Look at art and make art! People of all ages are invited to learn more about the Faulconer Gallery’s exhibition through an exciting variety of hands-on activities. Refreshments will be provided.
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February
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Read or perform original works or the works of favorite writers and composers. We’ll provide a microphone, lectern, and a piano.
Co-sponsored by Grinnell Review, Faulconer Gallery and Grinnell College Libraries.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology Max Leung will discuss his research into how Arab and Muslim Americans are making sense of their identities in an acute period of Islamophobia in the United States. How have their everyday experiences altered both their self-perceptions, and, more importantly, the American ideals of full participation, inclusion, and multiculturalism?
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Kevin John Brockmeier is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels. Brockmeier taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997. Brockmeier has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, the Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the Porter Fund Literary Prize.
Sponsored by Faulconer Gallery and Writers@Grinnell.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Artist Sandow Birk will talk about his ongoing project, American Qur’an, which combines an English translation of the text with scenes from everyday American life in the style of traditional manuscript illumination.
March
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Author Michael Muhammad Knight will read from and discuss The Taqwacores, a fictional work that spawned an actual Islamic punk music scene.
Co-sponsored by Writers@Grinnell, Department of Religious Studies, Center for Humanities, and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Author Michael Muhammad Knight, film director Omar Majeed, and musicians from The Kominas will speak about evolving Islamic punk rock culture in the United States.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Three years in the making, this feature documentary traces the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans. Comments by director Omar Majeed will follow the screening.
Co-sponsored by Cultural Films Committee, SGA Films, Department of Religious Studies, Center for Humanities, and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
The Kominas, a Pakistani-American Desi punk rock band from New York City, includes Basim Usmani (bass), Imran Ali Malik (guitar), Hassan Ali Malik (guitar) and Abdullah Saeed (drums). CNN wrote "Many conservative Muslims may peg [The Kominas] as heretics for their suggestive and irreverent lyrics. But the musicians say they are just trying to show both cultures how broad the spectrum of belief can be."
Location to be announced.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Artist Harrell Fletcher will discuss the variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects he has produced since the early 1990s.
Co-sponsored by the Art Department, Center for Humanities, and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Artist Harrell Fletcher will lead a workshop exploring art and social practice.
Co-sponsored by the Art Department, Center for Humanities, and Faulconer Gallery.
Faulconer Gallery Spring 2012 Events
Connecting breath to movement, this 30-minute yoga practice offers a midday break. Enjoy warming and invigorating poses, finishing with a period of relaxation. Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Mats provided.
Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell and Faulconer Gallery.
