Sophisticated, literate and stylish, this show will be disarmingly warm, funny, charming, and very human. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his 18-year-old bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, Desiree Armfeldt. Soon, Fredrik and Desiree resume their romance, incurring the wrath of her current lover, a pompous Count. The situation culminates in a weekend at a country estate, with Fredrik, Anne, Desiree and the Count in attendance, not to mention the complications by a few servants.

A Little Night Music is based on the movie Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman. Popular songs include “Send In the Clowns,” “Every Day A Little Death,” and “A Weekend in the Country.”

Advance Tickets: $20 Premium, $16 Adult, $14 Senior, $10 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre is one the hottest young Latin bands today. Equally at home in concert halls, jazz clubs and dance venues, the Miami-based band has become known for their incendiary, joyful performances of timba — an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of high-voltage Latin jazz and the seductive rhythms of son — true modern heirs to the rich tradition of the music of their native Cuba.

$27 Premium | $22 Adult | $20 Senior | $18 Student/Child

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Lecture by DR. LESILEE ROSE, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis.

From country to folk, Americana to blues, Canada’s rural-rock legends are known for stellar musicianship. The superb songwriting on their newest album has it storming up the record charts. Their signature sound has been described as melancholic, dusty, and lonesome, with a direct kinship to Hank Williams.

$27 Premium | $22 Adult | $20 Senior | $18 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Sophisticated, literate and stylish, this show will be disarmingly warm, funny, charming, and very human. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his 18-year-old bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, Desiree Armfeldt. Soon, Fredrik and Desiree resume their romance, incurring the wrath of her current lover, a pompous Count. The situation culminates in a weekend at a country estate, with Fredrik, Anne, Desiree and the Count in attendance, not to mention the complications by a few servants.

A Little Night Music is based on the movie Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman. Popular songs include “Send In the Clowns,” “Every Day A Little Death,” and “A Weekend in the Country.”

Advance Tickets: $20 Premium, $16 Adult, $14 Senior, $10 Student/Child

More information is available online.

MaryAnne Pella-Donnelly: Lessons from Greenland; Arctic Seabird Research and Climate Change. Slides of landscape and research data gathered at the Little Auk colony on Kap Hoegh, Greenland. For more information call (530) 898-5397.

Each year, the University Art Gallery presents this juried student exhibition of works by students enrolled in the Department of Art and Art History. The work, selected by an outside guest juror, represents a broad range of approaches and media, typically including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and glass. The juror also awards 4 prizes - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and a special Dean’s prize - all of which remain a secret until they are announced at the gala College of Humanities and Fine Arts “Celebration of Student Achievement.”

This exhibition is funded by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.

104 min. Directed by Francois Truffaut. Introduced by Laird Easton, History and Humanities Center Board

Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director Francois Truffaut’s early masterpiece charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years. Jeanne Moreau stars as Catherine, the alluring and willful young woman whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema’s most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim was a worldwide smash upon its release in 1962 and remains as audacious and entrancing today.

For more information, call 898-4642.

$3 donation appreciated

Janet Turner: Collector, Mentor, Teacher, now through May 18.

Facilitated by Tray Robinson, CSU, Chico Diversity Coordinator

Contact Tray Robinson at 4764 for additional information.

Graduate student Heather McCafferty will be presenting this week’s Anthropology Forum entitled, “The Greening of Museums.” The campus and community are welcome to attend.

Robert C. Jones will present an overview of the philosophical rationales that environmentalists have relied upon for such views, and analyze and evaluate these rationales to see which one(s) (if any) can be depended upon to provide a sound justification for these common environmentalist intuitions.

Learn how to compost in this free, informative Workshop. Contact AS Recycling, (530) 898-5033.

Sponsoring Organization: AS Recycling
Contact: Robyn Difalco, (530) 898-5033

Want to learn more about compost? Interested in starting a worm bin? Then come find out how easy it is for you to turn food scraps and yard waste into black gold. Anyone is welcome to attend these free workshops. Don’t know where the CDA is? Check out the web site for directions.

