TODAY: Jazz Guitarist Mike Stern

Dear Students:

We are pleased to welcome a special guest to the School of Music this morning. Guitarist Mike Stern is a six-time Grammy nominated guitarist who has worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Jaco Pastorius, Bill Frisell, John Scofield and many others. In town for a two-night run at Jazz Alley (Dec. 6 and 7), he leads a clinic/workshop with Jazz Studies students at 11:30 in Room 35. It is free and open to the public. We hope you can join us!

More details here: http://music.washington.edu/upcoming/detail/41836.

TODAY – Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas

Please join the School of Music today at 1:30 p.m. in Brechemin Auditorium for a special presentation/performance by dancers and instrumentalists from Madrid’s renowned Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas. This is the group’s second visit to our school. Their appearance last year was lively, colorful and a whole lot of fun. Come learn more about the flamenco musical tradition from these wonderful artists. The event is free and open to the public, so feel free to spread the word!

Details here: http://music.washington.edu/upcoming/detail/41643.

Winter 2012 Community Literacy Program

ARE YOU A UW STUDENT INTERESTED IN:

* helping public school students succeed?

* getting real world experience to help you choose a major or a career path?

* completing classroom hours for the Education, Learning and Society Minor

or for application to a Masters in Teaching program?

* improving your research, writing, and collaborative learning and

presentation skills?

* Are you looking for an opportunity (in the words of Paul Farmer) to “use

what you learn to transform yourself and your community”?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Community Literacy Program may be just what you’re looking for.

HOW THE COMMUNITY LITERACY PROGRAM WORKS: Community Literacy Program (CLP) is an 8 credit program linking English 298A and Education 401C. In English

298 you’ll meet on campus MW 10:30-12:20 in a writing-intensive seminar focused on learning effective methods of working with public school students in language arts, exploring some central challenges and opportunities for public education, and using writing to inquire into, develop and communicate your thinking about these issues. English 298A is taught by CLP Director Elizabeth Simmons-O’Neill in collaboration with College of Education Language Arts faculty member Karen Mikolasy. In EDUC 401C you’ll put what you learn on campus into action, volunteering (4-5 hours a week, on a schedule you arrange) at one of our partner public schools in Seattle or

Shoreline: Olympic Hills Elementary, Aki Kurose Middle School or Shorecrest High School.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To sign up for the Community Literacy Program, contact the Director, Dr. Elizabeth Simmons-O’Neill

(esoneill@u.washington.edu) for an Education 401C add code. Once you are registered in Education 401C, you will be able to register for the required linked course, English 298A. English 298 can be used toward either the UW’s 10-credit “W” requirement or the 5 credit “Composition” requirement.

QUESTIONS? Additional information is available at the program web site:

Please feel free to get in touch with the Director, Dr. Elizabeth Simmons-O’Neill, if you’ve got questions. esoneill@u.washington.edu

DXARTS Autumn Concert

The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents an evening of 3-D digital music by graduate students and faculty. The program features works by graduate students Daniel Peterson, Abby Aresty, Stelios Manousakis, and Nicolás Varchausky and the word premiere of “A Line (Part I, IDA),” by School of Music composition faculty and DXARTS Director Juan Pampin.

 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7:30 p.m.

Meany Theater

 

TICKETS

$15 ($10 students/seniors)

206.543.4880

www.music.washington.edu

 

PROGRAM DETAIL

A full 3-D sound presentation employing the DXARTS 12.6 audio system, the program features works by graduate students Daniel Peterson, Abby Aresty, Stelios Manousakis, and Nicolás Varchausky, as well as the world premiere of “A Line (Part I, IDA)” by School of Music composition faculty and DXARTS Director, Juan Pampin.

Writers on Writing

 

ENGL 285: Writers on Writing (VLPA) 5 credits

lecture: Tuesdays, 12:30-1:50

quiz section: Th 12:30-1:20 or W 9:30-10:50 or W 12:30-1:50 or W 2:30-3:50

Professor Richard Kenney

Again this year, the collective UW Creative Writing faculty, along with other visiting artists, will remember in public why they do what they do. On ten sequential Tuesdays they will speak in depth about what interests them most, including the ways and means of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and the joys and vagaries of inspiration, education, artistic practice, and the writing life. Thursdays will constellate a literary reading series. Discussion sections will be scheduled in between.

