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By TIMES STAFF
Published April 25, 2007

Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. The Times lists these events in an occasional column. All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Send information at least two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.

Eckerd College

4200 54th Ave. S

St. Petersburg, 864-7979

Greg Moore, assistant professor of political science at Eckerd College, will present the Possibility of Forgiveness in International and Internecine Conflict at 1 p.m. today at the Triton Room. Moore is a member of the Council of Faculty Fellows, a group that presents papers based on the theme of forgiveness. The fellows will discuss Moore's topic after his presentation.

The Eckerd College and St. Petersburg College bands will present a Combined Bands Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Raymond James Room at Fox Hall. The program will include the music of Sousa, Montague, Grainger, Weber, Holst and Rob Smith. Clarinetist David Irwin will perform as soloist.

Eckerd College Theater will present Alice Through Glass at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and May 3-5; and 2 p.m. Sunday at Bininger Theater. Gavin Hawk directs original theater created and performed by senior theater majors.

African director Abderrahmane Sissako's 2006 film Bamako will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday at Miller Auditorium. The film is set in the courtyard of a communal residence in Bamako, Mali. While residents go about their daily routines, the World Bank and IMF are put on trial for being the cause of Africa's problems. In French and Bambara with subtitles. Linda Lucas, professor of economics, will lead a discussion after the film.

Spring Wellness Fair will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at Hough Quad. Local organizations will provide information on acupuncture, sexual health, the American Red Cross, alcohol awareness, the YMCA, Reiki, dermatology, massage therapy, spiritual wellness, women's health, mental health, yoga, meditation and Chinese medicine. Massages and health screenings for cholesterol, blood glucose, BMI, body fat and blood pressure will be available at no charge. A healthy lunch with live music will be available for $7.

Cory Hall, Eckerd College piano instructor and choir accompanist, will give a piano recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at Roberts Hall, Room 104. His program will include music by Beethoven, Liszt and Gottschalk.

Denise Baker, professor of literature and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will present Julian of Norwich and Medieval English Mysticism at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Galbraith Marine Science Auditorium. Baker has written on Chaucer, Langland, Gower and other English mystics, and in 2005 published the Norton Critical Edition of The Showings of Julian of Norwich.

St. Petersburg College

6605 Fifth Ave. N

St. Petersburg

Pianist Ursel Schlicht and flutist Robert Dick will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Music Center. Schlicht and Dick's music combines composition and improvisation. Schlicht plays both the keyboard and the inside of her piano. Dick uses a wide range of flutes, including his own invention, the Glissando Headjoint. Admission is $10, and $8 for students and seniors ages 65 and older. There will be a free flute workshop with Robert Dick at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Music Center. Call 341-4363 or 341-4301.

The SPC Concert Chorus will present the World of Randall Thompson at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Music Center. The program will include Frostiana, Thompson's composition of seven poems by Robert Frost, Glory to God in the Highest, Alleluia, The Last Words of David and Fantasy for Annabel Lee by SPC student composer Kevin Pace. Call 341-4301.

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