This weekend two award-winning films--the Oscar-nominated documentary FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS and HABIBI, an internationally-lauded feature film--will be screened at Cinemapolis to conclude the week-long Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF). 

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At 6 pm. on Tuesday April 9, Writing Department professors Heather Bartlett and Katie Marks will read stories and poems in the Handwerker Gallery. The title of their reading is "What we Wait for," and an open themed reading by students will follow. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

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 The Ink Shop Printmaking is hosting a show of Ithaca College Prints, April 5 - 30, 2013.  Opening reception, Friday, April 5, 5 - 8 pm.

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Should our teachers be armed? “Mother of Exiles/Madre de Migrantes” explores issues of immigration, violence and civil rights...

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The Omen is a collection of symbols, interpretations, dreams, and premonitions. The collection of prints, drawings, sculptures, paintings, and themes being presented are all interconnected, and work symbiotically as a key. The gallery show represents a transformation over a span of three years, and animates the past, present, and imminent future of my experiences here in Ithaca, NY. The Omen are pathways and snapshots to my realizations and fears, all within the context of each medium, forever chained to the existence of our never-ending story.

Moving Box Studios are located at 330 East State Street, Ithaca.

 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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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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DOMINICA DIPIO is an associate professor of literature and film from Makerere University and the coordinator of the Folklore Project from the South. She is currently based at Kennesaw State University in Georgia where she is a Fulbright fellow writing on theoretical issues on African folktales. Her research areas include the African novel and film, folktale, gender and the media. She has published widely in these fields and has an upcoming book to be published by Unisa Press titled, Gender Terrains in African Cinema. Dipio is also a filmmaker. The titles of some of the films she has directed are: Abused Innocence: The Plight of the African Child,  Crafting the Bamasaba, A Meal to Forget, and The Green Dream.

For further information, contact Stewart Auyash at auyash@ithaca.edu.

 The second annual Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) opens Monday, April 1, 7pm, in Textor 103 with two films addressing economic immobility in Gaza, Doors to the Sea and Gaza: Tunnels to Nowhere.  Cornell graduate student Max Ajl will also provide a tribute to Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian activist with the International Solidarity Movement, who was killed in Gaza on April 15, 2011.  Vittorio’s accompaniment of Gazan fishermen is documented in Doors to the Sea.

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 The second annual Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) opens Monday, April 1, 7pm, in Textor 103 with two films addressing economic immobility, Doors to the Sea and Gaza: Tunnels to Nowhere.  Cornell graduate student Max Ajl will also provide a tribute to Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian activist with the International Solidarity Movement, who was killed in Gaza on April 15, 2011.  Vittorio’s accompaniment of Gazan fishermen is documented in the Doors to the Sea.

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In conjunction with his visit as a Distinguished Visiting Writer, Wayne Koestenbaum will be showing some of his recent paintings in the Handwerker Annex (aka The Center For Faculty Excellence, Library, 2nd Floor) at Ithaca College from March 22-April 9. 

Please join us for a short reception this Thursday, March 28th, from 2.00-3.00 p.m. previous to his reading in the Klingenstein Lounge at 7.30 p.m..

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First Person, Twice Removed:
Artist talks with Claire Lesemann, Jessica Warner, & Melissa Zarem

Thursday, March 28, 6.00 p.m.
Handwerker Gallery
Gannett Center, Ithaca College

Come get a behind-the-scenes look at the studio practices and processes of local artists Claire Lesemann, Jessica Warner, & Melissa Zarem, whose work is currently on view at the Handwerker Gallery through April 12.  The artists will give short informative presentations followed by a Q&A and an opportunity to walk around the gallery.  This event is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments served.

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Every year, Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Multicultural Voices." This celebratory event honors our outstanding seniors and gives all IC students an opportunity to express their passion for languages and cultures through various performances: songs, poetry readings, one-act plays, and/or other creative activities. Performances in English will be considered, provided that they are connected with a language offered by the DMLL.

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Next in the line-up of Ithaca College Theatre’s 2012–2013 season is “Spring Awakening”. With music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater, the musical is based on the play by Frank Wedekind. Staged in the Clark Theatre, performances of “Spring Awakening” will be held at 8 p.m. on March 26, 28, 29, 30, and continue April 2-6. Matinee performances will be held at 2 p.m. on March 30 and 31 and April 6. A talkback with dramaturg will follow the 2 p.m. performance on April 6. Audiences are advised that the production contains mature language, sexual content, violence and partial nudity.

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WAYNE KOESTENBAUM has published fifteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Humiliation, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, and The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.  He has also written an opera libretto (for Michael Daugherty's Jackie O).  Educated at Harvard and Princeton, Koestenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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The Distinguished Visiting Writer Series and the new HANDWERKER ANNEX in The Center for Faculty Excellence are pleased to announce an exhibition and reception for writer and painter Wayne Koestenbaum. Koestenbaum will give a public reading at 7:30pm on 3/28 in Klingenstein Lounge.

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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 second annual Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF), April 1-7, focuses on “(Im)mobility in Palestine” this year.  The films, which will be shown at Ithaca College and Cinemapolis, examine how the continuing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza are creating unsustainable economic, social and physical environments.   The documentaries explore courageous efforts and innovative strategies to break the siege and protect Palestinian communities.   

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Show your support for alumna Elizabeth Altbacker ('94), a music educator on Long Island raising funds to rebuild her classroom after the devastating storm this past fall. A benefit concert, coordinated by School of Music senior Jamie Ocheske and the music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon, will take place Friday.

Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert
Friday, March 22
6:00 p.m.
Hockett Family Recital Hall

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Associate Professor Cathy Lee Crane will screen her latest film, “Pasolini’s Last Words,” at Cornell Cinema on March 27 at 7:15 p.m. A discussion will follow. Admission fee applies.

The film was shot on location in Rome and Bologna, Italy and in New York with actors Bochay Drum, Amanda Setton (IC Alum), and Lee DeLong. Beth Custer (My Grandmother) composed the film’s original score.

The film enjoyed its International Film Festival premiere in October at Le Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Quebec in the Panorama International section as one of thirty “gems of world cinema”. It then screened at MIX/NYC the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival and in London at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at the British Film Institute.