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CAS News Center
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The School of Engineering, the Leavey School of Business, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Career Center and the Drahmann Academic Advising Center will once again be sponsoring the annual Major/Minor Fair. The Fair will be held on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM on the Kennedy lawn area, weather permitting. In the event of rain we will set up in the California Mission Room in the basement of Benson. The Fair is an opportunity for our students, particularly first year, undeclared and transfer students, to talk to faculty, staff, and students currently in the various majors/minors/programs. We would like to invite representatives from all interdisciplinary minors and programs to participate in this event. This is a great opportunity to showcase your minor/program and talk to students one-on-one.
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World Music Festival 2008 presents Festival de Musica Cubana
February 6-13, 2008
Santa Clara University campus
Box Office 408-554-4015
Santa Clara University Department of Music is proud to host the 2008 World Music Festival - this year featuring the multi tiered music of Cuba.
Music representing Cuba's cafes, streets, salons, mountains and recital halls will be performed by stellar musicians including Bobi Cespedes, Zaira Meneses, La Orquesta Moderna Tradicion, Anthony Blea and Santa Clara University faculty and students.
Festival de Música Cubana, the first of a series of World Music Festivals being held by Santa Clara University’s Department of Music, will take place Feb. 6 through 13, 2008 on the Santa Clara University campus. With artistic direction by SCU music professor Robert Bozina, this exhilarating festival celebrates Cuba’s rich culture. Events range from concerts with Rumba, Son Casino, and Bolero to a Sunday mass in the Mission Church with music by 18th century Cuban priest Esteban Salas, and include an array of music, lectures, workshops, dance, film, photo exhibitions, KSCU Radio broadcasts, and food.
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Internationally acclaimed jazz and blues vocalist Kim Nalley performs her moving tribute to Billy Holiday, passionately bringing this legendary jazz superstar to life through a concert of Holiday's most memorable songs.
Nalley, who recently concluded an eight week run as Billie Holiday in the West Coast premiere of Lady in Love, is renowned as a vocalist, band leader, producer and recipient of the Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area Award
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 8pm
Santa Clara University Recital Hall
Box Office: 408-554-4015
Tickets: $12 general; $10 seniors/SCU campus, $5 students
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Don't miss SCU's largest dance concert of the year! This diverse production of original jazz, modern, and classical ballet explores all facets of the human experience through the art of dance. Featuring the choreography of SCU dance faculty Fran Atlas-Lara, Karyn Lee Connell, Abigail Hosein, and David Popalisky, as well as select student choreographers
Directed by Fran Atlas-Lara
Louis B. Mayer Theatre
Santa Clara University Campus
Tickets: $5-16
Box Office:408-554-4015
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It is my pleasure to invite you and your students to the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Film Festival. This year we will be featuring Fan Favorites:
Monday, January 28 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tuesday, February 5 - The Agony and the Ecstasy
Wednesday, February 13 - Dangerous Beauty
All films will begin at 7:00 pm in Daly Science 206. Snacks will be served.
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Charisma!
January 18-20, 2008
Fess Parker Studio Theatre
Fri-Sat, 8pm; Sun 2pm
Tickets: Pay-what-you-can-afford event
Suggested ticket price $5
Students in the Charisma group present a uniquely intimate exploration of faith and spirituality that combines art, music, dance, and spoken word.
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Friday, January 18th 2008 at 8pm
SCU Recital Hall
FREE EVENT!
Come join the SCU music faculty in commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an evening jazz recital featuring music of social conscience, peace, and justice. Featured SCU faculty artists include Jack Perla, piano, Ryan Lukas, bass, Bill Cefalu, guitar, Stephanie Cunha, vocals, John Russell, trombone, Frank Wyant, drums, and David Duenas, guitar
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This will be the eleventh year that Santa Clara University and Sacred Heart Parish collaborate to bring "La Virgen Del Tepeyac: The Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe" to the Mission Church. Teatro Corazon, observing its 15th anniversary, with the participation of SCU students and members of the university community invite all to be a part of this celebration in drama, dance and song that tells the story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The performance will be in Spanish with English commentary throughout.
This year the Guadalupe celebration will be on Sunday, December 2nd at 2:00 pm in the Mission Church followed by a reception on campus. The event is free and open to all.
For more information please contact Dr. Ana Maria Pineda at 408-554-6958, Lulu Santana at 408-554-4639, or Laura Jimenez at 408-554-5011.
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Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Casa Italiana Commons, 3:45 PM - 5:00PM Thursday November 8, 2007
Co-sponsored by American Studies Group, English Dept., Ethnic Studies Program, James Irvine Foundation funded, Unity RLC, and California Legacy.
Professor Renya Ramirez, American Studies, UC-Santa Cruz, is the author of a recent book with the same title as her talk, published by Duke University Press. She is a member of the Winnebago tribe (Nebraska) and grew up in Palo Alto (CA).
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Jack Gilbert (chemistry) was interviewed by NBC-11 for a story about the bill signed by Californias governor to ban the sale and manufacture of plastic toys containing phthalates. See the story.
Fayeq Oweis (modern languages) was profiled on Al Jazeera Arabic Channel for a biographical program that featured his artwork, writing, and community service, and the Arabic classes at SCU. The program reaches more than 80 million viewers.
Kelly Detweiler and Don Fritz (art and art history) had images of their artwork featured in two separate publications in conjunction with the Experience Teaches exhibit at the de Saisset Museum. Detweilers painting Faculty Meeting appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, and Fritz ceramic piece Humpty in Red Coat was pictured in South Bay Accent magazine. SCU Art Faculty Exhibition
Grants, awards, and publications
Rose Marie Beebe (Spanish) and Robert Senkewicz (history), co-editors of Boletin: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, published an article by Raymond Bucko, S.J., that won the Western History Associations prestigious Arrington-Prucha Award, given for the best essay of the year on religious history in the West. The winning essay was St. Peter the Aleut: Sacred icon and the Iconography of Violence.
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