December 2010

December 2010 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter

NEWSLETTER NEWS:
Deadline for the January newsletter is December 20. Please send your news and events to oberlinnycnews@gmail.com.

The Oberlin Club of NY would like to thank Katherine Kornblau for her many years of service as the NY Regional Alumni Coordinator. Without her spirit and dedication, the NY alumni steering committee would not be what it is today. As Katherine turns to pursuing other service interests, we only hope that we can try to match her energy and enthusiasm in our ongoing efforts to serve the NY Oberlin alumni community. Many thanks to Katherine!!

The NY Oberlin Alumni Steering Committee wishes a happy holiday season to all of our local alum and their friends and families - and we hope to see you all at an event soon!

CONTENTS:

OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Dec. 6: Obie Night at the KJK Jewelry Sample Sale

FUTURE CLUB EVENTS
Watch for more details on 2011 events

OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Dec. 2: Myla Goldberg ’93 discusses new novel, writing
Dec. 2: Alia Kate ’07 and Anna Beeke ’07 open new exhibit, “Untangling Threads”
Dec. 7: Repertorio Espanol hosts reading and talkback for play by Elana Gartner ’98
Dec. 9: Deanna Lee ’92 invites you to opening reception for "Day Job" at The Drawing Center
Dec. 11-12 and 17: Georgiana Pickett ’90 and Anna Glass ’96, 651 ARTS producers, present two shows
Dec. 12: Gwen Krosnick ’08 plays at Greenwich House Music School

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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS

Monday, Dec. 6
Fourth Annual Obie Night at the KJK Jewelry Sample Sale!

Join owner and Obie alumni Katherine J. Kornblau for an evening of Obie socializing, eating, drinking and shopping!

Fourth Annual Obie Night at the KJK Jewelry Sample Sale
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6th
5 - 7:30 PM
185 Madison Ave - Suite 1100
(On the corner of 34th St.)

Monday is the first day of the sale so come to get first dibs and special prices on all collections!

The sale continues WEEKDAYS 11AM - 6PM until DEC. 23rd - so if you miss the opening, I hope you can make it another day!

KJK Jewelry designs for over 200 museum stores including The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery, and The American Museum of Natural History. To see a full client list, please visit KJK Jewelry.com.

Please RSVP TO Katherine at KJK11B@aol.com if you are able.

Best wishes for a joy filled holiday season!
Katherine J. Kornblau

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FUTURE CLUB EVENTS
Watch for more details about these 2011 club events:
April: Oberlin Cares Day of Service
June: Alumni Picnic with incoming Oberlin students (Central Park)
September: Alumni Picnic (Prospect Park)

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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS

Thursday, Dec. 2 and Sunday, Dec. 12
Myla Goldberg ’93 discusses and reads from new novel, The False Friend

On Thursday, December 2, at 7pm, I'll be giving a Craftwork lecture at the Center for Fiction, at 17 E 47th Street, in midtown Manhattan. Ticket info: http://www.centerforfiction.org/events/#myla.

On Sunday, December 12th, at 6pm, at Union Hall, on 702 Union Street, in Park Slope, fellow Brooklyn author Darin Strauss and I will be talking about our new books in a benefit for P.S. 146, The Brooklyn New School, with a $12-25 donation at the door with all proceeds going to the school. For more info on that, folks can visit the Union Hall website: http://www.unionhallny.com/calendar.php.

Thursday, Dec. 2 (exhibit through Jan. 8)
Alia Kate ’07 and Anna Beeke ’07 open new exhibit, “Untangling Threads”

In Morocco, where men are responsible for almost all of their country’s artisanal production, women have maintained the age-old craft of indigenous weaving. Untangling Threads: Female Artisans in Morocco's Rug Weaving Industry documents the environment and culture of Morocco's female weavers specifically focusing on artisans from three rural weaving communities in the Middle and High Atlas Mountains.

