Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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January 5, 2001
EDITORS: This calendar lists selected Purdue events during the next four weeks. Events are free and open to the public, except where noted, and all are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings have two asterisks (**). All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar
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EVENTS
Monday, Jan. 15. 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Affirming the Dream IV: A Day of Service. Volunteers will work for a variety of Greater Lafayette non-profit organizations.
** Friday, Jan. 26. 11:30 a.m. Ag Alumni Annual Fish Fry. Purdue Armory. Tickets are $12 and must be purchase in advance from the Agricultural Alumni Association office or any county Cooperative Extension office.
ENTERTAINMENT
** Friday, Jan. 19. 8 p.m. Nicholas Payton's Louis Armstrong Tribute. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Payton will pay tribute to the jazz great with his own 12-piece band. A part of the 20th Anniversary Jazz Set presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $24 for the public and $15 for Purdue students.
** Friday through Sunday, Jan. 19-21. Purdue Jazz Festival. Purdue Memorial Union and Stewart Center. Three-day festival featuring two concerts with national headliners, two days of middle and high school competition, open clinics with jazz stars and a host of new events including jazz for night owls, a jazz brunch and a jazz church service. Sponsored by Purdue Bands.
** Wednesday, Jan. 24. Jewish Studies Film Series. Room 2290, Liberal Arts and Education Building. "Life is Beautiful," a romantic comedy set in the Nazi concentration campus of World War II. For his performance, Roberto Benigni won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Actor.
** Friday, Feb. 2. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. 8 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. A special presentation of Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $28 for the public and $23 for Purdue students.
EXHIBITS
Jan. 8-Feb. 25. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Pre-Columbian Textiles." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. Pieces from the collection; a gift of Mike D. and David C. May.
Jan. 8-Feb. 25. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Virtual Hands: Collaborations by Lisa Lee Peterson and Skif Peterson." Stewart Center Gallery, Stewart Center. Associate Professor of Art & Design Lisa Peterson's hand weavings, Skif Peterson's digital prints, and the Petersons' cybernetic woven collaborations.
Jan. 8-Feb. 25. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Hilary Eddy Paintings from the collection of Dorothy Murphy." Ralph G. Beelke Memorial Gallery, Creative Arts Building 2. Floral "hybrid" paintings of this accomplished Purdue alumnus from the collection of a West Lafayette supporter and sponsor of Eddy.
SEMINARS
** Wednesday, Jan. 17. 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Noon Series. Room 214A, Stewart Center. Professor David Sanders, Department of Biological Sciences, will speak on "Public Display of the Ten Commandments: A Jewish Conspiracy?"
** Wednesday, Jan. 31. 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Noon Series. Room 214A, Stewart Center. Professor Emeritus William Buffington, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, will speak "On the Trail of Controversy: From Martin Luther to the Oberammergau Passion Play 2000."
CONFERENCES
** Friday, Jan. 12. Noon. Entrepreneurs' Forum. Purdue Technology Center, Purdue Research Park. Monthly, hour-long forum invites faculty, staff, students and other interested individuals to network and learn more about what is involved in starting a company. The speaker is Sam Florance of the Purdue Gateways Program who will speak on "Launching High-Tech Ventures in Emerging Markets." RSVP one week prior to Courtney Hedge at (765) 494-2610 or cahedge@purdue.edu.
** Thursday, Feb. 1. Noon. Entrepreneurs' Forum. Purdue Technology Center, Purdue Research Park. Monthly, hour-long forum invites faculty, staff, students and other interested individuals to network and learn more about what is involved in starting a company. The speaker is Tom Hiatt of MWV Capital Partners who will speak on "Beyond the Year 2000: The Role of Private Equity in Building the Next Generation of Indiana's Companies." RSVP one week prior to Courtney Hedge at (765) 494-2610 or cahedge@purdue.edu.
OTHER
Monday, Jan. 8. Spring semester begins.
Monday, Jan. 15. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Official university holiday. University offices closed.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; jwillis1@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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