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E-mail: sorenson@babson.edu
Calendar of Events Spring 2010
Spring 2010 events in
The Carling-Sorenson Theater at Babson College
This page is updated as information becomes available to us. Dates and times subject to change.
The Arts and Humanities Division and the Sorenson Center for the Arts present The Babson Global Film Series
Tuesday, February 2
The Class (Entre les Murs) Director: Laurent Cantet (2008)
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, The Class is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose autobiographical book the film was based—plays himself, and an ensemble of young non-actors recreate the charged atmosphere of a classroom that is a microcosm of contemporary, culturally diverse France. Combining the suspense of a drama with the immediacy of a social documentary, The Class is a funny and moving look at adolescent lives and at an educational system to alternately inspires and alienates them.
Tuesday, February 16
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick Director: Jane Gillooly (2008)
*The director will be present to answer questions from the audience following the screening
Living with the highest prevalence of HIV and the lowest life expectancy in the world, three grandmothers in Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa, cope with their plight. The generation between the grandmothers and their grandchildren has been severely affected by HIV. Today the Hawk Takes One Chick moves delicately among the lives of the grandmothers, whose experiences highlight a rural community at the threshold of simultaneous collapse and reinvention. Through the poignant perspective of these remarkable women, Today the Hawk Takes One Chick creates a portrait of a community by layering discrete moments in time. Presented without narration, the film's drama emerges from an accumulation of details that, in sum, tell a greater story of family, perseverance, and love in a world dictated by AIDS.
Tuesday, March 23
Volver Director: Pedro Almodovar (2006)
Winner of awards for best screenplay and actress (Penélope Cruz) at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-nominated Volver is Pedro Almodóvar at his best. Full of surprises and reversals, the action moves back and forth between a working class neighborhood in Madrid and a windswept village in the Spanish countryside as it draws us into the family dramas and buried secrets of three generations of women. Beyond its first-rate cast, the film’s murder/ghost story is riveting cinema. But Volver also touches on some of the more prevalent issues facing Spain today – domestic violence, the transformation of Spanish pueblos into ghost towns for senior citizens, a growing lower and often immigrant class struggling to scrape by in the urban center. Almodóvar’s exploration of these issues adds rich dimension to this story of loss, return and the possibility of forgiveness. As one New York Times review suggested “It draws you in, invites you to linger and makes you eager to return.”
Films will be screened in the Sorenson Center for the Arts at 7:00 p.m.
Each screening will include a brief introduction and a post-film discussion.
All film screenings are free and open to the public.
The Babson Black Student Union presents the annual
Apollo Night
The talent show like no other...reliving the glorious nights in the Apollo Theater in New York during the mid twentieth century.
Date and time: Friday, Feb. 12 at (TIME TBD)
Location: Sorenson theater at Babson
More info to come!
The Charles D. and Marjorie J. Thompson Visiting Poet Series presents:
Claudia Rankine----reading from her poems-
Date and time: Wed. Feb. 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Location: Sorenson Theater at Babson College
“One can only say thank you to such a poet.” –Jorie Graham
This event is free and open to the public.
Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963.She earned her B.A. in English from Williams College and her M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private, The End of the Alphabet and Plot. Her latest book Don't Let Me Be Lonely is an experimental multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and images, and a deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contemporary America, of which poet Robert Creeley said: "Claudia Rankine here manages an extraordinary melding of means to effect the most articulate and moving testament to the bleak times we live in I’ve yet seen. It’s a master work in every sense, and altogether her own."
Rankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work appears in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. In 2005 she was honored with an American Academy of Poets Fellowship; this is awarded to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career. She lives and teaches in California.
The Babson/Olin Annual student production of Vagina Monologues Proceeds from the event will benefit ending violence against women and girls.
Date and time: Friday Feb. 19 at (time tbd) Location: Sorenson theater at Babson
Tickets: (more info to come)
The 7th Annual Martin Luther King Legacy Day
"American Culture and the Pursuit of Justice in a Global Society"
featuring keynote speaker:
Patricia J. Williams
Date and time: Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Location: Sorenson theater at Babson College
Come together to reflect on the work and teachings of Dr. King, and the efforts that continue in his name today.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The Franklin W. Olin Players present:
"Blood Brothers"the musical!
The FWOPs from Olin College present Willey Russell’s musical "Blood Brothers at Babson College! Featuring talent from Olin, Babson, and Wellesley.
Directed by Kate Dramstad Stage Managed by Rachael Biniaz
Performances:
Dates and times:
Friday Feb 26, 2010- 8:00pm
Saturday Feb. 27, 2010 - 8:00pm
Friday March 5, 2010 - 8:00pm
Saturday March 6 -2010 8:00pm
Location: Sorenson theater at Babson College
Tickets$8 for adults and $5 for students, and they can be purchased at the door.
Ticket reservations can be made by emailing fwop@olin.edu. For more information, contact fwop@olin.edu or call Kate Dramstad at 406-410-1830.
The Babson Players present the musical:
"The Wedding Singer"
The Babson Players are proud to present their spring musical, The Wedding Singer.
The musical, which is based on the 1998 movie of the same name, features music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Beguelin and Tim Herlihy.
The Wedding Singer takes place in 1980’s New Jersey and tells the story of jilted wedding singer Robbie Hart. Robbie then meets Julia and agrees to help her plan her wedding, but problems arise as Robbie realizes his true feelings for Julia.
