Category: Arts
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning will host the fifth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Approximately 350 current undergraduate students who have participated in a faculty-mentored research or an artistry project will be...
After 20 years of directing the NIU Jazz Ensemble and shaping the diversity of the program, School of Music professor Ron Carter will retire this spring. “I will definitely miss the students a lot and the great colleagues I’ve met here,” Carter said. “I’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to recruit students from all over the...
Hungry? The Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb will present an exclusive “Big Night Movie & A Dinner” event Sunday, April 27. This benefit for the Egyptian will feature the showing of the 1996 movie “Big Night” at 3 p.m. at the theater (135 N. Second St.), followed by an authentic reenactment of the “Big Night” dinner...
“One would think that Shakespeare had the college audience in mind when developing ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ a play about young adults torn between a life of the mind and a life of pleasure,” says Lara Crowley, an NIU assistant professor of English. Opening Thursday, April 10, in the Holmes Student Center Diversions Lounge, the School...
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival in Cole Hall 100. The festival, now in its 13th year, is open to the public, and admission is free. Screenings of student-produced films will be featured from 9 to 11 p.m. Monday, April 7,...
The nationally renowned NIU Jazz Ensemble will bid a fond farewell to its longtime beloved director, Ron Carter, at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Carter, who is retiring from NIU this spring, will host a pre-concert jam session for former students and friends at 6...
“Please don’t send cookies, care packages or socks,” a U.S. service member once said. “Just take care of our children.” Our Military Kids works every day to fulfill this plea. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to provide support and recognition to military children, Our Military Kids provides grants to keep military children engaged in activities...
The NIU School of Music is looking to build an instant choir, hundreds of voices strong, at a “Community Sing” scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The choir, composed of all attendees at the event, will be led by Nick Page, an internationally...
Student composers in the NIU School of Music will perform a concert of their works at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. This diverse program will feature music for pipa, piano, winds, brass, strings and percussion by undergraduate student composers MJ Halco, Kyle Krause, Tyler Madden and Gregory...
The NIU Campus Activities Board and Convocation Center have partnered to present Def Jam artist 2 Chainz at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Special guests are to be determined; the Campus Activities Board will host a talent search for the opening acts. More information will be announced at a later...
The NIU Art Museum will host a joint reception for its exhibitions “Hoarding, Amassing and Excess” and “Looting, Hoarding, Collecting … ” from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3. This event is free and open to the public. Several exhibiting artists from “Hoarding, Amassing and Excess” will be around during the reception to give informal...
The NIU Steelband, under the direction of Liam Teague and Cliff Alexis, will presents its spring 2014 concert at 3 p.m. Sunday April 13, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The event will commemorate the ensemble’s 40th year of existence and will be a celebration of the past, present and...
