Afro-Brazilian Samba and Capoeira are coming to Penn State in a series of Capoeira and Samba workshops with special guests Mestre Efraim Silva and Thelma Ladeira, of the Connecticut Capoeira and Dance Company, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, in the HUB-Flex Theatre. The workshops are free and open to the public.
The Penn State Shenango Earth Fest, which has become a popular annual event in the Shenango Valley for adults and children of all ages, will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6 at the campus' Great Hall and Atrium in downtown Sharon. The festival, which is free and open to the community, will include live music and entertainment, an educational presentation on sustainability by author/journalist Seamus McGraw, children’s activities, a local artists’ market, Penn State Berkey Creamery ice cream, and information from sustainability-minded local organizations and businesses.
Public reception will unveil gallery featuring local college students’ work.
Technology meets art on Friday, March 29, when a Penn State wikistorming event, the 2019 Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, invites the public to drop by for exciting presentations throughout the day, to encourage the editors and to participate in (re)shaping knowledge on Wikipedia.
The College of Arts and Architecture Office of Digital Learning has officially announced its course offerings for the upcoming summer semesters. Students have the opportunity to choose from a diverse course catalog of art, music, design and related subjects to further explore their creative passion. These summer semesters allow students to get ahead on coursework and to fulfill general education requirements with the luxury of completing the courses from anywhere in the world!
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) brings its 2018/19 Hand of Time Tour to Penn State with a performance of William Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" at 7 p.m. on March 25 at Eisenhower Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.
Registration is now open for the Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts’ 2019 summer art camps on the University Park campus. Camps are offered for children in grades one through nine and vary for each session and age group.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus will host the "Building Bridges" exhibit, presented by the non-profit Family Diversity Projects, from March 11 through 29 at the campus library.
The Pennsylvania Center for the Book has selected poets, including several Penn State faculty and staff, for the third annual 2019 Poems from Life with Juniper Village. A project developed in partnership with Juniper Village Senior Living at Brookline, Poems from Life shares and celebrates the lives of Juniper Village residents with original, individualized poems presented by local poets during a celebratory public reading, held this year on April 9.
Students, faculty and staff who want to test their creativity in the kitchen are invited to compete in a themed cake decorating competition hosted by Penn State University Libraries from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, April 1, in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Members of the public are encouraged to assist in the voting.
Jazz trumpeter Bria Skonberg will return to Penn State with Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour on March 22, featuring five other must-see, award-winning jazz musicians. In a Center for the Performing Arts interview, she shared insights on what a jazz musician “looks like,” how she defies generalizations and still being star struck in the city.
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State will present the Troika Entertainment production of “Kinky Boots,” the smash-hit musical that brings together the talents of four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper, for two performances at 7:30 p.m. April 9 and 10 in Eisenhower Auditorium.
The public is invited to a screening of “So, You Think You is Woman, Hey?” a documentary by Penn State Beaver professor Juliette Storr that examines gender equality issues in the Bahamas.
Penn State Shenango invites the community for a night of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, and drawings as the campus concludes its 2018-19 lecture series at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in the Lecture Hall Art Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Penn State Shenango is gearing up for its annual Upcycled Art Contest, which is held in conjunction with the campus’ Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 6. The contest is designed to inspire elementary and middle school students to create treasure from “trash.”