This exhibit combines documentary photographs by Anna Beeke ('07) and hand-woven Moroccan rugs imported by Alia Kate ('07) in an innovative display that positions the two art forms side by side. In the photographs you see confident Amazigh Moroccan women who defy the stereotypes painted by the Western media. In the rugs you discover the dexterity of the weavers’ fingers, the boundaries of their imagination, and the antiquity of their craft. Through this combination of mediums, Untangling Threads repositions the artisans as artists and their rugs as art by revealing the faces and the hands behind the handicraft of weaving in Morocco.

Untangling Threads Exhibit
December 1st- January 8th
Location: Synchronicity Fine Arts, 106 West 13th Street, New York (between 6th and 7th ave)

Untangling Threads Gallery Reception
When: Thursday, December 2nd
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: Synchronicity Fine Arts, 106 West 13th Street, New York (between 6th and 7th ave)

Tuesday, Dec. 7
Repertorio Espanol hosts reading and talkback for play by Elana Gartner ’98

Elana Gartner's ('98) full-length play "Pilar's Brother" is a finalist for Repertorio Español's 2010 Met Life Nuestras Voces Playwriting Competition. As a finalist, the script will receive a directed seated reading:
December 7, 2010 at 6:30pm
Repertorio Español
138 East 27th Street (btwn. Lexington and 3rd Avenues)

Free of admission

RSVP at rsvp@repertorio.org or 212-225-9925
I will be doing a talkback immediately following the reading. Winners will be announced in January.

Here is a synopsis for the script:
Julian’s mother has returned to Chile to care for his dying grandmother, leaving Julian to juggle his temporary responsibility for his mentally-ill sister, his studies, his job and his American lifestyle: the one that his family knows about and the closeted gay and aspiring actor lifestyle that they don’t. Set in 1968 and in a strong Chilean immigrant and Catholic family, this story explores the choices that Julian has to make when a big opportunity arises and the sister that complicates them. Inspired by a true story.
More information at http://www.elanagartner.com/news

Thursday, Dec. 9
Deanna Lee ’92 invites you to opening reception for "Day Job" at The Drawing Center

"Day Job" will feature works commissioned through an open call to artists currently in The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. Rather than subscribing to the idea that non-artistic work is by definition disruptive to an artist’s practice, "Day Job" looks at the ways in which the information, skills, ideas, working conditions, or materials encountered in the work world can become a source of influence. The exhibition also addresses the ways in which contemporary artists support themselves in an economic climate that often demands particularly diverse and flexible solutions to staying afloat. Part of the Selections series, this exhibition is curated by Viewing Program Curator Nina Katchadourian.

As one of 23 artists in this exhibition, Deanna Lee (1992) will create a site-specific drawing installation inspired by an imperfection of The Drawing Center's main gallery.

Opening reception: 6-8 pm Thursday, Dec. 9
On view December 10, 2010 – February 3, 2011

THE DRAWING CENTER
35 WOOSTER STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10013
212-219-2166

Dec. 11-12 and 17
Georgiana Pickett ‘90 and Anna Glass ’96, 651 ARTS producers, present two shows

From the Producers at 651 ARTS – Georgiana Pickett (’90) and Anna Glass (’96)

A 651 ARTS Project:

FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance – The National Tour

Featuring solo performances by five legendary dance icons:

Germaine Acogny

Carmen De Lavallade

Dianne McIntyre

Bebe Miller

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

651 ARTS, Brooklyn’s premier arts organization dedicated to performance of the African Diaspora, announces the national tour of FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance. This program is an evening-length dance performance that includes the choreography and solo performances by five legendary contemporary dancer/choreographers: Carmen de Lavallade, Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Germaine Acogny of Senegal.

The last performances of the tour will take place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on December 11 & 12, 2010. Don’t miss this historic and highly celebrated event!

• NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Newark, NJ), Dec. 11, 12, 2010
Info: 888-406-5722, www.njpac.org

651 ARTS PRESENTS

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE: 25 Years

With special guests: Mohammed Camera,

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company & Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:30pm

BAM Harvey Theater

Tickets: $100*/$55/$45/$35.

Student, Senior, and group discounts available.

