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UW-Marinette Art Department News
November 29, 2005
The University of Wisconsin-Marinette art department’s annual fall student art exhibit has been installed in the TOB gallery and will be on display until December 16, 2005. Guy Yost, photographer, and Maria Wagner, mural artist, will jury the exhibit and award prizes funded by the UW Marinette art club. In addition, both jurors will visit art classes during the week of December 5th. Yost will speak to the the ART 161 “Introduction to Photography” class, and Wagner to the ART 101 “Introduction to Drawing” class.
Students from the two classes will also offer their artworks for sale in a silent auction which will be held from December 5 through the 16. Monies raised will be given to the UW-Marinette Foundation. Art Professor James LaMalfa will contribute a signed, framed original silver gelatin print for auction also. Tags under the art will indicate that they are for sale for the auction. Anyone wishing to participate in the silent auction may view the exhibit between 8 am and 5 pm weekdays and at the Children’s Theatre Performances December 8 – 11 at 7 pm Thursday – Saturday and at 1 pm Sunday.
Ryan Lemire, a student enrolled in ART 161 who plans to major in cinematography was cited by the Independent Filmmakers Guild of Green Bay at their November meeting for best documentary. Lemire’s five-minute digital movie, which documented efforts to preserve and restore Menominee’s Opera House, was described by members of the Guild as the best “Informational Film.” “Film in this case refers to digital movies, not traditional acetate film, which many independent movie makers have bypassed,” said LaMalfa.
The UW Marinette art department is offering ART 216 “Digital Design” in the spring term 2006. This class will include instruction in Photoshop CS2 and Final Cut Pro 4, a professional level movie editing program. Students in the class, which is limited to an enrollment of 14, will explore digital photography editing, moviemaking and advertising design using Photoshop CS2.
Also featured in the TOB gallery is LaMalfa’s collection of Milwaukee Road O scale locomotives, both electric and diesel. Called, “Juice Jacks, Jets and Geeps”, the exhibit is offered in conjunction with LaMalfa’s popular, “Trains at the Library”. LaMalfa has been running trains every December for the last three years at Marinette’s Stephenson Library. Running dates will be Saturday, 10th, 17th and 24th from 9 AM until 2 PM.
For further information call LaMalfa at the Universtiy, 735 -4300 or email.
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Holiday Concert November 27
November 21, 2005
The West Shore Chorale, directed by UW-Marinette professor of music David Giebler, will be joined by the UW-Green Bay Concert Choir under the direction of John Plier for a holiday concert November 27 at 7:30 pm at Holy Spirit Church in Menominee.
The Bay Shore Orchestra will accompany both choirs in Franz Schubert’s Mass #2 in G major D167, a lyrical work composed in 1815 by Schubert for his church at Lichtenthal, Austria. 1915 was a prolific year for Schubert. In that same year, the year of the Battle of Waterloo, he completed his second and third symphonies and wrote another mass, in B-flat major, other sacred works, some chamber music, and 146 songs. He also worked on five operas.
The Mass in G features soprano, tenor, and bass soloists contributing to the intimate beauty of the choral writing. Soloists for the November 27th performance include Lisa Giebler (soprano), Thomas Schwaba (tenor) and Yoshikatsu Ando (baritone).
Other works to be featured on the program include “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” by Williametta Spencer, “All for Love” by Robert Young, as well as seasonal carols.
Tickets for the concert, available at the door, are $5 for adults and $2 for students and seniors.
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"The Christmas Gift" Premieres at UW-Marinette Children's Theatre
November 15, 2005
"The Christmas Gift" Premieres at UW-Marinette Children's Theatre. A special surprise awaits a little orphan at Mrs. Merryweather's Home for Unwanted Children in the upcoming musical "The Christmas Gift," at UW-Marinette's Children's Theatre December 1 - 4 and 8 - 11 in the Herbert L. Williams Theatre on campus. Curtain time for this premiere production by Dr. Tom McEvilly will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm.
