MCL Culture Series

2009-2010

Fall Semester

MCL Annual Open Mic Poetry - Saturday, October 24
All languages welcome! 4:30-5:30 pm, O’Connell’s

French film: Diabolique - Thursday, October 29
(Clouzot, 1955). Come in Halloween costume! 7:30 pm, AV1, Alcuin Library, SJU

Chinese Dumpling Social - Sunday, November 8
Make and enjoy dumplings, new friends, and great conversations! 3:00 pm – make the stuffing and wrappers; 6:00 pm – enjoy first pot of piping hot dumplings. Regina Hall Basement, CSB

Advent Songs and Gingerbread Houses! - Tuesday, December 1
A traditional Austrian celebration of Advent with costumes, songs, and decorating gingerbread houses (and a possible visit by St. Nikolaus and his demon friend, KRAMPUS)! Centenary Room (Quad 264) all evening

MCL Carol Sing - Sunday, December 6
Christmas carols in French, German and Spanish. All are welcome!
2:00-3:00 pm, TRC Fireside, Main Bldg, CSB

Spring Semester

International Cultural Exchange - Saturday, January 30
Theme – Study Abroad. 4:00-6:00 pm, Gorecki 204 A & B, CSB

French Lyric Festival - Wednesday, February 10
The event starts with a reception (3:30 pm), lecture and concert on 15th-century music by Asteria Musica from 4:15-5:15 pm, AV 1, Alcuin Library, followed by French Song and Poetry Festival at 5:30 pm. Little Theater, Quad 346, SJU.

Waltz Evening - Saturday, February 13
Formal Valentine's Day dinner and dancing in the Great Hall – with brief lessons on how to waltz, polka, and schottisch! SJU

Greek film: Iphigenia - Tuesday, February 23
(Kakoyannis, 1977) in modern Greek, English subtitles. Based on the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides. 7:00-9:00 pm, Quad 346, SJU

Chinese film: Please Vote for Me - Tuesday, March 9
(Chen Weijun, 2007) in Mandarin, Eng. subtitles. Chronicles a public school’s first open elections; part of the Why democracy? documentary project. 7:30-9:30 pm, Gorecki 120B, CSB

Japanese film: Kamome Shokudo (Kamome Diner) -Monday, March 22
(Ogigami, 2006) Japanese with English subtitles. A hilarious story of three Japanese women running a restaurant in Helsinki.
5:30-7:30 pm, AV1, Alcuin Library, SJU

Richard Strauss’s opera, Salome - Thursday, April 15
At the Ordway, performed in German by the MN Opera Company.

For more information about any of these events, contact the MCL office at 5067 or 3093.

All are welcome!  Join us!

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