March 2008 events at Goshen College

All events are open to the public and are free unless otherwise noted. 

1
Afternoon Sabbatical Bus Trip to “Jersey Boys” in Chicago

This trip is sold out.

 

2
7:30 p.m., Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir Home Concert, College Mennonite Church

        The Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir, directed by Professor of Music Debra Brubaker, will conclude its spring tour to Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York City with a concert at College Mennonite Church. The choir will perform their tour program, which includes choral works from a wide variety of cultures and languages. Admission is free; a goodwill offering will be taken.

 

3
Exhibit opening: “Heirlooms,” Good Library Gallery

        “Heirlooms,” an exhibit of folk arts inherited in Mennonite and Amish families, includes quilts, coverlets, fraktur, furniture, family registers, clothing, toys. The formal opening reception will be Sunday, March 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibit honors S. L. Yoder, GC professor emeritus of education and longtime interpreter of Mennonite and Amish cultures to public audiences. This exhibit runs until Aug. 15.

 

5
7:30 p.m., Roy H.Umble Master Class Keynote Address: “Bringing Voice and Body Into the Academy,” Umble Center

        Shoshona Simons, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Transformative Leadership & Studies Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

        As a playful, effective small business consultant and improvisational leader, Nika Quirk, M.B.A., is a proven catalyst for insightful change and development.

        A reception follows the address.

 

8
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Workshop: “Can You Understand Your Own Interpretation: English to ASL,”Newcomer Center Room 17

        This workshop is specifically designed for interpreters who wish to enhance their English to ASL interpreting skills.

        Marty M. Taylor, Ph.D., is the founder and director of Interpreting Consolidated, a company formed to provide consultation, evaluation, research and publishing services to interpreting communities worldwide. As an interpreter and interpreter educator, Taylor holds national certification in both Canada and the United States, and has dedicated over 30 years to the advancement of sign language interpretation in North America and abroad.

        Registration is open to all, but required to attend. Call (574) 535-7566 for ticket information; ticket sales end March 1.

 

8
5 p.m., International Student Club Coffeehouse, Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall/Sauder Concert Hall

        This extravaganza features a delicious international meal cooked by the college’s international students (with foods from around the world) at 5 p.m. in the Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall, and then a variety show put on by the same students at 7 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall. This educational and fun event is a fund raiser for the club.

        Tickets are available at the Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566. The dinner and show cost $17 for adults, $11 for GC students and kids under 12. For the program only, it costs $10 for adults, $6 for GC students and kids under 12.

 

9
2-4 p.m., Exhibit opening reception: “Heirlooms,” Good Library Gallery

        Mennonite and Amish folk art that has descended in families from one generation to another. Quilts, coverlets, fraktur, furniture, rugs, needlework, paintings and other crafts, as well as the narratives of their making and preservation. Some items come from the Mennonite-Amish Museum collection in the Mennonite Historical Library. Others are borrowed from private family collections. Faye Peterson is the curator. The exhibit is sponsored by the Mennonite-Amish Museum Committee and Mennonite Historical Library. This exhibit runs until Aug. 15.

 

9
2-4 p.m., Art exhibit opening reception: Senior Exhibition I, Hershberger Art Gallery

        Senior students show the culmination of their collegiate work in a chosen medium. This exhibit runs until March 26.

 

10
10 a.m., Convocation: Dolores Huerta speaks on immigration issues, Church-Chapel

        Dolores Huerta was a co-founder of the United Farm Workers organization, based in California. She is a long-time and highly respected community activist. Her visit to GC is sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office and the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL).

 

10
7 p.m., Dolores Huerta Community Dialogue, Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall

 

11
1 p.m., Afternoon Sabbatical: “Out of the Depths,” GC Men’s Chorus, Sauder Concert Hall

        Join the Goshen College Men’s Chorus for their spring concert, “Out of the Depths.” Mirroring the Lenten journey from darkness to light, the men’s chorus sings Psalm settings from the 16^th century to the 20^th, American folk hymns, romantic German partsongs of Schubert and a rousing spiritual. A progam to move the heart, engage the mind and stir the soul.

 

12
10 a.m., Chapel: “Faith and Activism” with Ruby Sales, Church-Chapel

        For three days, Ruby Sales will be on campus to talk about faith and activism. How do issues of justice and peace connect with our faith and spirituality? Ruby is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, founded and directs the Spirit House Project and works with the Every Church a Peace Church Movement.

 

13
7:30 p.m., Yoder Public Affairs Lecture: “Educating Creative Practitioners for the 21^st Century” by Carol Becker, Rieth Recital Hall

        Becker is dean of faculty at the School of the Arts, Columbia University in New York, having served from 1994 to 2007 as dean of faculty, senior vice-president for academic affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

        This talk is the result of many years of working in an art and design educational environment and observing the relationship between these disciplines, their intrinsic and implicit values, and how their significance has been conflating, overlapping, colliding and reemerging in the last decade in particular around the shared interest in sustainability. The examples will move between art, architecture, memorials, monument and interventions to comment upon the importance of making these implicit values explicit for the next generation of practitioners who need to know how to understand the way in which art and design have been and will continue to be forces for social change, leading the conversation about the urgencies of the planet and our relationship to these concerns for the future.

 

15
10 a.m., Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College’s Sugar Bush Open House, Yoder Farm, Huntertown, Ind.

