Livingston Lord Library will celebrate National Library week with a lecture event featuring Greg Breining, Wednesday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Science Lab 118. Breining will talk about his book, A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It. Refreshments will be served with a book signing to follow. Breining’s books will be available for purchase at the event. Click headline for more information.
Rachel Coyne, author of the novel Whiskey Heart (New Rivers Press, 2009), will read from her work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. She’ll also give a talk on the writers’ craft at 4 p.m. that day. Both events will be held in Comstock Memorial Union 101. Click headline for more on Rachel Coyne and for links to an interview and a review of Whiskey Heart.
The English Department, McGrath Visiting Writers Series and the Film Studies Department announce a special performance of Joan Didion’s play —adapted from her memoir— The Year of Magical Thinking, presented by Theatre B and featuring Mary Cochran, on Thursday, April 22 from 4:30-6 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. Click headline for more information.
Draw a card at each department… your name and card will be recorded. Keep your card and proceed to the other departments. You do not have to walk to all seven departments at one time, walk on your breaks or lunch hour. Human Resources MUST be the last department you walk to –before 4:00 p.m. You will draw your last card, and submit your best hand. You will also be able to pick a tulip or a daisy for a chance to receive up to 3 more bonus cards! Click headline for details.
Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking 1890s play, is a daring exploration of teenage sexual awakening set against a backdrop of religious and parental repression. The audience can only pity the confused adolescents squeezed in its vise: pretty buds bursting into doom. Click headline for show times and a study guide.