Datebook
Tonight
Mardi Gras: Made in China, a documentary by David Redmon, describes the results of
outsourcing American manufacturing jobs to China. It’s not a pretty picture.
Includes Q&A with the filmmaker. 7:00 p.m., Prosser Auditorium. Free. Ext.
1418 or 7903.
Thursday, February 9
Pianist Joel Fan, best known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble,
plays a recital as part of the Piano Masters @ Moravian series. 7:30 p.m., Peter
Hall. 610 515-1025.
 Friday, February 10
The Dave Roth (’85) Quintet performs with jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford. 8:00
p.m., Foy Hall. $12, $6 students/seniors. Ext. 1650.
Sunday, February 12
Two-Part Invention (Nora Suggs, flute, and John Arnold, guitar) offer a musical
valentine. 4:00 p.m., Peter Hall. $12, $6 students/seniors. Ext. 1650.
Monday, February 13
Joyce Hinnefeld, associate professor of English, spent part of her sabbatical last
year in New Mexico drafting a novel about a bird artist and her ornithologist husband.
Hence the title of her talk: “Conjuring the Birds of the Mid-Atlantic from
a Seat in the Santa Fe Public Library.” 7:00 p.m., UBC Room, HUB. Free. Ext.
1366.
Thursday, February 14
Svanibor Pettan of the Music Academy of the University in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
will discuss “Music and War” from a Balkan perspective. 1:00 p.m.,
Peter Hall. Ext. 1691.
Thursday, February 16
Continuing in the Leadership Center’s series of teleconference calls on international
issues with experts from the Council on Foreign Relations: “Iraqi Politics
and the Insurgency,” with Jane Arraf, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow. Noon,
Leadership Center, HUB. Ext. 7510.
Friday, February 17
Slam Poetry performer Saul Williams reads his work at 8:30 p.m. in the Pavilion.
Ext. 7847.
Sunday, February 19
Martha Schrempel, artist-lecturer in music (piano), plays Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata
and the second book of Préludes by Debussy. 4:00 p.m., Peter Hall. $12, $6
students/seniors. Ext. 1650.
Ongoing
Replacing the scheduled show of needle art, Payne Gallery offers a sculpture exhibit
by international artists who have worked at the Steve Tobin Studios, a foundry and
workshop near Coopersburg. Through March 5.
Works include tribal images in bronze by JC Sarpong of Ghana; glass dripped on bronze
by Daisuke Shintani of Japan; and socio-political statements by Nikolai Melinkov
of Russia. Other artists are Oku Ampofo of Ghana and Semion Rabinkov of Israel. This
is the first showing in Pennsylvania of these sculptors under one roof.
In the HUB
Gallery: pieces curated by students in last semester’s African art
class taught by Martha Kearns. Reception, 4:00-5:30 p.m. today.
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