UPDATE:
The Pumpkin Carve Events will be broadcast live on the web via streaming media all day on Friday beginning at 9:00am. To join in on the fun, visit the broadcast website here:
http://www.cadc.auburn.edu/pumpkincarve/

Pumpkin Carve is going to be an amazing event this year. Rain or shine, and thanks to the hard work of the Pumkin Carve Crew, the Carve will be in Dudley Hall’s Courtyard. Please refer to the schedule below for the days events.

Date: Friday, October 27th, 2006
Where: Dudley Courtyard

9 am: Pumpkins and t-shirts go on sale
Noon: Dog Days and Chili available; Student Costume Contest
5 pm: Carving ends, lighting begins, Dog Days Dinner, and face painting
6 pm: Kids Costume Contest
6:30 pm: Judging and announcement of winner follows
7:30 pm: Creature Double Feature in B6 ($1 admission)

There will also be baked goods and candied apples available at lunch and dinner.

T-shirts available for $10 (Short Sleeve) and $15 (Long Sleeve)
Pumpkins cost $5

Movies shown: “Young Frankenstein” and the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to follow.

In conjunction with the “Rural Studio: Education of the Citizen Architect” exhibition, which is on display through Nov. 5, the Jule Collins Smith Museum is offering an overnight excursion to Rural Studio projects in and around Hale and Perry Counties. Excursion dates are Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 4 and 5. The excursion will visit the Rural Heritage Center, where lunch will be served, and participants will have a chance to shop for art and local crafts. In Newbern, the headquarters of the Rural Studio, visitors will have a chance to see the Student Living Pods, Morisette House, the Subrosa Pantheon and the Newbern Volunteer Fire Department, where dinner will be served. After spending the night at the historic St. James Hotel in Selma, the excursion will visit Music Man House, the Glass Chapel, the Lucy House, the Hay Bale House, and the Butterfly House, as well as Antioch Baptist Church and the Perry Lakes State Park, which includes a student-built pedestrian bridge, public restrooms and birding tower. The price is $159 per person and includes meals, motorcoach transportation and hotel (add $40 for single occupancy). Two school-aged children staying within the same hotel room with guardians are invited for free. Registration deadline is this Friday, Oct. 27. For more information or to reserve a space, contact Andy Tennant at 844-3081 or tennawa@auburn.edu.

Speaker: Professor Gert Groening, Berlin University of the Arts
Lecture: “About the Evolvement of Landscape Architecture”
When: Friday October 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM CST
Where: Dudley Hall, room 402

Gert Groening, currently deputy executive director of the Institute for the History and Theory of Design in the Architecture Program of the Berlin University of the Arts, will lecture in room 402 at Dudley Hall on Friday, October 27 on the development of landscape architecture through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gröning was co-founder of the university’s interdisciplinary doctoral program “Practice and Theory of Creative Processes in the Arts.” Professor Groening has published widely, and his research includes German-American connections in landscape architecture history.

Everyone is invited to attend.