Events: Bakersfield Life

Bakersfield City Council

Bakersfield City Council, regular meeting begins at 5:15 p.m.; continued at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Council chambers, 1501 Truxtun Ave.

Blues Preservation Society

Blues Preservation Society, meeting featuring Nat Dove with a lecture on Blues history with rare footage, 7 to 9 p.m., Spotlight Theatre, 1622 19th St. 634-0692.

Kern County Gourd Crafting Group

Kern County Gourd Crafting Group, learn, share and enjoy gourd art, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Beverly Fabrics, 2819 F Street. 588-8398.

Lunch and Learn - OSHA Update

KDG Human Resource Solutions is hosting a monthly lunch program designed to provide continuing education on timely HR management issues.

The topic is "OSHA Update" and will provide information on how to stay in compliance with all the requirements of OSHA, and is perfect for HR professionals, office managers, and payroll administrators:

Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Fee: $10 - Lunch is included in this fee.
Location: KDG Training Room, 4550 California Ave., Bakersfield
Registration: Pre-registration is required. Call Brandi Gray at 661.328-5291 or e-mail bgray@kdghrsolutions.com
More Information: Call Brandi Gray at 661.328-5291 or e-mail bgray@kdghrsolutions.com

Bakersfield City Council

Bakersfield City Council, regular meeting begins at 5:15 p.m.; continued at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Council chambers, 1501 Truxtun Ave.

Al-Anon Family Speaker Meeting

Al-Anon Family Speaker Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3700 Union Ave. 322-1102.

Senior art students to exhibit work at CSUB gallery

Twenty-five California State University, Bakersfield art students will present their work at the “Synergy: Senior Exhibition” in the Todd Madigan Gallery, May 22 – June 7. The student artists will be showing their drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, ceramics and paintings.

“The student work is dynamic, colorful, thoughtful, quirky and sometimes racy,” said Michael Johnson, director of the gallery. “We have a large number of artists this year and will expand the exhibition into the adjacent Albertson Room. There is a lot of talent on display.”

The exhibiting seniors are Joe Barajas, Evan Crocker, Ashley Derryberry, Tina Dille, Andrea Gonzalez, Lynn Hayden, José Iñiguez, Freddy Jimenez, Jason Johnson, Darla Kendrick, Erin Lange, Michelle Lyon, Zila Marquez, Jennifer Mitchell, Susan Nelson, Marisela Oropeza, Ali Padgett, Melissa Pendleton, Natalie Phillips, Victoria Sakamoto, Thomas Searcy, Diana Streich, Alexi Sveine, Stephinie Touch, and Crystal Villaneuva.

A special opening reception will be held Thursday, May 22 from 5 to 9 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Food, drinks and free parking are included.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Special gallery hours will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free and a daily parking permit is $2.

Scouting Skate Party!

Come Join the Boy Scouts for a Scout Skating Party!

Thursday May 22, 2008 from 6:30pm - 8:30 pm at Rollerama on 34th Street in Bakersfield. Parents learn about Boy Scouting while kids skate. For boys in grade K through 5. Kids must bring parent or guardian.

$3.00 fee includes skate rental. Active Scouts in uniform pay only $1!

For more information contact Jeff at 661-325-9036.

Synergy; Senior Exhibition at CSUB

Quick Start for Supervisors, Session L

Quick Start for Supervisors, Session L, a nine-week session until May 22, 8 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, P.A.S. Associates Training Center, 1401 19th St., 1st Floor. Web site www.PASassociates.com or 631-2165.

BYROM, RUSSELL, MITCHELL, BERGHOFF - Pyrenees tonight!

Pyrenees 8:00 PM

Tonight

FRI May 23rd!

BYROM, RUSSELL, MITCHELL, BERGHOFF

With possible "special" guests!!!

