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ART+DESIGN LJML COMM+THEATRE HISTORY+POLI SCI MUSIC THEOLOGY +CHRISTIAN MINISTRY LITERATURE JOURNALISM+ MODERN LANGUAGES
CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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The College of Arts and Humanities holds a significant position within the liberal arts curriculum as we foster human flourishing and compassion through meaningful teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. This lecture series was subsequently developed to celebrate these ideas and investigate what they mean to our community. We invite you to join the conversation.
On the cover Leah Pappas, ’16 Visual Art Solo Exhibition Photograph by Tom Williams
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ARTS
HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES
1st Annual
Liberal Arts Education and the Life of Purpose S. GEORGIA NUGENT, Ph.D. February 7, 2017 / 5 pm Salomon Theatre S. Georgia Nugent is president emerita of Kenyon College and of The College of Wooster, as well as Senior Fellow at The Council of Independent Colleges, CIC . Prior to the presidency of Kenyon, she served as assistant to the president, associate provost, and dean of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University and as professor of classics at Princeton and Brown universities. She has also taught on the Classics
faculties of Swarthmore and Kenyon colleges. She is a past chair of the CIC Board of Directors and has led CIC’s award-winning campaign for the liberal arts, “Securing America’s Future: The Power of Liberal Arts Education.” Nugent also currently serves on the boards of St. Lawrence University, The University of Richmond, and The American University of Sharjah. She is the incoming president of The Society for Classical Studies.
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ART+DESIGN
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Christina Corbin Zinc #3, thrown ceramic earthenware with sgrafitto, 2015
Clay
Ryan Shoemaker
SCULPTURE + INSTALLATION
VISITING ARTIST
Steve A. Prince
The Kid’s Show
Thursday, September 1–30 Exhibit Tuesday, September 13 / 5–7 pm Reception Keller Gallery Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
Monday, October 3–13 Exhibit Tuesday, October 11 / 5–7 pm Reception Keller Gallery Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
Wednesday, October 5 / 10 am Advising Chapel / Artist Talk Thursday, October 6 / 7 pm Brewed Awakenings / Conversations with Jamie Gates, Ph.D. Friday, October 7 / Classroom Visits
Presenting, “Clay,” an exhibition featuring fine artists working in ceramics. Included artists represent our local community colleges and universities and the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego.
Ryan Shoemaker is a senior Visual Art and Philosophy double major. His art has come to serve as a method for him to process his thoughts in a way that words cannot. History, music and video bleed into his visual art and seeks to blur the line between art and experience.
The Department of Art + Design and Wesleyan Center present Steve A. Prince, artist, educator and art evangelist. His mediums are printmaking, drawing and sculpture. Steve is a native of New Orleans and the crescent city’s rich tradition of art, music and religion pulsate through his work. He uses the language of the line in a rhythmic and powerful way. His art is inherently narrative and metaphorically complex. He uses a rich, visual vocabulary of signs and symbols to tell stories that express his unique vision founded in hope, faith and creativity.
Monday, October 17–Thursday, October 27 / Exhibit Saturday, October 22 / 10 am–Noon Reception with prizes, cookies, and lemonade! Keller Gallery Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
CERAMIC SCULPTURE
FALL FESTIVAL
Enjoy artwork by the children of PLNU’s administrators, faculty and staff in a variety of mediums. For more information email Lael Corbin at lcorbin@pointloma.edu or call x2239.
