Come check out the show this weekend!
Davis Projects for Peace info session
The Davis Projects for Peace award successful recipients — individual students or groups of students — $10,000 to complete a creative, innovative and entrepreneurial project for peace in summer 2013. Funded by Kathryn W. Davis, a lifelong internationalist and philanthropist, the selection process is administered by the Lang Center in association with the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.
In previous years, students have been awarded funds to develop sanitation and hygiene practices in rural Madagascar and to develop an educational program in Bogotá, Colombia.
Students from any class year may apply and projects may be undertaken in Summer 2013, anywhere in the world.
INFORMATION SESSION
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
12:30 PM
Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility
Please RSVP to jmagee1, indicating your pizza preference no later than Monday, December 10.
Shakespeare Night of Scenes 12/14
Acting II class with Elizabeth Webster-Duke will present a Night of Shakespeare on Friday, December 14 at 7PM in the LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater!
Spring 2013 classes!
We have Sound Design and Dramaturgy classes for the Spring semester! Check it out! More info available at the Theater Department office (LPAC 13).
Spring 2013 Classes!
SIGN UP for classes in dance technique and more this Spring! Stop by the Dance Program office (LPAC 4) for further info!
Thanks!
Tara
Spring 2013 Classes!
SIGN UP for classes in dance technique and more this Spring! Stop by the Dance Program office (LPAC 4) for further info!
Thanks!
Tara
Directing I Workshop’s Night of Scenes 12/12 & 13
The Department of Theater presents the final projects of directors Swift Shuker-Haines ’14, Anna Russell ’14, Katie Goldman ’14, Josh McLucas ’15, and Marta Roncada ’14 t (in collaboration with Lighting Design) for the Directing I Workshop Night of Scenes.
Scenes include excerpts from playwrights David Ives, Jan Fosse, Maria Irene Fornes, Jeanette Farr, and David Auburn.
LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
8PM
Carl Wilkens on The Future of U.S. Policy Toward Africa
Carl Wilkens was the only American to remain in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles to bring food, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. His actions saved the lives of hundreds.
Join activist Carl Wilkens, Professor Stephen O’Connell, Professor Timothy Burke, and STAND national student director Mickey Jackson for a panel discussion on
Thursday, December 6
7:00 p.m.
Science Center 101
Sponsored by STAND, Forum for Speech, The President’s Office, The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Department of Economics , Department of History, and Department of Sociology & Anthropology.
West African Drumming & Percussion workshop 12/6 Lang Concert Hall
West African Drumming & Percussion Workshop
Traditional Rhythms of the Malinké
with Tara Tucker
DrumUpBig Australia
drums provided: no experience necessary—beginners on up.
December 6, 2012
4:15—5:30 PM
Lang Concert Hall
Please reserve a place (and a drum): email your
interest to Kim Arrow: karrow1@swarthmore.edu
or show up on the day
Tara is an internationally recognized djembe player. She has performed with major artists such as Chris Berry (USA), Mamady Keita (Japan, Singapore, USA), Ganga Giri (Australia), Wala (Ghana), Ben Hakalitz (Papua New Guinea/Australia) and Kobya (Mazambique) among others.
Tara uses drumming and singing as a tool for community development, and for building cognition, self-esteem and identity in Australian Aboriginal communities throughout Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula and recently in the Dharavi megaslum (Slumdog Millionaire) of Mumbai.
She is the only Australian certified as a Tam Tam Mandingue Teacher by Mamady Keita, Grand Master of the Djembe, and is one of only seven Examiners for the TTM Grading system for djembe and dunun. Tam Tam Mandinge International School of West African Drumming consists of fifteen schools world-wide in seven countries. Mamady Keita is author of Mamady Keita: A Life for the Djembé—Traditional Rhythms of the Malinké.
West African Drumming & Percussion workshop 12/6 Lang Concert Hall
West African Drumming & Percussion Workshop
Traditional Rhythms of the Malinké
with Tara Tucker
DrumUpBig Australia
drums provided: no experience necessary—beginners on up.
December 6, 2012
4:15—5:30 PM
Lang Concert Hall
Please reserve a place (and a drum): email your
interest to Kim Arrow: karrow1@swarthmore.edu
or show up on the day
Tara is an internationally recognized djembe player. She has performed with major artists such as Chris Berry (USA), Mamady Keita (Japan, Singapore, USA), Ganga Giri (Australia), Wala (Ghana), Ben Hakalitz (Papua New Guinea/Australia) and Kobya (Mazambique) among others.
Tara uses drumming and singing as a tool for community development, and for building cognition, self-esteem and identity in Australian Aboriginal communities throughout Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula and recently in the Dharavi megaslum (Slumdog Millionaire) of Mumbai.
She is the only Australian certified as a Tam Tam Mandingue Teacher by Mamady Keita, Grand Master of the Djembe, and is one of only seven Examiners for the TTM Grading system for djembe and dunun. Tam Tam Mandinge International School of West African Drumming consists of fifteen schools world-wide in seven countries. Mamady Keita is author of Mamady Keita: A Life for the Djembé—Traditional Rhythms of the Malinké.