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LOCAL FUNDRAISER TO SAVE ANTIOCH COLLEGE

antiochians.org

For more information, press photos, or interviews contact

Jennie Knaggs at 517 – 420 – 0211 or email jennieknaggs

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2008
2:00 to 5:30 pm.

AJ’s Café
240 W 9 Mile Rd
Ferndale, MI 48220
(248) 399 -3946
www.ajsmusiccafe.com

South East Michigan Antioch College Alumni Chapter to hold Fundraiser Event

Since the closing of Antioch College this past June, negotiations to reopen have been underway, but we can’t wait. The Nonstop Institute is a collegium of former Antioch College students, faculty, staff, and alums inspired by the College’s high academic standards and curriculum based on social justice. The Nonstop Institute was created in response to Antioch University’s decision to close Antioch College and dismiss its tenured faculty.

The NONSTOP  Liberal Art Institute was created to carry the Soul and the DNA of Antioch.  Since September 4, 2008 the vibrant NONSTOP learning community has been growing and inventing itself and carrying forward the traditions of Antioch College in Yellow Springs.

The tradition of activism and progressive education that makes Antioch College and The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute so important today still thrives in the work of students and alumni all over the world.

Come and learn about — and celebrate – NONSTOP with an afternoon of film, poetry and music from Antioch Alumni. Featuring local poet Terry Blackhawk; Tendaji Ganges of the Antioch Alumni Board; Hassan Rahmanian, Professor at NONSTOP Liberal Arts Institute; Laurie White, filmmaker, with trailer for her new film “Refusing to be Enemies”; music by Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots, Tom Sain, and Dan Shoemaker; and a showing of the 1960’s film,“The Antioch Adventure”.

“Other reforms are remedial; education is preventative.” – Horace Mann

* * * *
“Be ashamed to die before you have won some victory for humanity …”

Following the herald of founder Horace Mann, Antioch College Alumni chapters all over the country have been passionately  organizing to save the historic liberal arts institute of Antioch College. Founded in 1853,   Antioch College was a liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio,  based on Horace Mann’s theories that blended practical work experience with classroom learning and participatory community governance. Boasting alumni such as Stephen Jay Gould (Science Historian), Eleanor Holmes Norton ( activist, Delegate to Congress), Mia Katherine Zapata ( lead singer of The Gits), Coretta Scott King ( civil rights activist, author), Antioch College was one of the first colleges in the US to enroll women and African Americans, and the first in higher education to give equal pay and rank to a female professor.

Antioch College is part of the Great Lakes College Association. The GLCA is based in Ann Arbor,  collaborating within a  liberal arts college network in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

LINKS

About NONSTOP and ANTIOCH ONLINE:

www.ysnews.com/stories/2008/10/102308_nonstop.html

nonstopinstitute.org

chronicle.com/news/article/5355/aaup-to-investigate-closing-of-antioch-college

Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots:
www.jennieknaggs.com

Great Lakes College Association:

www.glca.org/

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CHICAGO FILM THE FIRST BREATH OF TENGAN REI
PREMIERES AT GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER, 164 N. STATE ST., CHICAGO
FRIDAY, NOV. 21, 8:15 p.m, SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 8 p.m, MONDAY, NOV. 24,  7:45 p.m.
Antioch College Alumni Chapter Hosts Reception before Nov. 22 Screening

The emotional international drama The First Breath of Tengan Rei, written and directed by Chicago husband/wife filmmaking team Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski, has its Chicago premiere in a three-night run Nov. 21, 22 and 24 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.  The First Breath of Tengan Rei screens Friday, Nov. 21 at 8:15 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., and Monday, Nov. 24 at 7:45 p.m.

Kajino, a native of Nagano, Japan, and Koziarski, from Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood, met on a film set at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1997 when Koziarski was completing his senior film there when Kajino moved to town to start her film career.  Together they have helped produce dozens of independent films, all the while battling to make their own feature film.  They finally got their chance when Junko was inspired by a tragic true story that she felt a special responsibility and opportunity to tell, as a Japanese woman living in the U.S.

In The First Breath of Tengan Rei, Japanese star Erika (of Kore-Eda’s renowned After Life) plays Rei, a young Okinawan woman who kidnaps Paris, the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl.  While Rei holds Paris captive, the two are drawn together despite the scars of the past, as they prepare for a final confrontation with Paris’s father, Nelson.

