ELON COLLEGE – To reserve tickets call the Elon College Box Office at (336) 584-2199 from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Tuesday, February 23
Sherrie Maricle and Diva
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Tickets: $10 or free with Elon identification
Diva “No Man’s Band” follows the classic traditions of the Buddy Rich, Count Basie and Woody Herman orchestras. The group’s 15 women have had sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl, The Blue Note in New York and the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland.
Tuesday, March 2
Leahy
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $12 or free with Elon identification
The Leahys – five sisters and four brothers from Canada – perform a uniquely contemporary parade of Celtic and Canadian folk music and French Canadian step-dancing. Their family was featured in an Academy Award-winning film, The Leahys: Music Most Of All, and the single and video from their first album have been on the Canadian Top 10.
Wednesday, March 3
Poetry Reading
5 p.m., Carlton, Room 218
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Elon College faculty and students will read selections from their poetry.
Wednesday, March 3
Loung Ung, “Wars End. Landmines Don’t”
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre,
Free
Ung speaks on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born into a middle-class Cambodian family at the height of that country’s civil war. Her parents and two siblings were killed and she was forced to become a soldier. In 1980 she escaped and resettled in Vermont.
Thursday, March 4
Marilyn Krysl, reading
7:30 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall
Free
Elon College’s writer-in-residence, Marilyn Krysl, will give a reading from her fiction and poetry. Director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she has written three books of fiction and seven collections of poetry
Friday, March 5
Street Sounds
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Tickets: $10 or free with Elon identification
Returning to Elon College by popular demand, Street Sounds is an exciting a cappella ensemble known for their innovative arrangements mixing jazz, gospel, rap, blues and spirituals.
Saturday, March 6
Elijah in Concert
7 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall
Free
Elon music faculty member Elijah Chester will perform favorite classical and musical theater selections.
Tuesday, March 9
The Watts Prophets in Concert
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Tickets: $10 or free with Elon identification
In 1967 Richard Dedeaux, Amde Hamilton and Otis O’Solomon, students in the prestigious Watts Writers Workshop, gave their first jazz-accompanied performance expressing their rage against racism, poverty and violence. Accompanied by a jazz combo, their poetry offers audiences of all ages an understanding of the African-American experience.
Wednesday, March 10
Robert MacNeil, Reading
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Free
Robert MacNeil is the former anchorman and executive editor of the award-winning MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour and the co-author of a classic study of the English language, The Story of English. His other published works include Burden of Desire, The Right Place At the Right Time, and an autobiographical account of his childhood, Wordstruck. He will read selections from his soon-to-be published third novel and discuss his life as a writer and journalist.
Thursday, March 11
Kary B. Mullis, “The Realm of the Senses”
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Free
A Nobel Prize-winning DNA chemist, Mullis has a unique perspective on a variety of scientific, social and political issues. In his newly published book, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, he delves into parapsychology, AIDS, global warming and using your mind to turn on a light bulb. He invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a process with multiple applications in medicine, biotechnology, genetics and forensics.
Monday, March 15
Opening Reception: “The Youngest Parents,” photographs by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses
5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Isabella Cannon Room
The photographs explore the complexity of teen-age parenting with honesty and compassion. Jocelyn Lee is a professor of photography at the Maine College of Art and John Moses is a pediatrician and photographer in Durham. The exhibit is open through April 29.
Monday, March 15
Social Sciences Symposium: Capital Punishment
7:30 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall
Free
Elon College faculty members Carol Chase, religion; Bob Craig, political science; Bernard Curry, sociology; Larry Vellani, public administration; with Anne Cassebaum, English, as moderator will examine capital punishment from legal, moral and religious perspectives.
Tuesday, March 16
Women of Art
8 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall
Free
Celebrate Women’s History month with Elon College’s women of art who will display their artwork, read poetry, sing, dance and play instruments.
Wednesday, March 17
Elon College Wind Ensemble, Tenth Annual Family Concert
8 p.m., McCrary Theatre
Free
Under the direction of faculty member Dr. Thomas R. Erdmann, the wind ensemble’s concert features fun, prizes and the great music of John Philip Sousa.
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