Bluffton University

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Events are free and open to the public.

Jan. 12-Feb. 19 Art Event: “Voices Together” art exhibit opens, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Sauder Visual Art Center

Jan. 17 Forum: “Why Me?” Martin Luther King Jr. Forum presentation by Clayton Moore, retired sergeant, Fostoria Police Department, award-winning author, 11 a.m., Yoder Recital Hall

Jan. 20 Colloquium: “Tina Howe's Unproduced Plays,” by Dr. Melissa Friesen, Mary Nord and Joseph Ignat endowed chair in theatre, 4 p.m., Centennial Hall Stutzman Lecture Hall

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Bluffton Bread Company has announced the last week of sales before the Christmas holiday. The business is a program of Bluffton University and provides hands-on experience for students from several majors.

Online orders will be accepted Sunday, Dec. 11-Tuesday, Dec. 13 for bread to be picked up Friday, Dec. 16. The cost is $12 per loaf or $25 for a bundle of five mini loaves.

Three flavors are available:

           Asiago Cheddar

           Chocolate Peppermint

           Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Orders, placed at https://shop.blufftonbreadcompany.com may be picked up from 8-10 a.m. or 3-5 p.m. on Friday in the Sommer Center’s Reichenbach Room. Shipping is available for an additional fee. 

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Bluffton University students will be selling original pieces of pottery in Sauder Visual Arts Center from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Dec. 9-10.

Profits from each sale will be given to the artist.

The student artwork sale coincides with Bluffton University’s Ohio Ceramic Invitational show, “Inspiration and Innovation,” which is currently featured in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Sauder Visual Arts Center.

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4:00 p.m., Sunday, December 11 at Yoder Recital Hall
Free tickets at www.bluffton.edu/messiah-tickets

Bluffton University’s music department has announced the soloists for its 128th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Yoder Recital Hall. Soloists are Misook Yun, soprano; Elizabeth Frey, mezzo-soprano; Brian Skoog, tenor; and Max Pivik, bass.

Dr. Bo Young Kang, director of choral activities, will conduct the oratorio. The Bluffton Choral Society including students, faculty, staff and community members will accompany with an orchestra. While tickets are free, space must be reserved at www.bluffton.edu/messiah-tickets. The event will also be streamed live at http://www.bluffton.edu/messiah.

Lyric soprano Misook Yun has been praised as a singer of “exquisite clarity” and “virtuosity.” She has performed in Italy, Austria, Hungary, South Korea and the U.S. An accomplished operatic performer, Yun has appeared in the roles of Mimi from “La Boheme,” Cio Cio San from from “Madame Butterfly” and Nedda from “Pagliacci,” among others.

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Dr. Martina Cucchiara, associate professor of history at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “Life and Death in the Shadows: Hiding Jews in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,” at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December. 2 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. 

Cucchiara’s topic was inspired by the Bluffton University student play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. After more than two years, in August 1944, the Germans discovered their hiding place and arrested the family along with four other Jews. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.

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Caroling sing-a-long part of the program

Bluffton University will host the Holiday Collage Concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 4 in Yoder Recital Hall.

Become wrapped in the sounds of the season during this holiday concert where the Bluffton music ensembles come together to celebrate. Singers and instrumentalists from the University Chorale and Concert Band will present a selection of holiday music including a medley of favorite Christmas songs.

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