Share a laugh, and a draft, with fellow Cleveland area Obies!
Join fellow Obies for a night out on the town to mix and mingle, and have some fun. Obies Night Out is a great way to connect with new friends and expand your professional network as you enjoy food, drinks, and some Oberlin memories. All alumni are welcome. Feel free to bring friends, work colleagues or significant others!
DATE:
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
TIME:
5:30 - 7:30PM
LOCATION:
Bar Louie Cleveland
1352 W. 6th St
Cleveland, OH 44113
216-452-5500
COST:
The conversation with your fellow Obies is free, but you’re responsible for your own food/drinks.
RSVP:
Please RSVP with the Alumni Office. Contact them at 440.775.8692 or by visiting https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp
ABOUT BAR LOUIE
Awarded "Concept of Tomorrow" by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine, this casually cool neighborhood restaurant & bar features warm, upbeat surroundings with contemporary photography, mosaic tiling, wood-paneled walls, modern lighting and plasma televisions, making it a favorite gathering place for family and friends. Specializing in oversized sandwiches and artfully concocted signature cocktails, Bar Louie also offers an extensive selection of appetizers, pastas, entrees and a wide assortment of interesting beers, microbrews and wines by the glass or bottle.
Check out their menu here: http://www.barlouieamerica.com/uploads/docs/t1menu.pdf
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
December 2011 On-Campus Events
On-Campus Events
As the semester winds up, the Events Calendar is nice and full! I’ve included a sampling of events below; check out the complete Events Calendar at http://new.oberlin.edu/calendar.
A Celebration of Oberlin Scholarship
On Friday, December 2 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm, a reception will be held honoring faculty and staff authors of books and other significant scholarly and creative works. Sponsored by the Friends of the Oberlin College Library.
Mudd Library - Azariah’s Café
148 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Collegium Musicum Fall Concert
On Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3 at 8:00pm, a free performance will be presented by Collegium Musicum, with Steven Plank, director.
Bosworth Hall – Fairchild Chapel
50 West Lorain Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Musical Union Concert
Newly appointed Director of Choral Ensembles Jason Harris conducts the Oberlin Musical Union in a concert featuring works by Respighi and Honegger on Sunday, December 4 at 8:00pm. The Musical Union will be joined by the Oberlin College Choir and Sinfonietta, and the performance will be held in Finney Chapel. Free admission. Program: Ottorino Respighi: Lauda per la Nativita del Signore (Laud to the Nativity) Arthur Honegger: King David.
Finney Chapel
90 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Oberlin Orchestra Concert
A performance by the Oberlin Orchestra with Raphael Jiménez, conductor on Tuesday, December 6 at 8:00pm in Finney Chapel. Free admission Program Liadov: Russian Kikimora, Op.63 Concerto; Prokofiev: Russian Symphony No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.131
Finney Chapel
90 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Oberlin Today, Oberlin Tomorrow: Natural History & Our Future
Explore Oberlin’s natural history and resilience to current environmental impacts. Learn about Oberlin’s natural heritage and local natural features and environmental issues with poetry, photography, and student writing. Find out the possibilities of the Oberlin Dashboard, a community wide, real-time feedback project. Consider future scenarios that the Oberlin community will face due to climate change and fossil fuel consumption with entertaining short films. Check out the event preview: http://vimeo.com/31909589
The event will be held on Tuesday, December 7 in the Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies (Atrium). Gallery opens at 7:00pm, presentation and discussion at 8:00pm and free local food will be served. Presented by the Natural History of the Black River Watershed class with the Ecological Communication class.
Adam J Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
122 Elm Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Oberlin Theater and Dance Program presents Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone
Associate Professor Paul Moser directs this wild roller-coaster ride of comic sketches, dramatic scenes, anti-authoritarian diatribes and fantasy sequences which collectively portray the life, personality, and politics of Tommy Flowers. Performances will be held Thursday, December 8 through Saturday, December 10, with all performances starting at 8:00pm. Tickets: $8 Public,$6 Seniors/OC Staff & Faculty, $4 Students. All tickets $3 more at the door. Contact Central Ticket Service at 440.775.8169 or 800.371.0178 for more information
Hall Auditorium
67 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Oberlin Opera Theater presents Opera Scenes
A performance of various opera scenes by Conservatory students will take place on Saturday, December 10 in Kulas Recital Hall. Part I takes place at 4:00pm; Part II follows at 8:00pm. Free admission.
