April 17, 2007 - Hastings College Calendar of Events May 2007
Please announce the following Hastings College events in your local Calendar of Events. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Hastings College is located at 710 North Turner Avenue.
Art gallery
May 6 – 18, Senior Thesis #3, Jamie Krueger (silk prints), Cole Witthauer (glass
sculpture), and Ryan Connolly (book art).
1 p.m., Sunday, May 6, artists’ lecture and reception, Wilson Center Auditorium.
Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday; and 2-4 p.m., Sunday.
Theatre
6:30 p.m., Thursday – Saturday, May 3 – 5, “The Book of Liz,” by Amy and David
Sedaris, dinner served in the theatre prior to each performance, Scott Studio
Theatre. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students.
12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 6, “The Book of Liz,” by Amy and David Sedaris, dinner
served in the theatre prior to the performance, Scott Studio Theatre.
Box office opens Thursday, April 26, Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m., or (402) 461-7380,
tickets@hastings.edu.
Music
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 1, student recital, Men’s Choir, Jazz Choir, Hastings College
Singers, French Memorial Chapel.
5 p.m., Sunday, May 6, student recital, Hastings College Choir, First Presbyterian
Church, 621 N. Lincoln Ave.
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 8, student recital, Kyle Sandall, bass, Perkins Auditorium,
Fuhr Hall of Music.
7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 10, student recital, Music Theatre Ensemble, Perkins
Auditorium, Fuhr Hall of Music.
Other events
8 a.m. – 3: 50 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, Academic Showcase Day, Hazelrigg Student
Union, Perkins Auditorium, and Wilson Center Auditorium.
1 – 2:20 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, Academic Showcase panel discussion, “Approaches
to Hopper’s Room in New York,” Perkins Auditorium, Fuhr Hall of Music.
Panel members include: Janice Driesbach, director of Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and Mark Strand,
professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, New York,
N.Y. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Strand is a former U.S. poet laureate. Turner
McGehee, professor of art and chair of the Hastings College Art Department, will
moderate the panel.
9:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12 and 26, sky viewing at Sachtleben Observatory, 4725 S.
Wabash Ave. Call 4-OBSERV, (402) 462-7378 for more information.
6 p.m., Friday, May 18, Baccalaureate, First Presbyterian Church, 621 N. Lincoln Ave.
Rev. Dr. Jean Heriot, assistant professor of sociology and religion and associate
director of vocational discernment and service learning at Hastings College, will
give the sermon.
10 a.m., Saturday, May 19, Commencement, Lynn Farrell Arena. Speaker will be
Rev. Kimberlee Maphis Early, director of programs for the Theological
Exploration of Vocation of the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Nashville, Tenn.
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