Spring 2016
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State
Biz Stone, Co-founder of Twitter
Reverend Prince Rivers, Senior Pastor of United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Visual Art Sechrest Art Gallery Monday – Thursday from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Call 336-841-4685 or 336-803-1815 for more information)
Art + Dialogue (A + D2016): Responding to Racial Tension in America Tuesday, January 12 to Thursday, March 3 Opening Reception Friday, February 5 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Sechrest Art Gallery “Art + Dialogue (A + D2016): Responding to Racial Tension in America” (A + D) is a collaborative project intended to bring community together using a visual art exhibition as the catalyst for dialogues around racial tension in America. A charged topic, A + D aspires to make the issue of race and racial tensions more tangible to its audiences and participants and to promote greater understanding of different perspectives and experiences. The A + D partners include the African American Atelier, Center for Visual Artists, Greenhill, Guilford Native American Art Gallery and NCCJ, all working in concert to execute a call for North Carolina artists to exhibit work dealing with predefined themes that set the framework for Dialogue Sessions. Artist selection cocurated by visual art partners will be guided and coordinated by an outside curator, Kim Curry Evans, a private consultant to the project and Public Art Coordinator, City of Raleigh. The Dialogue Sessions are the platform for participants to engage in thoughtful conversations about how we can collectively start to transcend racial tensions to address inequity and create thriving communities that honor the past, live in the present and aspire to a better, more inclusive future. The sessions are centered on the unified themes of the A + D project, and will include invited Dialogue Session Panels and a call to individuals, organizations or groups who may want to contribute to the Open Dialogue Sessions. Open Dialogue Sessions may include presentations, music, spoken word, monologues, poetry and other interdisciplinary activities.
Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Resignation: Kotani Paintings Monday, March 14 to Thursday, April 28, 2016 Opening Reception and Artist’s Talk on Thursday, March 17, 2016 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Sechrest Art Gallery In the words of Setsuya Kotani: “The nature of perception, imagination and the creative process are very enigmatic. Observation, memory and imagination gather in worlds of our flesh and our thought and emotion; worlds of noumena and phenomena, immanence and transcendence. I like to imagine a whole, a universe beyond what might be called mundane, though the ordinary delights my senses. As a painter, I live with doubt — which is the problem of abstraction, of Eros and Thanatos, of relationship of one individual life to another. Question: Am I moving toward greater articulation and clarity of expression, bound only by responsibility of sustaining a unified sense of self, though without sense of certainty?”
Lecture Series High Point University Presents: A Conversation with Nido Qubein and Biz Stone Wednesday, January 20 at 9:00 am Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter. A progenitor of social media, Stone has been developing large-scale systems that facilitate the open exchange of information for more than fifteen years. Today, Biz Stone is cofounder and CEO of Jelly Industries — making consumer web and mobile products that are fun first, and hopefully useful later.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Service: Reverend Prince Rivers Monday, January 18 at 11:00 am Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel This annual service of worship on the High Point University campus celebrates the life and word of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is open to HPU students, faculty, and staff, as well as the greater High Point community, and features noteworthy clergy and scholars from across the country offering messages of hope, inspiration and peace on Martin Luther King Day. The Reverend Prince Raney Rivers is the Senior Pastor of United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a church birthed through the merger of two congregations in 1965. United Metropolitan is a thriving ministry in the heart of the city that uses a holistic approach to provide Christian care to individuals, families and neighborhoods.
Biz has been honored with the International Center for Journalism Innovation Award, Inc. Magazine named him “Entrepreneur of the Decade,” TIME listed him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and GQ named him “Nerd of the Year.” In 2014, The Economist recognized Stone with their annual Innovation Award. Stone is a Fellow at Oxford University. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available at the Campus Concierge desk for HPU students, faculty and staff with a valid HPU Passport Card. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for the general public by contacting 336-841-9209 or by emailing reservations@highpoint.edu.
Faculty Cultural Enrichment Grant: Phoenix Reading Series: Scholar Ali Schultheis Moore Thursday, January 21 at 7:00 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom “Human, Person” – Reading Human Rights in Literary and Visual Culture Please join us as Dr. Ali Schultheis Moore discusses human rights in literary and visual culture. Moore is a Distinguished Scholar and associate professor in the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches classes in postcolonial
studies and human rights and the humanities. Her recent publications include essays and book chapters as well as a monograph, Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture (2015), and four co-edited collections: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2015), Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015), Teaching Human Rights in Literature and Cultural Studies (2015), and Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (2012). She has received numerous awards and grants for pedagogical innovation, including two support globally-linked classes in human rights and literature with partner classes at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the American University Beirut.
