| Through Wednesday, November 12
Tad Lauritzen Wright exhibition
Ford Academic Complex, Lewis Art Gallery
Tad Lauritzen Wright exhibition: "Philosophy of Beauty"
Free
Contact Emmie King, 601-212-9622, or kingel@millsaps.edu
Monday, November 3
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422, or nixls@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, November 5 (EVENT CANCELED)
Faculty/Guest Recital: Marta Szlubowska, violin & The Szlubowski Duo, piano
7:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Popular trio returns to Millsaps with a program of violin solos, duets of violin and piano, and music for two pianos .
Free
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422, or nixls@millsaps.edu
Thursday, November 6
Auditions: Children’s Roles for “The Sound of Music”
5:30-7:00 p.m. – Millsaps College Ford Academic Complex AC157
The Millsaps Players are auditioning children between the ages of five and 16 to fill roles for the Players production of "The Sound of Music" scheduled for performance February 19-22, 2009.
Contact Jeannie-Marie Brown, 601-974-1320, or the Performing Arts Office, 601-974-1422.
Thursday, November 6
Moreton Lecture
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex
Hector Neff, professor, California State University Long Beach, Department of Anthropology
Free
Contact Professor Timothy Ward, 601-974 1405, or wardtj@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 7
Friday Forum: A Christian Response to Theopolitical Terror
Robert Lowry (Millsaps B.A., Religious Studies, 1993); Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Searcy, Arkansas
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
The shape of global politics has shifted from the secular political struggles of the 20th century to a hybrid of secular politics and theopolitical ideology. In the face of new geo-theo-political forces, how shall Christians respond?
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Saturday, November 8
Delta Underground Talent Show
6 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Join the Tri Deltas of Millsaps College as they host a spectacular talent show to help raise money for St. Jude's Children’s Research Hospital. The show will feature acts from across the student population. From singing to dancing, and everything in between, it'll have something for everyone. Plus, there will be a raffle available for an assortment of prizes.
Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door and raffle tickets are $1 each.
For more information email Laura Cost or Katie Collins.
Tuesday, November 11
Recital: Guitar Students of Mr. Jimmy Turner
7:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Students of Jimmy Turner perform classical guitar music.
Free
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422, or nixls@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, November 12
Southern Circuit Film Series:
Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season) and other short films
Ben Russell, producer/director
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Tjúba Tén is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. This film is composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings, and functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future. The filmmaker will also present other short ethnographic films made at different times and with different techniques as points of comparison and historical perspective.
Free
Contact Melissa A. Lea, 601-974-1755, or leama@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, November 12 & Friday, November 14
Masterclass: Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano/piano
4:00 p.m. Wednesday & 11:00 a.m. Friday
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A masterclass with noted teacher Malcolm Bilson comparing piano performance on the fortepiano and Steinway concert grand.
Malcolm Bilson has been in the forefront of the period-instrument movement for over thirty years. A member of the Cornell University Music Department since 1968, he began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the "mainstream" repertory. In addition to an extensive career as a soloist and chamber player, Bilson has toured with the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner, the Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood, the Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan, Tafelmusik of Toronto, Concerto Köln and other early and modern instrument orchestras around the world.
Free
Thursday, November 13
Arts & Lecture Series: What Just Happened? — Dr. Paul Allen Beck
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
The votes have been cast. The people have spoken, and we have a new president-elect of the United States. So, what just happened? Dr. Paul Beck, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University, has research and teaching interests in political parties, public opinion and voting behavior. He is a co-primary investigator of a national survey study of the 2004 electorate which he is continuing through this election. Was there a shift in American voting behavior this year, and what was it? Ask him the questions—he’ll have some answers!
Contact Luran Buchanan, 601-974-1043 or buchall@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 14
Admissions Event: Millsaps United Methodist Visit Day
Millsaps Campus
The Millsaps United Methodist Visit Day is an opportunity for prospective United Methodist high school seniors and juniors to spend a day on campus experiencing all that Millsaps has to offer.
Free
For more information about your visit, please contact the Admissions office at 1-800-352-1050 or via email at admissions@millsaps.edu.
Friday, November 14
Friday Forum:
Openings for Interreligious Engagement
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Sponsored by the Campus Ministry Team Task Group
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, November 14
Bell Piano Series Concert II: Five-Live! Quintet from The Juilliard Jazz Ensemble
7:30 p.m. concert
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
The Juilliard Jazz Ensemble, an extension of the school’s jazz division, has toured internationally to great acclaim and enthusiastic audiences from Japan to New Orleans. The Bell Piano Series is pleased to bring five of its members to Jackson for the first time. You won’t want to miss this evening celebrating some of the rising stars of jazz.
Reception after concert
Tickets $15 general admission / $5 student (Millsaps Faculty/Staff & MMTA discounts available)
Tickets available at the door, or call 601-974-1422 with credit card
Monday, November 17
Energy, Economy and the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. - Japan Relationship
2:45 p.m.
Murrah Hall, Room 200
Speakers are: Mr. Atsushi Yamakoshi, Director, Keidanren-USA, Mr. Masakazu Nonishi, Senior Representative of Panasonic Corporation of North America, a Minister from either Economic or Financial section of the Embassy of Japan. Also attending: Dr. William Farrell, Chairman, National Association of Japan America Societies; Chairman & CEO, Dynamic Strategies Asia.
The sponsoring organizations are: National Association of Japan America Societies, Mississippi Development Authority.
Free
Monday, November 17
Public Lecture by Dr. Laura Franey, 2008 Humanities Teacher of the Year -
“That Dreamy Gliding in the Boat: Women’s Water Travels in Victorian Literature and Art”
4:00 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
A reception will immediately follow the lecture in the lobby outside the entrance to the Recital Hall. For more information contact Louise Hetrick at (601) 974-1309 or hetril@millsaps.edu.
Free
Monday, November 17 - Friday, December 12
Two traveling exhibitions of Printmaking Exchange Portfolios
Academic Complex, Lewis Art Gallery
“Flipping the Bird,” a Mid-America Print Council sponsored portfolio that was curated by Margaret Craig, instructor at Southwest School of Art & Crafts
“Print By Number,” a Southern Graphics sponsored portfolio that was curated by: Shaurya Kumar, assistant professor at Bowling Green State University
Free
Contact Emmie King, 601-212-9622, or kingel@millsaps.edu
Friday—Sunday, November 21—23
Senior Directing Project One-Acts:
The Typists by Murray Schisgal & “Jolly” from The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet
Friday—Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. - Christian Center Auditorium
Student Elizabeth Boteler directs The Typists by Murray Schisgal. Student David Lind directs “Jolly” from The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet.
Cost: $5 general admission
Tickets available at box office one hour prior to each show.
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422, or nixls@millsaps.edu
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