Please join the Weissman Center for International Business for a
Mitsui USA Lunch-Time Forum on the Japanese economy. A light
lunch will be served.
Event: Mitsui USA Lunch-Time Forum: The Japanese Economy:
Recovery in Sight?
Guest Speakers: Mr. Jun Okumura, President, JETRO, NY
Professor Hugh Patrick, Center on Japanese Economy and
Business, Columbia University
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Time: 12:15–1:45 PM
Location: AC 14-220
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Ernest Briggs: Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the 1950s
Mishkin Gallery,
Friday, November 22, to Wednesday, December 18, 2002.
Opening reception: Thursday,_November 21, 5 to 7 pm.
(Ernest Briggs arrived in New York in 1953 and, in the 1950s, was a
significant figure in avant-garde circles. His paintings combine a
sense of unbridled energy, intense physicality, and heroic scale. )
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"Philosophy in Motion: Martial Arts and Dance From Around the Globe".
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 26
Engelman Recital Hall,
Vertical Campus Level B3
Capoeira-the African-Brazilian martial art often described as the
'national sport' of Brazil-is one of the performing arts featured in this
lecture and presentation. The eventÕs opening presentation by scholar
C. Daniel Dawson, "Fist Against Fist Is Irrational," focuses on the
influence of Kongolese movement and physical culture on the
development of 'Creole' dance, music and martial arts in the
Caribbean and in Latin America, with the KiKongo language loaning
familiar words like 'rumba', 'samba', 'tango', and 'cumbia' to the New
World vocabulary. The performance segment of the event will feature
dancers and musicans demonstrating these and other types of
dances and martial arts.
Admission is free.
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TROMBONIST CHRIS WASHBURNE
AND THE SYOTOS LATIN-JAZZ ENSEMBLE
TO PERFORM AT VERTICAL CAMPUS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5,
2002
Baruch will host "Chris Washburne and SYOTOS" as part of the 11th
Annual Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives concert series. The performance
will start at 1 p.m. in the lobby of Baruch's Vertical Campus at 55
Lexington Avenue.
THE CONCERT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND
BARUCH STUDENTS, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION.
This concert - organized by the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives
Committee Š is funded by Student Development.
Chris Washburne has performed with many of the world's leading jazz
(and Latin-jazz) musicians, including Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri,
Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, the Duke
Ellington Orchestra, and the Maria Schneider Big Band. He is also the
leader of SYOTOS which has released several CDs. Washburne also
teaches music at Columbia University.
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