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David Fobes
Melissa Gordon EL MONTE PROJECT
YEAR-ROUND EXHIBITS
Tuesday, November 1–Friday, December 2 / Exhibit Tuesday, November 1 / 5–7 pm Artist Talk + Reception Keller Gallery Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
Monday, December 5–Friday, December 16 / Exhibit Tuesday, December 6 / 5–7 pm Artist Talk + Reception Keller Gallery Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
Nicholson Commons Monday–Friday / 9 am–5 pm
NOD
Humans. Who are we? What have we done? Where did we come from? Where are we going? This core of the human condition remains constant. We all try to make sense of our existence and our condition. Making art is one way. It’s not important, it’s just another way. After thirty years of making art, David is still fascinated with the painted image, the mandala, the retinal play of color and the attempt at extreme craft. He is interested in the mundane as a starting point, the labor in the middle and the exceptional at the end. He believes art should be made with an economy of means and the extravagance of imagination. For more information visit, misterfobes.com
Melissa Gordon, ’07 with alumni and director Hannah Ryan, ’08 and writer Marylin Haidri as part of their group/collaboration NETTLEWORKS present the “El Monte Project.” Gordon’s artwork ranges from delicate embroideries on paper to large permanent public artwork. She teaches Two Dimensional Design at PLNU . She also collaborates on theatrical works on womanhood and exploring the native San Diego landscape. “El Monte Project” is an ongoing site-specific project utilizing sculpture, drawings, music and performance to explore themes of life, death and rebirth through the prism of San Diego’s native plants. The show will be an in-progress exhibit of the artwork and the script. For more information visit, nettleworks.com
David Fobes Eye of Eve, acrylic on canvas, 2015
Melissa Gordon El Monte Project, acrylic on canvas, 2016
Love Gallery
For more information on upcoming shows throughout the fall and spring semesters, please visit the PLNU Department of Art + Design website.
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SPRING 2017
Visual Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
February–May Tuesday–Friday Keller Gallery / 9 am–5 pm View outstanding senior capstone solo exhibits in a variety of mediums. Opening receptions take place each Tuesday from 5–7 pm, Keller Gallery throughout the spring semester.
Graphic Design PORTFOLIO REVIEW
Thursday, April 27 4–6:30 pm / Portfolio Review Professionals and majors only Latter Hall, Room 101 Celebrate with senior graphic designer majors as they present their print and web portfolio’s. Design areas range from, advertising, branding, identity, cross-cultural, design for good, designer as entrepreneur, environments, hand-crafted, illustration, interactive, packaging, photography, publication, sustainability, and typography.
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Wednesday, May 3– Saturday, May 6 Keller Gallery / 9 am–5 pm View pinnacle works by senior visual art majors in a variety of mediums. For More Event Information Art + Design artdesign@pointloma.edu
Lexxi Kerr, ’15 / Visual Art Solo Exhibit
Steve A. Prince All Soul’s Day © 2016, Eyekons
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Poetry on Point
Nicholson Student Center and various rooms on campus
Thursday, September 15 / 3–4 pm Cunningham A+B
This is a one-day intercollegiate parliamentary debate tournament with 10 or more of the top universities in the nation debating in an elite competition meant to simulate top elimination rounds of National Circuit National Parliamentary Debate Association, formats debate. It culminates in a final round following the Awards Banquet. Hosted by the PLNU Forensics Program and the Department of Communication and Theatre.
A celebration of poetry at PLNU features readings by current and retired faculty, and our new Vice Provost, Karen Lee, Ph.D.
Bring It to the Table
Wednesday, September 21 3:30–5 pm Colt Forum
See the screening of the documentary, “Bring It to the Table,” followed by a discussion about the status and quality of political discourse in the United States.
The Point Loma Sunset Cliffs
Poetry Day NICELLE DAVIS
CLASSIC SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT
Thursday, October 13 3–4:30 pm / Reading + Talk 6:30–8 pm / Performance Fermanian Conference Center
Saturday, February 11–Sunday, February 12 / 9 am–5 pm Cabrillo Hall and various rooms on campus
Freud’s Last Session November 9–12 / 7 pm Matinee Performances November 12 and 19 / 2 pm Salomon Theatre
This intriguing and thought provoking play focuses on a psychiatric session between Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis shortly before Freud’s death. Ticket prices are $10 for students and $14 for general. For tickets or more information email, mdeboard@pointloma.edu
Creative Writing Celebration HOMECOMING
Saturday, November 19 10–11:15 am Fermanian School of Business
This two-day intercollegiate speech and debate tournament consists of three formats of debate, 11 individual events, and 50 or more of the top universities in the nation. Debate formats include NPDA Parliamentary Debate, British Parliamentary Debate, and Lincoln Douglass debate, and for individual events Platform Speeches, Oral Interpretation, and limited preparation events like Extemporaneous or Impromptu Speaking. Hosted by the PLNU Forensics Program and the Department of Communication and Theatre.
