2/5/2010		3/1 Flutefest concert features all members of flute family
2/4/2010		2/22 "1001 Black Inventions" on stage to celebrate Black History Month
2/4/2010		Feb. 11- 21 Theatre Production of "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"
2/3/2010		2010 Theatre Schedule of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts
2/3/2010		2/16 Film Showing ‘Central Station’ -- a tale of love and forgiveness
2/3/2010		2/9 through 2/11 Screenwriter and novelist Dan Wakefield
2/2/2010		Sustainable agriculture panel discussion Feb. 11 at Elizabethtown College
2/2/2010		New Exhibit "Reflections of the Martyrs Mirror" Now Open
1/18/2010		Theodore Long, President of Elizabethtown College, announces his retirement
1/14/2010		Artists interpret the figure in “Figure Eight” exhibit on campus
1/11/2010		Swanson and Students at the Kennedy Center Theatre Festival
1/11/2010		Kanagy Study to Give Voice to Southern Hemisphere Mennonites
10/16/2009		November 19 - 21 E-town Student Shorts Fest

March 1 concert features all members of flute family

Fourth annual Flutefest at Elizabethtown College March 1

Flute students of Elizabethtown College faculty member Dr. Paula Nelson present the fourth annual Flutefest, a gala concert featuring all members of the flute family from piccolo to bass flute. Performing at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 1, in Zug Recital Hall are Arioso Flute Choir and a variety of small flute ensembles and soloists.

Featured solos include compositions by Borne, Poulenc and Hoover. Small ensembles perform a trio by Kuhlau, plus “Chats” by Berthomieu. The Arioso Flute Choir will offer Gabrieli’s “Sonata Pian’ e Forte,” Mozart’s “The Magic Flute (In 5 Minutes),” Ravel’s “Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and Bizet’s “Farandole from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2.” All musicians will join together at the end of the program to perform the “Air” from the “Suite in D” by Bach.

Student performers include: Allison Burket ’10, Stephanie Crawford ’12, Amber Farah ’12, Tanna Leigh Gibble ’12, Sarah Johnson ’11, Jana MacKay, Hollynn Olsavick ’13, Leigh Ontiveros ’10, Lauren Rossi ’10, Cassandra Summers ’13, and Sierra Tretter ’13. The concert is sponsored by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Division of Music. Contact Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 with any questions.

High Library and the Office of Diversity sponsor “1001 Black Inventions” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Elizabethtown College. The play, performed by Washington, D.C.-based Pin Points Theatre, features the lives of brilliant men and women, and then takes you into the Twilight Zone, where a typical American family attempts to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Audiences laugh themselves into the realization that Black ingenuity is an integral part of their everyday lives. The performance, which is open to the public, celebrates Black History Month.

Pin Points Theatre is a community theater company that travels internationally, creating its plays and workshops in impoverished D.C. communities then presenting them to schools, businesses, government agencies and theaters throughout the nation’s capitol, the United States, and Asia (Guam, Korea, Japan, and Singapore), Canada and Germany.
Contact: Rachel Hadrick at 717-361-1983 or Louise Hyder-Darlington at 717-361-1454.

The Department of Fine and Performing Arts of Elizabethtown College Theatre presents Alan Ball’s “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” Feb. 11 through 21 at the College’s Tempest Theatre. Shows are 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11; Friday, Feb. 12; Saturday, Feb. 13; Thursday, Feb. 18; and Friday, Feb. 19; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21. Tickets are $6.

Five Tennessee bridesmaids rebel, hiding from the wedding reception; trading teasing and revelations, and sharing hilarity and heartbreak. This irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing comes to us from the Emmy- and Oscar-winning creator of True Blood, Six Feet Under and American Beauty.

The cast includes Tammy Bateman ’10, Clara DeAngelo ’12, Jackie Light ’12, Meghann Timney ’11, Angela Wright ’12—and the lone male Kyle Kovatch ’13. Dr. Michael Swanson directs with the assistance of Tom Hackman, assistant professor of Theatre, as scenic and lighting designer; Jen Kilander, costume designer; Beth Lewis ’11, sound designer; Peter Starr Northrop ’11, assistant director; and Jess Roberts ’11, stage manager.

For tickets, call the Theatre Box office at 717-361-1170 or send an email request. Vist visit the Theatre and Dance Division of Fine and Performing Arts’ website. Contact Dr. Michael Swanson at 717-361-1160.

Announcing the 2010 Elizabethtown College
Theatre Season

The Elizabethtown College Theatre Division has announced the schedule for the upcoming season. Works include "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball, sharing hilarity and heartbreak in an irreverent look at friendship and the power of similar dressing. Finally, an American classic, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller comes to Elizabethtown, a work famous for its exploration of the power of accusation and gossip in the witch hunts of 1692 Salem.

The Friends of the High Library and the Office of International Programs at Elizabethtown College present “Central Station,” an emotional and enduring tale of love and forgiveness, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in the College’s Brinser Lecture Room, Steinman Center.

The film portrays the powerful bond a young boy creates with a lonely retired schoolteacher after witnessing his mother’s accidental death. Directed by Walter Salles, “Central Station” follows the two in their search to find the boy’s father while restoring hope, and learning valuable life lessons along the way.

“Central Station” (aka Central do Brasil) won the Los Angeles Film Critics and Golden Globe award for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. This event, which is free and open to the public, is the fourth in the High Library Film series, titled “Bringing the World to E-town.”

