Written by Rowley on April 17th, 2013
Are we, though?
Tomorrow, the campus Yoko Ono cult club Air Talk will be sponsoring an event at the Tang titled “We’re All Water,” billed as “an evening of Yoko Ono-inspired collaborative performances, art-making, music, films, and more.”
They’ll also be inaugurating Skidmore’s Wish Tree, an installation designed by Yoko Ono. The tree will be on the cement walkway between Case Center and Tang Museum and will be up till May 16. Here’s the press thingy:
Since the 1990s, Yoko Ono’s participatory art installation Wish Tree has appeared in locations all over the world. Wish Tree invites anyone to write down their personal wishes and tie them to the tree. Skidmore College’s Wish Tree will join an international network of Wish Trees, including installations at Oberlin College in Ohio, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Japan. On May 16, all of Skidmore’s wishes will be collected and sent to Ono to be buried around her Imagine Peace Tower, an installation in Reykjavík, Iceland dedicated to the memory of her late husband John Lennon. More than a million people have shared their wishes with Ono.
I know what you’re thinking. “YOKO BROKE UP THE BEATLES, FUCK HER BLAH BLAH BLAH.” Get over it, idiot. They would have broken up anyway and it’s probably good that it happened when it did because Let It Be—while at times marvelous—is a deeply flawed album.
BUT THAT’S JUST MY OPINION
Thursday April 18, 6pm @ Tang
3 Responses » Tags: Air Talk, Art, Cultural Enrichment, Tang, The Beatles, Yoko Ono
Written by Rowley on April 17th, 2013
Styx
This weekend, human cat Andrew Magazine ’13 will be performing his dance capstone “Inside the Mountain.” Here’s his release:
“Inside the Mountain”, is an atmospheric performance littered with story and magic. It calls upon the part of the mind which lies somewhere between passive participation and active reception in an effort to unlock the referential imagination of the individual audience member. The piece draws upon many related sources which fall under the expansive category of [super]natural power, which include the “Grimm Brothers’ Book of Stories”, lush woods, sheer muscular ability, the mystical number “3”, and the deceptive quality of the mind’s cache.
Magazine and his dancers are nimble as fuck so go check it out and feel awful about how out of shape you’ve become, you repulsive, disgusting mess.
Friday April 19th, 8pm
Saturday April 20, 2pm & 8pm
@ Chapel
No Responses » Tags: Andrew Magazine, Capstone, Cultural Enrichment, Dance
Written by Rowley on April 16th, 2013
Former Venezuelan president and giant toe Hugo Chávez
Tomorrow, Model EU will be sponsoring a panel discussion on Venezuelan and regional politics in the wake of socialist President Hugo Chávez’s death in early March. The panel will include Professors Aldo Vacs (Government), Maria Fernanda Lander (Latin American Studies), Violeta Lorenzo (Foreign Languages and Literature), Mehmet Odekon (Economics), and Jordana Dym (History).
This is a veritable powerhouse team of international affairs scholars here at Skidmore, and the discussion is sure to be lively and interesting. Definitely worth checking out for those into that sort of thing.
Wednesday April 17, 8:30pm @ Gannett
No Responses » Tags: Cultural Enrichment, Government, Hugo Chavez, Model EU, Panel Discussion, Politics
Written by Staff Writer on April 15th, 2013
By Tye Stien ’13
For those of you who have lived the past week in blissful ignorance, Skidmore College has seen fit to invite notorious mining tycoon Cynthia Carroll to speak at the Class of 2013 commencement. An alumna of Skidmore, Carroll has cultivated a morally ambiguous reputation by serving as CEO of Anglo-American, a transnational mining corporation. The sordid, often hyperbolic debate raging over Carroll’s invitation has focused upon Anglo-American’s dubious environmental, neocolonial, and humanitarian record. While important, this focus seems to miss the greatest question of all: why Carroll? In the expansive universe of successful, articulate professional lecturers, Skidmore has chosen Carroll above all others. The problem inherent in this invitation lies not in her humanitarian record, though it should bear some scrutiny, but in the image Skidmore is choosing to project with her nomination.
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27 Responses » Tags: Bowdoin College, Cynthia Carroll, Humanities, Liberal Arts, OP-ED, Science
Written by Rowley on April 11th, 2013
COOL
The clinkers and clankers of Pulse will be performing their final show of the semester this Saturday. This will also be the final show the last performance for 6 graduating seniors: Dan Fisher, Alex Brodsky, Connor High, Duke Yun, Laura Naparstek, and Ashley Belle.
Lest you think you won’t be able to make Dirty Projectors, FEAR NOT, because the show starts at 8, which is when the doors for the Big Show OPEN. There will be little to no conflict.
Saturday April 13, 8pm @ Filene
No Responses » Tags: Filene, Live Music, Pulse
Written by Rowley on April 11th, 2013
At around 4:40 this morning, the Skidmore emergency text system reported that Skidmore student Peter Oundjian ’14 had gone missing.
Details are scanty, and I’ll be updating this page and the Skidmore Unofficial Twitter account with updates as they roll in. Of course, anybody with information is urged to contact the Saratoga Springs Police Department at 518-584-1800 or Campus Safety at 518-580-5567.
