Arts & Events Calendar

Oil Paintings from Svelata

Mia Tavonatti

Date: October 24 - November 20, 2009

Location: Kwan Fong Gallery - map

Last year, American artist Mia Tavonatti moved to Italy to unveil her most recent project, Svelata, a monumental series of oil paintings on canvas at the ancient Museo Arsenale in Amalfi.

CLU Celebrates - Wind and Jazz Ensembles

Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:00pm

Location: Samuelson Chapel - map

The CLU Wind and Jazz Improvisation Ensembles will mark the University's 50th year with a concert of celebratory music.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Fall Mainstage

Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:00pm
Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:00pm

Location: Theatre Arts Black Box Studio Theatre

One of Shakespeare’s later plays, Pericles is a wild romantic tale of adventure that has its young hero traveling by sea to exotic lands.

Cleaning the Attic: A collection of Clinical Facts, Fiction and Trivia

A Presentation by Ron Bale, Ph.D.

Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:00pm

Location: Roth Nelson Room - map

In this presentation, Dr. Ron Bale draws on his vast clinical experience to shed light on important issues of assessment, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and other matters related to being a therapist. The presentation covers a wide range of topics including suicide assessment, addressing the highly emotive patient, the importance of dealing with countertransference, how and when to contain the patient. In all, the talk serves as an elegant orientation to the challenging ways in which a clinician maintains an analytic attitude that ultimately helps the patient.

World AIDS Day Art Exhibit

Condom Tree by Michael Pearce

Date: November 24 - December 2, 2009

Location: Kwan Fong Gallery - map

CLU art professor Michael Pearce explores World AIDS Day through his representation of safer sex methods.

Treating Women with Trauma and Substance Use Disorders

A Presentation by Gloria Miele, Ph.D.

Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:00pm

Location: Roth Nelson Room - map

In this presentation, Dr. Gloria Miele discusses some hands-on suggestions for clinicians seeking to treat women who suffer from both a history of trauma and the effects of substance abuse. She draws on her book Trauma Services for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment to explore the intertwined nature of trauma and addiction. She will also discuss some treatment options for PTSD and addiction that together form the basis for many of the recently developed treatments for trauma and addiction co-morbidity. Dr. Miele will address some of the many real-world challenges that clinicians face in implementing trauma-focused therapeutic approaches in community-based substance abuse treatment.

World AIDS Day 2009

Little Secrets

Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:00pm

Location: Lundring Events Center - map

In this documentary, 10 HIV-positive teenagers challenge themselves, their disease, and the whitewater rapids of the Salmon River. The screening will be followed by discussion.

World AIDS Day 2009 Recognition

Date: Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 4:30pm

Location: Lundring Events Center - map

Join us for CLU's annual World AIDS Day recognition as we explore the epidemic both locally and globally.

Meditations on the Apocalyptic

Patrick Merrill

Date: December 5 - January 16, 2010

Location: Kwan Fong Gallery - map

Although Patrick Merrill has used the centuries old technique of woodblock printing to create this series of huge images describing his vision of the apocalypse, these images are shockingly contemporary, warning us of the dangers of greed, capitalism and addiction.