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Download Almonds and Elephants

Edit: Check out Matt Hurwit ‘12‘s band, Almonds and Elephants, and download their recently released work for free.

Download New Wes Hip Hop Album

Check out Rob Rusli ‘10 (O-Zi) and Saeid Vahidi ‘09 (D1G1TA1 D00D)’s hip-hop concept album about robots and other stuff. Featuring David Moench ‘09 (Underfur), Sam Quintero (QUINTessential) and Vickie Wing Yee Cheng ‘10. It’s a free download, dog.

Food Collection

Donate ANY and ALL extra food (including condiments, sad produce) to
Food Not Bombs by e-mailing Arielle [aberrick@wesleyan.edu] with your
move-out date/time and phone number. Someone will come by on the day
you move out and pick up anything, everything, guaranteed.

Come see the Wesleyan Melodrama

[ April 29, 2010; 9:00 PM; ]

The Wesleyan Melodrama 2010 is ready. Come see the Western-Musical Wesleyan-Satire to end all Western-Musical-Wesleyan-Satires.
You will laugh. You will cry. You will feel sticky. Showing in the Nic Lounge, @ 9 pm Thursday April 29th, Friday April 30th, and Saturday May 1st. No tickets needed. Two marshmallows provided per audience member, so bring your own if [...]

Come See The Elemental, a Senior Thesis Symphony

[ April 10, 2010; 5:30 PM; ]

Come see Robert Rusli’s Senior thesis composition, the “Elemental” Symphony. This four movement piece features thirty-six musicians that make up the full orchestra; check out the facebook event to see who’s playing.

The symphonic work blends western styles of orchestration with Taiko drums to express the elements of nature that inspired each movement.

Approximately 40 minutes long.

When: [...]

Wesleyan Annual Battle of the Bands

[ April 10, 2010; 11:00 PM; ] Wesleyan’s annual Battle of the Bands is taking place on April 15th at Eclectic House. The winner will open for Spring Fling in May.

Interested in playing? Leave a demo with three songs in Wesbox 91579 or email mp3s to acbernstein@wesleyan.edu by 5:00 PM on Sunday, April 11th. Bands chosen to play will be notified later that [...]

Those Darlins and Papa at Eclectic

[ April 1, 2010; 12:30 AM; ] This Thursday evening at around 9:30 swing on by Eclectic for a little rock n’ roll.
Papa will make their triumphant return to Wesleyan. “Papa have found a way to reconcile their inborn melodious eclecticism with a face-punching wham-bam that only slightly suggests the old, old punk rock it’ll invariably be lumped in with…..their live set [...]

Cowboys, Drama, Marshmellows: Audition for the Wesleyan Melodrama

[ April 1, 2010; 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. April 2, 2010; 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. ] Liz Valentin ‘11 writes:
You know the drill, it’s the Wesleyan Melodrama: the stickiest, musical-iest, Western-iest satire around. The tradition is alive and well. Auditions are this Thursday 5-7PM and Friday 2-4PM in the Hewitt 9 Lounge.

So don’t be a yellowbelly, get yer body over to Hewitt 9 and try out for the rootenest, tootenest, [...]

Class and Social Justice Workshops

[ March 27, 2010; 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. ] On Saturday, March 27th in Allbritton 311, join Tyrone Boucher (co-creator of enoughenough.org) for two workshops about class, leveraging resources, and movement-building:

Part 1: Class in Communities (11am-1pm, coffee + snacks served)
How do money and class affect our communities? We’ll discuss the often-invisibilized dynamics that class privilege creates, and how to challenge them. We’ll dismantle some myths about how wealth [...]

Take a Short Midterm Break to Feed These Fish Please

Don’t feed too much, they’re not terribly hungry.

Tickets still available for Washed Out, Small Black, and Apache Kid at Eclectic

Lineup:
9:00: Apache kid
10:00: Small Black
11:00: Washed Out
Date: Thursday, March 4th.
Time: 9 pm.
Price: Free

Washed Out, Small Black, and Apache Kid at Eclectic

[ March 4, 2010; 12:00 AM to 9:00 PM. ] Lineup:
9:00: Apache kid
10:00: Small Black
11:00: Washed Out

Date: Thursday, March 4th.
Time: 9 pm.
Place: Eclectic
Price: Free.

Tickets given out at Usdan on Monday and Tuesday from 12 -1. First come, first serve. One ticket per person.

Philip Glass – Sesame Street – Geometry of Circles

1979, Sesame Street’s golden era.

Das Racist, Leif, Harrison Schaaf, Yea Mann at Eclectic

[ February 12, 2010; 9:00 PM; ] Come to Eclectic on Friday, February 12th to rage, party, dance, and listen to witty raps about fast food chains.

The lineup consists of Wesleyan DJs Ian Johnson and Harrison Schaff, live performer and seriously durrrty rapper Khalif Diouf (aka Leif), as well as Das Racist.

Based out of Brooklyn, Das Racist is composed of Wesleyan alumni [...]

Meditation and Tai Chi with the Small Forest Temple

The Small Forest Temple is offering classes in traditional Meditation, Tai Chi and Kung Fu. All classes are taught by priests of the Small Forest Shaolin temple with over 40 years of combined teaching experience.

Temple Meditation –
Thursdays 5:00 – 6:00pm
in the Memorial Chapel Meditation Room
The essential practice of [...]