Announcement: Poet Tomaz Salamun to speak November 6 as part of Pratt's Writer's Forum

Poet Tomaz Salamun will read excerpts of his work and answer
questions as part of Pratt's Writer's Forum at 12:00 p.m., Friday,
November 6, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt's Brooklyn
Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Considered Slovenia's greatest living poet, Tomaz Salamun attracted
critical notice with his first collection, Poker, which was published
when he was twenty-five. Salamun was born in Zagreb in 1941 and is
considered one of the foremost figures of the Eastern European poetical
avant-garde. His books have been translated in nineteen languages. Recent
translations are The Book for My Brother (Harcourt, 2006, translated by
Christopher Merrill and others); Poker (Ugly Duckling Press, 2003, 2008,
translated by Joshua Beckman); Row (ARCpublications, 2006, translated by
Joshua Beckman); and Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008, translated by
Brian Henry). A new book of poetry, entitled Blue Tower, is due out by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010.

In 1964, as editor of a literary magazine Perspektive, he was sentenced
to twelve years imprisonment, but spent only five days in jail.
Publishers Weekly writes, "Salamun has become an influence, and a mentor,
for plenty of young American poets. One reason lies in Salamun's
postmodern mix of giddy and global with the earthy retrospect he takes
from his homeland"

Salamun's many prizes include the Preseren Fund Prize, the Jenko Prize, a
Pushcart Prize, and the European Prize for Poetry by German town Mnster
in 2007. He also received the 2003 Altamarea prize in Trieste, Italy and
the Festival Prize at Costanza, Romania in 2004. He lives in Ljubljana,
Slovenia.

Friday's forum with Tomaz Salamun is curated by Nelly Reifler and Gina
Zucker, directors of Pratt's Writer's Forum, which is sponsored by The
Pratt Writing Program. For more information on Pratt's Writer's Forum
and to view upcoming speakers, visit http://mysite.pratt.edu/~fforum/.

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Announcement: H1N1 Update

There has been an increase in the number of reported cases of
H1N1 in our community. While we are presently still at Level 0, we
recommend increased diligence to limit the potential for further
contamination. Please help our community by taking the following
precautions:

If you are ill remain at home until you do not have a fever for at least
24 hours without a fever reducer; cover your cough, wash your hands.

Remember to contact your medical provider before seeking care, because
of symptoms are mild you may not require treatment. Please call the
Health and Counseling office between 9am and 6pm at (718)399-4542 or
(718)679-4604 for a consultation with a medical provider.

Faculty members please remember to discourage students who are ill from
attending class by relaxing attendance standards and by providing
appropriate make-up opportunities.

If you are not ill, please avoid contact with those who are ill, wash
your hands frequently, get plenty of sleep and eat well.

If you experience any of the following warning signs seek emergency
medical care by calling 911 or Pratt Safety and Security at (718)
636-3540:

- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
- Persistent vomiting
- Sudden dizziness
- Confusion
- Flu-like symptoms improve, but then return with fever and worse cough

Medical staff from Health and Counseling will be working closely with
instructors to request excused Absences for students with Influenza-like
Illnesses.

We will continue to monitor the situation and communicate with the
community about the level of infection. Should you need additional
information please refer to the Health and Counseling website at:

http://www.pratt.edu/student_life/student_services/health_counseling/h1n1/

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Announcement: Get Connected! 3 Upcoming events in Career Services

UpComing Career Services Events:

Professional Arts Organizations Fair
Friday, November 13th,12-2 p.m. in the Pie Shop

Get information on over 55 organizations related to all Pratt Majors
Representatives from selected organizations will be there to answer
questions

***Students, Staff and Faculty are welcome to come to this event***

For more information, check out this event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201520371322

This event was initiated by Annie Ericsson and organized by the Peer to
Peer Program in Career Services

Life After Pratt
Tuesday, November 17, 12:30-2, Steuben 4

Jashar Awan, (ComD 2004) an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York will
speak about the impact his school assignments have had on the
assignments he is currently working on. He will provide a wish list of
things he knew while at Pratt and how he plans stays busy going forward.

***Alumni, Students, Staff and Faculty are welcome at this event***

For more information on Jashar Awan, visit his website:
http://www.jasharawan.com/

This event is organized by Hera Marashian, Associate Director, Career
Services

Year 6: Annual Internship Fair
Friday November 20th, 12:30-2 PM, Student Union

Career Services hosts our annual Internship Fair with attendance from
over 60 companies and organizations. Students get to meet industry
representatives offering internship opportunities for the Spring and
Summer semesters. Get the resume ready and begin your professional
network!!

