Coming Up On Campus
Professional Bull Riders CEO to Speaks January 18
Orfalea College of Business Distinguished Speaker Series continues with a presentation by alumnus Randy Bernard, chief executive officer of Professional Bull Riders, Inc. Bernard will speak on campus Thursday, Jan. 18, at 2 p.m. in the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. A reception will follow the event at 3:45 p.m. on the patio of the theatre. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $4. During his talk, “PBR: A Bullish Market That Can’t Be Corralled,” Bernard will discuss professional bull riding as a sport and a business, as well as how it grew to become the 7th largest sport in the country in 13 years.
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English Professor to Read His Award-Winning Fiction January 19
Cal Poly English faculty member Todd J. Pierce will read his fiction at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan.19, in Phillips Hall in the Christopher Cohan Center at Cal Poly. “Newsworld” is a collection of short stories related to news and entertainment events. “I wanted to play with the type of cultural stories we all carry with us, a type of national literature of pop culture,” he said. “The characters in ‘Newsworld,’ like many Americans, are engulfed in a life-imitating-art syndrome caused by the hyper reality presented by the media. They struggle to understand whether their own lives fall within or outside the media-defined reality,” Pierce said.
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Viewers to Create Art During Unique Exhibit Starting January 19
Community members will have an opportunity to create “live” art during an unusual digital media exhibition to run in Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery Friday, Jan. 19, though Saturday, Feb. 17.“Viewers must interact with the artwork for it to work,” explained professor Enrica Lovaglio. The work of Los Angeles artist Peter Cho transforms the viewer’s spoken language into a visual art piece projected on to the gallery walls. Gamet Hertz, also from L.A., will exhibit a frog that viewers can control via the Internet. Simon Penny, from Irvine, has created a robot that interacts and responds to the audience. The exhibit will also showcase the works of Casey Reas of Los Angeles and Zachary Lieberman of Brooklyn.
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Family Series Continues with Theatre of Light January 21
Cal Poly Arts continues its Family Series with "Theatre of Light," presented by LUMA,
Sunday, January 21, at 3 p.m. in Harman Hall in the Christopher Cohan Center. Anyone who has ever played with a flashlight under the covers, or has been fascinated by fireflies, shooting stars, or fireworks, will be drawn to LUMA, a series of short, wordless skits blending the latest in lighting technology with science and the performing arts. Ten years in the making, LUMA is a dazzling wonderland of color, movement, and solid geometry brought magically to life.
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Third Time Will Charm with Keillor January 24
The charming, witty, and always entertaining writer and humorist Garrison Keillor is probably best known for his widely popular radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” and his best-selling books, including “Lake Wobegon Days.” On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 8 p.m. in Harman Hall of the Christopher Cohan Center, Cal Poly Arts presents the third return engagement of the American icon in “An Evening With Garrison Keillor.” Tickets are available online at www.pacslo.org. | More Details
Early Music Ensemble Presents Bach
January 27 at the Cohan Center
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Saturday, January 27, the Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble performs in concert at 8 p.m. in the Pavilion of the Christopher Cohan Center. The ensemble will perform "The Hunting Cantata" (Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd), by J.S. Bach. It is a delightful and most popular secular cantata. Professor Thomas Davies will present brief musical highlights in a lecture demonstration form before the work is performed. Tickets are $10 general, $8 seniors and students.
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Hail to the Chieftains Returning
in Concert at the PAC January 28
Cal Poly Arts presents Celtic music legends The Chieftains in concert
Sunday, January 28, at 7 p.m. in
Harman Hall in the Christopher Cohan Center.
With a career that spans four decades and 40 albums, The Chieftains are not only Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also a major force behind the worldwide appeal of Celtic music. Featuring pipes, whistle, bodhran, fiddle, flute, and vocals—and of course the well placed stories and key guest artists for which they are famous— the six-time Grammy winners joyfully capture the essence of traditional Irish music.
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See 'Dancing on the Edge' in February Orchesis Concerts
Award-winning guest artists from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco join Cal Poly students and faculty to present the Orchesis Dance Company's 37th annual concert, "Dancing on the Edge." Under the direction of Professor Maria Junco, "Dancing on the Edge" traverses the physical, psychological, emotional and cultural boundaries of dance, and features works in a variety of styles, including aerial dance, ballet, modern, jazz, tap, ballroom, Filipino and Mexican traditional dance. Evening performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 2-3, and Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 8-10. In addition, a 2 p.m. matinee is scheduled on Sunday, Feb. 4. All performances will be in the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly.
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