College Radio Station of the Year Engaging Romanticism

WKDU-FM, Drexel's student-run radio station, is having Engaging Romanticism, a performance one of its most successful years to date while celebrating by students and faculty of the music its 40th anniversary. They recently were ranked in a list of program, will be presented on Sunday, the nation’s top 10 best college radio stations by The Wall November 13th at 4 PM, in the A.J. Street Journal and now WKDU has won the College Drexel Picture Gallery (3141 Chestnut Music Journal’s (CMJ) Station of the Year award, for the Street). More than just a concert, Art second year in a row. WKDU was also named “Biggest History professor and historian Charles Champion of the Local Scene,” a win that validates the Morscheck will address how Romantic very ethos of the station. music continues to make a direct and meaningful emotional connection with “CMJ is kind of like Billboard for college stations,” says listeners and performers. Jake Cooley, a junior business administration major and general manager at the station. “It’s a big deal because at The concert will include songs by CMJ you’re voted on by other colleges and people in the Schubert and Brahms, the Romances by industry.” Robert Schumann, Chopin’s Ballade Number Three, Richard Strauss’ WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM, broadcast from the Serenade for Winds, and the finale of basement of the Creese Student Center, is free format, non- Victor Ewald’s third brass quintet. commercial radio whose members are unpaid student volunteers who have a passion for music and unique radio The Drexel faculty includes some of the programming for the greater Philadelphia area audience. community’s leading musicians who Their terrestrial FM signal broadcasts at 800 watts and is will perform during the concert: also streamed online. pianists Stephanie Abruzzo and Brian Dilts, flutist Veronica Mascaro, alto “These students have a passion for local music,” says Rebecca Oehlers, and trumpeter Darin Larry Epstein, associate professor of entertainment and Kelly, as well as student singers and arts management and faculty advisor for the station. instrumentalists. “They’re not just interested in listening to themselves talk on the radio—they’re interested in new music and what’s Romantic music is all around us. It’s going on in the local music community. That’s what the stylistic source of John Williams’ makes WKDU such a gem.” and Hans Zimmer’s film scores, and soundtracks quote liberally from Station management includes: Jake Cooley, General Romantic composers Wagner, Manager; Nora Meighan, Personnel Director; Sean Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. Dr. Comber, Production Director; Carolyn Haynes; Program Morscheck will speak to why this Director; Jamie Crymes; Public Relations Director; Sean music, more than any other, continues Lavery, Station Manager and Pat O’Brien, Treasurer. For to inform the musical and emotional more information or to join WKDU visit www.wkdu.org. landscape of our lives. Admission is free and the public is warmly welcomed. Modus Operandi Thai Harvest

Philadelphia's Alexander Stadler will be showing his multi-faceted design work in the exhibit Modus Operandi at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery from November 7th to For 700 years, the people of Bo Klua in December 9th. Works on display will include: paintings, rural Thailand have subsisted on rice fabric designs, swatches, a line of scarves, illustrated grown and harvested by hand on steep, chronicles, fashion designs, several books written and rocky slopes. While they enjoy a strong illustrated by Alex, and finally, a unique wall drawing. community, these farmers struggle to There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, overcome chronic pain, inefficiency, November 16th at 5 PM that will include an artist’s talk and low crop yields. This year, a team and book signing by Stadler. of students from the Westphal College, the College of Engineering and the Alex Stadler received a BFA in Printmaking from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and then went Science, & Health Systems (Biomed) from Providence to before moving to helped them to reach their goals. Philadelphia where he began designing textiles in addition to writing and illustrating children's books. His The team designed and implemented an company, stadler-kahn, produces scarves in efficient and ergonomic rice planter from imported Italian merino wool. Concurrently with this that eliminates pain, cuts sowing time exhibition Alex is curating a Pop-up show at the by 50%, and has the potential to Philadelphia Museum of Art. P.POD, (Philadelphia increase rice yields. The team worked Produces Original Design), will bring together 40 local with farmers during an adventuresome designers and their work from November 11th to December two-week trip to Thailand that included 31st at the museum. For more information call 215-895- hosting workshops and an unexpected 2548 or visit drexel.edu/westphal. long hike to escape flooding. The team continues to work with the local Sustainable Development Research Foundation (SDRF) to scale and expand the program.

