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In print | December 3, 2009

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Good Times 4 Good Food

The Sustinability Committee and Good Food are hosting Good Times 4 Good Food tonight in Philadelphia to raise money for Good Food’s green projects at the college. It will be held at RumBar on 20th & Walnut St. The event goes from 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., with dancing starting at 9 p.m.

The suggested minimum donation is $10. Interested students can make a dinner reservation by calling 215–751-0404. Students under 21 are welcome.

Conspiracy in McCabe

Conspiracy walls, constructed by the students in the film and media studies class “Conspiracy,” will make their debut in the library’s exhibition hall.

*Today – Saturday

Melancholy Play*

Senior Company will be performing Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play this weekend at 8 p.m. in the Frear Ensemble Theater.

Step into the world of Tilly, a woman who is loved and in love when she is sad and disliked when she is happy. She lives in “a world of long lost twins, children abandoned in unspecified European countries, too many windows, and almonds.” Ruhl won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 and a PEN/Pels Award for Drama in 2008. Her first Broadway play, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), opened this year.The play is directed by Nicco Moretti ’10 and Louis Jargow ’10. See page 16 for full story.

*Tomorrow

Orchestra Concert*

The college’s orchestra will perform their end of the semester concert from 8 to 10 p.m. tomorrow night in Lang Concert Hall.

The concert will include, among other pieces, Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and excerpts from Purcell’s “The Fairy-Queen.”

*Saturday – Sunday

Twelfth Night*

Drama Board presents this Shakespearian classic on Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m. in Upper Tarble. Twelfth Night is a comedy of confused identity where Viola dresses up like her brother to get close to Duke Orisno.

*Tuesday

Student Film Screening*

Students from the Advanced Video Production Workshop will screen their narrative projects from this semester at 7:30 p.m. in LPAC.

*Wednesday

Poetry Reading*

Small Craft Warnings is hosting a reading and distribution party at 7 in Kitao Gallery. Any work is welcome, regardless of whether it was submitted to the magazine.