Communications

Help us kick off Spring Term with a video reminder that Lawrence continues to be a community, even if we’re temporarily spread across the globe. Submit a short video message from your home workspace welcoming your fellow Lawrentians to Spring Term. Clips from faculty, staff, students, and alumni will be cut together to make one long welcome video. Submit your video by 11:59 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 1.

To submit the clip, you’ll have to log into your OneDrive account. Sign in with your shortened LU email address (last name+first initial @lawrence.edu) and your network password.

Instructions:

1. If using a phone, film the video horizontally (tip your phone on the side instead of up-and-down). Feel free to use a webcam, as well.
2. Start with a hello and your name
3. Tell us where you are
4. Follow with a short message to welcome everyone back and kick off Spring Term

Details:

• Videos do not have to be highly produced. Selfie video on a cell phone or using a webcam is perfect.
• Have fun with it. Don’t be afraid to be original and show your personality.
• Keep the video clips short: 5-20 seconds is ideal, 1 minute maximum.
• Your entire clip may not be included.

See an example video here: https://youtu.be/qAaAQIR8_hY

If you have issues accessing the submission form or uploading your video, email communications@lawrence.edu

We have some absolutely stellar dancer artists coming to town this week!

Set Go 

Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Bradley Teal Ellis, Paul Singh, & Aaron Brando

dance performance
Fri Jan 17th, 7pm 
Esch dance studio 
Warch Campus Center
Free

Set Go is a Contact Improvisation Research and Performance ensemble founded in 2016 by dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brando, Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Sarah Konner. Though all are interdisciplinary artists, each identifies Contact Improvisation as a primary practice and are lead researchers and educators in the field, both nationally and internationally. Collectively, Set Go has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for over 60 years and shares a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation. Working from overlapping histories of improvisational practice, the collective frames the play between real-time composition and Contact Improvisation in performance. They have been dance-making together since 2009. 

Our own fabulous Matt Turner, Mark Urness, and Loren Dempster will be improvising music with them.

https://www.facebook.com/events/538874706840924/

https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/performance_series/dance_series

There will also be a Set Go – Contact Improvisation intensive workshop 
Saturday from 10-5pmEsch dance studio, WCC

if anyone is interested in trying some Contact Improvisation for themselves…

Email Margaret Paek for more info. 
Or check out this link: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/571408066969702/?active_tab=about

About the Set Go dancers: 
Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser, and Somatic Movement Educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She teaches dance at Smith College where she is also a current MFA candidate. 

Shura Baryshnikov is the Head of Physical Theatre for the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing at Brown University. An actor as well as a dancer, Shura works broadly across disciplines as a performer and also a choreographer and movement designer for dance, theater, and opera. 

Bradley Teal Ellis is a Brooklyn based dance artist and improviser. He currently teaches at NYU/Tisch, the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College and Movement Research in addition to traveling to offer workshops in Contact Improvisation. 

Paul Singh earned his degree in dance from a great university, has danced for talented choreographers, and makes his own challenging work. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Movement Research, and The Juilliard School. 

Aaron Brando, M.Ed, loves the art of crafting pedagogy in a non-codified system such as Contact Improvisation and has taught workshops and intensives throughout North America as well as internationally. He is honored to have shared the stage with Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, and Angie Hauser among others; he has also trained in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration and is a certified SI practitioner with practices in Northampton and Boston. 


photos by Anna M. Maynard –
Shura Baryshnikov and Sarah Konner, Shura Baryshnikov and Bradley Teal Ellis

This year’s Great Midwest Trivia Contest will begin on Friday, Jan. 24 at 10:00:37PM and ends at midnight on Sunday, Jan. 26.

On and off-campus teams can begin registering at 8PM on Friday by calling into the station.

More information about the contest as well as all phone numbers can be found on the Trivia website at https://blogs.lawrence.edu/trivia/. 

Play Trivia!

We are excited to welcome the newest member to Lawrence’s Communications team, Danny Damiani, who joins us this week as our new multimedia specialist. 

Danny comes to us from The Post-Crescent, Appleton’s daily newspaper, where he has served as a staff photographer since May 2015. In his role, Danny created award-winning videos and photos, covering the Appleton and Fox Cities communities with honesty and compassion (his portfolio is worth a look). And for the Packers fans in the LU community, Danny served as a mobile camera operator on “Clubhouse Live,” the weekly Packers livestream from Downton Appleton. He holds a bachelor of arts in journalism, concentration in photojournalism, from Eastern Illinois University.  

As multimedia specialist, Danny will work closely with Garrett Katerzynske, director of video production, and Mackenzie Huber, social media and web content specialist, to produce engaging video, photography, and other digital assets that will enhance the University’s social media and web presence. Danny’s creativity, journalism background, familiarity with Appleton and the Fox Cities, and excitement for visual storytelling make him an ideal match for this new position. 

In his role, Danny will be a visible presence on campus, covering campus events, capturing campus life, and profiling members of the Lawrence community. Please be sure to say hello when you see him around campus.  

Yes, you read that correctly. Communications needs pictures of your puppers and doggos showing their Lawrence spirit. International Dog Day is fast approaching, and we’d love to highlight the dogs of Lawrence on social media that day. So, snap some photos of your good bois and good girls on campus or wearing Lawrence attire and send them our way!

Please send all photos as email attachments to mackenzie.m.huber@lawrence.edu by noon on Monday, Aug 26. This will be the best week of her life.

We have put a bunch of unneeded frames from the art collection in the Wriston Art Center Lobby – free for the taking!
Wood and metal frames, various colors and sizes, some with glass/plexi, some without. Come check them out through Sept. 6th. 
The galleries staff will be happy to give advice on using the frames but we can’t provide mats or other framing supplies. Email Beth Zinsli (beth.a.zinsli@lawrence.edu) with questions. 

Milwaukee PBS will be filming an episode of “Next Avenue” in front of a live studio audience at Stansbury Theatre on June 4 at 7 p.m.

Next Avenue comes to Appleton for the next Community Conversation, and explores the topic “You’re Never Too Old to Learn.” Host John McGivern invites the public to join the conversation, for a discussion on the advantages of learning later in life.

Experts from Lawrence University and Learning in Retirement in Oshkosh will offer their perspectives regarding the unique benefits that both academic education and experiential education offer for people ages 50+. This free, public event will be held on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lawrence University Stansbury Theatre, 420 E. College Avenue in Appleton.

Panelists include Lawrence University faculty members Marcia Bjornerud, Professor of Geology; Jerald Podair, Professor of History; and Robert S. French Professor of American Studies. Panelists also include Learning in Retirement faculty members Mary Bayorgeon, Past President of Learning In Retirement, UW-Oshkosh; and Bill Bracken, President of Learning In Retirement, UW-Oshkosh. Linda Laarman, Bjorklunden Learning In Retirement student and volunteer; and Don Ellingson, Learning In Retirement participant and Treasurer will also serve as panel members.

Next Avenue Community Conversations are recorded by and broadcast on WMVS and WMVT. “You’re Never Too Old to Learn” will premiere on July 18 at 7:00 p.m. on Milwaukee PBS Channel 10. For more air dates of this episode or other Next Avenue Community Conversations episodes, visit MilwaukeePBS.org/schedule.

All are invited. Resource Fair before and after. Doors open at 6:30pm.

See the Facebook Event here.