***This event is for Current Students Only***

For more information on this event, check out our website:
http://www.pratt.edu/student_life/career_services/career_students/career_in
ternships/intern_fair/

This event is organized by Laura Keegan, Internship Program Manager,
Career Services

To subscribe to the Career Services Listserv, send an email to
majordomo@list.pratt.edu with a blank subject and type 'subscribe
career-announce' in the body.

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Announcement: Student Leadership Opportunities

Are you interested in being an RA or Orientation Leader?
Getting involved on campus and connecting to Pratt?

Please think about signing up for Connections. Connections is an
opportunity for students to learn about themselves, meet other like-
minded students and get involved at Pratt. Connections is interactive,
educational and fun. The five-week, not for credit class is offered at
the beginning of the Spring Semester and addresses: communication
skills, organizational skills, identity awareness, diversity
appreciation, decision-making and problem solving.

You do not have to attend an interest session to sign-up for
Connections, but if you have questions about the class, an interest
session, explaining more about Connections will be:

Wednesday, December 2nd at 9:30pm in the Willoughby Hall No Name Cafe

Students must participate in Connections in order to apply for campus
leadership positions including:

Resident Advisor (RA)
Orientation Leader
Career Services Peer-to-Peer Counselor
SGA
Program Board
C-Board (Community Service)
Pratt House
Pre-College intern and chaperones

Sign up for the Connections class at the Office or Residential Life or
Student Activities offices or websites. You must sign-up by Friday,
December 18th.

Please contact us at ckasik@pratt.edu with any questions you may have.

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Announcement: Rain Love on Manila - Philippines Typhoon Relief Donations & Assistance

C-Board and the Inter-Greek Council is helping fellow Pratt
student Deb Flores with her Rain Love on Manila philanthropic campaign
to help those affected by the October typhoons in the Philippines, which
claimed the lives of over 800 Filipinos and left over 230,000 displaced
families without clothing, food, or homes.

If you would like to help out, we are currently accepting monetary
donations as well as care package items such as clothing, blankets,
canned goods, and over-the-counter medicine.

Donations can be dropped off at the Office of Student Activities on the
Brooklyn Campus (all types of donations) or to Kevin Tassey on the
Second Floor of the Pratt Manhattan Campus (clothing and blankets only).

In addition, we will soon be selling t-shirts with the Rain Love on
Manila logo with all proceeds going towards helping the typhoon victims.

Finally, we are looking for volunteers with cars who are willing to help
transport all donated items to the typhoon-relief drop off locations in
New York City.

For more information or if you are interested in helping out, visit:
www.rainloveonmanila.blogspot.com or email valonzo5@pratt.edu or
majemian@pratt.edu

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Announcement: Free Panel Discussion: 'Loss & Melancholic Possibilities: Challenging the Interdiction of Mourning through Art'

Please join us at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery for a free panel
discussion on Friday, November 13, 6pm.

"Loss & Melancholic Possibilities: Challenging the Interdiction of
Mourning through Art"

If melancholia names an active and ongoing relationship to illimitable
loss-rather than a compulsive, polemical repetition of the familiar-then
how might that relationship prompt us today to unprecedented encounters?
If catastrophe estranges us from what we thought we knew of ourselves,
then how might self-estrangement become an occasion to face-rather than
to repress, suppress, assimilate, or annihilate-the other? If the past is
in ruins, how might those ruins occasion a transformation of terrain
rather than a tragic reparation or a romantic restoration? If the
interdiction of mourning persists, what kind of loss is at risk? If shame
and guilt have no pause, how can art intervene? If visibility breaks
silence, what affect might invisibility promise?

This inaugural panel is part of a series of public discussions that are
integral to the making of the Blind Dates exhibition that opens at Pratt
Manhattan Gallery in November 2010.

Panel Date:
Friday, November 13, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 PM

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th St,
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 647 7778
pratt.edu/exhibitions
Free and open to the public

Participants:
Aysel Gul Altinay: Anthropologist, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Linda Ganjian with Elif Uras: Visual Artists, New York and Istanbul
Ahmet Ogut with Nina Katchadourian: Conceptual Artists, Amsterdam and
New York
David Kazanjian: Graduate Chair, English Dept University of Pennsylvania
Aleksandra Wagner: Psychoanalyst and Professor of Sociology, The New
School, New York

The panel is organized by Neery Melkonian with Defne Ayas, co-curators
of Blind Dates, an exhibition to take place at Pratt Manhattan Gallery,
fall 2010.