Creating a strongly layered and emotional music in which blues and jazz cohabitate with ranchera, and honky-tonk swings alongside romantic boleros, singer Lila Downs re-imagines American and Mexican music as an on-going conversation between two great traditions. Downs’ songs get deep into the hearts and minds of common people, invoking lost loves, legends, and struggles to live. Invigorating a new wave of cross-border Latino music, Downs is perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated song “Burn It Blue” in the acclaimed movie Frida.

$23 Premium | $18 Adult | $16 Senior | $14 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Case Studies from Lisbon, Montevideo, London and Beijing presented by Marie Sorenson, Yale University and UC Berkeley

Adaptive re-use is a category of building design and construction that has the potential to stimulate dialogue across historical time periods, beyond social and class boundaries, and between architectural styles from vernacular to classical to high modern. In the best of worlds, industrial buildings and sites survive transformation of an urban or peri-urban district and become fixtures of the everyday public environment. Our cities are filled with grand spaces of the ordinary sort - malls, airport terminals, convention halls. Yet, we lack the ‘sublime’ environments that evoke a popular spirit rather than one of surveillance, consumerism, and authoritarian control. In this talk Sorenson will argue for ‘equal access’ to grand monumental space, and - in contrast - for the necessity of small-scale physical records as well - scuff marks and graffiti, machine parts and stained walls - that are neither sanitized nor ‘archived’ in the sense of being moved off site. Public space can evoke the collective emotion of awe as well as the joy of detail made by the hands of an individual.

Hosted by Nanette Wylde and produced by the Electronic Arts Program, Department of Art and Art History

This year’s program features CSU, Chico student works from the Department of Art and Art History and Applied Computer Graphics.

$3 donation appreciated, 898-4642 More information available online.

This one-day workshop will address issues related to recycling and waste handling in LEED certified green buildings. Presenters will address construction and demolition debris recycling, planning for storage & collection of recyclables, reuse of building materials, and recycled-content interior finishings. Who should attend? Architects, contractors, building operators, and recycling or waste managers, students and faculty.

For more information contact Robyn DiFalco, or AS Recycle, (530) 898-5033.

Don’t miss the CSU, Chico OFF-BROADWAYS Musical Theatre Touring Ensemble as they present their final concert of the year:

The Best of Both Worlds, A Musical Salute to Hollywood and Broadway

This free concert is a celebration of the music this group has performed all over the Northstate, from Sacramento to the Oregon border. Directed by Musical Theatre Professor Mike Mazur and Music Director Allison Rich (CSU, Chico Alum), the Off-Broadways have represented the University as good-will ambassadors of music for the campus, community, and beyond. They also have served as great recruiters for our University.

This is “a one-man, one-hour performance, singular in nature, resplendent in divergence, with a smashing time guaranteed for all.”

Rob Davidson’s first book, Field Observations: Stories (Missouri, 2001), won the 2002 Maria Thomas Fiction Award. His second book is The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells (Missouri, 2005). His honors include an AWP Intro Journals Project Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and ranking as a finalist for both the 2008 Glimmer Train Family Matters contest and the 2006 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize (judged by Chitra Divakaruni). Davidson’s fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, the AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. As a musician, he has zero credentials—but that is no matter.

Watershed, CSU, Chico’s student-edited literary magazine since 1977, celebrates its spring 2008 issue with a public reading. The issue of the magazine includes work from local and regional writers, photographers, and visual artists.

For more information, call 898-5983.

Take a journey through five centuries of choral music, beginning with the exquisite beauty and subtle intricacies of motets by Josquin, Palestrina, and Byrd. A dose of Bach, Mozart, and Hadyn follow, with Brahms’ Zieguenerlieder representing the Romantic era. The rich history of Minnesotan choral music concludes the concert with featured pieces by contemporary composers Stephen Paulus, Abby Betinis, Dale Warland, and Carol Barnett.

Advance Tickets: $15 Adult, $13 Senior, $6 Student/Child

More information is available online.

So says the mischievous Cat in the Hat at the onset of this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! The talented young actors from the Blue Room Young Company lovingly bring to life all our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos of Whoville! As each Seuss story unfolds, you will marvel at how relevant and profound Seuss’s subtle themes are, making this musical one that appeals to all ages.

$12 Adult | $10 Senior | $8 Student/Child

More information is available online.