February 11, 2009

Today's events

Wednesday, Feb. 11
 
-- Last day to order a singing Valentine from Purdue Musical Organizations. For delivery Friday (Feb. 13). $30; includes song, rose, cookie and personalized card. 49-3941. More at www.pmojo.com.

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "Tools for Effective Communication: Using Your Voice." Richard Sullivan Lee, theatre; Barbara Solomon, speech, language, and hearing sciences. For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Workshop 3 of 5 in series through Feb. 26. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- Workshop on legal issues for startup companies. Purdue Research Foundation and Discovery Park. Workshop leader: Trevor Belden, partner, Baker & Daniels law firm, Indianapolis. 9-11 a.m. Room 121, Burton Morgan Center. To reserve a space (by Feb. 9): Meghan Freeman at the law firm at meghan.freeman@bakerd.com.

-- Jewish Studies Noon Lecture Series. David Sanders, biological sciences. "Muhammad, Joseph Smith, Hong Xiuquan and the Bible." 12:30
p.m. Room 320, STEW. 49-47965 or wengera@purdue.edu or www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/.

-- "Difficult Dialogues" series. Monthly conversation about race and issues that intersect race. Black Cultural Center and American Studies program. Topic: "Race and the Academy." 2 p.m. Multipurpose Room 1, BCC.

-- Weekly Spanish conversation table. Latino Cultural Center. For those who know basic Spanish but want to practice their conversational skills in a friendly atmosphere. 6-7 p.m. LCC. 49-42530.

-- Men's basketball vs. Penn State. 6:30 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $24.

All week

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Kristy Deetz: 'Earth Texts.'" Wood relief sculptures based on words and characteristics associated with books. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Stewart Center Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Feb. 22.

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World: Selections from the Permanent Collection." This is the first exhibition in a new annual format allowing more extensively researched presentation of works contributed by donors, as well as dedicated use of a gallery for this purpose. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Robert L. Ringel Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Dec. 6.

Monday-Friday

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are cream of tomato (soup) and chicken pot pie (entrée). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Stone Hall. Reservations encouraged; call 49-46845. To access the full menu and learn about other dining options from the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.
 
-- Rueff Galleries: West Gallery. "Sad Girl/Clever Boy." A collaborative performance-based project that seeks to explore two popular trends among emerging contemporary artists, mainly post-feminist representation and prolonged or glorified adolescence, in female and male artists respectively. An opening reception featuring a series of live performance by Katherine Cunningham will take place from 5-7 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 12). Cunningham also will give a Brown Bag Lecture at noon Feb. 19 in the gallery. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Pao Hall. 49-62958. Through Feb. 20.

-- Project Respect exhibition "To Know My Mother's Name." African American Studies and Research Center, Black Cultural Center. Portraits by Delita Martin, graduate student in visual and performing arts. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday through Feb. 25. Lounge, BCC.

TICKETS
 
Events are free unless noted (except that conference registrations may be omitted here). Ticket prices are for single events, not any series or discount offers. An exception to the following will be noted in the listing.
 
For varsity athletics tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 49-SPORT [497-7678]; or visit the office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events at IAF, Mackey Arena and Ross-Ade Stadium. For ticketed sports events at other Purdue venues, tickets will be on sale before the event at the venue. More at www.purduesports.com.
 
For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others as announced, go to ticket offices in Elliott Hall (lower level, northeast end by Hovde Hall) or Stewart Center (west lobby), or call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW [914-7469]. The Elliott Hall box office is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there.
 
Purdue Theatre tickets are sold also at the Pao Hall box office. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and before Purdue Theatre performances there.
 
More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic/Welcome.html.