Well, you’ve made it. Congratulations.
Today is the last day of classes for the spring semester. Once you’re done, get out and enjoy.
RPI has an annual tradition of Spring Fling which is hosted by RSA (formerly RHA). It’s being held from 3 to 6 PM today behind Commons. Check it out! There’s music and food! Best of all: it’s totally free. There’s more info on the Facebook event.
Tulip Festival Weekend begins with a bunch of girls in traditional Dutch garb scrubbing state street in Albany today at noon. Don’t miss the free concert on Saturday by OK Go!
Men’s Lacrosse faces St. Lawrence at 4 PM at ECAV. Free! [RPIAthletics] [FB]
UPAC is showing Alice in Wonderland at the usual times: 7, 9:30 and midnight. $2.50. DCC 308. [Events Calendar][FB]
Rensselaer Bengali Community Charity Dinner is at 7 PM in the McNeil Room. For $5, you get a full dinner including appetizers and dessert. There will be music and dancing. Proceeds benefit Haiti Relief. [Events Calendar]
Sheer Idiocy will host its Last Show of the Year at 8 PM in Mother’s. Free! [FB]
Ground Zero hosts Moving Mountains, The Cast Before the Break, and The Turbines in the basement of Nugent Hall at 8 PM. $5. [FB]
Today is the Tulip Festival in Albany. 11 AM to 6 PM in Washington Park. OK GO is playing at 3:45. FREE. Don’t miss it! [Official Website] [Entertainment Events]
Autocross in North Lot for student members of RSCA. Cars start at noon. [Events Calendar]
RPI Dance Club will have its annual recital at 2 PM in the EMPAC Theatre. Theme is “Bust a Move.” Not sure about the price. [Events Calendar][FB]
UPAC is showing Fight Club in DCC 308 at 7 PM, 10 PM, and 1 AM. $2.50. [Events Calendar][FB]
Partial Credit’s Spring A Capella Show is at 8 PM in Mother’s. $5 at the door. [Events Calendar][FB]
Ground Zero’s last Open Mic Night of the Semester is at 8 PM in the basement of Nugent Hall. Free. [FB]
Baseball versus Skidmore College at noon on the Robison Field. [RPIAthletics]
Sorry. We got a little excited.
We can stop crossing off our calendars today. It’s finally April 30th. Gregg Gillis Girl Talk and Wesley Pentz Diplo will be gracing two of RPI’s newest “platforms” (ECAV and EMPAC) tonight.
Girl Talk at the ECAV Arena. Tickets are sold out, but there’s a chance that someone is selling them on the facebook group. Doors at 8:30 show starts at 9:30 pm. From what we hear it has the potential to be a grossly epic sweat/dancefest, so dance appropriately.
Diplo helps kick off the intriguing onedotzero festival (at 11pm), in its second year at EMPAC. Diplo tickets are sold out, but “the cafe will be bumping with a larger-than-life 40′ HD feed for those that are curious / up late / didn’t snag a ticket”. If that doesn’t suit you, we do have 2 free press tickets available if you’d like to write us up a review after the show (email us for details). Festival passes are still available for $10. The doors open at 8pm: the installations will be on-going, there are two wild screenings, and the cafe will be open with food and beverage from the folks at the Epicurean.
Shabbat Dinner with RPI-Sage Hillel is being sponsored by the Mahler family. Starts at 7 and it’s free! [FB]
It’s Troy Night Out! Get downtown between 5 and 9 to check out all that Troy has to offer. The West Route of the RedHawk Shuttle will take you to monument square.
If you’d like to do more studying, UPAC Cinema has Eli’s Book available for viewing at 3 times tonight (7, 9:30, and midnight). What’s that? Oh. Apparently it’s a movie called the Book of Eli. Nevermind the studying bit…
The New York State Collegiate Track Conference is having its outdoor championship beginning at 1 PM on the Harkness Field. [RPIAthletics]
Urinetown is playing tonight at 8 PM at the RPI Playhouse. Tickets are $5 with RPI ID.[FB]
When you get hungry tomorrow afternoon, head over to Bombers Burrito Bar (on Lark Street in Albany, or State St. in Schenectady) because they’re giving out free burritos between the hours of 11am and 4pm. The reason? A few of their customers/friends have come into a bit of hardship recently (both need chemo treatment), and are using the event to try and raise some money for them.
From Matt Baumgartner, Owner of Bombers: “To anyone interested, please feel FREE to get burritos at both places if you’d like, just show up with some bills in your hands to give to these fine folks.”
Dr. Jackson is a speaker at The Economist’s conference entitled “Innovation: Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy” where she and “Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich … will square off against conservative economist and blogger Tyler Cowen and Electronic Frontier Foundation Founder John Perry Barlow.” The conference aims to “to challenge established thinking about what innovation is, where it comes from, and how to make it work.” [prnewswire]
You would think GM week began tomorrow with the way the student government candidates are campaigning. It would seem like this Facebook group, brainchild of Anasha Cummings has kicked campaign season into high gear, taking the dialogues online in an attempt to lay everything on the table. It’s a great idea (and we’re a little jealous we didn’t think of it ourselves!) Hopefully this online forum will allow a bit of the political BS to be avoided. You should definitely check it out if you have any interest in making an informed decision about who to vote for this election, (in addition to taking our endorsement into account of course!)
