Salem State University Artsview Spring 2016

A publication of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University

SPRING 2016

TERELL STAFFORD, Jazz Trumpet

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GUEST ARTISTS TERELL STAFFORD, Jazz Trumpet Trumpet player Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time...” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, who combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism.

Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford performed on Diana Krall’s Grammy nominated From this Moment On (2006). He is a member of the Grammy winning Vanguard Orchestra and can be heard on over 130 albums. His album, This Side of Strayhorn, was widely praised in 2011 as “a must have” for jazz aficionados.

Stafford is the director of jazz studies and chair of instrumental studies at Temple University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet and managing and artistic director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia.

Thursday, March 10, 7:30 pm

WORLD MUSIC

Terell Stafford

SALIEU SUSO, Kora Master Salieu Suso was born into a family of farmers and traditional musicians/historians from Gambia, West Africa that extends back nearly 1,000 years. He was trained to play the twenty-one stringed kora (West African harp) at the age of eight by his father, renowned Kora player, Alhaji Musa Makang Suso, and began his professional career at fifteen. Before settling in the United States in 1989, Suso performed extensively throughout Africa and Europe, playing and promoting traditional Gambian music, and the repertoire of the kora. Salieu Suso is also the leader of the Jaliya Kafo Ensemble and is a leader in the nation’s rapidly growing African music scene.

Thursday, February, 25, 7:30 pm

SIROJIDDIN JURAEV, Dutar Virtuoso Salieu Suso

$15 general admission, $10 students and seniors Free with Salem State student ID Purchase tickets online at salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365 2

Grammy-nominated musician Sirojiddin Juraev comes from a lineage of dutar players in his native region of northern Tajikistan. He teaches at the National Conservatory of Music in Dushanbe and performs in the state Shashmaqom ensemble. Known widely as the most virtuosic dutar player in Central Asia, he will be joined by Abbos Kosimov on doira.

Thursday, April 14, 7:30 pm

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Sirojiddin Juraev

FACULTY Music Faculty CD Release Listening Party Members of the Salem State music faculty regularly perform throughout the region and around the country.

They also spend time in the the studio, recording their own original works and as collaborators with others.

Join us in this celebration of recently released recordings by the Salem State music faculty!

Thursday, March 3, 6 pm Viking Hall, Room 123

Wired.to.the.Edge Featuring Salem State faculty Abe Finch, Nick Giarratani and Mike Testa, Wired.to.the.Edge presents an evening of original, experimental, multimedia programming meant to amuse, challenge and inspire.

Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm

STUDENT ENSEMBLE CONCERTS University Chamber Orchestra Thursday, April 21, 7:30 pm

University Band

Monday, April 25, 7:30 pm

Women’s Chorale and Handbell Ensemble Wednesday, April 27, 7:30 pm

University Chorus and Chamber Singers Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm

Percussion Ensemble Monday, May 2, 7:30 pm

Guitar and World Music Ensembles Tuesday, May 3, 7:30 pm

Jazz Bands

Wednesday, May 4, 7:30 pm Free. Donations at the door are welcome to support music scholarships.

All concerts take place in the Recital Hall located on Central Campus, 71 Loring Avenue.

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DANCE CAREER PANEL: The Business of Dance with Jean Appolon, Peter DiMuro and Kat Nasti Join us in a panel discussion with seasoned artists from the Boston area who will discuss their experiences as dance artists in the dance world. A life in dance is rich and rewarding and includes wearing multiple hats. Discussion topics include how to balance creating work, performing, teaching, and maintaining dance training all while making a living. Panelists include Jean Appolon, Artistic Director of Jean Appolon Expressions, Peter DiMuro, Executive Director of the Dance Complex, and Kathleen Nasti, Director of Kat Nasti Dance.

Jean Appolon, Co-founder and Artistic Director of Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE), is a performer, choreographer and master teacher based in Boston and Portau-Prince, Haiti. He teaches regularly at Boston Ballet, UMASS Boston and The Dance Complex, among other locations. Appolon uses dance as a vehicle to promote healthy communities, and through JAE conducts performances, community youth classes and workshops in the Boston area. He directs a free, annual summer dance course in Port-au-Prince that serves young, aspiring Haitian dancers who do not have regular access to dance training. A 2014 Dance Resident at the Boston Center for the Arts, Appolon is an Inductee of the Haitian Roundtable’s 1804 List of Haitian American Changemakers (2014) for his groundbreaking accomplishments in dance.