Purchase tickets: www.651ARTS.org or call 718-636-4100

*$100 ticket includes champagne reception with the artists

651 ARTS celebrates 25 years of outstanding contributions to choreography and dance by Ronald K. Brown. This one night only presentation features seminal works by Brown that have rarely been seen in their entirety. Brown’s company EVIDENCE and the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company will be accompanied on stage by West African percussionist Mohammed Camara — plus New Orleans icons the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Sunday, Dec. 12
Gwen Krosnick ’08 plays at Greenwich House Music School

Who: Gwen Krosnick ('08), cello, and Emely Phelps, piano
What: Cello and Piano Works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Chopin
When: Sunday, December 12th, 3pm
Where: Greenwich House Music School - 46 Barrow Street, NYC
Free admission!
For more info, please visit www.triocleonice.com

October newsletter

Oberlin Club of New York City October 2010 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter NEWSLETTER NEWS: Deadline for the November newsletter is October 20. Please send your news and events tooberlinnycnews@gmail.com.  CONTENTS: OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS Oct. 6: NY Oberlin Alumni Steering Committee Meeting Oct. 27: Oberlin Authors Book Club Oct. 28: Oberlin Happy Hour OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS Lower East Side Gallery Tour Skin Deep Performance and Talk Back Framing Innocence Book Readings with Lynn Powell You Were Wrong Book Events with Matt Sharpe GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS Oberlin Winter Term Students Oberlin Shansi Fellowship Applications Come see Leslie Korein ’02 perform your child's story OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS Wednesday, October 6 NY Oberlin Alumni Steering Committee Meeting 6:30 pm Join the NY Oberlin Alumni Steering Committee for a meeting to discuss and plan club events for the year to come. Current Steering Committee members are encouraged to attend, as are any alum with a desire to help conceive and carry out area alumni events or to assist with current annual club events and activities. This is a working meeting – only those with serious commitment to planning and carrying out an event or events in the coming year should attend. This is also a labor of love – the current Steering Committee is a group of wonderful, friendly dedicated & motivated alumni, and we’re looking for more of the same! Interested alum should contact New York Regional coordinators Katherine Kornblau (KJK11b@aol.com) or Erin Herlihy (eherlihy@gmail.com) for additional information or for meeting location information.  Wednesday, Oct. 27 Oberlin Authors Book Club 6:30 p.m. at Starbucks, 200 Madison Avenue (at 36th St) Please join us as we welcome Oberlin Author Lynn Powell to the NYC area. Her new book, Framing Innocence, is the story of how innocent photographs taken by a mother of her child became the heart of a wrenching legal battle and galvanized the Oberlin community in 1999-2000. The mother, Cynthia Stewart, was the Oberlin College freshman on the cover of Life magazine in November 1970. After college, she settled in Oberlin and in 1999 was working as a school bus driver and raising her daughter there. The story is populated with real characters who had a high stake in the outcome of this case: the embattled family, the determined prosecutors, the lawyers for whom the case was a crucible, the fundamentalist Christian anti-porn crusader who was appointed the child's guardian, and the many people—Republican and Democrat, professors and townsfolk—who put their reputations on the line by writing letters, holding rallies, arranging backchannel meetings, and leveraging national media attention to persuade the prosecutor to enter negotiations. Robert Coles has called Framing Innocence “an enthralling book.” Oberlin President Marvin Krislov says Framing Innocence is a “deeply compelling book, part legal thriller and part study of community values in conflict. I couldn't put it down.” The book is available for purchase online from both Barnes and Noble and Amazon. **See also: Dates for Lynn Powell’s area readings. Thursday, Oct. 28 Oberlin Happy Hour Details TBD. Watch for an e-blast later this month! FUTURE CLUB EVENTS The New York Steering Committee is currently at work planning alumni events for the next calendar year. Please watch this space for exciting things to come! OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS Sunday, October 24 Lower East Side Gallery Tour 2 p.m.; starts at Untitled gallery, 30 Orchard St. Attend an enriching, stimulating and fun art gallery tour of the Lower East Side and Chinatown galleries in New York City with art advisor Jennifer Weissbach. The galleries in this vibrant neighborhood are in unique spaces that are eclectic and intimate. The tour will feature art by many emerging artists, and Jennifer will provide in-depth information about the work and introduce you to gallerists. She is passionate about demystifying the art world and creates an open and warm environment during gallery visits so that people can talk freely and ask questions about the art. Jennifer Weissbach, an art advisor based in New York City, founded her art advisory business (www.jenniferweissbach.com) with the desire to make the art world accessible. She is dedicated to helping people learn and enrich their lives through art and spends her time educating private collectors and groups about the latest trends in contemporary art. Jennifer studied art and history at Oberlin College (1987-89)and New York University.  