War News Radio Gets New Mentor

See this piece about Jim MacMillan and War News Radio in the latest issue of Swarthmore College Bulletin.

Jim MacMillan

Jim MacMillan, journalist in residence

By Jeffrey Lott

Contrary to popular opinion—or at least the opinion of a lot of other journalists—Jim MacMillan says it’s a “great time to be a journalist.” The new journalist in residence at War News Radio. (WNR) sees great promise in new and emerging media and is eager to share his perspective with the Swarthmore students who produce weekly radio programs that aim to fill the gaps in the media’s coverage of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More …

AUDITION FOR PRODUCTION ENSEMBLE (Thea 022) SPRING 2011!!!

AUDITIONS FOR PRODUCTION ENSEMBLE (THEA 022; Spring 2011):

SATURDAY, NOV. 20

ROOM 115 KOHLBERG

Script: George Bernard Shaw’s FARFETCHED FABLES (1950)

Concept: This adaptation of FARFETCHED FABLES is the rehearsal of several censored television broadcasts that were produced back in the days when television was almost always live.  Created in the era spanning I LOVE LUCY and Joseph McCarthy, this production of FABLES will draw on these and other sources to create a framework around George Bernard Shaw’s off-kilter text.  Acting for both the camera and stage space will be emphasized, and characters comprising the television production crew in the 50’s (not in the original script) will be developed by the acting team through improvisation.

Director/Professor: Lars Jan ‘00

SCHEDULE
12:30-3:00 pm: Individual auditions

(sign up sheet outside Theater Department Office, 13 LPAC)

3:00-4:00 pm: Break

4:00-6:00 pm: Group Callback Session

(will be done in 1-2 groups for at least an hour each)

Everyone auditioning should come prepared to perform two monologues totaling no more than 4 minutes in length.

Audition material can include non-text-based movement, physical theater pieces, and/or text from any genre.

ADDITIONAL CALLBACKS ON SUNDAY ONLY IF NEEDED

CAST LIST WILL BE POSTED ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, OUTSIDE 13  LPAC

THOSE ON THE LIST SHOULD PRE-ENROLL FOR THEA 022, 042, or 062

Auditions are open to all students that have taken Acting I (THEA 002A)

THEA 022 fulfills a requirement for all Theater majors and minors

Students that have previously done Production Ensemble may audition and be cast again for academic credit, registering for THEA 042 or THEA 06.

Copies of the script for the production will be made available through the Theater Department Office (15 LPAC) starting Monday, Nov. 15

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE:

Production Ensemble rehearses weekly on the following schedule:

Thursdays: 4:10-6:40 pm & 7:30-10:30 pm

Fridays: 1:00-5:00 pm

Sundays: 12 noon-6:00 pm

This schedule will be expanded for tech/dress rehearsals and performances March 20-27, 2011.  Performances will take place the weekend of March 25-27.

Other than for a post-mortem meeting for the students and faculty involved, the work for the production will be finished by March 27.

The production team includes Laila Swanson as set and costume designer, Jim Murphy as lighting designer, Lars Jan as digital media designer, and Louis Jargow ’10 as sound designer.

Questions: contact Allen Kuharski (akuhars1@swarthmore.edu)

Rachel Brooker 99: Window on the Work

Rachel Brooker ’99 will be featured in WINDOW ON THE WORK on Wednesday November 11 at 6PM in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio.

Rachel Brooker founded and directs Anima Dance, and is the site coordinator for The Field Berlin, a local branch of an international arts organization. anima dance, an eight-year-old dance theater company, is based in Berlin, Germany.  The company productions to date include The Artaud Project, My Patriot Act, a reflection on the condition of being American, Invitation and Body on the Body, interactive installations, ten evenings of original choreography and six dance films.

Brooker’s work has been funded by public and private donors in both sides of the Atlantic.  She has a degree in Dance and Biology from Swarthmore College, and has performed across the US and Europe, most recently collaborating with Felix Ruckert, Marc Bogaerts and Sabine Dahrendorf.

Rachel will also host a workshop in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio at 4:30PM on Thursday November 11.

Rachel Brooker 99: Window on the Work

Rachel Brooker ’99 will be featured in WINDOW ON THE WORK on Wednesday November 11 at 6PM in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio.

Rachel Brooker founded and directs Anima Dance, and is the site coordinator for The Field Berlin, a local branch of an international arts organization. anima dance, an eight-year-old dance theater company, is based in Berlin, Germany.  The company productions to date include The Artaud Project, My Patriot Act, a reflection on the condition of being American, Invitation and Body on the Body, interactive installations, ten evenings of original choreography and six dance films.

Brooker’s work has been funded by public and private donors in both sides of the Atlantic.  She has a degree in Dance and Biology from Swarthmore College, and has performed across the US and Europe, most recently collaborating with Felix Ruckert, Marc Bogaerts and Sabine Dahrendorf.

