NEWS RELEASES November '11

College 4 Kids Offers Winter Fun
November 30, 2011

UW-Marinette Continuing Education will offer a fun diversion for kids during the holiday season.

Ages Kindergarten to 6th grade can “Come Play for the Day” on Tuesday, December 27 from 8:30 – 3:00 pm. The morning sessions include “Clowning Around” taught by Otis Miller and “Create with Paint” with art teacher Marne Gross. Miller is a physical comedian and former Ringling Brothers Circus clown. Through games and exercises, students will get an introduction to gag writing, comedy and circus skills like balance and juggling. Gross will teach students about colors and painting techniques as they create original works. A variety of paints including water color and acrylic will be used.

Afternoon sessions will be led by math and science teacher Timothy Schwaba and French teacher Susan Thornton. Schwaba’s class, “I Wanna Know,” is an interactive exploration of exciting questions such as “How old is the earth?” “Are aliens real?” and “Can we make a dinosaur?” Thornton’s class, “A Day at Versailles” will take a virtual tour of the castle and gardens of one of France’s most famous landmarks. After the tour, students will travel back in time as they reenact a day in the “Sun King” Louis XIV’s life using costumes, music and food.

The cost for “Come Play for the Day” is $49 per student, with a $45 second child in family discount and includes lunch and a snack.
To register, call the UW-Marinette Continuing Education office at 715-735-4342 or visit
http://www.marinette.uwc.edu/continuing-ed/college-4-kids/.

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West Shore Chorale Performs Handel's Messiah December 11
November 23, 2011

David Giebler, music professor and choral director at UW-Marinette, will lead the West Shore Chorale and Bay Shore Orchestra in selections from George Fridric Handel's famous oratorio, "Messiah" Sunday, December 11 at 7:30 pm at Holy Spirit Church in Menominee. Admission is free, but donations to defray expenses are appreciated.

An addition to the orchestra for this performance is a harpsicord, hand-built and loaned by choral member Mike McDonnell of Menominee, Michigan. It will be played by Cyndee Giebler.

Composed in 1742, "Messiah" has come to be one of the best-loved and frequently performed works in Western music. Handel's "Messiah" involves solo singers, a chorus, and an orchestra, performing a sequence of recitatives, arias, ensembles and instrumental interludes based on a libretto taken from the Old and New Testaments by Charles Jennens, a wealthy Englishman and literary scholar who edited Shakespeare’s plays. Jennens had been an admirer of Handel’s since at least 1725, when he had become a subscriber of Handel’s published operas, purchasing their scores as they were published.

Jennens compiled the libretto of "Messiah" from the Bible, primarily the Old Testament. Rather than telling the story of Jesus narratively, it presents the significance of the Christian Messiah as a theological idea.

A combination of many elements has won "Messiah" its enduring popularity. The qualities which have elevated it above those created by so many other composers are the richness and variety of the music, the insightful matching of word and sound, and the consistently inspired evocations of such universal emotions as pathos, serenity, and joy. It is also a deeply satisfying work to perform, be they seasoned professionals or enthusiastic amateurs.

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Trains at the Spies Library
November 23, 2011

James LaMalfa, art professor at UW-Marinette and train aficianado will have trains on view for three Saturdays in December at the Spies Library in Menominee from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

On Saturday, December 3rd, he will be running three circles of track with O and S gauge trains including Thomas the Tank and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Express. He will also run hometown trains such as the Chicago & Northwestern RR’s Peninsula 400 and the Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha Chippewa steam train.

Saturday, December 10th will feature Great Trains such as The Union Pacific Big Boy in O and S gauge, plus the Burlington RRs California Zypher pulled by the Union Pacific and Denver & Rio Grand. Also running will be the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian pulled by the Little Joe electric locomotive.

Saturday, December 17th will be Circus Day. LaMalfa will be running O and S gauge circus trains plus carnival rides, shooting galleries, section gangs working track.