Oberlin Conservatory of Music – Kulas Recital Hall
77 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Oberlin Jazz Ensemble, Dennis Reynolds, director
A performance by the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble on Saturday, December 10 at 8:00pm. Free admission to Finney Chapel.
Finney Chapel
90 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Community Sing-Along of the Messiah
Featuring vocal soloists and string players from Oberlin Conservatory, the annual community sing-along will take place on Sunday, December 11 at 7:00pm in Warner Concert Hall. Free Admission. Donations will be accepted to benefit Lorain County Interfaith Hospitality Network
Oberlin Conservatory of Music – Warner Concert Hall
77 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Friday, November 25, 2011
An Evening with Professor T.S. McMillin
Join Professor of English T.S. McMillin at Visible Voice Books in
Tremont on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 7:00pm for a book reading and signing. Professor McMillin will be reading from his latest book, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow & Reflection in American Literature (American Land & Life Series, University of Iowa Press, 2011). In addition to The Meaning of Rivers, T. S. McMillin is the author of Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson & the Nature of Reading (University of Illinois Press, 2000). He has written numerous articles on the American Transcendentalists, including "Beauty Meets Beast: Emerson's English Traits," an essay in the collection Emerson for the Twenty-First Century: Global Perspectives on an American Icon (University of Delaware Press, 2010), and is currently working on a new book of river-related essays. Along with teaching courses in American literature and environmental studies, he has survived a stint as department chair, performed with the Josh Ritter Band (once), and officiated weddings (twice). He was named the Only Flower of Meditation in the Wilderness by a fortune cookie from a local restaurant. Visible Voices was voted "coolest bookstore to hang out in" by Scene Magazine in 2010, and has a great atmosphere with a wine bar. Some snacks will be provided, but drink costs are on your own. After the reading, mingle with T.S. McMillin as you continue to enjoy browsing books, wine and conversation with other Obies. Check Visible Voices out at http:// RSVP over at https:// Visible Voice Books 1023 Kenilworth Cleveland, OH 44113 |
An Evening with Debra Nagy ‘00/’02 and Les Délices
Join Les Délices and Debra Nagy '00/'02 as they bring alive the world of dance with Caractères de la danse at 8:00pm on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at Tregoning & Co. Gallery in Cleveland. Mingle with Debra and the other musicians at a post-concert reception.
This January concert features a lively program dedicated to music for dancing - from its social roots in the ballroom to the idiosyncratic, highly expressive music written for the first prima ballerinas on the theater stage. Les Délices welcomes back gamba player Josh Lee as a guest artist, one of the brightest stars in the younger generation of gamba players in this country. Musically and personally, he's at once disarming, affable, intensely expressive, and fun. Debra will also be joined by harpsichordist Michael Sponseller (BM '97, AD '99), and violinist Julie Andrijeski (who teaches annually at Oberlin's summer Baroque Performance Institute).
More information about Les Délices can be found at http://www.lesdelices.org.
Debra has been kind enough to offer Oberlin Friends and Family a 20% discount for tickets ordered in advance online (regular ticket prices are $20, senior $18). Enter the discount code Obie111 to take advantage of this discount. Tickets are general seating, with doors opening a half-hour before the concert begins.
Visit https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/192772 to purchase tickets.
Tickets can be purchased by cash or checks at the door (sorry no credit cards at this time). If you'd like the discount, be sure to buy in advance.
There are 4 steps up into the gallery at Tregoning & Co. Ample parking is available in lot just north of the gallery.
Tregoning & Co. Gallery
1300 West 78th Street
Cleveland,
RSVP with the Alumni Association for the reception by visiting http://alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp or calling 440.775.8692
Monday, November 14, 2011
Film Screening with the Ishmael Beah Foundation
From the Oberlin Chapter of the Ishmael Beah Foundation:
You are invited to attend a screening of the Academy Award-nominated film, Blood Diamond. Set in Sierra Leone during the 1992-2002 Civil War, the film explores the atrocities of armed conflict. A faculty panel discussion exploring the problem of child soldiers will follow the screening.
The Oberlin College Chapter of the Ishmael Beah Foundation (OCC-IBF) sponsors the education of former child soldiers to help them reintegrate into civil society and strives to increase awareness about child soldiers on campus and in the community.
Ishmael Beah (OC Class of '04) is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Born in Sierra Leone, Ishmael was recruited to fight in the Civil War at age 13 and fought for almost three years before he was removed from the army by UNICEF and placed in a rehabilitation home in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. He chartered the Ishmael Beah Foundation in 2007.
