For Immediate Release – Tuesday, April 17, 2007

SUNY Geneseo Calendar of Events for Apr. 26 – May 10

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THURSDAY, APRIL 26:

LOCKHART, LEDERER AND MILNE LIBRARY GALLERIES: The Lockhart Gallery, located in the McClellan House, 26 Main St., Geneseo, the Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery in Brodie Hall and the Milne Library Gallery present a dual venue "Michael Teres: 40 Years of Excellence." A retrospective exhibition of Professor Teres' 40 years of innovation and excellence in art photography will be displayed through Thursday, May 10. The Lockhart Gallery is open from noon-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-8 p.m. Thursday. The Lederer Gallery is open noon-4 p.m. Sunday–Wednesday and 5-8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Milne Library's gallery is open during the library's hours, 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m. Mondays through Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Sundays. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

KINETIC GALLERY: The Afghan Women's Project will display a photography exhibit of Afghan Women from Tuesday, April 24, through Monday, May 7, in the Kinetic Gallery, located in the MacVittie College Union. Photographs are accompanied by stories of the women's lives and experiences.

IMMIGRATION SERIES: "The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte," will be screened at 7 p.m. in 204 Newton Hall. Directed by Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson, it was filmed in the U.S. and released in 2006. Discussants: Representatives of Geneseo's and Brockport's Migrant Centers. "The Guestworker" tells the story of Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno, a 66-year old Mexican farmer who has been coming to the U.S. since the 1960s as a farm laborer. He is some 20 to 40 years older than all the thousands of Mexican men who work in today's United States' H2A Guest Worker program started in 1986. Despite his age, he continues to work long hours in tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields, sweating and worrying—all for his family, particularly his ailing wife. He says he still wants to work "harder than all the others" as he did when he was a younger man, but now knows he just can't. Yet he is asked back, year after year, because of his commitment to hard work, his "good attitude," and his long-term service to Wester Farms in North Carolina. We follow him through one grueling season, learning about one man's life in-depth, and through this intimate and personal story we learn about this little-known guest worker program now already in existence for 20 years. The Web site for the film is www.docsouth.com.

PLAY: GENseng presents "The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu" by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. Directed by Randy Barbara Kaplan. A play about a moment of cultural collision when the earliest Christian missionaries arrive on the Hawaiian islands in the early 19th century. Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26; 4 p.m. Friday, April 27; and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Robert Sinclair Theatre, Brodie Hall. General admission is $6. Tickets may be purchased by contacting the Brodie Box Office at (585)-245-5833 or at www.geneseo.edu/~bbo.

SPEAKER: The International Communication Club features a presentation by Hulin Wu, a renowned biodefense and biostatistics scientist and researcher from the University of Rochester, on the "Threats from Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorist Attacks: Can We Defend Ourselves?" at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in 204 Newton Hall.

SPORTS: Women's softball vs. Nazareth at 3 p.m. on Raschi Field. Free and open to the public.

SPORTS: Women's lacrosse vs. Rochester at 4 p.m. on Saratoga Field. Free and open to the public.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27:

LOCKHART, LEDERER AND MILNE LIBRARY GALLERIES: (See Thursday, April 26).