When: Sunday, October 24 Time: 2 pm – 5 pm Location: UNTITLED, this gallery is located at 30 Orchard Street, between Hester and Canal Streets Cost: $35, limited to the first 20 respondents RSVPs required. To reserve a ticket please contact Jennifer at jennifer@jenniferweissbach.com or call +1 917 716 2865 Friday, October 22nd Skin Deep and Talk Back 8 p.m. at Foolish Theater Company @ Theatre 54, 244 W. 54th St., 12th floor Join Oberlin playwright Rich Orloff for Oberlin Night at Skin Deep, followed by talk-back panel “Nudist Resorts: Are the Rumors True?,” moderated by Rich. Oberlin alums and friends using the code OBIE can get advanced sale tickets for $15 (normally $18). In addition, for each ticket sold, a donation of $3 will be given to Oberlin. Tickets are available by phone at (212) 868-4444 or via SmartTix: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=SKI0&GUID=59794e8e-9223-44f1-affe-90a720addb44  The Foolish Theatre Company presents SKIN DEEP a comedy without tan lines by Rich Orloff,directed by Jeffrey C. Wolf When a couple from Ohio inherit a clothing-optional resort in Key West, they discover parts of themselves never before exposed! WARNING: This play contains rampant off-stage nudity! Performances Oct 16 – Nov 6 Fri & Sat 8 pm, Sun & Mon 7 pm, Sat matinees 4 pm  Various dates Leslie Korein ’02 performs improv every Saturday at the Magnet Theater Join Oberlin Alumni Leslie Korein (OC '02) every Saturday night at the Magnet Theater, 254 W. 29th Street, at 10:30 PM for her weekly long-form improv show with her trio, Trike. Tickets are only $5 and beer is $2!  TRIKE (A Time Out New York Critics’ Pick) is one of The Magnet Theater’s signature shows and can be seen every Saturday night at 10:30 in the heart of New York’s comedy district. Trike is a three-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. Trike never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. With Trike you never know where you’re going, but you’re guaranteed to enjoy the ride. Trike is Peter McNerney, Nick Kanellis and Leslie Korein (OC '02). Various dates Framing Innocence Book Readings with Lynn Powell Join Oberlin author Lynn Powell for book talk & signing events at the following local locations. Stay afterward and catch up with the author and with fellow alum. Find more info on Facebook; search for Framing Innocence by Lynn Powell. (See book description above, under Official Club Events) Thursday, October 21 - 7 pm Watchung Books, 54 Fairfield Street, Watchung Plaza, Montclair, NJ 07042  Saturday, October 23 - 3 pm Labyrinth Books (Princeton), 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542  Monday, October 25 - 7 pm Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025  Tuesday, October 26 - 6 pm Labyrinth Books (New Haven), 290 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511  Various dates You Were Wrong Book Events with Matt Sharpe Join Oberlin author Matt Sharpe for book conversations and/or readings at the following local locations.  Thursday, October 7 – 7 pm Conversation with Linh Dinh Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th St., NYC  Thursday, December 2 – 6 pm Reading at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ  GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS Interested in working with an Oberlin student during Winter Term?  Please be sure to post your opportunity or get in touch with Career Services by October 5! Last Winter Term (January), Oberlin alumni offered internships for Oberlin students at over 120 organizations nationwide. We're still looking for more great internships for this January. Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to work with an Oberlin student during Winter Term, as our deadline for postings is October 5. Instructions for posting are available athttp://www.oberlin.edu/career/alumni/alum_wt_intern_about.html, and Jonas Wisser or Liz Lierman will be happy to help if you have questions or need assistance. You can reach us atinternships@oberlin.edu, or 440.775.8060. Oberlin Shansi Fellowship Applications Available Now!  Oberlin Shansi Fellowships are available to graduating seniors and alumni who have graduated from Oberlin within the last three years of their application. Oberlin Shansi’s mission is to encourage understanding and communication between Asians and Americans through educational and community initiatives. Selected Fellows spend two years teaching or working with one of Oberlin’s partner institutions in China, India, Indonesia and Japan. Along with stipends, paid airfare, insurance and several other benefits, Fellows are also given time and money to travel during their breaks.  Oberlin Shansi Fellowship Applications are available now. For consideration, completed applications must be submitted by Monday, November 1. Interested alum should contact Oberlin Shansi Campus Coordinator Merybelle Guo (mguo@oberlin.edu) for more information or for application materials. Interested alum may also contact Oberlin Shansi Associate Director Deborah Cocco (deborah.cocco@oberlin.edu) or Returned Fellow Anne Lowe, who has just finished two years in China, (anne.lowe@oberlin.edu) for further information. Come see Leslie Korein ’02 perform your child's story The Story Pirates is a nationally respected arts and creative writing organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, to promote literacy as a vital part of early childhood education, and to preserve the spark of youthful creativity often lost in the transition to adulthood. The cornerstone of the company is the Play/Write Program, a series of creative writing and drama workshops that lead to a musical sketch comedy show acted by adults and comprised entirely of stories written by kids. The award winning show has been described as “Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock.” Based in New York, Story Pirates has grown to reach hundreds of thousands of children in over 100 schools across the country. Join Oberlin Alumni Leslie Korein ('02) every Saturday during the school year at their weekly show in Times Square. If you would like us to perform your child's story, please see details on the website,www.storypirates.org. If you are an educator or school administrator, you get in free! (The Story Pirates also actively seeks Oberlin Interns year-round--we had ten last year and they were brilliant.) Story Pirates special discount tickets for Oberlin Alumni; check www.storypirates.org for showtimes and email friendtix@storypirates.org for $10 tickets (regular, $20) The Story Pirates are also creating a fantastic Haunted House for kids of all ages in Tribecca that runs October 15th-31st . Please see the website at http://www.hallowhoa.com.

