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| 2005 News and Calendar Releases |
| 12/20/2005 | | FAU Libraries Presents "Go Down Moses:
Klezmer, Blues, Blacks, and Jews," a Multicultural Musical and Narrative Event | The presentation explores the special relationship between African Americans
and American Jews through words and music, and features the unique collaboration of Kitty Oliver, singer, author
and oral historian, and Aaron Kula, music director of the Klezmer Company Orchestra and FAU Libraries' director of music collections. (FULL STORY) (PRESS COVERAGE) |
| 12/02/2005 | | FAU Libraries' Special Collectioins Receives
Donations of Rare Music, Bringing Archives to 30,000 Pieces -
Ensembles-in-Residence Take Music from 'Shelf to Stage'
| Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives
recently received donations of rare and valuable Jewish print music for its Judaica Collection, adding to its more
than 30,000 piece archives. (FULL STORY) |
| 11/2005 | | FAU Hosts "Celebrating Jewish Book Month" as
Part of the 2005-06 KULTUR Series | 'The Friends of Yiddish' at Florida Atlantic University's 2005 -
2006 season of the KULTUR series features a variety of multifaceted programs, planned for the public and FAU students,
that explore Yiddish culture and its evolution. (FULL STORY) (PRESS COVERAGE) |
| 10/06/2005 | | FAU Libraries Celebrates Millionth Book with
Special Reception | Florida Atlantic University Libraries marked the installation of its millionth
book with a reception held in the Jaffe Atrium Book Arts Gallery at the Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus.
(FULL STORY) |
| 10/06/2005 | | FAU Libraries Presents 2005-2006 Kultur
Series - A Celebration of Yiddish Concerts, Lectures, and Readings Explore this
Unique Culture | 'The Friends of Yiddish' at Florida Atlantic University, announce the 2005 - 2006
season of the KULTUR series - a variety of multifaceted programs that explore Yiddish culture and its evolution. (FULL STORY) |
| 08/30/2005 | | FAU Libraries Presents Art Exhibit "Healing
Thru Arts" | Florida Atlantic University Libraries present an exhibit of seventy-five works-of- art
by incarcerated women of the Broward County Womens Correctional Facility. (FULL STORY) |
| 08/30/2005 | | FAU Libraries Presents Award-Winning
Master Photographer, Katie Deits Exhibit | Florida Atlantic University Libraries present award-winning Master Photographer Katie Deits'
photo exhibit at FAU's MacArthur Campus Library from September 1 through October 8, 2005. (FULL STORY) |
| 08/29/2005 | | FAU
Wimberly Library, Frailberg
Jewish Music Collections, Announces Open Auditions for Judaica Choral
Society |
Florida Atlantic University's Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collection announces open auditions
for the FAU Libraries Judaica Choral Society, a community Jewish-music chorus, with a mission to
learn and perform choral music specifically from the Wimberly Library Judaica Music Collection. (FULL STORY) |
| 08/29/2005 | | FAU Libraries Present RoseMarie Chiarlone
Book Art Exhibition |
Florida Atlantic University Libraries present the work of nationally recognized
artist Rose Marie Chiarlone, featuring her Book Art Exhibit at FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus Library
from August 22 - October 8, 2005.
(FULL STORY) |
| 08/12/2005 | | FAU Libraries Celebrates Major Milestone with
its Millionth Book |
| Florida Atlantic University Libraries celebrates its millionth book with
the unveiling of a new, limited edition Book Arts title, A Field of Owls: The Burrowing Owl Observed,
published by FAU Libraries' fine arts press, "Minerva: the Press at Wimberly." (FULL STORY) | ||
| 05/11/2005 | | FAU Libraries Judaica Sound Archives Receives
Gift of 3,000 Classic Records |
| Over 3,000 mint condition 78-rpm Judaica phonograph records, packed
away in boxes for over a generation, have been donated to the Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University Libraries. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/30/2005 | | FAU Libraries and Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom Present Women's History Month Poetry Jam |
| Flyer. | ||
| 03/28/2005 | |
FAU Libraries to Host
Lecture by Award Winning Environmental Educator |
| Florida
Atlantic University Libraries, in conjunction with the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, will present a lecture
honoring Women's History Month from renowned eco-educator, Susan
Hargreaves.
(FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/28/2005 | | FAU's MacArthur Campus Library Presents
"Black Jupiter: The Untold Stories" |
| The exhibition is a result of more than a decade of genealogical
research into the eight founding families, by long-time Jupiter resident and avid historian Lynn Drake.
(FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/24/2005 | | FAU Libraries Online Exhibition "Rabbis as
Chaplains in America's Military: A Tradition of Dedication, Service and Bravery" |
| A Tradition of Dedication, Service and Bravery," an online exhibition available
through FAU's website, as its latest addition to the Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collection. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/21/2005 | | FAU Libraries Announces New Fund to Support
Jewish Music Collection at Sold Out Klezmer Company Concert |
| This support will help broaden the use of the Libraries' extensive Jewish Music
Collections of vocal and instrumental music by cultivating audiences through a wide range of educational outreach programs
and performances. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/04/2005 | | FAU Libraries to Host Lecture by Award
Winning Environmental Educator |
| Florida Atlantic University Libraries, in conjunction with the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, will present a lecture honoring Women's History Month from renowned eco-educator, Susan Hargreaves. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 03/04/2005 | | FAU Libraries Presents "Model Ships" |
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Exhibition features 14 magnificent scale modeled ships that represent key historical periods
during the age of sail, from 900 AD up through the American Civil War Period and into WWII. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 02/14/2005 | | FAU Libraries to Present Present Photo
Exhibition: "Cuban-Jews in South Florida: An Intimate View" |
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries hosts "Cuban-Jews in South Florida:
An Intimate View," a photo exhibition by Randi Sidman-Moore, an internationally recognized photojournalist. (FULL STORY) |
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| 02/11/2005 | | FAU Libraries to Presents Photo Exhibition: "Cuban-Jews in South Florida: An Intimate View" |
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries hosts "Cuban-Jews in South Florida: An Intimate View,"
a photo exhibition by Randi Sidman-Moore, an award winning, internationally recognized photojournalist. (FULL STORY) | ||
| 02/08/2005 | | The Klezmer Company Breaks New Ground with Orchestral Klezmer Production "Jewish Broadway with Orchestra and Chorus" at FAU |
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Florida's innovative, critically acclaimed Klezmer ensemble and Florida Atlantic
University Libraries' professional ensemble-in-residence, The Klezmer Company, directed by Aaron Kula,
continues to break new musical ground by way of "Jewish Broadway with Orchestra and Chorus."
(FULL STORY) (PRESS COVERAGE) |
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