News releases/March 2005
Minnesota State University Moorhead |
Index:
* Celebration of Nations Friday, April 1....
* International Film Fest opens April 1...
* Spring blast concert March 29...
* Deans' Lecture April 6...
* Goodman named Instructional Resources director...
* ‘X-TRA TERRESTRIAL FILES’ opens at Planetarium...
* Kevin Kling's "Freezing Paradise" March 23....
* Juried student art exhibit opens March 24...
* 31 students take off on Eurospring...
* Women's Health Series...
* Women's History Month...
MSUM STUDENTS HOST CELEBRATION OF NATIONS APRIL 1
Entertainment, food, culture and fashions from around the world will be showcased in a Celebration of Nations from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 1 in MSUM's student union ballroom.
Admission is $1 for adults, children 12 and under are free. All food tickets are 50 cents.
Students and community members representing a variety of countries will exhibit items from their homeland, cook their unique foods and share their culture.
Tickets will be available at the door and at the International Programs Office the week of the event,
The event is sponsored by MSUM’s Office of International Programs and the International Student Club.
Starts April 1…
MSUM OPENS ITS 31st ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
MSUM will open its 31st annual International Film Festival Friday, April 1 with a double feature, Ingmar Bergman’s “Night is My Future” and the Japanese movie “The Rikshaw Man,” the first of three evenings of foreign cinema masterpieces showing on campus this spring.
All films in the series, shown as double features this year, will be presented in Weld Hall’s Glasrud Auditorium. Admission is $3.
This year’s series”
On Friday, April 1:
At 7 p.m. : Ingmar Bergman’s 1948 Swedish feature, “Night Is My Future” (87 minutes)
Ingmar Bergman’s fourth feature-length film, based on a best-selling novel by Dagmar Edqvist, was his first popular success in Sweden. The opening scenes of this movie--a melodrama incorporating elements of film noir--feature montages of surreal imagery of the sort that would reappear later on in the director's career.
At 8:30 p.m. : Japanese director Hiroshi Inagaki’s 1958 film, “The Rikshaw Man” (104 Minutes)
Set in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, the film shows how a simple rickshaw man has to adjust to the modernization of his country.
On Sunday, April 3
French director Marcel Ophuls’ “1969 “The Sorrow And The Pity” (260 minutes, in two parts)
1 p.m.: Part 1
3 p.m.” Part 2
It’s a monumental, award-winning chronicle of life in France under Nazi occupation during World War II, originally made for, then banned from French TV. Newsreel footage is mixed with period music and interviews with German soldiers, members of the Resistance, and ordinary citizens who often supported--actively or inactively--the occupying forces.
Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extende interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with René de Chambrun, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the Eastern front wearing German uniforms.
On Wednesday, April 6
At 7 p.m., Israeli director Thorald Dickenson’s 1955 “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer” (101 minutes)
This is the first film produced in the new nation of Israel. It takes place during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, focusing on the personal stories of soldiers –––an Irishman, an American Jew, and a Sabra ––who are assigned to defend a strategic hill outside of Jerusalem.
At 8:45 p.m., director Bernhard Wicki’s 1959 “(West) Germany - The Bridge” (104 minutes)
Based on an autobiographical novel by Manfred Gregor, the film takes place near the end of World War II as a small German town braces for the onslaught of American troops. It focuses on eight schoolboys drafted into the army to defend a bridge leading to their town. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
The 2005 International Film Festival is co-sponsored by MSUM Cinethusiasts Club, the International Film Festival Committee and the CSFT Department.
MSUM’S SPRING BLAST CONCERT MARCH 29
MSUM’s Spring Blast will feature six commercial ensembles performing Tuesday, March 29 at 8 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. It’s free and open to the public.
MSUM’s commercial ensembles are directed by Glenn Ginn.
The bands and performers…
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Jamie and Ryan features Jamie Thompson on guitar and vocals and Ryan Babb on guitar. Both are graphic communications majors from West Fargo, N.D.
* Art Music On a Respirator Unit includes Fargo, N.D., natives Chad Graves, guitar/vocals and an art history major; Cory Markert, guitar and an economics major; and Jason Thorstad, bass, a music major.
* Meryl Streep features the following students: Nicole LaBore, vocals, and a music industry major from Bismarck, N.D.; John Giedosh, guitar, and a jazz performance major from Bayonne, N.J.; Jack Lee, guitar, and a jazz performance major from Chokio; Rob Schmidt on drums, a music industry major from Bismarck, N.D.; and on bass, Steve Giedosh, a jazz performance major from Bayonne, N.J.
* Choking Hazard is comprised of Todd Kirckof on guitar/vocals, a graphic communications major from Villard,; Julian Lyle, guitar, a mass communications major from Minneapolis; Matt Ihnen, Lowry, on bass and a student at Alexandria Tech; and Jed Jedpahan, drums, a music major from Villard.
