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.
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. Four such lectures will be presented as part of the fall series.
Ambler's Fall lectures also include an exploration of Temple's 125-year history in addition to ways to maximize your communication skills.
Ambler's connection to refined musical tastes and cultural experiences - which began with the Temple University Music Festival many years ago - continues in Fall 2009 beginning on October 16 with a solo piano performance during "An Hour With Charles Abramovic," presented by the renowned Boyer College of Music and Dance, part of its continued "Boyer at Ambler" concert series. All Boyer concerts will be held on Fridays this fall to provide greater convenience to our guests!
Come see for yourself!
Wednesday, September 23, 4:30 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
In a typical survey of people's fears, where public speaking a shark attack are both on the list, public speaking will almost invariably come out on top.
Call it life skills, communication skills, whatever you like. The bottom line is that everyone needs to be able to articulate their passions and strengths, have confidence in their abilities, understand verbal and non-verbal communication, and be able to connect with those around them.
In this highly interactive, fast-paced seminar, Eric Barron will help participants maximize their communication skills to maximize their success.
"People are my drug - teaching people, making people laugh, and most importantly, helping every single person fulfill their potential." - Eric Barron
Through this seminar, participants will learn how to: make the most of their unique communication style to maximize their connection with others; use their communication strengths to become a better leader and team player; ensure that their voice is heard and taken seriously; and understand what motivates people to achieve their goals.
This program is sponsored by the Office of Student Life.
For more information on Eric Barron's lecture, contact 267-468-8425.
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Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity.
There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife — native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.
Dr. Tallamy is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, where he has written more than 65 research articles and has taught insect taxonomy, behavioral ecology, and other subjects. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
For more information on Dr. Tallamy's lecture, contact 267-468-8011 or sarada.jailal@temple.edu.
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Tuesday, October 6, 7 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope for a Heated Planet:
How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future shows how the fight against global warming can be won by the grassroots efforts of individuals. Dr. Robert K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize–winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, explains that a growing new climate movement can produce unprecedented change — in the economy, public health, and home — while saving the planet.
Dr. Musil draws on personal experience and compelling data in this practical and rigorous analysis of the causes and cures for global warming. The book presents all the players in the most pressing challenge facing society today, from the massive fossil fuel lobby to the enlightened corporations that are joining the movement to “go green.”
But the future depends, Musil insists, on what changes ordinary citizens make. Through personal choices and political engagement, he shows how readers can cut carbon emissions and create green communities where they live. With practical and realistic solutions, Hope for a Heated Planet inspires readers to be accountable and enables them to usher in an age of sustainability for future generations.
Robert K. Musil is a scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor in the School of International Studies at American University where he teaches in the Program on Global Environmental Politics and the Nuclear Studies Institute. He is the past executive director and CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and its director of policy and programs from 1992–2006. He was the executive producer and host of “Consider the Alternatives,” a weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with two million listeners and a two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for excellence in radio broadcasting.
Dr. Musil's lecture is being presented as part of Temple University's Leonard Mellman Visiting Scholars Program. The Leonard Mellman Visiting Scholars Program is an interdisciplinary initiative that provides educational benefits to students and faculty across the College of Liberal Arts at Temple.
For more information on Dr. Musil's lecture, contact 267-468-8011 or sarada.jailal@temple.edu.
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Saturday, October 10, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
Pre-registration: $35 Lunch: $15
Honey bees are an essential part of our ecological sustainability. Honey bees, however, are disappearing at an alarming rate and while there are many theories about the cause, there are no clear-cut answers.
On October 10, join the Montgomery County Beekeepers' Association and Temple University Ambler for the first ever Southeastern Pennsylvania Honey Bee Symposium - Bee Fest! This event has an ambitious schedule and a full day of education and fun!
Speakers will include Mike McGrath, host of WHYY Radio's "You Bet Your Garden," Maryanne Frazier, Penn State Sr. Extention Associate, and Jim Bobb, Chairman of the Eastern Apicultural Society and Past President of the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association.