Kajino and Koziarski filmed The First Breath of Tengan Rei in Chicago and Okinawa with a Japanese and Chicago cast and crew, overcoming language and cultural barriers and shooting through a typhoon in a former leper colony off the Okinawa coast.  North Carolina newcomer Katori Eason plays Paris.  Chicago stage veteran Sean Nix, mostly recently seen in Timeline Theatre Company’s production of Gore Vidal’s Weekend, portrays Nelson.  Nelson’s partner in crime, Carter, is portrayed by local film and TV actor Ric Arthur, who himself served in the Marines in Okinawa.  Mark Messing, leader of acclaimed local band Mucca Pazza, designed the sound for the film, and composed the score, featuring music by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Califone guitarist Jim Becker.

Before the Saturday Nov. 22 screening, the Chicago Alumni Chapter of Antioch College hosts a benefit reception for the college, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Film Center’s Gallery/Café.  A historic leader in progressive, experiential education, operations of Antioch College were suspended by Antioch University last summer.  College alumni are negotiating and raising funds to reopen the college as an independent institution next year and restore its vital place in the educational landscape.

$9 general admission tickets for the screenings can be purchased from the Film Center box office or from Ticketmaster at 312.575.8000 or www.ticketmaster.com.   There is no charge for the Nov. 22 reception. After-parties will follow each night, with locations to be announced at each screening.

Download press kit and stills at www.tenganrei.com/media.html.  Screeners available on request.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Junko Kajino
312.850.1247
kajinoj

Ed M. Koziarski
773.910.1444

Folks –

You are invited to the next meeting of the Antioch College Alumni Chapter of Southeastern Michigan and Northern Ohio:

WHEN:                 Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Margo Lowenstein has graciously offered to host our meeting, with refreshments (!!!) at her home:

WHERE:               1121 Gott St,  Ann Arbor

I’ve grabbed and attached some sample text (no maps) directions from Mapquest using Margo’s home address and figured routes from the north (Flint) south (Toledo) and east (Detroit). I’ve saved them in the 1997-2003 version of MS Word, so hopefully everyone can open them as needed.

WHAT:

Join Antiochians all across the country for Antioch (oops) NONSTOP Rocks, September 20-21, 2008 — a weekend dedicated to community building, planning, discussing, updating and coming-together as we move into the next phase of our struggle to save our beloved College.

Learn about alumni chapter organizing from NYC to LaJolla CA.

View the DVD prepared by the CRF.

Learn about the CRF, NLIA in YSO, Pro Tem Board, Task Force, GLCA and all the latest developments.

Contribute your ideas for our own chapter building and fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

WHY:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

BACKGROUND:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Since the Antioch University Board of Trustees ultimately rejected the alternative plans proposed by the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (AC3) it has proceeded to close and shutter the Yellow Springs campus. Since then the Antioch College faculty, staff and students, with the support of the townspeople and friends of Yellow Springs, and the Alumni Association and its Board of Directors, has just this week launched the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute. (For more complete information about the Institute, please go to the website:  nonstopinstitute.org/). Just shortly before the 2008 Alumni Reunion, the Antioch University Board of Trustees formally unanimously decided to ask the Alumni Association and our Board to make an offer and a plan to take offer the College. A task force was quickly appointed, as follows:

“The task force consists of two representatives of the Antioch College Alumni Association (we selected Matthew Derr ‘89 and Lee Morgan ‘66), two representatives of the Antioch University Board of Trustees, and the President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association as the mediator.” (Source: antiochians.org/2008/08/08/preparation-for-a-new-fully-independent-antioch-college-aided-by-new-advisors/)

These past few months have been marked by intense negotiations while we have observed the closing and shutting down of the College buildings, during which there has been a great deal of concern expressed about the “clearing and cleaning” of the buildings, the disposition of furnishings and the preparation of the buildings for the coming cold weather. Please read about some of our frustrations by taking a look at the comments of our Alumni Association President, Nancy Crow, at the following site: antiochians.org/2008/09/08/campus-facilities-update-from-nancy-crow-president-alumni-board-of-directors/

Meanwhile, the work continues to establish the structure of the team that will initially guide the resurrection of Antioch College:

“The Antioch College Alumni Board of Directors announced that it has named the first 5 members to the College Board of Trustees Pro Tem. This initial group includes Matthew Derr ‘89, Atis Folkmanis ‘62, Frances Degen Horowitz ‘54, Lee Morgan ‘66, and Barbara Slaner Winslow ‘68.” (Source:   antiochians.org/2008/08/20/first-5-members-named-to-antioch-college-board-of-trustees-pro-tem/)

There is again some light on the horizon and strong hope for reclaiming Antioch. The folks on the ground at the newly established administrative offices are fully committed to providing the support and structure for the process of rebuilding. (Please see the following site for a description of the offices and the work that is underway in Yellow Springs: antiochians.org/2008/04/10/nonstop-antioch-has-new-home-and-staff/)

“April 10, 2008– Antioch alumni working through the College Revival Fund, Inc. (CRF) announced today that they have opened new offices in Yellow Springs, Ohio for “Nonstop Antioch.” These offices are at 716 Xenia Avenue, right across the street from the Antioch College campus. The CRF is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt non-profit corporation founded by members of the Antioch College Alumni Association. Since last June, the CRF has raised over $19.5 million dollars for a continuing, independent Antioch College.

