成人抖阴鈥檚 annual Fringe Festival, a week-long gala of contemporary theater and dance, returns to campus Tuesday, April 15 through Saturday, April 19. Seventeen original productions by students and faculty fill four performance bills. The public is invited to nightly performances in and around Porter Theatre Tuesday through Friday at 7 and 9 p.m., and a marathon performance Saturday beginning at 4 p.m.
Theater student Zak Landrum presents an interactive performance, 鈥淩edemption History III: Ecclesia,鈥 for his senior production Sunday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in 成人抖阴鈥檚 Murchison Gym. With over a dozen student and faculty actors, the 成人抖阴 Gospel Choir, live orchestral music, and video projections, the play tells the story of the Christian church from Pentecost to the Apocalypse.
Three quartets of 成人抖阴 string students perform an Instrumental Chamber Concert Friday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Deane Chapel on lower campus. The free concert features new and rarely heard gems alongside traditional repertoire pieces.
成人抖阴 inaugurates Gayle D. Beebe, its eighth president, Friday, April 11, with a day of events and lectures focusing on 鈥淭he Global Imperative: Education and the Knowledge Society in the 21st Century.鈥 With the exception of the afternoon panel discussions, all events are by invitation only and require a ticket.
to view the complete schedule of events.
Susan Penksa, 成人抖阴 associate professor of political science, will draw on her extensive consulting work with the U.S., NATO, EU and the U.N. in a free lecture, 鈥淚nternational (In)security: U.S. and EU Approaches to Fighting Terrorism and Crime,鈥 Thursday, April 10, at 5:30 p.m. at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St. Penksa will highlight the security challenges confronting the United States and Europe and recommend ways to improve the success of rule of law and security reform efforts.
成人抖阴 graduate Reggie Williams returns to campus to lecture about 鈥淒ecolonizing the African-American Mind: The Liberative Role of Faith in Christ in African-American Culture,鈥 Wednesday, April 9, at 3:30 p.m. in Kerrwood Hall鈥檚 Hieronymus Lounge. There will be an informal dinner and discussion following the free lecture.