Graham Watson

Join us this Saturday to learn from living legend Grand Tuhon Nene Tortal, the head of the Dekiti Tirsia Siradis Kali system. Wear comfortable clothes and prepare to learn a lot and sweat your ass off.

Quoting Guro Cory Ballinger:

Grand Tuhon is an extremely fun and full of high energy individual. He's from bocolod area in the Philippines. His grand father was the creator of one of the most highly recognized and sought out system of martial arts in the world today. The DTS (Dekiti Tirsia Siradis Kali) system is a combative (meaning military and special forces, special police forces) extreme form of self defense. It basic foundations are on the control, defensive/offensive nature of edged and impact, projectile weapons. But make no bear about it. DTS has a pretty henious empty hand filipino boxing and dumog side to it as well.. None the less if your a martial arts enthusiast or military, law enforcement personel, you will walk away from this seminar with a new found understanding on footwork, defense and offense to the edged weapon world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5xyf0uCjw

"Hindu - Christian Meeting point: From Water to Wisdom in India."

Megan Sharp, guest presenter

Megan Sharp is a member of Hazelwood Christian Church who, last year, spent 9 months in India. She will speak of her experience engaging Hindu culture and how she has benefited from Indian spirituality.

Monday August 30, at 7:30 PM
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
310 McKinley Ave - just south of the Ball State campus Muncie, IN

Please bring a friend as our meetings are open to the public.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information contact:

George Wolfe
Coordinator of Outreach Programs
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
765-717-3980

Start September's First Thursday with Arts at the Atrium Gallery reception for Gunther Cartwright's Industrial Blues.

Light refreshments will be served at 4:00pm and the Atrium Gallery will be open until 6:00 pm.
The artist will be attending the reception and his artwork will be on display in the Atrium Gallery until September 18.
The Atrium Gallery is located on the first floor of the Art and Journalism building at Ball State University.

Gunther Cartwright's photography has been described as "powerful images of the structural elements of bridges, buildings, highways, fences and storage containers examine the formal relationships of line, form and color in the industrial landscape." This exhibition features Cartwright's artwork that "like the American Precisionists of the 1920's clarifies the geometrical structures of the machine age and provides us with a crisp new perspective of our contemporary industrial culture."

You are invited to a DOCENTS FORUM, Friday, September 10, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at The E.B.& Bertha C. Ball Center.
Cathy Shouse, Journalist and Author of Images of America: Fairmount, will read and discuss her recently released book. Fans of James Dean, Jim Davis, and Indiana history will certainly enjoy this presentation.

No Charge, but reservations are required. Please call 285-8975.

Art High at Noon: Kurt Seligmann - See Migrants by Kurt Seligmann, new to the galleries, compared with other art of the time with a museum docent on Tuesday, September 14th at 12 p.m.

Seen Unseen: The Black Image in American Art - Preview the exhibition opening of Seen Unseen: The Black Image in American Art from the collection of John H. Surovek on Thursday, September 16th from 5-7 p.m. The preview party will also include jazz music by Frank Smith, bass, Steven Jones, piano, and Kenny Phelps, drums.

WIPB-TV, The Downtown Farm Stand, Indiana Michigan Power and Living Lightly invite you to meet Ian Cheney, co-producer of KING CORN which aired nationally on PBS in 2007. Ian will talk about his new documentary Big River, which explores the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture and will premiere at the Living Lightly Fair (Saturday, September 18, 2010)

* Sandwiches and desserts will be provided by The Downtown Farm Stand

Emens Auditorium proudly presents jazz pianist/composer Hiromi this Thursday at Pruis Hall. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are still available and are just $5 for BSU students. BSU faculty/staff buy one adult in advance for $17, get a second free. Don't miss your opportunity to see the artist the New Yorker calls, "DAZZLING!"

Mentored by giants like Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal and Chick Corea, Hiromi's roots are in jazz but her music explores a world of new ideas by blurring the boundaries of pop, rock, classical, avant-garde and other genres.

Born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979, Hiromi discovered jazz when she took up the piano at age six. Within a year, she was a student of the Yamaha School of Music, whose progressive approach to musical training allowed the young student to tap into her emotions while mastering the technical aspects of writing and performing. At age 14, she went to Czechoslovakia and played with the Czech Philharmonic. Three years later, Corea invited her to perform with him. In 1999, Hiromi came to the United States to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Hiromi established her reputation when her 2003 Telarc debut, "Another Mind" - co-produced by Ahmad Jamal - won the Recording Industry Association of Japan's (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. Her subsequent releases all won her critical-acclaim and industry recognition.

