Film Talk

Claremont Community College, the folk(s) who gave us the 5 Second Film Festival, kick off their speaker series this afternoon at 2pm:

DATE: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:53 PM
SUBJECT: Directions to Film Lecture Sunday 2 pm
FROM: Vincent Turner

We are so happy to be presenting Nathan Wang film composer as our first speaker in this year's film lecture series.

The event will be held this Sunday at 2 pm. Please join us at the Claremont University Consortium Administrative Center, 101 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont

Directions to the Claremont University Consortium Administrative Center

Google Maps Link:

http://g.co/maps/ythkx

The CUC Administrative Center is located at 101 N. Mills Avenue in Claremont. Google Maps will correctly locate this address.

From the 10 Freeway

Exit at Indian Hill Blvd. Proceed north on Indian Hill. Continue for about a mile. Turn right on to First Street. Continue east on First Street for about 7/10 of a mile. You will pass the Metrolink Parking Lot on the right. The Administrative Center is just east of the lot.

From the 210 Freeway

Exit at Towne Avenue. Proceed south on Towne for about a mile. Turn left onto Foothill Blvd and continue for about a mile. Turn right onto Indian Hill Blvd and continue for about a mile. Turn left onto First Street. Continue east on First Street for about 7/10 of a mile. You will pass the Metrolink Parking Lot on the right. The Administrative Center is just east of the lot.

David Brooks Comes to Scripps

New York Times columnist David Brooks will be speaking at Scripps College 7:30pm next Tuesday, February 8.

Brooks will speak at Garrison Theater as part of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program. Garrison is located at 231 E. Tenth St. His lecture is titled "The Social Animal Post Election."

Brooks is slowly making the rounds at the 5C's. In April, 2003, he spoke at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum and talked about McMansions and bobos (see below).

Here are the details from the Scripps website:

Book signing to follow in the lobby. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Priority seating in Garrison Theater will be given to members of the Scripps Community with their Scripps ID. Limited seating will be available to others on a first-come, first-served basis. FMI: (909) 607-9372

David Brooks is a keen observer of the American way of life and a penetrating analyst of present-day politics and foreign affairs. He has become one of the prominent voices of conservative politics in the United States; with his elegance and finely tuned reason and wit, he engages both sides of the debate eloquently. Brooks is one of the New York Times's most widely read columnists and is a regular analyst on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's All Things Considered.

Brooks was a founding senior editor of The Weekly Standard and has been a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly. He worked at the Wall Street Journal for nine years in a range of positions, including op-ed editor. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, and many other periodicals. Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.

In his Elizabeth Hubert Malott lecture at Scripps College, Brooks will draw from his upcoming new book and the recent elections to paint a thorough and eye-opening picture of today’s political climate. His new book, The Social Animal: the Inner Roots of Character and Achievement, is due out in March 2011. In his previous two books, New York Times best-seller Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive, Brooks describes what he calls “comic sociology”—depictions of how we live and “the water we swim in.” In Bobos in Paradise he coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class: those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Brooks has a gift for bringing audiences face-to-face with the spirit of our times with humor, insight, and quiet passion. He is also editor of the anthology Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.

New Pomona College Speaker Series

Pomona College announced Thursday that it is beginning a distinguished speaker series starting Wednesday, March 25, at 8pm. The first speaker will be David Plouffle, campaign manager for Obama for America.

The college's media contact, Cynthia Peters, issued this press release:

David Plouffe, Obama Campaign Manager, Inaugurates Pomona College Speakers Series on March 25 at 8 p.m.

David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Obama for America, will inaugurate the Pomona College distinguished lecture series, with a talk on “The Obama Phenomenon: What’s Next?” on Wednesday, March 25, beginning at 8 p.m.

The Obama campaign fundamentally changed the way political campaigns are being conducted. Plouffe’s primary strategy was credited with achieving one of the biggest upsets in American political history, and his general election strategy resulted in President Obama winning states no Democrat had won in decades.

At Pomona, Plouffe will share the inside story about how Barack Obama was elected president, discuss how success hinges on a fundamental belief in the candidate and strategy, and examine the historic movement the campaign created.

Tickets are required though admission to the event is free of charge. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Pomona College Bridges Auditorium Box Office at (909) 621-8031 or picked up at the Box Office, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students, faculty and staff from The Claremont Colleges, should contact their Dean of Students Offices to get their tickets, two per college I.D. For Pomona, tickets are available from the Smith Campus Center.

The Pomona College distinguished lecture series, which is being inaugurated by Plouffe, is established with a generous three-year commitment from the Broe family of Denver, CO.

The college-sponsored series is designed to bring to campus exciting, high profile speakers from public life who have unique, informative perspectives on important issues. In addition to their public lecture, ideally these speakers will engage small groups of students, faculty and staff in conversation in more informal settings, such as classrooms and during meals, as part of their campus visit.

Around Town

The Daily Bulletin's Claremont Now blog offers up a lot of good information about events around town.

Here are a few, as well as some others we found on our own:

• Free jazz concerts at College Center, located at the northwest corner of Claremont and Foothill Blvds.
  
  This is a weekly free jazz series that happens Sundays from 2pm to 5pm.
  
  Jazz at College Center
  - on the east patio of the mall
  655 W. Foothill Blvd.
  Claremont, CA 91711
  Info: (909) 946-1398
  
  
  
• There's a free musical theatre exhibit titled "Broadway and America: Reflections on a Cultural History" on display at the Ella Denison Library at Scripps College.
  
  Denison Library is located at 1090 Columbia Ave. Claremont Now says the library's January hours are 9am to 5pm, 1/5 - 1/9 and 1/12 - 1/16. The library will be closed from 1/17 to 1/22, when the Spring term will begin.
  
  The information on the Claremont Now site said:
  

  Posters, recordings, playbills, LP jackets and other memorabilia from America's musical theater history on Broadway will be on display. Information: Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326 or Denison Library at (909) 607-9351.
  

  
  
• Artist Dawn Grimes Myers has a solo art show called "Sketched in Stone" at the Claremont Forum through January 7th.
  
  Claremont Forum - in the Packing House
  586 W. First St.
  Claremont, CA 91711
  (909) 626-3066
  
  
  
• The Forum is also hosting a lecture by Kallon Basquin on Sunday, January 18th, from 9am to 5pm. The lecture is titled ""Sacred World: Union of The Good, True & Beautiful - The Evolution of Spirituality in America in a Time of Need." It's Part 9 in a series about spirituality in America.
  
  You have to register for the event, and the cost is $60. You can register here.
  
  Kallon Basquin describes himself as a "licensed psychologist and philosophical entertainer."