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Run into the holidays with Big Chill ‘07

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Check in from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Line up at 9 a.m.

College Avenue Gym
130 College Avenue
New Brunswick

The Big Chill, a 5K run/walk, is an annual charitable event in which participants are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy for a child between the ages of three and 14. The course begins and ends at the College Avenue Gym and includes portions of Sicard, George, and Huntington streets, College Avenue, and Bucchleuch Park.

Toys are donated to children living in New Brunswick public housing and surrounding communities.

For registration and more information, visit the Big Chill website, or call 732-445-0462.

Holiday science show to dazzle young, old alike

Friday, December 7, 2007 through Sunday, December 9, 2007
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Physics Lecture Hall
120 Frelinghuysen Road
Busch Campus
Piscataway

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University will present its ever-popular, spectacular holiday show – the annual Faraday Christmas Children’s Lecture.

Designed to dazzle and capture the imaginations of young and old alike, the demonstrations feature such spectacles as real flowers frozen to the point where they shatter like glass, exploding hydrogen balloons, a person lying on a bed of nails and a fire extinguisher used to rocket a person across the room.

The shows are based on the tradition of famous British physicist Michael Faraday, whose work in the early 1800s laid the foundation for the electric motor and electrical generation. His Children’s Christmas Lectures at London’s Royal Institution, which continue today, were designed to communicate to youngsters the excitement of scientific discovery during a season of joy and celebration.

Rutgers’ version is produced by Mark Croft, physics professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, and physics support specialist Dave Maiullo.

The shows are open to the public and free of charge. Early arrival is advised to ensure seating.

Give art for the holidays

Holiday Print Sale
December 11 through December 14, 2007
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Civic Square Building
Classroom 117, First Floor
33 Livingston Avenue

The Brodsky Center for Print and Paper is holding its annual Holiday Print Sale, featuring art produced by the center’s fellows and by nationally and internationally recognized artists.

Proceeds will benefit the Brodsky Center. All prints are discounted.

For more information call 732-932-2222 or email rcipp@rci.rutgers.edu.

Free concert features two dozen faculty and student pianists

Friday, November 30, 2007
8 p.m.
Free admission

Nicholas Music Center
85 George Street
New Brunswick

Edvard Grieg’s music is known for its inviting and accessible qualities. “Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights,” the Norwegian composer famously said. “I only wanted…to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.”

To mark the centennial year of Grieg’s death, 24 faculty and student pianists from Mason Gross School of the Arts will perform in the “Edvard Grieg Centennial Piano Extravaganza.”

The program features Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces” for solo piano, which are like entries in a musical diary the composer wrote throughout his lifetime, as well as “Norwegian Dances,” “Waltz Caprice,” and “Peer Gynt Suite” for four hands.

“Grieg’s music is evocative, easily accessible, and fun,” says Min Kwon, assistant professor of piano at Mason Gross and producer of the concert. “Whether classical connoisseurs or first-time listeners, audience members will feel right at home.”

Additional free performances of the piano extravaganza will be held in New York’s Steinway Hall and Donnell Auditorium in December. The Steinway Hall concert is on Friday, December 14 at 7 p.m.; the Donnell Auditorium performance is on Saturday, December 22 at 2:30 p.m.

For more information about any Mason Gross event, visit the school’s website or call the ticket office at 732-932-7511.

Luciana Souza: The new bossa nova at the Rutgers–Camden Jazz Festival

Saturday, December 8, 2007
8 p.m.
$20 (purchase tickets)

Walter K. Gordon Theater
Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts
314 Linden Street
Camden

Grammy-nominated for “Best Female Jazz Vocalist” three times over, Brazilian-American singer Luciana Souza’s fluid, floral voice swings every phrase from Portuguese-language sambas to Bossa-flavored takes from her new CD, The New Bossa Nova, featuring classic songs from Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, and Joni Mitchell.

An eclectic night of experimental music

Nouveau Riche and Changing Modes, presented by Black Lily

Sunday, December 9, 2007
8 p.m.
$15 (purchase tickets)

Walter K. Gordon Theater
Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts
314 Linden Street
Camden

A night of post-genre artists bridging hip-hop, art rock and punk with Philly’s Nouveau Riche featuring Nikki Jean and Dice Raw, and Changing Modes, dubbed an “experimental band of experimental bands” by The New York Daily Press.