Many of upcoming events are free and open to the public!
On Monday, April 28, at 12:20 p.m., Middlesex Community College (MxCC) will present an hour long lecture/recital by pianist Sylvia Goldstein. Goldstein will help MxCC celebrate International Week by performing works by Haydn (Austria), Chopin (Poland), Albeniz (Spain), Khachaturian (Armenia), Lecuona (Cuba), Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Germany), Joplin (USA), and Gershwin (USA).
The program is being held in the handicapped accessible student lounge, in Founders Hall, Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road, with ample free parking.
For more information contact, Dean Adrienne Maslin at (860) 343-5759 or Noreen Wilson at (860) 343-5764.
The Connecticut Poetry Circuit student tour will be held on Monday, April 14 in the Student Lounge, during the community activity period from 12:30-1:30.
Contact Christine Ruggiero at 860-343-5878 or CRuggiero@mxcc.commnet.edu, for more information. There is plenty of free parking and the building is handicapped accessible
Middlesex Community College’s President’s Committee on Diversity Presents Drumming Event
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Student Lounge
One World Arts Exchange
African Drumming
PCOD Event for Black History Month
One World Arts Exchange is committed to building intercultural understanding through the medium of performing arts. Their primary focus is sharing the music and dance of West African cultures.
Artistic Director, Abdoulaye Sylla has been certified as a master teaching artist by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
This event is free and open to the public. The College is handicapped accessible and there is plenty of free parking.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Lounge located in Founders Hall at Middlesex Community College’s main campus in Middletown, the English as a Second Language (ESL) students will share the way their cultures celebrate the different holidays. The event is sponsored by the President’s Committee on Diversity and is open to the public.
Contact May Coryell at 860-343-5803 or mcoreyll@mxcc.commnet.edu, for more information. There is plenty of free parking and the building is handicapped accessible.
MxCC Student Senate Sponsors Blood Drive
Monday, November 19, 2007
10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. MxCC Chapman Hall
One pint of your blood can save 3 lives
FREE refreshments – after giving blood
Come and be a life saver
Middletown campus, 100 Training Hill Road.
Contact Micki Charton at 860-343-5748 or mcharton@mxcc.commnet.edu
The Middlesex Community College / Middlesex Hospital School of Radiologic Technology will be hosting an Open House on Monday evening, November 5, 2007, at 5:30 PM in the Bengtson Conference Room at Middlesex Hospital. The radiography course runs for 27 months, with classes beginning each June. The graduates receive an Associates of Science Degree from Middlesex Community College and are eligible to sit for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination.
Interested applicants and family are invited to attend. There will be a short program describing the profession and the training involved. Current students, program faculty, and college representatives will be available to answer questions and schedule individual shadow experiences. Staff and students will be available for tours through the Radiology Department following the program.
For further information about the program, please check our website at www.radiologyschool.com
Call 860-358-6549 to register for the Open House.
All Roads Lead to Middlesex Community College
On October 27, Middlesex Community College will hold it First Annual Homecoming and invites the college’s alumni and the community to come and participate in a day full of fun and educational activities. Homecoming is presented by MxCC Foundation and MxCC Alumni Association.
The day starts with the 8:30 registration for the annual scholarship run/walk race that will kick off at 10 a.m. If you’re not a runner, you might like to bike with your family on the beautiful back roads by the city reservoirs near the campus. As a prelude to the bike ride, there will be a free bicycle safety clinic including safety inspections, proper fitting of helmets and rules of the road. The clinic starts at 9:30 a.m. and the bike ride is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Another event planned for the day is a health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with free screenings for bone density, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol and vision. Flu shots will be available with an insurance card or payment of $30.
There will also be campus tours, mini lectures by professors, alumni awards, music, food and lots of fun.
For more information, contact Greg Kline at 860-343-6914 or gkline@mxcc.commnet.edu.
Award winning poet, Dr. Kim Bridgford, Professor of English at Fairfield University will hold a poetry reading at 12:00 pm Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Student Lounge, Founder’s Hall, at the Middletown campus, 100 Training Hill Road. Bridgford has been chosen by The Connecticut Poetry Circuit to give a series of readings in Connecticut at various colleges.
For more information, contact:
Professor Christine Ruggiero at 860-343-5878 or cruggiero@mxcc.commnet.edu.
Free and open to the public.
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrated at MxCC Meriden Center -
How to Successful be a Leader in Your Community
Wednesday, October 24, 2007,
12 Noon. MxCC Meriden Center.
Speakers: Melonie Torres and Peter Escobar
Moderator: Sean Moore
Meriden Center, 55 West Main Street
Contact Richard Muniz at 860-343-5736 or rmuniz@mxcc.commnet.edu
MxCC Student Senate Sponsors Save a Life Tour, Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. MxCC student lounge
High Impact Alcohol Awareness Program
SAVE-A-LIFE simulator, very graphic video
Learn to be a life saver – presenters speak
Middletown campus, 100 Training Hill Road.
Contact Micki Charton at 860-343-5748 or mcharton@mxcc.commnetmcharton@mxcc.commnet.edu
Saturday, May 5, 2007 - Walk-A-Thon to Help End Homelessness in Connecticut
The Human Services Student Association (HSSA) at Middlesex Community College will hold a walk-a-thon this Saturday, May 5, starting at 11 a.m., with registration at 10:30 a.m. The walk will be on the Connecticut Blue Trails that are behind the college, at 100 Training Hill Road.
You can help the fight toward ending homelessness in Connecticut by participating in the walk, sponsoring a walker, or sending a donation to Middlesex Community College c/o HSSA Walk-a-thon, Psychology Department, 100 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT 06457.
For more information, contact:
Professor Greg Horne at 860-343-5815 or ghorne@mxcc.commnet.edu.
Middlesex Community College Celebrates International Day Wed., April 25, 11 a.m., Middletown campus, 100 Training Hill Road Student Lounge, Founders Hall, will be transformed into a land of exotic foods and students in their native costumes with displays and artifacts from around the world. Sponsored by President's Committee on Diversity.
Friday, April 13, 2007 from 10:30-11:30 am, Middlesex Community College’s Department of Music and the President’s Committee on Diversity will present a special lecture and performance of Indian music and dance in room 605, Chapman Hall. The event will include selections from the Hindu classics Ramayana and Bhagavad-Gita, featuring notable musicians and dancers visiting from India. This event is open to the public and admission is free.
Contact Professor John Shafer, 343-5811.
Pegasus Art Gallery, first floor Chapman Hall
Private Branches: series of paintings, drawings and prints consists of intimate portraits of Quaking Aspen tree trunks, limbs and branches.
The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, April 12, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Exhibit runs April 7 through May 9 with public gallery hours being Monday and Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Contact:
Matthew Weber
Art Curator
860.343.5806
or, mweber@mxcc.commnet.edu