* Kimmy Gibbler includes the following Bismarck, N.D., students: John Dosh, trumpet/vocals and a music industry major, Mark Henning, alto sax/vocals and a mechanical engineering student at NDSU, Jeremy Manstrom, trombone, a biology student at UND, and Andrew Clayson, drums, and an art education major; Gavin Hetletved, trombone/vocals and a music education major from Washburn, N.D.; Mike Barrett, guitar, and a jazz performance major from Newfolden; Ben Ahrens, guitar, and a music industry major from Fargo, N.D.; and Thomas Belgrave, bass, a music major from Floodwood.
* Cosmic Kibosh includes Josh Trumbo on bass/vocals and Paul Tebben on drums, both from Aberdeen, S.D.; Tyler Redlin, guitar/vocals and a music industry major from Jamestown, N.D.; and MSUM alumnus Anthony Bergman on guitar, Jamestown, N.D.
DEANS’ LECTURE: AUTISM AND SPECTRUM DISORDER APRIL 6
Kristi Rowekamp, a Special Education graduate student here, presents a Deans’ Lecture on “Social Skills Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 in Center for Business 109. She’ll present an overview of the disorder and current intervention strategies.
GOODMAN NAMED INSTRUCTION
RESOURCES DIRECTOR AT MSUM
Brittney Goodman is the new director of Instructional Resources at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Goodman will oversee 30 employees at the university's Livingston Lord Library, including the instructional media and instructional technology divisions.
She's served as interim director since Pat Max resigned from the position two years ago.
A native of Hardinsburg, Ky., Goodman joined the MSUM faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor and instruction librarian, responsible for coordinating, scheduling and developing the library's instruction program.
Goodman earned an undergraduate degree in English from Kentucky Wesleyan College and holds two master's degrees, one in English from Western Illinois and another in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PLANETARIUM FEATURES ‘X-TRA TERRESTRIAL FILES’
The MSUM Planetarium features “The X-tra Terrestrial Files” Sundays at 2 p.m. and Mondays at 7 p.m. April 3-May 23.
Written and produced by the Minneapolis Planetarium, it’s a loose take-off from the hit television series, The X Files. Two Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence agents investigate everything from abductions to interstellar travel to estimating the possible number of ETs. Agents Bolder and Gully spend a night in Wisconsin investigating a report of a strange light in the sky.
The 34-minute show is aimed at grades 4 (ages 9-10) and up.
The Planetarium is located on 11th Street South, in Bridges Hall room 167, on the MSUM campus. Admission is $3 for adults and $1.50 for children 12 and under, senior citizens and Tri-College students. For information, or to schedule a group show, call 477.2920.
KEVIN KLING BRINGS HIS ‘FREEZING
PARADISE' SHOW TO MSUM MARCH 23
Storyteller, humorist, playwright and NPR commentator Kevin Kling will present his one-man show, “Freezing Paradise,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23 in Minnesota State University’s Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium.
For tickets to this Guthrie on Tour performance, $15 each, contact the university box office at 477-2271.
In addition to Kling’s performance, Guthrie Theater teaching artists will also present a workshop that day from 1 to 4 p.m. on the subject of storytelling. For details, contact Craig Ellingson at the MSUM theatre department, 477-4617 or e-mail him at ellngson@mnstate.edu.
Kling is one of the most celebrated voices of the American Heartland. From Homer to Homer Hankies, his sometimes absurd, sometimes ironic take on the human experience offers a unique vision of life from a Midwestern perspective.
Kling grew up in Osseo and graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1979. He built his reputation in the Twin Cities during the 1990s with his groundbreaking plays "21A" and "Fear and Loving in Minneapolis."
Kling's other plays include "Lloyds Prayer," "The Ice Fishing Play," "At Your Service" and the one-man shows "Home and Away," "Whoppers" and "From the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log."
In addition to writing and performing, he has become well known for his regular storytelling contributions to NPRs "All Things Considered," and has four CD collections of his commentaries.
The 2005 Guthrie Theater tour is the latest project in a long collaboration with Kling. His work at the Guthrie includes adaptations of "The Canterbury Tales" and "The Venetian Twins," as well as performances in "The Playboy of the Western World" and "A Midsummer Nights Dream."
MSUM JURIED STUDENT ART EXHIBIT OPENS MARCH 24
An MSUM juried student art exhibit will be on display March 24-April 11 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts gallery. The exhibit is open to any registered art student who may submit up to two entries to the show.
Ben Heywood, executive director of No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, located in Minneapolis, will juror the MSUM exhibit. A native of the United Kingdom, Heywood earned degrees in modern history and art history at Oxford University and the University of London, respectively. He arrived in Minneapolis in 2002.
No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to supporting and exhibiting the work of emerging visual artists. It’s located in a 41,000-square foot Victorian soap factory on the banks of the Mississippi River, and is the third largest contemporary art gallery in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and the largest space dedicated to emergent visual arts in the Midwest.