For more information, email james.lamalfa@uwc.edu.

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Auditions Announced for TOB’s Diary of Anne Frank
November 23, 2011

Theatre on the Bay Artistic Director Rebecca Stone Thornberry has announced audition dates for “The Diary of Anne Frank” on December 13 and 14 with call-backs as needed on the December 15. They will be held in the Herbert L. Williams Theatre in UW-Marinette’s Fine Arts Building.

Participants should prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary dramatic monologue and be prepared to read from the script at the audition. Readings will be available. E-mail rebecca.stonethornberry@uwc.edu for an audition appointment and indicate date/time preference. She will accommodate requests for specific times on a first-come basis.

Audition appointments can be made between 6:00-9:30 pm on either December 13 or 14. Actors should be available for the callback on December 15 between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. They will be contacted after the initial audition if Stone Thornberry needs to see them on December 15.

“Everyone is encouraged to audition—you do not have to be a UW student in order to audition,” says Stone Thornberry.

Scripts will be available on reserve in the UW library after noon on Monday Nov. 28. Rehearsals will begin January 23. Performances will be March 2-4 and 8-11 with curtain times set for 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday and 2:00 on Sunday. The performance on the March 8 will be for students from area high and middle schools during the day with curtain time to be announced.

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Fall Student Art Show at UW-Marinette
November 18, 2011

Thirty-three art students are showing photography and drawings in the annual fall student art exhibit at UW-Marinette’s in the art gallery located in the Fine Arts Building. The exhibit consists of drawings in pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, pastel and charcoal and color digital photos, plus four hand-colored, silver gel images and ten silver gel images.

Fifteen students from ART 101 “Introduction to Drawing” and ART 102 “Intermediate Drawing” are showing drawings in the medium of pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, silver point, charcoal and pastel.

“In addition to traditional drawing media,” said art professor James LaMalfa, “UW-Marinette students are gaining experience in digital drawing using Z-Brush, a 3D drawing program. It is used by Pixar and Dreamworks studios for their initial modeling of characters before they animate them. We are looking eventually to doing animated digital art. Our students also use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and drawing with an electronic stylus on a WACOM digital tablet.”

The photographs on display in the gallery represent the efforts of eighteen photo students in ART 161 and 261, the beginning and intermediate levels. Students work in silver imaging, digital imaging and this year, in video.

“Moving from a good working knowledge of traditional silver imaging to digital color and then video is a natural progression,” LaMalfa said. “Students get a taste of using Photoshop layers and video production and post-production. If they enroll in Digital Design 216, spring of 2013, they will work with digital still images, lettering and video production for an entire semester,” he added.

The UW-Marinette gallery is open daily from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm and on weekends during Theatre on the Bay performances. TOB’s romantic comedy “Almost, Maine” is playing this weekend on Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

For further information contact Professor LaMalfa at 715 735 4322 or email james.lamalfa@uwc.edu.

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Children's Theatre Auditions for Spring Show Announced
November 17, 2011

Director Jamie Schwaba has announced auditions for the next UW-Marinette Children's Theatre production “Famous Fairy Tales” featuring three classics (The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears) by Linda Daugherty. The tales begin in their usual "once upon a time" fashion; however, this time things change on the way to "happily ever after."

Auditions will be held Monday, December 12 & Tuesday, December 13 from 4:30-7:00 pm in T-133 of the Fine Arts Building for youth ages 6-18.

Auditioners are asked to memorize a one-minute monologue or poem to recite. Sample monologues will be available at UW-Marinette Continuing Education by Nov. 21. Reserve an audition time slot by calling 715-735-4342.

The production dates are morning and afternoon school performances February 3 and public performances February 4 & 5.

Tuition and production fees are due at the mandatory read through/parent meeting on Monday December 19 for those cast. Rehearsals begin Tuesday, January 3rd.

For more information, call 715-735-4342.

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