Peter DiMuro, Executive Director of The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA, has woven a career as a performer, choreographer, director, teacher, facilitator and arts engager, touring and teaching internationally. He was Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange(2003-2008), capping a fifteen year relationship as performer and lead-artist with the company. His current creative umbrella, Public Displays of Motion, develops and performs artistic works and cultivates dance/arts literacy, advocacy and engagement.

The company was recently awarded a Boston Center for the Arts residency, as well as the Boston Dance Alliance’s 2014/15 Rehearsal and Retreat Fellowship. DiMuro was named a White House Millennial Artist in 2000. His work has been commissioned by leading presenters across the United States and around the world.

Jean Appolon

Peter DiMuro

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Kat Nasti, Director of Kat Nasti Dance, is a choreographer, teacher, dancer, and administrator. Her educational background includes a BA in classical studies and theatre, an MBA and an MFA in dance, all of which intersect in her work in the dance world.

In addition to her work as a performer she has taught at various institutions across the United States. She is a Founder of The Dance Entrepreneurs Funding Think Tank and Arc Dance Research and Laboratory. The latter just launched the “6-8-1 Atelier,” a program offering a paid residency experience for Boston choreographers and dancers.

Nasti is currently a 2015/2016 Resident Choreographer at the Boston Center for the Arts and a Catalyst Artist at The Dance Complex.

Kat Nasti

JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS: Haitian Contemporary Dance Company performs ANGAJE With original choreography and costumes designed by Jean Appolon, ANGAJE is set to the music of Haitian legend Toto Bissainthe and is inspired by the struggle against homophobia and the power of Haitian folkloric culture in the fight for justice.

In Haitian Creole, “Angaje” means “committed” or “engaged,” with the implied meaning of political engagement. “Angaje” also describes a strand of protest music rooted in Vodou rhythms that lie at the heart of Haiti’s culture and its founding as the first black republic in the world.

The piece is a meditation on different forms of social oppression, including violence against homosexuals, which is on the rise in Haiti, as young men are sought out, maimed and sometimes killed by mobs of anti-gay protestors. In ANGAJE, Jean Appolon reflects on the struggle of young gays in Haiti, and the power, beauty and rootedness that all Haitians, but especially the marginalized, can find if they just look inside their own culture.

Founded in 2011, Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) is a Haitian contemporary dance company based in Boston and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Its dynamic repertoire is based in Modern technique and Haitian folkloric dance. JAE uses dance to advance Haitian cultural expression and to educate audiences about Haitian traditions, history and current issues. It is one of the three inaugural dance companies to be part of the Boston Center for the Art’s expanded Performing Arts Residency Program.

Thursday, April 7, 5 pm Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex

Exhale Joy! Salem Dance Ensemble Spring is in the air! Come celebrate new beginnings with us. Dance faculty and students present original choreography that explores letting go of old baggage and old habits, while finding transformation in new forms. Add a lightness to your step. Inhale the beauty.

Exhale the JOY!

Saturday, April 30 7:30 pm Sunday, May 1 2 pm Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex $10 suggested donation Salem State students free with ID

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A Small Death in a Big Country: World Premiere Written and directed by William Cunningham Professor William Cunningham’s new play, A Small Death in a Big Country tells the story of three generations of the Barry family. Dolly Barry and her husband Martin, both members of the Greatest Generation, are preparing to sell their family home and move to Florida. However, these plans are interrupted when it is discovered that Dolly is exhibiting the signs of dementia. Martin and his three children, Joan, Michael and Connor, need to decide on how best to care for Dolly. Martin has a plan that challenges his children and their sense of allegiance to the ideals of the Greatest Generation. Joan, Michael and Connor must confront the meaning of faith and

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love in their ultimate decision. Connor’s daughter Lisa, preparing to go off to college, must also make a choice of her own in the name of love.