Our own Katie VenVertloh, Graphic Design student, travelled to Thailand with the team and was critical to the effort. Katie produced a visual catalog for participatory design, fundraising materials, a website, and several iterations of the main deliverable: a manual enabling the farmers and their advocates to produce and improve the rice planter.

The team will host a seminar, The Thai Harvest Initiative, a multimedia presentation on how four Drexel programs came together to empower Thai farmers to use technology to improve their livelihoods, on Tuesday, November 15th at 5 PM in the The Drexel Players return to the Mandell Theater this fall Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building with a re-imagined production of William Shakespeare's room 120. A reception will follow with Twelfth Night, adapted by director and Theatre Professor live music by Drexel alumnus Dante Nick Anselmo as 12th Nite. Bucci. For more information, visit DrexelThaiHarvest.org. In 12th Nite we move the action from a sleepy Italian seaside village to a contemporary Miami-like town. With a Signs And Wonders Beach Boys-inspired score, created by Michael Kiley, the music will make this production a bit reminiscent of a and film. Anselmo's adaptation focuses the story on young lovers and mistaken identities with plenty of comic relief from Shakespeare's outlandish and ever-foolish characters Sire Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguacheek and every body's favorite fool, Feste.

With sets by Meghan Jones, lighting by Dom Chacon, and costumes by Lauren Perigard, the Mandell Theater stage will be transformed into an ocean side beach. Janelle Kauffman, a Film & Video student, designed video elements for the production. Janelle recently finished assisting Jorge Cousineau, a top theatrical media designer, on a show for the National Constitution Center.

12th Nite will play at the Mandell Theater (33rd & Chestnuts Sts) from November 17th - 20th. Thursday, For more than forty years professor Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 PM, and Stuart Rome has been taking there is a special 10 AM performance on Friday, followed photographs of some of nature’s most by a talk back with the cast. 12th Nite will close with a mesmerizing and powerful landscapes. Sunday matinee on the 20th at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 for He has traveled from small Indonesian the general public and $5 for students, Drexel staff and villages to the coastlines of Haiti to faculty with an ID. You may purchase tickets by visiting explore the intimate framework of www.drexelplayers.com orcivilization and nature. For his latest mandellboxoffice.westphal.drexel.edu or by calling the book Signs And Wonders, Stuart spent box office directly 215.895.2787, Monday-Friday 11:00 nearly three years photographing AM to 2:00 PM starting November 7th. Florida’s interior, a region that has Read More figured large and mysterious in America’s psyche.

The book will be featured in a gallery OFF CAMPUS on CW Philly 57 talk and signing by Stuart at Gallery 339 (339 South 21st St) on Saturday, November 5th at 2 PM. Gallery 339 will exhibit several works by Stuart and hold a light reception during the signing. The event is free to the public and books will be available for purchase for $20, which Stuart will happily sign.

The work in Signs And Wonders is currently on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. Stuart is one of a handful of distinguished landscape photographers commissioned by the OFF CAMPUS, the sitcom produced by students from the Southeast Museum of Photography to Department of Cinema & Television, won the Outstanding create new photography for exhibition Achievement in a Student Production, Arts and at the museum. Stuart’s photographs Entertainment/Cultural Affairs, at the annual NATAS have been included in numerous group awards at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards Gala in exhibitions at galleries, museums, September. The honors for OFF CAMPUS keep coming universities and art centers across the during November as CBS-owned The CW Philly 57 country. His images have been collected /WPSG-TV (check local listings for the station in your by the Center for Creative Photography area), will air three episodes of the series on successive at the University of Arizona; The Saturdays starting on November 5th at 11:30 PM. All three Davison Art Center at Wesleyan episodes will be re-broadcasted on Saturday, November University; The Federal Reserve Bank 26th from 1:00 – 2:30 AM and Sunday, November 27th Collection; County from 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Fine Art; Newport Harbor Museum of Television program director Professor Andrew Susskind is Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; the executive producer of the project, which is now Princeton University Art Museum; beginning production on season four. “Our goal is to Santa Barbara Museum of Art; San make OFF CAMPUS come as close to a professional Francisco Museum of Modern Art; network primetime production experience as possible for Institute of Polytechnics; and at our students,” said Susskind. “Our NATAS win was Yale Art Museum. wonderful recognition and it’s an honor for a major network affiliate to choose to air our series. It is a privilege to work with students who are so creative, skilled and Urbanized dedicated.”