        Bring your favorite children for a hands-on experience making maple syrup. Empty sap buckets, saw wood, watch the evaporator bubble, sample pancakes and fresh maple syrup. Pre-registration required. Call Jenny Spitler at (260) 799-5869 to register. Suggested donation: $4 per family.

 

15
12:30-5 p.m.,Goshen College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Newcomer Center Room 14 and Room 17 and Church-Chapel

        The 10th annual Goshen College Research Symposium will again include students presenting papers from their various disciplines. The symposium’s mission is to acknowledge original undergraduate research that plays an essential role in the college’s academic program and to encourage students and faculty to contribute to the larger conversation about knowing and knowledge that sustains the academy. The symposium brings together students and faculty members involved in original research and scholarly activity from all disciplines.

 

16
4 p.m., Shirley Sprunger King Organ Recital, Rieth Recital Hall

        Cost: $7 general, $5 for seniors and students. GC students free with ID.

 

16
9 p.m., Taizé worship service, Newcomer Center 19

        This evening’s worship service is modeled after the Taizé community in France. This contemplative candlelight prayer service includes songs, prayers, Scriptures and silence

 

18
7:30 p.m., Yoder Public Affairs Lecture: The Bear and the Porcupine” by Ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow, Rieth Recital Hall

        Jeffrey Davidow served as ambassador to Mexico from 1998 to 2002, serving under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. In his book titled “The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine,” Davidow wrote, “I will make this flat statement: No nation in the world has a greater impact on the daily lives of average Americans than Mexico.” In his lecture, he will speak to the current state of the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and the reasons for both the interdependence, and the frequent misunderstandings, between the two countries. After serving 34 years in the State Department, Davidow retired as America’s highest ranking diplomat, one of only three people to hold the personal rank of Career Ambassador. During his Foreign Service career, Ambassador Davidow focused much of his efforts on improving relations with Latin America.

 

28
8 a.m., Campus Open House, Music Center Lobby

        Spend a day at Goshen College to see what makes it unique. Prospective students will have the opportunity to attend a class, take a campus tour, hear about the Study-Service Term and more. An overnight visit in one of the residence halls is also available upon request. Contact the Admission Office at (574) 535-7535 or e-mail admission@goshen.edu.

 

28-30
Religion and Science Conference, Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall

        Holmes Rolston III, a pioneer of environmental ethics, will be the guest speaker. Holmes is winner of the 2003 Templeton Prize for his work on the intrinsic value of nature and on the relationship between science and religion. He is the past president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics.

        There are two free public lectures in the Church-Chapel: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 29 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 29.

        For more information or to register for the conference, contact Marilyn Bayak at (574) 535-7305 or e-mail marilynlb@goshen.edu.

 

28
8 p.m., Spring Mainstage: “Absolutely” {perhaps}” by Luigi Pirandello, Umble Center

        Set in a small town where gossip is an everyday practice, the locals attempt to understand the peculiarities of the mysterious new residents in this dark comedy of truth, reality and insanity. Doug Liechty Caskey, professor of communication and theater, directs this 2003 translation by Martin Sherman. Cost: $8 general, $5 for students and seniors.

 

29
3 p.m., Spring Mainstage: “Absolutely” {perhaps}” by Luigi Pirandello, Umble Center

        Set in a small town where gossip is an everyday practice, the locals attempt to understand the peculiarities of the mysterious new residents in this dark comedy of truth, reality and insanity. Doug Liechty Caskey, professor of communication and theater, directs this 2003 translation by Martin Sherman. Cost: $8 general, $5 for students and seniors.

 

29
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Series: Canadian Brass, Sauder Concert Hall

        Enjoying international acclaim, Canadian Brass has performed and toured for more than 35 years and recorded over 60 albums with their wide-ranging repertoire that spans four centuries. Consummate performers all, this amazing quintet manages to infuse spontaneity and humor into their virtuosic performance of diverse works, securing their reputation as an audience favorite.

        Cost: $15, choral terrace seats, available beginning March 17

 

30
2-4 p.m., Art exhibit opening reception: Senior Exhibition II, Hershberger Art Gallery

        Senior students show the culmination of their collegiate work in a chosen medium. This exhibit runs until April 23.

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3 p.m., Spring Mainstage: “Absolutely” {perhaps}” by Luigi Pirandello, Umble Center

        Set in a small town where gossip is an everyday practice, the locals attempt to understand the peculiarities of the mysterious new residents in this dark comedy of truth, reality and insanity. Doug Liechty Caskey, professor of communication and theater, directs this 2003 translation by Martin Sherman. Cost: $8 general, $5 for students and seniors.

 

30
7:30 p.m., Faculty Showcase Recital: Solomia Soroka, violin, and Matthew Hill, piano, Rieth Recital Hall

        Goshen College music faculty members Solomia Soroka and Matthew Hill will perform a concert of violin and piano music. Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door. GC students are admitted free with valid ID.

Goshen College’s Administration Building, Church-Chapel, Good Library, Music Center, Newcomer Center, Union Gymnasium, Umble Center and Westlawn Lounge are accessible to people using wheelchairs and others with physical limitations.

Directions to the college and a campus map are available at: www.goshen.edu/aboutgc/map.php. For ticket information, contact the Welcome Center, at (574) 535-7566, or e-mail welcomecenter@goshen.edu.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of Distinction,” “Making a Difference College Guide” and U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.