Women, Land, Identity: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting
January 12- March 21, 2009
Mahoney Library Gallery

Admission is free; the Mahoney Library is open Monday through Thursday from 8am-9pm; Fridays from 9am to 1pm and Saturdays
from 10am-3pm.

Contemporary Aboriginal art began in the 1970s with the introduction
of modern acrylics and canvas to the remote outback area of the Northern Territory in Australia. Aboriginal art has been called the most important art movement since abstract expressionism. Many of the artists in this exhibit are internationally recognized, with work in American, European and Australian collections. The brilliant color, bold strokes, fine patterns, and complex symbolic expression of a 40,000 year old civilization penetrate the soul and soothe the spirit.
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Three Student Shows
Curated by GAU (Gorilla Art Union)
February 5 - March 7, 2009
Santa Rosa Campus Art Gallery

The Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, established in 1973, is located on the first floor of the Frank P. Doyle Library on the college’s
Santa Rosa campus and is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10am to 4pm during the school year. It is closed during the summer and on school holidays. Admission to the Art Gallery is free and children are welcome. The Gallery is wheelchair accessible.

The newly formed art student club called GAU (Gorilla Art Union) will create and curate three simultaneous art student exhibitions. These mini-shows will be defined by three unique concepts ranging from, but not limited to: a juried exhibition, theme-oriented works, art installation, and possibly a one-person show.
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Sex and War
Dr. Malcolm Potts
Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:15pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why do war and terrorism exist? And why are sex and war inextricably linked? Battling neighboring groups of humans helped our male ancestors—by definition, the victors in early raids and wars—to survive and outcompete their rivals—today, these impulses have become wildly destructive. In his presentation Dr. Malcolm Potts will show how relatively simple strategies—most important, those that empower women—can help the biology of peace win out over the biology of war. Dr. Potts, author of the book Sex and War,  is a human reproductive scientist who, since 1993, has been the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

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Women, Land, Identity: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting
Virginia May
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room, Mahoney Library, Petaluma Campus

In conjunction with the exhibition Women, Land, Identity, Virginia May will lecture on women’s identity with the land in contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting. May received an MA in Visual Art in 2005 from the Queensland Institute of Technology and owns the Painted Door, a gallery in Petaluma that showcases contemporary Aboriginal art, an art movement that began in the 1970s with the introduction of modern acrylic paints and canvas to the remote outback area of the Northern Territory in Australia. Sponsored by Friends of the Petaluma Campus
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Call of the Land
Stephen Kent, master didjeridu player
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room, Mahoney Library, Petaluma Campus

Composer and musician Stephen Kent has been playing the didgeridoo, a traditional aboriginal instrument, for more than 25 years. He has recorded three solo albums as well as collaborated with other artists, and he has toured internationally. He also hosts the radio show, Music of the World, on KPFA from 10am-noon every Thursday.  Sponsored by Friends of the Petaluma Campus
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Isadora Duncan’s Dance and Legacy
Lois Ann Flood and Joanna Harris
Friday, March 20, 2009, 7pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Lois Ann Flood and Joanna Harris present a compelling interpretation of the legacy of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). Flood, dancer, choreographer, and director of Diablo Dance, performs Duncan’s dances,while Harris, dance scholar and founder of the dance/theater program at UC Santa Cruz, tells the riveting story of Duncan’s life.  Duncan, a native of San Francisco, is credited with inventing a free-flowing dance style that became known as modern dance.
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CANCELLED!!!

Confucian Spirituality: The Secular as the Sacred
Dr. Tu Weiming
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 7pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Dr. Tu Weiming, Director of the Harvard Yenching Institute, has been a Professor of Chinese history and philosophy and of Confucian Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University since 1981. He is the first professor of Confucian studies at any English-language university--a position awarded to him in 1999. His lecture will focus on Confucian humanism as a spiritual tradition.  He will discuss the integration of the body and mind, fruitful integration between self and community, sustainable relationship between the human species and nature, and mutual responsiveness between the human heart and the way of Heaven to illustrate his belief that a comprehensive humanism, rather than secular humanism, is essential to human survival and congenial to human flourishing in our times.
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The Beauty of Sweden
Students from Sven Eriksongymnasiet in Boras, Sweden
Monday, March 30, 2009, 7pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Sweden is one of Scandinavia’s most beautiful countries. Its size is similar to California, and half its land surface is covered with forest and nearly 100,000 lakes. The students from SvenEriksonsgymnasiet in Boras, Sweden, will provide a presentation of their Swedish culture, traditions, and people. They will incorporate photographs, art, and videos of musical performances in their presentation and share their own musical talents as well.
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H2O and the Waters of Life
Les Adler, Ph.D
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:15pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus and
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room Mahoney Library, Petaluma Campus

