A sweet boost for the Fourth

If you added up the crowds that have gathered for MSU Moorhead’s Fourth of July fireworks show, you’d have a very big number.  Over the course of almost four decades, hundreds of thousands have viewed the pyrotechnic extravaganza that ends the celebration at Nemzek Field. The 2011 show will go on, thanks to a timely gift from American Crystal Sugar. […]

Day of Percussion features exotic “being”

Guest artists and workshops draw percussionists from across the region He’s the proud new “father” of an exotic Indonesian baby who hasn’t yet received a name. Kenyon Williams, MSUM Music Department faculty member, reveals his baby’s name in a traditional Indonesian ceremony, complete with a ritualistic Javanese meal, on Friday, Nov. 5, at noon in the MSUM Art Gallery. The […]

Vienna Boys Choir takes Moorhead stage Saturday

Program includes folk songs, polkas, classics, hymns and more More than 500 years ago, an Austrian emperor formed an elite choir to provide accompaniment to the church mass. The members of the choir were talented boys between the ages of 10 and 14 whose voices had not yet broken, and who would leave their families to devote their young lives […]

Film brings stories of Ugandan survivors to MSUM

A film chronicling the efforts of young Ugandans uprooted and recovering from 20 years of war in their homeland is free and open to the MSUM community and the public on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in MSUM’s King Hall Room 110. Film Studies graduate and MSUM Assistant Swimming Coach Katie Diiro and Film Studies faculty member Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson […]

Dear Harvey reading Oct. 22

An Evening of Powerful Theatre MSUM’s Theatre Arts Department and MSUM’s Gay Straight Alliance proudly present a reading of Dear Harvey Friday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. It’s free and open to the public. A post-show discussion will follow.