Vine St will close from noon(ish) on Wednesday, November 27 for The After Blaze tent setup. *** Nov. 27 5:30 PM HOME JV/V Girls Basketball vs Benjamin Logan
“Race and Ethnicity in America: Get over it?!” will be Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle’s topic for Bluffton University’s Civic Engagement Day Forum on Tuesday, April 8, in Yoder Recital Hall. Her 11 a.m. presentation is free and open to the public.
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, will be the keynote speaker for Bluffton University’s annual Civic Engagement Day, on Wednesday, April 9.
Her address, “#CirclesOfUnity: The Celebration of Diversity Through Cultural Competency,” is free and open to the public beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Sommer Center on campus.
Galyna Korniyenko, a Ukrainian woman with Bluffton ties, will address the current situation in Ukraine in a talk on Wednesday (March 26) in the Kreider Room of Bluffton University’s Marbeck Center. Her lecture, scheduled to begin at 5:10 p.m., is free and open to the public.
About 20 Bluffton University students will either direct or perform in seven one-act plays during a One-Act Festival on campus April 1 and 2. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. both nights in College Hall’s Ramseyer Auditorium; general-admission tickets will be $3 at the door.
Award-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson, guest author at Bluffton University’s 30th annual English Festival on April 1, will also speak at the weekly campus forum that Tuesday, beginning at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.
In “Writing Black, Writing Appalachian”—which is free and open to the public—the Kentucky-based fiction writer and poet will discuss growing up African-American in Appalachia and the importance of place in her writing. She will read from her work as well.
