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561-297-3022,
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FAU Calendar of Events for the Week of January 31, 2011
BOCA RATON,
FL (January 31, 2011) –
Florida
Atlantic University will host the following events:
The FAU Literary Authors Series Presents Book Discussion,
Signing with Andrew Furman, Author of ‘My Los Angeles In
Black and (Almost) White’
This free event is on Thursday, February 10, at 7 p.m. in the Majestic Palm Room of the Student Union, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. For more information, call 561-297-3831.
In
My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White, the high
school’s basketball team serves as the entry point for a
trenchant exploration of the judicial, legislative, and
neighborhood battles over school desegregation that gripped Los
Angeles in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and that
continue to plague our “post-racial” nation.
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FAU Department of Theatre and Dance Presents the Annual
Dance Theatre Ensemble
Shows will run on
Friday, February 11, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, February 12,
at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, February 13, at 2 p.m. in
the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, FAU’s Boca
Raton campus. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at
www.fauevents.com
or 1-800-564-9539.
The program will feature Clarence Brooks, assistant
professor and director of dance at FAU, along with Susan Fulks,
formerly of the Charleston Ballet and Nashville Ballet.
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FAU Jupiter to Host Seventh Annual Health & Wellness
Fair
The free seventh annual Health & Wellness Fair will be
held on
Tuesday, February 15, from 2 to 6 p.m. in the
Student Resource (SR) Atrium on the John D. MacArthur
Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter.
For more information, call 561-799-8678 or e-mail
kgarbacz@fau.edu.
More than two dozen nonprofit organizations and businesses
will present displays and educational materials promoting a
healthy lifestyle.
Free services will include vision
screenings, chair massages, HIV screenings and interactive
exhibits. CPR training will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at
a cost of $25 per person. The Bloodmobile will be available
from noon to 7 p.m. for blood donations.
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FAU’s Department of History Presents ‘Daniel
Ellsberg Speaks: The Pentagon Papers 40 Years
Later’
There will be a free screening of the movie “The
Most Dangerous Man in America” on
Tuesday, February 15, at 3:30 p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Daniel Ellsberg will present a ticketed
lecture on
Wednesday, February 16, at 3 p.m. in the
Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca
Raton campus. Tickets for the lecture are $12 and can
be purchased at
www.fauevents.com
or 1-800-564-9539.
FAU’s Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American
Presidency presents “Daniel Ellsberg Speaks: The Pentagon
Papers 40 Years Later,” a discussion with Daniel Ellsberg
and George Herring, along with a free screening of the Academy
Award-nominated film “The Most Dangerous Man in
America.”In the 1970s, Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst
with Top Secret security clearances, released the Pentagon
Papers, detailing the secret history of the Vietnam War. This was
the biggest national security leak in U.S. history prior to
recent events surrounding WikiLeaks.
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FAU’s Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World Series presents
James Finley with ‘Childlike Acceptance as a Path to
Inner Peace’
This ticketed lecture takes place on
Thursday, February 17, at 7 p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at
www.fauevents.com
or 1-800-564-9539.
At the age of 18, James Finley became a monk at the
cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani, where
the world-renowned monk and author Thomas Merton was his
spiritual director. Merton studied Eastern meditation techniques
and is credited with reviving an interest in Christian
meditation. Finley now leads retreats and workshops throughout
the United States and Canada. He speaks to people from all
religious traditions who seek a way to have a more peaceful mind
and heart. Finley is also a clinical psychologist in private
practice. His books include
Merton’s Palace of Nowhere,
The Contemplative Hearts and
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God.
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FAU’s Department of Music Presents a Concert with its Jazz Band
This free event takes place on
Friday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Donations are suggested at the door. For more
information, call 561-297-3820.
The FAU Jazz Band is under the direction of Neal Bonsanti.
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FAU’s Department of Theatre Presents ‘Anton
in Show Business’
These ticketed performances take place from
Friday, February 18 through Sunday, February 27,
Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sundays, 2
p.m. in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at
www.fauevents.com
or 1-800-564-9539.
“Anton in Show Business” is a hysterical look
into what goes on behind the stage in the world of theater. Holly
Seabe, knock-out Hollywood starlet of questionable talent, needs
to segue her highly successful career as a television star into
film work, but she’s stuck. She needs a legitimate acting
gig to build her cache as an artist. Career ambition brings
her to a small, ill-fated theater project in San Antonio, Texas
of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.”
Nothing goes right for Holly and her new cast
mates Lisabette, a naïve and wide-eyed college graduate who
is new to acting, and Casey, a jaded New York actress who knows
the game all-too-well. “Anton in Show Business”
shows us the ugly side of making theater, from clueless and
ruthless corporate sponsors, to directors with agendas, to
romantic tribulations, While it pokes fun at all that is ugly in
the world of show business, it also shows us why one cares about
it in the first place.
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FAU’s Department of Theatre Presents the FAU
Chamber Soloists with Gems from the Davis Collection
This free concert takes place on
Sunday, February 20 at 3 p.m. in the in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Donations are suggested at the door. For
more information, call 561-297-3820.
Arensky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin from the
Davis Collection will be performed, in addition to
Rachmaninoff’s and Haydn’s “Gypsy” Piano
Trios. Performers include Judith Burganger, Leonid Treer and
Heather Coltman, piano; Mei Mei Luo, violin; Claudio Jaffe,
cello; Birgit Fioravante, soprano; and Dean Peterson,
bass.
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