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Category: Arts
Members of the NIU Steelband perform in August at the Huskies SEE DeKalb event.
If you’ve had enough of winter and want to get into a tropical mood without he expense of a plane ticket, join the Dixon Sister Cities Association for a benefit performance by the award-winning NIU Steelband. The concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at the historic Dixon Theatre. The NIU Steelband is...
Diane Nilan and Laura Vazquez
A documentary directed by NIU communication professor Laura Vazquez has taken top honors in the prestigious 2011 Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts. Vazquez spent four years working with Diane Nilan, a nationally known advocate for the homeless, to tell the stories of seven women and their children struggling to escape homelessness. The one-hour...
NIU Jazz Lab Band
Members of the NIU Jazz Lab Band, directed by Rodrigo Villanueva, and the NIU University Jazz Band, under the direction of Ross Margitza, will perform their first joint concert of the 2011 spring semester at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.
Movie poster for "The Other Side of Immigration"
NIU’s Center for Latino and Latin American Studies is hosting a film festival this week. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call (815) 753-1531. Tuesday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m. Latino Center, 515 Garden Road Documentary screening and discussion, “Which Way Home”  (in Spanish with English subtitles) “Which Way Home” is a...
Long time piano teacher Sara Vogeler combines a love for children’s books and the joy of teaching music to a music class for pre-school age children. Offered by the NIU Community School of the Arts, Musical Tales begins a new session Tuesday, March 1. The class is for children ages 3 to 5 and their parents....
The CSA Sinfonia performs the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg and Led Zeppelin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The concert is free and open to the public. Featured at the Wednesday performance is violinist Rachel Stenzel of Holiday Hills, winner of this year’s CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition. She performs...
Orson Welles’ “Moby Dick Rehearsed” explores what happens when a theater company attempts to stage Herman Melville’s classic novel without any of the necessary scenery or props. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will perform “Moby Dick Rehearsed” from Thursday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 27, and Thursday, March 3, through Sunday, March 6....
Suzan-Lori Parks
The realities of raising children in poverty can be emotionally charged and troubling. It is also a very real problem that playwright Suzan-Lori Parks addresses in her raw and powerful play, “In the Blood.” NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present its next Studio Series production from Thursday, Feb. 17, through Sunday, Feb. 20, in the Stevens...
Photo of "Exit Only" road sign
In addition to visiting current exhibitions “in/VISIBLE: Hiding in Plain Sight” and “Best Face Forward: The Presented View,” the campus community is invited to join the NIU Art Museum’s upcoming Get-On-The-Bus Trips. The program provides art lovers the opportunity to visit various art and architecture sites such as historic homes, art galleries, museums, artists’ studios and art fairs while...
World-renowned gospel singer Fred Hammond will help the NIU community celebrate Black Heritage Month when he performs at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, with the NIU Black Choir. The event will take place at the NIU Convocation Center. Hammond, known as “Babyface of Gospel,” has been a legendary performer since he began entertaining audiences globally more...
Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune
The Friends of NIU Libraries invite the public to attend a free  presentation by Chicago Tribune chief theater critic Chris Jones. The presentation, titled “How Chicago Became America’s Hottest Theater City,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, in the Rare Books and Special Collections department on the fourth floor of NIU’s Founders Memorial...
The Claremont Trio
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELED. The Claremont Trio (piano, violin, cello) is widely regarded as the premier piano trio of its generation. First-ever winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, and the only piano trio ever to win first prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremont is consistently lauded for its “aesthetic maturity,...
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