The Valpo Core

October 6, 2009

Dear Core Students,

This week is a very important cultural event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and ally community. This Wednesday, Oct. 7, in observance of National Coming Out Day, Valparaiso University’s Alliance organization will be hosting a 5^th Hour Approved event entitled “Sexuality Monologues.” Please join us in celebration of our culture and pride, and for an entertaining journey into the lives and thoughts of the LGBT community. There will be discussion afterward, directly following the event. Refreshments will be served.

Alliance

You are cordially invited to an Evening of Ives, Valparaiso University Theatre Department’s last production of the year, directed by VU senior theatre major Caroline Crafton.  Two comedies by David Ives will be performed: The Philadelphia and English Made Simple. Production time is 35 minutes, in case you’re cramped for time. The Performances will take place this Friday (May 1st) and Saturday (May 2nd) at 8 pm in the Studio Theater. Admission is free.  Don’t miss out!

Wordfest and The Lighter present THE CABARET!

“But what is this thing called cabaret?”

cab~a~ret (kab??r?)

2b. A restaurant or night-club in which entertainment is provided as an accompaniment to a meal; also, the entertainment so provided, a floor-show.

As in, “He spends most of his extra money at pool parlors, Austrian villages and cabaret shows,” or “Those melancholy places, the night clubs and cabarets.”  (Thanks, OED!)

Or better yet, as in, “The Lighter and Wordfest proudly present their third annual Cabaret, at which no money will be collected and no melancholy will be found (or that which is found will be tidily swept up and packaged into art).”

Date: Saturday, April 4th

Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Place: Refectory in Mueller Hall

Fare: Dinner provided free!

Program: a variety of musical, spoken word and visual media acts by students, faculty and staff

Rumors: a banjo in the hands of Prof. Owens, a guitar in those of Prof. Sponberg; the vocal stylings of Prof. Buinicki and Prof Childress; Nancy Drew’s alter ego channeled by Prof. Schuette-Hoffman; and more, oh, so much more…

The Vagina Monologues

By Eve Ensler

Performances are this weekend, in Neils Science Center, room 234 (auditorium):

Friday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at the Union desk and may also be purchased at the door. They are $3.00 for students, $5.00 for faculty/staff, and $5.00 for the general public.

I highly recommend this funny, bawdy, shocking, and enlightening show about female sexuality.  It is extremely relevant to the love unit that Core students are just now completing. Moreover, one of the new monologues this year deals with Muslim women wearing the veil, which was such an issue in the Core text Persepolis.

Please be aware that the show is defiinitely “R” rated. The content is sexual and some of the language used may be offensive to some, although one of the monologues tries to make the case that the language of female sexuality should not be viewed as offensive.

I hope you will attend and bring a date.  I guarantee an eye-opening evening!

Friday, Oct. 10
–Talk: Nick Skytland: A NASA Adventure, 4:30 pm, Neils Science Center 234
–Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, 8 pm, VUCA

(http://www.valpo.edu/theatre/current/earnest.php)

Saturday, Oct. 11
–Lecture: Math and Valpo History, 9:30 am, Gellersen
–Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, 2 pm, VUCA
–Concert: Symphony Orchestra with violinist Mark O’Connor, 8 pm, Chapel

Sunday, Oct. 12
–Concert: Chorale and Bach Institute, 3 pm, Chapel
–Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, 7 pm, VUCA

Further info: http://www.valpo.edu/alumni/homecoming/activities/

On Tuesday, April 1st at 6:30 pm, the St. Teresa of Avila Catholic
Student Center will be hosting a performance of the one-man show
Damien by Father Edward Evanko. There is no cost to attend the
performance; free will donations will be taken to benefit St. Luke’s
parish in Kentucky.

Father Evanko was a singer, Broadway performer, stage and television
actor, and Canadian television host before becoming a Ukrainian
Catholic priest in 2005 at the age of 63. Damien relates the moving
story of the Catholic Missionary Father Damien, who devoted his life
to caring and ministering to the lepers on the Hawaiian island of
Molokai. Eventually Fr. Damien contracted leprosy himself and died on
April 15, 1889.

Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
R. Andrew White, director

Thursday, November 8 @ 8pm

Friday, November 9 @ 8pm

Saturday, November 10 @ 2pm and 8pm

Sunday, November 11 @ 7pm

During the celebration of Midsummer Eve, Miss Julie, the daughter of a count, defiantly crosses the lines of social class by mingling inappropriately with the servants on her father’s estate. The beautiful, aggressive young woman goes to the kitchen where Jean, her father’s charismatic and pompous valet, tempts her into a frightening and viscous war of manipulation and domination with devastating results. Betrayal, defiance, passion and lust collide in what is, perhaps, August Strindberg’s most famous play.

More info: http://www.valpo.edu/theatre/season.htm

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

Valpo’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, the national theatre fraternity, will present its annual “Shakespeare Under the Stars” performance at 10 pm, Saturday, October 6th, on the lawn south of the Chapel of the Resurrection.

This event is approved for Core 5th-hour credit
(Info from: http://www.valpo.edu/theatre/season.htm):

A Phoenix Too Frequent
by Christopher Fry

Zachary Davis, director
Studio Theatre

Friday, October 5 @ 8pm

Saturday, October 6 @ 2pm, 8pm

Sunday, October 7 @ 7pm

In this version of the famous Matron of Nephews, we have a fresh retelling of the story of a pious widow– and her maid–who mourns for the death of her recently deceased husband in the tomb where his bier lies awaiting interment. The maid is not quite so pious, yet both women begin to suffer the pangs of a self-imposed hunger. There are signs that they also are unhappy over the loss of male company, but not until a handsome guard appears does the widow begin regretting her noble experiment in withdrawing from the world. The guard is invited to keep the ladies company, and he in turn invites them to partake of his food. Before long the widow is eager to forget her pious devotions and shows indications of returning speedily to a worldly and pleasant life which she had too soon decided to give up.

For ticket information, call the VUCA Box Office: 219-464-5162