April 2010 newsletter

April 2010 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter

NEWSLETTER NEWS:

Deadline for the May newsletter is April 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.

CONTENTS:

CLUB NEWS

A note from new Regional Co-coordinator, Erin Herlihy '97

OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS

April 17: Oberlin Cares Day

April 28: Happy Hour

FUTURE CLUB EVENTS

May 16: AIDS Walk New York: Team Oberlin

OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS

April 22: Claire Chase performs at Carnegie Hall

GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lisa Tracy '67 releases new book, Objects of Our Affection

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CLUB NEWS

A note from new Regional Co-coordinator , Erin Herlihy '97:

Hello there, New York City area alum!  I'd like to take up a bit of this month's e-newsletter to introduce myself, to rave about the local steering committee, and to ask for your help! I'm Erin Herlihy, class of '97 and your newest NYC Alumni regional coordinator. When I returned to New York after grad school in Chicago, I was asked by Katherine Kornblau, our long-standing Regional Coordinator, to help out with the planning of alumni activities here in the city.  It is a position I'm delighted to take as I'd always enjoyed being involved with the NYC steering committee before leaving town. When Katherine told me what a dedicated and energetic steering committee has developed in NY, I was delighted. I'm even more delighted to report that it's entirely true - there's a wonderful team of organized, friendly, outgoing alum here in NY who are working hard to create a variety of events for NY area alumni and their families every month. 

But that doesn't mean we can't use your help! We're always looking for more dedicated volunteers who are willing and able to plan or host area events. We're especially interested in increasing the diversity of events, and are keen to involve members of ALL class years and alumni with family-oriented events in mind.  If you have event ideas, we want to hear from you. If you're already involved in an a special event which other alum can attend or participate in, we want to help you get the word out. We'd LOVE to hear from you. Please feel free to contact me at Eherlihy@gmail.com. Or better yet, come out to an event and meet some of your fabulous local steering committee members in person! Hope to see you at an event soon!

