‘A DOLL’S HOUSE’ BEGINS FINAL WEEK
A new spin on a traditional play will create a unique viewing experience for theatre audiences at Linfield College.
“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen will be performed Nov. 12-14 at 8 p.m. in the Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall at Linfield.
The actors will perform in a Victorian-style dollhouse, with the audience sitting on all four sides looking through the windows of the house. Ibsen wrote the play in 1879, and Frank McGuiness later adapted it into a successful work embraced around the country. The play focuses on Nora, a woman who must reevaluate her marriage after the truth of her relationship with Torvald, her husband, is exposed. Nora’s determination to discover her own self-worth and to forge a new identity by leaving her husband and children created an uproar when it debuted and remains one of the most famous and scandalous dramas of the 19th century.
Janet Gupton, associate professor of theatre arts and resident director, will direct a cast of eight Linfield students. The cast ensemble includes Linfield freshmen Christopher Forrer and Caitlyn Olson; sophomores Bailey Maxwell and Andrew Purcell; juniors Chris Lambert and Sharon Hagel; and seniors William DeBiccari and Jessica Learn. Hunter Svec-Orr and Jacob Harmon play the Helmer children.
Tickets are $9 for full price; $7 for non-Linfield students, seniors, Linfield faculty and staff; and $5 for Linfield students. Tickets may be purchased at www.linfield.edu/culture then picked up at the box office on the night of the show. Tickets can also be purchased at the Marshall Theatre Box Office or ordered by phone. Located inside Ford Hall, the box office is open Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on performance days. The box office will also be open Saturday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 14, from 3 to 8 p.m., and from noon until 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8. Contact the box office directly if accessible seating is required. For more information, call 503-883-2292.
TALK TO FOCUS ON LIBYAN TRADITIONS
Linfield College senior Nadia Abraibesh will discuss Libyan engagement, wedding and post-wedding traditions during “A Libyan Wedding,” Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 3 p.m. in Jonasson Hall.
Marriage is a tradition represented differently throughout each global community. In July 2008, Abraibesh experienced the cultural diversity of a wedding celebration in Benghazi, Libya. She was there for a month visiting her father’s family.
Throughout the program, Abraibesh will touch on her Libyan roots and the personal meaning of attending the event in Libya. In Libya, weddings are enormous celebrations with often 700 to 1000 women in attendance, said Abraibesh. Men have a separate party of their own and the event lasts for a week. For more information, call 503-883-2434 or email ipo@linfield.edu.
FACULTY LEARNING COMMONS SET
Mike Leahy, visiting associate professor of health sciences, will present “Synergy and conflict between liberal arts and getting a job – teaching 21st century electronic health care” at the Faculty Learning Commons on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at noon in the West Wing of Dillin Hall.
The session will explore health care professional training and liberal arts critical thinking. Critical thinking and a rounded liberal arts education are necessary in modern health care. Students also need the right internship, communication and electronic information skills, and service learning experiences to succeed in health professions and life. Leahy
will share models he has developed through teaching and consulting experiences.
GAISER TO GIVE FACULTY TALK
Christopher Gaiser, professor of biology, will present “Teaching Introductory Biology – A Historical Approach,” on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall.
The lecture will address the problems with teaching a standardized syllabus to biology students. Most college-level introductory biology is taught as a series of topics related by level of organization, with evolution and ecology discussed in separate sections. Gaiser’s approach makes explicit the evolutionary and ecological relationship between these topics.
In this new way of teaching introductory biology, major topics are covered in the historical order they occurred. Gaiser’s class begins with the formation of the Earth, then discusses how early earth chemistry led to the first biological molecules, and then progresses to how these molecules self-assembled into the first cell.
“Our approach emphasizes that evolution is not a process that just happens sometimes, or has stopped,” Gaiser said. “Rather, evolution has driven each of these steps forward – from molecules to cells to multicellular organisms – and continues to do so today.”
Gaiser earned a bachelor’s from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in genetics from Oregon State University. His research focuses on plant developmental genetics.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Linfield College faculty lecture series offers one presentation each month by a member of the Linfield faculty. For more information call 503-883-2409.
GUEST TUBIST TO ACCOMPANY BAND
The Linfield College Concert Band will perform with guest tuba soloist Tony Clements in a concert on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at McMinnville’s First Baptist Church.
The concert will tie the Linfield and McMinnville music communities together through the music direction of Joan Paddock, professor of music and director of instrumental activities at Linfield, and Jeff Hornick, director of instrumental music at McMinnville High School. Both will conduct the Linfield Concert Band, an instrumental ensemble of approximately 50 members who play woodwinds, brass and percussion.
Student musicians will perform alongside four McMinnville community members, as well as Clements, principal tubist of the San Jose Symphony.
