SNL animation comes to DU
J.J. Sedelmaier, animator of Saturday Night Live’s “Ambiguously Gay Duo” and “X-Presidents,” will be giving a lecture at 6:30p.m. on Thurs. Jan. 22, in the Lindsay Auditorium in Sturm Hall. The event is free.
Sedelmaier will talk about his experience in animation, including his work on such pieces for Nike, Converse and Volkswagon.
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Jewish Memorial lecture
The Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Beck Archives Center for Judiac Studies is hosting the fifth annual Professor John C. Livingston Memorial Lecture in American Jewish History Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Driscoll Ballroom.
The lecture’s subject is “Rebecca Gratz and the American Dilemma.” Gratz was considered the foremost American Jewish woman of the 19th century and a role model for future generations of social activists.
The lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Please call 303.871.3016.
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Festival needs volunteers
The International Student Organization (ISO) is looking for help to organize the largest DU student-run event on campus, the “Festival of Nations.” The event usually draws around 2,000 visitors from campus and community. The theme for this year’s “Festival of Nations” is “Around the Way in a Day,” which will take place on Apr. 3.
The ISO needs volunteers for six committees: booth, entertainment, public relations, technological operations, decoration and finance. If you are interested in helping, contact Mingjia Ding, president of ISO, at mding@du.edu.
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Free Shakespeare
Douglas Lanier, associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and author of Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture presents “Will of the People: Recent Shakespearean Parody and the Politics of Popularization” Thursday in Sturm Hall 254 from 6-8 p.m.
The event, sponsored by the Marsico First-Year Seminar Program and the University Honors Program, is free and open the public.
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Flo’s underground continues
There will be a jazz concert featuring the Lamont jazz combos Friday in the Williams Recital Salon in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
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Logan Collection at DU gallery
Robert Colescott and Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection are featuring culture in paintings, prints and photographs that probe self identity and communal history. The exhibit will run from now through Feb. 27. The gallery will be open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon-Fri. and 12 p.m.-4p.m. Saturday and Sunday. It is located in the Shwayder Art Building.
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Apartment boxes torn down
Residents of Aspen, Skyline and Hilltop Apartments must go to the Nelson Hall front desk to get a new mailbox key and turn in the old one.
Due to construction, the old mailboxes have been torn down and were replaced by new mailboxes about 10 feet away at the entrance to the parking structure.
