<ong>Carleton students to perform “The Vagina Monologues”
On Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m., Carleton students will present their annual performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues.” The production, part of the nationwide V-Day movement to stop violence against women, will take place at the Skinner Memorial Chapel on the Carleton campus. Tickets can be purchased at the door and in advance in the Sayles-Hill campus center; admission is a sliding scale fee of $5-20. All proceeds benefit the HOPE Center in Faribault, Minn., and the V-Day 2009 Spotlight Campaign on the Congo. The public is invited to attend this always-popular performance. Ten percent of the funds raised through Carleton’s 2009 V-Day production will go to the Spotlight Campaign on the Congo, combating the widespread physical and sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More information about violence against Congolese women and girls is available at http://newsite.vday.org/.
The remaining proceeds will be donated to the HOPE Center. The HOPE Center delivers advocacy and crisis intervention services to victims of domestic abuse, child abuse and sexual assault through healing outreach, prevention and education. HOPE Center was formed in 1994 by merging the Rice County Sexual Assault Program, Battered Women’s Program and the Northfield Helpline. More information is available about HOPE Center at http://www.hopecentermn.org/index.html.
For more information or to pre-order tickets contact Juliet Dana at [email protected]. For information about disability accommodations in the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel, please call (507) 646-4347.
New York artist to speak at Carleton in association with Art Gallery exhibit
In conjunction with the Art Gallery’s current exhibit “Modernizing Melodrama,” Carleton College will present New York-based artist Dawn Clements on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Boliou Hall, room 104. In a lecture entitled “Drawn into Melodrama,” Clements will speak about her passion for film melodramas and how she engages with these cinematic works through her own art pieces. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Clements received her MFA from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1989.
“Modernizing Melodrama” will be on exhibit through March 11, 2009. The Carleton College Art Gallery is located near First and Winona Streets in Northfield, in the lower level of the Music and Drama Center on the Carleton College campus. The gallery is open Monday through Wednesday, noon to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, noon to 10 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, the lectures, or for disability accommodations, call the Carleton Art Gallery at (507) 222-4342 or visit www.carleton.edu/campus/gallery.
For more information on this event, including disability accommodations, call Director of Exhibitions Laurel Bradley at (507) 222-4342.