An Evening with Marjoleine Kars, Ph.D. Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom Reception held at 5:30 pm Dr. Marjoleine Kars is an associate professor and chair in the History Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore. She received her Ph.D. in Early American history from Duke University and teaches early American and Atlantic history, women’s and gender history, and the history of Atlantic slavery. Presented by the History Department, Paul Ringel, Ph.D. and Alexander Martin Chapter, NCDAR in commemoration of our 100th anniversary. Reservations recommended. Please respond by January 25 to reservations@highpoint.edu or 336-841-9209.
The Charles Franklin Finch Lecture: Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters Monday, February 1 at 5:30 pm Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel “Solidarity in a Globalizing World” Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters is professor of religious studies at Elon University working particularly in the areas of environmental and economic justice and peace. Peters is also involved in ecumenical work for the National Council of Churches in Christ and for the World Council of Churches. She is the author of In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization, and co-editor of Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World.
Lecture Series Faculty Cultural Enrichment Grant: Phoenix Reading Series: Xhenet Aliu and Susan McCarthy Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom Xhenet Aliu’s debut fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and was released in September 2013. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Necessary Fiction, American Short Fiction and elsewhere. She has received multiple scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a grant from The Elizabeth George Foundation and a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, among other awards. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and an MLIS from the University of Alabama, where she was an ALFA fellow, studying methods of delivering information services to individuals with disabilities. A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, she currently lives in Athens, Georgia, after recent stints in New York City, North Carolina, Montana and Utah. Susan McCarthy is the author of the 2015 collection of short stories, Anatomies. She is Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Her stories and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, West Branch, Indiana Review, Barrelhouse, Utne Reader, Iowa Review, Everyday Genius, Tarpaulin Sky and other tasty places, and her short story collection, Anatomies, was published by Aforementioned Productions in June 2015. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a creative writing Ph.D. from the University of Utah. In her past life, she worked in massmarket and genre publishing at Penguin and Avalon Books.
Faculty Cultural Enrichment Grant: Phoenix Reading Series: Stuart Dischell and Michael Parker Thursday, March 17 at 7:00 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom Author of four collections of poems, Evenings & Avenues, Good Hope Road, Dig Safe and Backwards Days, Stuart Dischell teaches poetry writing as well as modern and contemporary poetry. He has received honors and awards from the National Poetry Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. His work appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including Good Poems, Hammer and Blaze and Pushcart Prize. Michael Parker is the author of six novels, Hello Down There, Towns Without Rivers, Virginia Lovers, If You Want Me To Stay, The Watery Part of the World, All I Have In This World — and two collections of stories, The Geographical Cure and Don’t Make Me Stop Now. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals including Five Points, The Georgia Review, The Southwest Review, Epoch, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Shenandoah, The Black Warrior Review, Trail Runner, Runner’s World and Men’s Journal. He has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His work has been anthologized in the Pushcart, New Stories from the South and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, he is a professor in the M.F.A. Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and since 2009 has been on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas.
Faculty Cultural Enrichment Grant: First Amendment Day with Greg Lukianoff Monday, April 4 at 6:00 pm Earl N. Phillips School of Business, David L. Francis Lecture Hall President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Greg Lukianoff will speak about recent disputes at schools such as University of Missouri and Yale University that raise questions about the proper balance between the right to free speech on campus and the need to be politically sensitive to others, particularly minority students. His talk will be the capstone event of HPU’s first-ever First Amendment Day, which will explore similar issues with a series of events that include a Banned Book BookReading. The day itself will be the culmination of a larger series titled “Free Speech on Campus: A Yearlong Dialogue on Academic Freedom.” The author of “Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate and Freedom From Speech,” Lukianoff has also published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, the New York Post, U.S. News & World Report and numerous other publications. A frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs, Lukianoff has also testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on America’s campuses.
