Activism
Still Here explores stories of migration, displacement, and survival by eight artists that represent a spectrum of the African Diaspora. The works in this exhibition use moving images to highlight the rituals and traditions that persevere and evolve, despite the oppressive historical ripple effects of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through practices and tools of survival such as migrating, defending, dancing, gathering, praying, and claiming agency over one’s body, the works in this exhibition demonstrate that black and brown bodies are not here for consumption of the white gaze, nor are they passive beings upon whom actions are done or inflicted. Artists include Larry Achiampong, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Third Horizon (Jason Fitzroy Jeffers), Carlos Javier Ortiz, Cinthia Marcelle, Melo-X, Helina Metaferia, and Joiri Minaya. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Dexter Wimberly and Kiara Ventura, Still Here was originally organized at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco.
Video Still Credits: Larry Achiampong, Joiri Minaya, and Cinthia Marcelle
| Dates: |
01/21/2020 - 03/22/2020 |
| Start Time: |
10:00 am |
| Location: |
HUB Gallery |
| Address: |
241 Hub-Robeson Center, University Park, PA, 16802 (map) |
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Children & Families
Winter HOURS for AAUW State College used book donations are Monday 6-8pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 9:00am-2:30pm. On these days and during these hours, bring books directly to the AAUW door and ring the bell. Someone will assist you with your books. Book donation bins are available 24/7 when we are not open.
For details visit aauwstatecollege.org. Book sale funds advance equity for women and girls. Questions? Give us a call at 814-466-6041.
| Dates: |
01/07/2020 - 03/10/2020 |
| Start Time: |
9:00 am |
| Location: |
AAUW State College |
| Address: |
176 Technology Drive, State College, PA (map) |
| Website: |
http://aauwstatecollege.org |
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For children ages 3 and under with a favorite adult. Join us for a musical rhyming adventure that
encourages interaction between babies and caregivers. Infants and toddlers will develop pre-reading and social skills through songs, stories, and games. Stay after to play with friends.
Parent-Tot Yoga is a supportive, fun-loving, and active yoga class for early walkers – young 4 year olds and their parent/caregiver. This class is all about your new mover. Crawlers and walkers learn poses, songs, and games while they explore new movement and social skills. Parent fully participate in class but no yoga experience or yoga mat is required. Simply wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to move.
The Children's Eating Behavior Lab at Penn State University Park is looking for 7-8 year old children for a fun nutrition study! Contact Kara, our Project Coordinator, at [email protected] or 814-865-5169 for more information. You can also view a full description of the study and complete a screening questionnaire here: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41N3IXRBmXjegRf
This class offers a place to release and refocus while building skills necessary for daily life (school, friendships, sports, etc) through movement, breath work, meditation, as well as relaxation. This class is customized for the "almost tween” to early tween and strikes a balance of learning through games and cooperative interaction as well as more traditional yoga elements.
| Dates: |
01/07/2020 - 12/31/2020 |
| Start Time: |
7:15 pm |
| Location: |
Wellness in Motion Studio |
| Address: |
2541 E College Ave, Suite B, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com |
Classes, Films, Lectures
This class is for beginner students looking for a challenge, or intermediate level students. Increase balance, flexibility and strength.
Stay up to date on our most recent class schedule, via our website: http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com/classes-and-events/class-calendar/
Stephanie Koller guides you through finding a healthy balance between stability and flexibility. By moving through a variety of yoga postures and breathing exercises, we encourage a clearer energy flow throughout the entire body. Meditation and guided imagery will be incorporated to support deep relaxation. Whether a novice or a seasoned yogi, you will leave this class feeling recharged and relaxed. Based on each participant's unique needs, positional variations will be provided with a focus on safe alignment.
This class meets every Tuesday & Thursday at noon. $10 per class. Fill up 7 Chakras on our Chakra cards for a free class!
Registration required: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=631473&stype=-7&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000012
| Dates: |
02/13/2020 - 05/28/2020 |
| Start Time: |
12:00 pm |
| Location: |
Serenity Wellness Centre |
| Address: |
2011 Cato Ave., Suite 201, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://www.serenitywellnesscentre.com |
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Mat Pilates is a full body toning class challenging the core. Pilates uses body weight to strengthen muscles and increase flexibility. All that is required is a mat, water, and hand towel.
Tranquility Yoga is a class designed for all shapes, sizes, and fitness levels. The class focuses on breathing fully, deeply, and in coordination with movements of your limbs. Emphasis will be placed upon postures that aide in reducing stress and anxiety through activating the parasympathetic nervous system. By soothing the nervous system and calming the mind, stress hormone levels will decline allowing a physically stress-free state to be re-established. Give yourself permission to restore, relax and revitalize.
Stay up to date on our most recent class schedule on our website: http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com/classes-and-events/class-calendar/
In the Opening to Self-Love Series led by Elisha Halpin, we will process emotions, energy, & thought patterns blocking the connection to yourself. As we clear the stagnant energy and locked emotions, there is greater availability for compassion & nourishment. We will release negative self-beliefs & thoughts to create a higher capacity for emotional resilience & the ability to love yourself fully.
Open to all. No Experience needed.
