Bodkin back with more than 'Bare' necessities
Last semester, aspiring playwrights had to create a 22 minute play starting with the line, "Dear God, where did all the crickets come from?" This time, all bets are off.
The bi-annual "Bare Bodkin 24-Hour Theater Festival" is back this weekend for what Bodkin president Marc Frost referred to as, "one of the coolest things you'll ever do." The 24-Hour Theater Festival, this being the fourth since its installment in the fall of 2003, is a major part of the student group's dedication to producing student-written work.
At the start of the Festival, contestants split up into teams with the task of writing a coherent and interesting play in only twenty-four hours. This year, in addition to being assigned an opening line, teams might have to incorporate an assigned closing quote or a specific action. These added stipulations should make the products even more absurd and entertaining than before.
After 24 hours, the teams perform their plays before a panel of celebrity judges and the victors win the adulation of their peers. The performance is at 8 p.m. in Alumnae Lounge on Saturday.
Five hours of food, fun, and flavored condoms
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, some of Tufts' student organizations have teamed up to make sure that any and all romantic encounters taking place this weekend are dealt with in a safe and healthy manner.
Tufts Voices for Choice (VOX) kicks off Sexual Responsibility Week today with the second annual Sex Fair, which features five hours of food, fun and flavored condoms. Many other groups will set up shop in the Campus Center beginning at 11:00 a.m. Students will have the chance to win prizes, load up on freebies, and get information on important topics that range from contraceptives to adopting healthier sexual attitudes.
Student groups will be sponsoring individual sex awareness events all week long, culminating in the Tufts VOX/Tufts Democrats joint dance party, A Sexy Soir?©e, on Friday night. Shake your groove thang and maybe even score a date for Feb. 14, with four hours of music at Hotung beginning at 11:00 p.m.
Admission to all events is free.
Ooh-l? -l? ! FFE shows Francophone flicks
With mainstream hits like "Am?©lie" delighting American audiences, the French film industry is slowly but surely making its presence known in the United States. But you need not visit an artsy-fartsy movie house to get your fill of foreign flicks.
The French Film Experience (FFE) will be delivering these imports to the Olin Center, beginning with this Sunday's showing of "M. Ibrahim" at 7:00 p.m. The heart-warming tale of an unlikely friendship between an elderly Islamic grocer and an adolescent French boy set in 1960s Paris, this film features the great Omar Sharif in a lesser known work released only one year after his American debut in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962).
In celebration of FFE's first showing of the year, a light meal will be served at 6:30 in the Lamian Lounge of the Olin Center with guest speaker Eric Jausseran of the French Consulate. Jausseran will be lecturing on the internship possibilities available to Tufts students wishing to study and/or work in France.
If fluency is a setback, fear not; all FFE films, including "M. Ibrahim," will be shown with English subtitles for the non-francophones in the audience. The widely-acclaimed 2004 animated hit, "Les Triplettes de Belleville" is another film slated to run this semester. Past features have included the G?©rard Depardieu comedy, "Le Placard."
The FFE has screenings every other Sunday starting at 7:00 p.m. in Rooms 011 and 012 of the Olin Center.
-- Kelly Rizzetta and Brian Wolly
