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March 2008 Events

March 3 10:00 AM

College Representatives to Answer Your Transfer Questions
Location: Lowe Lobby
Bay Path College will be on campus from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. to meet with students and community members interested in transferring to a baccalaureate college or university. This event is open to the public.
Contact: 860-512-3320 or email todoms@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 4 10:00 AM

College Representatives to Answer Your Transfer Questions
Location: AST Rotunda
American International College will be on campus from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. to meet with students and community members interested in transferring to a baccalaureate college or university. This event is open to the public.
Contact: 860-512-3320 or email todoms@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 4 11:00 AM

Occupational Therapy Assistant Information Session
Location: LRC A226
Interested in a career in occupational therapy? Come to the information session to find out more.
Contact: (860) 512-2717 or email: mnieman@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 4 12:00 PM

Interviewing Skills Workshop
Location: L177, Lowe building
Preparation is the key to a successful interview. This workshop identifies the types of interviews candidates are experiencing today; covers the stages of the interview process; and previews the most frequently asked interview questions. This workshop is free and open to the public. Individual appointments are available.
Contact: Carl Ochnio at cochnio@mcc.commnet.edu or Julie Gr

March 4 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 5 11:00 AM

Campus Tours
Location: Admissions Office, Lowe Building
Campus tours for prospective students and their families will be held on Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon.
Contact: (860) 512-3210

March 5 7:00 PM

Twelve Angry Men Community Forum
Location: SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium, AST
The Education Department of The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
in partnership with Manchester Community College invites you to a Community Forum to discuss the themes of
Guilt, Innocence, Prejudice, Justice, Doubt, and Juries in connection with the upcoming show Twelve Angry Men
on stage at The Bushnell March 25-30.Community Forum Panelists Include:
Judge Alfred Covello, Federal District Court; Karen A. Goodrow, Director, the Connecticut Innocence Project; Kevin Kane, Chief State’s Attorney; James Tillman, Exonerated by DNA Evidence;
and James A. Wade, Robinson & Cole, LLP.
This event is free and open to the public.

Contact: (860) 512-2753

March 5 8:00 PM

Connecticut Student Poets Poetry Reading
Location: Library Fireside Commons, LRC
This is a reading by college students selected as the best in the state and features MCC’s own Lisa Butler. The others poets include Tess Bird, University of Connecticut; Chiara DiLello,Wesleyan University; Taylor Katz, Connecticut College; and Tyler Theofilos, Yale University. This is sponsored by the MCC Cultural Programs Committee and the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. This event is free and open to the public.
Contact: (860) 512-2688; sstraight@mcc.commnet.edu

March 6 11:00 AM

March 6 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 6 6:00 PM

Effective Resume Writing Workshop
Location: L177, Lowe building
This workshop is free and open to the public. Individual appointments are available.
Contact: Carl Ochnio at cochnio@mcc.commnet.edu or Julie Gr

March 7 9:00 AM

**Cancelled** Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Location: room L233, Lowe Building.
*** Cancelled*** No fee involved. Limited to low and middle income taxpayers with combined income below $75,000. Bring last year's tax forms, receipts, and applicable W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, and Social Security cards for all adults and children associated with returns. Available Fridays only 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Contact: Ed Schaefer, 860-633-9928, or edschae@aol.com.

March 11 10:00 AM

College Representatives to Answer Your Transfer Questions
Location: Lowe Lobby
St. Joseph College will be on campus from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. to meet with students and community members interested in transferring to a baccalaureate college or university. This event is open to the public.
Contact: 860-512-3320 or email todoms@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 11 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 11 12:00 PM

Job Search & Cover Letters Workshop
Location: L177, Lowe building
This workshop is free and open to the public. Individual appointments are available.
Contact: Carl Ochnio at cochnio@mcc.commnet.edu or Julie Gr

March 12 11:00 AM

March 12 4:30 PM

Remarkable Women's Tea
Location: Library Fireside Commons, LRC
Do you know a Remarkable Woman? Let’s recognize her during Women’s History Month, Invite her to Tea at MCC. R.S.V.P. to Michael Stefanowicz 860.512.3342
Contact: 860.512.3342 or mstefanowicz@mcc.commnet.edu

