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Clothesline Festival
ART FOR EVERYONE--Budding artists ages 4-8 can spend half an hour painting at easels, modeling with clay, and creating from scrap materials at Memorial Art Gallery's 46th Clothesline Festival. On september 14-15, more than 600 artists and craftspeople from across New York will exhibit and offer for sale works on the gallery's 17-acre campus from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. To learn more about this fundraising event, visit http://mag.rochester.edu/visit/clothesline/index.html

Events scheduled for Monday, September 9 (after 5 p.m.), through Monday, September 23 (before 5 p.m.)

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY EVENTS

MAG--x5-3081; http://mag.rochester.edu

September 11--Remembrance Day. In remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001, area musicians will play classical music. Admission is free. Pavilion, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

September 14, 15--46th Clothesline Festival. Rochester's oldest and largest arts and crafts festival. Activities include the "Step Show" with 20-minute performances every hour from noon to 3 p.m.; the "Paint Pen," a supervised art center for children; and appearances by local TV and radio personalities. Discount tickets sold at all Wegmans stores. Two-day passes are available for purchase at the gallery's admission desk through September 13. Rain or shine, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Memorial Art Gallery

Gallery Highlights Tour--Free with admission. Meet at the admission desk. September 12, 19, 6:30 p.m.; September 13, 20, 22, 2 p.m.

Through September 30--Creative Workshop Faculty Show. This exhibition features work by faculty at the gallery's Creative Workshop.

September 13-January 5--Meanwhile: Works by Contemporaries of Edgar Degas. This exhibition includes pastels, prints, watercolors, and sculpture by friends and contemporaries of French impressionist master Edgar Degas. The works, from the gallery's permanent collection, are by such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Mucha, Renoir, and Rodin.

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 May 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 Hartnett Gallery

Through October 9--splashes. An installation by artist Masha Ryskin. The exhibition combines traditional printmaking and drawing techniques with everyday objects to explore the themes of light, physical and metaphorical layering, and transparency. Free and open to the public. Wilson Commons, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. on weekends.

September 12--Reception. Artist Masha Ryskin talks about her exhibition splashes. Free and open to the public, 5-7 p.m.

At Rush Rhees Library

Through September 30--Recent Idiosyncrasies. Rochester artist Anne Havens exhibits a selection of recent sculpture and related work on paper. Free and open to the public. The Art and Music Library gallery. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 10 p.m.

FILMS

University Cinema Group--All films shown in the Hoyt Hall Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets available in advance at the Common Market, Wilson Commons

September 20--Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m.

September 21--Spider-Man. 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m., midnight.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

The Center for Lifetime Wellness--Monroe Community Hospital, 435 E. Henrietta Road, 760-6660.

September 19--Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You Are Starting to Forget. Part one of a four-week self-help program that explains how memory works and discusses techniques to improve memory. Registration fee. Education Room, 6:30-8 p.m.

CPR Classes--Classes are offered by the Office for Educational Resources (OER) from September through December 2002. Registration fee required. All classes held in the OER Department (2-7500 area of the Medical Center). To register, call x5-7666.

September 11--Basic Life Support Original Course, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

September 13--Basic Life Support Refresher Course, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

September 16--Basic Life Support Refresher Courses, 1-5 p.m.

September 18--Basic Life Support Original Course, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

MUSIC

Eastman School of Music--24-hour Music Line x4-1100, www.rochester.edu/Eastman. Events are free unless otherwise noted.

September 14--Eastman Alumni Weekend and Chamber Music America Education and Residency Institute. Family concert featuring the Ying and Cavani Quartets. Kilbourn Hall, 2 p.m.

September 14--Eastman Alumni Weekend and Chamber Music America Education and Residency Institute. Brentano String Quartet. Music of Josquin des Prez, Stravinsky, Mozart, and BartŸk. Tickets required. Kilbourn Hall, 8:15 p.m.

September 14--Eastman Alumni Weekend. Eastman Virtuosi & Eastman Chamber Orchestra. Music of Mozart and others. Mitch Miller and Neil Varon, conductors. Eastman Theater, 8:15 p.m.

September 17--Faculty Artist Series. Robert Swensen, tenor, and Benton Hess, piano. Music of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Grieg. Tickets available at the door (one free ticket per University ID holder). Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

September 21--Musical Elevenses. Lynn Blakeslee, director. Kilbourn Hall, 11 a.m.

September 22--Faculty Artist Series. Peter Kurau, horn, assisted by Joseph Werner, piano, and Pamela Kurau, soprano. Music of Reynolds, Bowen, and Musgrave. Tickets available at the door (one free ticket per University ID holder). Kilbourn Hall, 3 p.m.

River Campus

September 20--Adam Richman. Wilson Commons Coffeehouse, 8 p.m.

RELIGION

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

Roman Catholic Mass

September 15, 22, River Level, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.
September 10, 17, Sanctuary, 5:15 p.m.
September 11, 18, Friel Lounge, 10 p.m.