The plot unfolds in a way that builds on the absurdity of American mythmaking, and the competition and heartache that can be caused by our pursuit of exceptionalism. What does it mean to be labeled the “Greatest Generation” and what happens to the generations that live in the shadow of greatness?

The play questions the haunting nature of memory and our need to distort and, at times, to forget so that we can live in the real—or possibly fabricated—present.

Pre-show Conversation: Thursday, March 3, 6:30 pm: “Love and Letting Go”

February 25 – 27, 7:30 pm Sunday, February 28, 2 pm March 3 – 5, 7:30 pm Sunday, March 6, 2 pm

By William Cunningham

VENUE and TICKET INFORMATION Due to the Mainstage Theatre renovation, all performances for the 2015 – 16 season will take place in the Callan Studio Theatre, located in the basement of the Sullivan Building.

Access to the Callan Theatre is available via the entrance to the Administration Building, 354 Lafayette Street. There is both elevator and stair access to the lower level at this entrance. Tickets are $15 general / $10 students and seniors / free with Salem State Student ID.

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MEDEA by Euripides Adapted by Robinson Jeffers Directed by David Allen George The premiere of MEDEA in 431 BC sent a tidal wave of anger through the audience in Athens. Euripides had gone “too far” in his shocking portrayal of the mythical Jason as seen through the barbarian eyes of his estranged wife Medea. Instead of building his play around the marvels of Jason’s legend, Euripides’ choice to focus on the psychology of the story and ordinary emotions of pride, jealousy and anger left the audience stunned.

The story unfolds on the final day before Medea is to be exiled from Corinth

by King Creon. Jason has married the king’s daughter and denies his sworn union with Medea. With their two sons in the balance Jason fails to keep Medea from practicing her ancient black arts. In a horrific series of on-stage actions of vengeance and premeditated murder Medea extracts her methodical revenge at the cost of everything she holds dear. Her final act of “justice,” the murder of her two sons, assures the destruction of Jason’s immortality.

April 21 – 23, 7:30 pm Sunday, April 24, 2 pm

April 28 – 30, 7:30 pm Sunday, May 1, 2 pm

Roundtable: “The Tragedy of Infanticide: A Contemporary View of Mothers Who Kill Their Children.” Panelists from women’s studies, political

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science, criminal justice, social work, and forensic science discuss how this act is framed today by the media and our society. April 11, 11 am, Sullivan 018.

Pre-show Conversation: “A Director’s Perspective of MEDEA” – Catherine Bertrand ’06 director of Salem Theatre’s March production of Medea and Salem State director David Allen George will compare and contrast their interpretations of the play as a female vs. a male sitting in the director’s chair. March 18 at Salem Theatre and April 28 at Salem State, one hour prior to curtain.

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“THERE is no THERE THERE: The Narrated Self” a sound and video installation by RICHARD LEWIS In a slow moving, meditative combination of sound and image, Richard Lewis considers the narratives that we all construct in order to make sense of our lives. “We mythologize our lives, making ourselves the heroes of our own movies” says Lewis. ”This installation is both an examination of that phenomenon, and an example of it.”

Lewis has taught photography in the art + design department at Salem State for twenty-three years. He is bandleader and composer for the music performance collaborative Machine 475. He is constantly eager to engage with new media, and his artwork over the years has ranged from photography and music to sculpture and video installation. He graduated in 1992 with an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibition: January 19 – February 3 Gallery Talk: Wednesday, January 27, 12:30 pm Reception: Wednesday, January 27, 2 pm

JOHN VOLPACCHIO: Full Circle 25+ The Winfisky Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition of ceramic and glass works from John Volpacchio’s twenty-five year career as an artist/educator at Salem State University. He began his training as a potter at the Rhode Island School of Design where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1982, followed by an MFA from the University of Colorado. After joining our faculty in 1989, Professor Volpacchio’s passion for continually learning and sharing that with his students inspired him to secure approval and funding for the creation of Salem State’s Glassworks studio in 2005. It is one of only three university glassblowing facilities in the state.

