Calendar

Events scheduled for Monday, May 28 (after 5 p.m.), through Monday, June 17 (before 5 p.m.)

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY EVENTS

MAG--x5-3081; www.rochester.edu/MAG

May 31, June 7--Preschool Family Workshop. Weekly thematic workshops featuring art projects, story reading, and gallery tours. Registration required. Creative Workshop, ext. 3056, 10:30 a.m. to noon.

June 4--What's Up. Warren Mianecke, Creative Workshop assistant registrar, speaks on three works in the Ethnographic Gallery--Horizontal Helmet Mask from the Senufo Culture, Ivory Coast; Clan Mask from New Guinea; and a Kwakiutl Raven Dance Mask from the American Northwest Coast. His informal talk is followed by the opportunity to ask questions. Free with admission. Ethnographic Gallery, 5:30 p.m.

June 4--Concert. Madrigalia presents "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Concert!" Pianist Richard Volpe joins an 18-voice chamber ensemble in a program of humorous songs. Tickets required. For information, call 234-4283 or visit www.madrigalia.org. Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

June 7--Jazz Concert. The Eastman Faculty Trio and Joe Lovano's Trio Fascination perform as part of the first annual Rochester International Jazz Festival. Admission is free with Jazz Pass, available at Wegmans Ticket Outlets. For information, call 234-2002 or visit www.rochesterjazz.com. 5 p.m.

June 8--Jazz Concert. The RIT Alumni Chorale and the Dave Rivello Big Band perform as part of the first annual Rochester International Jazz Festival. Free admission. For more information call 234-2002 or visit www.rochesterjazz.com. 2 p.m.

June 9--Concert. Madrigalia reprises its concert of June 4. Memorial Art Gallery, 3 p.m.

June 15--Garden Tour. "Artists in the Garden." This self-guided tour includes eight private gardens, among them an oriental-style garden with teahouse and an environmentally friendly artist's garden, as well as the historic Ellwanger Garden. In addition, each garden will be the setting for demonstrations or displays by area artists. Tickets are required and are available at the admission desk or by calling 473-7720, ext. 3014. Garden, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

June 15--Exhibition Preview Party. Enjoy live music, dancing, and a preview of Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age. Entertainment includes the music of Jennifer Marie; Allergro, an eight-piece band that offers R & B, funk, disco, ballads, and swing; Sword and Scarab Belly-Dance Troupe; and the Cello Divas. Tickets required. Call 473-7720, x 3510 for recorded information. 8 p.m. to midnight; patrons' preview, 6-8 p.m.

June 16--Free Admission Day. Free and open to the public. Bring a friend to the opening day of Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age. Enjoy free admission, tour, and concert. Noon-5 p.m.; tours 1, 2, and 3 p.m.

June 16--Concert: Yankee Doodle Dandies: Songs from Circa 1900. Celebrate Father's Day with the American Songbook--narrator Michael Lasser and performers Linda Foster, soprano; Stephen Stull, baritone; and Don Kot, piano. This tribute to the gallery's new exhibition includes an audience sing-along. Free admission. Auditorium, 1-1:30 and 2-2:30 p.m.

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Memorial Art Gallery

Gallery Highlights Tour--Free with admission. Meet at the admission desk. May 31, June 2, 7, 9, 14, 2 p.m.; May 28, June 4, 11, 6:30 p.m.

Through June 16--Art in Bloom: A Bouquet from the Permanent Collection. A showcase of ceramics, paintings, and works on paper from the 19th century to present day.

June 10 & July 22--Creative Workshop Teen Student Show. This exhibition features work by teen students at the Creative Workshop.

June 16 & August 25--Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age. Beginning with the height of the Gilded Age, the exhibition offers works from the turn of the century and World War I and ends with the dawn of the Jazz Age. The 93 works include paintings by Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Sargent; sculptures by Picasso, Matisse, and Saint-Gaudens; glass by Tiffany and Steuben; furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright; and photographs by Stieglitz, Steichen, and Kasebier. Meet at the admission desk for tours. Free with admission. Fridays and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Long-term installations

Through 2002--New Acquisitions for a New Millennium. Showcases 21 masterworks acquired during the last four years, including the Inner Coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset, an Egyptian official of the fourth century B.C.E.

Through 2003--About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith. An interactive installation about Colonial American portrait painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Nathaniel Hurd. Dorothy McBride Gill Education Center.

At Rush Rhees Library

Through August--Display of books illustrated by Fritz Kredel (1900-1973). A small sampling of works by renowned book illustrator Kredel. Free and open to the public. Hilfiker Gallery of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation in Rush Rhees Library. Summer hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Through August--Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bookbindings 1830-1910. This exhibition chronicles the aesthetic and technical changes in English and American cloth bookbindings. Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

CPR Classes--Classes are offered by the Office for Educational Resources (OER) from January through June. Registration fee required. All classes held in the OER Department (2-7500 area of the Medical Center). To register, call x5-7666.

June 3--Basic Life Support Refresher Course, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

June 5--Basic Life Support Refresher Course, 1-5 p.m.

Noon Hour Health Bites--Informational monthly series of topics related to health and wellness. Sponsored by the Strong Employee Assistance Program. No fee or pre-registration is required. Feel free to bring a lunch. For more information, call x5-4987 or visit www.urmc.rochester.edu/eap/eap.html.

June 11--Helping Children Cope with Loss. Wendi Cross, senior instructor in psychiatry (psychology) and director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Group Therapy Services, speaks about the mourning process for children and offers suggestions for helping bereaved children cope. Ambulatory Care Facility Rooms A&B (2-1322 & 2-1218), noon to 1 p.m.

MUSIC

Eastman at Washington Square--"Thursday Lunchtime Concerts" at the First Universalist Church, corner of South Clinton and Court Streets, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Brown bag lunches are welcome during the performance. (Concerts resume in October 2002.)

May 30--Finale! Honors graduates of the CED perform.

RELIGION

River Campus Interfaith Chapel--x5-4321; www.rochester.edu/chapel/services.html

Roman Catholic Mass

June 2, 9, 16, 10:30 a.m., River Level.

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Communion Service

May 31, June 7, 14, 12:30 p.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship

June 2, 9, 16, 10:15 a.m.

RIVER CAMPUS LECTURES

Department of Chemistry--Hutchison Hall, Room 473, x5-8286, www.chem.rochester.edu/Colloquia/June2002.html

June 24--Mechanistic Investigation of Carbon-Flourine Bond Activation by Zirconium Hydride Complexes. Ph.D. Defense: Bradley Mark Draft,
1 p.m.

MISCELLANY

May 29--George Kirby Collier Memorial Lecture. Michael O'Hara, University of Iowa, lectures on "Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Post-Partum Depression: A Longitudinal Perspective." O'Hara will describe the results of a community trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with postpartum depressed women and an 18-month followup of these women. School of Medicine and Dentistry Lower S-Wing Auditorium, (1-7619), 9-10:30 a.m.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

Discounts for activities are available to all University staff, faculty, and students through the University Activities Program. All tickets are available at the hospital Cashier's Office and the Customer Service Center in the Susan B. Anthony Halls on the River Campus. The Eastman School and Memorial Art Gallery carry movie theater tickets only. For further information check the University Activities Program flier or call x5-7942. The current list can be accessed at www.rochester.edu/working/services/auxops/Activities1.htm.

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