Rachel will also host a workshop in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio at 4:30PM on Thursday November 11.

Join us for some DANCE CLASSES in Spring 2011!

We have several exciting dance classes coming up in the Spring.  Please check out our course schedule available on our website.  Many of our repertory classes offer opportunities for performance in the Student Dance Concert in April.  More information is available on the LPAC Lobby Monitor or in the Dance Office located in the basement of the LPAC (004) or you can contact Susan Grossi, the Administrative Assistant for the Dance Program for more information at sgrossi1@swarthmore.edu or X2019.  Come dance with us!

Join us for some DANCE CLASSES in Spring 2011!

We have several exciting dance classes coming up in the Spring.  Please check out our course schedule available on our website.  Many of our repertory classes offer opportunities for performance in the Student Dance Concert in April.  More information is available on the LPAC Lobby Monitor or in the Dance Office located in the basement of the LPAC (004) or you can contact Susan Grossi, the Administrative Assistant for the Dance Program for more information at sgrossi1@swarthmore.edu or X2019.  Come dance with us!

Nico Udu-Gama Lecture on the School of the Americas

Nico Udu-Gama

School of the Americas Watch

Thursday, November 11, 2010

7:30 p.m.

Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

Swarthmore College

Maps and directions to campus are available.

School of Americas VigilOn Thursday, November 11th, Nico Udu-Gama will be coming to discuss the School of the Americas and his role as a field organizer with the School of the Americas Watch, an independent, grassroots organization devoted to closing the SOA in Fort Benning, Georgia and changing the oppressive U.S foreign policy it represents.  Since its establishment in 1946, the SOA, or, as it is now known, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in clandestine military operations, often used to carry out violent campaigns against their own people. Those targeted by SOA graduates include union and community organizers, educators and student leaders, as well as others working for social and economic justice. SOA Watch organizes fasts, demonstrations and other nonviolent protests against the School of the Americas, and also engages in media and legislative work.  Udu-Gama was trained in resistance by the campesinos and campesinas of Colombia and spent a year in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, as well as three years with the communities in the Magdalena Medio, Arauca, Catatumbo and Bogotá.  He has also worked in the US with tenants facing displacement in Brooklyn, NY, and with villagers in Palestine resisting the Apartheid Wall.

Feel free to follow this link to a video about the attendance of Swarthmore students at the School of the Americas vigil in 2008.

This event is sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmore Labor Action Project, and the Program in Peace and Conflict Studies.

Contact:

Alison Roseberry-Polier

arosebe1@swarthmore.edu

A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

… and speaking of Swarthmore’s historical links to the pursuit of justice, see this announcement about an upcoming event at Swarthmore’s Public Library.

A Discussion with Mary Walton, author of A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
7:00 pm Swarthmore Public Library (location)

Praise for A Woman’s Crusade:

“Mary Walton, a veteran reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has captured Paul’s fire, her slow burn in A Woman’s Crusade. Part of the genius of the book lies in Walton’s quiet analysis of the methods used by the National American Woman Suffrage Assn. and the National Women’s Party, founded by Paul in 1916.”–Los Angeles Times

“Perhaps more than any other person, Alice Paul was responsible for U.S. women finally securing the right to vote in 1920—and yet most Americans have never heard of her. It’s astonishing that an individual of such courage and accomplishment would have to be “rescued” from obscurity, but that’s precisely what Mary Walton has done with this dynamic and entertaining biography. Walton sweeps the reader along in Alice Paul’s seven-year crusade for suffrage, all the way to its nail-biting conclusion. This is a wonderful and important book.”—Thomas Kunkel, author of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

Copies of A Woman’s Crusade will be available for purchase and signing after the program.

All programs are free and open to the public. Please register at the library, call 610-543-0436 or email swarthmore@delcolibraries.org.

Alice Paul

“Mind the Light”: a conversation about Quaker values at Swarthmore

I would like to draw our attention to this announcement about an upcoming conversation about Quaker values at Swarthmore. I expect that discussion will touch on why Swarthmore has a Peace and Conflict Studies program.  Hope to see you there.

Interested in the role of Quakers, and Quaker values at Swarthmore? Want to talk about how we balance being a secular institution with our spiritual roots? This conversation began on the strategic planning website and will continue with a gathering on Friday, November 12, from 1:00 – 2:30 in Bond Hall.

We encourage faculty, staff and students to participate in this important discussion as we make plans for the future of the College.

Quakers oppose all war

Interested in the role of Quakers, and Quaker values at Swarthmore? Want to talk about how we balance being a secular institution with our spiritual roots? This conversation began on the strategic planning website and will continue with a gathering on Friday, November 12, from 1:00 - 2:30 in Bond Hall. We encourage faculty, staff and students to participate in this important discussion as we make plans for the future of the College.