Joanne Marchetta, the Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), will be the featured speaker at a newly added Fireside Chat on Monday, February 27, at a special time 6 - 7:30 pm in Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, rooms 139/141. TRPA – created in 1969 by a bi-state Compact between the states of Nevada and California and ratified by the U.S. Congress – protects and restores the environment of Lake Tahoe. Join Joanne for a fireside chat on 21st century environmentalism and stewardship. Learn more about the agency transition to focus on a more regional role to deliver greater environmental benefits for the Tahoe Basin and revitalize our communities.
Joanne worked as an attorney for 23 years solving complex environmental and land use problems before taking on the top executive role at TRPA. Before coming to Lake Tahoe as TRPA’s General Counsel in June 2005, Joanne was Assistant General Counsel for the Presidio Trust in San Francisco. Joanne’s professional passion lies in managing the complex decision-space to balance environmental protection, land use decisions, and real estate development. She oversees all aspects of the TRPA organization which is charged with regional planning, development and redevelopment oversight, regulatory enforcement and environmental protection and restoration programs for the Region.
Fireside Chats — a concept that grew out of the Seniors Conversation Café—are an ongoing series of evening discussions with some of Incline Village’s most interesting community members. It represents a partnership between Sierra Nevada College and the IVGID Senior Programs. Refreshments will be served.
For more information on the event, please contact Shelia Leijon, IVGID Seniors Program Coordinator, at 775.832.1310,
shelia_leijon@ivgid.org, or Debi Noonan, SNC Director of Special Events, at 775.831.1314, x7420, dnoonan@sierranevada.edu.
Upcoming Fireside Chats:
Thursday, March 1, 7 – 9 pm: Dr. Lynn Gillette, President , Sierra Nevada College
Thursday, April 5, 7 – 9 pm: New York Times Best-selling Author, and Aviator Dale Brown
Dr. Lynn Gillette, President of Sierra Nevada College talks about what’s new, changing and the future of the College as the guest at the next Fireside Chat in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences room 139/141. The chat —cosponsored by Sierra Nevada College and IVGID Senior Programs—takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 1, at Sierra Nevada College.
Gillette is well versed in the growth and changes at the college having served as the Executive Vice President and Provost at the college for the past four years overseeing all academic departments as well as the registrar’s office, financial aid, information technology, admissions, student affairs, food services, library, and academic support services. Gillette has received over thirteen outstanding teaching awards from colleges and universities around the country. He has given over fifty presentations at conferences and businesses on topics such as institutional effectiveness, accreditation, retention, leadership, change management, teaching excellence, and active learning. He has also served on over ten SACS accreditation on-site visiting teams, and he also serves as an accreditation evaluator for the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities.
Gillette brings a unique focus and hands-on approach to his position having taught and served in leadership at several top universities. “We are going to have the courage to be great. We have a unique opportunity to become a jewel in higher education and we have the right people to make that happen.” Gillette announced. “I’m immensely proud of what we’re achieving. We’ve doubled undergraduate enrollment, increased academic standards, and improved our retention rates.”
Fireside Chat Background — a concept that grew out of the Seniors Conversation Café—are an ongoing series of evening discussions with some of Incline Village’s most interesting community members. It represents a partnership between Sierra Nevada College and the IVGID Senior Programs. Refreshments will be served.
Upcoming Fireside Chats—
Thursday, April 5: New York Times Best-selling Author, and Aviator Dale Brown talks about his life, career and avocations. Dale volunteers for Angel Flight West, a group that volunteer their time, skills, and aircraft to fly needy medical patients free of charge to receive medical treatment. Dale is also a mission pilot in the Civil Air Patrol, which performs search and rescue, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, surveillance, and many other missions in support of the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies. He supports a number of organizations to promote law enforcement, education, literacy, and support for military veterans and their families. On the ground, Dale is a youth soccer referee and enjoys tennis and scuba diving. Dale, his wife Diane, and son Hunter live near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
For more information on the event, please contact Shelia Leijon, IVGID Seniors Program Coordinator, at 775.832.1310,
shelia_leijon@ivgid.org, or Debi Noonan, SNC Director of Special Events, at 775.831.1314, x7420,
dnoonan@sierranevada.edu.
Following her performance at UNR on March 1, scholar, teacher, and artist Joanna Frueh will conduct a workshop at Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., on Friday, March 2 from 1 -3:30pm in David Hall, 3rd floor. The workshop is limited to 25 people. There is a $10 workshop fee that includes a copy of the book The Glamour of Being Real. The book and workshops focus participants on being true to themselves through practices of self-transformation and conscious self-creation.
