September
5 , 2003
Happenings
September
Friday 5
Music Auditions/Info Session Room 210, *Pratt Hall, 2
pm.
Community Shabbat Services *Eliot House lounge,
6:30 pm.
Annual Fall A Cappella Jam SGA hosts the perennial
favorite—don’t miss it! Chapin Auditorium, *Mary Woolley
Hall, 8 pm.
Theatre Auditions For a staged reading of Folding,
a senior thesis project written and directed by Leah Maxwell ‘04.
This absurdist romp features two laundresses folding their way
through eternity in a Sisyphean laundry room built only for them.
Or is it? Roles for four women. Callbacks will be September 6.
Rehearsals begin immediately. Performances: September 27 and 28.
*Rooke Theatre, 8 pm.
Salsa Café Live dance party with the Pioneer
Valley’s hottest players. Great Room, *Blanchard Campus
Center, 10:30 pm.
Saturday 6
Shabbat Services
*Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10 am.
Volleyball vs. Westfield. This is a tri-match with MHC
playing Westfield State at 11 am, Westfield playing St. Joseph
at 1 pm, and MHC playing St. Joseph at 3 pm. *Kendall.
Tennis vs. WPI and WNEC. MHC will play WPI at 1 pm and
WNEC at 4 pm. Outdoor tennis courts, *Kendall.
Film Bend It Like Beckham, $2. Gamble Auditorium,
*Art Building, 6:30 pm.
Sunday 7
Quaker Friends Meeting *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10
am.
Ecumenical Worship Services *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
11 am.
Film See
9/6. Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building, 2 pm.
Unitarian Universalist Community Meeting *Eliot House
lounge, 4 pm.
Roman Catholic Mass *Abbey Chapel, 6:30 pm.
Baha’i Community Meeting *Abbey Interfaith
Sanctuary, 7:45 pm.
Monday 8
Chill Out and Chat *Eliot House lounge, 4 pm.
Author Reading Pulitzer Prize–winning
journalist Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic,
reads from Blue Latitudes: Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone
Before. Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of
discovery, the author takes us on a wild ride across hemispheres
and centuries to recapture the captain’s adventures and
explore his legacy. Call 534-7307 for information. New York Room,
*Mary Woolley Hall, 7 pm.
Health Interviews for Medical School *CDC library, 8
pm.
Major Fellowships for Grad and Postgrad Study Abroad *CDC workshop
room, 8 pm.
Tuesday 9
Buddhist Meditation *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
4:15 pm.
Volleyball vs. Amherst. *Kendall, 7 pm.
Just for Seniors Hooker Auditorium, *Clapp Laboratory,
7 pm.
Theatre Auditions For Top Girls by Caryl
Churchill; directed by Julia Whitworth. The new managing director
of a London employment agency hosts a dinner party to celebrate
her promotion. Her guests are five women from the past: the adventurous
Scottish traveller Isabella Bird (1831–1904); the medieval
Japanese courtesan-turned-Buddhist nun Lady Nijo (b. 1258); Dull
Gret, who led a crowd of women on a charge through hell in a Brueghel
painting; the ninth-century disguised female Pope Joan; and Patient
Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer. In the fantastic conversation
that ensues, playwright Churchill lays out historical conditions
and costs of the women’s “successes.” Cast:
Multigenerational and multiracial; roles for seven female actors.
Callbacks: September 11. Rehearsals begin immediately. Performances:
Novermber 13–16, *Rooke Theatre, 7 pm.
Wednesday 10
Recovery Luncheon Meeting These informal lunches are
an opportunity to meet others in recovery and those exploring
recovery. Facilitated by Susan McCarthy. Free pizza and beverages!
For information, call x2616. *CDC conference room, noon.
Interfaith Prayer Lunch *Eliot House lounge,
noon.
Just for Juniors Room 101, *Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Author Discussion Novelist and former journalist
R. A. Scotti discusses Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of
1938. For information. call 534-7307. Odyssey Bookshop, Village
Commons, 7 pm. Theatre Auditions See 9/9.
Senior Carrel Assignments Seniors will be assigned study
carrels. Stimson Room, *Williston Library, 7 pm.
Omar Sosa A concert by composer and pianist Omar
Sosa, one of the leading ambassadors of new Cuban jazz. Chapin
Auditorium, *Mary Woolley Hall, 8 pm.
Thursday 11
Service of Remembrance *Abbey Chapel, 12:15 pm.
Open Hours for Major Fellowships *CDC conference room, 3 pm.
Hindu Worship
*Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 4:15 pm.
Second*Saturday Special M & Cs If you preregistered
to participate in Second*Saturday, meet your group members and
group leaders and find out the details of your Second*Saturday
activity. Chapin Auditorium, *Mary Woolley Hall, 9:30 pm.
Thursday Night Edge Local music hero Stephen
Kellogg with special guest Nini Camps. Free admission with MHC
ID; $3 withFive College ID. Great Room, *Blanchard Campus Center,
7 pm.
Weissman Center Fall Lecture Series Gamble Auditorium,
*Art Building, 7:30 pm.
Film The Best Man. Free popcorn. Great Room, *Blanchard
Campus Center, 10:30 pm.
Friday 12
Walk the Labyrinth Walk the spiral path, a symbol of
wholeness and life’s meandering but purposeful path. Questions?
Email jmwood@mtholyoke.edu.
*Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10 am.
LITS Orientation
for New Faculty Room 422, *Williston Library, 10 am.
Fulbright Workshop *CDC workshop room, 10 am.
Halal Lunch Followed by Jumma Prayer *Eliot House
lounge, noon.
Contemplative Community *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
2 pm.
Tennis
vs. Springfield. Outdoor tennis courts, *Kendall, 4 pm.
Something
Every Friday—Sunset Serenade Relax under the evening
sky to the contemporary folk-pop songs of Catie Curtis, David
Linhart, and others. Skinner Green, 6 pm. Rain location: Great
Room, *Blanchard Campus Center.
Shabbat Services
*Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 6:30 pm.
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