TC ANNOUNCEMENTS
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afternoon distribution and Thursdays at 12:00 noon for Thursday afternoon
distribution. Sorry, but emails will not be sent to all Trumbullians
outside these designated times, so please plan ahead. You may send your
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YALE-PRINCETON GAME SATURDAY
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Click on the “facilities” link on the left hand column
1. Free Trumbull Student Tickets “Illuminating Pictures”
2. "THE DAMNATION OF FAUST" AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
3. TC Fox Fellows Present International Movie Night – a German film
4. Master’s Tea Monday
5. Master’s Tea Wednesday
6. Thanksgiving w/ Master Henrich
7. Equus December 6
1. Illuminating Pictures: The Transformed World of the Victorian Magic Lantern”*
Free Tickets available in the Master’s Office today until 5:00 p.m.
Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall (enter from High Street) 8:00 pm, Friday, November 14
Through original texts, antique slides, period music, a little commentary, and a magnificent 1891 “tri-unnial” lantern, David Francis
(lanternist) and Joss Marsh (speaker), with Phil Carli at the piano, present four phases of the transformatory Victorian lantern experience:
the illuminated fairy story (_Jack the Giant Killer_), the “service of song” (the railroad musical drama _Signal Lights_), the illustrated recitation (George R. Sims’s ballad _The Magic Wand_), and the lantern Christmas performance (a “life model” lantern-slide version of _A Christmas Carol_). The show will also include a screening, with live accompaniment, of R.W. Paul’s lantern-inspired 1901 film _Scrooge_. This program should be of particular interest to students who would like to know more about the pre-history of film since this technology was one of the forerunners of moving pictures.
2. "THE DAMNATION OF FAUST" AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
DEADLINE to apply: 4:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
The next opera in this year's Trumbull series subscription to the Metropolitan Opera will be next TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. We will leave Trumbull PROMPTLY at 4:00 p.m. The cost is $15.00, including dinner.
Please CHECK YOUR SCHEDULE before you respond to make certain that you can go if you are selected.
The opera is Berlioz "The Damnation of Faust". The opera itself is excellent, and it will be conducted by James Levine, with Susan Graham singing Marguerite; it doesn't get any better than that. However, it is this production that is exceptional and ground breaking. The New York Times said that it "introduces an unprecedented level of technological stagecraft to the house". The entire back of the stage is a giant video screen, onto which are projected images of the singers, scenes depicting the opera's action, and patterns triggered by the orchestral music; "no two performances will look the same". This technology has been used by Cirque do Soleil, but never before in opera. For a Times article on the production, see "Techno-Alchemy at the Opera" [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
If you would like to attend, please submit your name to Prof. Henrich by e-mail BEFORE 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 15. Names will be selected by RANDOM DRAWING and the students notified later Saturday evening or on Sunday.
3. TC Fox Fellows Present International Movie Night – a German film
The Fox International Fellowship, joining forces with Trumbull College, are proud to present a different twist in debates on international relations and culture.
WHAT IS IT? A series of screenings comprised of contemporary cinema from each country that form the Fox Program (England, Ireland, Turkey, India, Japan, China, South Africa, Brasil, Mexico, France, Germany, Russia and Israel).
Chosen and discussed by the respective native fellows with the main purpose of portraying aspects of contemporary life in their countries.
WHEN? Saturday, November 15th, 7PM.
WHERE? Trumbull Theatre
WHICH FILM? "Head-On" (Gegen Die Wand) by Fatih Akin (2004)
Synopsis by Laurissa Muhlich - Fox International Fellow - Germany.
"20 year old Sibel tried to commit suicide although she just yearns for a free and self determined way of life. She arranges a fictitious marriage with Cahit, a Turkish immigrant to Germany who is twenty years elder than her in order to escape from the traditional lifestyle of her Turkish parents' house. Once she indeed falls in love with her husband, her fortune takes an exceptional turnaround...
Comment for the Fox Fellows' Cross-Cultural Cinema Series Director Fatis Akin tells a thrilling love story in the so called "second generation" of Turkish immigrants to Germany. Sibel and Cahit both try in different ways to find their position between traditional expections and freedom, adaption and self-destruction. In the end, both are able to return to their cultural roots - Cahit as an immigrant who tries to erase his Turkish origin, and Sibel as a girl raised in Turkish tradition surrounded by a liberal German society.
About 20 per cent of the German population are migrants, most of them immigrated from European countries. The biggest group (about 14 per cent) are Turkish migrants. The first generation of Turkish migrants came to Germany at the end of the 1950s when Germany initated Turkish employees to migrate to Germany.
Culture, tradition, and religious believe of the Turkish community in Germany characterizes many cities, first and foremost in Berlin. At the same time, contradictions between German and Turkish culture, education and moral concepts appear frequently to be a widely dicussed topic in the media and in the neighbourhoods."
See also: http://www.gegendiewand.de/
DISCUSSION WITH WHOM? Taylan Acar, Fox Intl. Fellow 2008-2008 from Bogaziçi University, Turkey.
WHY? Come join us for a Saturday evening in a relaxed atmosphere of good films, good banter and good company.
See you there,
Francisco Raul Cornejo, Fox International Fellow - Brasil
4. Master’s Tea Tuesday
Trumbull College is pleased to present a Master’s Tea with
Connecticut Supreme Court Justices
Joette Katz and Richard Palmer
4:00 p.m.
Monday, November 17
Masters’ House
100 High Street or use entrance opposite entryway I in stone court
5. Master’s Tea Wednesday
Trumbull College is pleased to present a Master’s Tea with
Orzala Ashraf Nemat
Trumbull World Fellow
Founder & Chair of the leading NGO Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan
4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 19
Masters’ House
100 High Street or use entrance opposite entryway I in stone court
6. Thanksgiving w/ Master Henrich
For those of you spending Thanksgiving Day in New Haven, Master Henrich would like to invite you to dinner. It will take place at 2:00 p.m. at John Davenports Restaurant located on the top floor of the Omni Hotel. Please reply to this message no later than noon on Friday, November 21, if you plan to attend. Thank you.
Thursday, November 27
2:00 p.m.
John Davenports Restaurant
Top Floor, Omni Hotel, 155 Temple Street
7. Equus December 6
Trumbull is having a lottery for tickets to Equus on Broadway for the Saturday, December 6 matinee performance. Sign up in the Master’s Office for the drawing that will take place on Tuesday, December 2 at noon. Students pay $15.00 when you pick up your ticket plus reimbursement for train fare if you turn in your original receipt.
Equus
Saturday, December 6
2:00 p.m.
Broadhurst Theater
235 West 44th Street