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October Friday & Saturday, September 30 & October 1 Collage Yeager Recital Hall, 7:00 and 8:15 p.m. on Friday and 6:00 & 7:15 p.m. on Saturday The Department of Performing Arts will present an exciting collage of entertainment, song and dance from the Broadway stage. This is a wonderful presentation by our talented students! Admission by ticket only: $10.00 or free for Elon students with valid ID. Tickets for Friday shows will be available in the Koury Concourse at 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 30. Tickets for Saturday shows will be available in the Koury Concourse at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, October 1. Tickets will not be available in the box office; please call (336) 278-7271 with questions. Monday, October 3 Art Opening: Jon Haddock, "Almost Real: Repetition and Dirt" Isabella Cannon Room, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The James H. McEwen, Jr. Visual Arts Series Digital artist Jon Haddock brings a unique art exhibition that connects structures in his home of Tempe, Arizona, with Elon and Burlington, NC. His theme deals with the ubiquity of modern suburban architecture contrasted with architecture that is unique, though undesirable, because of its age, reputation, or current usage. While most of these unique prints focus on Phoenix, Ariz. (motels along Van Buren Avenue, crack houses in South Phoenix), Haddock has also created work specifically for this exhibition utilizing references from local structures selected by Elon art students. On exhibit through October 27. Monday, October 3 Allan G. Johnson, "Healthy Relationships Between Men and Women" Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Allan G. Johnson consults with corporations and universities on issues of gender and diversity after a career as a professor at the University of Hartford College for Women. He is the author of Privilege, Power and Difference and The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy. He returns to Elon to continue addressing what men and women can do to change a patriarchal cultural system that awards special privileges to men and assigns a lesser status to women. Confronting gender inequality is not about assigning blame or making men feel ashamed. The issue is understanding the system of assigned privileges and deprivations and acting in ways that counter it - for the benefit of both women and men. Sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and Women's and Gender Studies Wednesday, October 5-Sunday, October 9 Department of Performing Arts presents Hot l Baltimore by Lanford Wilson Directed by senior BFA Acting major, Tabitha Tuttle Black Box Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday; 2:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and interact with each other during the course of one day. Their humor and struggles create a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes. Contains mature language and subject matter; viewer discretion is advised. Reservations highly recommended: $12.00 or Elon ID. Reservations will be taken beginning September 28 by calling (336) 278-5650. * Thursday, October 6 Fall Convocation with Edmund Morris Koury Center, 6:00 p.m. The Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture Edmund Morris is one of America's most distinguished biographers, having produced definitive works on two of the strongest personalities ever to reside in the White House. His biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980. After serving as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. The second volume of his projected Roosevelt trilogy, the bestseller Theodore Rex, was published in 2001. He has written extensively for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine. Admission by ticket only: $12.00 or Elon ID. Tickets available September 15.* Sunday, October 9 Joe Thompson, A Film and Musical Program Whitley Auditorium, 4:00 p.m. Joe Thompson, one of North Carolina's oldest and most celebrated musicians, is renown for his fiddle playing. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and received the coveted North Carolina Folklife Award. Believed to be the last well-known African American fiddle player in N.C., Thompson will perform with Elon staff member Larry Vellani and other musicians. A brief film documentary, The Life and Times of Joe Thompson, produced by Dr. Iris Chapman, a former English professor at Elon and Thompson's second cousin, will be shown. WUNC-TV NC Vision selected the documentary as one of its 10th Anniversary films and is airing from 2004-2006. Sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the English Department Monday, October 10 Julie Celona-VanGorden, soprano, and Laura Moore, piano, faculty recital Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Julie Celona-VanGorden and Laura Moore will present a program of songs by American women composers. Monday, October 10 Rodney Jones, A Poetry Reading Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Rodney Jones is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Kingdom of the Instant and Elegy for the Southern Drawl. He is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Jones earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Sponsored by the English Department Tuesday, October 11 Rebecca Troxler, flute, Fred Raimi, cello, and Maria Guenette, piano Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Troxler, Raimi and Guenette will present a recital of baroque and modern chamber music. The program will include works for flute; flute, cello and piano; and flute and piano. Composers include Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Franz Schubert, and Philippe Gaubert. Troxler and Raimi are members of the Duke Music faculty and Guenette teaches at Greensboro College. Sponsored by the Music Department and the Office of Cultural Programs Thursday, October 13 The Shiwa Tour of Tibetan Peace and Healing Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. This cultural tour by Buddhist monks will visit Elon for four days to expose audiences to the breadth of Tibetan religious culture. In this public program, they will share many of the Buddhist practices and methods that celebrate richness and diversity. On Monday through Thursday, they will create a sand mandala in Belk Library throughout the day. This creation uses crushed gemstone and ancient methods handed down since the sixth century B.C. Each part of the mandala has symbolic meaning and the entire process of creation acts as a form of meditation. Sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life Wednesday, October 19 & Saturday, October 22 Screening of the film "Searching for Angela Shelton" McEwen 011, 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, 6:00 p.m., Saturday Sponsored by Cinelon Thursday, October 20 Richard and John Contiguglia, duo pianists Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. The Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series is sponsored by the Times-News & Elon University Identical twins Richard and John Contiguglia will return to Elon for a program that will feature a performance of Franz Liszt's transcription for two pianos of Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Symphonic Poem No. 4, Orpheus. The Contiguglias have played with major orchestras including the Boston Pops, the Atlanta Symphony and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Admission by ticket only: $15.00 or Elon ID (RS). Tickets available September 29.* Monday, October 24 Angela Shelton, "Searching for Angela Shelton" Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. In Searching for Angela Shelton, filmmaker Angela Shelton sets out on a journey to meet every other Angela Shelton in America and through them survey the early 21st Century thoughts of American women. What she wasn't prepared for was that 16 out of the 32 Angela Sheltons had been raped, beaten or molested, herself included. Then there was an Angela Shelton who tracked sexual predators and lived in the same town as the filmmaker's father, who is a child molester and defiled her and her step-siblings for five years. This film forced Angela to confront her past and then introduced her to herself. Sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum, Sexual Assault Awareness, Student Activities, Women's and Gender Studies and Cinelon Tuesday, October 25 Joe Ashby Porter, "Textual Alter Egos: Life as Reader and Writer" Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Porter will discuss his dual careers as Shakespearean scholar and fiction writer. Scholar Joseph A. Porter's books are The Drama of Speech Acts and Shakespeare's Mercutio, his edited Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and his eight co-edited volumes of Renaissance Papers. Fiction writer Joe Ashby Porter's books include the novel The Near Future, and the collections The Kentucky Stories, and Touch Wood: Short Stories. His awards include a 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Literature. Sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta and the English Department Thursday, October 27 - Saturday, October 29 & Friday, November 4 - Sunday, November 6 Performing Arts Department Presents West Side Story Book by Arthur Laurents, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Music by Leonard Bernstein Directed by Catherine McNeela, Choreography by Lynne Kurdziel Formato, and Musical Direction by Kenneth Lee McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Sunday Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is transported to modern-day New York, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the Jets, second-generation American teens and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time. Its exciting, sophisticated score by Bernstein and Sondheim is considered Broadway's finest and its songs are part of the nation's musical heritage. Admission by ticket only: $12.00 or Elon ID. Tickets available October 6.* Monday, October 31 Opening Reception for the Juried Student Art Exhibit Isabella Cannon Room, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The juried student art exhibit will feature new art works in a broad range of media. On exhibit through December 1. |
October 6, "Fall Convocation with Edmund Morris" |