As an interdisciplinary and cross cultural curatorial undertaking, Blind
Dates has been working with artists, intellectuals and cultural
producers interested in deconstructing master narratives to give agency a
chance, or to extend new 'ways of seeing' contentious historical
accounts/events and their lingering effects on life today. By pairing
artists and non artists for a series of private/informal discussions
project co-curators have been 'matchmaking' to mediate encounters between
distanced neighbors and their estranged cultures.

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Announcement: Furniture Exhibition - Opening Reception - November 9th - Pratt Studios

The students who attended the study abroad program for
Copenhagen/Denmark Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) during the summer
2009, will hold an opening reception for their exhibition of furniture
and textiles at 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM on Monday, November 9th. Desserts and
coffee will be served.

This exhibition will be on display on the second floor gallery of Pratt
Studios from Monday, November 9th through Friday, November 13th on the
Brooklyn campus.

All are welcome to attend!

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Announcement: Memorial Service for Susie Seo

A memorial service to honor the life of Susie Seo will be held
on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. in the Pratt Chapel. Susie
passed away on October 26, 2009. She was a junior Fashion Design major.
For more information and/or an opportunity to participate in the service
please contact Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, Chair of the Campus Ministry
Council at jewishrevolution@aol.com.

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Announcement: C-Board Announces Operation Turkey 2009

C-Board announces the beginning of Operation Turkey 2009, a
campus-wide fundraiser to help provide Thanksgiving meals for local
families in need.

All funds raised will be donated to the Child Development Support
Corporation (CDSC) food pantry on Classon Avenue for their annual
Thanksgiving food package distribution. Last year, Pratt students raised
over $655, which helped feed 55 families in the local neighborhood.

For more information on any of the Operation Turkey projects, email
cboard@pratt.edu.

Operation Turkey 2009 Activities:

1. Greek & Res Life Penny Wars

C-Board and Greek Life members will be collecting spare change until
November 11th outside the cafeteria. Donations can be placed into
various water jugs representing individual Greek Life organizations and
Residence Halls.

2. Operation Turkey Raffle

Starting Friday, October 30, individuals can also purchase raffle
tickets at the Operation Turkey table. Prizes include pads of Bristol,
hard pastels, char-kole, a large moleskine sketchbook, colored pencils,
and free movie tickets. Raffle tickets are $1 for 1 ticket or $5 for 6
tickets. Raffle ticket sales end November 11.

3. Program Board Presents: Mystic Turkey

On Wednesday, November 11 Program Board will be hosting a fundraising
event in the Student Union called "Mystic Turkey" from 7-9pm in the
Student Union. We will have a tarot card reader, palm reader, and henna
available for attendees.

You can pay as much as you'd like to enter the event (or even pay
nothing at all!). We will also accept canned food donations which will
be donated to the CDSC food pantry. Although donations are not required,
they are highly recommended and appreciated.

4. Res Life Non-Perishable Food Drive

Starting Monday, November 2nd, residence hall residents can donate
canned goods and non-perishable foods to their RAs or Residence Hall
offices. Each donated food item will go towards reducing any CAD (Common
Area Damage) fees for the donor's floor. The food drive will end on
Friday, November 20 and all donations will be given to the pantry.

5. CDSC Thanksgiving Food Package Distribution

Pratt students can help distribute all the food purchased by the
fundraising efforts of Operation Turkey. The food distribution will be
on Monday, November 23rd from 10:30am-4pm. If you are interested in
volunteering, even for part of the time, please email cboard@pratt.edu.

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Announcement: Good News Regarding Edduardo 'Eddy' Sanchez

Dear Members of the Pratt Community,

I want to let the campus know of the incredible improvement Eduardo
(Eddy) Sanchez made to date with regard to his recovery. As many of you
know, Eddy is a Pratt architecture student who was the victim of an
assault a few blocks from the campus this past summer that left him
hospitalized as a result of serious injuries.

While Eduardo still has some physical recovery challenges ahead of him,
he will leave New York City later this week for outpatient treatment at
his home in Florida and many who have treated him are saying that his
progress so far has been "miraculous." Eddy hopes to return to Pratt in
the summer or fall of 2010.

We continue to keep Eduardo in our thoughts and prayers as we wait for
his full recovery and return to Pratt.

On behalf of Eduardo's family, thank you to everyone for your support
during this difficult time.

Sincerely,

Helen Matusow-Ayres
Vice President for Student Affairs
hmayres@pratt.edu

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Announcement: Artist Kalup Linzy to speak November 3 as part of Pratt's 2009-2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Artist Kalup Linzy will speak at Pratt Institute about his
influences, artwork, and career as part of the 2009-2010 Visiting
Artists Lecture Series, from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, November
3, in the Engineering Building, Room 371, on Pratt's Brooklyn Campus. The
lecture is free and open to the public.

