IEW Events Calendar 2007
Sunday, November 4
Rice Mini World Soccer Cup:
Department: OISS and GSA
Location: Rice soccer field across the Shepherd School of Music
Time: 10 AM to 2 PM
Description: Celebrate the IEW by playing an international team. All Rice
community is welcome to participate. Family and friends are invited to cheer
on the teams.
More Info:
http://web.mac.com/stantastic268/iWeb/STANTASTIC/Welcome.html or
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ois/docs/soccer.flyer.pdf
Wednesday, November 7
Tent of Miracle - A Film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos:
Department: Rice Media Center and Brazilian Consulate in Houston
Location: FILM AUDITORIUM, Rice Media Center
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: Tent of Miracles is a colorful, carnavalesque celebration of AfroBrazilian culture, but also a strong satire on racial attitudes in Brazil and
among westerners.
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Thursday, November 8
The amulet of ogum - A Film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos:
Department: Rice Media Center and Brazilian Consulate in Houston
Location: FILM AUDITORIUM, Rice Media Center
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: A blind singer entertains a gang of thieves with a tale: a boy
from the country comes to the big city and becomes a powerful gangster, using
the powers of Candomblé. An extraordinary mix of magical realism and genre
material. Amulet of Ogum must be seen as a forerunner of modern gangster
films and as one of the few films to attempt a political and populist cinema.
This film screening is in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Tickets for "The Amulet of Ogum" are $6.00 general admission and $5.00
student/staff member.
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Friday, November 9
The third Bank of the River - A Film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos:
Department: Rice Media Center and Brazilian Consulate in Houston.
Location: FILM AUDITORIUM, Rice Media Center
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: The film interweaves five short stories from the pen of protomagic realist writer Joao Guimaraes Rosa, each one about the relationship of
the everyday to a world of the impossible. Featuring a musical score by Milton
Nascimento. This film screening is in partnership with the Museum of Fine
Arts Houston. Tickets for "The Third Bank of the River" are $6.00 general
admission and $5.00 student/staff member.
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Saturday, November 10
Prison Memories – A film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos:
Department: Rice Media Center and Brazilian Consulate in Houston.
Location: FILM AUDITORIUM, Rice Media Center
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: In 1936, during the reign of the dictator Getulio Vargas, a writer
(Carlos Vereza) is taken into custody and held without explanation. He moves
from an ordinary jail cell to a correctional facility and finally to a penal
colony. But, miraculously, his imprisonment turns into a kind of liberation, as
he becomes a more committed human being.
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Monday, November 12
Luncheon for the Presidents of student clubs:
Department: OISS
Location: Faculty Club
Time: 11:30 AM to 1 PM
Description: Luncheon for the Presidents of the international student clubs to
meet with high-level Rice administrators. By invitation only.
More Info: Contact OISS Office (x6095).
Sammy’s Café International Menu:
Department: Housing and Dining
Location: Student Center
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Description: Mexican Lunch. Chicken & beef enchiladas, cheese & bean
burrito, tamale corn, Spanish rice, and borracho beans
More Info: http://sammys.rice.edu
Shepherd School Opera Performance:
Department: Shepherd School of Music
Location: Wortham Opera Theater - Alice Pratt Brown
Time: 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM.
Description: Tickets required. Admission: $10.00; students and senior
citizens $8.00. Open seating. For tickets call 713-348-8000.
More Info: http://music.rice.edu/
Tuesday, November 13
Study Abroad Information Table:
Department: Office of International Programs
Location: Student Center, Sammy’s Lobby across from the Coffee House.
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Description: Drop by the International Programs and Study Abroad
Information Table to talk to an advisor about studying or working abroad. You
can pick up informational flyers and brochures, and check out the brand new
website.
More Info: http://abroad.rice.edu
Sammy’s Café International Menu:
Department: Housing and Dining
Location: Student Center
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Description: Texan BBQ Lunch. BBQ chicken, BBQ sausage on Stick,
vegetable & cheese bake, potato salad, BBQ beans, dirty rice and Texas chili.
More Info: http://sammys.rice.edu
Blood Miracles and Fire Magic: The Transmutation Arts of Alberto Burri:
Department: Humanities
Location: Humanities Research Center
Time: 4PM to 6 PM.
Description: In this talk, Dr. Brennan examines the ways in which art
museums can function as numinous sites of aesthetic contemplation within
modern and postmodern culture. Dr. Brennan will examine James Johnson
Sweeney's engagement with the Italian modernist artist Alberto Burri,
focusing on the ways in which Sweeney's critical discourses and his museum
installations presented Burri's artworks in paradoxical terms.
More Info: http://hrc.rice.edu/
Houston Friends of Music, Trio con Brio Copenhagen:
Department: Shepherd School of Music
Location: Student Concert Hall Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: Music Trio con Brio Copenhagen Program: Haydn - Piano Trio
in C Major, Hob. XV:27; Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67;
and Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66. 8:00 p.m., Concert
Hall Admission (reserved seating): $19–$61. For tickets call 713-348-5400.
Limited number of complimentary tickets for Rice faculty, staff, and students.
More Info: http://music.rice.edu/
Wednesday, November 14
Passport Fair:
Department: Delivery Services
Location: Kelly Lounge
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
Description: The Department of Delivery Service will offer a passport fair
where you can apply to renew your passport or to get a new one.
More info: http://delivery.rice.edu/
Study Abroad Information Table:
Department: Office of International Programs
Location: Student Center, Sammy’s Lobby across from the Coffee House.