Lead roles which have been double cast will be taken by Ruth Babcock and Mikel Marzofka as orphans, Terry Harries and Helen Marcks as Mrs. Merryweather, Mike Kruze and Patrick Mines as Earl, Matt LaFleur and Jack Hagen as Santa, Holly Koesling and Annalisa Mines as Elf Holly and Mrs. Holly, and Eric Leister and Vinnie Morgan as Mr. Holly.
Other cast members include Katie Albano, Brittany Alloy, Samantha Balzola, Henry Benson, Keifer Caebe, Fritz Campbell, Jake Campbell, Laura Campbell, Zach Campbell, Danae Chaltry, Courtney Comar, Brian Conway, Chelsie Conway, Jorddan Dura, Martina Dura, Nathan Faucette, Hannah Ganter, Jessica Ganter, Alexandra Gordon, Rowyn Hagen, Sherri Hagen, Becca Harries, Courtney Hasenfus, Rachel Hoppe, Alicia Hnatuk, Meagan Jacobson, Colleen Johnston, Erin Judkins, David Junak, Katelyn Junak, Lillie Kallestad, Andrew Kallgren, Sarah Kallgren, Katelynn Kamin, Jayme Karasti, Nick LaFleur, Leah LaMalfa, Stephanie Lange, Holly LaPerriere, Samantha MacGlashin, Emily Marzofka, Mitch McFarlane, Benjamin Medly, Ashley Morgan, Gitta Morgan, Henry Price, Noah Rastall, Beth Rocque, Julie Roer, Gage Smith, Kathy Smith, Kevin Smith, Rachel Smith, Alexis Teske, Glenn Thompson, Melissa Wright, Laura Yates, and Lizzie Zimmerman.
Tickets are $8 for students and seniors and $10 for adults on sale now by calling 735-4300 or at the box office beginning Nov. 28 from 4 - 6 pm by calling 715-735-4313.
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TOB Presents The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Nov. 11 - 13
November 2, 2005
It seems fitting that the week after Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol because of her simple but powerful act of civil disobedience, Theatre on the Bay brings the Prophet of American civil disobedience to the stage here in the Twin Cities this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 11, 12 and 13 at 7:30 pm in the Herbert L. Williams Theatre at UW-Marinette.
“The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail,” written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, offers a whirlwind tour through the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau, on the very night he spent in jail for his most famous act of civil disobedience. Thoreau believed that the Mexican War was actually a thinly veiled plot to extend slavery and the power of the Southern slave states, so he was jailed when he refused to pay his federal taxes to support it.
Six years ago, TOB Artistic Director and Playwright-in-Residence was given a special award as a “Father of Choral Reading” by the Iowa High School Speech (and Theatre) Association for his leadership in developing choral reading and readers theatre performance styles in Iowa education over a 25 year period. He brings that unique performance style to this production. “When people hear that this is going to be done in a readers theatre format,” Larche said, “they often conjure images of people in choir robes seated or standing behind music stands giving a static, bloodless reading. But nothing could be further from the truth.” He continued, “This performance includes a central cast of nearly 25 singing, marching, shouting, engaged in mob action, exploring everything from the whimsical to the romantic, the tragic and the deeply emotional.” The set itself, designed by Joshua LaLonde, provides fourteen acting areas on nine levels, and Philip Smith’s lighting design has over sixty cues and nearly as many hues. Still, actors will carry scripts and the costuming pays homage to the readers theatre tradition.
Henry David Thoreau is played by Ben Martin and his brother John is played by Bill Blomberg. Both are in love with Ellen Sewell, played by Vanessa Smith. The family of Ralph Waldo Emerson includes Joshua LaLonde, Sabra Sipple and Molly McFarlane. Powerful roles as a cellmate, an angry minister, a tax collector and an escaped slave are played by Joshua Dake, Tristan Schuh, Ryan Lemire and Edward Gerber. Debra Quick plays the mother of Thoreau.