The Pratt Visiting Artists Lecture Series is an annual year-long series
organized by the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Art and Design
at Pratt Institute to welcome nationally and internationally recognized
fine artists to share their experiences with the Pratt community.

Brooklyn-based Linzy will speak about the methods, craft, and influences
behind his video and performance art and works on paper.

Linzy has exhibited at the P.S.1/Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Art
Center in New York, and recently had a solo show at the Studio Museum in
Harlem in spring 2009. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2007-2008 and
has received grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Creative
Capital, and the Jerome Foundation. Linzy's work has been reviewed in The
New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Linzy received a bachelor of fine arts degree and master of fine arts
degree from the University of South Florida. He attended the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop in 2002 and is
currently represented by Taxter & Spengemann, New York.

Linzy is the third artist of eight invited to speak as part of the fall
program of the 2009-2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series. The series is
coordinated by graduate students Yael Rechter and Elizabeth Stehling
under the supervision of Professor Dominique Nahas in the Department of
Fine Arts.

For more information on this year's series, contact vals@pratt.edu or
visit http://prattartistsleague.com/wp/visiting-artists-lecture-series.

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Announcement: Communications Design 6th Annual Halloween Costume Contest

Friday, October 30, 2009
Steuben Hall 4th Floor
Party begins at 7pm, Judging at 8:30pm

Cash prizes for the following categories:
Most Original Costume = $500
Most Beautiful Costume = $300
Scariest Costume = $300
Funniest Costume = $300
Best Mask =$300

Carve a pumpkin at the party starting at 7pm (there are only 10 free
pumpkins so contact ComD Office to reserve one). Or bring your own pre-
carved pumpkin for judging. Best carving wins $150 Pratt Store gift
certificate.

This event is open to all Pratt students. Questions? Contact comd@pratt.edu

Sponsored by Communications Design, Industrial Design and Student
Activities

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Announcement: Nighttime: Photographs by George Hirose - reception on Wednesday, November 4, 4-6pm in the President's Office Gallery

Please join us for a reception for "Nighttime: Photographs by
George Hirose" on Wednesday, November 4, 4-6pm in the President's Office
Gallery.

President's Office Gallery
Pratt Institute
Main 1
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

The exhibition continues through February 2009.
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 10-4pm

Both the opening and exhibition are free and open to the public.

For more information, please visit georgehirose.com or pratt.edu/
exhibitions.

SPECIAL PRATT OFFER:
Blue Nights: Photographs by George Hirose with an Introduction by Norman
Mailer
Signed copies are available at a special discount price of $20.00
directly from the artist at
Ghirose@aol.com or at The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Chemistry
Building, at Pratt Institute open Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Sat, 12-5pm,
718-636-3517

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George Hirose is an Adjunct Associate Professor, CCE in the Media Arts
Department.
He has also taught at Kingsborough Community College in NY, Ramapo
College in NJ, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

His photographs have been exhibited in many one-person and group shows
nationally and abroad he is represented by Bowman/Bloom in NYC and
Ernden Fine Art Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

George Hirose also documents works of art, exhibition installations,
events, and public programming for various non profit organizations in
New York City, including the Japan Society, the Noguchi Museum, the
Henry Street Settlement, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

For more images and information about the artist please visit
georgehirose.com or contact Ghirose@aol.com / 917-833-8123. For
information about this exhibition and any Pratt Institute Department of
Exhibitions event, please visit pratt.edu/exhibitions.

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Announcement: Career Services Workshops: Negotiation and Resume Writing

Negotiation Workshop:

Get what you're worth.
Learn to NEGOTIATE effective fees and prices.
Presented by Jon Weiman.
Tuesday, November 3
12:30-2
Career Services, East 1
FOOD will be served
This event is organized by Judy Nylen, Director, Career Services

Preparation for the Internship Fair:

To help prepare students for the upcoming Internship Fair on November
20th Career Services is offering resume and cover letter assistance
every Tuesday afternoon from 12pm until 2:30pm. Students should come by
with their resume during that time and get immediate individual
attention.

Peer Writing Experts Help with Resumes

What: Preparation for Internship Fair 11/20
Where: Pratt Career Services, East Hall First Floor
When: Tuesdays 12-2:30pm leading up to Internship Fair 11/20

This Program is coordinated by Deborah Yanagisawa, Assistant Director of
Career Services, dyanagis@pratt.edu.

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