The screening will be held on Thursday, November 17th at 7pm in King 106, on the Oberlin Campus. In addition to an on-site freewill offering, the Ishmael Beah Foundation gratefully accepts contributions online athttp://www.beahfound.org/Beah_
The faculty panelists will include:
Nancy Boutilier (Rhetoric and Composition)
Benjamin Schiff, Ph.D. (International Politics)
Karen Sutton, Ph.D. (Psychology)
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Kuhr at ekuhr@oberlin.edu
King 106
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
You are invited to attend a screening of the Academy Award-nominated film, Blood Diamond. Set in Sierra Leone during the 1992-2002 Civil War, the film explores the atrocities of armed conflict. A faculty panel discussion exploring the problem of child soldiers will follow the screening.
The Oberlin College Chapter of the Ishmael Beah Foundation (OCC-IBF) sponsors the education of former child soldiers to help them reintegrate into civil society and strives to increase awareness about child soldiers on campus and in the community.
Ishmael Beah (OC Class of '04) is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Born in Sierra Leone, Ishmael was recruited to fight in the Civil War at age 13 and fought for almost three years before he was removed from the army by UNICEF and placed in a rehabilitation home in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. He chartered the Ishmael Beah Foundation in 2007.
The screening will be held on Thursday, November 17th at 7pm in King 106, on the Oberlin Campus. In addition to an on-site freewill offering, the Ishmael Beah Foundation gratefully accepts contributions online athttp://www.beahfound.org/Beah_
The faculty panelists will include:
Nancy Boutilier (Rhetoric and Composition)
Benjamin Schiff, Ph.D. (International Politics)
Karen Sutton, Ph.D. (Psychology)
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Kuhr at ekuhr@oberlin.edu
King 106
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Friday, November 11, 2011
November events
Two great events quickly coming up here for the month of November. It's not too late to join us at either one!
Annual Fall Potluck
The Oberlin Club of Cleveland invites you to join fellow Cleveland-area Oberlin Alumni, Friends and Family at the home of Vikki and Richard Broida ’79 for our annual fall potluck, held this year on Saturday, November 12 at 7 pm! As usual, spouses, partners, family and friends are all welcome. Street parking is available.
Please bring a beverage (alcoholic or non) to share, and based on the letter of your last name, please bring:
A-H: dessert
I-P: side dish/appetizer
Q-Z: main dish
Paper products and some non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions, please contact Kira McGirr '06 atkmcgirr@gmail.com.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 8, 2011 to the Alumni Office, by calling (440) 775-8692 or visiting https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp
Home of Vikki and Richard Broida '79
3034 Edgehill Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Teresa Wakim '02 Debut with The Cleveland Orchestra!
Join us as we celebrate the American solo debut of Teresa (Tess) Wakim '02, soprano, with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 8pm.
Having recently won first prize in the International Soloist Competition for Baroque Music in Brunnenthal, Austria, among other accolades, she will perform with The Cleveland Orchestra, lead by Ton Koopman, on an all-Bach concert.
Severance Hall
11001 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Concert includes:
BACH - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
BACH - Cantata No. 202 (Wedding Cantata)
BACH - Sinfonia, from BWV209
BACH - Sinfonia, from BWV42
BACH - Suite No. 3 in D major
Special Ticket Offer: Oberlin Alumni, Friends and Family receive 20% off of any ticket - use code 11050 to redeem this offer, either by visiting clevelandorchestra.com or when you call the Cleveland Orchestra Box Office at 216-231-1111 for tickets.
Post-Concert Meet-and-Greet: Join us after the concert at L'Albatros Brasserie + Bar (11041 Bellflower Road) to speak with and congratulate Tess. Ask for the Oberlin party. L'Albatros is within walking distance of Severance (0.5 miles), but parking is also available around L'Albatros.
Instead of initially meeting up Severance Hall, our first gathering will be at L'Albatros. You will be greeted by Wendy Haas '03, and receive name tags, and fun Oberlin swag there.
RSVP for the post-concert meet-and-greet at L’Albatros by visitinghttps://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp
Annual Fall Potluck
The Oberlin Club of Cleveland invites you to join fellow Cleveland-area Oberlin Alumni, Friends and Family at the home of Vikki and Richard Broida ’79 for our annual fall potluck, held this year on Saturday, November 12 at 7 pm! As usual, spouses, partners, family and friends are all welcome. Street parking is available.