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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS

Saturday, April 17

Oberlin Cares Day of Service

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

Join John Hunka '85 and fellow Oberlin alum for the first annual Oberlin Cares - Alumni Day of Service. We will be cleaning up trash and debris at the Jamaica bay Wildlife Refuge. Participants should bring bottled water; large, strong trash bags; and work gloves. Dress for the weather. Sturdy boots, a windbreaker, and sunscreen are recommended. Please arrive at the visitor center shortly before 9 a.m. to meet with the site coordinator John Hunka ‘85.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

Cross Bay Boulevard
Queens, New York
www.nyharborparks.org/visit/jaba.htm 

 

Detailed driving and public transportation directions, as well as an event RSVP (to help us with planning purposes) are available on-line at https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/events/OBL2248087.html

Hope many of you can join us for this inaugural event in what we hope will be a long tradition of annual Alumni Service days to come.

 

Wednesday, April 28

Oberlin Happy Hour

6 p.m. at High Dive in Brooklyn

Join us on Wednesday, April 28th, after 6 pm for happy hour at High Dive featuring $1 off everything until 8 pm (including a selection of nearly 40 beers.) If the weather is nice we'll be outside in the back on the patio eating free popcorn from the old-fashioned popper. If it's still chilly we'll be inside, in the back, picking songs from their eclectic jukebox (and definitely still eating popcorn.) 

Don't let the name fool you: High Dive is less dive, more cozy, cool hang-out spot without the pretense. Hope to see you there!

243 5th Ave
(between President St & Carroll St) 
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Closest trains are M/R to Union St., F/G to 9th St. or whatever comes to Atlantic Ave. 

(718) 788-0401

http://www.yelp.com/map/high-dive-brooklyn

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FUTURE CLUB EVENTS

Sunday, May 16

AIDS Walk New York: Team Oberlin

10 a.m., Manhattan

Join the Oberlin Club of NYC in the fight against HIV/AIDS! This year marks the 25th anniversary of AIDS Walk New York. Join Obies on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 10:00am, rain or shine, in this fun walk around Manhattan.

To register, visit http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork/takeaction/register.html

Select “join a team” and search for “Oberlin Alumni of NYC – 4587”

(or, here is a direct link to join the team:https://www.kintera.org/faf/reg_new/register.asp?ievent=331281&lis=1&kntae331281=DBFAE998D7004790B6A592402D9EDE96&jt=3663795&teamsName=Oberlin+Alumni+of+NYC+-+4587)

Details about meeting location will be provided to registered participants closer to the date.

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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS

Thursday, April 22

Claire Chase performs at Carnegie Hall

7:30 PM, Weill Recital Hall

Oberlin Alum, flutist, and first prize winner of the 2008 Cag Competition Claire Chase will be performing at the Weill Recital Hall on April 22nd. Claire will be playing what he describes as "a wild program of Donatoni, Xenakis, Boulez, Takemitsu, Saariaho, and Bach transcribed by Sciarrino." She will be performing with Jacob Greenber on piano, Svet Stoyanov on percussion, and Bridget Kibbey on harp. Discount tickets are available to alum via the following link: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=-Nuc11XndmWUv2CX8bHCDlh46rWyhHC--3n-YwtVMgzK-hvVm2lDc692Pmq&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b5efedb82468478c62d1faf461a6d044e50f69629fd05e903

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GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lisa Tracy '67 releases new book, Objects of Our Affection

Lisa Tracy ('67) says her new book, OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION (Random House, March 23, 2010) is "part family memoir and in part a reflection on why we Americans are so attached to our possessions." Tracy comes from a family that spent generations on the move as military officers, and she believes that our transiency as a nation (average American moves 11 times over a lifetime) underlies that attachment: "We make our home in our things." The book also looks at the roots of our current culture, including two wars being waged abroad, in the Gilded Age, a time when her grandparents were "the foot soldiers of the American empire. Hardcover, 256 pages.  $25.00.  ISBN: 978-0-553-80726-4

January 2010 Newsletter

January 2010 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter

NEWSLETTER NEWS:

Deadline for the February newsletter is Jan. 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.

