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February 4, 2008

EVENTS

Mentor Panel: 'The Design Process' -
SCC Graphic Design Industry Mentor Panel: “The Design Process”
Thursday, February 7, 3:30 – 5:00pm
Visual Art Center/ Bldg 2000/ Room 2059
The Visual Communications Technology Club hosts the SCC Graphic Design Industry Mentor Panel: "The Design Process." The panelists are prominent Seattle graphic designers who also serve as industry mentors to SCC Visual Arts Center graphic design students. Each panelist will discuss and use examples from their own projects to illustrate the different stages in the Design Process. Panelists are: Brian Boram, founder of RMB Vivid; Chris Holt, creative director, Coolstone Design; David Kendall, creative director, Kendall Ross Design; Jacqueline McCarthy, president Vivitiv with moderator, Daniela Birch of Theorem Marketing.

Faculty Piano Recital - “Passion and Poetry: Masterworks by Liszt and Schumann" performed by Ivona Kaminska and Dainius Vaicekonis
Sunday, February 10
3:00pm, Campus Theater
Piano instructors Ivona Kaminska and Dainius Vaicekonis present a spirited recital of some of Liszt and Schumann’s most passionate and poetic works. General admission is $15, $10 for seniors and $5 for children 14 and younger and SCC students with College ID. This recital is a benefit for the Shoreline Piano Scholarship fund.

All student recitals are free of charge and dates are subject to change. Please call the Music Department at (206) 546-4687 for confirmation and more information. General admission prices are offered to the general public and reduced prices to seniors, students (SCC and other colleges) with college ID, and children 14 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the door with cash or local check.

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The Right To Dream - Share The Struggle
Wed., February 20, 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am
Living Voices, a local drama group, presents The Right to Dream: Share the Struggle. "The Right to Dream recreates a young man's coming of age as an African American in Mississippi during the 1950's and 1960's. This program illuminates the issues of civil rights leading audiences to understand how the fight against prejudice has shaped our history." 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Please contact Lynette Peters at 206-546-4715 or lpeters@shoreline.edu for more information and location.

Opera Workshop Performances
Thursday – Saturday, February 28-29 & March 1
7:30pm, Campus Theater
Shoreline Community College presents a fully-staged and costumed one-act version of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart at the annual Opera Workshop Performances. The production also includes opera scenes of gorgeous duets and ensembles with piano accompaniment from the Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner and The Legend of Poker Alice by SCC music emeritus Gloria Swisher, and Pique Dame by Piotr Tchaikovsky (Queen of Spades), Rusalka by Antonin Dvorák (fairy tale based on idea of The Little Mermaid), Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (sung in Italian). Susan Dolacky is producer/musical director, Teresa Metzger Howe is conductor, Charles Enlow is pianist, and Fredrick Lokken is chorus director. General admission is $15, $10 for seniors, and $8 for children 14 and younger and SCC students with College ID.

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Boy’s Life
7:30pm, March 6-8, & March 13-15, 2008
Campus Lobby Theater
A very contemporary comedy investigating the truths and consequences of modern day living and dating in the big city. Written by Howard Korder. General admission is $8, $7 for seniors, and $6 for SCC students with College ID and children 14 and younger.

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Student Recital
12:30pm, Friday, March 7, 2008
Music Building, Room 818
Break the grayness of winter with music performed by students of the SCC Music Department. This hour of entertainment will send you back to work or class refreshed and ready to face the rain!

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Hear My Voice - Win the Vote
9:30, 10:30 and 11:30am, March 7, 2008
Living Voices, a local drama group, presents HEAR MY VOICE: Win the Vote. "The fight for women's right to vote in the United States is one of the most underappreciated civil rights movements in history: a seventy-two year long struggle whose methods of nonviolent protest predated many of the more well-known movements of the 20th century." For more information, please contact Lynette Peters at 206-546-4715 or lpeters@shoreline.edu for location and more information.

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COTS Winter Classical Concert - “Simply Bernstein”
Saturday, March 8, 7:00pm & Sunday, March 9, 3:00pm
Bastyr University Chapel, 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Kenmore
Choir of the Sound celebrates works of one of America's preeminent twentieth-century composers, Leonard Bernstein, with selections from The Lark, Candide, and West Side Story. There are also selections from Eric Whitacre and others. For more information call 206-528-9990

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Wearin' the Green
Shoreline Concert Band
Tuesday, March 11, 7:30pm, Shorecrest Performing Arts Center
The Shoreline Singers and Shorecrest HS Wind Ensemble make guest performances at this concert. $7, $5, $3.

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Funkngroove
Monday, March 17, 2008
7:30pm, Campus Theater
Back by popular demand! Once again the exciting popular music troupe 'Funkngroove' presents an evening of electrifying popular music. Dancing is encouraged. $7, $5, $3.

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SPORTS
You can learn about upcoming sports events and read about how our sports teams are doing at the athletics web site at: http://www.shoreline.edu/athletics/athletics_news.htm. Be sure to check it out!

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COLLEGE GALLERY

The College Gallery is located in the Administration (1000) Building on the main campus. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday. For information on upcoming exhibits, please call Gallery Director, Natalie Niblack at 206.546.4101, extension 4433. or visit the web site at http://www.shoreline.edu/gallery/.

"HoveringLove" by Betty Bastai
Through February 25, 2008

Artist Betty Bastai presents "HoveringLove", an interactive mixed media installation that deals with language, archaeology and love iconography. At the invitation of the artist, Shoreline students, staff and visitors created love letters folded into origami doves, which are hung from the ceiling in a flock. The exhibition runs Jan. 31 to Feb 25, reception on Valentine’s day, Feb. 14, 3:30 to 5:00.

Artist's Statement
"HoveringLove" is part of a series of interactive installations that deals with language and love iconography. I began the series in 2006 when I exhibited the installation "Cell2" at the Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham. A year later I created "CorridorLove", which I exhibited at the Corridor Gallery in Seattle.

In these works I invited the viewer to be an active participant in the completion of the artwork by writing and tearing a love letter in the gallery space. I collected these broken letters and incorporated them in the present companion piece in a process that echoes nature's life cycle.

In "HoveringLove" I invite the viewer to write a love letter and fold it into an origami dove instead of breaking it into pieces. Some students and members of the college staff have already created the birds that are hanging from the temporary wire ceiling. Other participants now have the chance to add more birds to this flock. I choose the dove and not the crane for two reasons. Firstly the dove is a bird similar to a pigeon, which humans used for centuries to send messages, particularly during wars. Secondly I can relate to the dove as the symbol of peace more easily than other birds because of my Italian Christian background.

We live in a society dominated by technologies that are profoundly changing the way we interact with each other. Our constant consumption of the media's alternate reality gives us a false sense of connection with our neighbors when in fact we are becoming more detached from our community.

As a result, I have evaluated my role as an artist and searched for strategies that would impact the viewers in a more personal and physical way. By omitting high-technology devices and relying on simple tools of communication like a hand written love letter, I encourage the viewer to break self-built boundaries, get involved in physical actions and share information with strangers. In this way I hope to establish an intimate interaction between the viewers and the artwork that would reverberate in the their day-to-day world.

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