Concerts & Lectures

AIDS Memorial Quilt featuring Cleve Jones

• AIDS Memorial Quilt
  Sept. 9-11, 2009 Theatre in Brooks
  
  Cleve Jones
  Sept. 10, 2009 @ 7:30pm - Theatre in Brooks

Cleve Jones has been at the front lines of the global struggle against HIV for over 25 years. One of the first gay community activists to recognize and respond to the threat of AIDS, Cleve founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt and helped found the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983. He has remained a passionate and articulate spokesperson for people living with AIDS and a leader in the worldwide campaign to stop the epidemic.

A dynamic and inspiring public speaker, Cleve travels extensively throughout the United States and around the world, lecturing at high schools, colleges, and universities. Most recently, Cleve served as a historical consultant to Gus Van Sant's November 2008 film "MILK." The film stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones. 

John "Bucky" Pizzarelli
Oct. 15, 2009 @ 7pm - Evans Hall 

John "Bucky" Pizzarelli is an internationally renowned man of music. His instrument of choice is the guitar and his style is jazz. For more than half a century, "Bucky," as he is affectionately known, has been a part of the fraternity of musicians who have kept mainstream and traditional jazz alive.

The list of big bands and vocalists with whom Bucky has performed
and recorded reads like a veritable who's who of jazz. He joined Vaughn Monroe's band while still in high school and later played with studio bands at the major networks. There he distinguished himself as one of the best rhythm guitarists in the business. He has also jammed with and accompanied the best in the pop and jazz world, including George Barnes, Stephane Grappelli, Slam Stewart, Zoot Sims and Flip Phillips. Dedicated to swing and American popular song, Bucky is one of the most sought after guitarists in the music business and continues to enchant audiences worldwide.

Make a REVolution with Training Wheels
Featuring Michelle Cummings
Oct. 22, 2009 @ 12:30-2pm - Theatre in Brooks

Cycle beyond the ordinary during this highly interactive, engaging session with Michelle Cummings, founder of Training Wheels, a Denver-based team development company. Challenge your brain, as well as your laugh meter, while participating in a number of unique experiential activities that break down interpersonal barriers, enhance communication skills, and explore issues of consensus building, diversity, and trust.

Michelle speaks at more than 25 conferences each year and writes a monthly newsletter with over 10,000 subscribers in more than 60 countries. She has authored a number of books for the experiential learning field, including A Teachable Moment and Playing with a Full Deck. Her next publication, Setting the Conflict Compass, is scheduled for release later this year. Michelle has also created a wide variety of facilitation, debriefing, and teambuilding activities, and she is currently partnering with Stephen M.R. Covey to develop experiential initiatives for Mr. Covey's most recent book, The Speed of Trust. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in experiential education and in 2008, was featured in Training Treasures magazine's "100 Hot Tips from the Industry's Top Ten Creative Trainers."

November 22, 2009 @ 7pm - Evans Hall

March 28, 2010 @ 7pm - Evans Hall

Marko Marcinko, founder of the Pennsylvania Jazz Alliance, is a driving force in the establishment of jazz culture in Notheastern
Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. His work and love of music has made events such as The Scranton Jazz Festival possible, and has instilled an awareness and appreciation for jazz in people of all ages in our community.

A University of Miami graduate, he has performed with jazz greats Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Red Rodney, and Paquito D'Rivera. Marcinko is currently an adjunct professor of music studies at Penn State University. 

One Man Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Performance
Featuring Jim Lucas
January 26, 2010 @ 7:30pm - Evans Hall

Jim Lucas has received acclaim across the nation for his stirring and dramatic recitations and interpretive readings depicting the life and times of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jim attended the 20th anniversary of the March on Washington and during that march he received the inspiration to learn and later recite Dr. King's speeches. Since then, Jim has traveled nationwide delivering various renditions of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream," "I've Been to the Mountaintop," excerpts from "The Drum Major Instinct," "The Letter From Birmingham Jail" and other works in a dramatic one-man show.

Lee Feigon
Feb. 23, 2010 @ 12:30-1:30pm - Evans Hall

Lee Feigon is the writer, director, and producer of the madcap revisionist documentary, The Passion of the Mao. He also serves as a research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago and has been an adjunct professor at North-western University's Kellogg School of Management. He previously served as a professor of history and chair of East Asian studies at Colby College.

Feigon has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Baron's, Nation, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and the Boston Globe. He has been interviewed on television shows such as MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, MSNBC's Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News.

He is the author of Mao: A Reinterpretation, the work on which the documentary is based, as well as of the acclaimed Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows, and China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen, a highly praised book that combines a historical perspective of the Tiananmen movement with a first-hand view of the events leading up to the crisis.