Wednesday, March 7, 2018

4:30-5:30 pm

University Center Ballroom (3rd floor)

Book signing and reception to follow talk

Organized by the School of Public Policy

In LESS than TWO weeks, Koli Tengella and Brian Francoise will be leading a Participatory Theatre workshop at Everyman Theatre (FREE. Should be dope -- :0) Commitment to both sessions is required). Please take advantage of this unique workshop opportunity and/or pass along to a friend or professional who could benefit from skill building, finding a story, and maybe even a little healing. Designed for non-actors ...

Using theatre and social change techniques, participants will develop a “story” about your personal relationship to issues such as drug use, treatment, recovery and harm reduction. Sure to be fun and galvanizing, the workshop will empower participants with newfound community building and civic arts skills to be add to their toolkit for use in your work and life which can include behavioral health organizational work. The two part workshop is specifically designed for non-actors; people with little or no theater experience are encouraged to take advantage of this workshop. Must participate in both days!! Co-led by Koli Tengella and Brian Francoise. 

Everyman Theatre -- 315 West Fayette St. 

Sundays, Feb. 11, 18, 1:30 -- 5:00 pm, (Rehearsal Hall) 

HERE is the direct Google Form to REGISTER

HERE is the FB Event link for social media spreading

In January of most years, the President delivers a State of the Union Address highlighting the past year and suggesting priorities for the coming year. It’s a broadcast from one to many. But democracy is a conversation, not a monologue. Understanding the state of our union takes We the People reflecting in our own communities on our challenges and opportunities locally, nationally, and globally.

Since 2015, the USDAC has hosted the People’s State of the Union as an invitation to supplement the President’s stories by coming together in our own homes, schools, houses of worship, and community organizations to share our own take on the state of our union. Thousands of people in more than 350 communities have taken part over the last three years.

The People’s State of the Union has two main parts: Story Circles across the nation, and a collaboratively composed Poetic Address to the Nation. The USDAC offers toolkits and online trainings to support anyone hosting a Story Circle, bringing people together to share stories from their own experience. Stories are uploaded to an online story portal where they can be shared and browsed. Then—inspired by these stories—an invited group of writers collaboratively composes the Poetic Address to the Nation, performed and broadcast live. https://usdac.us/psotu/

Study Chinese or Japanese: http://www.allex.org/summer-chinese-or-japanese/

The WUSTL-ALLEX Intensive Chinese and Japanese Institute will offer intensive beginning level classes in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese at Washington University in St. Louis for seven weeks this summer. Each class meets for 2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 7 weeks. The course is intensive and requires 3-5 hours of mandatory self-managed study per day.

This program is designed to train students to speak and listen to Chinese or Japanese, and to introduce students to reading and writing the language. At the end of the course students will be expected to perform in all four skills—speaking, listening, reading and writing—at a basic level of proficiency.

Students will not only learn to speak the language; they will also develop an understanding of Chinese or Japanese interpersonal behavior. The ultimate goal is to teach students not just to speak Chinese or Japanese, but to function successfully in Chinese or Japanese culture—to present yourself as an intelligent person in the culture using the language.

Students will learn to speak and perform correctly in a variety of social situations.

SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit: http://www.allex.org/summer-chinese-or-japanese/

Or call 607.218.2130.

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Dear Students and Faculty Affiliates,

Welcome back to campus for the Spring 2018 semester!

The Asian Studies Program would like to invite you to a Chinese New Year Celebration lunch on Wednesday, February 14 at noon in Fine Arts 558 South (please use elevator closest to the Engineering Building).  This will be not only a celebration of the Chinese New Year, but also a chance to catch up with faculty and your friends after winter break.

Please let us know in advance if you have food allergies.

No need to RSVP, just show up.  This event is open to all Asian Studies majors/minors/certificate students as well as those who are interested in the program.

Warm regards,

Dr. Julie Oakes

The onset of the Russian Revolution changed Russian musical style from one that privileged the values and ideals of the aristocrats to one that celebrated the ideals of the Revolution and the working classes.

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This blog post was created as a project for Dr. Lindsay Johnson's  course MUSC 322: Music History II (1700-1915).

Audiences are more appreciative of musical prodigies based on their young ages, rather than on their musical complexity and nuance. Gallagher explains the history of the modern idea of the prodigy and concludes that we are over-emphasizing young talent instead of giving prodigies room to come into their own. 

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This blog post was created as a project for Dr. Lindsay Johnson's  course MUSC 322: Music History II (1700-1915).

Examining Debussy and the notion of impressionism, Sharo concludes that reducing an entire composer's output to a single stylistic term does a disservice to not only that composer, but to audiences, "minor" pieces that are ignored or forgotten, and "minor" composers who are not easily categorized. 

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This blog post was created as a project for Dr. Lindsay Johnson's course MUSC 322: Music History II (1700-1915).

Congrats to them all on the premiere and performance!