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Producer and activist Sarah Dupont will speak on campus during FLEFF Tuesday April 2nd 4pm in Williams 202.

The film will also screen at Cinempolis on Thursday April 4th at 7pm.

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Carmina Burana (Carl Orff, Germany, 1936)

Mobilities:  The Forces of People, Passions, Environments

Tuesday April 2, 2013 * 8:15 p.m. * Hockett Recital Hall

Free and Open to the Public

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Dan O'Shannon, an executive producer and writer of the hit show Modern Family, will serve as this year's Park Distinguished Visitor. His visit, previously set for October, has been rescheduled for April 2-4.

While at Ithaca College, O'Shannon will give a public presentation, host a writer's workshop, and speak in various classes.

Public Lecture:
Dan O'Shannon
Thursday, April 4
8 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
The event is free and open to the public

Assistant Professor Jack Powers will moderate this session and then open it up to audience questions.

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The Media Alliance for People & the Planet (MAPP) is proud to host IC alumna Kate Sheppard, environmental reporter for independent magazine Mother Jones (this year's Izzy Award recipient).

Kate will be giving a public lecture on media representations of environmental issues and how we can do a better job. An informal Q&A session will occur after the lecture. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in Park Auditorium.

On Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet’s character, Cam, is known for his vibrant wardrobe.

In conjunction with Dan O'Shannon's visit to campus, the Roy H. Park School of Communications was given one of Cam's button-down shirts to raffle for charity.

Tickets will be for sale on Sunday, March 24 before Prism's Lipsyncing For Life Drag Show in Emerson Suites. Tickets will also be for sale in Campus Center at various times throughout April 2-3 as well as prior to Dan O'Shannon's lecture on April 4.

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                                 8:45 am – Emerson A – Opening Ceremony

Come and hear Professor William Ressler, Department of Strategic Communication, present:

                “Looking Beyond the Streetlight: Discovering the Powers of Research”

                                   How to carry out research: receive unexpected inspiration,
                                  look at understudied perspectives, and find unanticipated joy

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The following is submitted on behalf of Provost Marisa Kelly:

Please join me on Thursday, April 4th for the fifth Faculty Colloquium of the academic year.  Saviana Stanescu Condeescu , Department of Theatre Arts, will be presenting “NEW YORK WITH AN ACCENT (Writing the Immigrant Experience).”  

Romanian-born award-winning playwright and poet Saviana Stanescu, author of the acclaimed plays "Aliens With Extraordinary Skills" (produced off-Broadway at Women's Project, New York; in regional US theatres; in Mexico, in the Spanish version: Inmigrantes con Habilidades Extraordinarias, in Turkey, Romania, etc), "Lenin's Shoe", "Ants", "For a Barbarian Woman", and "Waxing West" (winner of 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Script), will talk about writing/performing the immigrant experience.

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FLEFF kicks off today!

Looking for a viable strategy to navigate all the films, music, new media, arts, lectures, workshops, and labs of the 16th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival?

We've made a list of selected highlights. There's so much more, but this will get you started. For more extensive schedules for on campus and Cinemapolis, go to our website.

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The Center for Faculty Excellence seeks to establish an Assessment Learning Community. The ALC will be led by the faculty who participate. The intent of establishing the ALC is to improve how we incorporate evidence of learning into our courses. There is no assumption of prior knowledge or expertise in assessment, thus the ALC is open to all who are interested.

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Monday April 1st 7:00-8:30pm Textor 102

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Check out FLEFF events all across campus starting today.

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Each month the Campus Center and Event Services office spotlights seniors in our office who are making a difference.  These outstanding student leaders play a critical role in the functioning of our office--offering outstanding customer service, event knowledge, technical skills and just plain fun. This month we’d like to recognize CLAUDIA FANELLI and ALLI CLARK. Read more about our students in SENIOR SPOTLIGHT.

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 On Tuesday, April 2, 7pm, in Park Auditorium, FLEFF and the Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) are screening a powerful documentary, THE WAR AROUND US, centered on the only two English-language journalists who were able to report from inside Gaza during Israel’s 2008/9 invasion, which caused about 1400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths.  Jeff Cohen, the director of the Park Center for Independent media, will lead a Q&A discussion after this harrowing film.

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On April 7, Sunday Baroque—a weekly public radio program with more than 250,000 listeners—will broadcast selections from a recording by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, led by School of Music’s Jeffery Meyer, Director of Orchestras and Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. 

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School of Music Professor Kim Dunnick presented a trumpet masterclass at the South Carolina Trumpet Guild (SCTG) Festival in Columbia, SC on March 23.

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Patrick Valentino, second year masters student in orchestral conducting, has been invited to study and conduct at the 2013 Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR this summer. 

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Take advantage of the more than 350 concerts offered each year by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at www.ithaca.edu/music/events/ and this week's are listed below.

Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at www.ithaca.edu/music/live.

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The next Faculty Council sponsored Town Hall meeting will be on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:05 in Textor 102.  This meeting is intended to be an open forum for faculty from all of the schools to share thoughts and ideas of mutual concern and interest. No minutes will be taken, no reporters will be present. Staff members, and administrators holding faculty appointments are requested to refrain from attending.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Peter Rothbart at rothbart@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1497. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Gabriel Campos traveled to Alfred University in Alfred, NY and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX in March to play his "Art of the Single Line" concert program. 

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Click the link below to read what our bloggers are looking forward to most during the week ahead. Entries from interns--

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