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Students in need of a study cram can attend Night Against Procrastination, an all-night study event hosted March 14 by the Fred Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors. It will begin at 8 p.m. and go through 8 a.m. in Lake Ontario Hall. Students need to check in at room 120, but the entire building will be open. There will be games and food, and Writing Center consultants will be available. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/wc or call 616- 331-2922.
Shakespeare Festival to begin auditions in April Grand Valley State University students will have the opportunity to audition for the 2014 Shakespeare Festival production, The Comedy of Errors, and the international touring troupe, Bard To Go. Auditions will be held April 6 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and on April 7 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Call backs will be on April 8. To schedule an audition slot, stop by or call the Performing Arts Center’s box office at 616-331-2300.
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The works of writer Kama Sywor Kamanda will be celebrated at Grand Valley State University through a series of events. Kamanda has written hundreds of stories and novels and more than a dozen volumes of poetry, all in French. Many have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Greek and English. There will be a poetry reading and book signing on March 24 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium at the DeVos Center. On March 25, Kamanda will be at the Grand River Room in the Kirkhof Center from 11 a.m. to noon. He will also be a guest of honor at the French Melodies event on March 26 in the Cook-DeWitt Center from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, contact Isabelle Cata of the modern languages and literatures department at 616331-2477 or catai@gvsu.edu.
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