James Carville Talk, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013

Monday, November 18, 2013

7 PM 

Doermann Theater

$10 for students $25 for general public

Native-American photographer to speak Nov. 14, 2013

Student Union

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013

Tribute to Stravinksy’s ‘Rite of Spring’, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 3 PM.

University of Toledo Center for Performing Arts

Feliza Casano, TECHS graduate speaking December 7, 2013

We are bursting with pride for our very own Feliza Casano (C/0 2009) who will be the speaker.

13th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture

These lectures are always interesting. Highly recommended.

13th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture

Middle East expert, Dr. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan.  

“Youth Movements and the Arab Revolutions”

3:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Driscoll Center Auditorium at the University of Toledo.

Juan Cole (juancole.com) is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He has been a regular guest on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, and has also appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He has given many radio and press interviews. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. He has commented extensively on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Iraq War, the politics of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Iranian domestic struggles and foreign affairs. He has a regular column at Truthdig. He continues to study and write about contemporary Islamic movements, whether mainstream or radical, whether Sunni and Salafi or Shi`ite. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for nearly 10 years, and continues to travel widely there.

As you may know, the Mikhail Endowment Fund was originally established through a donation from the Mikhail family to honor the work and contributions of Maryse Mikhail and her involvement in educational, philanthropic and interfaith organizations.   The main purpose of the fund is to support an annual lecture dealing with Arab culture, history, politics, economics, and other aspects of life in the Middle East including issues of peace and justice.  

More information about the Lecture Series is available at mikhaillecture.wordpress.com.

Exonerated Death Row Inmates talk at Law School

This looks pretty heavy and interesting.

Monday, October 21, 2013
Noon
UT Law School

One for Ten website.

George Saunders Talk, Monday, Oct. 21,2013

George Saunders, the author of one of our summer reading books, The Brief and Terrifying Reign of Phil, will be speaking at UT.

Monday, October 21, 2013

5 PM

Memorial Field House 2100

Highly recommended Rocket Stage-approved event.

Details here.

International Festival, September 14-15, 2013

Jessup Scott Honors College Distinguished Lectures Series at UT

This is a series of lectures (not free) that UT has started recently with some big names coming to Doermann Theater on main campus.

The first one is by Sal Khan the founder of Khan Academy (a website that has helped lots of TECHS kids with math and science).

Tickets are $10 for students. It will sell out.

You can see the rest of the series schedule here.

Community Forum on Race, Sept. 12, 2013

Community Forum on Race

Woodward High School (600 E. Streicher St, 43608)

Thursday, September 12, 2013

7-9 PM

Details here

UT MusicFest, Friday, September 13, 2013

UT MusicFest 2013

When

• Friday, September 13, 2013
• 3 PM and goes to 11 PM.

Where

• In the field on main campus just west of the student union.

What

• Bands
• Pep rally
• Food (to purchase)
• Informational tables for campus organizations and so on. It's a lot of fun.
• More info and music line-up here

Other Details

• Some of us will be there but we will not be directly monitoring the kids.
• This event is open to the general public.
• It is not required.
• How long they stay and how they get home is up to the parents.
• Make arrangements to pick up your kids on main campus (map below).
• It can count as a Rocket Stage event if they have never attended before and stay at least an hour.

Authors, Authors: Sherman Alexie, Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The TECHS community is very excited about one of our favorite authors coming to Toledo to speak at the 

Stranahan Theater on Wednesday, September 11, 2013.

Rocket Stage Approved to the max!

Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for the rest of us.

Tickets are available at all TLCPL branches.

Map to Stranahan

Every TECHS student (except for the current freshmen who will get it in May) has read the award-winning book below as part of Summer Reading.

His other books are highly recommended too.

We really like this guy. He is smart, kind and funny.

Read about him here.

Toledo Excel Diversity Celebration

Astronomy Day, April 20, 2013

The University of Toledo Ritter Planetarium and Brooks Observatory present . . .

 Astronomy Day, Saturday, April 20, 2013.

Website

Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform

Ghost Light

Our own Andrés Medina is involved in the student-written and directed production of Ghost Light.

Ghost Light website.

April 12-14, and April 17-21, 2013

Holocaust Remembrance Talk

Thursday, April 11, 2013 7 PM

at the Driscoll Center at UT.

Holocaust survivor talk.

Info Here

Map to Driscoll Center

Presidential Historian Will Speak

This will be fascinating. 

Tickets are $10 (available at any library branch).

UT Prison Awareness Week

There are lots of thought provoking events during the week of April 8-12, 2013.

Details here.

Aspiring Filmmakers Showcase

McMaster Lecture - "The Search for Dark Matter"

Thursday, April 4, 2013

4 PM

Driscoll Center

Shapiro Lecture - E.J. Dionne 4 April 2013

Highly recommended lecture.

UT Bachelors of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Imam Khattab Lecture

These lectures are always interesting.

Thursday, March 21, 2013
7 PM
Law School Auditorium

Stand for the Silent

Dr. Lisa Pescara-Kovach, a UT professor, is a nationally-known expert on bullying.  She and the UT Anti-bullying Task Force are bringing Kirk Smalley to speak on March 25, 2013 at 7 PM at the Fieldhouse.

This will be a memorable talk.

Highly recommended.

More Information:
HuffPo Article on Kirk Smalley
Stand for the Silent

Prominent Photographer

A really important photographer, Rosamond Purcell, is giving a talk at the UT Canaday Center at the Carlson Library, on Thursday, February 28 at noon.

School is over at noon on that day for conferences so anyone can go.

(Note: There is also that science demonstration at Spark at the same time)

UT Center for Religious Understanding

Click Here for information on some upcoming lectures.

Saturday Science

These are highly recommended . .  .

Three Sisters

The University of Toledo 

Department of Theater

presents

Anton Chekov's 

Three Sisters 

opens February 22.

With 

Ashley Stephens (TECHS C/O 2010) 

and 

Andrés Medina (C/O 2013). 

Box Office

Monroe Michigan Black History Blues Series

The Monroe County Public Library hosts an excellent blues concert series every year to celebrate Black History Month.

These events are all free and highly recommended.

Here is the link. (Note: They embedded one of my videos!)

I will likely be going to all of them except the one on February 12.
Many TECHS kids have attended these with me and can do so this year as well.

America's Music Film Series

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FILM SERIES

at 

Each event includes a documentary, lecture and live musical performance.

Also check out ROCK ON, an exhibit of rock music photography by Baron Wolman at the Owens Center for Performing Arts.

January 15, 2013    The Blues (@ Owens CFPA 7 PM)

January 29, 2013    Broadway (@ Way Library in Perrysburg 7 PM)

February 26, 2013   Bluegrass (@ Owens CFPA 7 PM)

March 12, 2013       Rock n' Roll (@ Owens CFPA 7 PM)

March 26, 2013       Latin Music (@ Owens CFPA 7 PM)

NOTE: I plan on attending all of these (and will be able to provide transportation for 6 kids) except for the one on January 29 (There is another event at UT that night related to the year-long tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue).

Directions to the Owens CFPA