TUESDAY, APRIL 24
Emery Community Arts Center
6 p.m. Grote Scholarship announcement
The Grote award is a scholarship that covers full tuition at UMF for one year. This competitive scholarship is awarded annually to a full-time junior or senior female student, of meritorious academic standing, with preference given to those who have exhibited proficiency in one of the creative arts. The recipients are nominated and selected by faculty in the Arts Division.
6 p.m. Elevator Speeches
Seven students from Melissa Thompson’s Project 2: Performance Management course will introduce themselves and their areas of specialization .
6:30 p.m. “Gruesome Playground Injuries”
A brief scene from the play by Rajiv Joseph, performed by Hailey Craig and Jonas Maines.
6:45 p.m. “Fight Scene”
An original stage combat scene written and choreographed by Ian Grima and Jonas Maines as part of Jayne Decker’s Dramatic Performance class.
7 p.m. Student Piano Composition
Student Greg Baxter will have his original composition, “The Devil in Beethoven” played by Steven Pane, UMF professor of music.
7 p.m. Sound and Spirit Visual and Performing Arts Senior presentations
Emery Community Arts Center
A physical, emotional, and spiritual journey that explores how individuals are affected by what we experience, making us aware of how superficially we look at the world day-to-day. By exploring intangibles such as sound and spirituality, we may ultimately connect better to the world around us and to the individuals that inhabit it, and find we are better for it.
“A Sensorial Experience” by Shane Waters
The sensorial experience of our relationship within sound and music has been increasingly more popular in research due to responses of heightened or relaxed emotions. This project intends to manipulate pitch (frequency), amplitude (intensity), and timbre (waveform) to explore individual experiences through an interactive sound installation. Shane’s sound installation can be experienced on Monday April 23rd, Tuesday 24th, and Wednesday 25th in Nordica Auditorium in UMF Merrill Hall. Please look for posters announcing times.
“Dear God, Oh God” by Josey Lewis
A one-person show that invites the audience to observe five personal dialogues with God through the different stages of an individual’s life. Exploring the internal struggles of belief and a search for some form of resolution, the work grapples with what our own personal connection with God might be and the complex relationship it arouses.