During his recent sabbatical, Volpacchio explored both porcelain forms made on the potter’s wheel, as well as intricate, hand blown forms made out of glass. This retrospective focuses on his explorations into both materials. Much of the artwork was fabricated at Salem State, while others were created in locations where he has studied and worked, including Venice, Italy.

“I hope to capture the plasticity and fluidity of each medium as it is frozen in motion.” He stresses that “the mastery of this art is capturing spontaneity at its peak. From creation to successful completion, the end result for each piece of work is highly climactic, beautiful and inherently unique.”

Exhibition: February 8 – March 2 Gallery Talk: Wednesday, February 17, 12:30 pm Reception: Wednesday, February 17, 2 pm Art exhibitions are located in the Winfisky Gallery Ellison Campus Center, North Campus Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 2 pm or by appointment at 978.542.7890 2 8

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LEAH PIEPGRAS: KALPA The Sanskrit word kalpa, corresponds to the idea of “timeless,” “forever” or “for eternity.” The paintings of Leah Piepgras reflect not only the visual magic of the natural world, but also the endless cycle of the ages.

“Crystalline rock forms become a variation of a thought structure, honed and purified, distilled, pared down and sharpened into a tangible manifestation… also think of thoughts as clouds, and how, before you can grasp a full idea, they float away and all you are left with is a feeling, an intention.

I don’t think of these thoughts as lost though. I think of them in a

Leah Piepgras, Detail, Yellow Kalpa, 2015

ART + DESIGN STUDENT AWARDS EXHIBITION This annual exhibition focuses on the most important aspect of the Salem State art + design department: the students. Every year, the faculty selects students within the various artistic disciplines who have distinguished themselves by achieving and surpassing what is expected of them. These students

Piepgras holds a BFA in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon. Piepgras has shown nationally and internationally. She works out of her studio in Swampscott, MA.

are recognized with Awards of Excellence and an awards dinner.

In addition, each award recipient is invited to display several pieces of his or her work in this annual exhibit.

The work on display will range from commercially-oriented media, such as graphic design, multimedia design and photography to fine arts media such as painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Exhibition: March 7 – April 6 Gallery Talk: Wednesday, March 23, 12:30 pm Reception: Wednesday, March 23, 2 pm

Exhibition: April 11 – 27 Reception: Wednesday, April 13, 6 pm

constant state of visual change, with only the truth of the idea remaining as the actual, physical constant.”

She sees connection between clouds or rocks or flora or the human figure: “I think of the body similarly, in a constant state of becoming, with shifts so subtle that you might always feel the same, but only by looking back, do you see the transformation… making paintings transforms the physical experience of being and captures intangible understanding, even if only for a fleeting moment.”

MAT Capstone Exhibition As the final show of the year, the Winfisky Gallery is proud to present the tenth annual MAT Capstone Exhibition. The Master of Arts in Teaching Art (MAT) focuses on the academic and studio needs of teachers and visual artists who are professionally licensed to teach in Massachusetts. The program provides the skills and competencies needed by visual arts teachers and includes a strong studio component in addition to curriculum development and teaching methods.

Brian Dow, My Red Coat, screen print, 2015 Students use their knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods within the field of art education to develop and implement well-crafted arts-based research in their art education classrooms. This year’s exhibition will feature the work of graduating MAT candidates Brian Dow, Elizabeth Hurley, Christine Lenzie, Christine Melo, Michelle Muzichuk, and Melissa Silveira.

Exhibition: May 2 – 19 | Reception: Wednesday, May 4, 6 pm

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CAROLINE LEAVITT, Fiction Writer

Annual Faculty Reading Our annual celebration of Salem State’s stellar creative writing faculty! Come hear the works of Kevin Carey, Regina Flynn, Perry Glasser, Lis Horowitz, January Gill O’Neil, Alexandria Peary, J.D. Scrimgeour, Ann Taylor, and other Salem State writers.

with EC Hanlon, Fiction Writer

Readers Prize, a Jewish Book Caroline Leavitt Council Pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor’s Choice. Pictures of You was on the Best Books of 2011 from The San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine and Kirkus Reviews. Her new novel, Cruel Beautiful World, will be published by Algonquin in October 2016.