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Description: Drop by the International Programs and Study Abroad
Information Table to talk to an advisor about studying or working abroad. You
can pick up informational flyers and brochures, and check out the brand new
website.
More Info: http://abroad.rice.edu
Sammy’s Café International Menu:
Department: Housing and Dining
Location: Student Center
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Description: French Lunch. Chicken Cordon Bleu, beef Bourguignon,
spinach quiche, French Style Green Bean Almandine and buttered French
rolls.
More Info: http://sammys.rice.edu
Sweet International Celebration:
Department: Rice Residential Dining, Rice Catering & OISS.
Location: Ray Courtyard in Ley Student Center
Time: 12:00(noon) to 1 PM
Description: Wear traditional clothes or a T-shirt with the name or colors of
your home country and join us to celebrate IEW. Bring your own lunch and
come to have free cake and cookies.
More Info: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ois/docs/IEW.Sweet.Celebration.pdf
Taste of Languages:
Department: Center for Study of Languages (CSL)
Location: CSL Building
Time: 5:00 to 5:30pm
RH121: Japanese
RH202: Italian
RH204: Hindi
RH205: German
RH304: Polish
RH310: French
From 5 to 6PM
RH123: Portuguese
From 5:30pm to 6:00pm
RH202: Arabic
RH204: Russian
RH205: Hebrew
RH304: Spanish
RH310: Korean
Description: Learn about languages, the professors form the GSL program
will do a sort class giving a little taste of the language that they are teaching.
More info: http://langcenter.rice.edu/langculture.cfm
Chamber Music of Winds:
Department: Shepherd School of Music
Location: Duncan Recital Hall Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Time: 8 PM to 9 PM
Description: Chamber Music for Winds featuring Shepherd School students.
Ponchielli - Quartetto for Winds and Piano; d’Indy - Chansons et Danses;
Janácek - Mládí (Youth) for winds; and Stravinsky - Octet. 8:00 p.m., Duncan
Recital Hall Free Admission.
More Info: http://music.rice.edu/
Thursday, November 15
Study Abroad Information Table:
Department: Office of International Programs
Location: Student Center, Sammy’s Lobby across from the Coffee House.
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Description: Drop by the International Programs and Study Abroad
Information Table to talk to an advisor about studying or working abroad. You
can pick up informational flyers and brochures, and check out our brand new
website.
More Info: http://abroad.rice.edu
Sammy’s Café International Menu:
Department: Housing and Dining
Location: Student Center
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Description: American Thanksgiving Lunch. Roasted turkey w/cranberry
sauce, honey ham w/pineapple sauce, cornbread dressing, green bean
casserole, candied yams w/marshmallows, pumpkin pie and pecan pie.
Contact OISS about free tickets!!
More Info: http://sammys.rice.edu
Gallery Talk on Kirsten Hassenfeld's "Dans la Lune," on view at Rice Gallery:
Department: Rice Art Gallery
Location: Sewall Hall
Time: 6 PM to 7 PM
Description: Gallery talk on Kirsten Hassenfeld's "Dans la Lune," by Rice
Gallery Outreach Coordinator Katherine Kuster
More Info: http://www.ricegallery.org/
Hecuba by Euripides:
Department: Visual and Dramatic Arts
Location: THEATRE, Hamman Hall
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: Hecuba, former queen now a slave to the Greeks, is in mourning
for her husband and the devastated city of Troy when she discovers that a
trusted friend has killed her son. He has his reasons; reasons he feels are
justified. Hecuba’s grief turns to rage and desperate revenge
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Friday, November 16
Study Abroad Information Table:
Department: Office of International Programs
Location: Student Center, Sammy’s Lobby across from the Coffee House.
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Description: Drop by the International Programs and Study Abroad
Information Table to talk to an advisor about studying or working abroad. You
can pick up informational flyers and brochures, and check out the brand new
website.
More Info: http://abroad.rice.edu
Sammy’s Café International Menu:
Department: Housing and Dining
Location: Student Center
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Description: Italian Lunch. Spaghetti w/ meat sauce, primavera chicken
Alfredo, tofu chicken Alfredo, fried zucchini, vegetable Medley, Caesar Salad
and Minestrone.
More Info: http://sammys.rice.edu
Hecuba by Euripides:
Department: Visual and Dramatic Arts
Location: THEATRE, Hamman Hall
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: Hecuba, former queen now a slave to the Greeks, is in mourning
for her husband and the devastated city of Troy when she discovers that a
trusted friend has killed her son. He has his reasons; reasons he feels are
justified. Hecuba’s grief turns to rage and desperate revenge
More Info: http://arts.rice.edu/
Campanile Orchestra:
Department: Shepherd School of Music
Location: Student Concert Hall Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Time: 8 PM to 10 PM
Description: Campanile Orchestra Thomas Hong, conductor Program:
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43. 8:00 p.m., Student Concert
Hall Free Admission.
More Info: http://music.rice.edu/
Saturday, November 17
The Borinqueneers - A documentary on the all-Puerto Rican 65th infantry
regiment:
Department: Hispanic Studies and Society of Puertoriquenos in Houston.
Location: 100 Herring Hall
Time: 6PM to 9:30 PM
Description: Documentary, presented by Sociedad de Puertorriquenos en
Houston, Inc., to be shown, narrated by Hector Elizondo (in English) and
David Ortriz Angeleró (in Spanish).
More Info: http://hispanicstudies.rice.edu/