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Gallery Exhibition: Sculptures Inside Outside

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Inside Outside is an exhibition of Gillian Christy’s newest work consisting of sculptural wall pieces inside the Campus Center Art Gallery as well as outside--across the campus. This body of artworks is based on the familiar objects that one may view on a daily basis in existing architecture or industry. Christy states, “These objects’ shapes intrigue me enough to recreate them, skewing their perceived form, function and size. It also strikes me as humorous that these objects could potentially retain personality traits! Clearly, I create an imaginative world but often the underlying themes illustrated within the piece are serious in content.”
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SGA Thanksgiving Dessert Event

6:00 PM-9:00 PM The Underground - Free
Free ice cream sundae bar and seasonal dessert will be served. Come mingle with SGA and kick off the holiday season.
Sponsored by: Student Government Association
For more information, e-mail mhubbard712@gmail.com or call 978-665-3300

Freshman Ugly Sweater Party

6:00 PM-8:00 PM GroundZero Game Room - Free
The Class of 2013 is holding its first event for the Freshmen Class! Come mingle with your class officers at this holiday themed party. Join the fun and wear your ugliest sweater. Free food from Domino's, music, games, and fun.
Sponsored by: Class of 2013
For more information, e-mail mcoste19@student.fsc.edu or call 978-665-3300

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Show Whats New?

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Art and Communications Media faculty have been creating new works in photography, sculpture, design, painting, drawing, film, video, and mixed media. This exhibition highlights some of their best works completed since the last faculty show in 2006. Participating faculty will speak at either the opening or the closing gallery talks. Video work will be screened on the evening of January 26.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733

Late Night Breakfast

10:00 PM-12:00 AM Holmes Dining Commons - $2.00 cash and FSC OneCard
Chartwell and the Class of 2013 are combining forces to help the needy. All proceeds from the door will benefit Ginny's Helping Hand, a local non-profit organization dedicated to improving the everyday living needs of the less fortunate in the surrounding area. $2.00 cash and FSC OneCard are required for entry.
Sponsored by: Class of 2013
For more information, e-mail mcoste19@student.fsc.edu or call 978-665-3300

Natalie MacMaster

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Weston Auditorium - $32 adults and seniors, $12 under 18
Cape Bretons Celtic fiddling virtuoso Natalie MacMaster heats up the Christmas season with her fiery fiddle and down-home charm. Well-known to international audiences as one of Canadas most amazing musicians, McMaster is also somewhat the unofficial herald of the power and passion of Celtic music, step dancing and an indescribable fusion of energy and performance felt by musicians and audiences alike. Join us on this most merry of nights for a festive mix of Cape Breton classics and traditional holiday tunes played with a passionate fiddling style that evokes the sounds of MacMasters Nova Scotia home.

Sponsored by: Workers' Credit Union
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Faculty Show: Whats New? Film and Video presentations

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall - Free
Art and Communications Media faculty have been creating new works in photography, sculpture, design, painting, drawing, film, video, and mixed media. This exhibition highlights some of their best works completed since the last faculty show in 2006. Participating faculty will speak at either the opening or the closing gallery talks. Video work will be screened on the evening of January 26.

For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733

Gallery Exhibition: The La Defense Photographs

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Photographer Robert Alters MIT degree is in the photography of architecture. His art disregards both the rules of photography and, explicitly, architectural photography. The large-scale ink jet printsprinted on cotton rag paper or canvascreate a purposeful contradiction of surface and feeling.
Of this work Alter writes: The La Defense Portfolios are for me a way to observe and try to understand the corporate and commercial world that we are building for ourselves and that we must inhabit. The photographs have been taken over the past six years and are my exploration into this somewhat confusing and intimidating oversized world.

My photographs are not condemnations or political statements. They are visual interpretations of the awe and diminution that we humans feel in the presence of these giants. www.alterarts.blogspot.com
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733

Lois Lowry Radio Interview on AM 1280 WPKZ

7:00 AM-8:00 AM Online, , , 00000
Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.

This spring the community is invited to explore the writings of Lois Lowry through literature circles and book reading clubs, a public discussion and culminating in an evening conversation with Ms. Lowry.
Sponsored by: AM 1280 The Pulse WPKZ
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Harrod Lecture Series

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - free
Peter Staab, assistant professor of mathematics, will present Magic Square.
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Ellis Paul

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Percival Hall, Percival Auditorium - $18 adults, $15 seniors, $7 under 18
Bostons own troubadour Ellis Paul has been one of the leading voices in the singer/songwriter genre that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style in the 1990s. Since then, Paul hasnt slowed down one bit, with 14 albums to his credit and numerous Boston Music Awards. His music has appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. With his soaring vocals and heartfelt storytelling, Paul is part poet and part singer, an impressive talent whose keen insight into lifes ways and means might just make you sit up a little taller and listen a little more intently.
Sponsored by: Worcester Magazine, 90.5 FM WICN Public Radio
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Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community

7:00 PM-8:30 PM Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall - $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.
Sponsored by: WITS (Women in Todays Society)
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