Street Rag Poetry Book Award.
One Act Festival December 7–8 / 7 pm Salomon Theatre
The One Act Festival ends the semester with a showcase of student directed, designed and performed one acts. $5 tickets
SPRING 2017
The Point Loma Home School
CLASSIC SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT
Into the Woods
Wednesday, January 4 / Registration Thursday, January 5–Saturday, January 7 / 9 am–5 pm Nicholson Student Center and various rooms on campus
This three-day interscholastic The Department of Literature, speech and debate tournament for Journalism and Modern Languages the 12–18 year old home school features readings by students, community covers three formats alumni, and faculty. of debate, and a dozen or so individual events. Debate formats Tasty Other include Team Policy, LD Value, and Parliamentary Debate. KATIE MANNING, Ph.D. Individual events include Platform November 30 Speeches, Oral Interpretation, and 3–4:30 pm limited preparation events like Colt Forum Extemporaneous or Impromptu Join us for the launch of Tasty Speaking. Hosted by the PLNU Other, which won the 2016 Main Forensics Program and the
April 6–8, 13–14 / 7 pm Matinee Performances April 15 / 2 pm
Ticket prices are $10 for students and $14 for general. Department of Communication and Theatre.
For tickets or more information email, mdeboard@pointloma.edu
The PLNU Round Robin
For More Event Information
TOURNAMENT OF EXCELLENCE Friday, February 10 9 am–5 pm
LJML RachelMournian@pointloma.edu Communications & Theatre comstudies@pointloma.edu salomontheatre@pointloma.edu History & Political Sciences ritajensen@pointloma.edu
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21st Annual Writers Symposium by the Sea, Nikki Giovanni. Photograph by Tom Williams.
22nd Annual
Writer’s Symposium by the Sea ROBERT PINSKY, Ph.D. Tuesday, February 21 SHAUNA NIEQUIST Wednesday, February 22 TRACY KIDDER Thursday, February 23 Crill Performance Hall
“21st Annual Writers By the Sea” Nikki Giovanni. Photograph by Tom Williams.
The Writer’s Symposium by the Sea features U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky performing poetry with jazz, using members of our own PLNU Jazz Band; Shauna Niequist, author of Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table; Savor: Living Abundantly Where You Are, As You Are; Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life; and Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Soul of the New Machine.
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MUSIC
Homecoming Concert Thursday, November 17 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
FALL 2016
A Quiet Night of Faculty Jazz
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September 30 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
This Jazz Trio features Bob Magnusson, bass, Ian Cler, guitar, and Brenda Martin, piano.
Hot Night of Cool Jazz Friday, October 7 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The PLNU Concert Band opens the 2016 Homecoming festivities with their fall concert, featuring the Concert Band performing, “Guys in Ties and Girls in Pearls!” Dessert Reception to follow! $5 General Admission, $3 with PLNU ID
Cider Celebration
Friday, December 2 / 6 pm + 8 pm Saturday, December 3 / 6 pm + 8 pm Crill Performance Hall This family Christmas Show features the Concert Choir, Chorale, and Extol. Hear 130 PLNU students sing, dance and tell stories with special appearances by Santa Claus and Frosty. $10 General Admission
Join the PLNU Jazz Band as they collaborate with the Vocal Jazz Ensembles and Swingin’ Sisters for a night of Jazz. 2nd Annual
Piano Extravaganza Thursday, October 27 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall PLNU Faculty Brenda Martin and
Victor Labenske, with guest pianist Kay Etheridge perform a night of piano duets and trios.
Cantate
Friday, October 28 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
For More Event Information Music musictickets@pointloma.edu or music@pointloma.edu
The Point Loma Singers, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and Swingin’ Sisters perform music for this annual choral extravaganza. Chamber choirs perform both traditional and contemporary choral music, concluding with a musical medley.
Jazz at the Point
Messiah
The PLNU Jazz Band presents their fall concert with special guests. $5 General Admission, Free to the PLNU Community
The PLNU Choral Union and Community Members perform Handel’s masterpiece with a chorus of students and community members, student soloists, and our university orchestra in a school tradition that goes over 70 years. Freewill offering
Friday, November 4 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The Merry Widow
Friday, November 11 / 7:30 pm Saturday, November 12 / 2:30 pm Sunday, November 13 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall Point Loma Opera Theatre is back this fall with a production of one of the most famous operettas in history, Franz Léhar’s “The Merry Widow.” Spoken in English and singing in German with English supertitles. $18 General Admission, $14 Seniors and Military, $8 Students with Current ID
Sunday, December 4 / 3 pm Brown Chapel
From Mozart to the Movies
Friday, December 9 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall The PLNU Orchestra Winter Concert performs Mozart and Your Favorite Movie Tunes.
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Violin-tine!
Jazz at the Point
Swinging VJE
PLNU Music Faculty Phil Tyler and Ben Mason perform a romantic evening for violin and piano.
The PLNU Jazz Band performs its final concert of the year with special guests. $5 General Admission, Free to the PLNU Community
The PLNU Vocal Jazz Ensembles perform their annual spring concert called, “Swingin’” with a varied repertoire of jazz styles, standards, solos, and ensembles.
Madrigal Dinner
Seaside Quartet
Tuesday, February 14 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
22nd Annual
Writer’s Symposium by the Sea
Saturday, March 25 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
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Saturday, April 8 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
Tuesday, February 21 / 7 pm Crill Performance Hall The Department of Music’s Jazz Band performs with Writer’s Symposium special guest, U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Enjoy a fun-filled night of poetry and jazz! $10 General Admission, $5 Students
2-Not-1 Jazz Band Concert
Monday, February 27 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The PLNU Jazz Band collaborates with a local guest jazz ensemble for a big night of jazz. $5 General Admission, Free to the PLNU Community 14th Annual
Vocal Jazz Festival Saturday, March 18 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall PLNU’s Vocal Jazz Ensembles
perform with special guest clinician John Byun and the Riverside Community College Vocal Jazz Ensemble. $15 non-PLNU General Admission, $12 non-PLNU students, $5 to the PLNU Community
San Diego Winds Chamber Concert
Thursday, March 23 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall The San Diego Winds perform a night of Chamber Music. $15 non-PLNU General Admission, $12 non-PLNU students, $5 to the PLNU Community
Point Loma Singers Homecoming Concert Friday, March 24 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
Point Loma Singers present their concert program as performed on their recent tour. Freewill offering
Friday March 31 and Saturday, April 1 / 7 pm Nicholson Commons Rejoice! The annual Point Loma Singer’s Madrigal Dinner is back again! This Renaissance-style entertainment is a Point Loma tradition. $23 and $29 tickets. Call for group rates.
Spring Concert Band Concert Friday, April 7 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The PLNU Concert Band performs their annual spring concert. Dessert Reception to follow! $5 General Admission, $3 with PLNU ID
Sunday, April 9 / 3 pm Crill Performance Hall
Seaside Quartet presents “I’ll Remember April.” Enjoy an afternoon of chamber music with Philip Tyler, violin, Päivikki Nykter, violin and viola, Cecelia Kim, cello, Brenda Martin, piano and harpsichord.
Choral Spectrum Friday, April 21 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The PLNU Concert Choir performs their annual end of the semester concert. $5 General Admission
Choral Union
Sunday, April 23 / 3 pm Crill Performance Hall
The Choral Union is a 150-voice collaboration between community singers, PLNU student singers, chamber orchestra, and student soloists.
Orchestra Concert Friday, April 28 / 7:30 pm Crill Performance Hall
The PLNU Orchestra and select student soloists perform movements from classical concerti featuring PLNU student soloists. For More Event Information Music musictickets@pointloma.edu or music@pointloma.edu
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All PLNU events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
THEOLOGY +CHRISTIAN MINISTRY FALL 2016
SPRING 2017
H. Orton Wiley Lecture Series
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JOHN AUGUST SWANSON Monday, October 31 / 12–1:30 pm Wesleyan Center
How Wesleyans Read Scripture JOEL GREEN, Ph.D. November 10 / 6 pm Wesleyan Center Joel Green is a Professor of New Testament and Dean at Fuller Theological Seminary. For more information contact Mark Mann, markmann@pointloma.edu Design/Production Courtney Mayer Writing/Editing G. James Daichendt ©2016 Point Loma Nazarene University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission or the publisher. Point Loma Nazarene University 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 849–2412 / pointloma.edu
JANUARY
1–30
Clay / Ceramic Sculpture
4–7
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Poetry on Point
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Film Screening / Bring It to the Table
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A Quiet Night of Faculty Jazz
Point Loma Home School / Classic Speech and Debate Tournament
FEBRUARY
OCTOBER
7–12
Visual Art / Solo Exhibition
3–13
PLNU Round Robin Tournament of Excellence
Dan Boone is the President of Trevecca Nazarene University, and Professor of Pastoral Theology & Preaching, and renowned author.
Ryan Shoemaker Sculpture + Installation
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5–7
Steve A. Prince / Visiting Artist
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Hot Night of Cool Jazz
For more information email, bradkelle@pointloma.edu
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Poetry Day / Nicelle Davis
17–27 Kid’s Art Show
For More Event Information Theology & Christian Ministry philrel@pointloma.edu
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Piano Extravaganza
28 Cantante 31
John August Swanson
NOVEMBER 1–30 David Fobes / NOD
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Join us for an artist talk and luncheon Art & Design sponsored by the Wesleyan Center. Communication & Theater History & Political Science For more information contact Mark Literature, Journalism & Modern Mann, markmann@pointloma.edu Languages Music Wesleyans and the School of Theology & Latter Day Saints Christian Ministry November 3 / 6 pm To Learn More Wesleyan Center For information contact Pat Jafry, patjafry@pointloma.edu
SEPTEMBER
The Value of the Liberal Arts S. Georgia Nugent
February 27–March 1 Crill Auditorium
Artist Talk
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DAN BOONE, Ph.D.
John August Swanson, Festival of the Lights, © 2016, Eyekons
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Jazz at the Point
9–12 Freud’s Last Session 10
Wesleyans and the Latter Day Saints
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How Wesleyans Read Scripture
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Joel Green / Theology Visiting Scholar Lecture
11–13 The Merry Widow 17
Homecoming Concert
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Creative Writing Celebration
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Freud’s Last Session
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Tasty Other / Katie Manning
DECEMBER 1–2
David Fobes / NOD
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Cider Celebration
4 Messiah 5–16
Melissa Gordon / El Monte Project
7–8
One Act Festival
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From Mozart to the Movies
11–12 Point Loma Sunset Cliffs
Classic Speech and Debate Tournament
14 Violin-tine! 14 –19 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 21–26 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 21
Writer’s Symposium by the Sea / Robert Pinsky
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Writers Symposium by the Sea / Shauna Niequist
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Writers Symposium by the Sea / Tracy Kidder
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2-Not-1 Jazz Band Concert
27–28 H. Orton Wiley Lecture
Series / Dan Boone
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Visual Art / Solo Exhibition
MARCH 1
H. Orton Wiley Lecture Series / Dan Boone
1–5
Visual Art / Solo Exhibition
7–12
Visual Art / Solo Exhibition
14–19 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 18
Vocal Jazz Festival
21–26 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 23
San Diego Winds Chamber Concert
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Point Loma Singers Homecoming Concert
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Jazz at the Point
28–31 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 31
Madrigal Dinner
APRIL 1
Madrigal Dinner
6–8
Into the Woods
4–9
Visual Art / Solo Exhibition
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Spring Concert Band
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Swinging VJE
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Seaside Quartet
11–16 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 13–14 Into the Woods 15
Into the Woods
18–23 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 21
Choral Specturm
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Choral Union
25–30 Visual Art / Solo Exhibition 27
Graphic Design / Portfolio Review
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Orchestra Concert
MAY 3–7
Visual Arts / Highlights Exhibition, H LI TE 17