Please bring a beverage (alcoholic or non) to share, and based on the letter of your last name, please bring:
A-H: dessert
I-P: side dish/appetizer
Q-Z: main dish
Paper products and some non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions, please contact Kira McGirr '06 atkmcgirr@gmail.com.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 8, 2011 to the Alumni Office, by calling (440) 775-8692 or visiting https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp
Home of Vikki and Richard Broida '79
3034 Edgehill Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Teresa Wakim '02 Debut with The Cleveland Orchestra!
Join us as we celebrate the American solo debut of Teresa (Tess) Wakim '02, soprano, with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 8pm.
Having recently won first prize in the International Soloist Competition for Baroque Music in Brunnenthal, Austria, among other accolades, she will perform with The Cleveland Orchestra, lead by Ton Koopman, on an all-Bach concert.
Severance Hall
11001 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Concert includes:
BACH - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
BACH - Cantata No. 202 (Wedding Cantata)
BACH - Sinfonia, from BWV209
BACH - Sinfonia, from BWV42
BACH - Suite No. 3 in D major
Special Ticket Offer: Oberlin Alumni, Friends and Family receive 20% off of any ticket - use code 11050 to redeem this offer, either by visiting clevelandorchestra.com or when you call the Cleveland Orchestra Box Office at 216-231-1111 for tickets.
Post-Concert Meet-and-Greet: Join us after the concert at L'Albatros Brasserie + Bar (11041 Bellflower Road) to speak with and congratulate Tess. Ask for the Oberlin party. L'Albatros is within walking distance of Severance (0.5 miles), but parking is also available around L'Albatros.
Instead of initially meeting up Severance Hall, our first gathering will be at L'Albatros. You will be greeted by Wendy Haas '03, and receive name tags, and fun Oberlin swag there.
RSVP for the post-concert meet-and-greet at L’Albatros by visitinghttps://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/geventcal/showListView.jsp
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Hardship to Hope: African American Art from the Karamu Workshop
In 1910, amid segregation, race riots and great social change, Russell Jelliffe and Rowena Woodham met at Oberlin College. She was president of the Oberlin Women’s Suffrage League; he had seen a black friend turned away from the YMCA as a boy. They bonded through a shared belief that race didn’t have to be a destructive, divisive force. After marriage in 1915, they were invited to Cleveland by the Men’s Club of the Second Presbyterian Church to organize a settlement house, and moved to Cleveland’s “Roaring Third” Ward. This potent team shared the belief that they could effect positive change by bringing together blacks and whites to work together on something of need to the community.
In this spirit, they founded the Playhouse Settlement, later renamed Karamu House, a multiracial gathering place where community members explored the performing and fine arts. In a 1989 interview, Rowena described their concept – “People, from the beginning of time, seem to have understood each other best when they shared their culture.”
A group of talented African-American artists, trained at Karamu during this time, gained recognition both in the city and across the nation for their vibrant and dramatic artworks that depicted the truths about life in Cleveland during the Great Depression. The Jelliffes themselves gathered a dynamic collection of prints, drawings and paintings, given to Cleveland State University after their deaths.
This important and powerful collection, a window to a turbulent and creative time in American history, will be displayed at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, in cooperation with Cleveland State University, mid-September through December 2011. Artists represented in the exhibition are Richard R. Beatty, Elmer W. Brown, Fred Carlo, Zell Ingram, Charles L. Sallée Jr., Hughie Lee-Smith, William E. Smith and Curtis E. Tann.
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
2929 Richmond Road
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
http://www.maltzmuseum.org/happenings/special-exhibitions/hardship-to-hope/
In this spirit, they founded the Playhouse Settlement, later renamed Karamu House, a multiracial gathering place where community members explored the performing and fine arts. In a 1989 interview, Rowena described their concept – “People, from the beginning of time, seem to have understood each other best when they shared their culture.”
A group of talented African-American artists, trained at Karamu during this time, gained recognition both in the city and across the nation for their vibrant and dramatic artworks that depicted the truths about life in Cleveland during the Great Depression. The Jelliffes themselves gathered a dynamic collection of prints, drawings and paintings, given to Cleveland State University after their deaths.
This important and powerful collection, a window to a turbulent and creative time in American history, will be displayed at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, in cooperation with Cleveland State University, mid-September through December 2011. Artists represented in the exhibition are Richard R. Beatty, Elmer W. Brown, Fred Carlo, Zell Ingram, Charles L. Sallée Jr., Hughie Lee-Smith, William E. Smith and Curtis E. Tann.
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
2929 Richmond Road
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
http://www.maltzmuseum.org/happenings/special-exhibitions/hardship-to-hope/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
