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A dance theater presentation involving several students, standup comedy, varsity volleyball and field hockey games, and an artist’s reception are among the events being held on campus during the upcoming weekend.
Artist Rhonda Wall will give a public lecture 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Williams Visual Arts Building. Wall is exhibiting small collages and digital reinterpretations of those works, which she created at the Visual Arts Building while working closely with Lew Minter, director of the media laboratory, and art graduate Janice Truszkowski ’03 (Phillipsburg, N.J.).
Lafayette Activities Forum will screen Daddy Day Care 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in Limburg Theater of Farinon College Center. Tickets cost $2. Released in May, the movie is rated PG for language.
The plot: When a father (Eddie Murphy) loses his lucrative “dotcom” job and finds himself in jeopardy of financial ruin, he joins his friends (Steve Zahn, Jeff Garlin) in opening a free-spirited “guy-run” business called “Daddy Day Care” in his house, much to the chagrin of the owner (Angelica Huston) of a more traditionally-operated rival center.
The volleyball team will take on Auburn University 7 p.m. Friday at Kirby Sports Center, and on Saturday, it will host St. Francis (N.Y.) at noon and Delaware at 4 p.m. Revitalized under Terri Dadio Campbell ’92, now in her second season as head coach, the team has record three wins in its first eight contests, a pace far surpassing the program’s success in its recent history.
Several students will be part of the ensemble 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday when Headlong Dance Theater presents Britney’s Inferno, a production that follows the discovery-infatuation-disappointment cycle that is the curse of pop phenomena. Individual tickets cost $4 with Lafayette ID; call the box office at x5009.
First-year students will attend the annual 1000 Nights Formal, which begins 9 p.m. Friday and lasts until 1 a.m. Saturday in the Marquis Hall Bergethon Room. The event is free for first-year students, who may each bring one guest for $5.
Looking to even its record after winning two of the first five games of a tough early schedule, the Patriot League defending champion field hockey team will host Penn State 1 p.m. Saturday at Rappolt Field. Last Sunday, the team rallied for a 3-2 overtime win over the Richmond Spiders in Richmond, Va.
Lafayette Activities Forum will bring comedian Troy Thirdgill to the Farinon Center Snack Bar for a free show 10 p.m. Saturday. He played the lead role in the UPN pilot for “Working Guy,” guest starred on FOX’s “Martin” and “Beverly Hills 90210,” and had recurring roles in NBC’s “In the House” and FOX’s “In Living Color.” He also has appeared on A&E’s “An Evening at the Improv,” BET’s “Comic View,” Showtime’s “Comedy Club Network,” and NBC’s “Friday Night Videos.”
Thirdgill has toured all over the world to perform for American troops overseas in Australia, Belgium, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Netherlands, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom.