HONORS COLLEGE EVENTS CALENDAR
April 1- May 5
Friday, April 1: Film Screening: In Between Days
- 7:30 PM - 8:53 PM
- Page Hall Downtown Campus
- Description: Directed by So Yong Kim (USA/Canada/South Korea, 2006, 83 minutes, color, in
Korean and English) A Korean immigrant girl confronts the challenges of making a new life in a
cold, bleak, unnamed North American city. Director So Yong Kim received the Special Jury
Prize at Sundance for the film, her first feature.
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Saturday, April 2: 24 Hour Theatre Project
-7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Main Theatre)
-Cost: ADVANCE TICKETS: $15 general public / $10 students, seniors & UAlbany faculty-staff;
Day of show: $20 general public / $15 students, seniors & UAlbany faculty-staff
- Description: One night to write…one day to play. The clock starts ticking when the playwrights'
fingers hit their keyboards and ends with a final bow from 50+ artists who have convened for
just 24 hours to create and present five new works. Combining the spontaneous creativity of
improvisational theatre with the professionalism and production value of scripted theatre,
this event boasts the best in theatre talent from the Capital Region and the Berkshires.
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Wednesday, April 6: Campus Conversations
- 12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
- Science Library (Standish Room)
- Description: Dr. Rick Fogarty, History Department will present "What Can 1916 Tell Us About
2016? Europe, Islam, and the Middle East."
* I will be attending this event so all you have to do is sign in with me to get credit.
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Thursday, April 7: Trashion Fashion Show
- 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
- Campus Center Ballroom
- Description: Save the date for UAlbany’s Third Annual Trashion Fashion Show! The show is a
creative and fun event for students to showcase their artistic side, while raising and practicing
environmental awareness. Students, faculty, and staff are challenged to create an outfit made
up of recycled or reusable materials. The submission categorizes are: Student Group, Greek
Life, Individual, LLC, and Campus Office.
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Friday, April 8: Film Screening & Discussion: Evolution of a Criminal
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Page Hall Downtown Campus
- Description: Directed by Darius Clark Monroe (United States, 2014, 81 minutes, color). Ten
years after robbing a bank, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe takes a personal look at how his
actions affected the lives of family, friends, and victims. The film received numerous awards
including the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award. Darius Clark Monroe was named one of
Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and “10 Filmmakers to Watch” by
The Independent.
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Sunday, April 10: ZviDance
-7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Lab Theatre)
- WE HAVE 10 FREE TICKETS-- PLEASE PICK THEM UP IN LC31 (This is the last free PAC event.)
- Description: Boldly addressing the depths of the human experience, each of Zvi Gotheiner’s
works defines a unique set of relationships and experiences. Currently celebrating his
company’s 25th anniversary season, he refuses to be bound to specific thematic or aesthetic
dogma and continues to create stirring work with a distinct dance vocabulary.
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Monday, April 11: University Jazz Ensemble
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- $6 general public / $3 students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff
- Description: The mid-size ensemble presents a concert of popular jazz standards.
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Friday, April 15, 2016: Disasters, Ethics, and Social Justice Conference
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
- Campus Center Ballroom
- Description: Sheri Fink, New York Times correspondent, is the author of the bestselling book
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (2013), about choices
made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The book won the National Book Critics Circle
Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2015, Fink and her colleagues received the
Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for coverage of the West Africa Ebola Crisis.
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Friday, April 15, 2016: Film Screening: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 7:30 PM - 9:41 PM
- Page Hall Downtown Campus
- Description: Directed by Mike Nichols (United States, 1966, 131 minutes, b/w) Starring
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and George Segal. This adaptation of playwright Edward
Albee’s hilarious and harrowing masterpiece received thirteen Oscar nominations, and
earned “Best Actress in a Leading Role” for Elizabeth Taylor. Shown in association with the
April 18 Burian Lecture with theatre director Pam MacKinnon, who received the 2013 Tony
Award for Best Direction for her revival of the play.
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Friday, April 15, 2016: "Hearing World Around Me" Presentation by Nationally Known Deaf
Comedienne 'Trix Bruce'
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
- Campus Center Ballroom
- Description: Trix Bruce’s stories are those of culture clash and connection, contact and
confusion, and the many ways which language and identity can twist our perceptions of each
other. You will enjoy her energetic style, witty delivery, poetic grace, and open-hearted
honesty while you gain a realistic perspective of life as a deaf person among the hearing. This
is a captivating evening of theater, humor, experience, and wisdom for all audiences.
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Monday, April 18: 20th Annual Burian Lecture (Seminar)
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- Description: Pam MacKinnon, theatre director, received the 2013 Tony Award for Best
Direction for the 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Charles Isherwood of the New York Times praised it for “superlative staging” and “the
exhilaration of a fresh encounter with a great work of theater revitalized anew.” Cosponsored
by the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endowment and UAlbany’s Theatre Department.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016: An Evening of Poetry with Dr. Leonard Slade
- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
- University Library
- Description: Professor of Africana Studies and distinguished poet Leonard Slade will read a
selection of his poetry as part of the University Libraries celebration of National Poetry
Month. The event will feature readings of Dr. Slade’s original poems. In 2013, he received the
Editor’s Choice Award for six of his poems which were published in the Today’s Best Poets
Anthology.
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Wednesday, April 20: The Choral Hour
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Main Theatre)
- $6 general public / $3 students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff
- Description: The University-Community Chorale and University Chamber Singers perform.
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Thursday, April 21: Seminar: Laura van den Berg
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
- Science Library - Standish Room
- Description: Laura van den Berg is the author of two story collections, What the World Will
Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (2009), a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New
Writers” selection, and The Isle of Youth (2013), which was named a “Best Book of 2013” by
more than a dozen venues. Her debut novel is Find Me (2015), set in a post-apocalyptic
America beset by a plague that erases memory. Cosponsored by Friends of the New York
State Library.
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Wednesday, April 27: Margaret Chalker & Victoria von Arx
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- $8 general public / $4 students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff
- Description: In this Bel Canto performance, the soprano and pianist present Aaron Copland’s
masterpiece, Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, and vocal works by other American masters.
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Friday, April 29, 2016: UAlbany Undergraduate Research Conference
- 3:00 - 8:00 PM
- Lecture Center Area (on library side of podium)
- Beverages and snacks provided
- Description: UAlbany students from across the campus will be presenting their research. The
poster and presentation schedule will be available closer to the conference date.
Please attend and support your peers!
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Thursday, May 5, 2016 - Reading Day:
Tips for Surviving Finals & Ice Cream Sundae Study Break
- 3:00 PM in Steinmetz Hall Lounge, State Quad
* A doodle poll will be taken the week before to take ice cream flavor requests.