etc.
Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. Access Humboldt Community Media Center, Eureka High School, Eureka. Two-hour workshop offers insight on how to create different moods with light, including using backgrounds, understanding color temperature, and using different gear to create different effects. With cinematographer Landy Hardy. $20. www.accesshumboldt.net. 476-1798.
STAFF PICK / events
Saturday, 7 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Annual shindig features Pom Pom Queens of Bat N’ Rouge fame, Rutabaga Queens, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Dell’Arte, Shea Freelove, the Eye Rockestra, live and silent auction and is hosted by Bob Ornelas. Bring a donation for Food for People. $15/$25 a pair. www.arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.
STAFF PICK / events, theater, music, dance, art, Comedy, sports, spoken word, lecture, etc.
Thursday, 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Presenting a vaudevillian showcase of the county’s finest dancers, musicians, circus performers. Night ends with a dance party led by Arcata’s Small Axe Ensemble. Benefit for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Spare Change. $7. E-mail humboldtvarietyville@yahoo.com. 408-515-2801.
theater
Friday, Saturday, 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main Street. John Osborne’s sharply funny, fiercely honest exploration of political disillusionment and basic human yearning. Directed by John Heckel. $15/$13 students and seniors. ferndale-rep.org. 800-838-3006.
What:
On November 30 and December 7, to mark his retirement from HSU, Professor of European Cultural History Tom Jones will present two public lectures on Darwin.
Professor Jones came to Humboldt State in 1968, joining the Department of History where he introduced courses in European social and intellectual history. From 1972 until its cancellation in 1980, Jones served on the faculty of the Innovative Cluster Program, a student-centered, team-taught interdisciplinary program intended to provide students with an alternative to the traditional General Education program. From 1981 to 1994 he taught a variety of courses through Interdisciplinary Studies—some stemming from his original field of training in European cultural history, and others on the ancient Maya, a field which he developed on his own and introduced to HSU.
From 1994 to 2004 he was attached to the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences where he offered courses through the college (“Darwin and Darwinism”), through World Languages and Culture (“The European Discovery of the World,”; “Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”), Religious Studies (“From Christianity to Atheism”) and Geography (“European Cultural History in the Age of Discovery”).
In 2004 he joined the faculty of the Department of Geography, where he currently serves. His chief academic interests are concentrated in two courses—“Darwin and Darwinism,” which he has been teaching since introducing the course in 1981, and a series of “Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Workshops” introduced to HSU in 1987 and currently offered through the Department of World Languages and Culture.
In the course of his 41 years of service at HSU, Jones has presented a wide range of public lectures on his areas of interest. As he will be retiring at the end of the current semester, he has elected to mark the occasion with these last lectures on Darwin. The lectures are sponsored by the departments of Geography and Biology and will be held in Science B 133 on Monday evenings from 7 to 9 pm on November 30 and December 7. These are the last of four such lectures on Darwin, the previous being “Charles Darwin: Newton of the Grass Blades” and “Darwin’s Claim to Fame: A Self Portrait”.
Monday, November 30, 7 to 9 pm, Science 133: “Darwin and Darwinism: What happened?”
Monday, December 7, 7 to 9 pm, Science 133: “Charles Darwin’s Genius: It’s Dogged as Does it”
When/where:
| Dates | |
| Time | 7-9 p.m. |
| Phone | 707-826-3731 |
| Venue | Humboldt State University |
STAFF PICK / events, theater, music, dance, art, Comedy, sports, spoken word, lecture, etc. / 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Presenting a vaudevillian showcase of the county’s finest dancers, musicians, circus performers. Night ends with a dance party led by Arcata’s Small Axe Ensemble. Benefit for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Spare Change. $7. E-mail humboldtvarietyville@yahoo.com. 408-515-2801.
