Focus on Prisons Week at Vassar. March 31-April 5. Prison Art exhibit in the Aula, viewing hours in the afternoons and evenings. On Saturday, April 5, from 1pm-5pm, the public is invited to join the Green Haven/Vassar Reunion in workshops on developing a "College in Prison Program at Vassar" and "Women in Prison." The Green Haven/Vassar Reunion is an annual event that brings together formerly incarcerated men from Green Haven and Otisville prisons, formerly incarcerated women, Vassar alums who worked with them, community activists on prison issues, and current students, faculty, and administrators in a day long focus on prison issues.
Ely Hall, Aula
Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of songs, operas, and musicals. Featuring students of the Music Department.
Skinner Hall of Music, Martel Recital Hall
"Architecture, Media, and Policy Issues in the World Trade Center Redevelopment: A Faculty Panel." Three scholars discuss the architectural, media, and policy issues surrounding the World Trade Center redevelopment after 9/11. Featuring Hilary Ballon, architectural historian at NYU, Lisa Brawley, Vassar College Urban Studies Program, and Brian Godfrey, Vassar College Geography Department. Second of three events on the World Trade Center Redevelopment sponsored by the Urban Studies Program.
Rockefeller Hall, 200
The 7th Annual Steven Hirsch '71 and Susan Hirsch Disability Awareness Lecture. Robert Brooks, "The Power of Mindsets: Nurturing Resiliency in Children and Young Adults with Learning Disabilities at Home and in School." During this lecture, Dr. Robert Brooks introduces parents, students, and educators to the importance of changing negative scripts so often used with children and young students who struggle with learning disabilities. He insists that when parents and teachers follow a strength-based approach and find a child's "island of competence," the result is life transforming. Dr. Brooks is one of today's leading speakers on the themes of resilience, self-esteem, motivation, and family relationships. Book signing to follow lecture.
Students' Building, Second Floor
Karla Brundage '89, an active participant in the Green Haven prison program, will give a poetry reading from her first published poetry collection, "Swallowing Watermelons." She tracks her life experiences as a bi-racial young woman, a single mother, and an artist activist who has lived in Hawaii, New York City, and Zimbabwe where she traveled on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange, and Oakland, California where she now resides. As an English major at Vassar, she studied post-colonial African literature with South African exile Dr. Moses Nkondo. She also excelled on Vassar's cross country team. She received her MA in Education from San Francisco State University. Her efforts to effect social change through art include participation in poetic protests, and teaching poetry to youths in the penal system as well as women and men in maximum-security prisons in the San Francisco Bay area. ALANA Center.
ALANA Center, 23
College Center, 237
Suzanne Sxy Sadist returns to campus to teach a workshop devoted to bondage. This will be a hands on event, but also clothes on. All are welcome reardless of gender, sexuality and experience. Sponsored by CHOICE.
Main Building, Faculty Parlor
A night of chilling one acts by Doug Wright, presented by Philaletheis.
Susan Stein Shiva Theater
A delightful and delicious romp through some musical theater classics.
College Center, 223
Come see a wonderful movie musical version of "Sweeny Todd" with the FWA.
Rockefeller Hall, 200
College Center, Matthew's Pub