March 13 11:00 AM

March 13 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 13 5:30 PM

Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series
Location: Library Fireside Commons, LRC
The Spoken Word Open Mic begins at 5:45 p.m. Interested writers/readers may sign up at the door for a brief time slot. The Open Mic Feature, Lisa Taylor, received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program and has published three books of poetry, including Talking to Trees from Finishing Line Press. The live music set, beginning at 6:45 p.m., will feature Ken Cormier, singer, guitarist, poet, and composer, who has two CDs of original music, God Damn Doghouse (2000) and Radio-Bueno (2002), both from Elis Eil Records. Beginning at 7:45 p.m., the featured reading will spotlight two faculty poets from Assumption College in Worcester, MA: David Thoreen, M.F.A. from Bowling Green University and formerly the featured poet in the national literary journal, Diner; and John Hodgen, author of three books of poetry, including Grace (Associated Writing Programs 2006 award selection, University of Pittsburgh Press), In My Father’s House (winner of the 1993 Bluestem Award from Emporia State University in Kansas), and Bread Without Sorrow (2002, Lynx House Press). Refreshments are served. For more information, please visit the Mishi-maya-gat web site: www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php.
Contact: (860) 512-2824; scampiglio@mcc.commnet.edu

March 13 6:00 PM

March 13 7:00 PM

Life Without an Address-theater performance
Location: SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium, AST
Hartbeat Ensemble, a social action theater group will perform a staged reading of “Life Without an Address,” their original play about people who are homeless in Greater Hartford. Not only entertaining, the play also stirs in people the desire to create meaningful change in their own lives and the lives of others. The Manchester Initiative for Supportive Housing, Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, and other local groups will be there to share ongoing actions to end homelessness in our community. Admission is free. Suggested donations of canned goods are welcomed. This event is sponsored by Cultural Programs Committee, Student Senate, Manchester Initiative for Supportive Housing, Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.
Contact: 512-2761; twoods@mcc.commnet.edu

March 14 9:00 AM

**Cancelled** Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Location: L233, Lowe Building
*** Cancelled*** No fee involved. Limited to low and middle income taxpayers with combined income below $75,000. Bring last year's tax forms, receipts, and applicable W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, and Social Security cards for all adults and children associated with returns. Available Fridays only 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Contact: Ed Schaefer, 860-633-9928, or edschae@aol.com.

March 14 7:00 PM

International Film Series featured film-"A Simple Curve”
Location: SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium
"A Simple Curve” is a Canadian film about Caleb a charming small-town entrepreneur determined to keep his woodworking shop afloat in spite of the relentless idealism of his business partner and father, aging hippie draft-dodger Jim. When wealthy American Mathew arrives, Caleb sees a chance to turn his fortunes around provided he can keep Jim distracted enough. Juggling mounting debts, freeloading hippie houseguests, and a budding love life, Caleb strikes a secret deal with Matthew that could set him up for good of it doesn’t destroy his entire way of life. English.
Contact: 512-2874; eangry-smith@mcc.commnet.edu or 512-2687

March 18 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 19 11:00 AM

March 19 5:00 PM

U.S. Congressman John B. Larson Public Forum
Location: Library Fireside Commons, LRC
U.S. Congressman John B. Larson will host an open public forum concerning
the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War.the Congressman will discuss the urgent need to alter our course in Iraq; the readiness of our troops; as well as the escalating cost of the war and its effect on the US economy. The Congressman will take questions and hear comments from the audience concerning these issues.

Contact: (860) 278-8888

March 20 11:00 AM

March 20 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 20 3:30 PM

Baseball
Location: Manchester, CT
vs. Monroe College
Contact:

March 21 9:00 AM

**Cancelled** Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Location: L233, Lowe Building
***This program has been cancelled*** No fee involved. Limited to low and middle income taxpayers with combined income below $75,000. Bring last year's tax forms, receipts, and applicable W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, and Social Security cards for all adults and children associated with returns. Available Fridays only 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Contact: Ed Schaefer, 860-633-9928, or edschae@aol.com.

