Old and recent Mennonite and Amish quilts that record and honor significant life events will be on display in the Harold and Wilma Good Library basement gallery at Goshen College. The exhibit opens on Sunday, March 16 and will be on display through July 27, 2014. A reception will take place on Sunday, March 16, 3-5 p.m., in the Good Library Gallery.
Goshen College’s 14th annual Conference on Science and Religion will be held March 14-16 and will feature speaker Joshua M. Moritz, Ph.D., lecturer of philosophical theology and the natural sciences at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco and managing editor of the journal Theology and Science.
The upbeat sounds of the Pink Martini orchestra will be heard in Goshen on Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. for a Performing Art Series concert in the Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Dr. Christopher Fashun and Ben Runkel will offer a percussion performance of various genres and sound combinations, including both Western and Brazilian percussion, during the March 11 Afternoon Sabbatical at Goshen College. The program will take place at 1 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall and is free and open to the public.
Mary Rose Norell, a Community School of the Arts piano instructor, will present a solo piano recital in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Sunday, March 9. The recital will begin at 4 p.m.
Born and raised in Kansas, Scott Dooley discovered a love for clay as a senior in college, and has been a potter ever since. He is the Goshen College Art Department’s 2014 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist and will deliver a public lecture on Wednesday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Administration Building Room 28, with a reception immediately following in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.
Oboist and Goshen College oboe instructor Jennet Ingle will present a recital of oboe transcriptions on Friday, March 7. The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.
Trevor Bechtel, associate professor of religion at Bluffton (Ohio) University, will present the 2014 C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Administration Building Room 28. Bechtel will speak on “The already peaceable kingdom: A bestiary of peaceable living.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir will conclude their spring break tour to Pennsylvania with a “home concert” in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