CONTENTS:

CLUB NEWS

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS

Jan. 14 - Oberlin Alumni January Happy Hour

OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS

Jan. 6 - Peter Flint '92 and The Avian Orchestra perform new music

Jan. 13 - Rafiq Bhatia '10 performs with his band, The Rafiq Bhatia Collective

Jan. 16 and 14 - Joe Hickerson '57 performs two NYC shows

GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS

Host an Obertone during spring break

Obie Andrew Innes '92 launches game company

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CLUB NEWS

Stay in touch with fellow New York-area Obies all month long through our new Facebook group and Twitter feed!

*Visit Facebook.com, search for the group "The Oberlin Alumni of NYC," and click to join.

*Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oberlin_nyc. Have an Oberlin-related message you'd like us to repost? Tweet to @Oberlin_NYC.

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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS

Thursday, Jan. 14

Oberlin Alumni January Happy Hour

6 to 8 p.m. at Common Ground Bar and Restaurant

Thursday, January 14 from 6:00 - 8:00pm
Common Ground Bar and Restaurant
206 Avenue A between 12th and 13th Streets
http://www.commongroundnyc.com

Join us for the first Oberlin Alumni Happy Hour of the decade at
Common Ground in the East Village! Eric Estes, Associate Dean of
Academic Diversity in the College of Arts and Sciences; Director of
the Multicultural Resource Center; faculty member in Comparative
American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies,
will be in attendance. This is a great chance to find out what's
happening at Oberlin and meet up with fellow alumni.

Common Ground happy hour specials: **Buy One Get One Free Appetizers
and Panini * $5 Cosmos and Apple Martinis * $2 Pints of Yuengling and
Miller Lite**

 We look forward to seeing you soon!

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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS

Jan. 6
Peter Flint '92 and The Avian Orchestra perform new music

"FANTASTIC MUSIC FOR A FABULOUS TIME!" - Chamber rock for the 21st Century
January 6, 2010
8 p.m.
@The Cell
338 W. 23rd Street (bet. 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC

General admission tickets $20/$10 with student ID
Seating is LIMITED!!!  ADVANCE PURCHASE STRONGLY ADVISED!!!
Tickets available online at http://avianmusic.tix.com
(and with cash at the door, depending on availability.)

Peter Flint ('92) and the Avian Orchestra start 2010 with a concert of hard-hitting chamber music inspired by the world of rock-and-roll. The evening celebrates the release of our newest recording from which the Avian Orchestra will play selections including music by Flint and former Oberlin professor, Conrad Cummings.  Come enjoy an evening of thrilling new music and hang out with the composers and performers at a post-concert reception!

The program includes:
       • Cable Ready - Michael Gandolfi’s virtuosic trio quoting Bach, Brahms, bebop, and the blues.
       • I Wish They All Could Be... - Conrad Cummings’ Beach Boys solo piano fantasy.
       • Fantastic Music for a Fabulous Time - Peter Flint’s full band homage to musical excess.
       • Smoke n’ Wid - Richard Belcastro’s slamming quartet for electric guitar and chamber power trio.
       • The Vinyl Six - Jonathan Newman’s tribute to the theme and variations 1970’s style power ballad.
       • Swells - David Laganella’s deconstruction of California surf guitar music.

Hear samples of this music at http://www.avianmusic.com/Upcoming.html

Performers include Oberlin Conservatory grads Blair McMillen '93, piano, and Cyrus Beroukhim '99,violin, in a septet of musicians playing strings, woodwinds, percussion, and electric guitar.

For more information, visit www.avianmusic.com or e-mail info@avianmusic.com.

Jan. 13
Rafiq Bhatia '10 performs with his band, The Rafiq Bhatia Collective

This is Rafiq Bhatia (OC'10), guitarist/composer, wrote to let us know about an event this month:

The performance, which features multiple Oberlin students/alumni, will be a part of our tour, funded by the Oberlin Creativity & Leadership Project's Conservatory Initiative Grants Supporting Imagination and Excellence (CIGSIE). We will be visiting several cities to research a social entrepreneurship model that combines performing within the existing infrastructure for creative music with outreach efforts to youth in schools and community centers.

