PASAbilities – Week of October 13 – October 19
A weekly publication by the Public Affairs Student Association of Rockefeller College.
Don’t forget this upcoming Saturday 10/18 is PASA’s first annual Fall Favorites. See below on the Saturday 10/18 listing for more information. We’d love to see you there.
—This week in and around Albany—
<Tuesday 10/14>
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.
Tuesday Policy Lunch Series – Current Public Security Climate in NYS
Location: Levitt Room, Milne Hall
Time: 12:25pm – 1:30pm
Summary: This week’s Tuesday Policy Lunch will feature State Senator Vincent Leibell.
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.
<Wednesday 10/15>
Poet Major Jackson – Seminar
Location: Standish Room, Science Library
Time: 4:15pm
Summary: The product of a tough Philadelphia neighborhood, Jackson transforms the everyday artifacts and pastimes of urban life— empty lots, low-rider jeans, iPods, squeegee blades, and basketball games— into rich and expressive symbols. A winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Witter Bynner Prize of the Library of Congress, he is the author of “Leaving Saturn” (2002) and “Hoops” (2006).
Russian Film Festival
Location: Humanities 039 (Uptown Campus)
Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Summary: War and Peace, Part II, Battle of Borodino (1967, not entire film, which is 403 min), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (1920-94) this film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1968
LLC International Film Festival
Location: Humanities 354 (Uptown Campus)
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Summary: Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World) A party brings a bus full of single women to Santa Eulalia, a town in northern Spain that is lacking in single women ready to marry its abundance of middle-aged bachelors. The story revolves around three women; one from the Dominican Republic, one from Cuba, and one from Bilboa. (directed by Iciar Bollain, Spain, in Spanish, 1999, 108 min)
Poet Major Jackson – Reading
Location: Standish Room, Science Library
Time: 8:00pm
Summary: The product of a tough Philadelphia neighborhood, Jackson transforms the everyday artifacts and pastimes of urban life— empty lots, low-rider jeans, iPods, squeegee blades, and basketball games— into rich and expressive symbols. A winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Witter Bynner Prize of the Library of Congress, he is the author of “Leaving Saturn” (2002) and “Hoops” (2006).
<Thursday 10/16>
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.
War Journalist Dexter Filkins – Seminar
Location: Assembly Hall, Campus Center
Time: 4:15pm
Summary: Dexter Filkins, prize-winning war correspondent for the New York Times, is a major contributor to America’s understanding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Widely regarded as the leading war journalist of his generation, Filkins is the author of the new book, “The Forever War” (2008)
War Journalist Dexter Filkins – Reading
Location: Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Time: 8:00pm
Summary: Dexter Filkins, prize-winning war correspondent for the New York Times, is a major contributor to America’s understanding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Widely regarded as the leading war journalist of his generation, Filkins is the author of the new book, “The Forever War” (2008).
<Friday 10/17>
Last Year at Marienbad
Location: Page Hall
Time: 7:30pm
Summary: In this celebrated work of surrealism, a man pursues a woman through a palatial hotel— “a universe of marble and stucco, columns, moldings, gilded ceilings, statues, motionless servants”— insisting despite her denials that they had been lovers the previous year. The Village Voice said, “Hopelessly retro, eternally avant-garde, and one of the most influential movies ever made… Marienbad is both utterly lucid and provocatively opaque….” (French with English subtitles)
First Run Movie – The Dark Knights
Location: Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
Time: 9:00pm
Summary: Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits.
<Saturday 10/18>
Fall Favorites
Location: Locations in and around the Capital Region
Time: Varying – Late Morning – Afternoon
Summary: Join your fellow classmates on a day outing at one of five favorite locations for the day. Later on, meet back up with everyone and share your pictures and stories. If you’d like to do any of the following, just email the contact listed:
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*Apple picking and wine tasting at Goold’s Orchard – Ian Anderson (iananderson1983@gmail.com)
*Pumpkin picking and decorating (location TBA) – Esmeralda Hoscoy (esmeraldahoscoy@gmail.com)
*Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY – Sarah Imboden (s.d.imboden@gmail.com)
*New York State Museum in downtown Albany – Kyle Ketcham (kk6241@albany.edu)
*Hiking in Thacher Park – Eric Di Bari (ed4208@albany.edu)
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Also, see our full color flyer – https://pasarockefeller.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fall-favorites.pdf
Tennis Club
Location: Washington Park Tennis Courts – Madison Ave.
Time: 11:00am
Summary: The Tennis Club will be meeting, bring a racket and can of balls.
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