February

February 3

School of Natural & Social Sciences Lecture: Andrew Revkin
“The Hot Seat : Making Sense of Global Warming, From the North Pole to the White House.”
7 PM, The Performing Arts Center, Free
Andrew Revkin has reported on the global environment for a quarter century from the Amazon to the North Pole chronicling efforts to understand human impact on the Earth and sustain the human adventure without wrecking the planet. He has been an environmental reporter for the New York Times since 1995 and is the author of three books on the environment.

February 4

Armenian Music
8 PM, Recital Hall
School of the Arts, Conservatory of Music students perform as part of this performance-Lecture with visiting composer-pianist Artur Avanesov on Contemporary Armenian Music. For more information, call 914-251-6700.

Launch of the National Teach-In Events on Global Warming: Focus on the First 100 Days of President Obama
7-8:30 PM, The Red Room in the Student Services Bldg., Free
Students, staff, and faculty participate in this national teach-in event that is also open to the public.

February 5

Percussion Concert
8 PM, Recital Hall, Music Bldg.
IKTUS: Percussion Ensemble in-Residence performs. For more information, call 914-251-6700.

National Teach-In Events on Global Warming: Focus on the First 100 Days of President Obama Continues
10 AM-9 PM, The Red Room, Student Services Bldg., Free
During the day and evening, there will be panels on global warming-related topics with Q& A sessions; a fair with tables for "green" groups on campus, and career development workshops that focus on green jobs. Students, staff, and faculty will participate; the events are open to the public.

February 6-7

BFA Dance Concert
8 PM, Dance Theatre Lab, Dance Bldg., $5
Conservatory of Dance BFA candidates Nina Hudson, Leah Katz, Jessica Merritt, Christopher Ralph and Jonathan Windham produce and present their Senior Project Dance Concert featuring repertory performances and original choreography. For more information, call 914-251-6800.

February 9

Noon Music
12 PM, Recital Hall, Music Bldg., Free
Voice and Opera students perform. For more information call 914-251-6700.

February 10-15

Purchase Repertory Theatre: “An Evening of One Act Plays”
Feb. 10-14 at 8 PM and Feb. 14-15 at 2 PM, The Performing Arts Center
The Purchase Repertory Theatre presents a selection of exciting new works by noted contemporary playwrights in “An Evening of One Act Plays.” Tickets are $20, $15 seniors and students and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 914-251-6200 or online at www.artscenter.org.

February 11

Concert: Colorado String Quartet and faculty member, pianist Margaret Kampmeier
7 PM, Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, Free
Program includes Barber’s Quartet, Op. 11; Bartok’s Quartet No. 6 in D Major, sz. 114, BB 119; Cowell’s “Mosaic Quartet” and the Shostakovich Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 . Tickets are $40, $30(senior and student discounts are available) and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 914-251-6200 or online at www.artscenter.org.

School of Art+Design Lecture: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Painter
6:30 PM, Visual Arts Building Room 1016, Free
Houston Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock creates work in which he discovers his own epic mythology. Hancock is well known for evolving his absurdist narrative of the battle between good and evil executed across a wide variety of media that includes painting, collage, sculpture, print and the performing arts. The artist's densely layered works incorporate text, drawing, collaged paper, plastic, felt, fur and paint to create a collision of symbols and visual tropes that evidence Hancock's singular vision and distinctive means of storytelling.

February 12

Symphony Space: Chamber Music 1939: US and European Counterpoints
The Colorado Quartet with Margaret Kampmeier on piano
7:30 PM, 95th Street and Broadway, NYC
Recognized as one of the finest string quartets on the international scene, the Colorado Quartet and esteemed pianist Margaret Kampmeier return to Symphony Space with a program examining the profound stylistic and emotional differences between the musical worlds of Europe and the US at the outset of World War II. For tickets and information, call 212-864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org

February 13-14

BFA Dance Concert
8 PM, Dance Theatre Lab, Dance Bldg.,$5
Conservatory of Dance BFA candidates Jamison Goodnight, Cara McMullen, Julianne Pavelle, Chihiro Shimizu and Gilbert Small produce and present their Senior Project Dance Concert featuring repertory performances and original choreography. Tickets are $5, cash or check only, available at the door. For more information, call 914-251-6800.

February 16

Purchase College Arts Management Lecture Series - Anthony Pellegrino
6:30PM, Fort Awesome Classroom, Free
Anthony Pellegrino, Program Associate, Cultural Services, Arts Westchester speaks candidly about his work in the arts.

February 16-March 13

David Schwarz Project 10: The Environment is Everything: Creative Communities, Changing Climates
9 AM -5 PM, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, School of Art+Design Bldg., Free
Reception 5-7 PM. Thursday, Feb. 19
The exhibition will redefine the terms related to the environment and expand the viewers’ assumptions and expectations by focusing on the intersections of community and climate, change and creativity. The exhibition will include the work of emerging artists who are exploring the sociopolitical effects of humanity on the environment. For more information call, 914-251-6750.

February 18

Pete Malinverni Performs at Carnegie Hall
8 PM, Weill Recital Hall
Pete Malinverni performs jazz piano compositions and improvisations. Special guests “Joyful!” Choir from the Devoe Street Baptist Church. Purchase Soul Voices Gospel Choir from Purchase College. Tickets available at Carnegie hall box office at end of December -- $35 adults, $15 for students and seniors. For more information call 914-251-5925.

