OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
None this month
UPCOMING
TBA
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
• July 17 - Jen Abrams performs new dance at Dixon Place
• July 16-Aug 2 - Patricia Comstack '98 performs in Shakespearean fairy tale for adults
• July 11, 18, Aug 15, 29 - Theo Croker performs jazz at The Rubin Museum
UPCOMING
• September 20 - John Hunka ‘85 invites you to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Offer an Oberlin Student a Winter Term Internship
• Kelly Smith ('01) is a Licensed Acupuncturist!
• Asya Ollis (Con '96) invites all Obies to enjoy local sustainable food and wine at The Green Table in Chelsea Market, where she is the new General Manager.
• Evan Hause's opera is now available for viewing on YouTube.com
• Baby Sitter Needed by Andrea Frisch, '83
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ALUMNI CLUB EVENTS IN THE CITY THIS MONTH:
None this month
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UPCOMING
TBA
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OTHER ALUMNI RELATED EVENTS IN THE CITY:
July 17
Jen Abrams
With Jessica Dellecave and Jessica Ames
Studies #5 & 6 for
Most of This Is True
Dixon Place
Thursday, July 17th, 8pm
258 Bowery, 2nd floor
Between Houston and Prince
F to 2nd Ave
A woman struggles physically with an absence at her kitchen table, while haunted by a past that may or may not have happened.
Two women move through the well-worn space of a long-term relationship.
Shared bill with Barbara Mahler and Laryssa Husiak
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July 16-Aug 2
• Baby Sitter Needed by Andrea Frisch, '83
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ALUMNI CLUB EVENTS IN THE CITY THIS MONTH:
None this month
_________________________________________________
UPCOMING
TBA
_________________________________________________
OTHER ALUMNI RELATED EVENTS IN THE CITY:
July 17
Jen Abrams
With Jessica Dellecave and Jessica Ames
Studies #5 & 6 for
Most of This Is True
Dixon Place
Thursday, July 17th, 8pm
258 Bowery, 2nd floor
Between Houston and Prince
F to 2nd Ave
A woman struggles physically with an absence at her kitchen table, while haunted by a past that may or may not have happened.
Two women move through the well-worn space of a long-term relationship.
Shared bill with Barbara Mahler and Laryssa Husiak
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July 16-Aug 2
From Patricia Comstack '98
PRINCE TREVOR AMONGST THE ELEPHANTS
a Big, Epic, Naked, Ridiculous Shakespearean Fairy Tale for Adults
When King Kartoffelpuffen gives the kingdom to his son Tater and marries off his other kids for peace, Prince Trevor trades places with his servant Grumbelino to escape his fate with Queen Bluebella and her harem of eunuchs. Seeking his true love, Toby the stable boy, Trevor meets warriors, muses, and the elusive Elephants of Style.
Award-winning play by Duncan Pflaster **
FEATURING: Eric C. Bailey*, Ben Beckley, Patricia Comstock (OC '98), Jon Crefeld, Keith Patrick Dunn*, Carlos Rafael Fernandez, Paula Galloway, Clara Barton Green, Kevaughn Harvey, Kelly Nichols, Jonathan Weirich, Jess Cassidy White
WARNING: Contains crude profanity, full-frontal nudity, and iambic pentameter, and is therefore unsuitable for children.
Wed July 16 @ 9:00 <== FREE BEER on opening night! Sat July 19 @ 6:15 Tue July 22 @ 6:30 Fri July 25 @ 9:30 Mon July 28 @ 8:30 Sat August 2 @ 9:30 Midtown International Theater Festival June Havoc Theater: 312 W 36th St, 1st Flr $18 | 90 minutes | TicketCentral.com
Duncan is a long-time member of the playwriting workshop led by Elana Gartner Golden (OC '98, ElanaGartner.com). He's one of my favorite playwrights! I was Titania in his "Thyme of the Season" ("Midsummer" sequel) and I'm SUPER-CHARGED to get to play with another of his hilarious, clever, and insightful scripts! (OC alumnus Rich Orloff is good like that, too. Get your giggle on at RichOrloff.com!)
-- Tricia (OC '98)
PatriciaComstock.com
PS - I play a Grace and "Dymphna -- a slut"!! OMG!
Equity-Approved Showcase * Member, Actors Equity ** Won "Best New Play" Spotlight On Award, and was nominated for "Best Reading" and "Best Supporting Actor - Jess Cassidy White."
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July 11, 18, Aug 15, 29
Theo Croker performs at The Rubin Museum
The Rubin Museum of Art, dedicated to the arts of the Himalayas, is holding a series of jazz concerts this summer featuring a number of Oberlin alumni during their free Friday night K2 lounge hours. Concerts are held in their world class theater and tickets give you access to the gallery floors, holding a stunning collection of Himalayan art.
