Lecture
brass quintet, C Street Brass’s recent Wop de Wop EP release, in collaboration with DJ and Producer Jakeisrain, blends different genres of classical music with current electronic dance music. They call themselves a “community of 5” and are as comfortable with baroque music as they are with dubstep. Living their dream, they explore, discover and grow together through their music.
Women in Medicine Cathy Schubert
Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 p.m. Hermesian Room, Byars Hall Dr. Cathy Schubert (E&H ’95), associate professor of clinical medicine at Indiana University, shares experiences from her journey through medical school to balancing her current roles as wife, mother and practicing physician, answering the question of what it’s like to be a woman in medicine.
*Theatre Production
The Spitfire Grill E&H Theatre Department music and book by James Valcdq, lyrics and book by Fred Alley, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff.
Artalk
Into the Woods Tom Berenz, painter
Thursday-Saturday, November 20-22, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, November 23, 2 p.m. Studio Theatre
Monday, November 10, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
This American musical introduces Percy to the audience as she contemplates her imminent release from a five-year prison sentence, through her journey to the small Wisconsin town of Gilead, and the “new start” both she and the small town experience. The development of the musical by collaborators Valcq and Alley follows the popularizing of the film version by Lee David Zlotoff in 1996. By 2001, the play had opened Off-Broadway and won the Richard Rodgers Production Award, administrated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Directed by Kelly Bremner with music direction by Jeremiah Downes. Design and Technical Direction by Daniel L. Wheeler.
Tom Berenz’s work consists of explosive paintings that play between two and three-dimensional space as he creates colorful, balanced, yet disjointed compositions. He is on trend with the current styles in the world of painting. References to familiar scenes, such as landscapes or still lives, that are easy to relate to are present in his work, but the subject matter is blown into fragmented abstraction in bold, acidy hues. While it is easy to see him rooted in American abstract expressionism, Berenz gives a thoroughly contemporary spin to his dynamic paintings. Berenz is assistant professor in the art department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. This Artalk is in conjunction with his exhibition in The 1912 Gallery, Tuesday, Nov. 11 through Friday, Dec. 12 (except Nov. 26-Dec. 1).
Poetry Reading Felicia Mitchell
Lecture
Wednesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Mindfulness: A Strategy for Connecting Our Inner Wisdom and Improving Our Focus Alan Forrest
Dr. Felicia Mitchell, poet and professor of English at Emory & Henry reflects on and shares poems from her new collection, Waltzing with Horses (Press 53). The reading highlights poems grounded in Mitchell’s long relationship with her adopted home of Southwest Virginia.
Monday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Mr. Forrest discusses how to integrate mind training into our personal routines and lives. Mindfulness is simply the intention and activity of paying attention, in present time, in a particular way and with nonjudgmental awareness to whatever is going on within and around oneself. This presentation focuses on ways to cultivate the flow and ease of engaging one with their internal sense of compassion and wisdom. Using simple and profound levels of being present, we can learn how to access our capacities for experiencing and expressing insight, self acceptance and loving kindness.
*Concert
Christmas at Emory E&H Music Department
Sunday, December 7, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Chapel An annual “Merry Christmas” celebration for the campus and community is presented by the vocal and instrumental ensembles and soloists studying in the music department. The Emory & Henry College Memorial Chapel decked with candlelight and sounds of the season is the setting.
*Concert
C Street Brass
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Chapel From fresh images to irresistible personalities—this concert will blow you away. A conservatory-trained
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