CRF Acting President Ellen Borgersen said today in a statement, “The Antioch University Board of Trustees has shown that they are unworthy to and unwilling to carry on the Antioch College educational mission. The attack on Antioch College is an attack on experiential liberal arts education, shared governance, tenured faculty, and unionized staff. It is up to the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and townspeople of Yellow Springs to carry on the historic mission of Antioch College, and Nonstop Antioch is the vehicle that will organize alumni support for that effort.”

There are pressing issues that need to be considered and the full support of all of the Antioch College Alumni is needed.

In addition to more complete reports about the structure being developed to assume control of the College and its ultimate reopening, we will be able to view a DVD about the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute, and discuss options and opportunities for our involvement. Not the least of these concerns is mounting a massive fundraising initiative, led by Risa Grimes and her staff now based at our 716 Xenia Avenue offices. I’ve attached a copy of the “College Revival Form” Pledge/Payment Form to begin that process. But we will also need everyone’s input for some ideas for fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

We need you to come out, join in and work with us in what we hope will be a major push over the top of the mountain leading to a renewed and revitalized autonomous Antioch College – something we haven’t had for three decades!

Can we count on you, please?!

If anyone has any questions, suggestions or concerns, please contact either one of us.

To assist with planning and refreshments, please RSVP to this email to either of your chapter co-chairs:

Tendaji W. Ganges at tganges
Terry Blackhawk at terry260.

We look forward to seeing you on September 21st at Margo’s house!

BE ASHAMED TO LET IT DIE!!!

Tendaji W. Ganges and Terry Blackhawk
Co-Chairs

Hi Everyone!

This weekend Saturday, September 20th we are gathering at

The Spot
4437 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL

Starting at 9pm with open bar reception from 10pm-11pm.  Please bring a non-perishable food item for The Spot’s canned food drive and just mention “Antioch” to cut the line and waive the cover.

Please join us on The Spot’s patio show our solidarity with the national Nonstop Rocks weekend to support Nonstop Antioch and the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.  We will catch up with each other and the state of the Nonstop Antioch movement.

If you haven’t been involved with the Chicago Chapter, this is the perfect start! Join us for a fun, social evening among friends and get the latest lowdown from the front lines.

How can you help?  Spread the word!  Then?  Attend!    Below is the link to the The Nonstop at The Spot Facebook event page, and attached is the invitation.

Hope to see you there!

Beth Richards ‘04
Outreach/ Recruitment Coordinator
Chicago Area Alumni Chapter

Sept 20th Facebook Event Page

www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=40032253520

Chicago Antiochians Facebook Group

www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=38213289792

Friday October 10th the Austin chapter will hold its fundraiser at the home of alums Tim Eubanks and Harley Gambill.  We will provide an update on Non Stop, have time for folks to craft fundraising appeals to their friends and family.  Wine and cake will also be available for sale to benefit Non Stop.  At the event folks will be encouraged to go online and make their donation.

For more information contact Tim Eubanks at teubanks

** WE NEED A VOLUNTEER TO TAKE MINUTES **

WHAT: NYC Antioch College Community Chapter Meeting
WHEN: Mon 9-15-08 at 7pm SHARP
WHERE: 249 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn 11211

Directions (Map here > tinyurl.com/6z9q6w)

From Manhattan, take the L Train to Graham Avenue. Walk one block West on

Metropolitan Avenue (back towards the city) to Manhattan Avenue. Turn left (south) on

Manhattan Avenue and walk 3 blocks. We are on the corner of Powers St. Use the door

under the stairs. The building says ‘Neighborhood Women House’ on the outside.

Agenda priority:

• Eric Miller – CRF Development Officer – CRF update, goals & comments
• 9-19 fundraising event – wine tasting – invite your network!
• Chapter building
• NYC chapter business/functionality/process
• other agenda items as called by members

Full details here:

newyorkcity.chapters.antiochians.org/2008/09/chapter-meeting-9-15-08/

We are meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. , Sunday, September 21, 2008, at Margo Lowenstein’s house (1121 Gott St. in Ann Arbor).

