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esteemed poet adrienne rich will read at wellesley Adrienne Rich, one of America’s most celebrated poets, will read from her work Monday, Sept. 22, at 4:30 pm in Jewett Auditorium. Since receiving the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951, at the age of 19, Adrienne Rich has written more than 15 volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck and Midnight Salvage. She also has written several books of nonfiction prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays & Conversations and What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. She is the recipient of the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and has been distinguished by the Academy of Poetry Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, 1996 Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry and the MacArthur Fellowship. In 2003, she was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Poet W.S. Merwin writes, “Rich’s poems, volume after volume, have been the makings of one of the authentic, unpredictable, urgent, essential voices of our time. All of her life she has been in love with the hope of telling the utter truth, and her command of language from the first has been startlingly powerful.” The reading is sponsored by the Writing Program, the English Department, Women’s Studies and the Wilson Committee. For more information call x3771. mona lisa smile trailer is online and in theatres The preview trailer for Mona Lisa Smile, a movie starring Julia Roberts as a fictional Wellesley College art history professor and set in 1953-54, has been released in theatres and online over the summer. Last fall and winter, the cast and crew spent a total of eight days filming scenes on the Wellesley campus. More than 200 students, faculty and employees were cast as “extras” and several dozen students worked as production assistants during the on-campus filming. The trailer includes shots of hooprolling, Houghton Memorial Chapel, crew on Lake Waban, Galen Stone Tower, Founders Hall, Tower Courtyard, Severance Green and the Claflin living room. In addition to Roberts, the movie features Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin and Wellesley’s own Laura Allen ’96 as students and friends who are influenced by and who, in turn, influence their professor. The movie is scheduled for release Dec. 19. The Sept. 8 issue of People magazine included a complimentary review of the film, saying “test audiences are giving Smile the highest scores of any Roberts movie ever.” The movie trailer is online at http://www.themoviebox.net/trailers/moviebox_trailers/mona_lisa_smile.htm and requires Windows MediaPlayer, RealPlayer or QuickTime to view. Phillip Harty, dining services, has announced new plans and programs. Menu changes include whole-wheat pizza dough, calzone and stromboli additions in Stone-Davis dining hall. Tower Court now offers a sauté to order station. “In Schneider, we have developed methods of providing more hot options from breakfast to dinner,” Harty said. “Look for things like waffles, fresh-baked macaroni and cheese and specialty wraps like Buffalo chicken.” Faculty and staff can eat in these three dining centers using the prepaid “point” system that uses employee One Cards to make purchases. Schneider also accepts cash. Points can be purchased in the office in Alumnae Hall and includes a discount on meals. For more information, call x3198. you’re invited: celebrate bidart’s book on robert lowell On Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4:45 pm in Founders 106, the English Department will host a celebration for one of its own. Frank Bidart, a professor of English and a distinguished poet in his own right, has edited, along with David Gewanter, Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003). Bidart , who is the author of Golden State (1973), The Book of the Body (1977), In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90 (1990) and Desire (1997), also has written an introduction to the Lowell book. In August, the Boston Sunday Globe’s Robin Dougherty interviewed Bidart for a Between the Lines column titled “Weighing the Legacy of Robert Lowell.” “(Lowell) did what poets have always done,” Bidart told the Globe. “He produced fiction but fiction in the service of telling an essential truth. …He did that in poems that give the illusions that they are simple—that people are experiencing the real Robert Lowell. That is the way a work of art works.” Bidart, whose book Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, was a student and friend of Lowell. “I was a graduate student (at Harvard) and Lowell loved to show his work and talk about it, and I loved to look at it,” Bidart said. “I was a kind of sounding board. …He once said, quoting Auden, ‘The best reader is someone who is crazy about your work but doesn’t like all of it.’ That describes me.” For more information, contact the English Department at x2591. student explores modern feminism When a Harvard women’s studies major entered the Miss America pageant, that seemingly odd juxtaposition inspired Wellesley’s Elizabeth Nesoff ’05 to write an opinion piece for The Christian Science Monitor – leading to requests for her insights by Boston radio stations WRKO and WBUR. “Female empowerment is exemplified by legions of well-coifed heroines who save the day without breaking a nail,” she wrote of current cultural images. “ There’s the perky Elle Woods of Legally Blonde who takes on the court and Congress while donning pink Prada, the Charlie’s Angels troika who mix technical savvy and kick boxing with low-cut necklines and the buxom Lara Croft of Tomb Raider who sports skin-tight cat suits while saving the world.” Nesoff, a summer intern at the Monitor, had other articles published on music education funding, teen drinking and tourism to Israel. But “In Search of Feminists” drew the most attention. “My piece seems to have inspired a large reaction from both conservatives and liberals, much to my delight and chagrin,” she said. “I knew that by writing a controversial piece, I was inviting criticism. But I did not expect the type of reaction I received, nor did I expect to be invited as a guest for WRKO or WBUR. The whole experience has been very encouraging, and I can only hope that my future articles will cause such a stir as this one.” The WBUR broadcast can be heard at www.onpointradio.org/shows/2003/09/20030902_b_main.asp.
george hagg, power plant, talked about power blackouts in a Wellesley Townsman story, “Wellesley’s Point of Light: One Local Campus Will Never Have To Worry about Blackouts.” Since the College generates its own power, if a blackout hit the local New England Power Pool Grid, the campus could shift to an “island operation” using generating engines with a capability of 7.5 megawatts of power. Hagg said the system began as a cost-saving measure in 1994. Now, he said, “You’ve always got that level of comfort to say that even in a situation that causes the power to go down, we could still separate out and get back up.” rosanna hertz, women’s studies, commented in a Los Angeles Times Magazine story, “Ms. Understood: Can the Magazine that Helped Galvanize the Women’s Movement Attract Readers Who See It as a Relic?” The story explored the reinvention of Ms. Magazine, with a new editor, publisher and location, while its sales are slumping. Hertz noted that to younger generations, “feminism belongs to their mothers. To them, it’s history. It’s not part of their lives.” Editor in chief Elaine Lafferty hopes new readers will discover the magazine and make it their own. biz
stone, alumnae office, will publish a
book next spring, which is tentatively titled Who Let The Blogs
Out? It’s “an insider’s view of the people behind the blogging
phenomenon,” he says. His book, Blogging: Genius Strategies for
Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002) is listed at Inc.
Magazine’s How-To section at www.inc.com/articles/2003/07/blogres.html.
Stone also spoke on the “Managing a Business Blog” panel at the ClickZ
Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo. meeting. Senate, College Government. Learn how to participate and make a difference. Meet new Cabinet members; contact senators. 6-8 pm, Green Hall, 4th Floor. Info: jlee6@wellesley.edu. english tutoring. ESL writing; study skills with Esther Iwanaga. 6-9 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. meditation. Intro to Zen meditation, practice, discussion, tea. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. tuesday september 16 information session. “Study Abroad.” 1 pm, Slater. Sponsor: International Study. Info: x3532. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Community. Info: x2655. afternoon tea. 3:30-5:30 pm,
College Club. Cost, reservations: x2700. soccer vs. Framingham State. 4:30 pm. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. cws workshop. “Job Search Correspondence.” 4:30 pm, location TBA. Preregister. Info: x2352. cws workhop. “Planning for Law School.” 4:30 pm, Science Center 377. Info: x2352. book celebration. In honor of
publication of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems, edited by Frank
Bidart, English, and David Gewanter. 4:45 pm, Founders 106. (See story,
page 2.) Sponsor: English. Info: x2591. thursday
september 18 cws workshop. “Using the Alumnae Career Advisory Network (ACAN).” 12:30 pm, GRH 330. Preregister. Info: x2352. japanese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance
Conference Room. Info: x4442. cws workshop. “Applying to Graduate School in the Arts & Sciences.” 4:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Info: x2352. english tutoring. ESL writing; study skills
with Esther Iwanaga. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info:
x2480. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9
pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Community. Info:
x2655. cws workshop. “Resume Writing.” 12:30 pm, Founders 102. Preregister. Info: x2352. saturday
september 20 tennis vs. Wheaton. 1 pm.
Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. field hockey. Seven Sisters Tournament. 9 am. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. protestant worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Sponsor: Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: x2655. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Sponsor: Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: x2688. concert. Anonymous Four. “The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard of Bingen.” 7-9 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Music. (See story, page 4.) Info: x2028. theatre. Unaccustomed To My Name,
by Marta Rainer ’98. Award-winning show about life after Wellesley. 7
pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Sponsor: Theatre Studies.
Info: x2029. monday september 22 cws workshop. “Self-Assessment.” 4:30-6:30 pm, location TBA. Preregister. Info: 2352. english tutoring. (See 9/15 listing.) meditation. (See 9/15 listing.) exhibit. Underground Studios VI. Through Sept. 30, Jewett Art Gallery. Features Wellesley College artist Nancy Edwards, Jeanne Hablanian, Sandra Lauria, Andrew Mowbray, Pamela Rogers, David Sommers, Jim Turbert, Richard Vabulas and Michael Westfort. Info: x2944. exhibit. Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection. Through Dec. 31, DMCC. Post-1945 collections in Towne, Contemporary galleries. Info: x2051. exhibit. Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, DMCC, Sept. 18-Feb. 15. New works of art from the last four decades. Info: x2051. exhibit. Dancing Cranes, DMCC, Sept. 18-Feb. 15. A digital animation and sound project by localStyle, a group of visual and audio artists. Info: x2051. exhibit. Botanical art paintings, through Sept. 21. Student work from summer art class. Greenhouses Visitor Center. Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3504.
don't miss... anonymous 4 quartet to sing medieval music sept 21 The internationally renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4 begins its final season as a full-time touring and recording ensemble with a concert at Wellesley College Sunday, Sept. 21, at 7 pm in Houghton Memorial Chapel. The ensemble—Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner and Johanna Maria Rose—has won a worldwide following during their 17 extraordinary years, in which they have produced 14 recordings (virtually all topping the Billboard Classical Charts) and nearly 1,000 concerts on four continents. The all-women ensemble will present “The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard of Bingen,” featuring the works of one of the few women composers from the medieval period who is not anonymous. The program will explore the transforming power of the “Fiery Spirit” and its mystical gifts of Wisdom and Love, and include some of Hildegard’s visions, set to medieval plainchant melodic patterns from France, Bohemia, Poland and England—representing the extent of her travels and correspondence and her fame as a mystic and spiritual leader. Composer, visionary, mystic, poet, naturalist, healer and theologian, Hildegard was a 12th-century German abbess who wrote and composed extensively. The quartet’s radio and television appearances include NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Performance Today” and “Weekend Edition”; WETA’s “Millennium of Music”; Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion”; and A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts.” The ensemble has performed in major cities throughout North America, including New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Chicago and Toronto. Also regulars at major international festivals, the ensemble has performed at Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, BBC Proms, Lucerne International Festival, Brisbane Biennial and Flanders Festival. For more information, call x2028. Click Here to View Previous Issues Return to the Office of Public Information's Homepage WellesleyWeek is published each Monday by the Office for Public Information during the academic year. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Phone numbers are dialed 781-283-xxxx. Campus-sponsored event listings are welcome via online form or e-mail to calendar@wellesley.edu. Printed submissions can be sent to Calendar, Public Information, 354 Green Hall, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481. Deadline for calendar submissions is the Monday prior to publication. For paid subscription information, call 781-283-2373. Created by: Moira
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