Leavitt is a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, a prize winner in the Bellevue Literary Magazine and was a finalist in both the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowships. Her essay in New York Magazine, High Infidelity, is optioned for film. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Modern Love, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Salon, Real Simple, and more.

And Introducing EC Hanlon After surviving Catholic school, EC Hanlon went on to attain undergraduate and graduate degrees in English. To support her writing, she has worked in a superette, as a waitress, a housekeeper, a proofreader, and is currently employed at her alma mater, Salem State University, in international education.

She’s the author of a collection of short stories, Unredeemed: Hateful and Others, and the young adult novella, The One Friend Philosophy of Life. Her short stories can be seen in such journals as Ray’s Road Review, Two Cities Review and Romance Magazine, among others.

Thursday, February 11, 7:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Room Ellison Campus Center All creative writing events are free and open to the public.

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Wednesday, February 24, 1:30 pm Petrowski Room (Marsh Hall, room 210)

Poets ROSS GAY and JANUARY GILL O’NEIL Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, finalist for the 2015 National Book Award Ross Gay in Poetry. He is also the co-author, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of the chapbook “Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens,” in addition to being co-author, with Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., of the chapbook, “River.” He is a founding editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin’, in addition to being an editor with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press.

He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Ross teaches at Indiana University.

Salem State faculty member January Gill O’Neil is the author of Misery Islands, which won the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award, and Underlife, both published by CavanKerry Press.

January Gill O’Neil She is the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and an assistant professor of English at Salem State University. O’Neil is the Northeast Regional Chair and a board of trustees’ member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).

Thursday, March 24, 7:30 pm The Metro Room, Ellison Campus Center

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You and eight other novels.

Is This Tomorrow was a Best Book of 2013 from January Magazine, long listed for the Maine

Annual Graduate Student Reading Salem State’s graduate student writers continue to produce remarkable work.

Come hear students from the prose, poetry and digital writing courses and celebrate the theses of graduating students in the writing program. Among the readers will be graduate students who work on Salem State’s national literary magazine, Soundings East, including poetry editor M.P. Carver, managing editor Cathy Fahey and nonfiction editor Laura Brennan Smith.

Wednesday, April 20, 6-8 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Room, Ellison Campus Center

Mark your calendar for the 2016 MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL April 29 – May 1 in downtown Salem Information at masspoetry.org

Claire Keyes Poetry Award A prize of $1,000 and publication in Soundings East, the national literary magazine of Salem State, will be given annually for a group of poems. Submit eight to ten pages of poetry poems (no more than one poem per page) with a $10 entry fee, by Tuesday, March 1 online at salemstateuniversitysoundingseast. submittable.com/submit, or send to Salem State University, Claire Keyes Poetry Award, Soundings East, English Dept., 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970. For additional information contact J.D. Scrimgeour at jscrimgeour@salemstate.edu.

JAN M. LINDHOLM — Singing a Liberating Word: A Feminist Take on Hymns Salem State English Professor Jeannette (Jan) M. Lindholm is an acclaimed hymn writer, with texts that challenge patriarchal understandings of the divine, promote social justice and affirm the power of love. Her work has been published in numerous hymnals and hymnal supplements including: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006); Voices Found: Women in the Church’s Song (New York: Church Publishing, 2003); Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing (Kingston, NY: Selah Publishing, 2000); and The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (Chicago: Covenant Jeannette (Jan) M. Lindholm Publications, 1996). Her texts have been set to music for choral anthems by Peter Pindar Stearns (“As Ruth Refused Naomi’s Pleas”), Kevin Siegrfried (“Annunciation”) and David Pike (“Each Road”), the latter being a commission by St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Rockport, MA. Lindholm holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota as well as degrees from Indiana University (MA in English Language and Literature, 1986), and Boston University School of Theology (MTS, 1999).

