Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA
CONTACT
: Lisa
Metcalf
561-297-3022,
lmetcalf@fau.edu
FAU Calendar of Events for the
Week of March 7, 2011
BOCA RATON, FL (March 7, 2011) – Florida Atlantic University will host the following events:
FAU’s Jupiter Lifelong Learning Society to Host Fourth Annual W.B. Ingalls Memorial Prostate Health and Cancer Seminar
The kick-off event takes place on
Saturday, March 19, at 8:30 a.m., at the
Lifelong Learning Society Complex at FAU’s
MacArthur Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter. The
event is free. For more information, call 561-776-6666 or visit
www.llsjupiter.com.
This annual seminar is designed to bring the most current
research and knowledge about prostate cancer and health to Palm
Beach County. The presenters are clinicians and researchers
from centers and universities throughout the United States.
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FAU’s Department of Music Presents the FAU Chamber
Singers and Cantemos
The concert will take place on
Saturday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Admission is free with a $10 donation
suggested. For more information, call 561-297-3820.
The choral groups, directed by Patricia Fleitas, will
perform European choral music.
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FAU’s Department of Music Presents a Gala Opera
Benefit
The concert will take place on
Sunday, March 20, at 3 p.m., in the
University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
campus. Admission is free with a $10 donation
suggested. For more information, call
561-297-3820.
Dean Peterson, bass, and Birgit Fioravante, soprano, will
perform Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle,” a
concert version of Bartok’s dramatic one-act opera, sung in
original Hungarian.
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FAU Launches Aging Academy to Address Geriatric
Training
The kick-off event will take place on
Tuesday, March 22, at 4 p.m., at the
Marleen and Harold Forkas Alumni Center, 777 Glades
Road, Boca Raton campus. The event is free. For more
information, contact Stephen Ferrante at 561-297-2720 or
ferrante@fau.edu.
Florida Atlantic University’s School of Social Work
in the College for Design and Social Inquiry will host this event
that will offer faculty, students and community stakeholders the
chance to learn about the Aging Academy’s goals, activities
and giving opportunities. Corrine H. Rieder, executive
director of the John F. Hartford Foundation, also will provide a
keynote address regarding the emerging need for geriatric
competence in the social work field.
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FAU’s Department of Sociology Presents the Film
‘The People Speak’
The film will be shown on
Tuesday, March 22, from 6 to 9 p.m., in the
Performing Arts Building, room 101, 777 Glades Road,
Boca Raton campus. Admission is free. For more
information, call 561-297-3270.
“The People Speak” takes an unguarded look at
the nation’s decades-long struggle with the pressing issues
of war, race, class and women’s rights. This documentary is
part of the Sociocinema Thinking Film Series that runs through
Tuesday, April 12.
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Jaffe Center Presents ‘Dialogue,’ Paintings
by Folk Artist Helen M. Salzberg and Artists’ Books
The free exhibition runs through
Tuesday, March 22, at
FAU’s Wimberly Library, 777 Glades
Road, FAU’s Boca Raton campus. For more
information, contact John Cutrone at 561-297-0455 or
jcutrone@fau.edu,
or visit
www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/exhibitions/dialogue/index.php.
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at FAU
Libraries is hosting “Dialogue,” an exhibition of
paintings by folk artist Helen M. Salzberg. Salzberg will donate
the money from the sale of her work in the exhibition to the
Jaffe Center. Her paintings are colorful and narrative and alone
tell a story, but in the exhibition, the Jaffe Center uses books
by other artists from its collection to create dialogue between
two genres: paintings and artists’ books. The
exhibition is displayed in the first floor lobby of the Wimberly
Library, as well as on the second floor next to the
administrative offices, and on the third floor east at the Jaffe
Center.
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FAU’s Department of Languages, Linguistics and
Comparative Literature Presents the French Film
‘Welcome’
The film will be shown on
Wednesday, March 23, from 6 to 9 p.m., in the
Performing Arts Building, room 101, 777 Glades Road,
Boca Raton campus. Admission is free. For more
information, call 561-297-2533.
“Welcome” is both a study of budding friendship
and a compassionate look at the perils faced by illegal
immigrants. The film centers on Bilal, a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd,
who is stuck in Calais in Northern France. This film is part of
the French Film Festival that runs through Wednesday, April 13.
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About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. In commemoration of its origin, FAU is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout 2011. Today, the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
