| Date: | 09/04/2008 |
| Location: | See text |
| Notes: | Special Invitation for International Students from Missoula Cultural Council: A note from the Special Events Coordinator of Missoula Cultural Council, Sara Bruya: “Welcome to Missoula! We’d like to invite you to be part of Missoula’s celebration of the New Year on December 31, 2008. Our community celebrates the end of the year with a festival of the arts called First NightÒ Missoula. It is an alcohol-free, public festival that marks the passage from the old year to the new with art, ritual and festivity. This year is our 15th Anniversary and we have over 90 artists scheduled to perform in venues all over downtown Missoula and the University on New Year’s Eve. To learn more, visit www.firstnightmissoula.org . There are several ways international students can participate, but today I’d like to tell you about one whose deadline is approaching soon: Create a Performance or Presentation (DEADLINE for proposals: September 30, 2008) First Night accepts proposals from musicians, theatrical groups, storytellers, craftspeople and anyone wishing to present a performance or interactive activity for kids and adults. Use your imagination! First Night performances and activities are generally 45 minutes in length. If you have an idea, please let us know as soon as possible. We will need your firm commitment by September 30, 2008. Participants receive a First Night button that gives you free admission to all the events on December 31st, 2008 and the honor of sharing with all of Missoula ! If you are interested creating an event for First Night, please contact me at 406-532-3240 or sara@missoulacultural.org, or ask Mona in FSSS for more information at 243-6059. Good luck in your studies this semester! Sincerely, Sara Bruya, Missoula Cultural Council “ |
| Date: | 09/18/2008 |
| Location: | Adam's Center |
| Notes: | For the first time in 12 years, a sizeable section of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will travel back to the Treasure State for a display at UM's Adams Center Sept.18-21 during Homecoming week. More than 100 sections commemorating some 800 individuals who have died of AIDS- related illnesses will be showcased in the largest exhibit of the quilt ever in Montana. All known panels honoring those from Montana who have died of AIDS, as well as others from around the nation, will be on view. The event is free and open to the public. Opening ceremonies will kick off the event at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18. The public display will continue through the weekend, with closing ceremonies starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21. New quilt panels will be inducted from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, in the Adams Center Sky Club. "For the state of Montana, it is truly such a gift to be able to see the quilt on such a large scale, especially living in a rural area where oftentimes we fail to grasp the effect or impact HIV or AIDS has on our community," said Keri McWilliams, Missoula AIDS Council executive director. "It's not until you're able to see a display of this size and see all the lives that were lost that you begin to realize how large this epidemic is." UM has teamed with the Missoula AIDS Council to raise $30,000 to help people living with HIV and AIDS, as well as support prevention and educational efforts in the community. |
| Date: | 09/05/2008 |
| Location: | Montana Musuem of Art & Culture, PAR/TV Center |
| Notes: | Asian Exhibits Open At Montana Museum Of Art & Culture Two exhibitions that feature ceramic artworks and a collection of Southeast Asian textiles will open Friday, Sept. 5, at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, located in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center at The University of Montana. “Weaving Cultures…Highlights of the Helen Cappadocia Collection of Southeast Asian Textiles” will be on view in the museum’s Meloy Gallery. A collection of ceramic artworks by Steven Young Lee titled “notions…” will be in the museum’s Paxson Gallery. The exhibitions will be at the museum through Saturday, Oct. 25. The textiles in “Weaving Cultures…” – 74 pieces out of the more than 600 comprising the Helen Cappadocia Collection – range from historical pieces to traditional and contemporary works. The textiles are exhibited in two groups. One focuses on pieces produced by the various Thai Lao groups who lived in Northern Laos, Thailand and China in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The other focuses on contemporary textiles created by Hmong refugees living in Thailand and the United States and more traditional pieces, many of which were made in Laos and date back to the first half of the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition includes textiles created by Hmong communities in Missoula. The majority of the textiles in the exhibition were never intended to be presented in the context of an art gallery. Most of the hand-stitched and woven fabrics, which have survived relatively intact, were made to serve specific and practical functions in domestic and religious life. But such utility has not inhibited the creation of beautiful and exquisitely complex objects that demonstrate the establishment of sophisticated aesthetic traditions which have stood the test of time. Fashioned into costumes, collars, skirts, money vests, story cloths, blankets and prayer shawls, the textiles have been used to identify and honor family members, language groups and spiritual forces. The museum’s exhibition “notions…” features a selection of ceramic artworks by Lee, who is the resident artist director at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena. “The objects I create often refer to the form, decoration, color and materials of historical ceramics, yet ask viewers to confront their contemporary context,” Lee said. “These parallels can exist in my work through decorative motifs or traditional visual surfaces on forms of various origins.” Three events in conjunction with the exhibitions will be held at the museum’s Meloy Gallery. They are free and open to the public. Lee will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. A panel discussion titled “Hmong Culture – Conversation and Context” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. Panelists include anthropologist Suzanne Bessac, UM anthropology Professor G.G. Weix and a representative from the Hmong community. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, the museum will present “A Conversation with the Collector: Helen Cappadocia.” MMAC hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 4 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. There is no charge for admission, and free parking is available near the northwest corner of the PAR/TV Center. For more information, call 406-243-2019 or go to the museum’s Web site at http://www.umt.edu/montanamuseum. |
| Date: | 09/16/2008 |
| Location: | see text, Facilities Services Building 25 |
| Notes: | Work Parties Set For Homecoming Float Come join the fun! Staff, faculty and students are invited to work parties to be held next week for UM's 2008 Homecoming float. The events will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16, 17 and 18. A float decorating party will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18. All work parties and the float decoration event will take place in Facilities Services Building 25. President Dennison has agreed that staff, faculty and administrators can volunteer up to two hours of work time to help with the float during the week before Homecoming -- if their work duties are covered and their supervisors approve. Be sure to sign in when you get to a work party event. For more information, call Renee Valley at 243-6899 or e-mail renee.valley@mso.umt.edu. |
| Date: | 09/18/2008 |
| Location: | FREE 5:30 & 7:30 pm, UC Theater |
| Notes: | Film Series Spotlights Rights Issues The 2008 Peace & Justice Film Series for fall semester focuses on human and worker rights issues, as well as domestic, foreign and environmental policy debates. Films will show on Thursdays at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Theater. All films are free and open to the public. This year's series includes the 2008 Emmy Award-nominated documentary "Libby, Montana" and two films focusing on the political process before the Nov. 4 general election. Discussions will be held after each film, and UM Students for Peace & Justice and the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center urge attendees to stay and share their views on the film's topic. Special guests also will be available after some films. "Not in Our Town," which documents how Billings residents joined together when their neighbors were threatened by white supremacists, will be shown on Sept. 18. On Sept. 25 the series will feature "Libby, Montana," the story of a small logging town where hundreds are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure. Doug Hawes- Davis, the film's director, will be in attendance. A complete film series schedule is available online. Peace & Justice Film Series |
| Date: | 09/12/2008 |
| Location: | parade-Higgins Ave/ |
| Notes: | Homecoming Parade Applications Available UM's 2008 Homecoming parade will take place Saturday, Sept. 20, and applications for parade entries are now available. “Back to the Future – The Future is U!”is the parade theme. The parade entry fee is $25, and the application deadline is 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Get application forms at the Missoula Chamber of Commerce, the UM Alumni Association office at 115 Brantly Hall or online. |
| Date: | 09/18/2008 |
| Location: | UC Atrium |
| Notes: | The annual Homecoming Art Fair will take place in the University Center Atrium from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 18-20. A Homecoming buffet will be available at The Food Zoo in the Lommasson Center from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18. |