For Immediate Release – Tuesday, March 27, 2007

SUNY Geneseo Calendar of Events for April 5 - 11

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5:

LOCKHART GALLERY: The Lockhart Gallery, located in the McClellan House, 26 Main St., Geneseo, presents "Girl Power: The Supremes as Cultural Icons." Relive the '60s celebrating one of the most important and influential of American music groups, The Supremes. This collection, amassed by SUNY Geneseo alum Tom Ingrassia '74 includes original photographs, records, record covers, films, trade ads, newspaper and magazine clippings and promotional material and follows The Supremes through their first attempts to "make it" as teen-agers to worldwide fame in just a few years. The gallery is open from noon-4 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and noon-8 p.m. Thursdays. The exhibit runs through Friday, April 13, and is free and open to the public. For more about the exhibit, go to: http://www.geneseo.edu/news/nrap.php?pg=Supremes.Geneseo.html.

LEDERER GALLERY: The School of the Arts and Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery in Brodie Hall present "Up 'Till Now, A Senior Student Thesis Exhibition." SUNY Geneseo School of the Arts graduating studio majors present final bodies of work representing the sum and conceptual application of the skills and techniques learned during their years of undergraduate study at SUNY Geneseo. The gallery is open noon-4 p.m. Sundays–Wednesdays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays. The exhibit runs through Thursday, April 12. The event is free and open to the public.

LECTURE: Jill S. Schneiderman, associate dean of the faculty and professor of geology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will deliver the fourth annual American Rock Salt Lecture on Geology at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in 202 Newton Hall. The lecture, titled, "Justice, Leadership and Integrated Science," is free and open to the public. To read more about Schneiderman and the lecture, go to: http://www.geneseo.edu/news/nrap.php?pg=AmericanRockSalt.html

IMMIGRATION SERIES: Geneseo will offer a monthlong program about the relevant topic of immigration. All film screenings are free and open to the public. Donations at the door to benefit Geneseo's Migrant Center are welcome and appreciated. The series is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program; departments of anthropology, English, foreign languages and literatures, geography, history, international relations and political sciences; the School of the Arts; the Environmental Sciences Program; and the Alan Lutkus International Film Series Committee. Two events are planned for Thursday, April 5:

"Globalization in Latin America and the Global Justice Movement: A Narrative Picture-Lecture" will be held at 6 p.m., 204 Newton Hall. The event will be presented by Beehive Design Collective, a grassroots activist organization headquartered in Machias, Maine. The mission of Beehive Design Collective is to build strong, functional connections between activists that use words, and those that speak in pictures, to help create more accessible, powerful campaigns for the important issues of our time. Through lectures illustrated by murals and graphic designs that Collective members create, this organization envisions a world where cultural work and popular education are not segregated from the "box" of how movements for social change speak to issues.

The documentary "El inmigrante" will be screened at 7 p.m. in 204 Newton Hall. The film, directed by: John Sneedy, David Eckenrode, John Eckenrode and Rick Carlson, was filmed in the U.S. and Mexico. Produced in 2005, it runs 90 minutes. Discussant: Edward Drachman, professor of political science and international relations. "El inmigrante" is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journies north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus in which story and character take precedent over policy and empiricism. Toward this end, "El inmigrante" examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players in this border narrative. A cast which includes the de Haro family; the community of Brackettville, Texas (where Eusebio was shot); members of vigilante border militias in Arizona; the horseback border patrol in El Paso; and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the U.S. The film has won numerous awards at film festivals across the country. The Web site for the film is www.elinmigrantemovie.com.

SPORTS: Women's lacrosse vs. St. Lawrence at 4:30 p.m. on Saratoga Field. Free and open to the public.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6: