Category: Events

1) Student-Faculty Dinner (Holiday Party)

Tuesday, December 10th, 5-7pm at Chalin’s Restaurant
All-you-care-to-eat Chinese food for only $5?  There’s a question you shouldn’t need to study for to figure out. Get your ticket at any UHP office before the event, and enjoy this fun tradition with other UHPers, faculty, and staff.

2) Gingerbread House Decorating Party

Thursday, December 12th, 2-5pm in the Foggy Bottom Townhouse (714 21st St NW) – Facebook Event
Because if you don’t build them, then where are all the gingerbread men and women going to live?  HAVE  A HEART. HAVE SOME COMPASSION.  AND HAVE SOME CANDY, BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE CANDY.

Fun fact: we play a fireplace video on the TV — it’s that kind of party.  Feel free to wear your ugliest sweater.

3) Study Hours in Foggy Bottom Townhouse

Lots of times this week.
Don’t get distracted with endless procasti-cleaning, roommates, or mortal combat for space in Gelman.  Study in the UHP townhouse in Foggy Bottom.  We have all the brainfood you need (Chocolate covered peanutbutter filled pretzels, you guys.  ChoCoPeBu pretzels. So good.) Come on in during extended study hours and get your cramming on!

A leading Slovenian composer will hold two concerts this week:
Thursday, 12/12/13 at 7:30pm – Phillips Collection at 1600 21st Street, NW

and

Friday, 12/13/13  at 2:30pm – 801 22nd Street, NW – B-120
(Food will be served!)

If you are interested in attending either of these concerts for FREE, send an email with your first and last name to Prof. Theo Christov at christov@gwu.edu.

Guest Lecture with Micro-Financing Professional
Marvin Center 301
Wed 12/4 from 7:00-8:30pm
Hello fellow honors students! Interested in finance, international development, entrepreneurship, and/or small businesses? We thought so, and thus wanted to send a special invitation to the Honors Community. We’d love for you to join us for a lecture and Q&A session with the Business Development Coordinator of Oikocredit, Leah Gage. She will be discussing the mission and role that Oikocredit has in the micro financing world. It’s a great opportunity to learn about an incredible micro financing organization based here in DC as well as learn more about what our organization, Micro-Financing at GW, has been up to. Come listen, discuss, and network with fellow micro-financing enthusiasts. Oh, and if you’re not convinced yet, FREE HOT COCOA AND DESSERT WILL BE SERVED : ) Join the facebook event to let us know you’re coming:Oikocredit Lecture Facebook Event

This guest post is written by Hunter Scott, Marissa Price and Stephanie Anderson, Honors students in GW’s Generic Theatre Company.
Hello UHPers! Here’s a smart person question: How do you pronounce “Generican?” That’s who we are – Marissa Price, Hunter Scott, and Steph Anderson – UHPers that have all found a home at GW within Generic Theatre Company. However, we still get a little confused sometimes about what to call ourselves: “Gener-I-can?” “Gen-ER-ican?” Or, “Genericite,” the poor oft-ignored version, probably because it sounds like a tiny parasitic insect? (The consensus is on the second option so far).
Anyways, Generic, founded in 1985, is GW’s oldest student theatre company. Marissa is this year’s Co-Executive Producer, Hunter is Co-Artistic Director, and Steph is Assistant Technical Director. We put on 2-4 shows per semester, plus the all-freshman-acted-and-teched Freshman Showcase in fall and 24-Hour Play in spring. As a company, we tend to produce darker shows that are intellectual and often very new – even student written! Of course, these trends aren’t rules, and we also decide shows based on themes that we organically derive from the directing proposals we receive each semester. That’s why we’re writing this now: we are super excited about our theme of “Strong Women” for this season, and its final show, I Am My Own Wife!
For our season this semester, we received a number of very strong proposals, and ultimately chose The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Rachel Bell, Steel Magnolias, directed by Henry Morillo, and I Am My Own Wife, directed by Max Young-Jones. Anne Frank is of course incredibly famous, and many of you are probably familiar with Steel Magnolias, a 1980’s dramedy about six women in a Louisiana hair salon and their support of each other through life’s twists and turns. I Am My Own Wife is about a transgender woman, Charlotte, who survives through Nazi and Soviet regimes with a furniture museum and gay club in her basement in East Berlin. The show is acted entirely by one person, who plays almost 40 different characters from around the world. Anne Frank and Steel Magnolias have already gone up very successfully, but I Am My Own Wife is going up this weekend, on Thursday the 5th at 7pm, and Friday and Saturday at 8pm, in the Lisner Downstage!
 
We chose these shows because they all showcase very strong women – though in a way that emphasizes how non-universal the characteristics of strong women are. There are no stereotypes in our season: each protagonist is strong in her own completely unique and powerful way. We hope that the UHP can come and enjoy Charlotte’s own unique strength this weekend with us three and the rest of Generic.
If you enjoy the show, come audition for our shows next semester, and become a “Generican” yourself! BTW – if you figure out how to pronounce it, let us know.