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.