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The location for the concert following Saturday’s football game, featuring student a cappella groups Cadence, The Chorduroys, and Soulfege, has changed to the Williams Center for the Arts.
Family Weekend will highlight the schedule of activities on campus this weekend, which includes Casino Night, a cappella, choir, and theater performances, a multimedia presentation on ‘60s rock and roll, screenings of the acclaimed film Frida, varsity volleyball and football action, and a concert featuring acclaimed opera singer David Walker ’88.
Registration for Family Weekend will take place 3-8 p.m. Friday in the Farinon Center Atrium, with open classes available that day from 1:10-4 p.m. The registration desk will have the list of classes and other events that day, including tours, special dinners, the choir performance, and evening entertainment.
Registration on Saturday will be held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in Farinon, with the schedule featuring panels and discussions, open houses, an address by president Arthur J. Rothkopf ’55, a picnic, tours, sports, receptions, a family dinner, and evening entertainment.
Sunday will bring a tour of Chateau Chavaniac and other campus tours, a brunch, and religious services. For a complete schedule of events, see the Family Weekend web page.
Rock and roll historian Barry Drake will give a presentation on “’60s Rock – When the Music Mattered” 9-10:30 p.m. Friday in Colton Chapel. Admission is free with a student ID or a Family Weekend Entertainment Pass and $5 for others at the door if space is available. The show includes hundreds of slides and music clips. Drake was named Lecturer of the Year in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000 by the National Association of Campus Activities and in 1994, 1995, and 1998 by Campus Activities Magazine.
The film Frida, which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best leading actress, will be shown 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, in the Limburg Theater of the Farinon Center. Sponsored by Lafayette Activities Forum, the screenings are part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Admission is $2.
With a running time of two hours, three minutes, the film is rated R for sexuality/nudity and language. It was released by Miramax Films in October 2002. The movie tells the true story of Mexican painter and 20th century icon Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) and their place in Mexican society. Other characters include David Siqueiros (Antonio Banderas), Rivera’s rival in the Mexican art world, Tina Modotti (Ashley Judd), a famed Italian photographer, and Nelson Rockefeller (Edward Norton), who famously contracted Rivera to paint the lobby mural of Rockefeller Center, only to renege because it included a portrait of Lenin.
The volleyball team will host two Patriot League matches at Kirby Sports Center this weekend, starting with Holy Cross 7 p.m. Friday, and continuing Saturday with a 7 p.m. contest against Army. The team fell to Bucknell in its last match, but is already enjoying its most successful season in many years.
Led by Nina Gilbert, director of choral activities, the Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers, Men of the Choir, and Women of the Choir will perform works-in-progress for the 2003-04 season 7:30-8:30 p.m. Friday in the Williams Center auditorium. Admission is free.
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will host its second annual charity breakfast to fight polycystic kidney disease tomorrow morning at the fraternity house. A full breakfast menu will be offered for $5. The doors will open at 8 a.m. and the last meal will be served at noon.
The football team will play its second Ivy League opponent, Columbia, 1 p.m. Saturday at Fisher Field. The Leopards will look to start another home winning streak after having their string of five victories snapped by Georgetown last Saturday. Columbia comes in as a winner of two straight, including a 33-27 triumph at Princeton last weekend, the Lions’ first victory there since 1945.
Theater program alumni will present drama, music, and scene studies of productions from their college days 8 p.m. Saturday at the Williams Center for the Arts. Admission is free; no tickets are required.
The Bergethon Room of Marquis Hall will be transformed into Lafayette’s version of Atlantic City at 8:30 p.m. when Lafayette Activities Forum hosts Boardwalk Casino Night. Winning appetizers and finger foods from the Lafayette cookbook competition will be served. Roulette tables, a blackjack pit, a dice cage, poker tables, and wheel games will be included. Gambling expert Jim Karol, author of 50 Ways to Hustle Your Friends, will teach tricks of the trade. Poker chips for betting will be distributed and prizes will be awarded. Admission is free with student ID. For others, it requires a Family Weekend Entertainment Pass or $5 at the door if space is available.
Sunday’s events include a 3 p.m. concert by countertenor David Walker ’88, who will join with the period instrument Four Nations Ensemble to present arias by Handel and Bach and instrumental music from France and Italy. Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $5 for youth, and $15 for adults.