Chemeketa Blogs

The Los Angeles-based performing group Camerashrapnel will make a one-night stop in Salem as part of its upcoming west coast tour, debuting its new show “ISM� at the Chemeketa College Auditorium on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door.

“ISMâ€? dissects racism, sexism, and classism in America through Camerashrapnel’s unique lens: a hybrid of theatre, film, slam poetry, and improv. From the trials of modern day Dungeons and Dragons to the analytical wooden-fence banter of two dairy cows, Camerashrapnel’s latest show explores the strange world of existence and the diverse “ismsâ€? offered for us to join and espouse.

More information about Camerashrapnel can be found on its website.

Starting this term, 60 inmates began taking Chemeketa classes inside the Oregon State Penitentiary and Oregon Santiam Correctional Institution. The program, called College Inside, provides inmates with a way to brighten the light at the end of their tunnel.

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Chemeketa Community College is now enrolling new participants in its agribusiness management program, an instruction program aimed at helping farm, nursery and viticulture owners and managers put their records in order and put them to use for the business.

Instructors at Chemeketa can provide assistance with record keeping, succession strategy, employee management and issues, goal setting and business strategies, inventory management, and technology issues.

For more information, click here.

Enrollment ticked up 3.5 percent during the summer term. Community colleges will also be receiving a larger piece of the state pie.

Read all about it here.

Did you know Chemeketa was once home to the world’s fastest text messager?

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The Chemeketa Wednesday Evening Film Series continues tonight with “The Freshman” beginning at 7 p.m. at the Elsinore Theatre:

From the brochure:
“In The Freshman, Harold Lloyd plays an over-eager college student whose self-consciously funny attempts to be popular on campus are met with ridicule. His best friend and his love interest, Peggy (Jobyna Ralston), advises him to stop pretending to be something that he isn’t. Even though Harold is merely the water boy on the football team, the college’s big game of the year provides an opportunity for success, if Harold can find a way to just be himself. The model for many sports movies since, The Freshman’s popularity and its famous football sequence influenced Buster Keaton’s College two years later and Preston Sturges’ 1946 Mad Wednesday. Shown with a Harold Lloyd short, From Hand to Mouth. 96 minutes.”

For more information and upcoming shows, click here.

The Chemeketa Northwest Viticulture Center is hosting a welcome reception for the new president of Chemeketa Community College, Dr. Cheryl Roberts.

The reception is slated for Monday, Sept. 17, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Viticulture Center located at 215 Doaks Ferry Road N.W., in Salem. Those planning on attending are asked to RSVP by contacting Jeannie Odle at 503-399-6591 or via email at jeannieo@chemeketa.edu.

Check out the president’s message here.

The Chemeketa Community College Art Gallery’s new exhibit, “Through the Eyes of Strangers� opens with an artists’ reception from 4 to 6 p.m., Sept. 27. The works on display were crafted in the wake of exploratory visits to South Africa during the past decade. The show includes work by our gallery curator, Laura Mack. For more on exhibit, and Mack’s experiences in South Africa, click here.

Classes begin Monday, Sept. 24, at Chemeketa Community College’s newest, state-of-the-art outreach center located at 1340 S.E. Holman Ave., in Dallas. But, interested students can take advantage of registration services, career counseling, and placement testing in the new center, beginning Wednesday, Sept. 19.

The new building will be home to a diverse range of Chemeketa courses covering topics such as yoga, stress management, introduction to theatre and jewelry making in addition to core curriculum offerings like computer science, writing, sociology and math.

Center hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. Some evening courses will continue to be hosted by Dallas High School.

Interested students can take advantage of registration services, career counseling, and placement testing in the new center, beginning Wednesday, Sept. 19. For more information, call 503.623.5567, in Dallas, or 503.399.5206, in Salem. Current students may also register for classes online at my.chemeketa.edu.