The University of Lethbridge has a number of events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly.
No Test is Neutral webinar — Dr. David Slomp
Monday, Nov. 2, 7 to 8 p.m., http://bit.ly/NoTestIsNeutral
The editors of the Journal of Writing Assessment will be posing questions on the ethics of writing assessment to a panel of experts. Slomp, a Faculty of Education professor, is the only Canadian expert on the panel. The panel will weigh in on key issues for teachers and students and the potential value of a code of ethics to guide assessment of students’ written works.
Contact: Darcy Tamayose, 403-332-4550, darcy.tamayose@uleth.ca
Music at Noon — Highlights from the U of L Opera Workshop
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 12:15 to 1 p.m., W750, University Recital Hall
A series of highlights from the U of L Opera Workshop will be presented.
Contact: Katherine Wasiak, 403-329-2227, katherine.wasiak@uleth.ca
NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month write-ins
Tuesdays in November, 6 to 9 p.m., L1008B
The U of L Library is hosting weekly write-ins for novelists working on their NaNoWriMo projects. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. The write-ins give authors an opportunity to spend time writing and perhaps commiserate with others who are also striving toward the NaNoWriMo goal.
Contact: Sandra Cowan, 403-332-4465, sandra.cowan@uleth.ca
Rocky Mountain Book Award — Children’s Choice gold medal presentation
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7 to 9 p.m., U of L Bookstore
The U of L Bookstore and Rocky Mountain Book Award committee are hosting an evening with Rona Arato, the 2015 Children’s Choice gold medal winner. Arato, in her book The Last Train, tells the story of two boys who try to hide their mother’s illness from their German captors in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The book details a family’s amazing rescue from a death train by American soldiers and the circumstances that led to a reunion with those soldiers 60 years later.
Contact: Erin McSween, 403-329-2611, erin.mcsween@uleth.ca
Staying well at the U of L — Life Balance Fair
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., 1st Choice Savings Centre indoor track area
Faculty and staff will be showcasing the ways they stay well and maintain balance in their lives, whether through a talent, hobby, interest or physical activity. The fair features a variety of exhibitors to help people find balance in their personal and professional lives.
Contact: Suzanne McIntosh, 403-332-5217, suzanne.mcintosh@uleth.ca
New Media Film Series — An evening with Warner Bros. animation
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Lethbridge Public Library Theatre Gallery
New media professor Bob Cousins hosts this session that features a collection of hilarious, genre-defining cartoon shorts featuring Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang from 1937 to 1962.
Contact: Katherine Wasiak, 403-329-2227, katherine.wasiak@uleth.ca
The Sleeping Green: no man’s land 100 years later – Dianne Bos and Harry Vandervlist
Thursday, Nov. 5, 4 to 6 p.m., W600 Main Gallery
Calgary artist Dianne Bos has taken a series of extraordinary photographs in ‘no man’s land,’ that area of land between the trenches on the Western Front, for this exhibit in the Helen Christou Gallery. Bos used a variety of vintage and pinhole cameras to photograph the land a century after the start of the First World War. Accompanying Bos’ photographs is text by Harry Vandervlist, University of Calgary English professor, and a number of poetry collections in original editions from the war years.
Contact: Art Gallery, artgallery@uleth.ca
Heart Waters — Kevin Van Tighem
Thursday, Nov. 5, 7 to 9 p.m., PE264, 1st Choice Savings Centre
Author Van Tighem will deliver a presentation on land use, shrinking rivers and his new book, Heart Waters: Sources of the Bow River, in this special SACPA On Campus session, hosted by SACPA and Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group.
Contact: Erin McSween, 403-329-2611, erin.mcsween@uleth.ca
First Friday Lunch & Listen concert series — Jazz Vibes
Friday, Nov. 6, 12:15 to 1 p.m., Casa ATB Financial Community Room
This First Friday concert features the talents of Joe Porter on vibraphone, Joel Goodfellow on piano and Paul Pangle on percussion.
Contact: Breanne Stewart, 403-329-2144, Breanne.day2@uleth.ca
Canadian Cancer Society — University of Lethbridge Relay for Life
Friday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. to Saturday, Nov. 7, 7 a.m., 1st Choice Savings Centre indoor track area
The sixth annual Relay for Life is a non-competitive overnight fundraising event that gives participants the opportunity to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones touched by cancer and fight back against cancer.
Contact: Taylor Robinson, taylor.robinson@uleth.ca
Opera Workshop — Church and State: Comedy, Chills and High Cs
Friday, Nov. 6, and Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., W570, Recital Hall
This concert features 25 singers and two pianists who deliver intense drama, comic relief and women singing high Cs. Director Blaine Hendsbee says audience members will laugh and cry as the Opera Workshop members perform pieces that explore conflict between church and state.
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Contact:
Caroline Zentner, public affairs advisor
403-394-3975 or 403-795-5403 (cell)
