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Nancy Hulse Presents: “That Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady”
Monday, September 26, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
That Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady combines dance, dramatic performance, and popular music in a powerful and educational program that deals with the issue of violence against women. With a strong presence, intensity and sense of humor, Ms. Hulse involves her audience through direct dialogue and active participation. Her goal is to heighten the viewer's awareness of the pervasiveness of violence against women in our culture. There are six segments set to different songs that illustrate the history of an abusive relationship, one that is specific in its violence and yet universal in its theme. The music and dance segments are punctuated by poetry of women authors, dialogue, facts, statistics and educational materials. Through the use of sound, lighting and video this becomes a multi-media experience that is truly hard to forget.
Psychology and Law Symposium
Monday, October 10, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Clement Hall, Curtis L. Ivey Science Center
Speakers and topics:
Tara Burke is a professor at the Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. She examined the effect of pretrial publicity on juror's verdicts. Although common sense would suggest that such negative publicity must have a prejudicial impact on jurors, the research is not clear; if there is a strong link, her work suggests that we have not yet found it. Her primary research interests relate to Psychology and the Law; potential biases in jury selection, how jurors make decisions, the impact of pretrial publicity on juror's verdicts, and the use of alibi evidence.
Amy Bradfield is a Professor of Psychology at Bates College in Maine. Her interests are social psychology with specific interests in the interface of psychology and law, specifically eyewitness testimony. Also interested in how social influence variables cause distortions in memory.
Stephen Lindsay is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria. His research explores the relationships between memory, current performance, and conscious experience. Specific lines of research concern phenomena such as illusory feelings of remembering (as in deja vu, although he has never yet figured out a good way to get that particular phenomenon into the lab!) and unaware uses of memory (as in involuntary plagiarism). Lindsay is also onterested in children's ability to differentiate between different sorts of mental events (e.g., perception vs. fantasty). Other projects apply theories concerning the subjective experience of remembering to practical issues such as eyewitness testimony and adults' recollections of their childhood experiences.
Human Rights Watch Movie: “Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids”
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
This inspiring Academy-Award winning film documents the journey of photographer Zana Briski and the children of prostitutes from Calcutta's Red Light District. Briski gives the children cameras and teaches them to take pictures, helping them view their world with new eyes and find beauty in unlikely places.
In Bengali and English with English subtitles
Documentary Feature
ThinkFilm Inc.
Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
Rated R; 85 minutes; 2004
CEC Movie: "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories"
Monday, October 24, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in concert with Citizenship Education and Campus Safety will present "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories" at Colby Sawyer on October 24th at 7:00 pm in Wheeler Hall. This screening is a preview to its airing on New Hampshire Public Television the following night. The movie runs about an hour and there will be a discussion afterwards facilitated by a representative of the Coalition. The public is invited.
The documentary, titled "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories," deals with the effect of domestic violence on children. It follows a documentary filmed in 2001, "Breaking the Silence: Journeys of Hope," which documented the journeys of abused women from victim to survivor. This new program seeks to raise public awareness about the young victims of parental abuse and to encourage reforms that will protect these endangered children. An integral part of these children's stories is their experience with the legal system. Coverage of violence-related custody hearings help the viewer understand the process by which the court determines what is in the best interest of the child.
This documentary was directed by Catherine Tatge
Day of the Dead Celebration
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
5:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
This is an ancient festivity that has been much transformed through the years, but which was intended in prehispanic Mexico to celebrate children and the dead. Hence, the best way to describe this Mexican holiday is to say that it is a time when Mexican families remember their dead, and the continuity of life. Generalizing broadly, the day's activities consist of visits by families to the graves of their close kin. At the gravesites family members engage in sprucing up the gravesite, decorating it with flowers, setting out and enjoying a picnic, and interacting socially with other family and community members who gather at the cemetary.
For more information on Day of the Dead and what it is, click on the picture to go to a website with pictures and more details. At Colby-Sawyer, we will be celebrating this holiday with our semi-annual Day of the Dead program. Come see faculty, staff, students, classes and clubs resurrect alters in memory of loved ones.
Deanna Latson Presentation: "Eat Right, Feel Good, Look Great!"
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
Deanna Latson, MA, C.C.N. is an internationally recognized nutritional educator who has spoken to more than a hundred thousand at universities and companies around the world, including Stanford, NYU, AT&T and Visa. She's been nominated Speaker of the Year by NACA & APCA activities programmers. Deanna is a Clinically Certified Nutritionist, a member of Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine, a member of the Wellness Councils of America, and has a Masters Degree from San Francisco State University, where she also instructed for five years. Deanna is currently in school for her Naturopathic Doctor degree from Clayton College of Natural Health.
Eat Right, Feel Good, Look Great! is the ultimate great health lecture. It has no "fad diet" information. Deanna's lecture is as hard-hitting, nutritionally sound, research based discussion about food and how it effects your body.
Learn about:
Foods you can eat to stay fit
Meals perfect for test days and finals week
"Slow poisons" you eat everyday
How to avoid feeling lethargic
The top ten foods that sabotage your weight loss efforts
For more information, click on the picture to go to an official website with pictures and more details.