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SPRING 2016

January January 19 – February 3 Exhibition: “THERE is no THERE THERE: The Narrated Self” a sound and video installation by Richard Lewis Winfisky Gallery, ECC January 27, 12:30 pm Gallery Talk: Richard Lewis Winfisky Gallery, ECC January 27, 2 pm Artist’s Reception: Richard Lewis Winfisky Gallery, ECC

February February 8 – March 2 Exhibition: John Volpacchio: Full Circle 25+ Winfisky Gallery

John Volpacchio

February 17, 12:30 pm Gallery Talk: John Volpacchio Winfisky Gallery, ECC February 17, 2 pm Artist’s Reception: John Volpacchio Winfisky Gallery, ECC February 24, 1:30 pm Annual Faculty Reading Petrowski Room (Marsh 210) February 25, 7:30 pm Salieu Suso, Kora master Recital Hall, CC $15 general/$10 students and seniors February 25 – 27, 7:30 pm A Small Death in a Big Country A new play by William Cunningham Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors

March 6, 2 pm A Small Death in a Big Country A new play by William Cunningham Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors March 7 – April 6 Exhibition: Kalpa, an exhibition of paintings

by Leah Piepgras Winfisky Gallery, ECC March 8, 7:30 pm Singing a Liberating Word: A Feminist Take on Hymns with Jan Lindholm Recital Hall, CC March 10, 7:30 pm Terell Stafford, jazz trumpet Recital Hall, CC $15 general/$10 students and seniors

Terell Stafford

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ANGAJE

April 25, 7:30 pm University Band Recital Hall, CC

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April 7, 7:30 pm Wired.to.the.Edge Recital Hall, CC April 11 – April 27 Exhibition: Art + Design Student Awards Winfisky Gallery, ECC April 13, 6 pm Reception: Art + Design Student Awards Winfisky Gallery, ECC April 14, 7:30 pm Sirojiddin Juraev, Dutar virtuoso Recital Hall $15 general/$10 students and seniors April 20, 6 pm Annual Graduate Student Reading MLK Jr. Room, ECC

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Thursday, February 11 7:30 pm Writers Series: Caroline Leavitt with EC Hanlon MLK Jr. Room, ECC

Caroline Leavitt

February 28, 2 pm A Small Death in a Big Country A new play by William Cunningham Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors

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The Recital Hall is located on Central Campus (CC). ECC is the Ellison Campus Center which is located on North Campus.

March 3 – 5, 7:30 pm A Small Death in a Big Country A new play by William Cunningham Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors March 3, 6 pm Music Faculty CD Release Listening Party Viking 123, CC

March 23, 12:15 pm The Business of Dance: Dance Career Panel Dance Studio, O’Keefe Complex March 23, 12:30 pm Gallery Talk: Leah Piepgras Winfisky Gallery, ECC March 23, 2 pm Artist’s Reception: Leah Piepgras Winfisky Gallery, ECC March 24, 7:30 pm Writers Series: Ross Gay and January Gill O’Neil The Metro Room, ECC

April 7, 5 pm Jean Appolon Expressions performs ANGAJE Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex

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April 21, 7:30 pm University Chamber Orchestra Recital Hall, CC April 21 – 23, 7:30 pm Medea by Euripides Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors

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April 24, 2 pm Medea by Euripides Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors

Adapted by Robinson Jeffers Directed by David Allen George

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April 27, 7:30 pm Women’s Chorale and Handbell Ensemble Recital Hall, CC April 28, 7:30 pm University Chorus and Chamber Singers Recital Hall, CC April 28 – 30, 7:30 pm Medea by Euripides Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors April 30, 7:30 pm Salem Dance Ensemble: Exhale Joy! Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex $10 suggested donation

May May 1, 2 pm Salem Dance Ensemble: Exhale Joy! Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex $10 suggested donation May 1, 2 pm Medea by Euripides Callan Studio Theatre $15 general/$10 students and seniors May 2 – May 19 MAT Capstone Exhibition Winfisky Gallery, ECC May 2, 7:30 pm Percussion Ensemble Recital Hall, CC May 3, 7:30 pm Guitar and World Music Ensembles Recital Hall, CC May 4, 6 pm Artist’s Reception: MAT Capstone Exhibition Winfisky Gallery, ECC May 4, 7:30 pm Jazz Bands Recital Hall, CC

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352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970 978.542.7890 salemstate.edu/arts Karen Gahagan, Director