All events are free and open to the public.
The Temple University Ambler Cultural Affairs Series is intended to enrich the range and depth of the cultural experiences of Temple Ambler students and, at the same time, open our doors to our neighbors in the surrounding communities.
Ambler's connection to refined musical tastes - which began with the Ambler Music Festival many years ago - continues in 2008 beginning on February 5 with the first of three concerts by Temple University's renowned Boyer College of Music and Dance.
As Temple University's "green campus," we take pride in emphasizing our programs in planning, design, and the environment. A major part of our Cultural Affairs Series includes lectures and presentations on gardening, landscape design, and sustainable solutions for environmental problems.
Come see for yourself!
Tuesday, February 5, Noon to 1 p.m.
The Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University will begin its Spring 2008 Tuesdays at Noon Concert Series at the Ambler campus February 5. The program has been made possible through the generous support of the University General Activities Fund (GAF).
Renowned saxophonist and Boyer faculty member Dick Oatts leads a senior ensemble in selections from the jazz repertoire. Boyer's award-winning jazz studies program recently performed at the Kimmel Center with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Students have been featured in Downbeat magazine and recognized by Mellon Bank New York in support of scholarships. The jazz band, under the direction of Professor Terell Stafford, will tour Amsterdam in May as part of the Hague Jazz Festival.
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Wednesday, February 6, 7:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
The Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble is considered one of the best and most exciting African dance and drum ensembles in the United States. They have won national and international championships for their performing arts programs.
Their performances are a visual and aural celebration of African culture that includes everything from “Pasha the Stilt Walker,” dancers, and acrobats to singers, drummers, and “ground masquerades.” All of the members of the troupe are practicing martial artists and many of its members have honed their musical and dance talents with community leaders and teachers in several African countries.
The ensemble, headquartered in New Jersey, is comprised of African-American families “of contrasting religions and different ways of life, proving that through the understanding of love and discipline — while practicing, working, and training together, that unity can exist.”
“We all should honor, respect and appreciate the culture from which African Americans of this country originate,” states the ensemble in describing its goals. “The Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble presents to you family values and the beauty of African culture.”
The February 6 event is sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Visit here for more information on the Universal African Dance & Drum Ensemble. For more information, call the Office of Student Life at 267-468-8425.
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Tuesday, February 19, 7:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
Francine Lucas-Sinclair is the daughter of the real “American Gangster,” Frank Lucas — portrayed by Denzel Washington in the critically acclaimed 2007 film. While the movie did not show the child who was present at the arrest of her father, she witnessed everything.
Francine Lucas later founded an organization - The Yellow Brick Roads - to help and support children of incarcerated parents. Her story has been told on radio, television, and in Glamour Magazine. At Ambler, Ms. Lucas-Sinclair will share her story about the loneliness, isolation, and embarrassment suffered by these forgotten children.
Today, her Yellow Brick Roads non-profit organization, takes a hands-on approach to addressing the day-to-day needs of the children of incarcerated parents, "while providing the necessary tools so that they are able to face their parent or parent's incarceration."
"At YBR we will strive to provide a place where these children know that they are not alone, and where they can come to the realization that no matter how difficult their current circumstances may be, if they follow the right path, their life can be whatever they want it to be," said Lucas-Sinclair. "This organization will be international, since we plan to have a chapter in every major city in the United States, and eventually chapters in several foreign countries."
This program is sponsored by the Office of Student Life. For more information on Francine Lucas-Sinclair's lecture at Temple University Ambler, contact 267-468-8425. |
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
Join John Landis, a professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, as he presents “To Be or Not to Be Los Angeles: Metropolitan Vision Planning along the Pacific Coast.”
Professor Landis’ expertise is in housing, urban economics, GIS, project development, and sustainable urban development. As one of many research projects, Professor Landis developed the California Urban Futures series of urban growth models.
He is currently engaged in a National Science Foundation-funded project to model, forecast, and develop alternative spatial scenarios of U.S. population and employment patterns and their impacts on travel demand, habitat loss, and water use through 2050. Mr. Landis' lecture is sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University Ambler.
For more information on John Landis' lecture, contact 267-468-8420 or jennifer.mull@temple.edu. |
Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
Elizabeth Holtzman knows a little bit about the role of women in politics.
While her opponent, a 50-year incumbent, compared the likelihood of her winning as "a toothpick's chance of toppling the Washington Monument” she succeeded in becoming the youngest women ever elected to Congress in 1972.
Holtzman, author of Who Said it Would be Easy: One Woman's Life in the Political Arena and The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens, spent more than two decades in a variety of roles in public office before returning to private law practice.
Beginning even before this first electoral victory, Holtzman's extraordinary political career has often linked her with the defining moments of the last several decades, from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, to the Watergate scandal – she was a member of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon in 1974, to the fight for women's rights, to the campaign for a government free of the undue influence of wealthy special interest groups.
Join Holtzman in March for this special Cultural Affairs Series and Women's History Month presentation as she shares her personal perspective on women in politics. Ms. Holtzman's lecture is sponsored by the Ambler Campus Dean's Office and the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.
