| March 12, 2008 | Vol 9. No. 11 |
World-Renowned Xylophonist to Perform at Canisius
The Canisius College Program in the African American Experience will welcome internationally-renowned xylophonist Bernard Woma to campus on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Woma is master drummer of the Ghana Dance Ensemble with Ghana’s National Dance Company and a guest lecturer at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
For more information on the Program in the African American Experience, contact Bruce J. Dierenfield, PhD, in the Department of History, at Ext. 2690 or click here.
Canisius to Host “Life in a Jar” Play
Canisius College will host “Life in a Jar,” an interactive theatrical presentation which reenacts the story of Irena Sendler, in the Montante Cultural Center on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public.
In 1999, four high school history students in Kansas uncovered the story of Sendler, who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust and kept the names of the children she rescued buried in a jar. The students turned the story into a theatrical presentation, which has been performed hundreds of times around the world and featured in USA Today, Ladies Home Journal and on CNN.
The event is co-sponsored by the Canisius College Center for the Global Study of Religion, the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College and the Holocaust Resource Center. For more information, contact Timothy Wadkins, PhD, associate professor of religious studies, at Ext. 2824.
Canisius Hosts Award-Winning News Correspondent John Stossel
John Stossel, co-anchor and correspondent for ABC Television Network’s “20/20,” will speak at Canisius College on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The lecture, entitled “America: The Home of the Free and the Prosperous,” is free and open to the public. The evening is presented under the auspices of the Canisius College Republicans’ Speakers Series and is sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation, the college’s Senate Programming Board and the College Republicans. For more information, click here.2008 Shoes for Shelter
Canisius College and Independent Health will host the 2008 Shoes for Shelter event on Sunday, April 6 in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the Canisius College Patrick Lee Center. The one-mile fun walk starts at 11:30 a.m.; and the 5k race begins at noon.
The first 400 registered participants will receive a dri-fit running shirt. Prizes will be awarded to the first place male and female finishers, the top three finishers in each age category, and to the top finishers in the Canisius students, faculty, staff and alumni categories. The cost to register is $18 for adults; $15 for Canisius faculty and staff ($20 the day of the race); $12 for Canisius children 14 and under, Canisius students or Independent Health employees ($14 the day of the race). A post-race party at the Patrick Lee Center with food and refreshments and award ceremony will follow the event.
Participants are encouraged to bring any extra pairs of shoes or sneakers for donation to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. A drop box will also be set up near the Dining Hall in the Student Center. Since 2001, nearly 6,000 pairs of shoes have been collected.
For more information, contact John Maddock, associate director of athletics for external affairs, at Ext. 2977. To fill out an on-line application, click here.
ArtsCanisius
April ArtsCanisius events include an Informally-Formal Chamber Concert, an art history lecture on “The Technologic Sublime in Contemporary Art” and a lecture/demonstration on “1200 Years of Women Composers.” For more information, click here or call Ext. 2536.
Contemporary Writers Series Hosts Native American Poet
Highly-praised poet Heid E. Erdrich will read from her works in the Montante Cultural Center on Thursday, April 10 at 6 p.m. The event, which is sponsored by the college’s Contemporary Writer’s Series, is free and open to the public. Erdrich’s reading will be followed by a question and answer session, book signing and reception. Erdrich is the author of three poetry collections, including National Monuments, soon to be published from Michigan State Press; The Mother’s Tongue, from Salt Publishing; and Fishing for Myth from New Rivers Press. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota. For more information, click here or contact Mick Cochrane, PhD, professor of English, at Ext. 2662.
Fukuyama is Fitzpatrick Speaker
Francis Fukuyama, PhD, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, will speak at Canisius College on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. The lecture, entitled “America at the Crossroads,” is free and open to the public. The evening is presented under the auspices of the William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series. For more information about the lecture, click here or contact the Office of Public Relations at Ext. 2790.
Women’s Studies Luncheon
The annual Women’s Studies Luncheon will be held on Thursday, April 17 from noon – 2 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge and the Regis Room of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. This year’s speaker will be WGRZ-TV News Anchor Jodi Johnston ’94, MS ’99. Nominations are now being accepted for the Dr. I. Joan Lorch Awards. Presented annually by the Women’s Studies Program at Canisius, the Dr. I Joan Lorch Awards recognize individuals at the college who have made a significant contribution to women on the campus. The award is named after its first recipient, Dr. I. Joan Lorch, professor emerita of biology, who was a driving force behind the establishment of the college’s Women’s Studies Program. Nominations must be sent to Jane Fisher, PhD, associate professor of English and director of women’s studies, at fisher@canisius.edu before March 19.
Canisius Community Day
Canisius faculty, staff and students are encouraged to join the college’s spring Community Day on Saturday April 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers will assist with various projects in the college community and in the city of Buffalo. Sites include meal programs, food banks, shelters, agencies that work with refugees and Habitat for Humanity. All volunteers are invited to a free lunch in the west wing of the Dining Hall at the conclusion of Community Day. More than 200 members of the college community participated in the last community day in November. For more information or to register, contact Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director of campus ministry, at Ext. 2875.