PRINCE TREVOR AMONGST THE ELEPHANTS
a Big, Epic, Naked, Ridiculous Shakespearean Fairy Tale for Adults
When King Kartoffelpuffen gives the kingdom to his son Tater and marries off his other kids for peace, Prince Trevor trades places with his servant Grumbelino to escape his fate with Queen Bluebella and her harem of eunuchs. Seeking his true love, Toby the stable boy, Trevor meets warriors, muses, and the elusive Elephants of Style.
Award-winning play by Duncan Pflaster **
FEATURING: Eric C. Bailey*, Ben Beckley, Patricia Comstock (OC '98), Jon Crefeld, Keith Patrick Dunn*, Carlos Rafael Fernandez, Paula Galloway, Clara Barton Green, Kevaughn Harvey, Kelly Nichols, Jonathan Weirich, Jess Cassidy White
WARNING: Contains crude profanity, full-frontal nudity, and iambic pentameter, and is therefore unsuitable for children.
Wed July 16 @ 9:00 <== FREE BEER on opening night! Sat July 19 @ 6:15 Tue July 22 @ 6:30 Fri July 25 @ 9:30 Mon July 28 @ 8:30 Sat August 2 @ 9:30 Midtown International Theater Festival June Havoc Theater: 312 W 36th St, 1st Flr $18 | 90 minutes | TicketCentral.com
Duncan is a long-time member of the playwriting workshop led by Elana Gartner Golden (OC '98, ElanaGartner.com). He's one of my favorite playwrights! I was Titania in his "Thyme of the Season" ("Midsummer" sequel) and I'm SUPER-CHARGED to get to play with another of his hilarious, clever, and insightful scripts! (OC alumnus Rich Orloff is good like that, too. Get your giggle on at RichOrloff.com!)
-- Tricia (OC '98)
PatriciaComstock.com
PS - I play a Grace and "Dymphna -- a slut"!! OMG!
Equity-Approved Showcase * Member, Actors Equity ** Won "Best New Play" Spotlight On Award, and was nominated for "Best Reading" and "Best Supporting Actor - Jess Cassidy White."
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July 11, 18, Aug 15, 29
Theo Croker performs at The Rubin Museum
The Rubin Museum of Art, dedicated to the arts of the Himalayas, is holding a series of jazz concerts this summer featuring a number of Oberlin alumni during their free Friday night K2 lounge hours. Concerts are held in their world class theater and tickets give you access to the gallery floors, holding a stunning collection of Himalayan art.
The museum is located at 150 West 17th street between 6th and 7th.
All concerts start at 7:00pm, tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door.
July 11 - The Theo Croker Quartet featuring Wycliffe Gordon
Virtuoso trumpeter and grandson of the late Doc Cheatham, Theo Croker ‘07 studied with Donald Byrd, Marcus Belgrave, and Billy Hart at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Of his pupil, Donald Byrd once said, "I would place Theo in a class of musicians who will redirect the flow, change and alter the current of today’s New Jazz." Croker’s first album, The Fundamentals, was recorded with a grant from the Presser Music Foundation.
Wycliffe Gordon is a musician, conductor, and composer who performs hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. He twice received the Jazz Journalist Association’s Award for Trombonist of the Year.
July 18 - The Jimmy Cobb Quartet Featuring Theo Croker
The Jimmy Cobb Quartet is led by celebrated jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. The last surviving player of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue session, Jimmy Cobb has worked extensively with a wide-range of artists. His timing, unique style, and unsurpassed experience have earned Cobb the reputation as a legendary statesman of jazz.
Aug. 15 - The Theo Croker ‘07 Quartet featuring Benny Powell and Winard Harper
Drummer Winard Harper continues to innovate musically while remaining reverential to his predecessors. He is known for his prowess with a drum set as well as the balafon, the West African equivalent of the marimba.
For more than sixty years, Benny Powell has been the consummate sideman, playing with Lionel Hampton, the Basie Band, and the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. The versatile trombonist plays across styles and genres. He teaches at The New School for Jazz and the Performing Arts.
Aug. 29 - The Theo Croker ‘07 Quartet featuring Marcus Belgrave
Master jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave collaborated extensively with Ray Charles. He is known not only for his work as an artist but also as a mentor to a new generation of jazz musicians. Belgrave emphasizes technique as well as improvisation to his students at Oberlin College.
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UPCOMING
September 20
John Hunka ‘85 invites you to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup
I’m leading a volunteer effort to clean up the shoreline at East River State Park in Brooklyn on September 20, 2008. Every Oberlin graduate who cares about the environment is cordially invited to join me.
