The Buffalo State Theater Department and Casting Hall Productions proudly present Intimate Apparel, a play by Lynn Nottage, in the Donald Savage Building's Flexible Theatre.

Directed by Lara D. Haberberger, lecturer of theater. Featuring student actors Keion Abrams, Shae Brockington, Roselynn Corrado, Monique Godfrey, Aqueira Roberts Oshun, and Nathaniel Schumacher, and student lighting designer Mariah Faulkner. 

Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther, an African American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, who makes exquisite undergarments for high-end clients and embarks on an unlikely romance. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage stitches together a tale of romance, greed, and ambition—and a tender story of seeking real friendship across the vast social gulf separating a seamstress and a socialite, the yearning of inter-racial as well as interfaith love, and the persistence of spirit as Esther tries to craft a life as beautiful as one of her camisoles.

Four performances only: October 9, 10, 11, at 8:00 p.m., and October 12 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at the Rockwell Hall Box Office, 878-3005, or online.

Alumnus Kyle Bradstreet, ’02, ’04, will discuss his work as a writer and executive producer on USA Network’s Mr. Robot on Wednesday, October 9, at 3:00 p.m. in the LoRusso Alumni and Visitor Center. His talk, "Writing and Producing for Television," is free and open to the public and is part of the Television and Film Arts (TFA) Visiting Artist Series. 

Bradstreet is an award-winning writer and producer whose work has been produced in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is currently a writer and executive producer on the critically acclaimed Mr. Robot, for which he has received Peabody, Golden Globe, and Writers Guild of America awards. His other television credits include Berlin Station (Epix), Copper (BBC America), Borgia: Faith and Fear (Netflix), and The Philanthropist (NBC).

As a playwright, Bradstreet has produced and developed dramas at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the Flea Theater, Gloucester Stage Company, Barefoot Theatre Company for Cherry Lane Theatre, LabRats Theatre Company for Jimmy's No. 43, Shortened Attention Span for the Players Theatre, and La Manuela for Microteatro Por Dinero in Madrid. His short fiction has been published in the literary journals Blood Lotus, Third Wednesday, the Coachella Review, rFISHc, and Two Hawks Quarterly.

Guest lecturing stints include New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Buffalo State College. Bradstreet is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America, East, for which he is currently a council member.

An updated list of faculty and staff members who are licensed New York State notaries public (PDF, 104 KB) is now available on the Professional Staff Caucus and Finance and Management websites.

The Bengal Allies Committee invites the campus community to the next Bengal Ally Mixer on Wednesday, October 9, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Fireside Lounge. We invite all students, faculty, and staff to enjoy free refreshments, learn more about the Buffalo State LGBTQ+ Resource Center and other campus resources, and meet faculty, staff, and student allies.

The mission of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center is to provide a safe, inclusive, and celebratory environment for LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff. We seek to provide members of our campus community with resources that will support and affirm each individual’s process of self-discovery and identity development and facilitate connections between our campus and the Buffalo community. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center provides access to informative media, training, professional development, and advocacy.

For more information, please contact Student Leadership and Engagement at leadengage@buffalostate.edu.

Please join us for an interactive session, "SUNY's Urban-Engaged Institution: What It Means in Your Classroom," on Wednesday, October 30, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Technology Building 258.

Buffalo State classrooms can incorporate civic and community engagement opportunities that meet course learning outcomes and connect to community priorities. This session will help faculty and staff members who are new to community engagement as well as those who could use a brush-up on community-engaged learning and the practice of incorporating a community-based project into a course.

Topics will include

• an overview of the theory and practice of community-engaged learning,
• strategies for identifying reciprocal and meaningful community partnerships, and
• a discussion of effective methods of incorporating student reflection to connect the community experience to course learning.

Please register by e-mail.

Flu vaccines will be available for faculty, staff, and students on Thursday, October 10, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Cleveland Hall 205. No appointment is necessary.

The following health insurance plans will be accepted: Blue Cross Blue Shield of WNY, Independent Health, Blue Choice, MVP, and Medicare Part B. Proof of insurance is required. Employees without a participating insurance plan will be charged $30 for the flu shot.

Participation and acceptance of any insurance is not a guarantee of benefits or payment in full. Co-payments or a deductible may apply. Please call your insurance provider’s member services department with questions regarding coverage.

Empire Plan enrollees may obtain their flu shot from an Empire Plan participating pharmacy without copay or at their doctor’s office (participating provider) for their usual co-pay should they wish to do so.

Please call Employee Benefits at 878-4821 or the member services department of your insurance company with questions regarding your health insurance coverage. The phone number should be on your insurance card.

The Weigel Wellness Center is pleased to present open CPR classes on Thursday, October 24, and Thursday, November 14, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Weigel 203.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in many emergencies, including heart attack, cardiac arrest, or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped.

The fee for the course, which covers the course manual and a two-year completion card, is $30 for students and $50 for non-students. More information is available on the Weigel Wellness Center website. Register for either session using the online registration form.

For more Weigel Health Promotions programs, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Please contact Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotions, 878-4719, with questions.

A call for scholarly and creative submissions for a summer 2020 special issue of the journal Label Me Latina/o is now open. The theme is “(Un)natural Disasters: Sites of Resistance.” Label Me Latina/o is a refereed international e-journal dedicated to Latino literary production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Lorna Perez, associate professor of English, serves as guest editor of the special issue.

Critical and creative manuscripts should address moments of disaster and crisis in Latino communities, as well as the ways that communities, writers, scholars, and activists resist them. For many Latino/a communities, the contemporary period has been fraught with disaster, including natural disasters like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, followed by the equally disastrous federal response; the sustained crisis at the U.S. southern border; workplace raids by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement; indefinite separation and detention of children and families; and the U.S. response to the crisis in Venezuela.

The special issue of Label Me Latina/o invites submissions that consider these and other moments of (un)natural disaster and crisis. Complete details, including submission guidelines, are available online. Please contact Dr. Perez with questions.

An overwhelming number of students have ordered from Milligan’s Food Pantry this semester, and we are asking our Buffalo State family to help out. Each Friday, our office will post a list of high-need items in the Daily Bulletin. If you are out grocery shopping on the weekend and can pick up one or two items, that would greatly help. Please drop off donations at the Dean of Students Office in Campbell Student Union 311 or e-mail the office to arrange a pickup.

This week we are requesting breakfast items for our students. Needed items include dry cereal, breakfast bars, trail mix, fruit snacks (including ones without gelatin in the ingredients), Rice Krispie Treats, granola bars, Pop-Tarts, fruit cups, snack packs (e.g., cookies, crackers, nuts), applesauce, and peanut butter.

Additional items are welcome. We only ask that you please make sure donated items are not expired. Thank you!

All important college and semester deadline information can be found on the Academic Calendar.