UPDATE – 6:56am: Campus Safety seems to have no real leads. Searching area and awaiting calls with any information.
UPDATE – 7:17am: Text via emergency system indicates that the student has been located.
No Responses » Tags: Breaking News, Missing Person, Peter Oundjian
Written by Rowley on April 11th, 2013
THURSDAY
7:00pm – Fifty Years of WSPN @ Case Gallery (fbook)
8:00pm – ELM Show @ Zankel 118 (fbook)
8:00pm – Faculty Recital: Pola Baytelman @ Zankel
8:00pm - ”Healing the Planet: A Necessary Imperative?” @ Filene
8:00pm – The Friend Zone @ Spa (fbook)
11:30pm – Pony Club Presents: Paddock Thursday (fbook)
FRIDAY
11:00am – Social Justice Month: Fair Trade Market @ Case Green
2:00pm - Annual OSDP Day @ Case
4:00pm - Women’s Lacrosse vs. Vassar College @ Wachenheim Field
8:00pm - ”The American Founding and the Choice of a Foundation” @ Gannett
8:00pm - Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert @ Dance Theater
8:00pm - Senior Recital: Jonny Duennebier @ Zankel (fbook)
8:00pm - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ JKB
10:00pm – Camper & Trophy Wives @ Putnam Den (fbook)
10:00pm – Screamfest @ Tang Roof (fbook)
SATURDAY
1:00pm - Men’s Tennis vs. Stevens Institute of Technology @ Williamson Sports Center
1:00pm - Softball vs. RIT @ Softball Diamond
2:00pm - Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert @ Dance Theater
2:00pm - Shared Recital: Emily Przysinda & Samuel Kastner @ Zankel
2:00pm - Women’s Lacrosse vs. Bard College @ Wachenheim Field
6:00pm – ACA Dinner @ D-hall (fbook)
7:00pm - Senior Recital: Josh Varga @ Zankel
8:00pm – DIRTY PROJECTORS & DELICATE STEVE @ BIG GYM (fbook)
8:00pm – Pulse Final Show @ Filene (fbook)
8:00pm - Dance Department Senior Capstone Concert @ Dance Theater
8:00pm - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ JKB
9:00pm – Drag Show @ Spa
SUNDAY
9:00am - Women’s Tennis vs. The College of New Jersey @ Williamson Sports Center
12:00pm - Men’s Tennis vs. The College of New Jersey @ Williamson Sports Center
1:00pm - Softball vs. University of Rochester @ Softball Diamond
2:00pm - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ JKB
Missing something? Let us know in the comments.
2 Responses » Tags: Weekend Distractions
Written by Rowley on April 10th, 2013
DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN’? Paella. He’s cooking paella.
Big weekend for music. On Friday, the brave, hardworking lads of Camper and Trophy Wives will be playing at Putnam Den, a fun little prelude to Dirty Projectors on Saturday.
The show is FREE, but it’s $7 if you’re a jabroni/under 21.
Friday April 12, 10pm @ Putnam Den
No Responses » Tags: Camper, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Free Music, Live Music, Putnam Den, Trophy Wives
Written by Rowley on April 10th, 2013
VERY LO-FI
Tomorrow, come marvel at the historical relics of our humble college radio station, WSPN. Every year, the kids cool enough to get elected to the Board haul out some old junk from the office and hang it all up on the walls of Case Gallery, and tomorrow, they’ll be celebrating fifty years of broadcasting.*
According to the email I received from the lovely, effervescent, ambitious, beautiful GM, Annie Auchincloss, this year’s exhibit will include “letters from Prez Palamountain, telegrams from the FCC, and citation letters from Campo,” as well as:
- The time WSPN was offered $25,000 for their call letters
- The time WSPN almost died
- The time WSPN got into a really big fight with SkidNews
- A short history of really bad WSPN logos
- An even shorter history of really good ones
The charming, boyish, dignified, persnickety programmer Mac Parsons will be providing tunes at tomorrow night’s opening, and apparently, there will be FOOD and BOOZE.
*The station was actually founded in 1973. Who could have guessed that a bunch of tight-jeans-wearing humanities majors would be so hopeless at math?
Thursday April 11, 7pm @ Case Gallery
No Responses » Tags: BOOZE ON CAMPUS, Case Gallery, FREE FOOD, Math Skills, WSPN
Written by Rowley on April 10th, 2013
Sup Hub
Tomorrow, a group of experimental musicians on campus will be performing in Zankel, as part of the ELM Show. The performers include Dan Alpher in “I Tweaked,” Benßen, and Sea Level
The organizers also included this laughably pretentious description of the event:
There will be no refreshments offered, no merchandise sold. We offer little beyond our performances and our ideas, among them being the idea that the Skidmore College campus is home to the minds that engineer innovative art as well as the best venues to deliver such expressions.
Bring your eccentric friends.
Somebody needs to shove these nerds in a few lockers. In any event, it sounds like a welcome departure from the usual strummy-strummy music we only hear at this place. Check it out.
Thursday April 11, 8pm @ Elizabeth Luce Moore Hall (Zankel 117)
No Responses » Tags: Benßen, Dan Alpher, ELM, Experimental Music, Sea Level, Zankel
