Buena Vista University Theatre is presenting in  February 2012 production of The Long Christmas Ride Home by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play, which is intended for mature audiences, will be presented in the BVU Art Gallery located in Social Sciences and Art Hall.  Performance dates are Feb. 8-11 at 8:00p,m.

In the play, past, present and future collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I Learned to Drive proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. A significant element of the performance will include the use of puppets.

BVU Students may attend only 1 performance for ACES Scholarly Credit.

Seating will be limited.  Mature audiences only.

For ticket information or reservations, call 749-2211.

Buena Vista University Theatre is presenting in  February 2012 production of The Long Christmas Ride Home by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play, which is intended for mature audiences, will be presented in the BVU Art Gallery located in Social Sciences and Art Hall.  Performance dates are Feb. 8-11 at 8:00p,m.

In the play, past, present and future collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I Learned to Drive proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. A significant element of the performance will include the use of puppets.

BVU Students may attend only 1 performance for ACES Scholarly Credit.

Seating will be limited.  Mature audiences only.

For ticket information or reservations, call 749-2211.

Buena Vista University Theatre is presenting in  February 2012 production of The Long Christmas Ride Home by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play, which is intended for mature audiences, will be presented in the BVU Art Gallery located in Social Sciences and Art Hall.  Performance dates are Feb. 8-11 at 8:00p,m.

In the play, past, present and future collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I Learned to Drive proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. A significant element of the performance will include the use of puppets.

BVU Students may attend only 1 performance for ACES Scholarly Credit.

Seating will be limited.  Mature audiences only.

For ticket information or reservations, call 749-2211.

In 2006 Mary Hark was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to SubSaharan Africa.  Since that time she has spent several months each year in Kumasi, Ghana, responding to the particular environment of Kumasi, Ghana with her studio practice, and where she is leading a group of artists and scientists in establishing the first handmade paper mill capable of producing high quality papers from local botanicals.  Hark will discuss the development of her "constructed paintings" and discuss her most recent project, a limited edition fine press book under the imprint Take Time. 

The talk will take place in the Buena Vista University Gallery where her work is currently exhibited.  This presentation will be followed by a reception in the gallery.

Professor Mary Hark, Design Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), lectures and exhibits internationally.  Her work is represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and many university collections.  Most recently in 2011 Hark's work was exhibited at the International Paper Museum and SOHO20 Chelsea, in New York City.  Hark currently divides her time between Saint Paul, Minnesota and Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches in the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin.  Her textile and paper work is profiled in the Summer 2011 issue of Surface Design Journal.

When Prohibition outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in 1920, many enterprising residents of a small town in Iowa chose to become outlaws - producing a high caliber and much sought-after whiskey known as Templeton Rye.  Keith Kerkhoff, Buena Vista University class of 1977, helped bring back Templeton Rye when he helped found Templeton Rye Spirits, LLC, in Templeton, Iowa.  A new, critically-acclaimed documentary, entitled "Capone's Whiskey:  The Story of Templeton Rye," will be shown.

Dr. David Klee, Associate Professor of Music at Buena Vista University, along with his group, "The Jazz Express", will present a concert of new original jazz tunes written by Dr. Klee.

Pamela Lassiter Cathey has been speaking to college students for years about her personal and professional experience in preventing relationship violence of all kinds.  This lecture will discuss the national organization Ms. Cathey founded ten years ago, the Institute for the Prevention of Relationship Violence, and her vision for a future in which all relationship partners receive the love and respect they deserve.  Ms. Cathey will also present a preview of her book, "Voices of Hope," co-authored by Dr. Wind Goodfriend.  The book is an anthology of autobiographical stories of men and women who experienced relationship violence, and came out as stronger and more compassionate individuals.

This hour-long play presents the stories of nine individuals who took the personal journey from being a victim of relationship violence, to being a survivor, to an end point of being stronger, more compassionate individuals.  While their experiences with violence and abuse changed them, they are not defined by it.  All nine stories are true, autobiographical accounts, and they include a wide range of experiences (such as childhood abuse, dating violence, and domestic assault).  The stories all end with a message of hope and resilience.  The play is based on a new book, "Voices of Hope:  Breaking the Silence of Relationship Violence," co-authored by Pamela Lassiter Cathey and Dr. Wind Goodfriend.

Dr. David Klee, Associate Professor of Music at Buena Vista University, along with the BVU jazzers, will present their spring jazz concert.

As a class project, student groups have adapted hispanic folktales to the stage in short skits in order to bring the culture to life.  We will present skits in Spanish with certain tools to help those who don't speak to understand the story.  This will give insights into the different and similar values and beginnings that we share with our American neighbors, as well as how the students can engage other cultures in meaningful ways.

This presentation will be given by Steven Mills Spanish 302 Class.

Can ordinary people develop extraordinary abilities such as moving objects with their mind and predicting the future?  This talk will apply the science of psychology to examine the claims of famous psychics and proponents of ESP (extra-sensory perception).  This interactive presentation will challenge your perceptions and make you wonder if what you see is really what you get.

Food and politics have always been intertwined in American politics-from the mythology of the first Thanksgiving to the recent debates over a revised "food pyramid."  But a close study of World War I (1914-1919) shows that Americans relied on government propaganda and attitudes about gender and childhood to reshape attitudes about community, food, and fasting.  Believing "Food Will Win the War," Americans elevated food conservation to the level of a righteous crusade.  But conserving food for soldiers and European allies abroad demonstrated important attitudes about the increasing power of national government and a new outspokenness of women (in the years following suffrage) at home.