Gamelan Semara Santi is looking for dancers!

Swarthmore’s classical Indonesian percussion orchestra (Gamelan Semara Santi) is looking for new student dancers this year!   No prior experience with Balinese dance is assumed, but students should have some prior dance training.  We’ve got some unusual stuff in the works!  We will be performing Kecak – the so-called Balinese ‘Monkey Chant’.  This is a performance genre in which musicians accompany the dancers by chanting interlocking rhythms.  We will also perform a traditional Balinese greeting dance and the dancers will be accompanied by the usual orchestral percussion.

Balinese dance is taught by Latifah lsegaf and I Nyoman Suadin.

The commitment is:
Sunday October 27th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio
Sunday November 10th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio
Sunday November 24th, 2-5 PM, Boyer Studio
with a final Fall Concert: Sunday December 8th: 10 AM rehearsal; concert at 3 PM

If you are interested in participating please email Tom Whitman in the Music and Dance Department at twhitma1.

Auditions! Senior Co. needs your talent!

Senior Company is auditioning you folk for a rock & roll revolution!  We need actors, singers, dancers, and musicians!

Saturday, September 7, 2013

4-7PM

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater

Sign up for a 15 minute slot on the bulletin board in the Frear Lobby or email sshuker1@swarthmore.edu.

No special preparation necessary.

 

Video by George Lakey on Nonviolent Action

Professor George Lakey produced a video this summer drawing on the Global Nonviolent Action Database for a new curriculum being developed by the United Nations Institute for Training and Development (UNITAR) in Geneva, Switzerland. The video outlines three different applications of nonviolent action/civil resistance.

 

An invitation to help conceptualize a mural on campus

For Swarthmore students, staff, and faculty:

As part of the Mellon-funded Tri-College Creative Residencies Program, David “Dee” Craig, a mural artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, will come to the Tri-Colleges for a month-long residency immediately following Fall Break.

Part of the residency will involve painting a mural on our campus, and we would like to invite anyone who is interested in helping to conceptualize the content of the mural to join us for discussion on *Thursday, September 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Kohlberg 228 and on *Wednesday, September 11 at 4:00 p.m. in Kohlberg 228.

For more information on the artist and the residency, visit http://bit.ly/16WRWmQ

Stay tuned for more announcements about events related to the residency.

Smithsonian mural

Craig mural at the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

The passing of a poet: Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

We join with so many others around the world today in grieving the loss of 1995 Nobel Poet Laureate and 1994 Swarthmore honorary degree recipient, Seamus Heaney. He was aged 74.

In some of his work, Heaney expressed the deep grief generated by violent conflict in Northern Ireland and nurtured the possibility of hard-won peace. Here are lines from the chorus at the end of “The Cure at Troy,” Heaney’s translation of “The Philoctetes,” by Sophocles.

Seamus HeaneyHuman beings suffer,

They torture one another,

They get hurt and get hard.

No poem or play or song

Can fully right a wrong

Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols

Beat on their bars together.

A hunger-striker’s father

Stands in the graveyard dumb.

The police widow in veils

Faints at the funeral home.

History says, don’t hope

On this side of the grave.

But then, once in a lifetime

The longed-for tidal wave

Of justice can rise up,

And hope and history rhyme.

So hope for a great sea-change

On the far side of revenge.

Believe that further shore

Is reachable from here.

Believe in miracle

And cures and healing wells.

Call miracle self-healing:

The utter, self-revealing

Double-take of feeling.

If there’s fire on the mountain

Or lightning and storm

And a god speaks from the sky

That means someone is hearing

The outcry and the birth-cry

Of new life at its term.

See a photo tribute to Heaney at the Irish Times.

Photo attribution: By Sean O’Connor, cropped by Sabahrat (File:Seamus Heaney.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASeamus_Heaney_(cropped).jpg

Need a campus job? Studio Art classes are looking for Models!

Prof. Logan Grider is looking for clothed student models to assist with life drawing and studio art classes.  Applications for the job are available in 306 of Beardsley Hall (Art Dept. Office) and in LPAC 004 (Dance Office).

General Info:

  • Models will be needed for studio art classes in the morning (8:30-11:10A) and afternoon (1:15-4P)
  • Most models will be scheduled to work one to two sessions a week and sessions will be scheduled in advance by the professor of the art class
  • Models are paid through Work Study
  • Models will be asked to pose in clothes for 30 minute blocks during scheduled class times.

For further questions and more information, contact Prof. Logan Grider in Beardsley Hall 215 (lgrider1@swarthmore.edu).

Need a campus job? Studio Art classes are looking for Models!

Prof. Logan Grider is looking for clothed student models to assist with life drawing and studio art classes.  Applications for the job are available in 306 of Beardsley Hall (Art Dept. Office) and in LPAC 004 (Dance Office).

General Info:

  • Models will be needed for studio art classes in the morning (8:30-11:10A) and afternoon (1:15-4P)
  • Most models will be scheduled to work one to two sessions a week and sessions will be scheduled in advance by the professor of the art class
  • Models are paid through Work Study
  • Models will be asked to pose in clothes for 30 minute blocks during scheduled class times.

For further questions and more information, contact Prof. Logan Grider in Beardsley Hall 215 (lgrider1@swarthmore.edu).

Need a campus job? Studio Art classes are looking for Models!

Prof. Logan Grider is looking for clothed student models to assist with life drawing and studio art classes.  Applications for the job are available in 306 of Beardsley Hall (Art Dept. Office) and in LPAC 004 (Dance Office).

General Info:

  • Models will be needed for studio art classes in the morning (8:30-11:10A) and afternoon (1:15-4P)
  • Most models will be scheduled to work one to two sessions a week and sessions will be scheduled in advance by the professor of the art class
  • Models are paid through Work Study
  • Models will be asked to pose in clothes for 30 minute blocks during scheduled class times.

For further questions and more information, contact Prof. Logan Grider in Beardsley Hall 215 (lgrider1@swarthmore.edu).