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From: icenter-social@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: From the I-Center, November 18
Date: November 18, 2009 3:39:47 PM PST
To: icenter-social@lists.stanford.edu

 

Dear all,

If you will be staying in the Stanford area over Thanksgiving we would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday November 25 for Thanksgiving dessert party.
For more information on this event or any of the others listed here please keep reading below and as usual for a complete list of what is going on at the I-Center please see our calendar at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/calendar.html.

For those of you on F or J visas who will be travelling over the Thanksgiving break please remember to have your I-20/DS-2019 signed before you leave and please remember to carry your passport and SEVIS forms even if travelling inside the United States.

We hope to see you around soon.

1.THANKSGIVING DESSERT PARTY - Wednesday, November 25. 7pm. Dining Room. Free

2.TUESDAYS IUC MOVIE NIGHT: "Maria full of Grace"- Colombia.Tuesday, December 1st. 6:30pm. Assembly Room. Free

3.ANO NUEVO STATE PARK TRIP - December 16th. Cost $20

4.WINE AND CHEESE PARTY - Wednesday, November 18. 7:00pm - 9:30pm. Timoshenko Lounge in Rains

5.TRADITIONAL AMERICAN THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR STANFORD GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES - Thursday November 26, 2009.Registration: http://thanksgiving.stanford.edu for registration details.

6. STANFORD ROMANIAN FILM SERIES 2009-2010- Dec 4, Jan 8, Feb 12, March 12, May 14.Language Corner, Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113. 7:00pm

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THANKSGIVING DESSERT PARTY
Wednesday, November 25
7pm
Dining Room
Free

Thanksgiving is a special American holiday. The Bechtel International Center and the Riddle Family Foundation invite you to join us and other members of Stanford's International Community to celebrate and enjoy this time. We will have delightful music and Thanksgiving desserts such as traditional pumpkin pie.
Everyone is welcome, please feel free to invite your friends and family to join us as well.

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TUESDAYS IUC MOVIE NIGHT: "Maria Full of grace" - Colombia
December 1st
6:30pm
Dinning Room

Join us at Bechtel International Center to watch "Maria Full of grace"
Pop-corn and refreshments will be provided.
Event co-sponsored by Bechtel International Center and the International Undergraduate Community (IUC)

Synopsis: In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned...

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ANO NUEVO STATE PARK TRIP
December 16th
Cost $20

Please join us for a bus trip and guided walk tour to Ano Nuevo to watch the elephant seals on December 16th.
We'll meet at the I-Center 9:45 and the bus leaves 10:15.
Please come to the I-Center to reserve and pay for your ticket: $20 which includes the bus, parking, entrance fee and a few snacks and drinks on the tour. Reserve now, as space is limited.
Please note: Lunch IS NOT included so please bring your own lunch. We will be back on campus around 4:30 p.m.
The walk takes about 3 hours. Please remember to wear warm clothes and sturdy shoes.
This event is partly sponsored by the Riddle Family Foundation.

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WINE AND CHEESE PARTY
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Timoshenko Lounge in Rains (http://tinyurl.com/FSSA-wine-and-cheese-2009)

Come to our annual Wine and Cheese party organized by French Stanford Student Association, brought to you by the new board of FSSA. Come and socialize with your old and yet-to-meet pals. A vast array of cheese and fine wine will be served.
Come EARLY because good stuff runs out quickly!

Mercredi soir aura lieu notre soirée annuelle Vin et Fromage organisée par le bureau. Venez nous retrouver au Timoshenko Lounge, pour faire de nouvelles rencontres autour de fromages et de bons vins.

The FSSA board

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TRADITIONAL AMERICAN THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR STANFORD GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Thursday November 26, 2009.
You will be assigned a seating time (12:00, 1:30, 3:00, or 4:30).
Check in at Ray's in the Graduate Community Center.

Thanks to the generous support of President Hennessy, and additional funds from the Graduate Student Council, we are pleased to announcethe 12th annual Thanksgiving Dinner celebration onThursday, November 26, 2009, catered by the Coho. Turkey, gravy, and all the traditional side dishes will be served, as well as a sumptuous vegetarian option (a really outstanding spinach lasagna).
We have room for 1500 people this year. More details will be provided on the website and in the registration form.
Go to http://thanksgiving.stanford.edu for registration details.

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STANFORD ROMANIAN FILM SERIES 2009-2010
Language Corner, Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113
7:00pm

Introduction and Q&A by Suzan Negip-Schatt Lecturer in Romanian, Stanford Special Language Program.
All films shown in the Language Corner, Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113, and start at 7:00pm All films shown with English subtitlesCo-sponsored by CREEES and the Special Language Program

January 8th: Privest Inainte Cu Manie / Look Ahead with Anger 1993; directed by Nicolae Margineanu; 75 min.
This family drama examines a modern family in turmoil as it is ripped asunder by social and economic problems caused by the demise of Communism.
The film is set in a grim little burg on the Danube, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest. Fane, the main character, has just been fired from his factory job. He cannot find work, so begins to hit the bars. He also hangs out with his friends, former freedom fighters, out in the country. Fane’s teenage daughter Vali wants to study in Bucharest; she works nights and saves her money. Nilu, his youngest son, has just joined a gang. The eldest brother Viorel discovers that Vali is earning money by hooking in a trashy bar, he destroys the place. He is sent to jail. Vali and Nilu take off for the capital. Fane tries to organize a strike against the factory bosses. The results are tragic…

February 12th: Filantropica / Philanthropy 2002; directed by Nae Caranfil; 107 min.
In 21st century Bucharest, going out on the town on a Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a financial challenge. Ovidiu (Mircea Diaconu), a modest high school teacher, cannot afford this. Nevertheless, he must, for he is over his head in love with Diana (Viorica Voda), a 20 year old ambitious femme fatale. In his quest to become something more substantial than a high school teacher, Oliviu plunges into a fabulous world… Swinging between a life as a prince and pauper, Oliviu juggles two women, as he is freshly enriched in the eyes of Diana, yet also the humble husband of Miruna (Mara Nicolescu). All while living a fatiguing double life, under the “protection” of Pepe (Gheorghe Dinica)…

March 12th: La Est De Bucuresti / 12:08 East of Bucharest 2006; directed by Corneliu Porumboiu; 89 min.
Winner of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Camera D’Or. On the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a local anchorman of a nearby provincial town invites two of his acquaintances to share their moments of revolutionary glory on his talk show. One is an impish, insightful retiree who sometimes poses as Santa Claus; the other is a henpecked, hard driving teacher who has just devoted his entire salary to his drinking debts. Together they will remember the day when they stormed their town hall calling “down with Ceausescu”, or…did they?

May 14th: Nesfarsit / California Dreamin’ 2007; directed by Cristian Nemescu; 155 min.
Winner of the prestigious Cannes award Un Certain Regard in 2007, Cristian Nemescus film is based on a true story: a NATO train transporting military equipment is stopped in the middle of nowhere by an overzealous chief of a Romanian train station. Set against the backdrop of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the film explores with humor and gritty realism the impact that the arrival of the American soldiers led by Captain Jones has on the small village community. A cinematic tour de force not to be missed!

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Sabine HERTZ
The Bechtel International Center
584 Capistrano Way
P.O. Box 20227
Stanford, California 94309
shertz@stanford.edu
http://icenter.stanford.edu

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