Frank Cabrera ’11 writes in to tell us about tonight’s Cafe Con Leche Talent Show:
November, 2009
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Raices Cafe Con Leche Talent Show, Tonight 10pm @ Spa
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Skidomedy Show Tonight 10pm
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Skidomedy Presents: Down To Luck
Tonight, 10pm. (fbook)
Jeremy Cone’s Beer Pong Trilogy Premier
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Like Gilgamesh, but with more Keystone
Jeremy Cone, the enigmatic figure behind masterpieces like Facebook the Musical, Down the Middle and The Sketchies, will be premiering his newest work at 8pm in Gannett this Friday.
The film, Beer Pong Trilogy: The Untapped Poetic Brilliance of Bobby “B” Zaplatsky, is an epic poem (in rhyming verse) about one college night and the many characters weaving their ways through it all trying to be heroes.
Not more than seven seconds after the ball landed in the cup
did my boy Jimmy Sparks call to me “Yo dude, we’re up…”
So begins “Beer Pong Trilogy: The Untapped Poetic Brilliance Of Bobby “B” Zaplatsky. An epic poem about life, loss, love and Beer Pong written and directed by Jeremy Cone ( ’09) and filmed by Brian Petchers (’10)
There’s also a pact with God, unrequited love, savage love, a quest, destiny, musical theater, an elusive keg, sports, innocence, burned bridges, an abandoned child, death, glory, a fight, longing, youth, surrender of childhood, the art of being a tool, a fight, blood, being a hero, a holy book, and more.
I’m fairly confident that you haven’t seen anything like this before. See you Friday night at 8pm? (fbook)
Raices Presents: Latin Dance Class
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Frank Cabrera ’11 writes in to tell us about tonight’s Raices Latin Dance Class:
Come join us on Thursday November 12 in the ICC and learn some basics to popular Latin dances (such as salsa, bachata, and merengue). It’ll be a great time to learn some new moves and try to impress that special someone. Refreshments will be served!
Weekend Distractions XXXII
Thursday, November 12th, 2009THURSDAY
5:00pm- Pizza, Politics and Pakistan @ ICC
7:00pm- “Leadership in Turbulent Times” w/ Dr. Eugene T.W. Sanders @ Davis
7:00pm- Student docent tour of Lives of the Hudson @ Tang
8:00pm- A Poetry Reading by April Bernard @ The Surrey Inn (fbook)
8:00pm- Filene Concert Series Presents:Adam Rogers Quartet @ Filene
8:00pm- Raices Presents: Latin Dance Class @ ICC
9:00pm- Lively Lucy’s: The Deal w/ Warren & The Juniors @ Falstaff’s (fbook)
FRIDAY
1:30pm- “Democracy and Healthcare in an Independent Kosovo” @ Davis
3:00pm- “Service Learning as a High Impact Pedagogical Strategy”@ Library
4:30pm- The Democratic Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln @ Davis
8:00pm- Beer Pong Trilogy-Film Screening @ Gannett (fbook)
8:00pm- SEC Presents: Here We Go Magic and Rail Bird @ Falstaff’s (fbook)
10:00pm- Skidomedy Presents: Down to Luck @ Filene (fbook)
10:00pm- Spoken Word with Oveous Maximus @ Spa
SATURDAY
3:00pm- Choreography II Show (fbook)
7:00pm- Skidmore Outing Club Presents: Re:Session @ Gannett
9:00pm- Cafe Con Leche Talent Show @ Spa
11:00pm- SOAR Dance @ Falstaff’s
SUNDAY
7:00pm- Filene Concert Series Presents: Jazz Pianist Lewis Porter @ Filene
Cheer On Women’s Soccer at the NCAA Tournament
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Congratulations to the womyn’s soccer team for earning a spot in the 2009 NCAA tournament.
The Athletics Department will be sponsoring a FREE coach bus to Williams College this Saturday for students interested in attending the game. The game is at 1:30 against Oneonta University and the bus will depart from Case Center at 11:30am and return immediately following the game (approximately 5:30pm). While the trip is free for all students, any Faculty, Staff or family members are going to have to fork over 10 bucks if they want to ride on the magic school bus. In addition, game admission costs $3.00 for students and $6.00 for adults.
There are only 55 seats on the bus so please RSVP to Sharon Shearman immediately at sshearma@skidmore.edu. Seats are available on a first come first serve basis and you have until noon on Friday to reserve your spot.
SEC Presents: Here We Go Magic and Rail Bird
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
a rare photograph of Here We Go Magic taken during an earthquake
The rad dudes and dudettes at SEC bring you goodtime psychedelic folkies Here We Go Magic this Friday with support from Saratoga’s own Railbird.
Here We Go Magic is one of those bands that makes you feel good on the inside—talented, poetic, wonderful instrumentation, the whole deal. Railbird is a local band with some of the dudes from One Caroline and they’re fucking rad. If you’re 21 (or have a decent fake) you’ve probably seen them at Putanm Den already and liked them. In conclusion Friday night is going to be great.
Friday Night, Doors at 8pm. Falstaff’s
(fbook)
Professor Ginsberg on the Berlin Wall in the Times Union
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a monumental occasion of international political importance and a turning point in the Cold War. This past week Professor of International Politics Roy H. Ginsberg had a piece in Albany’s Times Union about his impression of the Wall and his joy on seeing it fall in 1989.
The piece is available in print in the November 9th edition of the Times Union and online here.
On Campus: Carlos ‘REC’ McBride
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Carlos “Rec” McBride is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His talk tonight, “I’m Fighting for My Life:” Hip-Hop; Scholarship; Social Responsibility,” deals with the intersections between hip-hop, scholarship, politics and ethics, and how these practices can become aligned through a form of critical pedagogy meant to educate marginalized people–specifically youth–and mobilize them to be active and engaged citizens.
McBride’s lecture is sure to be an engaging discussion about the role of hip-hop as both a political and didactic force and possibility of hip-hop culture as cultural resistance.
Tuesday, November 10, 7:30pm @ Davis Auditorium
Thanks Stewarts Shops
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
In addition to managing an empire of stores that trade mostly in Marlboros, Lottery Tickets and Adirondack Crunch Ice Cream, Susan and Bill Dake, the owners of Stewart’s Shops, recently pledged to donate 350,000 dollars to Skidmore College. Roughly equivalent to 116,666 gallons of milk, 43,750 packs of cigarettes or 140,000 extra thick milkshakes.
The donation is just a small piece of the 3.9 million pledged to the Community Foundation. The Dakes established the donor-advised trust with the intention of supporting institutions wherever Stewart’s Shops are enjoyed.
