Get Out — Weekend Planner

This week, we turn to everything Sonoma State. Check out the events going on right in your backyard this weekend — for many of them, it's the last weekend they'll be available.

Tunnel of Opression

Friday from 5-9 p.m. is the last day to participate in an interactive exhibit at Sonoma State's Zinfandel Residential Village called "The Tunnel of Oppression." Organizers of the university's Multicultural Center aims to bring about diversity awareness and better understand what oppression feels like through the event. For more information email themcc@sonoma.edu or check the online calendar.

Women's History Exhibit

Don't miss Molly Murphy MacGregor's talk titled "Our History is Our Strength," Saturday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at the university commons. MacGregor's presentation is just one way Sonoma State has acknowledged Women's History Month throughout the years. 

Also check out a riveting 2007 exhibit from history professor Michelle Jolly and her students, who collected oral histories of the women's movement in Sonoma County during the '70s and '80s, and documented it. It's called "A Fine and Long Tradition: Stories from the Contemporary Women's Movement in Sonoma County."

Find the archived exhibit at the sonomawomenshistory.org and commentary from MacGreogor on her website for the Santa Rosa-based National Women's History Project.

Night Sky

Sonoma State's Department of Physics and Astronomy is holding their monthly public observatory night this Friday from 9-11 p.m. This week will be a special showing on a group of stars called the Beehive Cluster. The campus observatory is located near the corner of Petaluma Hill Road and E. Cotati Avenue. Click here for the map. Call 707-664-2267 for more information.

Rock 'n' Roll

Friday night is opening night for the show "Rock 'n' Roll" by Tom Stoppard, and organized by Paul Draper, chair of Sonoma State's theatre arts and music department. The play, which incorporates rock classics,  is roused with political, historical, social and cultural undertones. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Evert B. Person Theatre. Sunday's performance begins at 2 p.m. and is followed by a post-show discussion. Tickets: students get in free, campus employees pay $14, members of the public pay $16, $9 for non-SSU students and senior citizens.

Click here to purchase tickets, or call 707-664-2353. Tickets are also available at the door one hour before the show begins. Click here for the campus map.

Movie Night

The university's film institute is screening Abdellatif Kechiche’s film, "The Secret of the Grain." The movie will be shown with French subtitles, as it's set in a southern France port town. The show is free for SSU students, $4 for film students, $5 for non-SSU students and $6 for the public. Call 707-664-2606 for more information or visit www.sonoma.edu/sf.