Take Back Usdan... tomorrow!

Rebecca Chavez '08 sends us in some info about the Take Back Usdan campaign we mentioned earlier (ps. kudos to Rebecca for taking an interest in improving student space when she's a graduating senior!):

Paint, Dance, Doodle, Chalk, Sing, CREATE! Take the first step in making the University Center a STUDENT Center by painting murals in the MPR!

Although the room does not necessarily reflect the interests of the student body as of now, the fact is that it exists and we have asked for and been given the opportunity to change the outward appearance and possibly the feel of the room -- to truly make it "ours."

Come between noon and 2 am on Friday to the basement of Usdan to make your mark on the student center.

Contact Rebecca at rchavez@wesleyan.edu with any questions.

When: Friday, May 9th from noon to 2 am
Where: Usdan MPR

Eat Meat with the MEET Club

Ryan Brill '10, on behalf of the club formerly known as Mankind Eating Animals Together:

The M.E.E.T. (Mankind Eating Everything Together) Club is having a barbeque in the Butterfield courtyard. Everybody is welcome to attend, and can buy cheeseburgers, sausages, or (for the first time) veggie burgers for $3 each. Take a break from studying and eat with us!

Date: Friday May 9th
Time: 11:45-3 pm, or until the charcoal runs out
Place: Butts courtyard grills

Senior thesis films premiere tonight

Digital films are being shown tonight and Saturday; 16 mm films and documentaries are being shown tomorrow and Sunday.

Date: May 8 - May 11
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Goldsmith Family Cinema
Cost: $5

Facebook invitations we've received

West African Dance & Drumming Performance

Date: Friday, May 9
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: CFA courtyard (Crowell, if raining)

Gag Reflex: The Reading Week Show

Date: Friday, May 9
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: Exley

Midnight Organ Romp

Date: Thursday, May 8
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: Memorial Chapel

Wesleying tip: events are much more appealing when you send us something to post, rather than just a Facebook invitation. :-)

All-campus Open Mic night

Second Stage presents: We Are Monsters Without a Name

Check out this weekend's show, We Are Monsters Without A Name:

What: a collaborative theatre piece created by: Gedney Barclay '09, Asa Horvitz '10, Jaime Maseda '11, Mark McCloughan '10, Annie Paladino '09, and Noa Wotton '10
When: Thursday, May 8, Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10 at 8 PM and 9:30 PM each night
Where: Russel House! (corner of High St. and Wash.)
$$$: Free tickets available at Usdan tables the day of each show. Limited space! Audience of 15!

Pok Pok Alimpako! Mixolydian's afternoon of European and Asian Choral Music

What: An Afternoon of European and Asian Choral Music
When: May 9 (Friday) at 3 pm
Where: Memorial Chapel
$$$: Free!

More info:

"Pokpok Alimpako Pok!" (Pound your hands) and get ready for a different sonic palette, as the Mixolydians present their fourth offering of choral music! For once, deny Bach, Beethoven and Brahms their stage-time, and enjoy startling new choral music from Europe and Southeast Asia. Don't miss this rare opportunity to sample works by composers such as Francisco Feliciano (Philippines), Gyorgy Orban (Hungary), Zachariah Goh (Singapore), Ko Matsushita (Japan) and Victor Paranjoti (India). From muslim chants, sacred motets to plain zany children's game-songs, we dare you to engage your ears.

Musophobia!

This weekend, Second Stage proudly presents Musophobia. Writer and Director Alli Rock '10 writes:

It is a certain famous theme park's official position that there are no actors inside the giant cartoon costumes that roam around the park. And as they are so real, of course, they could never ever break character. Never. Ever.

Which makes for a problem, in 1984, when these actors go on strike. It's not easy being a panda, a princess or a mermaid when you're caught between an administrative fairy and a labor organizer.

Want to see the man behind the curtain? It's simple, just close your eyes really, really tight, concentrate really, really hard, and journey to the land of the Imagi-Nation.

Starring: Adam Jacobs '10, Brenna Galvin '11, Emily Caffery '10, Peter Hull '10, Ben Smolen '10, Elizabeth Gauvey-Kern '11, Arie Levine '11, Gus Spelman '11, Elissa Heller '11, & Arran Bardige '10.

When:
Friday, May 9th at 8 PM
Saturday, May 10th at 2PM and 8PM

Where: '92 Theater

(As per normal second stage procedure, free tickets are available at the Wesleyan box office the morning of each performance.)