Champlain Theatre - 'Playing Hard to Get'

Champlain Theatre’s Playing Hard to Get:
Short Works 2011 Opens Nov. 2

Champlain Theatre’s second show of the fall season, Playing Hard to Get: Short Works 2011, directed by Joanne Farrell and Kim Jordan, will highlight the talents of Champlain College students, presenting six short contemporary plays about identity, attraction, romance, misunderstanding, and balancing on the precipice of possibility.

Each play flirts with the themes of desire, misunderstandings, and relationships. Strung together, Playing Hard To Get portrays a series of characters' bizarre and daring strategies to win a tug-of-war of the will and the heart. The six plays featured are:

• Precipice by William Mastrosimone,
• Daniel on a Thursday by Garth Wingfield,
• The Problem by A.R. Gurney,
• Anything for You by Cathy Celesia,
• Rosie in the Shadow of the Melrose by Craig Fols,
• Acorn by Daniel Graziana .
• There will also be an original devised theatre piece created and performed by the cast.

The Champlain College student actors in Playing Hard to Get: Short Works 2011 are: Sam Notelovitz, Molly O'Brien, Julia Kehr, Brian Arsenault, Will Saxe, Kayleigh Blanchette, Ashley Cook, Mike LeTourneau, Matt Hollar, Kristen Orlando, and David Bender.

Playing Hard to Get: Short Works 2011, runs Nov. 2-5 at 8 p.m., at the Flynn Space, 147 Main St., Burlington. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $5 for Champlain faculty and staff, and free for Champlain students with an ID. Some mature content. To purchase tickets, call the Flynn Regional Box office 863-5966 or visit www.flynntix.org

Dispatches from Montreal

https://champlainmontrealfall2011.wordpress.com/

Here's a little sample of the Champlain Montreal Study Abroad blog for this fall.

Entries have included reflections on trips to Quebec City, electronic music, game design company visits and more.

"When I told my friends from back home that I’d be spending a semester abroad in Montreal, they were skeptical. “Montreal? Isn’t that like two hours away from Vermont? That’s not studying abroad; that’s studying next door!” Things like that. I guess I can understand where they’re coming from, but then again, the ones who say that have never been here before.

While Montreal may not be impressively far away when measured by miles (or kilometers!), it is truly a completely different world, offering endless new experiences. Why, as I sit in this café downtown, sipping on my moka glace (iced mocha) and write this blog post, a small contingency of birds are hanging out with me, like it’s no big deal. Alarmed, I look around at others to share my amazement at these unusual customers. Nobody else seems to care. Apparently, sharing the newspaper and coffee with feathered friends is just part of daily life here." Read more...

Rusty DeWees Leads Salon Series

Champlain Alumni Rusty DeWees will lead off the new Salon Series, a chance to meet and hear local favorites in an intimate interview setting at August First Bakery on Oct. 27, at 7 p.m..

TICKETS: Limited Seating!

$20 advance – $22 at the door
(includes a $5 coupon towards food, beverages and wine)
Special price for all 4 nights: $70.
For more details or tickets, www.kingdomcounty.org or call 802-357-4616.

Thursday, October 27 at 7 PM

Performer Rusty DeWees
Interviewed by Bess O’Brien
Rusty DeWees is Vermont’s gem of an entertainer, comedian, actor and performer, Rusty has been performing his One Man Comedy Show “The Logger” for 15 years to
sold out houses throughout New England and has appeared in more than 25 films. Join us for a rollicking and intimate look at how Rusty crafts VT stories and film characters.
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Thursday, November 3 at 7 PM
Writer Katherine Paterson
Interviewed by Bess O’Brien
Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 30 books including16 novels for children and young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. She is the winner of two National Book Awards. Her novel, The Day of the Pelican was the Vermont Reads selection for 2010. Learn about how Katherine develops character and story and what it was like to have one of her books adapted into a Hollywood movie.
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Thursday, November 10 at 7 PM
Writer Howard Frank Mosher
Interviewed by Jay Craven
Using ironic humor, complex characterization, and surprising dramatic twists, Howard Mosher has written 10 novels that invite readers into his magical world of Kingdom County, Vermont. (Sneak Preview! Howard will read from his new story, Nights of Temperance.) Filmmaker Jay Craven has adapted four Mosher stories and is about to take on another–Northern Borders. Tune in to go behind the scenes.
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Thursday, November 17 at 7 PM
Journalist Jane Lindholm
Interviewed by Jay Craven
Vermont native Jane Lindholm returned home after stints at public radio’s Talk of the
Nation, Weekend Edition, and Marketplace. At VPR, she has developed Vermont Edition into a probing and revealing radio journal that connects and informs listeners throughout the region. Join us as we interview the interviewer.
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Clean-up Day Seeks Volunteers

Rozalia Project Islands Cleanup and International Coastal Cleanup
on Vermont Cleanup Day: October 22, 2011

After flooding and a summer of use, Lake Champlain needs our help.
This is an opportunity to make a difference.