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from
oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. East River State Park is a seven-acre waterfront park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
WHERE:
East River State Park
90 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211
WHEN:
September 20, 2008
10:30 am
(Rain date is September 21)
REGISTER: Please email John Hunka at jkhunka@ix.netcom.com
DIRECTIONS:
By car: Brooklyn Queens Expressway to Metropolitan Avenue exit; west on
N. 8th Street to park entrance on Kent Avenue.
By subway: L line to Bedford Avenue exit; walk 3 blocks west to Kent
Avenue, one block north to N. 8th Street entrance
Walking: Head to Kent Avenue at the East River waterfront. The park
entrance is at N. 8th Street.
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GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFER AN OBERLIN STUDENT A WINTER TERM INTERNSHIP
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide career mentoring, and offer exposure to an occupational field of interest. In return you get an eager assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
New York City is Oberlin’s most popular destination for Winter Term interns and the students’ experiences reflect their diverse professional and personal interests. Last year over 50 students excelled in fields such as art, music, theater, law, finance, education, social service, public policy, and publishing. We hope you will consider offering an internship of your own!
Nathan Elton, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, will support you through the entire internship process and is available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. He can be reached at: Nathan.elton@oberlin.edu or 440-775-8847. Please contact him at your earliest convenience, or, if you are ready to submit a Winter Term internship visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/WT/wtinternshipform.html
One final note, the Office of Career Services is always interested in sharing your summer internship and post-graduation opportunities with students. If you have a position that you would like to post please visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/Employers/post_position.html
Thank you!
- Nathan Elton & the Office of Career Services, Oberlin College
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Kelly Smith ('01) is a Licensed Acupuncturist!
Kelly has received her master's of acupuncture,and is ready to treat you. She is making house calls in some parts of the city, and can also see you at her office in the Union Square/Gramercy area. Her training includes three styles--Kiiko Matsumoto style of Japanese acupuncture, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), and APM (Acupuncture Physical Medicine--trigger point therapy). Please call her for more info, and remember---acupuncture can treat pretty much ANYthing.
kellyesmith@gmail.com
718.288.3162
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Asya Ollis ( '96) invites all Obies to enjoy local sustainable food and wine at The Green Table in Chelsea Market, where she is the new General Manager.
Devoted to organic ingredients, local farms and artisanal producers, the chef creates new specials daily such as:
Squash Blossom Tempura,
Grilled Lamb with Blueberry Demi-Glace,
Grilled Cheese with Raw Milk Cheddar and Strawberry Compote
Vegan Farm Plate (changes weekly)
Also enjoy out-of-this world homemade ice creams like wildflower honey, buttermilk and strawberry moscato!
Drinks, also from organic and sustainable sources, include 22 wines by the glass, organic vodka, gin and beer.
The Green Table, located in Chelsea Market directly across from the waterfall, serves lunch and dinner Mon - Sat from noon - 10pm, and an a la carte brunch on Sundays from 11-5pm. The small intimate setting includes tables for two as well as communal farm tables. Bring friends and family...or come enjoy by yourself!
For more info, visit www.cleaverco.com or email gtmanager@cleaverco.com.
For reservations call 212-741-6623.
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From Evan Hause
The entire First Act of my opera "Man: Biology of a Fall" is available for viewing at YouTube:
www.youtube.com/gpthoss
If you click on "more info" in the box in the upper right, you can also follow the libretto.
Have a continuing nice summer,
Evan
www.hausemusic.com
www.myspace.com/evanhause
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Baby Sitter Needed from Andrea Frisch, '83
Babysitter needed for a 17 month old. Upper East Side, Manhattan. Spanish-speaking ideal but not required. Please email belmont83@aol.com or call (212) 879-8317. Andrea, OC '83
July 11 - The Theo Croker Quartet featuring Wycliffe Gordon
Virtuoso trumpeter and grandson of the late Doc Cheatham, Theo Croker ‘07 studied with Donald Byrd, Marcus Belgrave, and Billy Hart at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Of his pupil, Donald Byrd once said, "I would place Theo in a class of musicians who will redirect the flow, change and alter the current of today’s New Jazz." Croker’s first album, The Fundamentals, was recorded with a grant from the Presser Music Foundation.
Wycliffe Gordon is a musician, conductor, and composer who performs hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. He twice received the Jazz Journalist Association’s Award for Trombonist of the Year.
July 18 - The Jimmy Cobb Quartet Featuring Theo Croker
The Jimmy Cobb Quartet is led by celebrated jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. The last surviving player of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue session, Jimmy Cobb has worked extensively with a wide-range of artists. His timing, unique style, and unsurpassed experience have earned Cobb the reputation as a legendary statesman of jazz.
Aug. 15 - The Theo Croker ‘07 Quartet featuring Benny Powell and Winard Harper
Drummer Winard Harper continues to innovate musically while remaining reverential to his predecessors. He is known for his prowess with a drum set as well as the balafon, the West African equivalent of the marimba.