OFF CAMPUS features the adventures and misadventures of recent college graduates and roommates Claire, Dean, Felix, Hailey and Nick. The new third episode finds the roommates’ lives disrupted by strange doings in a neighbor’s apartment. To view a full list of the cast and crew, click here and to watch earlier episodes of OFF CAMPUS, click here. Read More

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Who shapes our cities? Why and how do they do it? How does the design of our cities affect our lives? By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects in cities around the world, including Rio de Janerio, Mumbai, Santiago, Cape Town, Detroit, New Orleans, and others, Gary Hustwit's new documentary, Urbanized, frames a global discussion on the future of cities, from massive infrastructure initiatives to temporary interventions. The Westphal College will host the Philadelphia premiere of Urbanized with two screenings at 6:30 and 9 PM on Thursday, November 3rd in Bossone's Mitchell Auditorium (3140 The Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Market St.). Following the 6:30 PM Industry Studies will host a panel discussion on Thursday, screening Gary will be joined by Rick November 17th at 7 PM, in Bossone’s Mitchell Auditorium. Redding, Director of Community The panel will address music concert ticket sales, an Planning for Philadelphia's City increasingly important revenue source for artists and Planning Commission. Rick and Gary record labels in this age of declining recorded music will talk about the issues presented in purchases. Presented in partnership with the LeBow the film and how they relate to West College of Business, our distinguished panel includes Philadelphia and the city at large. moderator Tom Moon, an author and former Philadelphia Inquirer music columnist, now with NPR; Sean Agnew, We're proud to welcome Hustwit back concert promoter, founder of R5 productions and partner after we previously hosted the in Union Transfer, Philadelphia’s newest music venue Philadelphia premieres of his design now open at 11th and Spring Garden streets; Josh Baron, films, Helvetica and Objectified. A co-author of Ticketmasters and editor of Relix; David limited number of free tickets are Cooper, founder of Pearl Jam tour ticketing, ETM, FT&T available for Westphal students and and Direct to Fan; and Jim McCafferty, Ticketing Director faculty. Please contact Lisa Visco of The Mann Center for Performing Arts. Contact Zeek ([email protected]) for more Weil at [email protected] for more information. information. If you’ve already reserved your ticket with Lisa, your name will be College News on the list and can pick up your ticket at the door on Thursday. General Zhenya Kiperman’s, Film & Video Professor, 27- admission tickets are now on sale here minute documentary Voice Journey had multiple for $15. screenings at The 40th Annual Symposium of The American Voice Foundation. The 13-minute version of the Urbanized, the final documentary in film played at The Southern Utah International Film Hustwit's design trilogy, features some Festival DOCUTAH and Chagrin of the world's foremost architects, Festival. planners, policymakers and thinkers: Sir Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Jan Bruce Graham, Screenwriting & Playwriting Gehl, Oscar Niemeyer, Amanda Professor, won The Derek Freese Film Foundation Prime Burden, Enrique Peñalosa, Alejandro Time TV Pilot Award for his screenplay “The Darbarians” Aravena, Eduardo Paes, Rahul in the “Shoot In Philadelphia” Screenwriting competition. Mehrotra, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Ricky Burdett, James Corner, Michael Sorkin, Nicole Koltick, Architecture Professor, had her paper Bruce Katz, Candy Chang, Edgar "A Materiality of Agency// Speculations on the Impact of Pieterse, and extraordinary citizens Biological Computation on Materiality” accepted to the who have affected change in their national ACSA conference. Nicole will present her paper at cities. the conference in Boston. Read More Xela Batchelder, Entertainment & Arts Management Professor, hosted two panels in Edinburgh, Scotland; “Fringe Festivals Around the World,” with fringe directors from Adelaide, Melbourne, Composers Group Amsterdam, Czechoslovakia, South Africa and Dubai, and “What Fringe Next?” with performers who have performed at a variety of fringe’s around the world. She was also invited by the Hollywood Fringe to present two lectures during their June fringe festival.