Date: Saturday October 22, 2011

Join Rozalia Project to carry on the momentum from September’s Burlington Waterfront cleanup and head to the Islands to get rid of the trash on and in Lake Champlain. The data collected will be part of the worldwide International Coastal Cleanup and will compliment Governor Shumlin’s Vermont Post-Irene Cleanup Day.

From 10 a.m. to noon , meet at the site of the old Sand Bar Inn (south side as you drive off the causeway into South Hero). Free and open to the water-loving public

Last month Rozalia Project and 50 volunteers picked up over 1,500 pieces of trash that weighed 408 pounds within ½ mile along the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington. That day, Vermonters joined millions of people all over the world to clean marine debris from shorelines and all bodies of water in over 150 countries as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. It was the first time Vermont has been involved at this level in over four years.

This month, we are heading to the Islands. The spring floods and Hurricane Irene deposited huge amounts of debris into Lake Champlain. This is a chance to join Vermonters all over the state and get involved cleaning up the lake - making it safer for its people and marine creatures. In addition, we will record the debris collected and submit that data to the Ocean Conservancy as an ongoing part of the 2011 International Coastal Cleanup. This important marine debris data helps shape action and policy to keep all of the world’s waterways clean.

This event is free and open to the lake-loving public. Trash bags and data cards will be provided, please bring your own work gloves. All ages are welcome. Pre-registration is not required. For more information and updates, click 'Attending' on the Rozalia Project Facebook event page, email: rachael@rozaliaproject.org or call 802-578-6120.

About Rozalia Project: Rozalia Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to find and recover marine debris from the surface to the sea floor through action, technology, outreach and research. The organization operates from the record-breaking circumnavigator now research-vessel, American Promise along the New England coast and is run by Vermonters, Rachael Miller and James Lyne. This summer, Rozalia Project picked up 4,863 pieces of trash with 1,381 people involved along the New England coast. Rachael Miller was recently named the Vermont Coordinator for the International Coastal Cleanup by the Ocean Conservancy. For more information about Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean visit: www.rozaliaproject.org

Imagination Panel - With Laurie Anderson

Imagination Panel, (l-r) Jostein Solheim, CEO of Ben & Jerry's Homemade; Laurie Anderson, performance artist; President David F. Finney, Champlain College; Jane Lindholm, Vermont Public Radio; and Tiffany Bluemle, Vermont Works for Women. A panel discussion on innovation, creativity and imagination at the FlynnSpace, Oct. 14, 2011. (Photo by Stephen Mease)

Perry Hall Revisited

A lovely post from Diana, a Champlain alumni who now lives in Texas, but returned to campus recently for a visit.
Her Down Home Travel Blog chronicles her food, music and travel adventures.

http://downhometravel.blogspot.com/2011/09/champlain-college.html

Champlain College - Perry Hall

About five years ago, I graduated from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. It is by far the best decision that I have ever made in my ENTIRE life. Looking back, it was one of the greatest times of my life. I worked in the Student Life Office and in the Residential Life Department, loved the faculty that taught my classes and I make it a point to go back and visit just about every time I go home to Vermont.

When I was home in September, I set aside an afternoon to go visit campus. There has been a lot that has happened in the past five years since I've graduated, even more if I look back to what it was like my freshman year. Before I headed home, I had contacted my old boss in the Student Life office (more on her in a post to come) and asked if she could give me a tour. "Of Course" was the response. I was pretty excited.

To provide a bit of background, the below picture (May 2009) is the Perry Hall that I knew when I attended Champlain. I lived in a dorm across the street and a few of us would go over and play softball in the HUGE yard behind the house. Oh how it has changed. READ MORE

• Read the entire blog posting and her other travel and food tales.
• Read her review of American Flatbread

National Student Day at the Bookstore

The Champlain College Bookstore hosted its first National Student Day to show appreciation for students and their volunteer work. Music by The Hardscrabble Hounds and some of Champlain's book authors, Rita Murphy, Linda Urban and Erik Esckilsen were on hand for the afternoon to talk with students.