March 2012 - Darton College

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3 Saturday Academy
9 a.m.–12 p.m. B-101
5, 12, 19, 26 Albany Chorale Rehearsal
7–9 p.m. F-115
7 Literary Event
All day J-121-126
Jeff Kluball, 6856
8 Old Toad Guitar Duo
7:30-9 p.m. Theatre
Jeff Kluball, 6856
9 Enhake concert
7:30–9 p.m. Theatre
Jeff Kluball, 6856
Calendar of Events
MARCH
9, 23 DC Basketball Club & DC Extraordinary
Men of Distinction
1–3 p.m. J-115 J-128
12 Distinguished Lecture
11 a.m.–12 p.m. Theatre
Wendy Kennedy, 7001
Non-Profit
Organization
U.S. Postage
Paid
Albany, Georgia
Permit No. 36
23 Visitation Day
7 a.m.–2 p.m. C-266, C-252, Theatre
Admissions, 6747
27 DCMS Monthly Dinner Meeting
5:30–9 p.m. C-252
Martha Snow, 6770
The Darton UpDate
A Newsletter for the Employees and Friends of Darton College
March 2012
Enhake To Perform March 9
The enhake music ensemble will
perform at Darton College Friday,
March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Darton
Theatre.
Enhake has performed its chamber
music repertoire at Carnegie Hall and
other venues throughout the country.
A staunch advocate of new music,
enhake collaborates with leading composers
such as Libby Larsen, Peter
Lieuwen, and Edward Knight. Enhake
has recorded extensively and can be
heard on NPR stations across the
country. At Darton, they will perform
works by Knight, Rodriguez, and Rabl.
enhake
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call (229) 317-6554.
Joy Jinks
Distinguished Lecture March 12
Swamp Gravy cofounder
Joy Jinks will discuss
her work as a social
activist on Monday, March
12, as part of the Darton
College Distinguished
Lecture Series.
Jinks will speak at 11
a.m. in the Darton Theatre.
This event is free
and open to the public.
Jinks is the co-founder of the play Swamp Gravy,
which began in 1991. She will discuss her work
as a social activist and how she and a few people
with vision and creativity changed the landscape of
Colquitt, Ga. She will share her vision of the
Creative Community Project and how it can work in
other communities.
For more information, contact Wendy Kennedy at
(229) 317-7001, wendy.kennedy@darton.edu.
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Old Toad Duo To Perform March 8
The Darton College Music Department will host
the Old Toad Guitar Duo,
featuring faculty guitarist
Dr. Matthew Cochran, on
March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Darton Theatre.
The Old Toad Guitar
Duo gives old American
tunes an overhaul. They
call these “new” compositions
American Unoriginals
– where listeners have
Old Toad Guitar Duo
heard these songs before, but not like this.
The Old Toad Guitar Duo is Steve Mattingly and
Matt Cochran, longtime musical collaborators who
first met at the Eastman School of Music in 1995.
They are co-founders of the groundbreaking Tantalus
Quartet, with whom they regularly appear at
concert series and festivals throughout the United
States, Europe, and Canada.
The concert is free and open to the public. For
more information, please call (229) 317-6554.
Four Darton College actors and technicians involved
in the college’s theatre program were nominated
for participation in award competitions at the
44th Annual KC/ACTF Region IV Conference. One
was awarded a prestigious regional award.
Shelbie Harris was the region winner of the
Focal Press Award for Meritorious Achievement in
a First Design. Harris, a dance major from Buchanan,
was nominated by Dr. Becky Becker of
Columbus State University for her lighting design
of Darton’s KC/ACTF Participating Production:
Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Ms. Harris’ nomination
resulted in her presenting her design to a panel of
professional designers at the region conference.
Ms. Harris was selected from approximately 300
student designers as one of the half dozen to win
regional prizes.
Three other students were nominated based on
their work in Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Donna Wade,
a theatre major from Fort Valley, was nominated
by Dr. Becker to compete in the Irene Ryan acting
awards. Her scene partner, theatre major Erin Baty
from Sylvester, was nominated by Theatre Instructor
Deborah Liss-Green based on her performance
in the same production. The two competed in the
Making News ...
first round of auditions with approximately 350 actors
from the six-state region.
Allison Stephenson, a theatre major from
Newnan, was nominated in two categories: Sound
Design (by Dr. Becker) and Stage Management
(by Deborah Liss-Green). She presented her work
in both categories, along with 600 other student
designers and technicians at the Design Expo of
the Conference.
In addition to the student nominations, Deborah
Liss-Green was awarded a Faculty Certificate of
Merit for her direction of Dead Man’s Cell Phone.
Ms. Liss-Green is a 2010 recipient of a Certificate
of Merit for her direction of A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.
Darton College’s theatre program enters one
production a year in the KC/ACTF Region. The
participating production receives a response from
a representative of one of the region’s colleges or
universities and the opportunity for student nominees
to the conference competitions. The nominated
students traveled to Daytona Beach for the
five day conference that included workshops and
productions in addition to the various competitions.
Heather Herbert is Darton’s 2012 Academic Recognition Student. An online
English major from Cumming, she is vice president of online for Phi Theta Kappa and
is currently running for the international office of vice president of Division II. She is
pictured with Dr. Peter Sireno, president of Darton College, and Dr. Gary Barnette,
vice president for academic and student affairs.
FLAG Competition Needs Volunteers
The 2012 FLAG Foreign Language Speech Competition is Saturday, April 14, from 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
Event organizers are looking for volunteers for the following areas:
• Judges (must speak basic Spanish, Japanese, French, or Latin)
• Set-up (early risers to set up the event from 7-9 a.m.)
• Registration (students show up and need to get registered 7:30-9:30 a.m.)
• Guides (give tours of campus or tell students where to go for their competition, 8 a.m.-12 p.m.)
• Cleanup (12:30-1:30 p.m.)
• Gophers (a few extra helpers to hang out and wait to be asked to do something - all morning)
To volunteer, please contact Genevieve Breedon, Foreign Language Coordinator/Assistant Professor
of Spanish, at (229) 317-6876.
Go Global 5K Run & 1 Mile Walk/Run
Darton’s third annual Go Global Run/Walk will be held Saturday, April 14, at the DC tennis
pavilion.
The 1 mile walk/run begins at 8:30 a.m., and the 5K begins at 9 a.m. Registration prior to
March is $20, and after March 31 is $23. Participants can register online at www.active.com.
Proceeds from this event will go toward student scholarships.
For more information, call (229) 317-6588 or contact David Mann, Co-Race Director, at
david.mann@darton.edu.