During this public symposium, participants will learn about: honey bees and beekeeping; honey and products from the hive; bee-friendly plants and gardens; native pollinators; Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD); and pesticides and other threats to honey bees.
For more information on Bee Fest, visit www.montcobeekeepers.org or contact 267-468-8011 or sarada.jailal@temple.edu.
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Friday, October 16, Noon to 1 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
The Boyer College of Music and Dance will present its first "Boyer at Ambler" concert for Fall 2009 with "An Hour with Charles Arbamovic."
Charles Abramovic has won critical acclaim for his international performances as a piano soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with leading instrumentalists and singers.
He made his solo orchestral début at the age of fourteen with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Since then he has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, and has given solo recitals throughout the United States, France and Yugoslavia. He has also appeared at major international festivals in Berlin, Bermuda, Dubrovnik and Vancouver.
With a wide range of acclaimed recordings to his name, he serves as a Professor of Keyboard Studies at Temple University's Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia. In 1997 he received the Career Development Grant from the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society, and in 2003 received the Creative Achievement Award from Temple University. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory, and received his doctorate from Temple University.
This program is sponsored by the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer or contact Linda Fiore at lfiore@temple.edu or 215-204-8307.
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Wednesday, October 21, 12:30 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
"Studies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape and elements places in geometric conversation," is how Dr. Mary Myers, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture describes the 25-year career of Andrea Cochran in her book Andrea Cochran: Landscapes.
On October 21, join Dr. Mary Myers, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, for a comprehensive exploration of the work of nationally-acclaimed landscape architect Andrea Cochran.
"The book is a monograph of the work of a contemporary landscape architect whose work has garnered much praise," said Dr. Myers, whose book seeks to place Cochran's work into perspective to help the reader understand her contributions to modern landscape architecture.
Andrea Cochran: Landscapes presents 11 residential, commercial, and institutional landscape projects in detail. Dr. Myers closely examines Cochran's process and influences - derived from fine art - and basic elements of her design, including composition, light, plants, and built materials.
For more information on Dr. Myers' lecture, contact 267-468-8011 or sarada.jailal@temple.edu.
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Friday, November 13, Noon to 1 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
The Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University will continue the Fall 2009 "Boyer at Ambler" concert series with "Jazz It Up!"
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, also toured Amsterdam in 2008 as part of the Hague Jazz Festival.
“All of us at Boyer are delighted to present this program 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.”
This program is sponsored by the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer or contact Linda Fiore
at lfiore@temple.edu or 215-204-8307.
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Wednesday, November 18, 7 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
Temple University's alumni number over a quarter million, and include entertainment legend Bill Cosby and Shirley Tilghman, the first woman president of Princeton University. One of every eight college graduates in the Philadelphia area received their degrees at Temple. Temple Owls are everywhere!
Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World, by noted historian and Temple professor and Ambler campus Dean Dr. James W. Hilty, written with Temple history instructor Matthew Hanson, offers the first full history of Temple University. It presents a rich chronicle from founder Russell Conwell’s vision to democratize, diversify, and broaden the reach of higher education to Temple's present day status as the twenty-eighth largest university and the fifth largest provider of professional education in the United States.
The book captures Temple’s long record of service to its North Philadelphia neighbors, its global reach to Rome, Tokyo, and beyond, and its development from a rowhouse campus into a lively 11,000- resident urban village at its main campus—all the while assuring "Access to Excellence." Along the way, we learn how Temple reacted to and helped shape major developments in the history of American higher education.
For more information on Dr. Hilty's lecture, contact 267-468-8011 or sarada.jailal@temple.edu.
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Friday, December 4, Noon to 1 p.m.,
Learning Center Auditorium
The third concert in the "Boyer at Ambler" series for Fall 2009 will feature a selection of holiday classics performed by the Boyer College of Music and Dance's Brass Quintet.
Ring in the holday season with a celebration of sound that is not to be missed!
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 Linda Fiore at lfiore@temple.edu or 215-204-8307.
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