Extracurricular Activities
The Sports Complex,
which includes a swimming pool, large and small gyms, squash courts, racquetball
courts, dance studios, and exercise and universal gym rooms is used extensively
by faculty, students and staff. Stony Brook people relax and play on the tennis,
volleyball, and handball courts and 400-meter track. There are separate fields
for baseball, softball, soccer, football/lacrosse, and intramural football.
A full list of recreational activities is available here.
Pictures of Sports Complex facilities are available here.
Stony Brook's Staller Center for the
Arts, which opened in 1978, is a fully equipped facility for education in
music, theater, and fine arts, and is already recognized as the most important
performing arts center in Suffolk County. The Staller Center for the Arts includes
an 1100-seat Main Theater, a 400-seat Recital Hall, three experimental theaters,
and a 4,700-square-foot Art Gallery. These stages are also used by the professional
artists, musicians, dancers, and theater groups who are part of the subscription
series offered each year. Patrons flock to the summer theater festival which
began with great success a few short years ago.
The Staller Center for the Arts hosts more than 50 major events each year. In
addition, 200 recitals and concerts are given that are open to the public with
no admission charge. The past season featured performances by Kodo Drummers
from Japan, The Golden Dragon Acrobats and Magicians from China, Jessye Norman,
The Royal Ballet of Flanders, the Beaux Arts Trio and The Guarneri String Quartet,
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Oakland Ballet as well as performances by the
Stony Brook Concert Band, Chamber Symphony and Symphony Orchestras, Kronos Quartet
of San Francisco, Chamber Singers, Gospel Choir, University Chorus, and productions
by the Department of Theater Arts.
A wide variety of lectures are scheduled regularly during the academic year.
Some recent well-known speakers at Stony Brook have included authors Isaac Asimov,
James Baldwin, Carlos Fuentes, Ruth Westheimer, Bobby Seale and Czeslaw Milosz;
scientist-writers Paul R. Ehrlich and Stephen Jay Gould; dancer-actress Gwen
Verdon; civil rights commissioner Mary F. Berry; Suffolk County Planned Parenthood
Rose Brown; singer Jello Biafra; and actor Ossie Davis.
Art galleries in The Staller Center for the Arts, in The Frank Melville, Jr.
Memorial Library, and in the Stony Brook Union offer regularly changing exhibitions
of works by on- and off-campus artists. A particular favorite in the Union Gallery
is the "Artist in Residence" program where the artist demonstrates his/her craft.
An average of five films are shown weekly on campus, including vintage and current
productions. The campus enjoys an average of one classical music concert per
day, including student recitals and performances by faculty and visiting artists.
A calendar of events is
available to check upcoming events at Stony Brook.
Activities outside Stony Brook:
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