Graham Watson

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance
presents

Almost, Maine

By John Cariani
Directed by Michael Daehn

Strother Theatre

October 7-9, 13-16 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2:30pm

Tickets:
General Public-$8.50
Students-$6.50

On a beautiful, clear, moonless night in the wintry realm of Almost, Maine, everything is "almost" as it should be. As the northern lights hover directly above this mythical town, residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. A lovely new play by John Cariani, Almost, Maine shows us a world where hearts love, hurt, heal, and mend...almost.

For more information, please contact the
University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749 or boxoffice@bsu.edu.

Box Office hours:
Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and one hour before each performance.

"Deemed a 'banjo virtuoso' by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt draws on diverse musical influences from the North Carolina piedmont, the mountains of central West Virginia, the Ohio River Valley and beyond to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo playing."

For more information, visit http://adamhurt.com or http://uuchurchmuncie.org or email ric.dwenger@gmail.com.

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce the University Film Series schedule for Fall 2010. All films will be shown on DVD in AJ 175 Tuesdays at 7:30 P. M. We include here links to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for more information:

Tuesday, October 5 Red Cliff (Chi bi)

Tuesday, October 19 The Painted Veil (2006)

Tuesday, November 9 Coming Home (1978)

As always, all films are free and open to campus and community.

We hope to see you there!

The University Film Committee

Robert Benson, Land Arch; Fred Bower, Art; Lambert Deckers, Psych Sci; John Fillwalk, Art; Wes Gehring, TComm; Wade Jennings, English, Emeritus; Charles Jones, Math, Emeritus; Stan Keil, Econ, Emeritus; Conrad Lane, Elem Ed, Emeritus; Tom Lowe, Univ Coll, Emeritus; Norman Marin-Calderon, ML&C; Kecia McBride, College of Sciences & Humanities; Harold McGrath, David Stout, Todd Terrell, Community Reps; Kaitlin Misbach, Anthony Perrin, Samantha Roderick, Student Reps; Chris Shea, ML&C; Jason Sloan, TC; Rodger Smith, Theat & Dance

Ball State English professor and poet Mark Neely will read from his new chapbook, Four of a Kind (Concrete Wolf Press), next Tuesday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. in Bracken Library, room 104. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing with the author. Both events are free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Praise for Mark Neely's Four of a Kind:
"Think newspaper columns: dispatches from the zeitgeist, fromancestral voices, from dreams, from terra incognita.  Think mullioned windowpanes: visions of the real, the hyper-real, TV, the neighbors. Think triptychs plus one in the excessive American way.  Think classical five-act play minus one in the age of diminished expectations. Think split screen, think directions on maps, think humors of the body.  While each frame is an act that arrests, the other frames undermine, amplify, illuminate, or incinerate the original.  Flights turn into dreams turn into blues turn into names in an amazing shape-shifting way.  They are echo chambers that resonate long after the initial reading. They have a furious and inescapable power."  --Bruce Smith, poet

Sponsored by Creative Writing in the Ball State English Department.

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce the University Film Series schedule for Fall 2010. All films will be shown on DVD in AJ 175 Tuesdays at 7:30 P. M. We include here links to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for more information:

Tuesday, October 5 Red Cliff (Chi bi)

Tuesday, October 19 The Painted Veil (2006)

Tuesday, November 9 Coming Home (1978)

As always, all films are free and open to campus and community.

We hope to see you there!

The University Film Committee

Robert Benson, Land Arch; Fred Bower, Art; Lambert Deckers, Psych Sci; John Fillwalk, Art; Wes Gehring, TComm; Wade Jennings, English, Emeritus; Charles Jones, Math, Emeritus; Stan Keil, Econ, Emeritus; Conrad Lane, Elem Ed, Emeritus; Tom Lowe, Univ Coll, Emeritus; Norman Marin-Calderon, ML&C; Kecia McBride, College of Sciences & Humanities; Harold McGrath, David Stout, Todd Terrell, Community Reps; Kaitlin Misbach, Anthony Perrin, Samantha Roderick, Student Reps; Chris Shea, ML&C; Jason Sloan, TC; Rodger Smith, Theat & Dance

Wicked grooves, sublime lead singing, great harmonies, sparkling original songs, and a deep repertoire that spans 200 years of American music. That's Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, four people who share an irresistible chemistry on stage. Don't miss your chance to see them live at Pruis Hall this Thursday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are just $17 (in advance) and $5 for youth & BSU students. BSU faculty/staff buy one adult, get one free.

Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem is an unusually gleeful string band that celebrates both tradition and improvisation and that stumps the categorizers. (Are they an agnostic gospel band? A homeopathic bluegrass band? Are they crazy?).

The Boston Globe described it as "neo old-timey with cosmopolitan splashes of contemporary pop and jazz." It's an exuberant mix of musical idioms, held together by superb musicianship, impeccable taste, and the band's charismatic vocals. A stage show dips into country blues, vintage swing, modern songwriter fare, and Appalachian fiddle tunes and songs. It's a bracing fusion: listen to Arbo deliver Bessie Jones' version of "O Death" accompanied by fat, bluesy guitar solos and a groove that owes allegiance to the Meters, and you'll see. This is a band that picks up what's lying around "from tin cans to traditional music" and creates something new.

Click here to listen to tracks from their Big Old Life CD or here to visit the event page.

General Admission: $17 (advance)/$22 (door); $5 youth (18 & under) & BSU students. BSU faculty/staff buy one adult, get a second free.

For information call 285-1539.

Merc Versus presents
Sublevel Sessions

Featuring

• Eratic (Indianapolis)
• Andromeda (Fort Wayne)
• Lake Effect (La Porte)
• Black Eddie (Columbus)
• Mystery School & Stone Messiah (Muncie)
• with DJ Polaris on the Wheels of steel!

Full Circle has weekly meetings of its board of directors at 8:00pm every first and third Wednesday of the month at our office complex at 2423 W. Jackson (corner of Jackson and Celia, across from St. Mary's). The meetings usually last until 9pm and are open to the public. If you would like to present something to the board of directors, email secretary Graham Watson (secretary@fullcircleartscoop.org) so that he can include you in the next meeting's agenda.

MuncieDowntown.com writes...

Celebrate the arts in Downtown Muncie every First Thursday! Meet your friends downtown for the monthly art walk, scheduled this month for January 6, from 5 to 8 pm.

First Thursday gallery walk is a monthly event. All the downtown art galleries simultaneously launch their monthly exhibits with extended hours on the first Thursday evenings of every month. Stroll the streets, meet the artists, enjoy live music and find free refreshments at nearly every stop.

Most of our specialty shops downtown keep extended hours during First Thursday, and all our restaurants and pubs will be open late and ready to serve you. So grab your friends, head downtown, and join the hundreds celebrating local arts and culture in Muncie's historic downtown district!

Downtown is part of an arts and cultural district, recognized in 2009 by the City of Muncie. A committee of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council is currently seeking state designation for the district. The group is also pursuing the development of a Cultural Trail, similar to the one currently being developed in Indianapolis, that ties the districts together via the Cardinal Greenway. Read more about the Downtown Muncie Arts District...

For more information about Downtown Muncie, or for First Thursday event and exhibit information, visit www.munciedowntown.com.

First planning meeting for Muncie MusicFest 2011. Open to anyone interested in helping plan, promote, or organize the festival.

We are pleased to announce the University Film Series schedule for Spring 2011. All films will be shown on DVD in LB 125 Tuesdays at 7:30 P. M., with accommodations for the hearing impaired. We include here links to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for more information:

• Tuesday, January 11 - The Big Lebowski http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
• Tuesday, January 25 - Billy Elliot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249462/
• Tuesday, February 8 - La vie en rose (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/
• Tuesday, March 15 - Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/
• Tuesday, April 5  - The Children's Hour (1961) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/

As always, all films are free and open to campus and community. We hope to see you there!

The University Film Committee
Robert Benson, Land Arch; Fred Bower, Art; Lambert Deckers, Psych Sci; John Fillwalk, Art; Wes Gehring, TComm; Wade Jennings, English, Emeritus; Charles Jones, Math, Emeritus; Stan Keil, Econ; Conrad Lane, Elem Ed, Emeritus; Tom Lowe, Univ Coll, Emeritus; Kecia McBride, College of Sciences & Humanities; Harold McGrath, David Stout, Todd Terrell, Community Reps; Kaitlin Misbach, Tony Perrin, Samantha Roderick, Student Reps; Chris Shea, ML&C; Jason Sloan, Teachers College; Rodger Smith, Theat & Dance

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Free Public Reading

Pruis Hall

Saturday, January 15th at 7:30PM

Come join the cast of this past fall's production of
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
to finish Tony Kushner's epic two part play series.

Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance
and Alpha Psi Omega.

Every Sunday, egos are crushed and legends are born at Doc's Sunday Trivia Brawl. Come and play for free, solo or with a team, and show off your command of all knowledge trivial. Win, and split up a a $50 Doc's gift certificate on booze, food, or merchandise.

