Schedule of Events
October 20, 2011 (Sponsors: Office of Multicultural Affairs & Spanish Dept)
NOCHE CARÍBENA (CARIBBEAN NIGHT)
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage with the sounds and food of the Latin Caribbean culture. DJ Guasa will offer salsa, merengue, & bachata music! Learn to salsa dance and enjoy food samples from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba. Underground, Mund College Center, 7pm
October 26, 2011 (Sponsors: Office of Multicultural Affairs, Spiritual Life & Freedom Rings and HACC Lebanon)
DOIN’ TIME WITH PETERSON TOSCANO
Spend a wild and wonderful evening with Peterson Toscano and his zany, heartwarming characters. A gay playwright and theatrical performance activist, Peterson has taken his own life experience to create one-person comic plays that explore heterosexism, racism, violence, and gender. Audiences find his work hilarious and deeply insightful. Blair Music Center, Lutz Hall, 7pm
November 11, 2011 (Sponsors: Spiritual Life, Multicultural Affairs, Student Affairs, Gen Ed Fund, Religion & Philosophy)
BHARAT NATYAM: CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE PRESENTATION
Classical dancer and dance instructor Bansari Mandalia will perform several dances in bharat natyam, a classical Indian dance form popularized in Southern India. Unique to this setting will be explanations provided by Mandalia before and after each performance to enrich the audience’s appreciation of recurring postures, hand gestures, motions of the eyes, and other features of the dance. Miller Chapel, 7pm
November 14, 2011 (Sponsor: Office of Multicultural Affairs)
NATIVE NATIONS DANCE THEATER (NNDT) is a vibrant and culturally powerful group that provides wonderfully artistic and educational performances. NNDT is nationally recognized as the people's choice for American Indian programs and performances. The dancers are elaborately dressed in beautiful regalia and explode into a wonderful action filled performance--full of color, dance, music and culture! Miller Chapel, 7pm
January 16, 2012
CELEBRATING OUR HERITAGE: AN EXPRESSION OF THE DREAM
Lebanon Valley College will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an evening of performances from the Imani Edutainers African Dance Troupe and the McCaskey High School Gospel Choir from Lancaster, PA. The evening will also showcase the top three winners of the MLK Day Celebration Essay Contest. Leedy Theater, Mund College Center, 7pm
February 19, 2012
BLACK HISTORY MONTH CHURCH SERVICE (Sponsor: Office of Multicultural Affairs)
In the African American community the church has traditionally provided the vehicle for individual leadership, institution-building and community organization. Join us in honoring this tradition. Meal to follow service. Miller Chapel, 3pm
March 17, 2012
VAGINA MONOLOGUES (Sponsors: F-Word, Freedom Rings & Women’s Services & Gender Resource Ctr)
Lebanon Valley College will present Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, a series of monologues promoting female empowerment. The show has been performed in more than 130 countries and translated into 45 languages. The play has won a series of awards for playwriting, solo performances, and theater. LVC’s production is sponsored by the F-Word. Tickets are free for LVC students; $5 for non-LVC students; and $10 for the general public. Proceeds will go to local and national organizations dedicated to eradicating violence against women. Leedy Theater, Mund College Center, 2pm & 7pm
March 20, 2012 (Sponsors: Office of Multicultural Affairs and Counseling Services)
SITTING IN CIRCLES WITH RICH WHITE GIRLS: MEMOIRS OF A BULIMIC BLACK BOY
Sitting in Circles is the groundbreaking and crushingly honest reclamation story of a fat, gay, bulimic, black boy raised by white parents and struggling to find beauty, acceptance and safe spaces - in a world short on all. With playful humor and sharp observance Sitting in Circles… takes audiences on an intense and insightful journey, along the way unpacking the mother load of competing and conflicting identities. Leedy Theater, Mund College Center, 7pm