All about the Arts
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University's 14th annual Kaleidoscope Arts Festival will return April 19 and run through May 1 with about 30 dance, theater, music and guest artist programs and talks.
The 13-day festival also includes Children's Day events, a film series and an art exhibit.
SRU students majoring in dance, theater, music, creative writing and art will offer performances and exhibits.
Theater majors will present a production of Mark O'Rowe's “Terminus,” directed by David Skeele, SRU professor of theater.
Christophas Walker, SRU assistant professor of public health and social work and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute, will host the annual Frederick Douglass Sixty Second Lectures series, featuring lectures on topics in art, dance, history, English, political science, public health, modern languages, anthropology, geography, physics and other disciplines.
This year's festival showcases a number of events in which artistic genres are combined. Dancers will perform alongside video accompaniment. A Japanese theater performance will incorporate dance and storytelling through physical means and music.
A jazz poetry trio will feature a musician who includes mountain dulcimer on his resumé.
And one dance presentation will place performers in a 17-foot U-Haul truck.
Children's Day on April 25 will be coupled with an Earth Day Celebration, offering family-oriented arts and crafts and sustainability demonstrations.
Activities during Kaleidoscope include the following. Fees do apply to some events.
April 19
SRU choirs, 7 p.m., Swope Music Hall
April 20
Andy Farkas, 1 to 3:30 p.m., art demonstration, Art Building I; 5 to 6 p.m., artist talk, University Union
Martha Gault Art Society exhibit, 6 p.m., University Union lobby
Student recital: Abby Iksic, trumpet, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music Hall
White Fox Butoh Company, 7:30 p.m., West Gym dance studio
April 21“Friends:” Salsa from Guatemala, 12:30 p.m., QuadAndrew Loose and Clint Bleil junior recital, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 22Third Coast Dance Film Festival, 4:30 p.m., University Union Multi-Purpose RoomWind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 23René Darce “Cachito” artist talk, 5:30 p.m., Swope Music HallPanorama Steel Pan Ensemble, jazz combo and Latin jazz ensemble with René Darce, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 24Blisstaken, a poetry/jazz performance group, 5:30 p.m., Sheehy TheatreLauren Brickman artist talk, 4:30 p.m., University Union MPRTerminus, a play by Mark O'Rowe about three people journeying through a dark night of the soul, 7:30 p.m., Sheehy TheaterApril 25Children's Day & Earth Day Celebration, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Macoskey CenterMagnum Opus: A Senior Dance Concert, 2 and 5 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 26Saxophone Studio, 2 p.m., Swope Music HallTerminus, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Sheehy TheaterStudent Recital: Craig Gill, trumpet, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 27Frederick Douglass Sixty Second Lectures, 4:30 p.m., University UnionTerminus, 7:30 p.m., Sheehy TheatreOrchestra, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallApril 28Terminus, 7:30 p.m., Sheehy TheaterGuest piano recital: Matt McCright, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallBridgman/Packer artist talk, 4:30 p.m., University Union MPRApril 29Erik Lawrence: “Music and Healing” artist talk, 6 p.m., Swope Music HallBridgman/Packer: student showing, 9 p.m., Field House Dance StudioTerminus, 7:30 p.m., Sheehy Theater
April 30Terminus, 7:30 p.m., Sheehy TheaterBlack Box reading, 4:30 p.m., University UnionJazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallBridgman/Packer: “Truck,” 8 p.m., reception at alumni house; 9, 9:30 and 10 p.m., performances at Miller Auditorium loading dockMay 1Opera Scenes, 7:30 p.m., Swope Music HallLet's Hang On, a Frankie Valli tribute, 7:30 p.m., University Union MPR.For more information, visit sru.edu/academics/colleges/chfpa/kaleidoscope/Pages/home.aspx.