323-0053

corner of Kern & Sumner

CSUB social work students to present community projects

California State University, Bakersfield students who are completing their master's degrees in social work will present their culminating projects at a special event on Friday, May 23 in the Romberg Nursing Center, room 105. Students will discuss their work from 8 a.m - 6:30 p.m., with a poster presentation of their projects from 3 - 4 p.m. in Dorothy Donahue Hall.

At the CSUB Antelope Valley center, student work will be highlighted on Wednesday, May 28 in room 401, with the exhibition at 5 p.m. and presentations beginning at 6 p.m.

"The projects are the culminating education experience for each MSW student and represent work done in collaboration with local social service agencies," said Bruce Friedman, professor of social work. "The students have focused on a wide variety of interesting topics. There's no doubt their work will help them become better professionals."

Mayra Gonzalez's project titled "Community Needs Assessment of People Residing in Lamont, Arvin and Weedpatch, California, with a Focus on Agricultural Workers" recently took top honors in a CSUB research competition. Other topics focus on social worker sensitivity in foster care, increasing social interaction in autistic adolescents, heat-illness prevention among agricultural workers, and stress management for Alzheimer's disease caregivers.

Brigadoon Auditions

Bakersfield Music Theatre- Stars Dinner Theatre is holding auditions for Brigadoon.

Performance Dates run through the month of July. Please come prepared to sing with a piano accompaniment, and you will be asked to dance and read a scene from the show.

Directed by Adam and Terri Cline.

For more info, please call 661-343-2499

AUDITIONS "Who's Got Christian Talent"

Vessels of Honor Ministries is hosting Auditions for christian talent. Those chosen will be able to showcase their talent at our outreach concert on June 21, 2008. The concert is free and will be held in the late afternoon/early evening. Time (TBA) later.

Auditions will be held on May 24th and May 31st @ Vessels of Honor Ministries @ 225 Chester Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301.

If you have further questions, you may email S. Coleman @ wmofvrtue@cfaith.com or call 661-496-5343

AUDITIONS: Medea

Auditions for The August Production at TES
MEDEA
By Euripedes
Directed by Bob Kempf

Auditions: Sunday, May 25, 4-6pm; Saturday, May 31, 11am-1pm
Performances: August 8 - 23, 2008
Rehearsals: 7-10pm, Sunday - Thursday beginning July 13

The Plot: After retrieving the legendary golden fleece, Jason brings his wife Medea to settle in Corinth. There Jason falls in love with the local princess, whose status in the city will bring Jason financial security. He marries her without telling Medea. Medea takes revenge by killing the new bride and her father, the King of Corinth. Medea then purposely stabs her children to death in order to deprive Jason of all he loved (as well as heirs that
would carry on his name). She escapes to Athens with the bodies. The chorus of Corinthian women is left contemplating the will of Zeus in Medea's actions.
MEDEA has withstood the test of time to become one of the great tragedies of classical Greece.

CHARACTERS
Medea: (CAST) Barbarian, sorceress, woman of passion and rage. Clever, powerful, and ruthless, fiercely proud; a cunning and cold manipulator
Jason: Leader of the Argonauts, an opportunistic and unscrupulous man, full of self-deception and repugnant smugness.
Creon: King of Corinth. Suspicious, paranoid.
Aegeus: King of Athens. Friend of Medea. Kindly and trusting ruler.
Nurse: Servant to Medea, loyal to Medea. She is an outside commentator on the events of the play. As a slave, she is a canny but powerless observer.
Tutor: Tutor to Medea's children. Like the nurse, he comments on the behavior of his masters, although he has a different perspective on events.
Messenger: brings the news of the deaths of Creon and the Corinthian princess.
Chorus of Corinthian Women: The women of Corinth. Medea enlists their loyalty, extracting a vow of silence. They watch the horrific events unfold, but do not interfere. Though they condemn Medea at times, on the whole they seem to be more enthralled than disgusted by her. Like Medea, they are subject to the injustices that befall women; there is a part of them that seems to live vicariously through Medea's terrible revenge.