ELON COLLEGE – To reserve tickets for events, call the Elon College Box Office at (336) 584-2199, Monday-Friday, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 6
Faculty Recital: Victoria Fischer, piano
3 p.m. Sunday, Yeager Recital Hall, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
Dr. Fischer will perform solo piano works by Chopin and Bartok.
Tuesday, September 8
Reception – The Landscape: Works on Canvas and Paper
5:30-7:30 p.m., Isabella Cannon Room, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
This exhibit of regional artists’ works, which was curated by Joseph Rowand of Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, explores the media and technical prowess of the landscape. On exhibit August 11 through September 10.
Thursday, September 10
Nice Girls Don’t Sweat
Written and performed by Jane Curry
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
Nice Girls Don’t Sweat is a one-person performance, which uses slides, tapes and humor, to explore the history of women in sports and popular stereotypes of these athletes. Join Jane Curry as she portrays an English teacher and veteran of the All-American Red Heads professional basketball team.
Tuesday, September 15
Morris Dees, “Teaching Tolerance”
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
Dees is co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit group, which specializes in lawsuits involving civil rights violations and racially motivated crimes. As the center’s chief trial counsel he has successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan.
Friday, September 18
The Jon Metzger Quartet, “Teach Me Tonight”
8:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Admission: $10 or free with Elon identification
Jon Metzger, a world-renown jazz vibraphonist and Elon College music instructor, will perform jazz standards with his quartet from their newly released CD, “Teach Me Tonight.” The CD was produced by Elon ImproVibes, a class of 25 Martha and Spencer Love School of Business students and their professors Barth Strempek and Ken Paul.
Monday, September 21
Gita Mehta, reading
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Author of Snakes and Ladders, this year’s common reading, Mehta has also written Karma Cola, Raj and A River Sutra. Her books have been translated into 13 languages and published in 27 countries.
Wednesday, September 23
Fall Convocation: Dr. Paul Cox
11 a.m., Alumni Gym in Koury Center
Free
Voices of Discovery Science Speakers Series
Cox is director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Author of Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rainforest, he shared the 1997 Goldman Environmental Prize for his struggle to preserve South Pacific rain forests and culture. He was featured as a “Hero of Medicine” by Time magazine in fall 1997.
Thursday, September 24
Aquila Theatre Company of London presents The Odyssey
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Admission: $10 or free with Elon identification (reserved seating)
This new production of Odysseus’ journey features original live music and creative staging. The London-based Aquila Theatre Company is a foremost producer of touring classic theater.
Sunday, September 27
Opening Reception: Drawings and Maquettes by Jim Gallucci
2-4:30 p.m., Isabella Cannon Room, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
This exhibition, which is on exhibit through October 29, features drawings and maquettes for a series of “gates” by Greensboro sculptor Jim Gallucci whose works are displayed in the Faith Rockefeller Model Center’s Ward Gallery.
Sunday, September 27
Faculty Recital: Kenneth Lee, baritone
Charlene Harb, piano
3 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
New Elon College voice faculty member, Kenneth Lee, will be joined by guest artist, Charlene Harb, from Middle Tennessee State University, in presenting songs by Hugo Wolf, Henri Duparc and selections from the British Isles.
Tuesday, September 29
American Repertory Ballet’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are
7 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Admission: $12 or free with Elon identification (reserved seating)
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak and American Repertory’s artistic director Septime Webre have created a ballet adaptation of the children’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are, which features stunning sets and costumes and 10-foot-tall Wild Things inhabited by dancers. The performance will include a 45-minute journey with Max and two additional short pieces.
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