You can register for individual $33 sessions here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16892406&appointmentType=11944349
Join Soña for meditations rooted in the yoga sutras where mantra, mudra, energy medicine, and essential oils are incorporated. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, this experience is open and appropriate for all.
Held on the last Tuesday each month
Registration required https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=631473&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000021
Cost: $15 Payment collected at event. Cash, check, or charge
This class offers a place to release and refocus while building skills necessary for daily life (school, friendships, sports, etc) through movement, breath work, meditation, as well as relaxation. This class is customized for the "almost tween” to early tween and strikes a balance of learning through games and cooperative interaction as well as more traditional yoga elements.
| Dates: |
01/07/2020 - 12/31/2020 |
| Start Time: |
7:15 pm |
| Location: |
Wellness in Motion Studio |
| Address: |
2541 E College Ave, Suite B, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com |
This class is a fusion of vinyasa flows and longer holds of yin yoga. The vinyasa portion will connect breath with movement through asanas, while the yin portion of class will give you a deep stretch to target deep connective tissue. A great combination to fuel your body, mind, and soul. This class is suitable for all levels of experience, with modifications provided.
| Dates: |
01/16/2020 - 12/31/2020 |
| Start Time: |
7:45 pm |
| Location: |
Wellness in Motion Studio |
| Address: |
2541 E College Ave, Suite B, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://wellnessinmotionstudio.com |
Exhibits
“Indigenous Roots/Routes: Contested Histories, Contemporary Experiences” reflects on the past five centuries of colonization and cultural exchange among Indigenous Peoples, Europeans, Africans and Americans. The exhibition explores the processes of social, religious and political adaptation, what it means to be rooted in or unrooted from one’s land, and how searching out unfamiliar routes forces others to travel new ones. It draws upon art, textural works and rare books from three major collections at Penn State: the Eberly Family Special Collections Library, the Matson Museum of Anthropology and the Palmer Museum of Art. Together the materials encourage us to question how history is written and how it informs contemporary works by Indigenous artists and activists. Located in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery, 104 Paterno Library on Penn State's University Park campus, the exhibition is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, except for special holiday hours. The gallery is closed on Saturdays. Monthly hours of operation can be found at: https://libraries.psu.edu/monthly-hours?library=187
For more information, including information about accommodations and physical access, please contact Clara Drummond, curator and exhibitions coordinator, at 814-865-1793 or [email protected]
| Dates: |
09/17/2019 - 03/15/2020 |
| Start Time: |
9:00 am |
| Location: |
Special Collections Exhibition Gallery, Penn State University Libraries |
| Address: |
104 Paterno Library, University Park, PA, 16802 (map) |
| Website: |
http://libraries.psu.edu/specialcollections |
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Still Here explores stories of migration, displacement, and survival by eight artists that represent a spectrum of the African Diaspora. The works in this exhibition use moving images to highlight the rituals and traditions that persevere and evolve, despite the oppressive historical ripple effects of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through practices and tools of survival such as migrating, defending, dancing, gathering, praying, and claiming agency over one’s body, the works in this exhibition demonstrate that black and brown bodies are not here for consumption of the white gaze, nor are they passive beings upon whom actions are done or inflicted. Artists include Larry Achiampong, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Third Horizon (Jason Fitzroy Jeffers), Carlos Javier Ortiz, Cinthia Marcelle, Melo-X, Helina Metaferia, and Joiri Minaya. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Dexter Wimberly and Kiara Ventura, Still Here was originally organized at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco.
Video Still Credits: Larry Achiampong, Joiri Minaya, and Cinthia Marcelle
| Dates: |
01/21/2020 - 03/22/2020 |
| Start Time: |
10:00 am |
| Location: |
HUB Gallery |
| Address: |
241 Hub-Robeson Center, University Park, PA, 16802 (map) |
| Photos: |
3
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Health
This class is for beginner students looking for a challenge, or intermediate level students. Increase balance, flexibility and strength.
Stay up to date on our most recent class schedule, via our website: http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com/classes-and-events/class-calendar/
Parent-Tot Yoga is a supportive, fun-loving, and active yoga class for early walkers – young 4 year olds and their parent/caregiver. This class is all about your new mover. Crawlers and walkers learn poses, songs, and games while they explore new movement and social skills. Parent fully participate in class but no yoga experience or yoga mat is required. Simply wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to move.
Stephanie Koller guides you through finding a healthy balance between stability and flexibility. By moving through a variety of yoga postures and breathing exercises, we encourage a clearer energy flow throughout the entire body. Meditation and guided imagery will be incorporated to support deep relaxation. Whether a novice or a seasoned yogi, you will leave this class feeling recharged and relaxed. Based on each participant's unique needs, positional variations will be provided with a focus on safe alignment.
This class meets every Tuesday & Thursday at noon. $10 per class. Fill up 7 Chakras on our Chakra cards for a free class!
Registration required: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=631473&stype=-7&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000012
| Dates: |
02/13/2020 - 05/28/2020 |
| Start Time: |
12:00 pm |
| Location: |
Serenity Wellness Centre |
| Address: |
2011 Cato Ave., Suite 201, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://www.serenitywellnesscentre.com |
| Photos: |
2
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Mat Pilates is a full body toning class challenging the core. Pilates uses body weight to strengthen muscles and increase flexibility. All that is required is a mat, water, and hand towel.
