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Recital: Macalester Senior Carly Levin, clarinet
8pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
Walk to End Hunger at the Mall of America
7am, Mall of America, Bloomington, Minn.
Join Macalester alumni and students to raise awareness and funds in order to end hunger in the nine-county metro area of Minnesota by 2013. Meet at the Bloomingdale’s Court at 7 a.m. and we’ll head down to the Best Buy Rotunda together. Wear Macalester merchandise if you have it, or sport some blue and orange. The Walk to End Hunger is also seeking thousands of non-perishable food items for hunger relief organizations in the Twin Cities, so bring as many as you can carry!
Registration is $25 per individual, $15 with a valid student ID before Tuesday, Nov. 24, or $30 per individual, $20 with student ID after Nov. 24. Register here and then join our team by clicking "join an existing team" and selecting Macalester from the team list. If you can’t make the event, but you’d still like to help the team by supporting the cause you can make a contribution online here. Email Erin Howlett '04 for further information.
Twin Cities Young Alumni Happy Hour
5pm, Pop! Restaurant, 6 West Sixth Street, St. Paul
Join alumni from the classes of 1994 to 2009 for a happy hour at Pop! Restaurant in downtown St. Paul. Light appetizers provided. Cash bar.
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7pm, John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.
From the producers of “Who Killed the Electric Car” and “I.O.U.S.A.," this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water.
From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public’s right to water.
Director and producer Stephanie Soechtig and line producer Sarah Olson will lead a discussion after the film screening.
Seattle-Area Alumni Bowling Night
5:30pm, ACME Bowl, 100 Andover Park Way, Tukwila, WA
Come and bowl with Seattle-area alumni and friends at the ACME Bowl. All alumni living in the Pacific Northwest are invited. RSVP by Tuesday, Dec 1, to Firat Taydas '92.
M Clubbers Unite for Men's and Women's Swimming
10am, Riley Pool, Leonard Center athletic & wellness complex
Cheer on the Scots men's and women's swimming teams at the Great Scot Invitational.
7pm, Alibi in the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., Boston, Mass.
Join Boston-area alumni for a happy hour at Alibi, a jail site renovated as a bar and lounge. Your hosts are Claire Reynolds '05, Martins Blums '05, and Swapnil Prabha '05. Let Claire know your plans to attend by emailing her at creynolds@alumni.macalester.edu.
London Alumni View the "Turner and the Masters" Exhibit
2pm, Tate Britain, Millbank Street, London
Take a break from holiday preparations to join London area Macalester, Grinnell, St. Olaf, Oberlin, and Carleton alumni to view "Turner and the Masters" at The Tate Britain. The exhibit shows masterpieces by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian next to some of JMW Turner's most dramatic paintings. Email David Rowe if you plan to attend.
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The Ballets Russes Project: A Centennial Celebration
2pm, Boardroom, Weyerhaeuser Hall
This unique symposium will bring together artists, academics, critics and practitioners to celebrate the centennial of the Ballets Russes and its resonance today. The conversation will touch upon local currents in the arts that relate to the legacy of the troupe and its forward-thinking approach to interdisciplinarity. A special focus will treat the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev’s company as an opportunity to consider the role of the artist as Global Citizen. We will examine the extraordinary cultural encounters that the Ballets Russes triggered as they traversed the globe and learned to market themselves and their aesthetic as a truly international, collaborative experiment … one that provoked audiences to reimagine the ballet.
The keynote speaker for this symposium is Lynn Garafola, professor of dance at Barnard College, Columbia University. Guests include Sally Rousse, James Sewell Ballet; Maria Zavialova, The Museum of Russian Art; Stuart Pimsler, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater; Phillip Gainsley, frequent commentator for The Minnesota Orchestra; Camille LeFevre, arts critic for MinnPost; Colleen McQuillen, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages & Literatures, University of Illionois, Chicago; and Macalester arts and humanities faculty.
For more information, email the project curator Rachel Perlmeter or Professor Julia Chadaga.
Handel’s “Messiah” 30th Annual Community Sing-along
2:30pm, Ridgewood Baptist Church, 4420 County Road 101, Minnetonka
Join Macalester alumni and friends for holiday spirit at this annual sing along event sponsored by the Music Association of Minnetonka (MAM). Bring your friends and sing or just enjoy the lovely music. Meet other Mac-ites for a social and cider in Room 107; the singing begins at 3:30 p.m. A few scores are available to borrow at the event, but plan on coming early to do so. Bring your own score if you have one. Vocal part sections are marked with signs, but you may sit where you like. This event is free and open to the public, but donations to MAM are accepted. Email your RSVP to Andi Wulff.
Phoenix alumni see "Coyote Dreams: A Very Arizona Christmas"
12:30pm, The Encore Room, Arizona Broadway Theatre, 7701 W. Paradise Lane, Peoria, Ariz.
Macalester alumni from the Phoenix area are invited to join the region's Carleton alumni for dinner and a show this holiday season. Coyote Dreams: A Very Arizona Christmas is a musical-laugh riot when a Minnesota couple, Carl and Lena Johnson, tours Arizona at Christmas time to determine if Carl should take that big promotion his company has just offered. It's "Land of the Snow" versus "The Valley of the Sun." Playwright and Carleton alum Alexx Stuart will hold a talk-back session immediately following the play. Tables are reserved for Carleton, Macalester, and other Minnesota alumni. A one-price $45 ticket includes show, a three-course meal, tax and gratuities. To order tickets, call the Darknight Productions Box Office at 480-595-7346 and tell them you're with the Carleton Alumni group.
1pm, Gymnasium, Leonard Center athletic & wellness complex
Join M Club alumni to cheer on men's and women's basketball as they take on Hamline. Refreshments will be served between the games.
2pm, Field House, Leonard Center athletic & wellness complex
Join Macalester track & field and cross country alumni for the 2nd annual alumni track meet. Further details to be announced. Email Martin Peper, Mac's men's & women's track/field coach, at peper@macalester.edu.
M Clubbers Unite for Men's and Women's Tennis
12pm, Macalester Tennis Courts
Cheer on the Scots men's and women's tennis teams as they take on Bethel. Women's matches begin at noon and men's matches begin at 3 p.m.
An Evening of Jazz with Geri Allen
8pm, Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center & Gallery
The Macalester Concert Choir and the Mac Jazz Big Band collaborate in a joint concert with the internationally known and award-winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Geri Allen. Allen will conduct several master classes and rehearsals; culminating in a final performance with both the choir and jazz band. Standard jazz charts, music of Geri Allen, and an excerpt from Mary Lou Williams' Mary Lou's Mass will be performed.
Songs of Love, Hope, and Faith featuring Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms
8pm, Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center & Gallery
The Macalester Combined Choirs unite with the Festival Chorale (faculty, staff and community members) to sing Stravinsky's hauntingly impassioned Symphony of Psalms, featuring pianists Mark Mazullo, chair of the Music Department and professor, and piano proficiency coordinator Claudia Chen. In addition, the Macalester Concert Choir will perform selections by Brahms, Matthew Harris, a new composition by professor Carleton Macy, and Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat with soprano soloist Rabihah Davis. All faculty, staff and community members interested in singing in this performance should contact Eugene Rogers at 651-696-6804 or erogers2@macalester.edu.