Part of the personal connection she has established over the years is the result of making music without labels or restrictions. As a matter of principle, she'll continue to follow whatever moves her - be it a place, a person, an idea or whatever else - and leave the definitions to others. "I don't want to put a name on my music," she says. "Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want to give it a name."

For more information, visit Hiromi's site or check out Hiromi on YouTube.

General Admission tickets: Adult $17 in advance/$22 at the door; $5 youth & BSU students. BSU faculty/staff buy one adult, get a second free.

For more information visit the Emens event page or call the ticket office at (765) 285-1539.

The Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food for families in need while supplies last at the monthly Tailgate Program.

For more information, call 800-886-0882 or visit http://curehunger.org

Mark Zupan, author of this year's Freshman Common Reader "Gimp" and star of the award winning documentary "Murderball," will present in Emens Auditorium on Tuesday September 28th at 7:30pm. The event is free and open to the public.

The Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance presents:

Cabaret Ala Carte!

Vera Mae's Bistro

Friday, October 1, 2010

Seating at 6:00pm
Performance begins at 7:30pm

Dinner may be ordered off of the Vera Mae's menu.

Tickets-$25.50 (all proceeds go toward Theatre and Dance scholarships)

The Department of Theatre and Dance and Alpha Psi Omega are pleased to present Cabaret Ala Carte! Join us for an evening of music and fun with some of Ball State's finest talent. "Come to the Cabaret!"

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours are:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm

Muncie Interfaith Fellowship presents:

The Zoroastrian Religion: Its Beliefs and Influence

Mohammad Behforouz and Behrouz Kousari, Presentors

Monday, October 4th, 7:30 PM
Ball State Pittinger Student Center
2000 University Avenue, Room 310

Did you know there are Zoroastrians among us, with a small congregation in Indianapolis and a Zoroastrian temple in Chicago? And did you know the Magi, who are said to have visited the Christ Child, were Zoroastrian priests?

On Monday, October 4th, the Muncie Interfaith Fellowship will sponsor a discussion of the Zoroastrian faith and influence it had in the ancient world.

*PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION*

Due to the large number of people we had at our last meeting, we will be holding this program in the Pittinger Student Center, room 310.

For more information, contact:

George Wolfe - wmwolfe@bsu.edu

Professors: if you plan to send an entire class, please let me know so we can have plenty of chairs available. Credit slips for attendance available.

Hope to see you there!

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce the University Film Series schedule for Fall 2010. All films will be shown on DVD in AJ 175 Tuesdays at 7:30 P. M. We include here links to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for more information:

Tuesday, October 5 Red Cliff (Chi bi)

Tuesday, October 19 The Painted Veil (2006)

Tuesday, November 9 Coming Home (1978)

As always, all films are free and open to campus and community.

We hope to see you there!

The University Film Committee

Robert Benson, Land Arch; Fred Bower, Art; Lambert Deckers, Psych Sci; John Fillwalk, Art; Wes Gehring, TComm; Wade Jennings, English, Emeritus; Charles Jones, Math, Emeritus; Stan Keil, Econ, Emeritus; Conrad Lane, Elem Ed, Emeritus; Tom Lowe, Univ Coll, Emeritus; Norman Marin-Calderon, ML&C; Kecia McBride, College of Sciences & Humanities; Harold McGrath, David Stout, Todd Terrell, Community Reps; Kaitlin Misbach, Anthony Perrin, Samantha Roderick, Student Reps; Chris Shea, ML&C; Jason Sloan, TC; Rodger Smith, Theat & Dance

The Muncie Arts and Culture Council and Ball State University's Departments of Fine Art, Music, and Architecture will join forces with downtown merchants, galleries, and property owners for an evening of art, food, architecture exploration, and fabulous music.

In addition to the well-established "First Thursday" art gallery openings downtown, various Ball State University departments representing the arts will share a wealth of musical talent and visual artistry.

Many downtown businesses that do not traditionally present as art venues will open their doors to host artists from across the East central Indiana region. First Merchants Bank and Mutual Bank will be anchor locations for our guest artists.

Some guided tours of permanent art collections housed in the downtown area will also be featured.

Any artists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, and/or theatrical groups who would like to be involved in the evening's festivities are encouraged to email chercrowder@gmail.com or call (765) 282-7897.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.