Ada Tremonte, Interior Design Professor, along with Kate Greim, Deirdre Cimino, Colleen Fitzsimmons and Rachel Mongulzo, Interior Design students, attended Interior Design Day on October 17th in Harrisburg, PA. Ada is on the Executive Board of IDLCPA – Interior Design Legislative Coalition of PA, whose purpose is to inform and present to the public and legislators the cause for registering of Interior Designers The Drexel Composers Group was in the state of Pennsylvania. Right now 26 other states started in 2007 by Drexel Music have either legislation pending as either a Title Act or a Industry professor Jim Klein. Within License Act. IDLCPA is looking to have a License Act the past four years the group has helped approved. The chairman of the Legislature’s Education develop the skills of student composers Committee, James Roebcuk, spoke with our delegation to and has acted as a resource to those in gain a better understanding of exactly what interior need of music for film, television and designers do and the fact that we perform code regulated live productions. The group is currently interior design services. run by professional composer and Music Industry alum Andrew Aversa Mathieu Gendreau, Music Industry Professor, and current student Eric Masi. composed the music for the "Autodesk Siggraph 2011 Show Reel" which was presented in Vancouver The DCG is the only student this summer. He is currently composing the music for the organization on campus dedicated to upcoming "Autodesk Design & Visualization Show Reel.” audio for media. Besides providing work experience and completed work Olive Prince, Dance Professor, performed with her for their members’ portfolios, the group company, Olive Prince Dance, in Summer Yates’ Sea of has also facilitated discounts on music Glass at Rowan University Art Gallery on October 26th as equipment purchases and has presented part of a multi-media exhibition curated by Michael lectures on music branding, business Garden. and entrepreneurship.

Blaise Tobia, Art & Art History Professor, had his Members of the group have participated work for the Look! On Lancaster Ave project reviewed by in an array of projects ranging from Roberta Fallon for theartblog.org. Click here to read the senior film projects and university blog post. events to video games and voice-over reels. Students have also collaborated Terry Tompkins, Music Industry Professor, with several moderated and curated the panel Music Industry: Higher organizations, recording artists, and Education at the CMJ conference in October. The panel other digital production companies in consisted of music educators from Universities. the Philadelphia region. Those interested in joining The Drexel Edwin Bronstein, Architecture Professor, will have Composers Group or are in need of an exhibition of his oil paintings, At Home in the music for a project can email Neighborhood, on display at Twenty-Two Gallery (236 [email protected]. Visit S.22nd St.) from November 11th to December 4th. There www.drexelcomposers.com for more will be an opening reception on November 11th at 6 PM. information and stay connected on Proceeds will benefit the art programs at The Greenfield facebook. School at 22nd and Chestnut Streets. Click here for more information. Last Chance to See Colleen Fitzsimmons, Interior Design student, won one of four $2,500 CREW Philadelphia scholarships. The Half the Sky scholarships are awarded to a female student enrolled in a Philadelphia-area college or university in a real estate related major or discipline.

Katie Friesen, Architecture student, placed second in BLT Architect's 2011 Student Design Sketch Competition. The goal of the competition was to create a mixed-use development between Kelly Drive and Ridge Avenue at Calumet Street, the site of the Falls Bridge. The competition was open to students from the Mid-Atlantic region, including Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Don’t miss the exhibit the Philadelphia New York, Washington DC, West Virginia, Virginia, and Inquirer called “A brilliant ‘first.’ A Maryland. must-see.” There is less then two weeks Design & Merchandising students had images of left to experience the historic exhibition their projects inspired by the book Rebel Rebel Anti-Style of contemporary Chinese women posted on author Keanan Duffty’s blog. Click here to see artists, Half the Sky: Women in the the blog post. New Art of China, on display at The New Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at 3401 Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Graphic Design Alumna, and Filbert St. until Saturday, November Happy Cog designer, will be speaking at the AIGA Philly 12th. The exhibition is free and open to Event, Pencil 2 Pixel, on November 10th at 7:30 PM at the public, Tuesdays – Saturdays from Kanbar Performance Center (4201 Henry Ave.). The event 11 AM – 5 PM. will focus on learning how to design for various Content Management Systems. Click here for more information. Co-curated by the National Art Museum of China(NAMOC) and the Leonard Samantha Stein, Fashion Design Alumna, has landed Pearlstein Gallery, this survey-scale a job as an Assistant Designer for Boys for the Nike Brand. exhibition is the first of its kind in the Samantha previously worked at Lai Apparel as an United States. More than 60 pieces of Assistant Technical Designer. artwork by 22 women artists, including photography, sculpture, video, painting and installation, are on display. It has been decades since Mao Zedong set communist ideology by proclaiming that women “hold up half the sky,” and yet Chinese women artists have yet to receive the attention they deserve on the world stage. Half the Sky attempts to redress this situation by representing a cross-section of gifted women artists currently working in China and across the Chinese diaspora. Click here for more information.

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