October 2, 2009
Events today, this weekend
Here is a list of events happening Oct. 2-4 at the West Lafayette campus.
Friday, Oct. 2
-- Reservation deadline for scholarship dinner by Latino Cultural Center and United Businesses Serving the Community, a local nonprofit organization. Event is 5:30-midnight Oct. 17 at Holiday Inn Select, downtown Lafayette. Proceeds to support local high school graduates to attend Purdue or Ivy Tech Lafayette. Tickets: $50; send payment by Oct. 2 to UBSC, P.O. Box 4832, Lafayette, IN 47903. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090924AlvaradoDinner.html.
-- New Faculty Mentoring Workshop. Graduate School. 9-11 a.m. Room 314, STEW. To register, contact Lucinda Huffaker at lhuffake@purdue.edu or 49-42604.
-- Visitor Information Center open house. Celebrating remodeling and enhancements. Office of Marketing and Media. 4-6 p.m. VIC is attached to Northwestern Avenue Garage. Event open to public; refreshments; keepsakes. Boilermaker Special will run special parking routes for event visitors. Questions: marketing@purdue.edu.
-- Soccer (women's) vs. Illinois. 4 p.m. Varsity Soccer Complex. Tickets: adult, $5; student, $2; groups of 15 or more, $1 each (on day of match, tickets are sold only at site).
-- Purdue on BTN. Big Ten Network. "The Danny Hope Show." 5 p.m. Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.
-- Volleyball (women's) vs. Minnesota. 7 p.m. Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. Tickets: adult, $9-$8; student, $6-$5.
-- "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. Purdue Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: $19-$12. Performances also at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 3-4.
-- Black Cultural Center's Homecoming and 40th Anniversary Celebration. Through Sunday; schedule at www.pbao.org. Reception at 6 p.m. Special event: World premiere film showing: "Black Purdue" about history from exclusion to isolation to a vital and central role. 9 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW. Discussion following. Admission: public, $5; students, free.
-- Homecoming: Boilermaker Night Train Parade. 8 p.m. Parade route starts at State and McCormick streets, going north to Third Street, east to Martin Jischke Drive, north to Stadium Avenue, and west to Slayter Center for 9 p.m. pep rally with king and queen coronations; coach Danny Hope; spirit squads; marching band, glee club, Purduettes, PMO Bells. Fireworks to follow pep rally. More at www.purdue.edu/events/homecoming/.
-- Film premiere screening and discussion. "Perfect: A Conversation with the Venezuelan Middle Class about Female Beauty and Breast Implants" (2009, student Alexandra Hidalgo, documentary, 25 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles). Department of English, Spanish program, Film and Video program. 8 p.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. Panel discussion and audience Q&A to follow. More including trailer at www.alexandrahidalgo.com/perfect.html.
Saturday, Oct. 3
-- Homecoming: Family Friendly Celebration on the Mall. 9-11 a.m. Purdue Mall. Various colleges, schools, others. Activity tents, food vendors, stage performances near Neil Armstrong Hall. At close, "All-American" Marching Band and band alumni lead march to Ross-Ade Stadium. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/HomecomingEvents.html.
-- Football vs. Northwestern. Homecoming. Noon. Ross-Ade Stadium. Tickets: public, $46; student, $26.
-- "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. Purdue Theatre. 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: $19-$12. Performance also at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 4.
-- Philharmonic and Symphonic orchestras in concert. Purdue Bands. 8 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.
Sunday, Oct. 4
-- Soccer (women's) vs. Michigan State. 1 p.m. Varsity Soccer Complex. Tickets: special $1 admission (on day of match, tickets are sold only at site). Pink jersey silent auction; fans are encouraged to wear pink in support of breast cancer research.
-- "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. Purdue Theatre. Final performance. 2:30 p.m. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: $19-$12.
-- "Main Street USA." Purdue Bands. Symphonic Band and Fall Concert Band performing works reflecting on life in America. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.
ONGOING EVENTS
All week
-- Exhibition: "Living Stone: The Casts Project." Purdue University Galleries. Setting in keeping with studio practice, using prints by Jim Dine, plaster casts, and artworks from classes and visitors. Through Oct. 11 in Stewart Center Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus until 8 p.m. Thursday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.
-- Exhibition: Rotating Selections from the Permanent Collection. Purdue University Galleries. Current: "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.
Monday-Friday
-- Exhibition: "Purdue's Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon." Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Includes items from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni in celebration of 40 years since the first moon landing. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, fourth floor, STEW. Through Oct. 30. More at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol. For a group tour, call 49-42839.
-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are broccoli cheddar (soup) and penna alla vodka (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.
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 two hours before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours 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 two hours before ticketed events there.
More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic.