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International Education Week - November 17 - 21, 2008

-Dance of Nations
     Date: Friday, November 14th
     Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm (Doors open at 6:15pm)
     Location: Graduate Life Center Auditorium
     Description:Social and cultural event following the concept of 'Experiencing the world in Blacksburg'

-Dance of Nations Social
     Date: Friday, November 14th
     Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
     Location: Graduate Life Center, Multi-purpose Room
     Description:Social and cultural event following the concept of 'Experiencing the world in Blacksburg'

- International Movie Night: Pans Labyrinth
     Date: Sunday, November 16th
     Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
     Location: Graduate Life Center Auditorium
     Description: In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.

- International Movie Night: Paradise Now
     Date: Monday, November 17th
     Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
     Location: Graduate Life Center Auditorium
     Description: The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves. However, things go wrong and both friends must separate in the border. One of them, maintaining in his purpose of carry the attack to the end, and the other will have his doubts about it.

- Bilateral Exchange Fair
     Date: Wednesday, November 19th
     Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
     Location: Graduate Life Multipurpose Room
     Description: Virginia Tech has an extensive student exchange program with over 70 universities in 30 different countries. Bilateral exchanges are open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Learn from Education Abroad Office advisors about how you can spend a semester or year abroad through one of these bilateral exchanges. Because students pay their regular tuition and fees, bilateral exchanges are often the most affordable Education Abroad experiences. Come to the Fair and meet the experts: current international students at VT from our bilateral exchange universities as well as VT students who have studied abroad on exchange! Have you already been abroad? Come enjoy cultural displays and presentations from International Student Organizations.

- International Band: Klezmer Ensemble
     Date: Wednesday, November 19th
     Time: 7:00 pm
     Location: Haymarket Theater
     Description: A musical event featuring the distinctive sound of Klezmer music by the world-renowned Chicago Klezmer Ensemble. Klezmer music originated in the Jewish shtetls and ghettos of Eastern Europe in the early middle ages. It draws upon Slavonic, Greek, Ottoman, Arabic, Gypsy and - more recently - American jazz elements, and features numerous tempo changes, irregular rhythms, dissonance and a touch of improvisation. The result is a very diversified music, easily recognizable and widely appreciated all around the world.

 

Potluck for International Faculty and Staff - November 24th, 2008

-Potluck for International Faculty and Staff (co-sponsored by CISO and Cranwell International Center)
     Date: Monday, November 24th
     Time: TBD
     Location: Gilbert Linkous Elementary School
     Purpose: A get together for international faculty and staff

Virginia Tech's AIDS Awareness Week - December 1st -5th, 2008

-Virginia Tech's AIDS Awareness Week (co-sponsored by multiple organizations on campus)
     Date: Monday, December 1st - Friday, December 5th
     Events: TBD

 

 
Wine Social- January 30th, 2009

-Wine Social (co-sponsored by Cranwell Internationl Center)
     Date: Friday, January 30th
     Time: 7:00 pm
     Location: Cranwell International Center

 

 
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