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A Lafayette Idol competition, two Party Challenge events, a 12-hour performance art video festival, screenings of The Last Samurai, an acoustic guitar jam, and varsity tennis and softball are on the campus entertainment schedule this weekend.
The Chorduroys, Lafayette’s male a cappella group, will debut some new songs during a free concert 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Williams Center for the Arts.
African American jazz artist Leah will help honor the close of Women’s History Month with a performance at Gilbert’s 11 p.m. Friday. The free concert is sponsored by Lafayette Activities Forum (LAF).
Students for Social Justice will host Return to the 60s — Peace, Love and Happiness , a free Party Challenge event, 10:30 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. in the Farinon Snack Bar. “Bring your friends and come dance to ’60s groves,” the group invites. “Come to enjoy great music and food. Wear ’60s styles if you have them.”
In varsity sports Saturday, the men’s and women’s track and field teams will host a meet starting 11 a.m. at Fisher Field and the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex, the softball team will play a doubleheader against Bucknell 1 p.m. at Metzgar Fields, and the men’s tennis team will take on Colgate 2 p.m. at Sullivan Courts. The women’s tennis team will host American 11 a.m. Sunday and the softball team will start another home doubleheader against Bucknell noon Sunday.
A $100 cash prize will be awarded to the winner of Lafayette Idol, which will be held 9 p.m. Saturday in the Farinon Center Snack Bar. The runner-up will receive $25. The free event is sponsored by LAF.
The six finalists are Toni Ahrens ’05 (Hamilton, N.Y.), a double major in psychology and English with a theater concentration; Lisa Oliveri ’04 (Oradell, N.J.), a psychology major; Alexis Siemons ’05 (Moorestown, N.J.), a communications and culture major; Pavlos Lykos ’04 (Easton, Pa.), a government and law major; Caryn Donohue ’06 (Garden City, N.Y.); and Michael McFadden ’04(Broomall, Pa.), a double major in English and economics and business.
The competition will be judged by professional talent agents Jeff Hyman and Alison Ahart ’03 from Auburn Moon Agency and Kate Magill from Sophie K Entertainment. Event co-chairs are biology major Kelly Barrows ’06 (Clarks Green, Pa.) and economics and business major Victoria Picone ’05 (Bethlehem, Pa.), who judged the round of auditions along with Dave Mitchell ’05 (Bear Creek, Pa.), a double major in music and economics & business.
The Arts Society is sponsoring a Ten-Eighteen Guitar Jam 10:18 p.m. Saturday at the Arts House located at 643 Parsons Street. “Bring your acoustic guitar and your friends for an informal evening of friendly music-making,” the group says. For more information about the free event, e-mail neuroscience major Lori Beth Astheimer ’05 (Jamison, Pa.) at astheiml.
The Dry Surfers will host a free masquerade ball as part of the Spring Party Challenge 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Keefe Commons. The dance party is scheduled to last until 1 a.m. Light snack foods will be provided.
“We encourage people to dress up in masks, if not costumes,” says psychology major Kim Moore ’05 (Longwood, Fla.), president of Dry Surfers. “For those who do not have costumes, we plan to provide a table where they can make their own masks. Unmask your sense of fun!” Organizers of the event include Moore, electrical and computer engineering major John Kolba ’06 (Chelmsford, Mass.), psychology major Joanna Vogel ’06 (Ridgewood, N.J.), and computer science major David Greenburg ’06 (Sparta, N.J.).
A free, 12-hour video marathon of performance art classics will be held noon through midnight Sunday in Williams Center for the Arts room 108 as part of the Roethke Humanities Festival. The film schedule is expected to include Koyaanitsqatsi (with music by Philip Glass), Karen Finley’s The Constant State of Desire, Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight, and sections of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson masterpiece, Einstein on the Beach.
LAF will screen The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday, in the Farinon Center’s Limburg Theater. Tickets cost $2. The movie has a running time of two hours, 24 minutes and is rated R for strong violence and battle sequences.
Set in the late 1870s, the epic film depicts the beginnings of the modernization of Japan from the point of view of an alcoholic Civil War veteran turned Winchester guns spokesman, Captain Woodrow Algren (Cruise), who arrives to train the emperor’s troops. When Algren is injured in combat and captured by the samurai, he learns about their warrior honor code from their leader, which forces him to reevaluate which side of the conflict he wants to defend.