For more information Elizabeth Holtzman's lecture, contact 267-468-8420 or jennifer.mull@temple.edu. |
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
Native Trees speak the cultural language of your region.
Selecting suitably sized natives as framework trees, designer and horticulturist Gary Koller, who is a Temple University Ambler alum, will share how to choose and position native trees to create subtle patterns that underpin the lighter layers of scrubs and perennials.
Gary Koller is President of Koller and Associates; former assistant director for horticulture at the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; former visiting faculty member of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Massachusetts. He has been a contributor to Arnoldia, Fine Gardening, and American Nurseryman. He is also a recipient of the Julie Morris Award and Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Koller has an MS in Public Garden Administration from the University of Delaware; a BS in Ornamental Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University; and an AS in Landscape Design from Temple University.Mr. Koller's lecture is sponsored by the Landscape Arboretum of Temple University Ambler, the Temple University Ambler Alumni Association, and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture.
For more information on Gary Koller's lecture, contact 267-468-8420 or jennifer.mull@temple.edu. |
Tuesday, April 1, Noon to 1:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
The second concert in the "Boyer at Ambler" series for 2008 will feature a selection of pieces composed by students at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance.
The program will include compositions by Reese Revak, Sean Davis, James Falconi, Adam F. Dieffenbach, Charles Green, Julia Alford-Fowler, Ryan Olivier, David Carpenter, and William Dougherty.Performers will include Revak (piano), Dieffenbach (piano), Rie Suzuki (clarinet), Julie Bishop (soprano), Christopher Rossina (double bass), and Jean-Francois-Proulx (piano).
This event is co-sponsored by the General Activities Fund and the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance offers a diverse curriculum, wide array of degree programs and exemplary faculty, preparing students for careers as educators, performers, composers and scholars. Degree programs are offered in instrumental studies, jazz studies, theory, therapy, choral conducting, education, composition, history, voice and opera.Annual orchestra performances are held at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Distinguished faculty includes members of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as many other noted recording and performing artists.
For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer or contact Jason Horst at jason.horst@temple.edu or 215-204-8391. |
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
Join Temple University Ambler Landscape Arboretum Director Jenny Rose Carey as she presents “How Green is Your Garden? Simple and Effective Tips for a Healthy Planet.”
The environment has finally made it into the nightly news. Stories about global warming, carbon footprints, and the fragility of the environment appear daily. Carey will share easy, workable tips that you can use to be an environmentally friendly gardener.
Jenny Rose Carey graduated summa cum laude from Temple University in 2003 with an Associate of Science degree in Horticulture. After graduation, she continued her stay at the Ambler campus as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, teaching History of Landscape Architecture and Woody Plants II.
Carey brings a wealth of knowledge and resources to the director’s position with a background in research of historical Philadelphia gardens and women’s role in the development of gardens and horticultural styles in the early 20th century. As the director of the Arboretum, Carey works closely on improvement projects, including new designs for the gardens, irrigation, lighting, signage, tagging, and accessibility. She is also responsible for working with academic and administrative units to provide educational programs for the community in addition to supporting the curricula of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, and the use of the Arboretum and its facilities across academic disciplines.
Ms. Carey's lecture is sponsored by the Landscape Arboretum of Temple University Ambler and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture.
For more information on Jenny Carey's lecture, contact 267-468-8420 or jennifer.mull@temple.edu.
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Tuesday, April 22, Noon to 1 p.m., Learning Center Auditorium
The "Boyer at Ambler" concert series continues with Dr. Joyce Lindorff of the Boyer College of Music and Dance who will perform on harpsichord.
Boyer faculty member Joyce Lindorff trained at Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.), the University of Southern California (M.M.), and the Juilliard School (D.M.A. and M.M.). She was introduced to 20th-century harpsichord repertory by Leonard Stein of the Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles. Since then she has never looked back, and several notable composers have written pieces for her. She was awarded a Fulbright Professorship in Taiwan to teach harpsichord and baroque chamber music at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
Dr. Lindorff, a Fort Washington Resident, is a leading expert in early keyboard music and publishes extensively She has toured Taiwan and China in November. She was a guest artist of the National Sun Yat-Sen University Art Center's Baroque Camerata, performing concertos of JS and CPE Bach in the National Concert Hall, Taipei, and other locations in Taiwan. She gave harpsichord master classes at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and several other institutions. At the Central Conservatory in Beijing, she delivered a lecture on 18th-century musical exchange between China and the West and inaugurated the China Conservatory's new Flemish harpsichord by Michael Walker with a solo recital of old and new music.
This program is sponsored by the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
“All of us at Boyer are delighted to be able to offer these concerts at Temple Ambler,” said Robert T. Stroker, Dean of the Boyer College of Music and Dance. “We hope to continue to offer performances at Ambler that highlight our outstanding faculty and students.”
For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer or contact Jason Horst at jason.horst@temple.edu or 215-204-8391.
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