PASAbilities – Week of September 29 – October 5
A weekly publication by the Public Affairs Student Association of Rockefeller College.
—This week in and around Albany—
<Tuesday 9/30>
Rockefeller Runners
Location: Intersection of Madison Ave and Lark Street Albany, NY
Time: 6:30am – 7:30am
Summary: Join Rockefeller Runners running club for a morning run around Albany. The club is made of fellow classmates and is training to complete a half marathon at the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon race on October 12th.
Salsa Dance Lesson
Location: Business Administration 224 (Uptown Campus)
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Summary: Learn Salsa Dance with Albany Salsa Dance MCAA programming Your GSO Funds at Work. Free.
<Thursday 10/2>
Rockefeller Runners
Location: Intersection of Madison Ave and Lark Street Albany, NY
Time: 6:30am – 7:30am
Summary: Join Rockefeller Runners running club for a morning run around Albany. The club is made of fellow classmates and is training to complete a half marathon at the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon race on October 12th.
Irish Author Anne Enright – Seminar
Location: Assembly Hall, Campus Center (Uptown Campus)
Time: 4:15pm
Summary: Anne Enright received the 2007 Booker Prize, the British Commonwealth’s most prestigious literary award, for “The Gathering” (2007), a novel about the impact of alcoholism and suicide on a large Irish family. Her newest book is the short story collection, “Yesterday’s Weather” (2008).
Ramazan with Rumi
Location: Assembly Hall, Campus Center (Uptown Campus)
Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Summary: Celebration of Ramazan Bayramı with a guest speaker from Harvard to talk on Rumi and Sufi performers to read Rumi poetry with nay music. Coffee and Turkish desserts will be served. Sponsored by the Turkish Student Association.
<Friday 10/3>
Movie: Night and the City
Location: Page Hall (Downtown Campus)
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Summary: Exiled American director Jules Dassin, on the run from the House Un-American Activities Committee, made this film about a luckless American expatriate who attempts to establish himself as a wrestling promoter in London, but who quickly finds himself trapped in a nightmare world of crime and murder. The British Film Institute called it, “a baroque masterpiece of corruption, paranoia and doom that ranks among the true works of art in the film noir genre.”
First Run Movie: Get Smart
Location: Performing Arts Center (Uptown Campus)
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Summary: Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 at his side. Comedy.
<Saturday 10/4>
Rummage Sale
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany (405 Washington Ave)
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Summary: Gently used clothing for all ages and seasons, holiday decorations, bedding, towels, table linens, vintage clothing and jewelry.
Tennis Club
Location: Washington Park Tennis Courts – Madison Ave.
Time: 11:00am
Summary: The Tennis Club will have their first meeting, bring a racket and can of balls.
Souvlaki Fest 2008
Location: St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church (440 Whitehall Road)
Time: 11:00am – 8:00pm
Summary: Chicken or pork souvlaki and gyro sandwich or platter, Greek salad spanikopita spinach pie, loukoumathes (fried dough with honey), rice pudding and more.
<Sunday 10/5>
Tour the USS Slater
Location: 141 Broadway Albany, NY
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Summary: Tour the only World War II destroyer afloat in The United States, moored right by the Port of Albany. $7 for adults $5 for children. Running Wednesday – Sunday until November.
Sunday Cinema – Iron Man
Location: Albany Public Library, Main Branch (161 Washington Avenue)
Time: 2:00pm
Summary: When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.
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