Clements will perform the “Concertino for Tuba and Band” by Frank Bencriscutto. Other numbers on the program include “From Whom All Blessings Flow” by Ed Huckeby, “The Marching Song” by Gustav Holst, “Them Basses” by Getty Herschel Huffine, “Chant and Jubilo” by W. Francis McBeth and “Selections from Nightmare before Christmas” by Danny Elfman.
CLASSICAL GUITARIST TO GIVE RECITAL
Pamela Goldsmith, adjunct faculty of music at Linfield, will perform Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian Bull Music Center.
The performance will feature music composed by Goldsmith and inspired by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. She will perform pieces by Brouwer, as well as Antonio Lauro, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Augustin Barrios Mangore.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Goldsmith received a master’s in classical guitar performance from Portland State University in 2003. While there, she was awarded the graduate assistant position and taught guitar lessons.
In 1991, she placed first in the Downeast Classical Guitar Competition in Maine. Two years later, Goldsmith graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a bachelor’s degree in classical guitar studies. She teaches private and group classes at Linfield, as well as private lessons in Portland.
For more information, contact Goldsmith at 503-285-6897, pamela@goldsmith.net.
RWANDAN DOCUMENTARY PLANNED
“Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit,” a moving documentary produced by a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will be presented Monday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
Actor and director Gilbert Ndahayo lost 52 members of his immediate family in the Rwandan genocide, a wave of ethnic cleansing that took the lives of more than a million within 100 days. The killers stormed a convent in a small hill town of the capital city and executed 200 Tutsi villagers, including Ndahayo’s parents, who were burned alive in a pit in his parents’ backyard.
“Beyond the Deadly Pit” is an autobiographical attempt to come to terms with the loss of loved ones, and a portrayal of the post–traumatic challenge of survivors, the tension between personal and collective memory and the way Tutsi survivors are rebuilding their society.
For more information call 503-883-2474.
PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA SET
Linfield College invites the community to celebrate the holiday season with the Portland Baroque Orchestra. The ensemble will perform Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
The orchestra gives audiences an opportunity to experience music as it sounded almost 300 years ago, performing on instruments as old as the music. Linfield’s “Joyful Noise” concert will feature works by Johann Sebastian Bach, including his much loved “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2.” The concert will also include music by Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer and Georg Philipp Telemann, the most prolific composer in the history of classical music, with 800 compositions to his credit.
Featured soloists include guest director Alexander Weimann on harpsichord, Barry Bauguess on baroque trumpet and Gonzalo Ruiz on oboe. The concert is sponsored by Ronni Lacroute, Linfield College trustee.
General admission is $10, and Linfield students with ID are admitted free at the door. Faculty and staff may purchase tickets in advance in the College Relations Office, 026 Melrose Hall, Monday-Friday, x2217, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (cash or check only). Tickets will also be sold at the door and doors open at 7 p.m.
Learn more about the Portland Baroque Orchestra at www.pbo.org. For further information call 503-883-2275.
FALL OPEN HOUSE
Admission will host a fall open house Monday, Nov. 9. For more information, call 503-883-2213.
COMMUNITY NEWS
SHERILL ROBERTS, cello instructor at Linfield College and principal cellist of the Portland Opera orchestra, is performing in Phillip Glass’s opera, “Orphee,” Nov. 12 and 14. Performances were also held Nov. 6 and 8. This is the West Coast premiere of the opera, and Portland Opera will be producing the first recording of this contemporary work. The libretto is based on Jean Cocteau’s film, “Orpheus,” which is a modern version of the Orpheus myth. The production is in French with English super-text.
JILL TIMMONS, professor of music, presented “Enhanced Career Training and Entrepreneurship in Music: Innovative Strategies for Curriculum Development” at the annual national conference of the College Music Society Oct. 22.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY, NOV. 9
All day: Fall open house
All week: Ceramics exhibit, Anthropology Museum
TUESDAY, NOV. 10
Noon: Mike Leahy, Faculty Learning Commons, Dillin
3 p.m.: Nadia Abraibesh, “A Libyan Wedding,” Jonasson
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11
11:20 a.m.: Voices SoAn table, Dillin
Noon: German conversation table, Dillin
7:30 p.m.: Christopher Gaiser, “Teaching Introductory Biology – A Historical Approach,” 201 Riley
THURSDAY, NOV. 12
Noon: Chinese conversation table, Dillin
Noon: French conversation table, Dillin
Today-Saturday: “A Doll’s House,” Marshall Theatre
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
Noon: Spanish conversation table, Dillin
6 p.m.: Swimming vs. Puget Sound
7:30 p.m.: Band concert, McMinnville First Baptist Church
SATURDAY, NOV. 14
9 a.m.: Cross country at NCAA III regional championships
1 p.m.: Football vs. PLU
6 p.m.: Hall of Fame Banquet
7 p.m.: Pamela Goldsmith recital, Delkin