The Employee Assistance Program has announced that flu shots will be given as planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31.
The location has been changed, however, to the west entrance of the Duke Ellington Ballroom.
The flu clinic planned for 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, will remain in the Regency Room as planned.
On the menu at Ellington’s this week: Vive la France, scheduled for Tuesday. Autumn Harvest takes over Thursday.
Vive la France features spinach salad with roasted almonds and French onion soup for starters, pork cordon bleu and crepes with roasted vegetables for entrees and thin pear and almond tart and chocolate mousse for dessert. Each table also will be served a loaf of freshly baked French bread.
Autumn Harvest features butternut squash soup and mixed greens with cranberry vinaigrette for starters, broccoli linguine Alfredo and stuffed turkey breast with cranberry glaze for entrees and carrot cake and apple crisp for dessert. Each table also will be served hot apple cider.
Seating is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with service until 1 p.m. The cost is $8 per person. Ellington’s is located on the main floor of the Holmes Student Center. Call (815) 753-1763 or visit www.ellingtons.niu.edu to make reservations.
All are invited Saturday, Nov. 3, to the 15th annual NIU NATIONS Pow Wow, the largest university student-sponsored pow wow in the Midwest.
Admission is free to the pow wow, held from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Student Recreation Center. Grand entries are scheduled for 1 and 7 p.m. The event features authentic and traditional Native American dancers, drums, songs, food, vendors and traders.
The pow wow helps to support the NIU Native American Scholarship Fund. Individuals or groups that would like to help as volunteers should contact Michael Seven Eagle Feathers Augsburger, NATIONS faculty adviser, at (815) 753-1406, (815) 758-3604 or via e-mail at niunations@yahoo.com.
All NIU women, including faculty, staff and students, are invited to a networking luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16.
Mira Reisberg, assistant professor in the School of Art, will present “Maya Gonzalez: Portrait of the Artist as an Ecofeminist Children’s Book Illustrator” at noon.
Reisberg’s research and teaching practices involve the study of multicultural children’s picture books as a form of visual culture used to support social justice and environmental stewardship.
For her presentation, she will show a short video article titled “Maya Gonzalez: Portrait of the Artist as a Radical Children’s Book Illustrator.” This documentary as qualitative research explores the work and life of Gonzalez, a Chicana lesbian artist, focusing on race, gender and environmental aspects of her work.
The luncheon is held in the Chandelier Room of Adams Hall and costs $8 per person. To make a reservation before Tuesday, Nov. 6, call (815) 753-0320.
All members of the university community are invited to the Creating Community Fall Reception, sponsored by the Presidential Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History Month.
The event with dessert reception takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the Gallery Lounge on the main floor of the Holmes Student Center.
Costumes are encouraged. Winners of the “Color It Queer!” coloring contest will be announced at 12:45 p.m.
Call (815) 753-LGBT (5428) for more information.
NIU’s Art Museum will host several faculty lectures in conjunction with the NIU School of Art Faculty Biennial exhibition, which runs from Tuesday, Oct. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 8. The public is invited to an opening reception from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The speaker series and exhibition gives the public an opportunity to share in the research, ideas and artwork of NIU School of Art faculty. All lectures will be held at 5 p.m. in Altgeld Hall 315 unless otherwise noted.
The NIU Art Museum is located on the first floor, west end of Altgeld Hall. The galleries are open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and by appointment for group tours.
Exhibitions are free; donations are appreciated. The exhibitions of the NIU Art Museum are funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, the Friends of the NIU Art Museum, and the Arts Fund 21.
For more information, visit www.vpa.niu.edu/museum or call (815) 753-1936.
Two groups play their debut concerts of the year in November. CSJazz Band performs at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, and CSA Sinfonia performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7.
Both ensembles are with the NIU Community School of the Arts and perform in the Concert Hall in the Music Building.
Directing the CSJazz Band for the first time this year is saxophonist Doug Stone. A well-known performer and graduate of the NIU jazz program, he brings his directing and composing skills to the 15-member band.
The band is playing “Stitch in Time” by Sammy Nestico, “It’s Only A Paper Moon” by E.Y. Harburg and Billy Rose, “Never No Lament” by Duke Ellington and a new tune by Stone.
The CSA Sinfonia performs “Concerto Grosso” in d minor by Vivaldi, the prelude to “Die Meistersinger” by Wagner, the finale from Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” as well as pieces by Leroy Anderson and Kansas. The orchestra is directed by cellist Linc Smelser, music director of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Both performances are free and open to the public. Parking adjacent to the Music Building is free after 7 p.m.
The Nehring Gallery in downtown DeKalb invites the public to their latest exhibition, “Art & Artifacts of WWII.” The exhibition on display through Nov. 15 showcases the collection of John Wright, owner of Wright’s Jewelry in downtown DeKalb.
The opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, will include comments from the collector at 5:30 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition, Nehring Gallery also will host a guest lecture by Dale Cozort, a WWII historian and author, at noon Wednesday, Oct. 31. Cozort’s lecture is titled “World War II: Desperate Struggle, Foregone Conclusion.”
More than 50 WWII propaganda posters and artifacts will be on display during the exhibit. Two rare original prints created for a poster design contest in 1942 at the New York Museum of Modern Art are also part of the exhibition. One of these winning submissions, “America, Step on It,” is a one-of-a-kind original oil painting from which later posters were based. Wright also has generously donated an original 1945 print of “7th Now … All Together” by C.C. Beall to be raffled off. Tickets for the raffle are for sale throughout the exhibition for $1 each or six for $5. All proceeds help support the Nehring Gallery.
“Art & Artifacts of WWII” is open and free to the public during regular gallery hours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and by appointment.
Nehring Gallery is located on the second floor of the Nehring Center for Culture and Tourism in the historic First National Bank building on the corner of Lincoln Highway and Second Street in downtown DeKalb. The gallery is cooperatively operated by the DeKalb Park District and the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts Division of Outreach. An entrance accessible to all is located at the 111 S Second Street entrance.
NIU’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center and Human Resource Services are offering grants up to $1,000 each to Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) pursuing professional development activities that benefit the individuals as well as their academic units.
Proposal guidelines and other information are available at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/grants/spsdgrant.shtml. Five copies of each proposal, including other relevant documents, must be submitted to the SPS Awards Committee, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, 319 Adams Hall, by Friday, Nov. 16, for activities proposed between Jan. 1 and June 2008.
SPS who plan to submit a proposal by the Nov. 16 deadline and need more information are encouraged to register to attend the grant writing seminar from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2. Register online at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/forms/fsprogreg.shtml or e-mail to facdev@niu.edu.