BCSGCR will hold their December meeting at Stonebridge Senior Apartments on Bristol Ave. Please email for details: [email protected]
Tranquility Yoga is a class designed for all shapes, sizes, and fitness levels. The class focuses on breathing fully, deeply, and in coordination with movements of your limbs. Emphasis will be placed upon postures that aide in reducing stress and anxiety through activating the parasympathetic nervous system. By soothing the nervous system and calming the mind, stress hormone levels will decline allowing a physically stress-free state to be re-established. Give yourself permission to restore, relax and revitalize.
Stay up to date on our most recent class schedule on our website: http://www.wellnessinmotionstudio.com/classes-and-events/class-calendar/
In the Opening to Self-Love Series led by Elisha Halpin, we will process emotions, energy, & thought patterns blocking the connection to yourself. As we clear the stagnant energy and locked emotions, there is greater availability for compassion & nourishment. We will release negative self-beliefs & thoughts to create a higher capacity for emotional resilience & the ability to love yourself fully.
Open to all. No Experience needed.
You can register for individual $33 sessions here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16892406&appointmentType=11944349
Join Soña for meditations rooted in the yoga sutras where mantra, mudra, energy medicine, and essential oils are incorporated. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, this experience is open and appropriate for all.
Held on the last Tuesday each month
Registration required https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=631473&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000021
Cost: $15 Payment collected at event. Cash, check, or charge
This class is a fusion of vinyasa flows and longer holds of yin yoga. The vinyasa portion will connect breath with movement through asanas, while the yin portion of class will give you a deep stretch to target deep connective tissue. A great combination to fuel your body, mind, and soul. This class is suitable for all levels of experience, with modifications provided.
| Dates: |
01/16/2020 - 12/31/2020 |
| Start Time: |
7:45 pm |
| Location: |
Wellness in Motion Studio |
| Address: |
2541 E College Ave, Suite B, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://wellnessinmotionstudio.com |
Penn State - Events
By Tony Kushner • Directed by Rick Lombardo
A quarter-century after stunning the theatre world, one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time celebrates its 25th anniversary. As politically incendiary as any play in the American canon, Angels in America also manages to be, at turns, hilariously irreverent and heartbreakingly humane. In addition, it is astonishingly relevant, speaking every bit as urgently to our anxious times as it did when it first premiered. Tackling Reaganism, McCarthyism, immigration, religion, climate change, and AIDS against the backdrop of New York City in the mid-1980s, no contemporary drama has succeeded so indisputably with so ambitious a scope.
*Please note: Play is 3 hours and 30 minutes with two 15-minute intermissions.
FEBRUARY 25–MARCH 5
Playhouse Theatre
Evenings at 7 p.m.: $25 • Previews at 7 p.m.: $20 • Student: $12.50
| Dates: |
02/25/2020 - 03/05/2020 |
| Start Time: |
7:00 pm |
| Location: |
Penn State Playhouse Theatre |
| Address: |
Allen Road and Park Ave, State College, PA, 16802 (map) |
| Website: |
http://www.theatre.psu.edu |
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Special Events
Build resume and interview skills!
The PA CareerLink new mobile center, The Link, will visit Schlow Centre Region Library on the fourth Tuesday of the month. This career center on wheels, the first of its kind in Pennsylvania, will be parked outside Schlow.
The public is welcome to come and explore The Link, an ADA accessible mobile career center with seven computers, Internet access, printing, and a presentation screen. The Link offers a variety of services for jobseekers, including but not limited to career guidance, assistance with searching and applying for jobs, resume and cover letter review, and work readiness workshops and training provided by workforce professionals.
The Link provides services for Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union counties.
Like the Library the Link is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
Adults and teens (12 and up) are invited to participate in Schlow Library's Winter Reading! Earn chances at fantastic prizes, and read to your heart's content during the cold months!
Sunday, January 26 - Tuesday, March 31
We are where you are...even during Winter Reading! Our online system - reading.schlowlibrary.org - can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Registration will open on Sunday, January 26...but you can join the fun through March!
Final Prize drawings will be on Friday, April 3!
| Dates: |
01/26/2020 - 03/31/2020 |
| Start Time: |
1:00 pm |
| Location: |
Schlow Centre Region Library |
| Address: |
211 S Allen Street, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
| Website: |
http://reading.schlowlibrary.org |
Everyone is invited to play, sing or just listen to the Bluegrass and Gospel Jam every Tuesday night. Join the guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, harmonicas, dobros and of course, the melodious voices. A 15 minute break is enjoyed by all for some pot luck cookies and/or cakes. No charge for playing or listening. Great fun for all. 7:00-9:00pm
For more information, contact A. Scott Krug at [email protected]
| Dates: |
07/05/2005 - 11/18/2021 |
| Start Time: |
7:00 pm |
| Location: |
Pine Hall Lutheran Church |
| Address: |
1760 W College Ave, State College, PA, State College, PA, 16801 (map) |