The Glamour of Being Real evolved from Frueh’s work and performances to celebrate beauty and the body and is one of several books authored by the artist. Frueh’s multifaceted focus on those subjects includes research and experience, such as her study of emotions and sensations and of the female body in art and culture and my engagement with yoga as a continuing education of soul-and-mind-inseparable-from-body. The bookis a sutra, a series of concise, related statements, each one also being a sutra, whose aphoristic nature is intended to make possible memorization by a student. The 209 short aphorisms spell out the glamour of being real, which is the art of self-creation, of trusting oneself. Passionate and insightful, and sometimes paradoxical, this helpful guide expresses simple means for overcoming bodily and everyday dilemmas. From the necessity of change to intimate relationships to eating, aging, and everyday life, andis filled with eloquent activism about the pleasures of soul-and-mind-inseparable-from-body.
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New York–based artist Zoë Sheehan Saldaña works hard making art that may require a closer look. What is created through painstaking handicraft looks just like the common mass produced item it resembles. Meet the artist and see these incredible works at the Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada College on February 16, from 5-7pm. The exhibition runs through March 8.
There are boxes of strikeable matches that Saldaña has whittled, one by one, from aspen she found near her country house; a bright orange life jacket (it really floats!) that she sewed and stuffed with fungus she grew herself; a bundle of twine she hand-spun from hemp fiber. Recently, the artist even manufactured usable paper towels during a residency at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York using wood pulp that she later ran through a letterpress to get just the right texture. Each towel is a gorgeous handmade ringer for the original and sells for less than twenty bucks—a lot for a paper towel, yes, but a bargain for a real handmade work of art. Why rent, when you can own?
Saldaña was born in Massachusetts in 1973 and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Oberlin College (B.A., 1994), the Rochester Institute of Technology (M.F.A., 1998), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000). She has created solo exhibitions in the United States including "Ersatz" at Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA) and "Meanwhile" at Light Work (Syracuse, NY). Saldaña’s work has been presented in group shows at venues such as PS 1/MoMA, Exit Art, and the Silverstein Gallery in New York; the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; Analix Forever in Geneva, Switzerland; the Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London, England; and the Malmö Kunst Museum in Sweden. In 2009 she was awarded a NYFA Individual Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work. Saldaña is an Associate Professor at Baruch College/CUNY in New York City.
For more artist information visit http://www.zoesheehan.com . For Tahoe Gallery information or group tours contact Logan Lape at llape@sierranevada.edu or 775/881.7537. Tahoe Gallery is located in the Prim Library on the Sierra Nevada College campus at 999 Tahoe Boulevard, Incline Village NV 89451. The Gallery is open daily. Check website for exact hours.
The second annual President’s Cup Business Plan Competition is Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 6:30 pm in TCES139/141. The eight undergraduate finalists represent the best three teams selected to showcase their plan for a new business in – the “Big Pitch” - live oral presentations before a panel of prestigious judges and large audience. Each fifteen minute presentation will be followed by ten minutes of impromptu questions and answers testing the team’s preparation and knowledge. Winning teams are selected by combining written plan scores with the results from the evening presentations. The first place team wins $3,000 and the President’s Cup, Second place $2,000 and third place $1,000. The public is invited to attend and participate in this lively evening encouraging young entrepreneurs.
The college-wide competition supports the college interdisciplinary curriculum emphasizing entrepreneurial thinking and professional preparedness. SNC students study, practice and learn the techniques of formulating business plans as an academic exercise over several months. Judges, mentors, and professors who represent the "real world" of business start-ups, then provide the students with relevant and timely feedback preparing them to launch a successful business. It is no accident that SNC students have great success in the statewide Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition held each spring. Last year, SNC had two finalists in the statewide competition and since 2004, five teams have won awards in the finals against much larger schools and hundreds of entries.
Writers in the Woods literary series continues to bring great writers and writing workshops to the Tahoe community
INCLINE VILLAGE, NV—January, 13, 2012—Sierra Nevada College welcomes environmental novelist Li Miao Lovett as the first of the Writers in the Woods series in the New Year. Her visit includes a reading, book signing, and reception on Friday, February 10 at 7 pm in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences. This evening is free and open to the community. Lovett will also teach a fiction writing workshop from 9-noon on Saturday, February 11. Workshops are open to the community and available for credit. Students are free. There is a $50 registration fee for community members.
Li Miao Lovett began her writing career after a 600-mile backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail where she encountered a stalker, a compulsive poet, and ten thousand mosquitoes.