Olive Senior Poetry Reading, Discussion and Book Signing
Monday, November 7, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Clements Hall
Olive Senior was born in Jamaica, now a Canadian resident, who has written two books of poetry, four non-fiction books and three short stories. It is her short story collections - Summer Lightning and Other Stories, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories, and The Discerner of Hearts - for which she is best known, since she won the inaugural Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first collection in 1987. Senior has also written an acclaimed book based on a substantial academic examination of women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. Currently, Olive Senior worked in journalism in Jamaica and Canada, and lives alternately in both countries. She spends much of her time giving readings and conducting workshops internationally. She has been writer in residence or visiting international writer at Universities in Canada, the West Indies, Britain and the United States. Olive Senior will visit a variety of classes and provide an evening reading and discussion for the local community. For more information, click on the picture to go to an official website with pictures and more information on Olive Senior.
The Colby-Sawyer College Bookstore will have Olive Senior's books for sale that the she will sign after her reading.
Human Rights Watch Movie: “Bloody Sunday”
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
On January 30, 1972 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, thirteen local Irish civilians were killed by British soldiers. They had gathered for a peaceful civil rights march against Catholic discrimination in the North. The march was going as planned until a small group broke off from the rest and began rioting. They were assaulted by members of the British Army who began shooting live rounds into the crowd even though they had been instructed to use only water-cannons, rubber bullets and CS gas. This event spawned a cycle of violence that has torn the country apart to this day.
James Nesbitt, Tim Pigot-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley
Paramount Classics;
Directed by Paul Greengrass 2002
Matt Glowacki Presentation
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
Matt Glowacki was born in 1973 in Janesville, Wisconsin. His birth drew attention because even though he was healthy, he was born without legs. From the very beginning, his parents made sure to provide him with every opportunity to participate in a normal life. At age three, Matt became involved in community activities and went on to graduate from Craig High School. In his senior year, Matt earned the rank of Eagle Scout, served as the Governor of the State of Wisconsin's Key Club District, and managed his own business. He continued his education and community involvement at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations and a minor in U.S. History.
While attending the university and playing wheelchair basketball, Matt developed and administered a community awareness program entitled, "What It Takes: Cornerstones for Success." Matt brought this program and his messages and competitive wheelchair sports to over 25,000 students across the state.
For more information, click on the picture to go to an official website with pictures and more details.
CEC Movie: "The Accused"
Monday, November 28, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster) is gang-raped on a pinball machine while a barful of drunks look on in this tense drama. The District Attorney (Kelly McGillis) does everything she can to convict the rapists. In defense, the rapists claim that Sarah's sexy clothes and provocative dance at the bar meant she wanted to be raped.
Human Rights Watch Movie: “A Closer Walk”
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A Closer Walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. A Worldwide Documentaries production, A Closer Walk has been produced in association with the Global Health Council.
Production of A Closer Walk began in February, 2000. Between that time and the present, 100-plus hours of super 16mm film have been recorded.
More than 50 women, men, and young people have been interviewed or profiled in the following regions and locations: Uganda, South Africa, Haiti, Switzerland, India, Nepal, Ukraine, Cambodia, and various locations in the United States including New York City, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Cambridge.
Subjects and story lines encompass the broad spectrum of the global AIDS experience and include people with HIV/AIDS from all walks of life; AIDS children and orphans and those caring for them; doctors, nurses, and social workers; human rights advocates; and prominent scientists, economists, researchers, government leaders, and NGO officials. The film's basic themes remain the underlying causes of AIDS; the relationship between health, dignity, and human rights; and the universal need for action, compassion, and commitment to counter what has become the worst plague in human history.
Several universally recognized individuals whose participation in the film will broaden its appeal and add substance to its message have been interviewed in the last six months. These include: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Bono of U2. The interview with His Holiness was His first on the subject of "universal responsibility" in the context of the global AIDS epidemic.
Glenn Close and Will Smith are the film's narrators.
For more information, click on the picture to go to an official website with pictures and more details.
"The Case of the Christmas Key" by Jason Anderson
Saturday, December 17, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Sawyer Center Theater
Admission $5 Free with CSC I.D. You may purchase your tickets through the Colby-Sawyer College Box Office.
The Box Office will be open from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, December 13th to 16th and from 3 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 17th. Or you may call the Box Office at 526-3670 and leave a message.
A Holiday Whodunit!
A small town, a peculiar holiday tradition, a scandalous crime, a mysterious detective's pursuit of three eccentric suspects: The Christmas Key is a tightly-woven nail-biter in two acts. Set in 1953, and taking inspiration from pulp novels and film noir--not to mention Busby Berkeley and Mary Poppins--the play is rife with twists, turns, and one heck of a femme fatale.
The ensemble features Sam Rosen, Nikole Beckwith, Mary Godfrey, Juliet Nelson, Dylan Metrano, Jason Anderson, and Brendan Pelsue, as well as Alan Bull, Sean Baptiste, Kyle Robertson, and Rory Pelsue.
Who did it? And why? And will Christmas ever be the same? The third in a series of successful shows penned by Jason Anderson and Dylan Metrano, this musical-comedy debuted in Newburyport, Massachusetts last winter to rave reviews and full houses. The troupe is excited to visit Colby Sawyer, as part of a short performance tour throughout New England.
