“Many People, One Love”
Delta Xi Phi, Multicultural Sorority, presents a student-led forum on diversity and issues related to it. The forum begins at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, 10/16, in the CCLIR Community Room. Core 5th-hour approved.
Archive for October 15th, 2007
Soul Smorgasboard: Luke’s Challenges
On Monday, October 22nd, St. Teresa’s will be hosting the next installment of Soul Smorgasbord, a monthly dinner and discussion series on matters related to faith, religion, and theology. Each session includes a homecooked meal, a short presentation, and a discussion led by that month’s facilitator. This month, V.U. Theology Professor Mark Bartusch will be discussing how the Gospel of Luke is particularly challenging to our usual attempts to understand Christ’s teachings and to our attempts to live out the Christian faith. The food, fun, and fellowship are completely free, and begin at 6 pm in the downstairs Cafe Manna dining room at St. Teresa’s (on LaPorte Ave., across from Lankenau and Alumni Halls).
This event is approved for 5th-hour credit.
Concert Bands to Perform at Chapel
Each performance described below is approved for 5th-hour credit:
Three Valparaiso University bands will perform their first concerts of the season Oct. 20 at the Chapel of the Resurrection.
The Chamber Concert Band, Valparaiso’s premier concert band, will give the first Western Hemisphere performance of Roger Cichy’s Dazzling Lights during a 7:30 p.m. concert. Dazzling Lights was premiered this summer during an international band festival in Australia, during which Chamber Concert Band director Dr. Jeff Doebler led an honor band of Indiana musicians.
The concert, part of Valparaiso’s annual Family Weekend celebration, also will feature works by Karl King, Daniel Kallman, James Barnes, Jerry Bilik, Edwin Franko Goldman, William Latham and Frank Erickson. The performance is free and open to the public.
Prior to the evening concert, Valpo’s Luce Concert Band and Community/University Concert Band will give a joint performance at 4 p.m. in the Chapel that is free and open to the public. The ensembles will perform works by Williams, Hilliard, Pryor, Hanson, Weingerger and Woo.
Dr. Doebler will be joined by several guest conductors from Northwest Indiana – Matthew Byerly, Philip E. Hahn, John Shotliff, Lext Verstegen and Paul Wagner – in leading the ensembles.
For more information:
http://www.valpo.edu/news/index.php?action=display&newsid=3215&sy=2007
International Film Festival: Kitchen Stories
The Swedish/Norwegian film Kitchen Stories will be shown Friday, October 19th at 7 pm in Neils 234 as Valparaiso University’s second annual International Film Festival continues.
In this touching portrayal of friendship, a scientist’s job observing a cantankerous old man’s kitchen habits is complicated by their budding friendship in this 2003 film directed by Bent Hamer. The film was named best film in Norway’s national film contest and also won awards for directing at the Copenhagen International Film Festival and São Paulo International Film Festival and best screenplay at the Flanders International Film Festival.
For more information:
Into The Woods (musical by Stephen Sondheim)
Approved for 5th-hour credit:
Into the Woods, directed by Lee Orchard, will be performed at the University Theatre Oct. 19 and 26 at 8 p.m., Oct. 20 and 27 at 2 p.m., and Oct. 21 and 28 at 7 p.m. A talk back session with the director, cast and crew will immediately follow the Oct. 20 and 27 matinee performances.
One of Sondheim’s most popular works, characters from numerous popular fairy tales intermingle during the musical. While being a lively and irreverent fantasy, director Dr. Lee Orchard says Into the Woods also is a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.
For more information:
http://www.valpo.edu/news/index.php?action=display&newsid=3219
“Where Do I Put the Bookmark?: Reading Garden State As Text”
A Presentation by Prof. Bridget Kies (Core) and Prof. Elizabeth Wuerffel (Art)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:00 p.m., Neils Science Center 234
Why are there three films on the Core syllabus? How can we “read” a film and write papers about it? In this presentation, we will discuss some basic film terminology and examine some still shots from Garden State to figure out what this movie might mean as a “text.”
This event is approved for Core 5th-hour credit.
Sponsored by the Valpo Core Program
Flyer: Where Do I Put the Bookmark? Reading Garden State As Text