Prepare to dance along in your seat during Bluffton University’s Gospel Choir and Jazz Ensemble concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 7, in Yoder Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken during intermission for music scholarships.
Under the direction of Dr. Crystal Sellers-Battle, the Gospel Choir’s program will remember the life of composer Edwin Hawkins, who passed away in January, by singing his most famous song “Oh Happy Day.” A rhythm section led by Wesley Sellers of Columbus will accompany the group.
Here's the arts and events calendar for April at Bluffton Uni versity.Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted
April 3 Forum: “100 Years of Conscientious Objection to War: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties from World War I through Today,” Forum by Michael Mears, Jake Short, Bill Galvin, Center for Conscience and War, 11 a.m., Yoder Recital Hall.
Carrie Phillips, archives and special collections librarian, will present “Linen, Leather, Linseed Oil and Lampblack: A recipe for the 1748 Ephrata ‘Martyrs Mirror,’” during a 4 p.m. colloquium presentation on Friday, April 6, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
For just the10th time in its 119-year history, Bluffton University has named a new president, with Dr. Jane Wood accepting the call to serve beginning July 1, 2018.
Laura Galley, a Bluffton University senior food and nutrition major, will present “Nutrition Assessment of Kenneth Butler Memorial Soup Kitchen, Hancock County, Indiana” during an 11 a.m. Forum on Tuesday, April 3, in the Reading Room of Musselman Library.
Galley, a native of Indianapolis, Ind., will discuss her departmental honors project including an assessment of the food quality at the soup kitchen where she worked as an intern during the summer of 2017.