She has been a frequent contributor to the
San Francisco Chronicle and KQED Perspectives. Her literary and environmental writing has also been published by
Narrative Magazine,
Earth Island Journal,
China Rights Forum, and Sierra Club's
The Planet.
Supporting the mission of Words Without Borders, she has organized events showcasing the works of dissident and censored writers. In both fiction and nonfiction, Li’s work has won awards or finalist standing from
Glimmer Train, Writers Digest, Stanford Magazine, andtheJames Jones First Novel Fellowship. Her debut novel,
In the Lap of the Gods, is a tale of the dammed and displaced in China's Three Gorges. It has received critical acclaim including top four finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. For more about Lovett and her novel visit
www.limiaolovett.com.
Sierra Nevada College is hosting The Second Annual Tournées Festival - contemporary French cinema April 14-28, 2012. The Festival is hosted by the college and made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture and sponsored by The Hyatt Regency– Lake Tahoe, Incline Spirits and Cigars, and more to come.
The festival features wine tastings, receptions, and themed dinners throughout the event. Lively hosted French cultural and academic discussions will accompany each screening. The Films will be free to all students and the public is encouraged to attend for a suggested $10 donation to support future programs. All films will screen at 7 pm at Sierra Nevada College, with the exception of the April 17th screening and reception at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe.
The schedule for the week of films:
Saturday, April 14: LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE (Flight of the Red Balloon)
DIRECTOR Hou Hsiao-hsien
SCREENPLAY Hou Hsiao-hsien
CAST Juliette Binoche, Song Fang , Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Louise Margolin
Run time 113’
Rating Not rated
GENRE Drama
Tuesday, April 17: TWO DAYS IN PARIS (Two Days in Paris)
Screen at the Hyatt with reception beginning at 7 pm; French attire/costume encouraged
DIRECTOR Julie Delpy
SCREENPLAY Julie Delpy
CAST Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet
run time 93’
Rating Not rated
GENRE Comedy
Thursday, April 19: LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
DIRECTOR Julian Schnabel
SCREENPLAY Ronald Harwood. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's novel of the same name.
CAST Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-José Croze, Anne Consigny
AWARDS Best Director, Technical Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival (2007). Running time: 112’
Run time 112’Rating
RatING PG-13
GENRE Drama
Tuesday April 24: ENTRE LES MURS (The Class)
This film is ideal for local students in middle and high schools.
DIRECTOR Laurent Cantet
SCREENPLAY François Bégaudeau
CAST François Bégaudeau , Nassim Amrabt ,Laura Baquela , Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi
AWARDS Palme d’Or, Cannes Films Festival (2008); Best Writing Adaptation, César Awards (2009); Best Foreign Film, Independent Spirit Awards (2009; Best Film
RUN TIME 128’
RATING PG-13 (language)
GENRE Drama
Saturday, April 28: UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet)
DIRECTOR Jacques Audiard
SCREENPLAY J. Audiard & T. Bidegain. After an original script by A. Raouf Dafri and N. Peufaillit.
CAST Tahar Rahim , Niels Arestrup , Adel Bencherif , Reda Kateb
AWARDS Best Film; Best Original Screenplay; Best Actor, T. Rahim; Best Supporting Actor, N. Arestrup; Best Cinematography; Best Editing, César Awards. Grand Prix – Cannes Film Festival(2009)
RUN TIME 149’
RATING R (for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language, drug material)
GENRE Drama
Contact Information:
SNC Humanities Instructors
Dr. Robert King | rking@sierranevada.edu
Special Events Director
Debi Noonan | dnoonan@sierranevada.edu
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Credit: Ashlea Clark, Reno and Juan D. Varela, Las Vegas, Bridging the Gap, 2010, Etching, screenprint, colored pencil, 20”x10”
Opening Reception: February 16, 5-7pm
Exhibition Run: February 16 – April 6 (open 7 days a week)
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Incline Village, NV (February 1 , 2012) – Sierra Nevada College presents ”Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground”featuring sixteen artists who were asked to explore the geographical and cultural differences in Nevada, if such differences truly exist. The assembly of printmakers—eight from the north, eight from the south—produced two prints from each collaboration. Visually exploring connections and disconnections between southern Nevada and northern Nevada cultural attitudes, aesthetics and geographical distinctions—these sixteen artists communicated and visually responded to each other’s unique economic, environmental, political and social settings—further dissecting this notion of a splitting geography and/or communion of Nevada’s polarities.
Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground examines Nevada unique visual culture. It is a state labeled with cultural myths like ―Area 51,‖ ―The Biggest Little City in the World‖ and ―Sin City‖ and one that commands the imagination of Postmodernism from the architecture of Las Vegas to the proliferation of Burning Man Festival held once a year. It is comprised of two major metropolitan communities— in the north and south—divided by 300 miles of vast desert. Nevada’s art communities are not separated by distance of travel alone. There are notable differences among artists throughout the state in what is important in their work, most of which connects with where they live. This traversal of Nevada has also led to the realization of how little dialogue there is between artists of the two dominant communities—Reno and Las Vegas—not to mention the artists living in remote territories of the Nevada outback that are sometimes overlooked.
Collaborating artists include: Maria Arango, Las Vegas/Lynn Schmidt, Reno; Erik Beehn, Las Vegas/Nolan Preece, Reno; Bobbie Ann Howell, Las Vegas/Galen Brown, Carson City; Daryl DePry, Las Vegas/Sharon Tetly, Carson City; Keith Conley, LasVegas/Sidne Teske, Tuscarora; Anne M. Hoff, Las Vegas/Vicki LoSasso, Reno; Jeanne Voltura, Las Vegas/Candace Nicol, Reno; and Juan D.Varela, Las Vegas/Ashlea Clark, Reno.
This exhibit was organized by the Nevada Arts Council, is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative – Traveling Exhibition Program and is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nevada State Legislature. The Nevada Arts Council is a division of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.
Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground is on display from February 16 through April 6 in 2012 the Lake Gallery of Prim Library open 7 days a week. For group tours please contact Library Director Betts Markle at
emarkle@sierranevada.edu or 775/881.7511.
| We have been notified that the following release originally dated January 24, 2012 contained inaccuracies. Please note that the following release is being revised and corrected as follows with apologies for the previous errors:
OBJECTION
"Katz has sued a number of public agencies over the past five years, including the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, Mountain View-Whisman School District, El Camino Hospital District, West Valley-Mission Community College District and Campbell Union High School."
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"Katz has sued a number of public agencies, including Mountain View-Whisman School District, El Camino Hospital District, West Valley-Mission Community College District and Campbell Union High School. The Foothill-De Anza Community College District sued him."
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Aaron Katz, the local attorney who has sued the Incline Village General Improvement District and repeatedly criticized the district, will be the guest at the next Fireside Chat on Thursday, February 2 in Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences room 139/141. The chat — hosted by Incline Village resident Andy Whyman — takes place from 7 to 9 p.m.
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| Aaron Katz speaks at a past IVGID board meeting. |
Katz received his J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and was admitted to practice law in California in December of 1973. He and his wife have lived in Incline Village since 2007 when he began his research on the history of the Incline Village General Improvement District. It is not his first public lawsuit. Katz has sued a number of public agencies, including Mountain View-Whisman School District, El Camino Hospital District, West Valley-Mission Community College District and Campbell Union High School. The Foothill-De Anza Community College District sued him.
Katz alleges the Incline Village General Improvement District has violated state law for years by offering free and discounted services to non-residents and private parties, and it further demands limits be set against the facilities, services and activities the district should be allowed to provide.
Upcoming:
March 1, 2012 at 7pm features a conversation with Dr. Lynn G. Gillette - Sierra Nevada College President
April 5 at 7pm features a conversation with Dale Brown - Best-Selling Author and Aviator talks about Angel Flight West
Fireside Chats — a concept that grew out of the Seniors Conversation Café—are an ongoing series of evening discussions with some of Incline Village’s most interesting community members. It represents a partnership between Sierra Nevada College and the IVGID Senior Programs. Refreshments will be served.
For more information on the event, please contact Shelia Leijon, IVGID Seniors Program Coordinator, at 775.832.1310,
shelia_leijon@ivgid.org, or Debi Noonan, SNC Director of Special Events, at 775.831.1314, x7420,
dnoonan@sierranevada.edu.
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| Aaron Katz speaks at a past IVGID board meeting. |
By Kevin MacMillan
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Aaron Katz, the local man who has sued the Incline Village General Improvement District and has repeatedly criticized the way the district is governed and managed, will be the guest at the next Fireside Chat at Sierra Nevada College, the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza has learned.
The chat — hosted by Incline Village resident Andy Whyman — takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Sierra Nevada College.
The ongoing Fireside Chat series is a concept that grew out of the Seniors Conversation Café.
Look for more to this story later in the week at www.tahoebonanza.com.
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