By Hannah Shaw '18, Public Relations Office Assistant, Communications and Marketing, Sarah Lawrence College

Mar. 21, 2018:  The following events will take place on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College from April 12 to April 29. All events except the Mayfair celebration are free. For more information, call 914-395-2412 or go to www.sarahlawrence.edu.

Thursday, April 12, 5:30 pm, Longfellow Lecture by Dr. Fraser Brown about Therapeutic Value of Play:  The 2018 Longfellow Lecture, "Children Without Hope: The Therapeutic Value of Play," will be presented by Dr. Fraser Brown and is about the findings from the small-scale observational study on the impact of a therapeutic playwork project on a group of children in a Romanian pediatric hospital. The lecture will be at the Performing Arts Center’s Reisinger Auditorium at 40 Glen Washington Road. 

Thursday, April 19, 5:30 pm, Lecture by Wendy K. Tam Cho about Gerrymandering:  "Fighting Gerrymandering with the Blue Waters Supercomputer" will be presented by Professor Wendy K. Tam Cho and will focus on her work at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to integrate insights from fields such as statistics, operations research computer science, math, law, and political science to create a novel approach for analyzing and reforming redistricting. The lecture will be at Titsworth Marjorie Leff Miller '53 Lecture Hall at 1 Mead Way.

Thursday, April 19, 2:00 pm, Talk by Arts Critic Margo Jefferson about Memoir Writing: Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic Margo Jefferson will present a craft talk titled “Craft of Creative Nonfiction – Hybrid Forms: Criticism and Memoir” about ways in which a writer can join the strategies and demands of critical prose to the intimate experiments of memoir. The talk will be at Slonim House Living Room at 911 Kimball Avenue. 

Thursday, April 19, 6:00 pm, Lecture by J. Bob Alotta, Executive Director of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: The lecture will be in the Science Center’s Room 101 at 1 Mead Way.  

Tuesday, April 24, 1:30 pm, Concert by Baroque Violinist Amelia Roosevelt:  The Music Tuesday Series presents a baroque concert by violinist Amelia Roosevelt. The concert will be held at the Performing Arts Center’s Reisinger Auditorium at 40 Glen Washington Road. 

Thursday, April 26, 7:00 pm, Conversation and Film about 1968 Columbia University Protests:  Jonah Raskin will discuss the Columbia University protests in the spring of 1968, after which there will be a screening of a newsreel documentary. The event will take place at the Titsworth Marjorie Leff Miller '53 Lecture Hall at 1 Mead Way. 

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 26, 27, and 28, Hair:  Hair will be presented by the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program at 7:00 pm on Thursday, 7:00 pm on Friday, and 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Saturday. Hair was created by Rado, Dagni, and MacDermot, and this production will be directed by Kevin Confoy, assisted by Sifiso Mabena. The production will take place at the Performing Arts Center’s Frances Ann Cannon Theatre at 40 Glen Washington Road. 

Sunday, April 29, 11:00 am, Annual Mayfair Celebration: The Students for Students Scholarships Fund ("SSSF") at Sarah Lawrence will be hosting its annual Mayfair celebration with a bounce house, obstacle course, carnival games, arts and crafts, face painting, and more. The event will take place on the Outdoor Spaces South Lawn at 1 Mead Way, rain or shine. Tickets will be sold on the premises, and parking will be free. Tickets are $5 per person or $20 per family. 

Photo by N. Bower

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