter written by an elderly woman to her granddaughter, from whom she is estranged. As she looks back over her life, the woman explores universal questions about life and death, love, parent-child relationships, and even profound questions of the soul. The book is presented using a newly developed techniqueLingualityeach page having its own translated glossary (from Italian to English) while retaining the original writing. Facilitated by Assistant Professor Rala Diakite.
Sponsored by: Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
Imaginary City: So Percussion
Friday, 5/7/2010 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Weston Auditorium - $22 adults, $20 seniors, $7 under 18
Many of us have heard the expression found art to describe objects not usually considered art, and generally have some other function, but still can be found to be aesthetic, intriguing and beautiful. Now think of what something like found music might sound like and what sort of instruments might be used, how the simplest objects might be plied with the greatest of skill and artistry.
Think tea cups and brake drums, gardening tools and planks of wood. And think orchestration and symphonics, drumming and rhythm, acoustic, electronic and the ordinary becoming extraordinary. Put them all together and youve got the fantastic, indescribable sounds and mesmerizing performances of the Brooklyn quartet So Percussion. Since 1999, when they met at the Yale School of Music, this foursome has merged percussion with emotions, resulting in music called astonishing and entrancing by Billboard Magazine, and brilliant by the New York Times. Join So Percussion in a performance where even a flower pot and a piece of aluminum can sing its inner song.
Sponsored by: Unitil, 90.5 WICN Public Radio, NEFA
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347.
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