 

Serious curiosity is the only requirement for admission. Students will be expected to attend all talks, do the assigned reading, respond to problems and exercises posed by the lecturers, and participate vigorously in the ongoing conversation. By the end, they will have had a disciplined brush with literate passion, practiced imaginative methods at the point of the pencil, learned something about books from people who write them, and gained a practical sense of the artist’s way of knowing the world.

 

Conceived as a perpetual work-in-progress, according professors full freedom in designing their respective contributions, the course will find its coherence in the conversation we leap to make of it. Sample topics: What Is It? or, Ars Poetica; Forms of Poetry, Forms of Thought; Mythos-Minded Thinking: From Proverbs to Parables, Stories as Metaphors in Motion; Odd Autobiography; Reading the New; Literary Collage & Blurring Boundaries; The Writing Life; The Revision Process; Closing Words.

 

No required text. Readings will be posted online or handed out in class. Grading will be based equally on reading (by quiz and conversation), writing (solutions to assigned prompts), and participation (attendance and discussion).

 

Film Screening and Discussion: Innovations in Prison Education

Film Screening and Discussion:

Innovations in Prison Education

Friday, November 4, 2011

5:00 pm

Communications 120

*Free and open to the public

Zero Percent (Moxie Pictures, 2011)

Presented by Sean Pica, the Executive Director for Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison (www.hudsonlink.org),
this moving and powerful documentary focuses on Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a college program inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility.  Named Zero Percent for the programʼs recidivism rate, it follows students as they prepare to graduate and profiles several alumni working in their communities after their release from prison.  Zero Percent has won a number of awards in film festivals across the country for Best Documentary.

Keeping the Faith (Michaela Leslie-Rule, 2011)

Presented by Michaela Leslie-Rule, Senior Storyteller for See Change Evaluation. As Artist-in-Residence and Artistic Director of Keeping the Faith Project 2011 with the Pat Graney Dance Company, Leslie-Rule worked with three artists and twenty-eight women incarcerated at a Washington State correctional facility over 13 weeks to create and document an evening-length
performance piece. Leslie-Rule currently works to develop and implement research methodologies that incorporate storytelling and narrative tools into program evaluation.

In conjunction with the national conference on Prison Higher Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, organized by Transformative Educations Behind Bars, and sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

For more information. 

NFFTY 2012 Film Submissions are Open

Calling filmmakers 22 and under! NFFTY 2012 submissions are now open! Please forward this email to your film students!

SUBMIT FILMS

Submit films

Early entry fee is $20 through October 31st. Films completed in the current & past school year are eligible.

Final deadline is January 31st.

There is also a discount for multiple entries, so as a school submitting more than one film under the same account, the first entry fee is full price, with additional entries 50% off.

WHAT IS NFFTY?

NFFTY is the largest and most influential youth film festival in the world. In 2011, we screened 225 amazing films from the best filmmakers 22 and younger representing 40 states and 20 countries. NFFTY 2012 (April 26-29) will be even bigger, with over 10,000 expected in attendance. Here is a short video to get an idea of what NFFTY means to youth filmmakers.

NEW THIS YEAR – FILM EXPO

We have added an exciting new program to NFFTY 2012: The Future of Film Expo – April 27th & 28th. It will feature exhibits from film schools/universities, film/tech companies, brands/products and film organizations. We also will have speakers, workshops, and product demos. We encourage you and your students to come to this exciting event – it’s free to attend! If you are interested in learning more about how to organize a field trip, please contact me and I will be happy to help.

RESOURCES

Download a PDF of the Festival Poster to Share.

Official Rules

FAQs  About Submitting

If you would like a Call for Entries poster mailed to you directly, please reply with the proper mailing address. I will be reaching out further to make sure you have all the information you need. Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions about NFFTY and how your students can submit a film. I look forward to hearing from you and helping showcase your students’ work to the world!

