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Zombies to invade Fairview with message illuminating common student crises/issues.

Feb 13th

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BOULDER, CO: An army of zombies, a catalyst in bringing awareness to critical student crises/issues, is set to invade Fairview High School at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Richard Goode-Allen, of CU-Boulder, will be shooting an Awareness Drive week “zombie-video” about problems such as substance abuse, cutting, stress, depression and eating disorders.

zombie-army2Students aren’t scheduled to attend class that day, leaving the school mostly vacant for the video production. Fairview’s Zombies vs. Humans Club is serving as the nuclei in the video, and club members and participants will receive professional makeup and costuming provided by Theatrical Costumes, Etc. of Boulder. The video will be used to promote the Awareness Drive week at Fairview during the week of March 18-22. This effort is a pilot for what organizers hope to roll out to other schools in the district and beyond.

 

“A lot of kids aren’t getting the help they need,” Goode-Allen said. The goal of Awareness Drive week is to provide tools, internal and external resources, and guidance to students dealing with critical personal crises and issues. The zombies in the video represent the “zombie emotions” that can cause destructive behaviors, such as cutting and eating disorders, Goode-Allen said. “It will give the students the ability to look metaphorically at these issues.”

 

The video, to be available during the week long event and online at a planned AwarenessDrive.org website, will help make students aware of the support that is available to them to deal with these challenges.

 

“The commonality is that we really need to promote awareness, tools, support and make sure students don’t feel like they are alone,” Goode-Allen said.

 

The Awareness Drive week events are as follows:

Tuesday, March 19 – “Voices Out of Silence” to present in Choir classes

Wednesday, March 20 – Resource Fair during block lunch

Thursday, March 21 – Resource Fair and Denver Gay Men’s Chorus presentation during block lunch

Friday, March 22 – “We Are Fairview” Day

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CU’s anti-violence production of ‘The Tempest’ to tour Colorado schools

Feb 12th

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The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s highly praised school anti-violence tour continues in spring 2013 with a new program based on “The Tempest” that focuses on themes of vengeance and forgiveness.

Created in conjunction with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder, CSF’s “Twelfth Night” anti-bullying tour has now been seen by more than 22,000 Colorado schoolchildren. That inaugural program examined the problem of bullying through the character Malvolio.
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The new program explores the character of Prospero, who conjures a mighty tempest to shipwreck his enemies of old on his remote island domain. But even as he plots his revenge on those who wronged him years before, he ponders his actions and at the last moment turns to forgiveness instead.

“The rarer action is in virtue rather than vengeance,” Prospero says, renouncing all his schemes for payback.

“This is really about how to relate to other people and deal with conflict in your life. This performance and the workshops that follow focus on the importance of reconciliation and forgiveness as a tool for ending the cycle of violence,” says CSF Literary Manager Amanda Giguere, who co-created the program with Timothy Orr, interim producing artistic director.

During the program, four professional actors perform an abbreviated version of the play. The actors then lead the students in small-group exercises exploring alternatives to violence that are based on the latest research from CU-Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.

The play emphasizes that there is always a choice between continuing the “cycles of revenge” and choosing not to retaliate, says Beverly Kingston, director of the center. She notes that 33 percent of American high school students had been in at least one physical fight in the preceding 12 months, according to the 2011 national youth risk behavior survey.

“You can see that in every one of those fights, someone had to make a decision to retaliate for some reason,” Kingston says. “Violence really begins with a decision and we all have a choice how we respond to difficult circumstances in our lives. That’s the message of this play.”

The new play makes use of Japanese bunraku-style puppets to represent some of the characters, including Prospero and his spirit servant Ariel.

In actor and stage manager Caroline Barry’s hands and animated by her voice, Ariel’s sea-blue face and colorful trailing veils seem almost to swim across the stage. With a few simple gestures — a thoughtful nod and touching foreheads with his spirit companion — the puppet Prospero becomes a fully-fledged character.

“We really want you to start imagining the actors’ expressions on the puppets,” says actor Crystal Eisele.

The new program debuts Feb. 12 at the Cole Arts and Sciences Academy in Denver. There are more than 40 schools on the spring schedule — and for the first time, a senior center — and Giguere expects to add more.

CSF’s innovative anti-violence school programs have received tens of thousands of dollars in grant funding and been featured prominently in print, online and television media across Colorado.

CSF’s anti-violence production of “The Tempest” is available for booking. For more information email csfedout@colorado.edu, call 303-492-1973 or visit .

 

