Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 30, 2007|Volume 35, Number 23

Bulletin Board

Victoria Clark master class

Victoria Clark, the Tony Award-winning singer and actor, will present a master class on Thursday, April 5, in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St.

Clark will work with undergraduate singer/actors enrolled in a seminar she currently teaches through the Department of Music. The event will begin at 4 p.m., and is free and open to the public.

Clark received the 2005 Tony Award for her performance in "The Light in the Piazza," a musical composed by Yale alumnus Adam Guettel. She is a graduate of Yale College.

The event is sponsored by the WHC. For more information, contact manana.sikic@yale.edu.

Magazine launch party

Members of the University community are invited to a party celebrating the launch of volume five of Palimpsest, the Graduate School's literary magazine.

The event will take place 4:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, in Rm. 119 and the common room of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

The magazine features a special comics section, spoken word recordings and illustrated poetry. Copies are free for graduate and professional students, faculty and staff. Additional copies can be purchased for $10.

For more information, visit the website at www.yale.edu/palimpsest.

M&P golf tournament

The Department of Human Resources is sponsoring the 18th annual Howard Parish Memorial Golf Tournament for managerial and professional (M&P) employees.

The event is scheduled for Monday, May 21, beginning with a sign-in procedure at noon. Teams, each consisting of four players, will commence play at 1 p.m. A reception and awards ceremony will take place 5:30-7 p.m.

All M&P employees are eligible to participate. The fee is $20 for members of the Yale Golf Course and $65 for non-members. Payment is required by May 14 or by payroll deduction. No cash will be accepted. No refunds will be made for cancellations after May 18.

Reservations may be made by calling Marilyn Butanowicz at (203) 436-4245; faxing a sign-up form to (203) 432-5536; or by sending e-mail to charles.paul@yale.edu.

Summer sports camp

The Department of Athletics will host a "Bulldog Sports Camp" for children ages 6-13 this summer.

The camp is designed to promote individual development and to guide children through sports and recreational activities. Planned indoor activities include basketball, swimming, ping-pong, yoga and more. Campers are transported twice a week to Yale's athletic fields for participation in soccer, baseball, golf and tug of war, among others. On most Wednesdays, the group travels to the Outdoor Education Center in East Lyme for water activities. Lunch will be provided five days a week.

The cost is $275 per week, with discounts available for multiple family members and prepaid fees. For application forms and more information, visit the website at http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/camps/yale-camps.html or call (203) 432-2488.

Blair Dickinson Prize

The 23rd Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize will be awarded by the School of Art at this year's Commencement ceremonies to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued studio art courses in the school, including graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking or sculpture.

The prize of $21,000 is open to both art majors and non-majors.

The prize seeks to encourage "the woman whose whole person demonstrates a developing consciousness, a personal vision and a spirit of search, regardless of whether she has evolved a concrete realization of that vision; a woman who shows promise of fulfilling Blair Dickinson's (Yale '74) concept of an artist ... ."

Applicants must submit a one-page, double-spaced, 12-point typed statement of not more than 500 words describing their goals, their work and the ideas it represents. They should include no more than 10 images of their work on a Macintosh OS-formatted CD and a hard-copy thumbnail inventory listing date, dimensions, medium and title, if any. The images should relate to the statement as the statement will be read aloud as they are shown. In addition to still images, if work is time-based, a single Quick Time video no longer than two minutes in length may be included in place of the tenth image.

Applications are due by April 27 and should be sent to the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize Committee, Yale University School of Art, Rm. 122, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven, CT 06520-8339.

YUWO excursion

The Yale University Women's Organization (YUWO) will sponsor an excursion to New York City to visit the J.P. Morgan Library and Tenement Museum on Wednesday, May 9.

The bus will leave at 8:15 a.m. from the commuter parking lot at Devine Street in North Haven. The fee for the trip is $65, payable to YUWO.

For more information, call Leona Nalle at (203) 387-7932.

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