RPI has announced the commencement speaker for this year, and it is Peter Orszag, one of the nation’s leading economists and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. We’re pretty excited! We’ve heard of this guy before! [AOA] [RPI]
OK Go will be headlining Tulip Fest on May 8th in Albany. The show is free! No word yet on whether or not they’re bringing their treadmills.
Troy is putting together a campaign of its own, one to try and get Google to lay its beautiful fibers of ultra-high speed broadband in Troy. For more information, visit troygle.org or their Facebook group.
We’ve been looking forward to these two events since the calendar was published in January! Looks like EMPAC’s potential is slowly being unleashed. Both events use space differently, in real life, and with animation.
+ EXHBITION
Dancing on the Ceiling: Art + Zero Gravity
Thursday, March 18 – Saturday, April 10, noon to 6 PM
Free
Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity is a major group exhibition in which contemporary artists explore the condition of weightlessness on earth by deploying techniques such as parabolic flight, rigging, and digital effects. The exhibition presents the work of multiple national and international artists, including three newly commissioned pieces for the exhibition. Distributed throughout the public spaces at EMPAC the exhibition is itself un-tethered from the confines of the traditional gallery exhibition paradigm.
Exhibition opening: March 18, 6 – 10 PM
6 PM: Reception with commissioned artists – visitors to the opening reception receive a free exhibition catalog! (while supplies last)
7 PM: Talk by special effects legend Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters, Star Trek, Blade Runner), followed by a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of science fiction cinema, 2001: A Space Odyssey on EMPAC’s massive 56′ concert hall screen.
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/zerogravity/
+ PERFORMANCE
The OpenEnded Group: Upending
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7 PM
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7 PM
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2 PM
with music by Morton Feldman, recorded at EMPAC by the FLUX Quartet
Followed by the making of Upending with The OpenEnded Group
$5 for Students
Upending is revelatory work of 3D animation: an actor-less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels viewers to rethink their relationship with the material world. The play of images is accompanied by a gutsy, EMPAC-produced spatial recording of Morton Feldman’s first String Quartet by the FLUX Quartet. Following a short break, each evening will conclude with a talk and q&a that traces this EMPAC-commissioned work over two years, from inception to completion.
There’s no much going on, because it’s time to head home for Spring Break! If you happen to be staying, check out these two things!
Of course, the Hockey Team begins their playoff season on Friday Night against Brown in the first of a best-of-three series. 7 PM in the Field House. They will play again at 7 on Saturday, and at 7 on Sunday if necessary.
SOLOS^2 at EMPAC: ” a diverse array of performers will guide listeners through aural space, using strings, brass, percussion, amplification, and voices to fully explore the potentials of timbre and musical directionality.” Tell us that doesn’t sound cool!! Friday at 8 PM. RPI Student tickets are $5.
It's gonna be one for the books.
Mark your calendars everyone. On April 30th, one of the world’s most famous ex-engineering students will be gracing our campus. Gregg Gillis, better known as the mash-up artist Girl Talk will be up in the brand-spankin’ new ECAV with his laptop all set to go. Gillis’s last album, Feed the Animals was number four on Time Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of 2008 and is very popular as party and dance music.
Girl Talk shows tend to get a bit sweaty, but that doesn’t stop the party. A lesser known tech school newspaper had this to say about a previous performance. Last year, Gillis visited our neighbors to the north at Skidmore College too.
Tickets go on sale March 3rd for $10. [facebook]
http://www.myspace.com/girltalk
Thanks for the heads up Michael!
Puckman will be the center of attention this weekend.
There are some great events coming up this weekend. Don’t miss Freakout! Let us know if we missed anything!
The Mahler family hosts a Shabbat Dinner with RPI-Sage Hillel at 5:30 in Union 3606.[FB]
Women’s basketball faces William Smith College at 6 PM in ECAV. Free. [RPIAthletics]
Hockey is big this weekend. See the Qunnipiac game at 7 PM in the Houston Field House. [RPIAthletics]
UPAC is showing The Road at 7, 9:30 and midnight for $2.50 in the DCC. [UPAC]
Men’s Basketball faces Hobart College in ECAV at 8. Free.[RPIAthletics]
The Players present an Evening of Performance, featuring “Artist Descending a Staircase”, “Winter Fruit”, and “Wanda’s Visit.” 8 PM. [FB] [Players]
Taylor Williamson will be performing some stand-up comedy in the McNeil Room at 8 PM for free! [FB]
Disclaimer: Al Roker will not be at the Winter Carnival.
We can only hope and pray that Dr. Jackson will be out dancing again this weekend.
SO MUCH HOCKEY! The Engineers take on St. Lawrence at 7pm at the HFH. Coming straight off of a 4-0 Yale whopping, this weekend should be good.
Basketball at ECAV when we go up against Clarkson. Women at 6pm, men at 8pm.
Pirates take over the DCC? Well no. But UPAC Cinema is showing Pirate Radio. 7pm, 9:30, and midnight. A recession friendly $2.50.
Dance! Dance! Dance! The BSA is hosting the 3rd annual Hip-Hop Dance Competition in the West Hall Auditorium at 7:30pm. It’s free! [facebook]
Open Mic at Ground Zero in Nugent Hall at 8pm. [facebook]
Winter Carnival Saturday/Sunday after the jump!
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