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Golove recital rescheduled
GOLOVE
A faculty recital by cellist Jonathan Golove scheduled for 8 p.m. today in Slee Concert Hall has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. on March 25.
Tickets that have been purchased for tonight's concert will be honored on March 25.
For more information, contact the Slee box office at 645-2921.
BPILP to hold fund-raising auction
Want to feel good while snagging a bargain? Then attend the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program's ninth annual fundraising auction, to be held from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Rich Renaissance Niagara Conference Center, Buffalo.
Ron Plants, weekend anchor for WGRZ-TV Channel 2, will serve as celebrity auctioneer.
UB Law School students who work during the summer at law firms or corporate law departments often earn big bucks, unlike those whose passion for the law runs to public-interest work. Most public-interest internships pay nothing. How is a struggling student to survive?
Enter the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program (BPILP), a student-run program that is one of the Law School's most active and most successful. Founded to help students take internships in non-paying government and public-interest settings, the group awards fellowships to UB law students to help make that financially possible.
BPILP fellowships pay about $3,500 for the summer. Last year, BPILP paid for nine students to take jobs. This year, the goal is 15 fellowships. Past BPILP fellows have interned at offices that include Neighborhood Legal Services, the Kenya Human Rights Commission, the Family Court Resource Project and Legal Aid for Children.
Items to be auctioned will include fine art, theater and concert tickets, gift certificates to restaurants, memberships in health clubs, jewelry and antiques.
Tickets are $30 general admission and $25 for college students, and may be purchased by email or by phone via credit card, or by mail via check or credit card. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. An open bar and hors d'oeuvres will be included.
Those who are unable to attend are asked to consider making a donation. To purchase tickets, to make a cash or auction-item donation to BPILP, or for more information, contact the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program at 645-2056 or BPILP@yahoo.com.
UB Art Gallery to present work of MFA students
"Open Ratio," an exhibition of the work of 12 artists in their first year of graduate study in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences, will open with a reception from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 26 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The exhibition will be on view in the second floor gallery through March 10. It will be free and open to the public.
"Open Ratio" will feature the artwork of Jay Ariaz, Wanyen Chou, Steve Heil, Rachael Hetzel, Dietmar Krumrey, Geethanjana Kudaligamage, James Laker, Jennifer Lawhead, Carin Mincemoyer, Arzu Ozkal-Telhan, Kate Parzych and Pamela Ybanez. The exhibition presents a wide range of works in sculpture, painting, printmaking and photography.
The UB Art Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For information, call 645-6912.
Wilkinson to perform in CFA
WILKINSON
Colm Wilkinson, who achieved international fame when he created the role of Jean Valjean in the hit musical "Les Miserables," will perform at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 29 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The legendary artist will appear with his band, performing popular songs and the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer with whom he is closely identified.
In addition to the role of Jean Valjean—for which he received a Tony nomination—Wilkinson also created the role of The Phantom in the Webber musical "The Phantom of the Opera." He then went on to star in the Toronto production of "Phantom" for four and a half years, giving 1,653 performances and earning nightly standing ovations.
He recently released a solo album, "Some of My Best Friends Are Songs."
Tickets for Colm Wilkinson are $49, $45, $40 and $35 for the Saturday performance and $45, $40, $35, and $30 for the Sunday matinee. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS
Architect Ponce de Leon to speak
Architects and urban planners-in-training must know a good deal besides how to lay out a design or articulate a possibility.
Their projects may have to satisfy several clients and mandate programming, management and budgetary facilitation involving multiple-client agencies. They likely will have to provide feasibility analyses and community-interaction workshops with focus groups, design review meetings with city agencies and project coordination sessions. It is a demanding profession—a nightmare for the unprepared.
Venezuelan-born Monica Ponce de Leon is an up-and-coming young architect and urban designer who has done it all, and done it extremely well. In fact, her career path has taken a 45-degree angle from earth—an artist and professional whose acute intellectual curiosity imbues her designed spaces with complexity and meaning beyond their evident function.
As part of its annual lecture series, the School of Architecture and Planning will offer its students, faculty and the public at large the opportunity to meet Ponce de Leon on Wednesday, and discover what she has learned from her extensive experience with institutional and residential clients in many cultural and geographic contexts.
She will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Crosby Hall, South Campus. Her talk will be free of charge and open to the public.
An associate professor in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she is also a partner with Nader Tehrani in the prize-winning Boston architectural firm of Office dA, whose work ranges from the broader scale of urban design and infrastructure to architecture and furniture design.
The firm has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture in 2002 and yearly Progressive Architecture Awards for The Mill Road House, Casa La Roca, The Zahedi House, The Toledo House, the Master Plan for the Town of Wayland and The Tongxian Art Center.
I.D. Magazine recognized the firm with two awards for the ORO/Lazslo furniture line and the Northeastern University Multifaith Spiritual Center. In 1997, Ponce de Leon and Tehrani received Young Architects Awards from the Architecture League of New York and Young Architect Awards from the Boston Society of Architects in 1999.
Ponce de Leon herself has served as principal-in-charge for a wide range of stunning, award-winning projects, from the Northeastern center to the renovation of an historic downtown Boston bank into a restaurant; from a 140-unit apartment building in South Boston to unique furniture design.
In her building projects, Ponce de Leon says she works to forge a unique relationship between architectural design and the construction industry. She often serves as a liaison between manufacturing and construction trades, working directly with craftsmen to develop new methods of construction assembly. These collaborations have been manifest in the development of imaginative responses to the relationship between old and new structures, as well as the integration of state-of-the-art building technologies within existing structures.
Monica Ponce de Leon received a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami and a master's degree in architecture and urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She also has taught at Northeastern University, the University of Miami and the Rhode Island School of Design.
McKeachie to headline teaching conference
Wilbert J. McKeachie, professor emeritus of psychology and former director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker at a conference on "Effective Teaching: Tips, Techniques & Treasures, to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 5 in the Holiday Inn, 1881 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst.
The workshop is presented by the SUNY Training Center and the Center for Teaching and Learning Resources at UB.
McKeachie will present sessions on "Motivating Students" and "Six Decades: Lessons Learned."
Other sessions will be presented by Kenneth J. Takeuchi, professor in the Department of Chemistry in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, on "Classroom Techniques: Lecture Design and Delivery and by Clyde Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the UB Department of Biological Sciences, also in CAS, on "The Use of Interrupted Case Method: A Cooperative Learning Strategy that Works."
The cost of the conference is $110 for SUNY Training Center members and $140 for non-members.
For the conference agenda or to register, go to http://www.tc.suny.edu/UBConference_S04/TTTub.html.