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4apr8:00 AM- 1:00 PMStanford Open Golf Tournament8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Stanford Golf Course

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The Stanford Open Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Stanford Golf Course Men’s Section, is the only tournament of the year open to all members of the Stanford community: men and women members, faculty/staff, students, alumni, and spouses. Compete as individuals for low gross and/or as 2-person teams for low net honors in this popular Spring event. The field is limited to the first 108 paid entrants. The event is a morning shotgun, starting at 8 am. Check-in at the Coupa Cafe restaurant at the Golf Course begins at 6:45 am.

Entry Fees include greens fee, bucket of range balls, contribution toward prizes, and a post-round lunch. Faculty/Staff $130; Alumnus/Alumna $130; Regular (dues-paying) Member (including juniors) $50; Golf Staff $50; Student $50; Spouse of a student $50; a non-member spouse of a faculty/staff person, regular member, or alumna/alumnus $130. Prizes will be awarded for approximately 1/3 of the field. Cart fee is NOT included and must be paid for on the day of the event. Teams are encouraged to sign up together. Individual entries will be paired to form two-person teams.

Register ONLINE at our Golf Fusion website at http://www.golffusion.com/stanfordgolfcourse/. Men members log in, while all others click “Events – Guest Registration Only” and then click “2015 Stanford Open”. Payment is required at the time of registration. Entries received without either a valid GHIN or estimated score WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Again, all guests provide their email address/phone info, a valid GHIN# or an estimated score at Stanford. Please note also if you are a professional or a Stanford golf team player.

Time

(Saturday) 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Organizer Contact Info

Dave O’Brien: dob@stanford.edu, 650-868-8064

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10apr - 18apr 108:00 PMapr 18Ram's Head Theatrical Society presents: HAIRSPRAY8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (18) Memorial Auditorium

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8pm. April 10, 11, 16, 17, 18. Memorial Auditorium.

Welcome to the Sixties, where lovable plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire — to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network, all without denting her ‘do!

Directed by Ken Savage (Sunday in the Park with George, Company, The Fantasticks, My Fair Lady), this production tells the classic story of HAIRSPRAY with a modern edge. Featuring innovative technology that blends lighting and set design, original student designed costumes, as well as a high-octane cast, you’ll be glad that this beat can’t be stopped!

To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit musical.stanford.edu.

Founded in 1911, Ram’s Head Theatrical Society is Stanford’s oldest and largest student theatre organization. Each year the group provides acting, directing, designing, and playwriting opportunities to hundreds of students, and its productions are attended by thousands annually.

Ram’s Head’s production of HAIRSPRAY is sponsored by Stanford Arts Institute, Stanford Continuing Studies, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, VPSA, the Office of the President, the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies.

Time

10 (Friday) 8:00 PM - 18 (Saturday) 10:00 PM

Location

Memorial Auditorium

551 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305

Organizer Contact Info

http://musical.stanford.edu

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14apr7:00 PM- 9:00 PMFilm Screening "Ararat"7:00 PM - 9:00 PM History Corner, 200-203

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Film screening of “Ararat” directed by Atom Egoyan. Introduced by Sabrina Papazian, PhD Candidate, Anthropology.

“Ararat” is a 2002 Franco-Canadian drama historical film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, David Alpay, Arsinée Khanjian, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Greenwood and Elias Koteas. It is based loosely on the defense of Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is disputed to this day by the Government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the nature of truth and its representation through art.

Ararat depicts the efforts of an Armenian director, Edward Saroyan, to make a Hollywood-style film about the Armenian genocide, from the fictionalised point of view of a genuine historical figure, Arshile Gorky. The name of Aznavour’s character is a modified version of his character’s real name in the classic French film Shoot the Piano Player.

As filming progresses, various characters involved with it encounter the ethical problems that arise when adaptating contentious subjects into movies; for example, Ali is a Turkish-Canadian actor who becomes uncomfortable with playing the role of an evil Turkish military officer. There are also a number of secondary plots that relate to the genocide. One involves the relationship between Ani, an art historian who is an expert on Gorky and an adviser on Saroyan’s film, and her son Raffi. Another features Raffi and a Canadian customs official, David, whose son is having a homosexual relationship with Ali, the actor in Saroyan’s film. David stops Raffi at the airport, suspecting him of carrying drugs into Canada, disguised as film canisters.