Every game is six rounds of trivia questions on a wide variety of topics in pop culture, science, history, and current events. Every tenth question is part of our inadvertent quest to discriminate against the deaf, and has players listening to a song and attempting to identify its title, band, and album. The sixth round is a special visual aid round in which the blind are instead at an unfair disadvantage. Team signup starts at 9pm, and unless we go into a Sudden Death Lightning Bloodfeud Overtime Round (of Death), the game tends to wrap up at about 11pm.

Please arrive by 3:55pm. The march will begin at the Multicultural Center adn head north on McKinley to its intersection with Riverside Avenue and back (0.6 miles).

Co-sponsored by the Muncie MLK Planning Committee, BSU Multicultural Center, NAACP Student Chapter, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

For more information, contact the BSU Multicultural Center: (765) 285-1344 / mc2@bsu.edu.

Full Circle has weekly meetings of its board of directors at 8:00pm every first and third Wednesday of the month at our office complex at 2423 W. Jackson (corner of Jackson and Celia, across from St. Mary's). The meetings usually last until 9pm and are open to the public. If you would like to present something to the board of directors, email secretary Graham Watson (secretary@fullcircleartscoop.org) so that he can include you in the next meeting's agenda.

More than forty years, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra began as the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and has performed continuously ever since. Emens is proud to present the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, winner of the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble this Saturday night at Pruis Hall. Show starts at 8 p.m.

In 1966 cornetist, composer, arranger, Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis founded a band in New York. Having settled in New York after leaving their respective touring jobs with Basie and Kenton, Thad and Mel along with many of their colleagues needed an outlet for their creative energies and relief from the tedium of the studio work. With a handful of arrangements they approached legendary club owner Max Gordon and were booked at the Village Vanguard for 3 Mondays in February. Three weeks have become a permanent gig spanning over four decades. With few member changes, this 16-piece group still maintains its original precepts of creativity and experimentation are nurtured and encouraged.

This will be one of the greatest jazz events to grace the stage at Pruis Hall. This is your chance to hear one of New York's finest institutions deliver their big band sound with spot-on accuracy live in Muncie!

Click here to visit the Vanguard Press page to listen to clips and view video of the group.

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - Saturday, January 22

Pruis Hall - 8 pm

General Admission Tickets are just $20 in advance ($25 at the door). BSU faculty/staff are just $15. BSU students and youth (18 & under are $5).

Call the Emens ticket office for more information, (765) 285-1539.

Every Sunday, egos are crushed and legends are born at Doc's Sunday Trivia Brawl. Come and play for free, solo or with a team, and show off your command of all knowledge trivial. Win, and split up a a $50 Doc's gift certificate on booze, food, or merchandise.

Every game is six rounds of trivia questions on a wide variety of topics in pop culture, science, history, and current events. Every tenth question is part of our inadvertent quest to discriminate against the deaf, and has players listening to a song and attempting to identify its title, band, and album. The sixth round is a special visual aid round in which the blind are instead at an unfair disadvantage. Team signup starts at 9pm, and unless we go into a Sudden Death Lightning Bloodfeud Overtime Round (of Death), the game tends to wrap up at about 11pm.

We are pleased to announce the University Film Series schedule for Spring 2011. All films will be shown on DVD in LB 125 Tuesdays at 7:30 P. M., with accommodations for the hearing impaired. We include here links to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) for more information:

• Tuesday, January 11 - The Big Lebowski http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
• Tuesday, January 25 - Billy Elliot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249462/
• Tuesday, February 8 - La vie en rose (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/
• Tuesday, March 15 - Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/
• Tuesday, April 5  - The Children's Hour (1961) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/

As always, all films are free and open to campus and community.

We hope to see you there!

The University Film Committee
Robert Benson, Land Arch; Fred Bower, Art; Lambert Deckers, Psych Sci; John Fillwalk, Art; Wes Gehring, TComm; Wade Jennings, English, Emeritus; Charles Jones, Math, Emeritus; Stan Keil, Econ; Conrad Lane, Elem Ed, Emeritus; Tom Lowe, Univ Coll, Emeritus; Kecia McBride, College of Sciences & Humanities; Harold McGrath, David Stout, Todd Terrell, Community Reps; Kaitlin Misbach, Tony Perrin, Samantha Roderick, Student Reps; Chris Shea, ML&C; Jason Sloan, Teachers College; Rodger Smith, Theat & Dance