Dec. 7-9: Woodstock Week at UD to feature Elliot Tiber

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4:23 p.m., Dec. 2, 2009----In 1969, Woodstock was billed as “three days of peace & music.” S.C.P.A.B. (Student Centers Programming Advisory Board) has designated Monday through Wednesday, Dec. 7-9, as Woodstock Week, three days of fun, 1960s themed activities to celebrate the end of the fall semester.

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Woodstock Week will culminate with a lecture on Dec. 9 by Elliot Tiber, who played a crucial role in bringing the Woodstock festival to Bethel, N.Y. Tiber, now an artist, screenwriter and author of the memoir, Taking Woodstock, will give a free talk at 6 p.m., Dec. 9, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. After his talk, the film Taking Woodstock will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in the same location. Admission for the film is $2. This event is co-sponsored with V8, StUDent Government Association, Haven, WVUD, UD Creamery, Golden Blues and Greek Council.

Wookstock Week activities will be held at both the Perkins Student Center and the Trabant University Center and will include:

--Dec. 7: Oxygen bar, Frisbee spinart and a screening the movie A Hard Day's Night from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., in the Multipurpose Rooms at Trabant;

--Dec. 8: Tie dye T-shirts, '60s themed photos and wax hands from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in Trabant; that night in the Scrounge the Golden Blues, a UD a cappella group, will perform at 8:30 p.m. before S.C.P.A.B.'s Coffeehouse comedian series; and

--Dec. 9: At both Trabant and Perkins, there will be henna tattoos and root beer floats from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in Trabant Food Court.

WVUD-fm will be playing music from Woodstock from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on all three days, and also will feature a special Woodstock concert showcase and commentary during the station's “Rockaholics Anonymous” show from 4-6 p.m.

For more information about Woodstock Week, please visit the S.C.P.A.B. Web page.

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