The film also features roughly shot documentary camcorder footage of Lake Van and real ruined Armenian churches in the deserted city of Ani, near Mount Ararat.

Time

(Tuesday) 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Location

History Corner, 200-203

Organizer Contact Info

Jane Stahl, jstahl2@stanford.edu, 650-736-0501

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16apr5:15 PM- 7:15 PM"They can live in the desert but nowhere else", a lecture by Ronald G. Suny5:15 PM - 7:15 PM Pigott Hall (Language Corner)

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In his lecture, Professor Ronald Suny will explore the question “why genocide” and explains the elements that led the Young Turks to carry out the systematic deportation and massacre of hundreds of thousands of their Armenian and Assyrian subjects.

Suny is professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. The grandson of the composer and ethnomusicologist Grikor Mirzoyan Suni and a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, he taught at Oberlin College (1968–1981), as visiting professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (1987), and Stanford University (1995–1996). He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981–1995), where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program.

Professor Suny has served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies and on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, International Labor and Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, The Armenian Review, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, and Armenian Forum, and is a contributing editor to Armenian International Magazine. He has appeared numerous times on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, CBS Evening News, CNN, and National Public Radio, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Left Review, Dissent, and other newspapers and journals.

Time

(Thursday) 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM

Location

Pigott Hall (Language Corner)

Building 260, Room113

Organizer Contact Info

Jane Stahl, jstahl2@stanford.edu, 650-736-0501

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17apr7:00 PM- 8:00 PMJill Tarter Talk7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Haymarket Theater, Palo Alto High School

24apr - 10mayapr 248:00 PMmay 10Palo Alto Players presents "The Addams Family"8:00 PM - (may 10) 2:00 PM Lucie Stern Theater

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Come meet the family. We’ll leave the lights off for you!

THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams

Directed and Choreographed by Janie Scott
Musical Direction by Matthew Mattei

We all have skeletons in our closet, but it takes a kooky family like the Addams to keep a pet squid there! From the writers of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, THE ADDAMS FAMILY tells the story of every father’s nightmare…that moment when your devilish little girl grows up and falls in love with a normal man from a respectable family. That’s right, Wednesday Addams has a boyfriend and this magnificently macabre family gets the shock of a lifetime when she brings him and his parents home for dinner. With brilliant new songs that are all-together ooky, the whole Addams family comes together for a riotous night of ghoulish glee, with surprises that are sure to turn the house downside up and leave you snapping up the aisle!

“A rib-tickling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death!” –Toronto Post City

April 25 – May 10, 2015, preview April 24

Preview: Friday, April 24, 2015 – 8pm
Opening: Saturday, April 25, 2015 – 8pm*
Sunday, April 26, 2015 – 2pm

Thursday, April 30, 2015 – 7pm**
Friday, May 1, 2015 – 8pm
Saturday, May 2, 2015 – 8pm
Sunday, May 3, 2015 – 2pm

Thursday, May 7, 2015 – 7pm**
Friday, May 8, 2015 – 8pm
Saturday, May 9, 2015 – 8pm
Sunday, May 10, 2015 – 2pm

*On Opening Night, Saturday, April 25th, enjoy a post-show Afterglow reception with complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres while meeting the cast. Complimentary with the purchase of a ticket for that evening’s performance.

**Enjoy our Talk Back series with Artistic Director Patrick Klein, show Director and Choreographer Janie Scott, and members of the cast following the performances on Thursdays, April 30th and May 7th. Complimentary with the purchase of a ticket for any performance during the run.

Time

April 24 (Friday) 8:00 PM - May 10 (Sunday) 2:00 PM

Location

Lucie Stern Theater

1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

Organizer Contact Info

Call (650) 329-0891 or email at info@paplayers.org. Tickets also available for purchase at paplayers.org.

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