The remainder of the ensemble includes many UW Marinette students and a few TOB veterans, playing roles ranging from the President of the United States to the young Congressman Abraham Lincoln, a Mexican War general, a minister, a farmer, a mother, soldiers, voters and townspeople, and a memorable trio of Concord citizens who have had a bit too much to drink. These roles are played by Mark Engeldinger, Gary Karman, Meghan Hanson, Jenna Cornell, Dan McVane, Annette Wojciehowski, Katie Bauer, Liz Stuyvenberg, Zamira Satueva, Dildora Ahmedova, Armina Yeghiazaryan, Joe Alonzo and Danielle Bajczyk, with guest appearances by John Berg, Bill Shepard and Art Holman.
Tickets are $10 and $12 and can be reserved by calling the box office at 715-735-4313.
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Forum on Thoreau's Civil Disobedience November 7 at UW-Marinette
November 2, 2005
A Community Forum on "Thoreau and Civil Disobedience" will be led by Associate Professor of History Dan Kallgren at UW-Marinette Monday, November 7 at 7:30 pm in M-117 of the Main Building.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 to 1862) wrote his famous treatise "Civil Disobedience" in 1949, which examines the relationship of the individual to the state and seeks to answer the questions of why citizens obey laws that they consider unjust.
Monday night's discussion is a prelude to the upcoming Theatre on the Bay production "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee which will be presented Friday - Sunday, Novmeber 11 - 13 at the Herbert L. Williams Theatre. Tickets are $10 and $12 and will be on sale beginning November 7 at the box office from 4 - 6 pm Monday through Friday and one hour before curtain time on show days.
Sponsored by the UW-Marinette Foundation, the Community Forum series is presented free of charge to the public.
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Annual Women’s Conference at UW-Marinette November 15The 2005 Women’s
November 1, 2005
Conference at UW-Marinette will focus on “Creating Effective Relationships” with a keynote presented by Mary L. Staudenmaier, chairman of Stephenson National Bank and Trust.
The conference will be held Tuesday, November 15 in the Main Building at UW-Marinette beginning with registration at 5 pm, where people can browse the interactive booth displays by AAUW, CASA, Corner Day Spa and Herb Shop, Everard's Flowers, The Clothes Vault, YMCA and UW-Marinette.
Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm. The keynote, entitled “Relationships that Make a Strong Community” will be given at 6 pm.
Mary L. Staudenmaier, Chairman of the Board at The Stephenson National Bank & Trust is noted for both her personal service to the community as well as her contribution to the business community. In 2002 she was named the Marinette Area Chamber of Commerce Person of the Year. In 2003 she was awarded the Ron Wipfli Award from the River Cities Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Staudenmaier is past president and founding board member of the M&M Area Community Foundation, founder and past treasurer of the Twin Counties’ Free Clinic and founder of the Marinette Medical Care Foundation. She is a member of Holy Family Parish and of its finance committee. She is also a member of the Marinette County Bar Association, Board of Trustees at Mount Mary College, member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Marquette University Law School, board member for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay and its Finance Committee.
Staudenmaier earned her law degree from Marquette University in 1971 and her bachelor’s degree from Mount Mary College in 1960. She joined the Trust Department staff at The Stephenson National Bank & Trust in Marinette in 1973 and was president of the bank from 1979 - 2000. She was named the bank’s Chairman of the Board in 2000 when John K. Reinke was elected President to succeed her.
Four sessions will be given following the keynote. They are: “Health and Self” by Dr. Linda Werner of Internal Medicine Associates in Marinette; Faith and Spirituality by Elaine Blair-Klitzke; Executive Director of Finances at Goodwill Industries; “Women and Balance” by Dr. Dail Murray, Associate Professor of Anthropology/Sociology at UW-Marinette; and “Children and Education” by Laurie Nerat, former guidance counselor at Marinette High School.
“This year’s conference promises to be pertinent to everyone,” says Jane Jones, Continuing Education Director and co-sponsor of the event along with Stephenson National Bank and Trust and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) of Marinette/Menominee.
The conference registration fee is $25 which includes dinner and the program. Registration should be made by November 8 by calling 715-735-4343 or emailing Jane Jones . Registration is also available on the web. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.
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