Who:
The Rafiq Bhatia Collective

Rafiq Bhatia (OC'10): guitar/compositions
Jeremy Viner: saxophones
Corey King: trombone
Jackson Hill (OC'10): bass
Alex Ritz (OC'08): drums

This performance will be a part of our winter tour, funded by the Oberlin Creativity & Leadership Project's Conservatory Initiative Grants Supporting Imagination and Excellence (CIGSIE). We will be visiting several cities to research a social entrepreneurship model that combines performing within the existing infrastructure for creative music with outreach efforts to youth in schools and community centers.

Where:
Barbes
9th St and 6th Ave
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

When: January 13th, 2010 at 7 p.m.

How Much? $10

Biography:

"A contemporary mind with the true potential of the future, Rafiq Bhatia is definitely an artist to look forward to hearing."

—Billy Hart, legendary jazz drummer

Rafiq Bhatia is an East-African Indian American guitarist/composer seeking to synthesize a genre-bending musical lexicon informed by the traditions of his transmigratory heritage.
 
A first-generation American, Bhatia is currently completing an interdisciplinary honors degree in economics and cognitive science at Oberlin College. He is also associated with the world-renowned Oberlin Conservatory, where his concept quickly caught the attention of prolific drummer Billy Hart, who decided to include Bhatia in his new project, The Billy Hart Laboratory. Besides apprenticing under Hart, renowned percussionist Jamey Haddad, and Cleveland-based drummer Paul Samuels, Bhatia is the artist-in-residence at The Feve, an Oberlin mainstay, where his group has attracted a loyal fan-base and critical acclaim for their regular performances. He also frequently returns to New York to perform, and studies with Downbeat magazine's "Rising Star Jazz Pianist/Composer" Vijay Iyer.

Bhatia currently leads The Rafiq Bhatia Collective, co-leads the New York-based ensemble Chrysalis with trombonist/composer Corey King, and is a member of the Nina Moffitt Quintet.


Jan. 14 and 16
Joe Hickerson '57 performs two NYC-area shows

Greetings! I am delighted to inform you of two programs I am doing in New York City in January sponsored by the Folk Music Society of New York (www.folkmusicny.org).

House Concert
Hosts:  John Ziv & Deborah Rubin
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
243 W. 98th St., Apt. 6A (Near Broadway)
New York City, NY
Reservations required: 718/672-6399

Workshop/Lecture/Concert:
“Treasures of the Library of Congress Folk Archive”
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:00 p.m.
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St. (between. Hamilton & Woodhull)
Brooklyn, NY
Reservations required: 718/965-4074

'Twould be great to see a bunch of Obies there!  I might even play excerpts from a Pete Seeger concert at Hall Auditorium in 4/55 and a folksing I led after Pete's concert at Oberlin on my 21st birthday 10/20/56!

Joe Hickerson, Oberlin class of 1957
www.joehickerson.com

GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS

Host an Obertone!

Oberlin's one and only Obertones will be in town for Oberlin's Spring Break (March 26 - April 4th), and are looking for alumni hosts willing to donate sofa or floor space to a Tone for a night or two during their visit. Alum interested in hosting a Tone can contact the Obertones at obertone@oberlin.edu. For more information about the Obertones, please visit their website at http://www.oberlin.edu/stuorg/obertone/index.htm.

While here, the Obertones will "spread the word about Oberlin" by performing at local highschools, as well as doing some street busking and performing at some area colleges. The Obertones have expressed interest in doing an alumni performance as well, but are in need of a venue. Any alum with access to space that might accommodate such an event is encouraged to contact NY Regional coordinator Erin Herlihy (eherlihy@gmail.com) or Katherine Kornblau (kjk11b@aol.com) to discuss.

Obie Andrew Innes '92 launches game company
I launched my game company, Anomia Press, in the spring of 2009 to manufacture and distribute "Anomia," a card game I invented and have been refining over the last 5 years.  I raised all the money I needed to pay for my start up costs and my 1st printing via an email/web/Facebook/Twitter campaign this summer.  My first shipment of games arrived this November, and at the time of this writing I have sold about 900 copies!  More info can be found here: http://www.anomiapress.com.