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Upcoming 2008 Events:

December 4, 2008 Christmas Benefit

This annual black-tie dinner will be held once again in the Debartolo Center for the Performing Arts on the traditional first Thursday of December.

The honorees for 2008 have not been selected. In 2007 they were community leaders Tom and Charlotte Mittler. Charlotte has been an exemplary Friends' board member; Tom has generously lent some of his classic sports cars to two Snite Museum exhibitions over the years; they both have long supported Friends' and Snite Museum programs and been underwriters of the Christmas Benefit.

Annually about 50 students from selected area public and private high schools that are interested in art and related careers are invited by the Friends to spend the day on campus observing and participating in art classes taught by faculty and students of the Art, Art History and Design Department. MFA graduate students also give tours of the annual MFA/BFA exhibition at the Snite.

The next Friends' annual High School Art Day on campus will be held on April 18, 2008.

The Friends of The Snite Museum of Art
University of Notre Dame
invites members and volunteers to an

Appreciation Breakfast and Cinema

in recognition of membership support and volunteerism
9:00 am, Tuesday May 20, 2008
The Snite Museum of Art atrium

The guest speaker for 2008 has yet to be selected.

R.S.V.P. to the Office of the Friends at 574-631-5516.

Parking for this even is in the lot south of the Joyce Center, north of the intersection of Edison and Juniper Roads. Shuttle service will run continuously from the parking area to the Museum, from 8:30 to 9:30 am and immediately following the movie.

The Movie for 2008 has yet to be selected

In 2006 it was Ladies in Lavender

Two aging spinster sisters, whose cottage by the sea in 1936 Cornwall afforded uneventful beach walks, reading, sewing and tea time, come upon a handsome, half-dead young man washed ashore after a violent storm. They (Ursula, Dame Judi Dench and Janet, Dame Maggie Smith) nurse him back to health, disregarding suspicions of the locals during pre-war times in England. When the talented Polish violinist develops a friendship with a visiting beautiful Russian artist, anti-foreign phobia increases. Humor, period detail, myriad subtleties, the invitingly homey yet windswept otherness of the locale and time are of great importance, and music is a key component with violin passages that are emotionally stunning. But, the film belongs to two of the greatest thespians ever.

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