Singers’ Theatre Workshop presents ‘The Gondoliers’, 3 p.m., Dec. 6-7, Burke Recital Hall.
Denison’s Singers’ Theatre Workshop presents Gilbert and Sullivan‘s “The Gondoliers.”
Performances are free and open to the public.
Denison University Orchestra Fall Concert, 8 p.m., Dec. 6, Swasey Chapel.
The Denison University Orchestra is a 60-member full symphonic orchestra directed by Olev Viro.
Concert is free and open to the public.
An Evening of Chamber Music, 8 p.m., Dec. 11, Burke Recital Hall.
An Evening of Chamber Music features a variety Denison University’s student and faculty ensembles.
This concert, presented by the Department of Music, is free and open to the public.
On October 23, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill delivered an important address at Denison University’s Swasey Chapel regarding nuclear weapons in North Korea. As head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, Ambassador Hill’s role has been central in recent diplomatic breakthroughs resulting in the removal of North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Hill’s talk was given for Denison’s Richard G. Lugar Symposium in Public Policy. The symposium honors the public service of Denison alumnus Senator Richard G. Lugar ’54, who was on campus for the event.
Link here for local media coverage.
Link here for video of the address which was covered by C-SPAN.
John Jeffcoat, a 1994 Denison alumnus whose first feature film effort as a director, grew out of his student experience studying abroad and his current life in Seattle, has been receiving a lot of positive critical notice. “Outsourced,” which Jeffcoat screened on campus this fall, has now been released nationally. It is a cross-cultural comedy about a customer service call center manager who loses his job and must travel to India to train his own replacement.
Jeffcoat spent 10 years championing Seattle’s independent film scene and found it ironic that his debut feature film was shot mostly on location in Bombay. But it was in Seattle, hearing stories of local companies shipping jobs to India and asking their soon-to-be-unemployed American workers to train their Indian replacements, that Jeffcoat got his inspiration.
“Outsourced” was named Best of the Fest at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and recently won the Audience Award for Best Feature at both the Indian Film Festival of L.A. and the Cinequest Film Festival in Silicon Valley.
Link here to read the New York Times review.
Link here to read the Columbus Dispatch review.
Tehillah Fall Concert, 12 noon, Dec. 4, 2008, Slayter Hall Auditorium.
The entire community is cordially invited to Tehillah's Fall Concert. Please join us for our last concert of the semester, a 30-45 minute program including a selection of some of our favorite music, as well as a number of new pieces.
Tehillah, which means "to sing a hymn of spontaneous praise to God," is an a cappella singing group whose goal is to foster the exposure of the Denison community to a positive and inspirational message through showcasing various arrangements of gospel music, and to spread the gospel through praise and worship. Tehillah is a small group of like-minded students, united in the same purpose, who will collectively select the diverse array of music to be performed.
Denison University Wind Ensemble Fall Concert, 8 p.m., Dec. 3, 2008, Swasey Chapel.
The Denison University Wind Ensemble presents its fall concert. This group, under the direction of Dr. Mark A. Wade, is the university’s top ensemble for wind, brass and percussionists. A large group of approximately 55 musicians, the Denison University Wind Ensemble explores both cutting-edge contemporary literature and traditional staples of the wind band medium.
This concert is free and open to the public.
‘DanceBatukeira’ faculty dance concert, 6 p.m., Dec. 6, 2008, Doane Dance Building performance space.
Denison world dance faculty members Cabello Rolim and Tisza Coelho will host an Afro-Brazilian dance and music celebration.
A featured stop on the Granville Christmas Candlelight Walking Tour, this performance is free and open to the public.
Farmscapes Student Photography Exhibit, 4:30 p.m., Dec. 6, Burton D. Morgan Center, Welsh Hills Room.
Denison University will host an opening reception for a professionally juried photography exhibition. The show highlights the best artistic work of 16 students enrolled in the “Farmscape: Artistic Perspectives on Farmland Preservation” course, taught by Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Studies Abram Kaplan. The opening and exhibit are free and open to the public.
Link here for more.
Student Composers Concert, 8 p.m., Dec. 10, Burke Recital Hall.
Featuring original works by Denison music composition students, this concert is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Philosophy Colloquium, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 3, Samson Talbot Hall, Room 210.
Timothy O'Connor, professor at Indiana University, will present “Human Freedom and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior.”
Quoting O’Connor, “Recent studies within neuroscience and cognitive psychology have explored the place of conscious willing in the generation of purposive action. Some have argued that certain findings indicate that the commonsensical view that we control many of our actions through conscious willing is largely or wholly illusory.
“I rebut such arguments, nevertheless, I also suggest that traditional philosophical accounts of the will need to be revised.”
One in Four RV Tour , 4:30 p.m., Dec. 4, Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall.
Nationally, one in four college women has been a victim of rape or attempted rape. Statistics can change. Men can help.
One in Four is a non-profit organization which has at the core of its mission the education of men about rape by using the most effective methods based on scientific studies. The RV Tour is a program presented by four men who are recent college graduates.
This program, sponsored by the Laura C. Harris Symposium, is free and open to the public.
Jason Barger has recently published a book about his self-imposed week-long confinement to airports and airplanes. His observations have brought him to encourage “graceful” travel in the book titled, “Step Back From the Baggage Claim.” Since his graduation from Denison in 1998, the former Big Red basketball standout has served as an international mission leader, a homeless advocate and a church camp director, and has been honored with the national Jefferson Award for Public Service.
N.Y. Times staff writer Joe Sharkey sheds some light on the book and his conversation with Barger in his story, “Attention, Frazzled Fliers: Air Serenity Is Boarding.”
Link here to read the N.Y. Times story.
Link here to visit the book’s Web site.
