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The third installment in the State of the Rockies Speaker Series: "Food and Agriculture in the Rockies," will feature Rosamond Lee Naylor. Naylor is the director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment, the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute of the Environment and a professor of environmental earth systems science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive crop, livestock, and fish production worldwide. She also writes broadly in the food policy and security fields, and contributes to legislative processes at the California state and federal levels. Her talk will provide a global and regional perspective on the impacts of industrial agriculture. Sponsored by the State of the Rockies Project and the CC Cultural Attractions Fund.
Beloved U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan is the author of "Say Uncle," "Elephant Rocks," "The Niagara River" and other books. According to U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, "Kay Ryan is a distinctive and original voice within the rich variety of contemporary American poetry. She writes easily understandable short poems on improbable subjects. Within her compact compositions there are many surprises in rhyme and rhythm and in sly wit pointing to subtle wisdom."
Sponsored by the Demarest Lloyd Lecture Fund.
Bring your favorite games or just come over.
Practice your French in a fun way!
We will play games in French ( with English translations if necessary). Open to everyone!
There will be snacks...
Location : Haskell house ( 1196 N. Cascade Ave)
Dr. Vitolo is both a penmanship historian and a calligrapher. He has dedicated considerable effort to rediscovering and documenting the history of American penmen/calligraphers from ‘The Golden Age of Ornamental Penmanship’. This lecture will explore that rich history and bring to light some of the now forgotten artists from the period. Following the lecture original hand-penned specimens dating from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s will be available for viewing. An active member of the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) he has published dozens of articles on penmanship/writing and has lectured extensively around the country. Dr. Vitolo holds two doctorates; a D.M.D (Dentistry) and a PhD in Biochemistry. Currently, he is the director of both the Advanced Care Clinic and the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency program at Marquette University Dental School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sponsored by a partnership between CC and the Summit Scribes Calligraphy Guild. 
Colorado College’s Concert Band Director Jeremy Van Hoy will play bass trombone and euphonium with Artist-in-Residence and Pianist Susan Grace. They will perform works by Bach, Wilder, Schnyder and Arban. The second half of the program will feature the Colorado Springs band, Edith Makes A Paper Chain, which was recently voted Best Popular Band by the Pikes Peak Arts Council. Sponsored by the Colorado College music department.
Steven Smith is a professor of political science at Yale University and is a recognized Lincoln scholar and student of modern political thought. Smith has taught at Yale since 1984 and is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and has been Master of Branford College since 1996. Sponsored by the political science department as part of its lecture series in observance of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Director/Editor Jonathan Walls will be in attendance to introduce the film and stay for a Q & A session after the film’s screening. "Playing for Change: Peace Through Music" is a story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Directors Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls and their team traveled the globe with a single-minded passion to connect the world through music. Their ambitious journey took them to post-apartheid South Africa, through the ancient sites of the Middle East, to the remote beauty of the Himalayas and beyond. Using innovative mobile technology, they filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians, largely outdoors in parks, plazas and promenades, in doorways, in cobblestone streets, and amid hilly pueblos. Each captured performance creates a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together, albeit hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Admission is payable at the door (not the Worner Desk). General admission is $6, community students, military and seniors (65+) $5, and free with a CC ID. Sponsored by the Independent Film Society of Colorado along with Imagination Celebration and Colorado College. 
Bonnie Nadzam is CC’s Daehler Fellow in Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Callaloo and Iron Horse Review. Sponsored by the Colorado College English department with the support of the MacLean Visiting Writers Endowment.
Join filmmaker Pete Schuermann as he discusses and screens The Creeping Terror, the inspiration for his newest film project Creep! Creep! chronicles the outlandish story of director Argyle J. Nelson and his wife Shannon O’Neil and their audacious efforts to produce a monster movie in 1964. The result of those efforts was the obscure yet cultish film, The Creeping Terror. Considered to be the worst movie ever made, it also became one of the most mind-boggling scams in the history of celluloid. Sponsored by Independent Film Society of Colorado, the CC Film Union and Pete Schuermann.
Due to the winter storm, this event has been postponed and will not take place on Nov. 15. Thank you.
Maria Vazquez and her troupe will demonstrate the passion and soul of Flamenco dance and music. Vazquez, a dancer from Seville, Spain, is licensed by the Conservatory of Dance in Seville. She shares her knowledge of the art form through classes, workshops and performances throughout the region. Also featured in this program will be Vicente Griego "El Cartucho," a critically acclaimed Flamenco singer from New Mexico, and Kevin Romero, who has performed all over the world as a classical Spanish guitarist. 
Pavol Demes has been the Director for Central and Eastern Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States since January 2000, and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. An internationally recognized NGO leader, Demes served as the elected spokesperson of the Gremium of the Third Sector, a volunteer advocacy coalition, and has served on the boards of national and international associations and foundations. In 1999 he was awarded a six-month public policy research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C He is a graduate of Charles University in Prague (1980). He received the EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award (in 1998), the USAID Democracy and Governance Award (1999), Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau (2005), Yugoslav Star of First Class (2005). Sponsored by Sponsored by the W. Lewis and Helen R. Abbott Memorial Fund
Virtually unknown in Europe until the Middle Ages, sugar quickly became ubiquitous in Western diets. Influencing agricultural practices, global economies, dietary habits and language, sugar holds a central place in Western culture. Presented in the I.D.E.A. Space from November 23, 2009 – January 21, 2010, "Sugar, Sugar," explores the power of the sweet stuff from a variety of perspectives. The exhibition features historical photographs of the sugar beet industry in Colorado, microscopic enlargements of
sugar molecules and literary and artistic responses in a variety of media. Visual artists include Gypsy Ames, Julia M. Becker, Karen Kunc, Kate Leonard, Tracy Linder, Christina Marsh and Meredith Nickie. Writers include Jessy Randall and Dave Mason.
Sponsored by the Robert and Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust.
François Ozon’s first English- language film.
"Dive into a mind-bending thriller that’s soaked with raw sensuality! A murder - mystery author’s (Charlotte Rampling) search for inspiration takes a wicked turn when she meets a sexy and provocative young woman (Ludivine Sagnier) with an explosive past"
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