Jewish Services

Conservative: September 13, 20, River Level, 6 p.m.; September 14, 21, Commons Room, 10:30 p.m.
Orthodox: September 13, 20, Conference Room, 6 p.m.; September 14, 21, River Level, 10 a.m.
Reform: September 13, 20, Commons Room, 6 p.m.

Muslim Services

Daily Prayers: Fajr, dawn-6:45 a.m.; Zuhr, 12:20-3 p.m. (Monday-Thursday, Conference Room, 12:30-2 p.m.); Asr, 3:30 p.m.-sunset; Magrib, sunset; Isha, 7 p.m.; Jumma, Friday, Commons Room, 1:10 p.m.

Protestant Services

Interdenominational Worship Community: September 15, 22, 3 p.m., Sanctuary.
Protestant Community Chapel: September 15, 22, 5 p.m., Sanctuary.
Sikh Services

Rahiras: September 11, 18, 7 p.m. Meditation Room

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Communion Service

September 13, 20, 12:30 p.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship

September 15, 22, 10:15 a.m.

SPORTS, www.rochester.edu/living/athletics

Field Hockey--SUNY Cortland, September 11, 4 p.m.; Muhlenberg, September 14, 1 p.m.; Nazareth, September 18, 4 p.m.; Utica, September 22, 2 p.m.

Women's Soccer--Daemen College, September 17, 7 p.m.

Men's Tennis--Flower City Invitational, September 21-22, time TBD.

Women's Volleyball--D'Youville, September 10, 7 p.m.

RIVER CAMPUS LECTURES

Department of Biology Donut Talks--Hutchison Hall, Room 473, noon to 1 p.m.

September 9--Evolutionary Specialization in Laboratory Microbial Populations. Vaughn Cooper, University of Michigan.

September 23--Half-Baked Ectoderm in the Zebrafish. Donald Kane, Department of Biology.

Department of Chemistry--Hutchison Hall, Room 473 (unless otherwise noted), x5-8286, www.chem.rochester.edu/Colloquia/September2002.html.

September 11--Activations of Chemical Bonds by Transition Metals. Use of Sigma-Bond Metathesis and 1,2-Hydrogen Migration in New Catalytic and Stoichiometric Processes. Colloquium: T. Don Tilley, University of California at Berkeley, noon.

September 13--Development and Utility of New Stereoselective Reactions. Organic seminar: James Morken, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9:30 a.m.

September 16--Bromide Oxidation by Peroxometal Complexes: Reactivity and Mechanism. Inorganic seminar: Martha Reynolds, Colgate University, 4:45 p.m.

September 18--The Recognition of Single-Stranded DNA at Telomeres. Colloquium: Deborah Wuttke, University of Colorado, noon.

September 20--Palladium-Catalyzed Addition of Stabilized Carbon Nucleophiles to Unactivated Olefins. Organic seminar: Ross Widenhoefer, Duke University, 9:30 a.m.

September 23--Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Protein Folding. Inorganic seminar: Ron Elber, Cornell University, 4:45 p.m.

MISCELLANY

September 13--Latin Expo. Kick-off event for Hispanic Heritage Month, with performances from area college students, art displays and demonstrations, and food and refreshments. Sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs and Lambda Pi Chi. 424-8830 for information. Hirst Lounge, Wilson Commons, 5 to 7 p.m.

September 14--Caribbean Carnival on Yellowjacket Day. This celebration of Caribbean culture features fashion, art, crafts jewelry, carnival rides, Caribbean photo buttons, psychics, caricature artists, authentic Caribbean food, and live Caribbean music. Free and open to the public. Parking is available on University lots on weekends. Wilson Commons Lawn, 1-6 p.m.

September 20--Convocation. Opening of the academic year with welcoming remarks and presentation of the Goergen Awards for Contributions to Undergraduate Education in the College. Picnic for faculty, staff, and students of the College follows ceremony. Dandelion Square, noon to 2 p.m.

September 20--Dance Master Class and Lecture/Demonstration. "Inhabitable Space." Choreographer Mark Jarecke and dancer Steffany George conduct a master class using structure improvisation and movement scales to explore three-dimensional space. Dance studio of Spurrier Hall, 3-5 p.m. "Subdermal." Demonstration and discussion of a performance/installation work created by Jarecke and danced by George against a video by artist Sean Brown. Dance studio of Spurrier Hall, 7:30 p.m. Call the dance program to register for the master class, x3-5150.

September 20--Mumford Manor Murder Mystery. A murder mystery dinner sponsored by Campus Activities Board. Wilson Commons, May Room, 6 p.m. Dinner is $10. Tickets go on sale at the Common Market on September 9.

September 21--The Second City. Chicago's legendary comedy touring troupe performs. Tickets can be purchased at the Common Market in Wilson Commons. Discount tickets for University undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff. Strong Auditorium, 8 p.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/ActivitiesProg1.htm



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