We’ll show the DVD, give updates from reunion and the latest in negotiations, and make plans for a showcase/benefit for Nonstop.

For more information contact Terry Blackhawk at terry

To SFBA Antioch Alumni:

Join with us in a nationwide effort the third weekend in September to bring attention and funding to the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, the formal name for the heroic efforts to retain the heart and soul of Antioch College while we continue to wrest it from Antioch University.

We continue to sit in limbo awaiting news of the outcome of the conversations between the Alumni Association and the University Trustees. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have planned two Limbo Parties for Saturday, September 20th. You’ll have a chance to learn more about Nonstop, a dynamic vehicle for keeping the spirit and essence of the college we attended in good working order while we wait for the outcome.

Come limbo with us on Saturday, September 20th in San Francisco or Oakland, or both!

Ÿ         San Francisco, at the home of Barrie and Peter Grenell ‘61, ‘65

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

4340 – 25th Street (between Diamond and Douglass), SF 94114

RSVP to 415-826-5391 or sercle and let us know what you’ll be bringing

Ÿ         Oakland, at the home of Jeff Mackler ‘63

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

33 Mandana Circle, Oakland 94610

RSVP to 510-268-9429 or jmackler and let us know what you’ll be bringing

We’re hopeful that the Lucky Band will play at both events, including “Sitting here in limbo….” with our own special words. Calling all limbo-ers!

Please bring some food or beverage to share and plan to make a donation for Nonstop.

For more information about Nonstop, visit nonstopinstitute.org.

AND remember to come to our monthly meet-ups, held both weekdays and weekends . Our locations are both convenient to BART and other transportation. Come visit with other Antioch College alumni.

Meet-up locations:

Ÿ         East Bay:    Second Sundays (next meeting: September 14th)

Au Coquelet Café (2000 University Avenue, at Milvia)

9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Ÿ         San Francisco         Third Thursdays (next meeting: September 18th)

Schroeder’s Restaurant (free happy hour food)

240 Front Street (between California and Sacramento, near Embarcadero Center)

5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

We look forward to seeing you!

Barrie, Kelly, John, Ben, Sandina, Anne

NYC Antioch College Community Chapter presents
“SCRAPPY UNDERDOG WINES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE”
– a wine tasting event to benefit the College Revival Fund –

WHEN: Friday, September 19th, 2008
7:00 – 9:30 pm
LOCATION: Bob Rock Studio
873 Broadway, Suite #302
NY, NY 10003
(west side of the street just above East 18th Street)
Buzzer # 0013
COST: $150.00 per person

An invitation to all alumni, friends and future friends of Antioch College:

Please join us for an evening of wine tasting to benefit the College Revival Fund during the “Nonstop Rocks” national fundraising weekend. Antioch College alum David Ramm will be leading the tasting in a beautiful and spacious photography studio, located in a fully accessible building near Union Square.

We will taste eight wines from around the world, many of them from organically or biodynamically farmed vineyards, all of them from people unwilling to bow to the wine world’s prevailing wisdom. Released into a market that demands sameness and quietly forgives manipulation, these handcrafted wines offer brilliant specificity, distilling the place, time, people, and traditions that produced them into approachable, compelling wines for everyday meals and special occasions.

Experienced wine tasters will discover little-heralded and often underpriced wineries and wine regions, while people with limited formal tasting experience will be given an unusual but well-grounded starting point for a lifetime’s exploration.

ABOUT DAVID RAMM: Having first tasted wine in Yellow Springs at the home of music professor John Ronsheim, David went on to take Ronsheim’s Art, Wine, and the Five Senses course and from there set to working in the wine business in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. He has taught dozens of wine appreciation classes for businesses and private groups and as an instructor in Duke University’s continuing education division. He is currently the editor-in-chief of AMS Press, a small, scrappy scholarly publishing company based in Brooklyn.

For anyone who had the privilege of being in one of John Ronsheim’s classes, you know the lasting impression he left on all of our lives. We will raise our glasses in his honor this evening.

In order to maintain the integrity of the experience we are limiting the tasting to 25 people.

RSVP required by Monday, September 15th, 2008

RSVP to antioch.nyc or to 917-864-2951 with complete address, email and phone contact information to reserve your space.
We cannot guarantee your RSVP without this information.
Payment can be made by check, credit card or cash.
We will follow-up with payment instructions and confirmation once you have RSVP’d
As this is a fundraising event, no refunds will be given unless the event itself is cancelled.

For more information on the College Revival Fund: www.antiochians.org

If you have questions about this event, please contact Lynda White at 917-864-2951

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