A reception for the artists and announcement of awards will be held from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, March 31 in the gallery. It’s free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday.
31 MSUM STUDENTS STUDY IN EUROPE THIS SPRING
Thirty-one students will take part in an eight-week humanities study tour in Europe this spring through Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Eurospring program. Five of those weeks will be spent at Oxford, England, followed by a three-week tour of major European cities.
Eurospring, now in its 25th year, is offered each spring as part of a focus on international studies.
On the tour, running from March 17 through May 12, students will spend most of their time at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, where they will enroll in courses and attend lectures on “From Revolution to Enlightenment.” They’ll also take several field trips to historic sites ranging from Stonehenge and Stratford-upon-Avon, where they’ll see the Royal Shakespeare Company play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to the ancient Roman baths and Warwick Castle.
The European leg of their tour includes stops in Paris, Florence, Rome, Venice, Salzburg, Berlin, Prague and Amsterdam.
The tour will be led this year by Thom Tammaro, an MSUM English professor, and Jill Holsen, director of International Programs.
Breast cancer topic of women’s health talk…
MSUM WOMEN’S HEALTH SERIES FEATURES
BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR CHRISTINE NORTON
The American Cancer Society estimates that a woman in the United States has a 1 in 7 chance of developing invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. All women are at risk for the disease—about 90 percent of women who develop breast cancer do not have a family history of the disease.
These sobering statistics are all too familiar to Christine Norton, a breast cancer survivor and keynote speaker for Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Health Series on Monday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in the Science Building 118. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. in the Science Building atrium.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 at the age of 44, Norton immediately turned her personal battle into a fight on behalf of all women. In 1991, she served as Minnesota’s state captain for the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s “Do the Write Thing” letter-writing campaign. Armed with 9,000 letters asking for increased federal funding for breast cancer research, Norton presented the letters to Congress in Washington, D.C.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the U.S. (after lung cancer); approximately 40,410 women in the U.S. will die from the disease in 2005.
Norton is a political activist at the national level with the National Breast Cancer Coalition and is co-founder of the Minnesota Breast Cancer Coalition.
“My goals as an activist are to ensure that there are adequate funds dedicated to finding the cause and cure for this disease; that all women have access to treatment; and that knowledgeable consumers are heard wherever breast cancer decisions are being made.
The goal of MSUM’s health series is to provide reliable health information, a forum for discussion, a venue for the exchange of ideas, and a means to empower women to take charge of their own health.
The final talk in the series will be on stress management for women. For more information on the Women’s Health Series, visit the Web site web.mnstate.edu/women/events/womenshealthseries.htm or e-mail womenstu@mnstate.edu
The Women’s Health Series is a collaborative effort among MSUM’s Women’s Studies Program, Biology Department, Social Work Department, Nursing Program, Hendrix Health Center, Counseling Center and Women’s Center.
MSUM’S WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH CONTINUES MARCH 7-10
MSUM continues to celebrate Women’s History Month March 7-10 with a film festival featuring films by and about women. The theme “Women Change America” honors and recognizes the role of American women in transforming culture, history and politics as leaders, writers, scientists, educators, politicians, artists, and historians.
The second film series focuses on Women in Global Perspective. The following films will be showing at MSUM the week of March 7-10.
March 7, “Trading Women,” Noon-1 p.m., MacLean Hall 171. Narrated by Angelina Jolie, this film investigates the trade in girls and women from the hill tribes of Asia into the Thai sex industry. Filmed on location in China, Thailand and Burma, it enters the worlds of brothel owners, trafficked girls, voluntary sex workers, corrupt police, and anxious politicians.
March 8, “Shackled Women: Abuses of a Patriarchal World,” and “Postcards from the Future,” 6-9 p.m., Center for Business 109. “Shackled Women” assesses second and third world abuses of women’s rights by the male establishment, and examines how female collaboration sometimes contributes to their perpetuation. Topics include dowry deaths, female circumcision, Islamic zina law, rigors of hijab, and child prostitution. Some content may be objectionable.
“Postcards” features women throughout the world who are working toward gaining power and making a difference. Women featured include Kenyan women who use simple technologies to save their regions from desertification; a fiery ex-government minister in New Guinea who fights to save the way of life of her people; and mothers in war-torn Chechnya who have become the driving force in the Russian peace movement, among others.
MSUM faculty will also lead a panel discussion on gender and global issues.
March 10, “Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman,” 7 p.m., King Hall Auditorium. This film tells the haunting story of more than 200 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. The investigation unravels the complicity that's allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border, and explores the underreported human rights abuses and violence against women.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information on film descriptions or the festival schedule, visit the Web site web.mnstate.edu/women/
The Women’s History Month Documentary Film Festival is generously sponsored by the Dille Fund for Excellence, Office of Student Activities, Tri-College Film Library, MadCat Film Festival and the Korea Society.