Students have returned to SUNY Orange and with them a series of provocative cultural events at both the Newburgh and the the Middletown campuses.
A lecture on the Police and the Constitution at SUNY Orange in Middletown.
The Police and the Constitution
On Monday, September 19, NYPD Detective James Coll will explore issues of The Police and the Constitution. An adjunct professor of history at Nassau Community College and Suffolk County Community College. Detective Coll will discuss issues like Can a police officer frisk an individual not taken into custody? Is evidence seized without a warrant admissible in court? Do the Miranda warnings have to be read to every suspect arrested? Is the search of a vehicle operated by a person who violated a minor traffic infraction lawful?
Coll’s free lecture presentation will take place at 7pm in the Gilman Center for International Education, which is housed in the Library and located at the corner of South Street and East Conkling Ave, Middletown, NY.
Djelloul Marbrook's book features art work by his mother, Juanita Guccione.
An Evening of Award-Winning Poetry and Art
On Thursday, September 22 at 5pm, Djelloul Marbrook will read from his new book of poems, Brushstrokes and Glances, in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101, at the Newburgh campus of SUNY Orange. Following his reading, an opening reception for the art work of Juanita Guccione will be held at 6:30pm in the CenterArts Gallery in Kaplan Hall. Djelloul Marbrook’s books and poems have won multiple awards and many of his poems are influenced by art work, including those of his mother, renowned artist Juanita Guccione, and his aunt, Irene Rice Pereira.
Juanita Guccione’s oeuvre of more than 800 works has been described as Cubist, Realist, Surrealist, Automatist and Abstract, though her work has always hinted at a unique style that betrays an independence from usual thought and categorization. Guccione herself strayed far from the norm by living and thinking outside the box, especially for a woman living and working during the early half of the 20th century. The exhibit of her work will remain on display at CenterArts Gallery through October 21, 2011.
Contemplate the Stars
On Friday, September 23, travel down the cosmo-chemical pathway from the Big Bang to the birth of stars like the sun with Dr. Daniel W. Savin, an astrophysicist at Columbia University ,in his lecture, “The Genesis Project: From Forming Stars to Forming Life” at 7 pm in the Great Room, Kaplan Hall 101. Star gazing is to follow the lecture on the Kaplan Center Green.
24 Hour Play Project
If you’re not stargazing Friday evening, you may test your talents on the stage.
You need not be a playwright, director, or actor to take part in the 24 Hour Play Project. Six writers, six directors, and twenty actors from the community will convene for the first time on Friday, September 23 to write, direct, and/or perform in six original ten-minute plays….in 24hours! During the evening, they will share inspirational materials such as props, characters, and situations, and then decide on a theme. The writers write throughout the night and in the morning present the directors and actors with six 10-minute plays which they rehearse all day and perform that night, September 24, beginning at 8pm.
However, registration is required for this free project. Please go to this link for the application and more details: online–http://www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs/24hour_play_project.shtml
During the whole event, the participants are mentored and guided by David J. Glover, production artist & director and Anna Rosen, SUNY Orange English Instructor & veteran of the 24 hour play project.
The entire 24 Hour Play Project takes place in Orange Hall Theatre, located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown. The performances are free & open to the public.
Jazz Trip Performance & Lecture
On Monday, September 26, at 7pm, the Tim K. Trio, comprised of Mike Reale on drums, Pete Nobile on acoustic bass and Tim Komonchak will be performing in Kaplan Hall 201.
The program includes a variety of songs (Latin, swing, waltz, ballad) by a number of composers and performers including (but not limited to) Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Richard Rodgers, Horace Silver, Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
This performance/lecture will illustrate variations on the blues, harmonically different pieces, melodically familiar and not-so-familiar works, and it will offer different platforms for improvisation. The trio will also explain and demonstrate what is meant by the terms “improvisation,” “reading,” “faking,” “chord progressions,” “lead sheets,” “trading fours,” and other tools of the trade.
A scene from the Scottish film, I Love Luci.
You Be the Judge – The Manhattan Film Festival
You can be the judge of the films of ten finalists who entered in the Manhattan Short Film Festival. On Tuesday, September 27 at 7 pm, the short films will be shown in Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange’s Newburgh campus. Audiences members will be handed a voting card and asked to vote for the ONE Film they think should win. A second round of screenings of the films will take place at the Downing Film Center on October 1st at 5 pm.
The films in the show were made by filmmakers from around the globe.
Here’s a list of the finalists:
INCIDENT BY A BANK – Director: Ruben Ostlund; Run Time: 9:30; Country: Sweden; Synopsis: Shot using a single camera, 90 people meticulously recreate a failed bank robbery that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.
DIK – Director: Christopher Stollery_Run Time: 9:30_Country: Australia_Synopsis: A six -year-old boy brings home piece of schoolwork that prvokes his parents to question his sexual orientation
MAK – Director: Geraldine Zosso; Run Time: 18:00; Country: Switzerland; Synopsis: Ilinka is 14 years old. She has been living in Switzerland for a year with her Moldavian Mother and Aunt. Ilinka just gave birth to a boy. Ilinka’s mother has heard about a box where unwanted babies can be deposited.
I LOVE LUCI - Director: Colin Kennedy; Run Time: 11:00; Country: Scotland; Synopsis: A comedy of missing teeth, unrequited love and one dog’s potential to shape the fortunes of a couple destined never to be together.
The LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM: Directors: Jerome Sable & Eli Batalion; Run Time: 12:00; Country: Canada; Synopsis: A campfire song awakens an evil monster and now it’s up to nerdy Danny Zigwitz to save his fellow campers from a bloody massacre. Heads will rock n’ roll!
SEXTING – Director: Neil LaBute; Run Time: 8:00; Country: USA; Synopsis: Fed up with her relationship with a married man, a young woman decides to meet his wife for coffee.
THE FOREST – Director: Kárpáti György Mór; Run Time: 12:00; Country: Hungary; Synopsis: Murder is committed in the forest. A young man becomes caught up in the events, and this experience has an increasingly unsettling effect on him.
A DOCTOR’S JOB – Director: Julio Ramos; Run Time: 10:30; Country: Peru ; Synopsis: Doctor Ramon Moran supplements his income by driving a taxi in order to financially support his mentally ill mother. While driving the taxi, Ramon becomes involved in a crime that tests his pride and work ethic
DAVID & GOLIATH – Director: George Zaverdas; Run Time: 12:00; Country: USA; Synopsis: The true story of a man, a dog and the Holocaust
MARTYR FRIDAY – Director: Abu Bakr Shawku, Run Time: 10:00; Country: Egypt; Synopsis: An inside look at the events surrounding the 2011 uprising in Cairo.
For more information about any of these programs, contact the Newburgh Cultural Affairs office at (845) 341-9386 or visit www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.
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