March 21 9:00 AM

March 21 1:00 PM

Men's Baseball
Location: Manchester, CT
vs. UCONN-Avery Point (2)
Contact:

March 25 10:00 AM

College Representatives to Answer Your Transfer Questions
Location: AST Rotunda
Bay Path College will be on campus from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. to meet with students and community members interested in transferring to a baccalaureate college or university. This event is open to the public.
Contact: 860-512-3320 or email todoms@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 25 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 25 12:00 PM

March 25 3:30 PM

Men's Baseball
Location: Manchester, CT
vs. Quinsigamond CC
Contact:

March 26 10:00 AM

Summer Job Fair
Location: AST building
Area employers will be promoting Summer 2008 employment opportunities. Open to the public. 10 a.m. - 1p.m.
Contact: Carl Ochnio at cochnio@mcc.commnet.edu or Julie Gr

March 26 11:00 AM

March 26 3:00 PM

Men's Baseball
Location: Manchester, CT
vs. Suffolk CC-Selden Campus (2)
Contact:

March 27 11:00 AM

March 27 12:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Location: AST D229
Every Tuesday and Thursday while College is open.
Contact: Info: 860-512-2769

March 27 6:00 PM

Art Exhibit: Paint- Opening Reception
Location: Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, AST.
Refreshments will be available. Show runs 3/27-5/1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 11 am-8 pm. Free and open to the public.
Contact: 860-512-2693 or email sclassen-sullivan@mcc.commne

March 27 7:00 PM

The Big Read: The Maltese Falcon
Location: SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium, AST.
This March and April Manchester Community College Library will participate in the nation-wide program called the Big Read. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents the Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Hartford Public has decided to host Dashiell Hammett’s the Maltese Falcon. MCC Library has twenty copies of this title for circulation.

Free screening of the film, The Maltese Falcon (1941), will be co-hosted by Professors Robert Kagan and Michael DiRaimo. Attendees are encouraged to dress as their favorite character from the film or characters from any “film noir”.
Contact: eangry-smith@mcc.commnet.edu, rkagan@mcc.commnet.e

March 28 9:00 AM

March 28 9:30 AM

Small Business Administration Workshop
Location: AST C210
This workshop will give you tips and techniques for doing business with the state of Connecticut and the 169 towns and cities. Co-hosted by the SBA.
Contact: 860-512-2626 or email tjaneczek@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 29 12:00 PM

Men's Baseball
Location: Glens Falls, NY
at Adirondack CC (2)
Contact:

March 30 12:00 PM

Men's Baseball
Location: Suffern, NY
at Suffolk CC - Selden Campus (2)
Contact:

March 30 2:00 PM

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Spring Induction
Location: SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium, AST
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,200 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin Islands and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
Contact: 860-512-3675 or email ewiatr@mcc.commnet.edu.

March 31 3:30 PM

The Big Read: The Maltese Falcon
Location: Library Room A121, LRC.
This March and April Manchester Community College Library will participate in the nation-wide program called the Big Read. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents the Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Hartford Public has decided to host Dashiell Hammett’s the Maltese Falcon. MCC Library has twenty copies of this title for circulation.

English instructor and resident mystery author Steven Torres will discuss The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, how this book fits into the “hard-boiled” and “noir” subgenres of mystery, and Hammett’s philosophy of detective fiction as real-ism.

Contact: eangry-smith@mcc.commnet.edu, rkagan@mcc.commnet.e

March 31 6:00 PM

The Big Read: The Maltese Falcon.
Location: Library Room A121, LRC
This March and April Manchester Community College Library will participate in the nation-wide program called the Big Read. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents the Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Hartford Public has decided to host Dashiell Hammett’s the Maltese Falcon. MCC Library has twenty copies of this title for circulation.

Steven Torres will discuss The Maltese Falcon and its relation to its three full-length cinema treatments: The Maltese Falcon (1931), Satan Met a Lady (1936) and The Maltese Falcon (1941). Clips of all three films will be shown and popcorn served.
Contact: eangry-smith@mcc.commnet.edu, rkagan@mcc.commnet.e

Last Update: February 09 2010
For additional information or to post an event, contact: Endia DeCordova-Murphy