NFFTY | National Film Festival for Talented Youth

sam@nffty.org | http://www.nffty.org/

206-905-8332

Our mailing address is:

NFFTY

1607 Dexter Ave N, Suite 1C

Seattle, WA 98109

Free for UW Students | Carnival at the Burke

 

 

 

 

After Hours @ the Burke: Carnival Celebration!
Thurs., Oct. 20, 7 -9 pm
FREE with UW ID
$5 general public

Grab a friend and come celebrate our newest exhibit in true Carnival spirit! Featuring live music, Carnival activities, and light refreshments. Festive attire encouraged.

• Grove to live music from the UW steel drum band
• Learn Carnival dances from the Caribbean
• Get creative and make a carnival mask
• Strike a pose in the photo booth
• Enjoy “King’s Cake”
• And more!

Study Abroad Fair

Anthropology: Through the Lens Exhibit

Depth of Field: Anthropology TTL

Depth of Field : (1) the range of object distances within a photograph that are imaged with acceptable sharpness; (2) the relative experience of fieldwork.

TTL : [Through the Lens] (1) metering system that measures light or exposure through the taking lens of a camera; (2) manner of observation: perspective.

How do we see? How do we observe the world around us? Anyone who has picked up a camera knows that looking through a lens necessarily changes the way we appreciate the scene before it. What do we foreground, and what do we let fall into the distance? This exhibit showcases the visual work of UW Anthropology students and images from their field research from all over the world. Comprised mostly of images taken by graduate students, we hope this collection will open your eyes not only to the variety of human cultures but also to the many ways we can study them. We invite you to take a moment, and see the world through someone else’s lens.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011—DECEMBER 18, 2011
Odegaard Library, 1st Floor, West Photo Cases (behind circulation)

Open House Reception October 28, 2011 5-7PM Odegaard Library, Room 220

SPONSORED BY THE UW ANTHROPOLOGY DIVERSITY COMMITTEE

New Geographies of Feminist Art: The Critical Potential of Metadata

GWSS Departmental Research Colloquia – October 12, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.

Research Commons, Allen Library, in “Green A” (the fishbowl room just inside the entrance to the RC)

Sasha Welland, Ph.D. presents:

New Geographies of Feminist Art: The Critical Potential of Metadata

This presentation describes the process of building a digital platform for a book on Chinese contemporary art worlds that critiques masculinist canon formation and narratives of global feminist art centered in the West. This web publication presents an argument about art worldings with spatial, temporal, and gendered dimensions through mappings that incorporate images, video, and narrated visual essays with Chinese and English audio tracks. I focus on the development of metadata schema–the categorical data assigned to digital objects such as images–as a feminist interpretive project. What new forms of analysis, display, and archiving are made possible in digital humanities environments by metadata?

Legislative internships open to all majors

Washington State Legislative Internship Program, Winter Quarter 2012
Open to Juniors and Seniors from ALL majors. Submit applications to the Pol S Advising Office in 215 Smith Hall by Monday, October 24th.

Program
Interns spend Winter Quarter working in Olympia as staff for members of the Washington State House of Representatives or Senate. In addition to their office work, interns participate in weekly seminars and workshops. The seminars include meeting with state officials, as well as panel discussions. In the workshops, interns take part in a budget exercise, mock hearing, and mock floor debate. They learn parliamentary procedure and how to write for the Legislature. Additionally, interns have the opportunity to shadow an elected official or administrator of a state agency and learn about his/her job.

Compensation and Credit
Interns receive monthly compensation to offset the expenses associated with the internship and academic credit from the University of Washington. During their internship, UW students will be enrolled in POL S 497 for 15 credits and will attend a seminar course taught by a UW faculty member.

Duties
*Conducting legislative research
*Bill tracking
*Attending hearings and meetings
*Corresponding with constituents
*Office duties

Requirements
Strong applicants will have:
*A strong desire to learn about public policy and legislative process
*Good written and oral communication skills
*Strong analytical and research skills
*Strong work ethic
*Mature judgment
*Ability to handle a fast-paced environment

For more information, see:
polsadvc@uw.edu