CSF in the Schools: “The Tempest,” spring 2013 scheduled performances

February 12 (AM) Cole Arts & Sciences Academy – Denver

February 12 (PM) Denver Montclair International – Denver

February 13 (AM) Whittier Elementary School – Boulder

February 13 (PM) Angevine Middle School – Lafayette

February 14 (AM) Eagle Ridge Academy – Brighton

February 15 (PM) Flagstaff Charter School – Longmont

February 19 (AM) Westminster High School – Westminster

February 20 (AM) High Point Academy – Aurora

February 20 (PM) Clyde Miller P-8 – Aurora

February 21 (AM) Sunset Middle School – Longmont

February 22 (AM) Archuleta Elementary School – Denver

February 22 (PM) McGlone Elementary – Denver

February 26 (PM) Platte River Charter Academy – Highlands Ranch

February 27 (AM) The Academy of Charter Schools – Westminster

February 28 (AM) Douglass Elementary School – Boulder

February 28 (PM) Friends’ School – Boulder

March 1 (PM) Asbury Elementary School – Denver

March 5 (AM) Boulder Explore – Boulder

March 5 (PM) Gold Hill Elementary School – Gold Hill

March 6 (PM) Spangler Elementary – Longmont

March 8 (PM) Sacred Heart of Jesus – Boulder

March 13 (AM/PM) Timberview Middle School – Colorado Springs

March 15 (AM) Coal Ridge Middle School – Firestone

March 20 (AM) Thornton High School – Thornton

March 20 (PM) North High School – Denver

April 2 (AM) Escuela Tlatelolco Charter School – Denver

April 2 (PM) Force Elementary School – Denver

April 3 (AM) SOAR Green Valley Ranch – Denver

April 4 (AM) Woodlin School – Woodrow

April 4 (PM) Arickaree School – Anton

April 5 (AM) Dunstan Middle School – Lakewood

April 5 (PM) Bryant Webster Elementary – Denver

April 9 (AM) Northeast Elementary School – Parker

April 9 (PM) Henry World School – Denver

April 10 (AM) Lafayette Elementary School – Lafayette

April 10 (PM) Longmont Estates Elementary – Longmont

April 11 (AM) Niwot Elementary School – Niwot

April 11 (PM) Eagle Crest Elementary School – Longmont

April 12 (AM) OLLI West (Senior Center) – Denver

April 12 (PM) Horizon Community Middle – Aurora

CU study: Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline

Feb 12th

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Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says a University of Colorado Boulder-led study.

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The new study showed that pinyon pine seed cone production declined by an average of about 40 percent at nine study sites in New Mexico and northwestern Oklahoma over the past four decades, said CU-Boulder doctoral student Miranda Redmond, who led the study. The biggest declines in pinyon pine seed cone reproduction were at the higher elevation research sites experiencing more dramatic warming relative to lower elevations, said Redmond of CU’s ecology and evolutionary biology department.

“We are finding significant declines in pinyon pine cone production at many of our study sites,” said Redmond. “The biggest declines in cone production we measured were in areas with greater increases in temperatures over the past several decades during the March to October growing season.”

The cones in which the pinyon seeds are produced are initiated two years prior to seed maturity, and research suggests the environmental stimulus for cone initiation is unseasonably low temperatures during the late summer, said Redmond. Between 1969 and 2009, unseasonably low temperatures in late summer decreased in the study areas, likely inhibiting cone initiation and development.

The study is one of the first to examine the impact of climate change on tree species like pinyon pines that, instead of reproducing annually, shed vast quantities of cones every few years during synchronous, episodic occurrences known as “masting” events. Redmond said such masting in the pinyon pine appears to occur every three to seven years, resulting in massive “bumper crops” of cones covering the ground.

In the new Ecosphere study, the researchers compared two 10-year sequences of time. In addition to showing that total pinyon pine cone production during the 2003-2012 decade had declined from the 1969-1978 decade in the study areas, the team found the production of cones during masting events also declined during that period.

Some scientists believe masting events evolved to produce a big surplus of nut-carrying cones — far too many for wildlife species to consume in a season — making it more likely the nuts eventually will sprout into pinyon pine seedlings, she said. Others have suggested masting events occur during favorable climate conditions and/or to increase pollination efficiency. “Right now we really don’t know what drives them,” Redmond said.

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“Across a range of forested ecosystems we are observing widespread mortality events due to stressors such as changing climate, drought, insects and fire,” said CU’s Barger.  “This study provides evidence that increasing air temperatures may be influencing the ability of a common and iconic western U.S. tree, pinyon pine, to reproduce. We would predict that declines in pinyon pine cone production may impact the long-term viability of these tree populations.”

Wildlife biologists say pinyon-juniper woodlands are popular with scores of bird and mammal species ranging from black-chinned hummingbirds to black bears. A 2007 study by researchers at the University of Northern Arizona estimated that 150 Clark’s Nutcrackers cached roughly 5 million pinyon pine nuts in a single season, benefiting not only the birds themselves but also the pines whose nuts were distributed more widely for possible germination.

For the new study, Redmond revisited nine pinyon pine study sites scattered throughout New Mexico and Oklahoma that had been studied previously in 1978 by Forcella. Both Forcella and Redmond were able to document pinyon pine masting years by counting small, concave blemishes known as “abscission scars” on individual tree branches that appeared after the cones have been dropped, she said.

Since each year in the life of a pinyon pine tree is marked by a “whorl” — a single circle of branches extending around a tree trunk — the researchers were able to bracket pinyon pine reproductive activity in the nine study areas for the 1969-1978 decade and 2003-2012 decade, which were then compared.

Pinyon pines take three growing seasons, or about 26 months, to produce mature cones from the time of cone initiation.  Low elevation conifers including pinyon pines grow in water-limited environments and have been shown to have higher cone output during cool and/or wet summers, said Redmond. In addition to the climate-warming trend under way in the Southwest, the 2002-03 drought caused significant mortality in pinyon pine forests, Redmond said.

“Miranda’s ideas and accompanying results will be of value to ecologists and land managers in the deserts of the Southwest and beyond,” said Forcella, now a research agronomist in the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.  “The work is evidence that the University of Colorado continues to cultivate a cadre of high-caliber graduate students for which it rightfully can take tremendous pride.”

Pinyon nuts, the Southwest’s only commercial source of edible pine seeds today, were dietary staples of indigenous Americans going back millennia.

For more information on CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department visit http://ebio.colorado.edu.

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