This is the WAUS Arts Calendar for Monday, October 7. The Yak, Snack, & Read Book Discussion Group will meet twice this week at the Harris Branch Library, 51446 Elm Road, Granger, Indiana. On Tuesday morning at 10:00 they will discuss the book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See and on Thursday evening at 7:00 the book The Ridwe of Our Lives by Mike Leonard will be discussed. Anyone is welcome to attend either or both groups. Information is available at 574-271-3179. The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film Television, and Theatre presents On the Verge, written by Eric Overmyer. The play is inspired by diaries of Victorian women who abandoned home and hearth to explore far-off reaches of the world. Performances this week will take place Tuesday thru Saturday evenings at 7:30 and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the Philbin Studio Theatre at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Tickets range from $5-$10 and are available at PerformingArts.nd.edu. The Western Michigan University School of Music has several events this week: -On Wednesday and Thursday the conference, “Music, Mind and Medicine: Creativity and Consciousness in Clinical Care” will take place at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in downtown Kalamazoo. Information and registration are available at wmich.edu/brain/conference2013. -On Wednesday evening at 7:30 the Regina Carter Quarter will appear in concert in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. This is part of a series of events celebrating the School of Music’s 100th anniversary. Tickets range from $5-$12. -The W.M.U. Symphonic Band will present its first concert of the season on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 in Miller Auditorium. This is a retrospective homage that will honor the past while looking toward the future. Admission is free. -Keyboard faculty will celebrate the school’s All-Steinway designation with a concert featuring Silvia Roederer, Lori Sims, and Jeremy Siskind. Admission is free. The Western Michigan University School of Music is located at 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Information for all events can be found at millerauditorium/som The Friends’ Writing Group will meet on Wednesday morning from 9:30-11:30 in the Friends Room of the downtown Mishawaka Library, 209 Lincoln Way East, Mishawaka, Indiana. The group welcomes writers of every genre and experience level. Information is available at 574-259-5277, ext. 218. Award-winning songwriter and entertainer Andrew McKnight will perform on Thursday evening at 7:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart, 1732 Garden Street, Elkhart, Indiana. Suggested donation is $15. The Lighthouse Chorus will present Celebrating Harmony on Saturday evening at 6:59 at Brandywine Middle School, 2428 South 13th Street, Niles, Michigan. The program will feature performances by the Lighthouse Chorus plus several quartets. Tickets range from $12-$17 and are available at 616-836-4881. Tres Amigos, presented by Riversong Music Society, will perform on Saturday evening at 7:30 at The Box Factory for the Arts, 1101 Broad Street, Saint Jospeh, Michigan. Tickets range from $8-$10 and are available at the door. Information is available at BoxFactoryForTheArts.org. Brahms and Mozart will be presented by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Festival Chorus on Saturday evening at 8:00 in Chenery Auditorium, 714 South Westnedge, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Tickets are available through the Miller Auditorium Ticket office: 269-387-2300. The October WAUS Second Sunday Concert will be a violin & piano recital featuring young performers Yejin Lee and Ariane Dernbach. It will be on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Information is available at waus.org. The Twin Cities Organ Concert Series presents guest organist Eric Plutz on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 at the First Congregational Church, 2001 Niles Avenue, Saint Joseph, Michigan. Selections include pieces by Pierne, Bach, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Suggested donation is $10. Information is available at tcOrganConcerts.org. ============== Ongoing exhibits include: Jose Guadalupe Posada and His Legacy thru Sunday; Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans and Torpor: Glasswork by Jaime Guerrero at the Snite Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, just north of South Bend, Indiana. An exhibit of pastels and pictorial quilts by Helen Kleczynski and Julie Koch opens on Friday in the galleries at the Box Factory for the Arts, 1101 Broad Street, Saint Joseph, Michigan. Michiana Pottery Showcase in the Hershberger Gallery, and “Imagining Community,” artwork and poetry by Sylvia Gross Bubalo is at the Good Library Gallery at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. An outdoor sculpture exhibit throughout the grounds at Fernwood Botanical Gardens featuring sculptures from ten artists. To have your event included in Arts Calendar, mail information to WAUS-FM, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104, or e-mail it to [email protected]. Be sure your information is in the body of the e-mail and not an attachment. Information should be received by 4:00 on Wednesday, two weeks in advance of your event.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:06:52 +0000
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