School of Art+Design Lecture: Nicole Eisenmann, Painter
6:30, Visual Arts Building Room 1016, Free
New York based artist Nicole Eisenmann creates narrative paintings that break down the norms in art and society. Her style of satirical realism challenges existing social orders, including clichéd male and female roles. Eisenmann is known for her brilliant humor, which allows her to tackle the darkest commentary. A recent exhibition titled, A Show Born of Fear, dealt with various forms of anxiety and dread.

February 19

Noon Concert: Spotlight on Percussion and Contemporary Music
12 PM, Recital Hall, Music Bldg., Free
School of the Arts, Conservatory of Music students perform. For more information, call 914-251-6700.

February 20

Purchase Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Michael Adelson
8 PM (“Environment is Everything” at 7:30 PM), The Performing Arts Center, $20
The Purchase Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Michael Adelson, presents a concert featuring the music of Haydn and Bartok February 20 at 8 PM in the Purchase College Performing Arts Center. A pre-concert performance at 7:30 by soloists from the Conservatory’s Voice and Opera Studies program will be presented as part of the College’s campus-wide theme “Environment is Everything.”

The evening’s program includes Haydn’s “Symphony No. 103 in E Flat Major” (“Drum Roll”) and Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra” featuring the winner of the 2008-2009 Concerto Competition. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 914-251-6200 or online at www.artscenter.org.

February 20-21

BFA Dance Concert
8 PM, Dance Theatre Lab, Dance Bldg., $5
Conservatory of Dance BFA candidates Lauren Ferguson, McKay Montz, Amber Morgan, Jackie Strubberg and Evelyn Wheeler produce and present their Senior Project Dance Concert featuring repertory performances and original choreography February 20 & 21 at 8 PM in the Dance Theatre Lab in the Dance Building. For more information, call 914-251-6800.

February 23

Noon Music
12 PM, Recital Hall, Music Bldg., Free
Voice and Opera students perform.For more information, call 914-251-6700.

Stuart Firestein and Avery Gilbert: "Scents and Sensibility: The Science of Smell in Everyday Life" - Science In the City lecture series co-sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Purchase College School of Natural and Social Sciences
7 PM , Performing Arts Center, $15
How does a particular scent conjure a memory? How does the brain interpret olfactory signals for food, danger, or potential mating partners? Columbia University Professor Stuart Firestein joins fragrance industry expert and author Avery Gilbert for a stimulating conversation on scent and the science of smell. The lecture will examine the cultural implications of scent using examples from literature, art, and music, demonstrating the multifaceted roles these disciplines play in our lives. A book signing with Avery Gilbert will follow the lecture. For more information or tickets, call 914-251-6200 or visit www.artscenter.org.

February 25

School of Art+Design Lecture: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Installation and Performance
6:30 PM, Visual Arts Building Room 1016, Free
Rirkrit Tiravanija is well known for his installations in which he creates social environments in unexpected places. His projects have included cooking Thai food for gallery goers and recreating his New York apartment as an installation and gathering place. The interactive nature of his work allows viewers to become participants in the making of the art, blurring the boundaries between art and life. The communal aspects of Tiravanija’s projects explore the social roles of the artist and breaks down the formal gallery experience. Tiravanija’s work has been at featured at venues throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, The Sao Paulo Biennial, The Whitney Biennial and The Venice Biennial. February 26

Symphony Space: “The Pulse of 1939” With Talujon Percussion String Quartet and Friends
8 PM, 95th Street & Broadway, NYC
The Talujon Percussion Quartet and Friends, including Percussion Ensembles from Purchase Conservatory of Music and Queens College.

In the 1030s-40s, a new kind of music was taking shape in the U.S., spearheaded by experimentalists John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and others. New modes of expression unfolded as they explored music of the Far East and Africa, incorporating these exotic sound worlds into their own works. Challenging convention, they made music on non-traditional instruments and built percussion orchestras out of the detritus of the modern age-car parts, flower pots, slabs of wood, and plumbing pipes.For tickets and information, call 212-864-5400 or visit www.symphonyspace.org.

School of Art+Design Lecture: Katherine Bradford, Painter
6:30 PM, Visual Arts Building Room 1016, Free
Katherine Bradford lives and works in NYC and is an alumna of Purchase college. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) and an MFA from State University of New York (Purchase, NY). Bradford maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and Brunswick, ME. Her work is in the collections of the Smith College Museum (Wellesley, MA), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, NY). She had a solo exhibition at the University of Maine Museum (Bangor, ME) October , 2008. Her work has most recently been included in exhibitions at the Brattleboro Museum of Art (Brattleboro, VT) and the P.S.1/MoMa Contemporary Art Center (Queens, NY). Bradford will be resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture next summer (2009).

February 27-March 1

Purchase Repertory Theatre Presents "All In The Timing" by David Ives
Feb. 27 at 7:30 PM, Feb. 28 at 2 PM, 3 PM, and 7:30 PM and March 1 at 2 PM, The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck, NY
This delightful and clever collection of six short farces makes for one of the funniest evenings in the history of modern theatre. The metaphysics of Philadelphia, Leon Trotsky, Esperanto, and monkeys with typewriters all inspire David Ives' hilarious imagination in this witty, side-splitting off-Broadway hit.
Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors and students. For tickets, call 914-698-0098 or visit www.emelin.org. For more information, call 914-251-6830.

February 27-28

BFA Dance Concert
8 PM, Dance Theatre Lab, Dance Bldg., $5
Conservatory of Dance BFA candidates Catherine Cogliandro, Caitlin Fennick, Amanda Miller, Chloe Slade and Danielle Verderese produce and present their Senior Project Dance Concert featuring repertory performances and original choreography. For more information, call 914-251-6800.