 

Directions to Campus

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar presents lecture series
Feb. 9 through 11


Events feature screenwriter and novelist Dan Wakefield

Professor Milt Friedly curator of new exhibit "Figure Eight"

“Watercolor is well suited for figure work. It can catch the frailty and luminosity of the human body in a gradual build-up of transparent layers of water and pigments,” said exhibitor and watercolorist Eva Stina Bender, of Annville. 

Lancaster artist Jeff Geib said drawing is the core of his work. “Figure drawing is … that most challenging and elemental encounter involving a human depicting a human in the most immediate and profound way, becomes the core, if you will, of the core.”

Andrew Heisey, art department chair and teacher at Harrisburg Christian School in Harrisburg, shows the figure in various ceramic pieces and mixed media, while Judith Johnson’s junk sculpture and small bronzes originate from a recurring tribal dream image. “Abua aka (Ashanti tribe, Kenya) … first appeared in my work as junk metal sculptures (my alter egos), made from scrap metal with copper toilet floats for heads … She appears now in the small bronze sculptures as feminine spirits in meditation.”

Philip Lindsey, of Chambersburg, is a tenured, professor of art at Wilson College. For his piece Lauren with Pear, an oil on canvas, he felt a need to make a painting about his daughter’s innocence, sweetness, tenderness and purity.

Sculptor Mark Oxman, of Amherst, Mass., is retired from American University. He works from photographs, but begins sculpting with an idea about the subject—“I am looking for visual information that will feed that idea,” he said.

The commissioned portraits of Catherine Prescott, Mechanicsburg, include those of children, educators and couples, and Lou Schellenberg, associate professor of art at Elizabethtown, exhibits small works on paper done from memory, small sketches, monoprints and photos. The works have been reworked and layered using a variety of mediums on paper. 

The reception and exhibit are open to the public. Contact: Amy Reynolds, 717-361-1212.

Kanagy Study to Give Voice to Southern Hemisphere Mennonites

Mennonite Population in the Global South Now Larger than in North America

In 2003, Conrad L. Kanagy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Elizabethtown College, travelled to visit the Mennonite church in Ethiopia.  In Africa, he saw a vibrant and growing church, one that today has a much larger Mennonite population than all of North America.  Upon returning to the U.S., Kanagy knew that this was a story that needed to be told. As a sociologist, Kanagy was particularly interested in telling that story by documenting through survey research the attitudes, beliefs and values of Mennonite Christians in the global south.

With funding initially unavailable, Kanagy worked with colleague, noted Anabaptist scholar Donald Kraybill, in “The Church Member Profile 2006,” a study of Anabaptists in the U.S.  Kanagy then approached Eastern Mennonite Missions in Salunga, PA for funding a global study, the group who originally sent missionaries to East Africa and other countries in the early 20th century.  Now interested in tracing the development of these churches, the agency funded a two-year study of eleven Anabaptist-related church bodies in Honduras, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the United States. Now more than one year into the project, Kanagy has received data from four countries and anticipates the remaining data by March, 2010.  The survey has been translated into eleven languages.

Richard Showalter, President of the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions, the sole sponsor of the multi-nation study, visited Indonesia, East Africa and Central America as part of his orientation as president of EMM and “was pleasantly surprised to learn how much they were already a part of the Anabaptist story...These churches have much to teach us in North America,” he said recently at Mennonite World Conference, noting that the western churches need this data for their own development and self-awareness. “There has been more interconnectedness over the last years than we, in the North, have taken notice.”

Each church selected an ‘Anchor’ for the project, often younger church leaders who have proven to be fast learners who are energized by the project. Kanagy and the Anchors met in Delhi, India in October 2008 for planning and for training in social science methodology. “That was one of the most exciting workshops I’ve ever participated in,” said Kanagy. “The opportunity to listen to representatives from the various churches reflect on their challenges was tremendous.”

The Anchors agreed in Delhi to create a questionnaire with 95% of the questions in common. “We spent hours working through the survey design and questionnaire construction, and the questionnaire kept growing.” The result was a nine-page questionnaire with 37 separate questions on attitudes, beliefs, and values.

“This project is a substantial challenge,” says Kanagy. “In some countries, gaining access to remote churches is difficult. In others, illiteracy requires methodological adaptations. And in still others, the idea of framing individual responses around categories to questions is new.” But the project is moving according to schedule. Each week Kanagy updates the Anchors on the progress and reminds them of outstanding tasks.

This fall, Kanagy begins analysis of data from the project, co-authoring reports with each Anchor.  While Kanagy will analyze and report, the Anchors will reflect on the meaning of the data within their context. A consultation of  Anchors and church leaders from ten countries will be held the last week of August, 2010 in Kenya to present summary reports of what has been learned about the churches of the global south.

When asked about outcomes from the profile, Kanagy noted: “I anticipate that this study has been and will continue to empower churches in the global south. For most Christian faith traditions today, membership growth is much greater in the southern hemisphere than in the northern. And yet, the realities of power and money too often keep the north in control of the global agendas of our churches.” Such a study will give voice to those in the southern hemisphere and facilitate “South to South” conversations.
Kanagy notes the involvement of two Elizabethtown College students with this project – Ryan Long, a Religion major and Alisha Sangrey, a student of Modern Languages and Business. Both are writing major research papers using data from the Profile and both hope to join Kanagy in Kenya in August to present their findings. In addition to the reports and conferences that the Profile will generate, Kanagy anticipates writing a book to tell the story of the growth of Mennonite churches in the southern hemisphere. This will follow the successful research and publication of his 2006 book “Road Signs for the Journey: A Profile of Mennonite Church USA.”

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