Faculty Cultural Enrichment Grant: Phoenix Reading Series: Dao Strom Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom Author of two previous books of fiction, Grass Roof, Tin Roof and The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, Dao Strom is most recently the author of the memoir, We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People. She is also a singer-songwriter. About her 2006 fiction collection, The New Yorker said, “Quietly beautiful, Strom’s stories are hip without being ironic.” Her current project received funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Award, Portland, Oregon.
Music HPU Chamber Music Series: Chamber Music for Bassoon
North Carolina Youth Brass Band Concert Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre
Sunday, January 24 at 3:30 pm Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel
The North Carolina Youth Brass Band is an auditioned all-star ensemble composed of many of the finest high school brass players and percussionists in this region of North Carolina. Conducted by Dr. Brian Meixner, the NCYBB is a new ensemble, founded in 2015, and celebrates the final concert of its 2015–16 debut season.
Please join us as HPU instructor of bassoon, Mark Hekman, will present a concert featuring bassoon chamber music influenced by musical traditions from around the world including works by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Kotcha and Koshinski.
Faculty Jazz Combo Concert Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre The HPU Jazz Ensemble presents a concert of classic jazz standards and new works, spanning all of the major style periods of jazz from the 1930s to the present.
Chamber Ensembles Concert, Kaleidoscope
Greensboro Symphony: Tchaikovsky Spectacular Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Professional Dress Required An evening of grandeur awaits this March, featuring some of Tchaikovsky’s greatest music, from his famous 1812 “Overture” to his “Sleeping Beauty Suite.” The Greensboro Symphony also presents a fresh take on the composer’s “Symphony #1: Winter Dreams,” paired with a multimedia montage of works by internationally-renowned Russian artists, Lyuba and Aleksander Titovets. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available at the Campus Concierge desk for HPU students, faculty and staff with a valid HPU Passport Card. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for the general public by contacting 336-841-9209 or by emailing reservations@highpoint.edu.
Saturday, February 27 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre High Point University will offer community members an evening of non-stop musical performances with its Spring Chamber Ensembles Concert, “Kaleidoscope.” This year’s performance marks the fifth of its kind at HPU and will cover a broad spectrum of musical styles. Instrumental ensembles featured will include the chamber orchestra and flute, brass, string, jazz and percussion ensembles, among others.
Percussion Ensemble Concert Saturday, March 19 at 7:30 pm
Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Join the HPU Percussion Ensemble for an evening of exciting music, directed by world-renowned percussionist and composer Dr. Nathan Daughtrey.
Café Jazz Concert Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 pm Plato S. Wilson Commerce Building, Ballroom Come have dessert and coffee and enjoy the sounds of the HPU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Robert Faub.
Theatre
Music HPU Chamber Music Series: British Invasion!
HPU Theatre Presents: Mary Stuart
Sunday, April 3 at 3:30 pm
Thursday, February 25 – Saturday, February 27 and Monday, February 29 – Wednesday, March 2 at 7:30 pm Black Box Theatre
Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel The High Point University Music Faculty will present a concert featuring chamber music from British composers. Please join us for an exciting concert. In 1904, the German critic Oskar Schmitz stated that England was a land without music. Perhaps it was this unfavorable critique that inspired a wealth of successful twentieth century composers and compositions. This concert will feature the Department of Music faculty as they honor composers William Henry Squires (1871–1963), Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872–1958), Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) and Madeleine Dring (1923–1977). The program will include William Henry Squires’ “Gavotte Humoristique” and “Meditation in C” for cello and piano performed by Gina Pezzoli and Marcia Dills, selections from Vaughn Williams’ “Ten Blake Songs” for soprano and oboe performed by Barbara Peters and Thomas Pappas, Benjamin Britten’s “Nocturnal after John Dowland” for solo guitar performed by Mark Mazzatenta, and Madeleine Dring’s “Trio for Flute, Oboe, Piano” performed by Laura Stevens, Thomas Pappas and Marcia Dills.
Spring Choral Concert Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Please join us as members of the HPU Choral Ensembles, members of the United Methodist Church Choirs from around the area, and the newly formed High Point University Community Orchestra perform a three part Choral Concert including Vivaldi’s and John Rutter’s “GLORIA.” A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available at the Campus Concierge desk for HPU students, faculty and staff with a valid HPU Passport Card. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for the general public by contacting 336-841-9209 or by emailing reservations@highpoint.edu.