Sara Colangelo Making Movies in the Community

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Ellis White Lecture Hall - $10/general public; $7/FSC faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Sara Colangelo's latest project, Little Accidents, is a 25-minute short film shot entirely in Central Massachusetts in factories and industrial settings in Worcester, Leominster, Athol and Erving.Set in a small American town, the film is about a young factory worker who struggles with the prospect of motherhood and recruits a mentally disabled young man to steal a pregnancy test for her. Central Massachusetts' factory-filled communities and striking landscapes proved to be a fitting backdrop for the film's gritty, industrial vision.In her talk, Colangelo will share how artistic vision can be unexpectedly altered by the very landscape that shaped the vision. There will also be a screening of Little Accidents followed by a Q&A. The film was shot on 35mm film and is the director's M.F.A thesis project for NYU's graduate film program.

For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-374-4733

Lois Lowry Talking about Lois Lowry

5:30 PM-7:00 PM Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Music) - free
Lowry references The Giver in her Newbury Award speech: The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.

It is very risky.

But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom.

Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

Join fellow book lovers and readers as we delve into two of Lois Lowrys most well-known booksThe Giver and Number the Stars. Fitchburg State faculty scholar Dr. Patricia Smith will facilitate our discussion.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

Gallery Exhibition: Quoted Paintings Ten Years and Counting: My Love Affair with Vermeer

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Hammond Campus Center, Hammond Art Gallery - free
Terri Priest, known as an abstract painter for decades, began appropriating Vermeer images since 1998. In her Vermeer Women series, she combines Vermeer's women with quoted images from recognized paintings of such 20th-century artists as Georgia O'Keefe and Roy Lichtenstein. Regarding this series, Priest says:

Art History has always provided the impetus for my work. As an 18-year-old art student, I fell in love with the works of the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist painters, but when I saw Vermeer's Lady with a Maidservant at the Frick Museum in New York; I realized how much I had yet to learn. Vermeer's responses to natural light, his unerring eye in the design and execution of the painting had much to teach me. Much later, and many more visits to the Frick Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, set the course. It was the isolation and anonymity of Vermeer's characters that encouraged me to create my own narratives.
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Venice, Verona and Urbino: Visual History through Architecture

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - Free
Why is the architecture of Venice so fascinating to tourists; and what does it reveal about the time in which it was built? Other Italian towns and citieslike Urbino and Veronahave entirely different architectural forms that reveal different developmental stories: from the perfection of Renaissance form in the hill town of Urbino to the Mannerist forms of Verona. Professor Wadsworth has taught for two summers with the Fitchburg State program in Verona, traveling and shooting architectural images as much as possible. Fascinated by these varying styles, she has been inspired to research this more thoroughly. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Faculty Research and Scholarship Award.
Sponsored by: the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College
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A Conversation with Lois Lowry

5:30 PM-7:00 PM Conlon Building, Kent Recital Hall - $10/general public; $7/faculty, staff and seniors; $5/FSC students (at the door) Free with CenterStage membership card!
Lois Lowry is a prolific and wide-ranging author; and considered a significant voice in young adult literature. This evenings conversation with the author concludes a month-long focus on Lowrys books and provocative ideas.

Lois Lowry is the author of over 20 books and winner of two Newbury Medals. Her books are used extensively in schools, provoking serious discussion about young adult issues. Speaking of her own writing, Lowry says My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly-fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

Cherryholmes

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Weston Auditorium - $25 adults, $22 seniors, $7 under 18.
With their roots based in bluegrass, Celtic, and jazz music, the good ol fashioned family band Cherryholmes has stormed to the top of the music world since winning the 2005 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Award for Entertainer of the Year. Sure, theyre kind of kitschy but nearly no one in the traditional bluegrass circuit can mimic their downright flying fingers and ripping musicianship.

Parents Sandy and Jere (on mandolin and upright base, respectively) Cherryholmes are the foundation of the six-member band, with children Cia, Skip, BJ and Molly at the forefront of the groups hard-driving instrumental virtuosity and explosive vocal harmonies. With stylistic choreography, their own lighting design and various styles of original songs written by members of the band, Cherryholmes is a group unlike any other, sure to get your feet tapping, put a smile on your face and maybe even move your to do some dancing in the aisles.
Sponsored by: Enterprise Bank, Sentinel & Enterprise
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

A Taste of Piedmont

6:30 PM-8:30 PM Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA 01420 - $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

A Taste of Piedmont

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Fay Club, 658 Main St, Fitchburg, MA 01420 - $35/wine tasting included
Piedmontese cheeses are amazingan array and variety of textures, milks and styles. Cheese monger Vince Razionale from Fromaggio Kitchen can wax poetic about Piedmontese cheeses and the wines from its beautiful grapes for hours and we have asked him to do so! This years Italian tasting pairs wine and cheese and the accompanimentshoney and preserveswith a little sweet ending. Dont wait. Last year the event sold out early.
Sponsored by: Mr. Razionales talk is sponsored by the Sandro and Lillian Clementi Lecture Fund
For more information, e-mail centerstage@fsc.edu or call 978-665-3347

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