Lace up your cowboy boots and ride on over to Reardon Auditorium for Western Encore! This Saturday, October 17, at 7 and 10 p.m. at Reardon Auditorium, you can hear classic country hits from Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood and more as performed by students here on campus. The event is presented by Avanti Boosters in collaboration with Orangehaus and, like every Encore! before, the show promises to be an engaging and energetic time. Performers of Encore! auditioned back in September, and since … [Read more...]
A look into the Radium Girls case, as told onstage this weekend and next
The School of Music and Performing Arts’ mainstage production for the spring, Radium Girls, opens this weekend in Byrum Hall. Written by award-winning playwright D.W. Gregory, the play follows the true case of Grace Fryer, a dial painter who sued the United States Radium Corporation after she and the other women painting radium dials for clocks experienced radiation poisoning. With just thirteen people in the cast portraying over thirty characters, the production promises to be an intimate and … [Read more...]
Holy Spirit and Fire: A concert of soulful music and sincere appreciation
On Sunday, March 29th at 2:30 P.M., students and visitors alike gathered in York Performance Hall for not just any concert, but the first live performance of Holy Spirit and Fire, the album written and performed by student Nathaniel Williams— or Than, as he’s known to close friends and colleagues. Than, a senior majoring in music business with a concentration in record production, created the album for his capstone project. Though it was not the only project available to him, he’d always dreamed … [Read more...]
Christopher Blezek expands study abroad experience with personal expeditions
Christopher Blezek, a senior majoring in national security, political science, and history was in Warsaw, Poland from late February to June of last year as part of a study abroad program. As he was there, and even after the program ended, he took it upon himself to visit several countries, including but not limited to Hungary, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Blezek made many of these visits with little to no preparation beforehand, catching flights or lifts … [Read more...]
Wilson Gallery exhibit in collaboration with PACT, featuring Willard Johnson
Since Feb. 7, AU students and the community alike have had access to a number of artworks created by Willard Johnson, a graduate of Anderson University, as part of the PACT program (Peace and Conflict Transformation). Johnson, who was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1987, completed his BA in Studio Arts with a Concentration in Painting in 2010 and went on to receive his Master’s in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has since been exhibited in places such as the Indianapolis Museum … [Read more...]
Murder on the Orient Express opens Oct. 12
Boze Lyric Theatre will present Murder on the Orient Express in Byrum Hall starting Oct. 12. The play, adapted by Ken Ludwig from the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, concerns a train laden with passengers in the night, yet one fewer in the morning when one traveler is found deceased. The remaining passengers must work alongside detective Hercule Poirot to figure out who the killer is — before one of them is next. Sophomore and cast member Lillie Poag, who portrays Miss Mary … [Read more...]