HPU University Band Concert, Wind Ensemble Monday, April 25 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Join the HPU Symphonic Band as they present their Spring Band Concert. The concert will feature a mixture of large and small ensembles performing historically significant works, new, modern works, and lighter selections.
Peter Oswald’s gripping adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart imagines an encounter between the Protestant Elizabeth I and her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, on the day in 1587 before the latter is executed under the authority of the former for plotting to usurp the crown of England. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for HPU students, faculty, staff and the general public by contacting the HPU Campus Concierge at 336-841-4636.
HPU Theatre Presents: Cul-De-Sac Thursday, April 14 – Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 17 at 2:00 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre Join us for the world premiere of a new play by acclaimed playwright John Cariani, author of Almost, Maine! Cariani has been developing Cul-de-Sac with HPU Theatre faculty, students and alumni over the past year. The play takes place on a familiar cul-de-sac in a familiar neighborhood in a familiar town. The Johnsons feel stuck, the Smiths feel lost, and the Joneses seem to have it all figured out. Come see what is revealed when we look deeper into the events beneath the surface of everyday suburban reality. Cariani will be joining HPU Theatre for a discussion of this new play and the developmental process. A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for HPU students, faculty, staff and the general public by contacting the HPU Campus Concierge at 336-841-4636.
Musical Theatre Scenes: Songs for a New World Tuesday, April 26 at 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm Black Box Theatre Written by Jason Robert Brown From the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, Songs for a New World weaves timeless characters and situations into a musical theatre song cycle. This semistaged production will feature students enrolled in the Musical Theater Scenes class.
Chapel
Dance Spring Dance Concert
Chapel Worship Services
Thursday, February 18 – Saturday, February 20 at 7:30 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre
Wednesday evenings at 5:30 pm Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel
The 2016 Spring Dance Concert is a collection of dance works choreographed by faculty member Lindsey Howie, adjunct faculty member Christine Stevens, guest choreographer Lindsay Shepherd, and students Madeleine Casadonte, Danielle Criss and Peyton Senning. Performed by High Point University students, the works presented range in style and approach for a fun evening of dance. Whether you are a seasoned dance enthusiast or a first-time patron, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Please feel free to bring a nonperishable food items so that we may give back to our community.
Every Wednesday the university community gathers to deepen its soul through song, prayer, preaching and meditative silence. It’s a time to move from the chaos of life to the most important things in life: community, care of self and creativity of God’s spirit that transforms the world. Join us from 5:30 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. in the Hayworth Chapel with fellowship and small group discussion to follow. Reverend Preston Davis (Minister to the University) preaches at each service, unless otherwise stated, and the Board of Stewards, composed entirely of students, oversees the services’ liturgies. For more information and to contact the Chapel and Religious Life Office of High Point University, please contact 336-841-9132, or visit www.highpoint.edu/religiouslife.
Annual Special Events Arbor Day Thursday, April 21 at 4:00 pm David R. Hayworth Park, Hoffman Amphitheatre The annual Arbor Day event will feature various speakers including HPU First Lady Mariana Qubein, who has spearheaded the transformation of the campus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, and Jon Roethling, curator of the grounds.
Commencement Saturday, May 7, 2016
Dr. Condoleezza Rice,
former secretary of state and national security advisor, will serve as the High Point University Commencement speaker on Saturday, May 7, 2016. “Secretary Rice has served this country in immeasurable ways through her work in our nation’s capital, in free enterprise, in academia and in efforts to improve education for children,” says Dr. Nido Qubein, HPU president. “She embodies the American spirit and its core values, which we proudly celebrate on our campus.” Rice will become part of an extraordinary lineup of HPU Commencement Speakers, including broadcast legend Tom Brokaw; Gen. Colin Powell, former secretary of state, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and national security advisor; former First Lady Laura Bush; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; Rudy Giuliani, former New York City Mayor; Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan; NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin; and Muhtar Kent, CEO of the Coca-Cola Company.
Laura Bush
Steve Wozniak
Gen. Colin Powell
Buzz Aldrin
Tom Brokaw
Queen Noor of Jordan
Please join us for these events that are open to the public. Tickets are not required, unless otherwise noted. For more information, please contact 336-841-9209 or email reservations@highpoint.edu. Members of the community are encouraged to register for event updates at www.highpoint.edu/community/enrichmentseries.
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