Water, the most indispensable ingredient for all life on earth, has been reduced in the modern imagination to the supportive, but narrow role of a valuable but increasingly scarce natural resource, controlled and managed like any other commodity. Dr. Les Adler offers an alternative perspective designed to deepen the discussion beyond the limiting vision of water as only resource to an examination of its far more basic and traditional place in human thought as source of life and, in many ways, of the very meaning of being human. Dr. Les Adler, is professor of history at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at SSU.  Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Forum and Friends of the Petaluma Campus.
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Annual Peter Leveque Natural History Lecture:
High Altitude Flight: Hummingbirds and Their Evolution
Dr. Jim McGuire
Friday, April 3, 2009, 7pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

Dr. Jim McGuire, world renowned avian researcher and herpetologist, will present a lecture on hummingbirds and their adaptations to life at high altitudes. Hummingbirds are an incredibly beautiful and diverse group of birds with metabolic challenges unlike any other bird. Dr. McGuire studies the hummingbirds in the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains of South America, where the thin air should make flight nearly impossible. He has inspired literally thousands of students in their study of the natural world and travels the world discovering species of birds and reptiles never before characterized. Sponsored by SRJC’s Life Sciences Department.
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Four Decades of Writing, Reading and Teaching
Adam David Miller
Monday, April 6, 2009, 12:15pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

When Adam David Miller was 19, he typed a note that read “I would like to know you better” on his typewriter and passed it to a girl he liked. She was white; he was black. He was accused of attempted rape, locked up and later forced to leave his hometown of Orangeburg, South Carolina permanently. Longtime Bay Area poet, teacher, publisher Adam David Miller will read from his Saroyan Prize-nominated memoir, Ticket to Exile about this and other incidents growing up in the Jim Crow South.  Miller’s creative journey will be inspirational to all who write or wish to write. Co-sponsored by the SRJC English Department’s Work of Literary Merit Program and funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
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Annual Del Monte Lecture: Running the Sahara
Dr. Jeff Peterson
Monday, April 13, 2009, 12:15pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

In 2006-2007, Dr. Jeff  Peterson served as expedition physician for the first successful attempt in modern times to cross the Sahara Desert on foot.. This 4000-mile odyssey, which began in Senegal and ended in Egypt, involved 111 days of running across one of the world's most inhospitable climates. Given the extreme conditions, Dr. Peterson prepared himself to deal with virtually any medical issue that the runners might present. What he did not anticipate, however, was that those runners would not be his only patients, nor would they be the most challenging. In 2008 Dr. Peterson created Sahara Relief, after witnessing first-hand the desperate need for basic healthcare services in the region, especially in relation to mothers and their children. Dr. Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Surgery/Emergency Medicine at Stanford University Hospital in Stanford, California. Funding for this program comes from the David Del Monte Lectureship Endowment through the SRJC Foundation.
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Water Everywhere--But Not a Drop to Drink:  Amazon Rainforest Peruvian Water Project
Pam Chanter
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 12:15pm
Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus

About 20,000 people live in the 140 small communities which make up the Fernando Lores District of Peru. But despite the fact that this area is deep in the Amazon rainforest with an abundance of fresh water, nearly 50% of all deaths in the area are the result of unsafe drinking water. Almost all ground and surface water sources including the river are contaminated. Find out how residents of Sonoma County are working with villagers and a non-governmental organization (NGO) to develop a source of clean safe water to not only serve the inhabitants of Fernando Lores, but ultimately to create a model for other Amazon rainforest communities. Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Forum.
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Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone, (Father Camillo and the Honorable Peppone)
Friday, January 23, 2009, 7pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room
Mahoney Library,Petaluma Campus

Peppone, the mayor of a small communist town, is running for re-election and he has a crush on one of the communist party women. Don Camillo supervises the integrity of the families in town and keeps watch on his eternal enemy Peppone. Directed by Carmine Gallone, 1955
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Palermo- Milano Solo Andata  (Palermo Milano Only One way)
Friday, January 30, 2009, 7 pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room
Mahoney Library,Petaluma Campus

Turi Arcangelo Leofonte, a former Mafioso and an above suspicion accountant, agrees to testify against very important Mafia members in a trial taking place in Milano. Leofonte is a dangerous witness, and the Mafia decides to kill him. Under police escort he has to reach Milano. Directed by Claudio Fragasso, 1996
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Quando sei nato non puoi piu` nasconderti (Once you are  born you cannot hide yourself any more)
Friday, February 6, 2009, 7pm
Connie Mahoney Reading Room
Mahoney Library,Petaluma Campus

Sandro, a twelve year old boy on vacation, one night falls off a boat . He is rescued by illegal emigrants, travelling to Italy in an old unsafe boat. The trip back to Italy opens  Sandro’s eyes on a new world completely different from the one where he grew up. The film received nine minutes applause at the Festival of Cannes in 2005. Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, 2005
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