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Friday, November 20, 2009
| Start Time | End Time | Event Details |
| 3:15 PM | 5:00 PM | Race, Class, and Gender Book Discussion: “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee” |
| Orchard Room, Tallent Hall | ||
| Palm Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef seems like a tropical paradise of golden beaches, blue waters, and lush greenery. But for half a century, it served as a penal colony where the state of Queensland sent the banished. It was here that Cameron Doomadgee, the 36-year-old stepson of one of those problem citizens, was found beaten to death in a police jail cell in November 2004. Doomadgee quickly came to symbolize black Australia’s grievances against the country’s white populous. In “Tall Man,” Chloe Hooper’s book sets out to tell his story but the facts prove elusive in this “tropical gulag,” filtered as they are through prejudice, anger, despair, and awash in alcoholism. Join the conversation about this book. | ||
| 7:00 PM | 9:30 PM | Diwali Festival of Lights Celebration (tickets for this program have been s |
| Student Center Ballroom | ||
| The University of Wisconsin-Parkside presents the third annual Diwali Celebration. Diwali is the Indian Festival of Lights. The students of the Parkside International Club serve as hosts for this special evening of South Asian culture. The evening begins with an authentic Indian dinner followed by an exquisite Indian fashion show. The evening includes several dance performances. | ||
| Related link: Student Activities | ||
| 7:30 PM | 10:00 PM | Foreign Film: "Silent Light" |
| Student Center Cinema | ||
| Untrained actors from several Mennonite communities, speaking in the Mennonite dialect of Plattdeutsch, the film tells a profound yet simple tale of Johan, a farmer in Mexico’s Mennonite community who is in love with two women: his wife and a woman who runs a nearby ice cream stand. Despite the bare bones simplicity of the plot, the film manages to delve into the mysterious heart of desire, loss, joy, and transcendent love. The camera’s slow zoom works in tandem with a masterful sound mix. In one scene the sounds of cars and the countryside around a garage give way through imperceptible degrees to the sounds of the work inside of the garage. When we finally arrive inside the garage pit, the scene has the resonance of a trip to the pits of hell which rivals Dante or a Greek drama. The director is really pursuing one strategy throughout the film. He creates fields of energy: emotional energy, visual energy, and sound energy. One of the great strengths of the story is that it is not allowed to degenerate into an obvious social drama about a small-minded insular community condemning the lovers. Instead, it becomes a universal tale about the pain of feeling you have taken the wrong path in life. In the end, the story elevates, in a magical twist, from the level of the human to the purely mythical and sublime. | ||
| 7:30 PM | 9:00 PM | UW-Parkside Opera Workshop: “Opera through the Ages" |
| Communication Arts Theatre | ||
| {$10 for adults and $7 for students & seniors} The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Opera Workshop proudly presents “Opera through the Ages” for three performances. “Throughout history there have been so many wonderful operas, so we decided that this year we would showcase the best of the best,” said UW-Parkside student Tina Skinner. “The cast will be performing scenes from four different operas, each representing a different musical era.” Skinner said opera’s Baroque era is epitomized by Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" while the Classical period is exemplified by Mozart's “Le Nozze Di Figaro.” From the Romantic era, audiences will enjoy Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" (Elixir of Love) and the evening closes with the 20th century opera “The Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti. Skinner said the scenes being prepared for presentation are from some of opera’s most popular works and will be exceptionally well voiced. “Our student vocalists have worked very hard to make this a wonderful production to see and hear. We’re asking that people come to campus and support local, live music performance and the UW-Parkside Opera Workshop.” For more information, call the university’s Music Department at 262-595-2457. | ||
| Related link: Music |