For more than sixty years, Benny Powell has been the consummate sideman, playing with Lionel Hampton, the Basie Band, and the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. The versatile trombonist plays across styles and genres. He teaches at The New School for Jazz and the Performing Arts.
Aug. 29 - The Theo Croker ‘07 Quartet featuring Marcus Belgrave
Master jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave collaborated extensively with Ray Charles. He is known not only for his work as an artist but also as a mentor to a new generation of jazz musicians. Belgrave emphasizes technique as well as improvisation to his students at Oberlin College.
_________________________________________________
UPCOMING
September 20
John Hunka ‘85 invites you to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup
I’m leading a volunteer effort to clean up the shoreline at East River State Park in Brooklyn on September 20, 2008. Every Oberlin graduate who cares about the environment is cordially invited to join me.
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from
oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. East River State Park is a seven-acre waterfront park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
WHERE:
East River State Park
90 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211
WHEN:
September 20, 2008
10:30 am
(Rain date is September 21)
REGISTER: Please email John Hunka at jkhunka@ix.netcom.com
DIRECTIONS:
By car: Brooklyn Queens Expressway to Metropolitan Avenue exit; west on
N. 8th Street to park entrance on Kent Avenue.
By subway: L line to Bedford Avenue exit; walk 3 blocks west to Kent
Avenue, one block north to N. 8th Street entrance
Walking: Head to Kent Avenue at the East River waterfront. The park
entrance is at N. 8th Street.
_________________________________________________
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFER AN OBERLIN STUDENT A WINTER TERM INTERNSHIP
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide career mentoring, and offer exposure to an occupational field of interest. In return you get an eager assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
New York City is Oberlin’s most popular destination for Winter Term interns and the students’ experiences reflect their diverse professional and personal interests. Last year over 50 students excelled in fields such as art, music, theater, law, finance, education, social service, public policy, and publishing. We hope you will consider offering an internship of your own!
Nathan Elton, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, will support you through the entire internship process and is available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. He can be reached at: Nathan.elton@oberlin.edu or 440-775-8847. Please contact him at your earliest convenience, or, if you are ready to submit a Winter Term internship visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/WT/wtinternshipform.html
One final note, the Office of Career Services is always interested in sharing your summer internship and post-graduation opportunities with students. If you have a position that you would like to post please visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/Employers/post_position.html
Thank you!
- Nathan Elton & the Office of Career Services, Oberlin College
--------------------------------
Kelly Smith ('01) is a Licensed Acupuncturist!
Kelly has received her master's of acupuncture,and is ready to treat you. She is making house calls in some parts of the city, and can also see you at her office in the Union Square/Gramercy area. Her training includes three styles--Kiiko Matsumoto style of Japanese acupuncture, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), and APM (Acupuncture Physical Medicine--trigger point therapy). Please call her for more info, and remember---acupuncture can treat pretty much ANYthing.
kellyesmith@gmail.com
718.288.3162
-----------------------------------
Asya Ollis ( '96) invites all Obies to enjoy local sustainable food and wine at The Green Table in Chelsea Market, where she is the new General Manager.
Devoted to organic ingredients, local farms and artisanal producers, the chef creates new specials daily such as:
Squash Blossom Tempura,
Grilled Lamb with Blueberry Demi-Glace,
Grilled Cheese with Raw Milk Cheddar and Strawberry Compote
Vegan Farm Plate (changes weekly)
Also enjoy out-of-this world homemade ice creams like wildflower honey, buttermilk and strawberry moscato!
Drinks, also from organic and sustainable sources, include 22 wines by the glass, organic vodka, gin and beer.
The Green Table, located in Chelsea Market directly across from the waterfall, serves lunch and dinner Mon - Sat from noon - 10pm, and an a la carte brunch on Sundays from 11-5pm. The small intimate setting includes tables for two as well as communal farm tables. Bring friends and family...or come enjoy by yourself!
For more info, visit www.cleaverco.com or email gtmanager@cleaverco.com.
For reservations call 212-741-6623.
-----------------------------------
From Evan Hause
The entire First Act of my opera "Man: Biology of a Fall" is available for viewing at YouTube:
www.youtube.com/gpthoss
If you click on "more info" in the box in the upper right, you can also follow the libretto.
Have a continuing nice summer,
Evan
www.hausemusic.com
www.myspace.com/evanhause
-----------------------------------
Baby Sitter Needed from Andrea Frisch, '83
Babysitter needed for a 17 month old. Upper East Side, Manhattan. Spanish-speaking ideal but not required. Please email belmont83@aol.com or call (212) 879-8317. Andrea, OC '83
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