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Category: Visual and Performing Arts
Be a part of history as Northern Illinois University celebrates the inauguration of President Douglas D. Baker on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 13. The inauguration is the highlight of a four-day-long set of activities in conjunction with Baker’s installment as NIU’s 12th president. President Baker brings a rich background in business, organizational management and...
CSA Sinfonia members play during a recent concert.
Calling all former members of CSA Sinfonia: There’s a reunion concert in the works! The NIU Community School of the Arts is in the process of getting in touch with the orchestra’s 350 alumni to let them know about this fun opportunity to perform on the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall stage again. “We’ve been contacting...
Erin Templin, daughter of Dan and Kristal Templin of Sycamore, was one of seven Suzuki violin students who received music scholarships recently from Vivian and John Spinoso. She is pictured with her violin teacher, Ann Montzka-Smelser.
Vivian and John Spinoso have wonderful memories of their many years of violin lessons with their three daughters, Gina, Julie and Lisa. All three studied in the Suzuki violin program of the NIU Community School of the Arts. “We thought it was important to give the girls the gift of music for the culture, and...
Members of the NIU community soon will have the opportunity to hear presentations on multicultural curriculum transformation given by faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines, including nursing, history, business and education. These events are the result of the presenters’ participation in the 2013 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute. The institute, which took place...
Senior acting majors: Children of the Corn
NIU School of Theatre and Dance seniors are throwing their annual Halloween sketch comedy show from Thursday, Oct. 31, through Saturday, Nov. 2, in the Diversions Lounge of the Holmes Student Center. All performances are at 10 p.m. The show is also an important fundraiser for the seniors to help pay for their acting reels...
NIU New Music Festival 2013
There is something for everyone during this year’s NIU New Music Festival! Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Beyer, and in collaboration with School of Music professors Geof Bradfield and Ryan Muncy, the festival will bring to campus two sets of guest artist ensembles and will offer three very different programs for audiences Tuesday,...
Paul Bauer
Paul Bauer, director of the NIU School of Music, is one of two outstanding and internationally recognized brass performers and educators named to the  to the adjudication panel for the U.S. Open Brass Band Championships. The annual one-day invitational puts traditional brass bands from around the nation – and around the world – in competition. This year’s event...
Photo of the word “Ethics” on a road sign
It is time again for all NIU employees to complete Ethics Training. Under the terms of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, all full-time and part-time, regular and temporary faculty, staff, graduate assistants, extra help and student employees must complete online ethics training. The training covers such topics as prohibitions against accepting gifts and...
“In Motion”
The national statistics are frightening: 1 in 5 women are victims of completed or attempted sexual assault while in college. Ninety percent of women know the person who sexually assaulted or raped them. Ninety-five percent of college campus sexual assaults are unreported. At least 50 percent of sexual assaults on college campuses are alcohol-related. Eighty...
Cupid
“We’re going back to the place where we fell in love with theatre,” said Ryan Massie, director of the first theater production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance 2013-2014 Mainstage Series season. The season opening play is “Almost, Maine,” by Tony Award-nominated actor John Cariani. It opens Thursday, Oct. 17, and will be...
Serena Harnack
Area musicians ages 18 and younger are invited to compete in the CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition. The deadline for applications is Monday, Oct. 21. Auditions are scheduled in the Recital Hall of the NIU Music Building, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11. The winner of the competition receives $200 and performs the concerto March 5,...
NIU Class of 2014 acting majors
A night of live music and raffles – a not-so-silent auction – will fill the Holmes Student Center Diversions Lounge from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. The Non-Silent Auction event is the idea of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance Class of 2014 acting majors. Instead of the typical silent auction format, NIU student...
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