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‘Auditions and Curtains’ opens in Albrecht Gallery Nov. 9

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:45pm

Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Auditions and Curtains,” a November exhibition of paintings by artist Chris Hyndman.

Opening Nov. 9, the exhibit is free and open to the public through Nov. 24. Gallery hours in the Sauder Visual Arts Center are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception for the artist will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22.

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Jazz Ensemble, Gospel Choir to perform in Yoder Nov. 7

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:44pm

Bluffton University’s Jazz Ensemble and Gospel Choir will present a concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in Yoder Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken during intermission for music scholarships.

Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the 19-member Jazz Ensemble, while Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, associate professor of music, conducts the Gospel Choir, which includes 28 voices from the campus and community.

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Professor, writer to share ‘A New Story’ Nov. 6

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:43pm

Dr/. Susan Streeter Carpenter, an associate professor of English at Bluffton University, will talk about the writing process and read some of her recent fiction during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 6.

Free and open to the public, her presentation, “A New Story,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

 

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November public library newsletter on the Icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:42pm

The Bluffton Public Library's November electronic newsletter is now on The Icon.

Click here to open it.

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‘Everyday water-walkers’ are all around, speaker tells university audience

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:18pm

Instances of water-walking still happen in the world—and Jonathan Larson says he has found some.

Maybe not exactly parallel to what Jesus and the apostle Peter do in Matthew 14, but nonetheless what Larson called “real ‘water-walking’” deeds of moral courage in examples he provided Oct. 27 at Bluffton University.

And Jesus’ words to Peter—“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”—echo in every story, taken from the work and travels of Larson, Bluffton’s Spiritual Life Week speaker.

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Bluffton professor discusses new book

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:15pm

Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, gestures during an Oct. 27 discussion of her new book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control,” in Bluffton’s Musselman Library. The book is the first by Janzen, a third-year faculty member at the university and its 2015-16 C. Henry Smith Scholar. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto.

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