Laughter will fill Eisenhower Auditorium when Preacher Lawson and Kate Sisk perform their stand-up comedy in a show organized by Penn State students.
Eisenhower Auditorium
Quietly observe and draw the human form in motion during FLIP Fabrique’s pre-performance onstage warm-up. Reservations are required for the fifty-minute session. Enter through the Eisenhower Auditorium stage door at the loading dock. After the sketching session, attendees must exit and re-enter with a ticket to attend the 7:30 p.m. performance.
3 Dots Downtown
137 E. Beaver Ave., State College
Presented by the Center for the Performing Arts and 3 Dots Downtown
Join Amir ElSaffar — trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer — for some hang time and music making one day before his concert at Eisenhower Auditorium. ElSaffar combines Middle Eastern traditions with jazz and other styles of music. Want to play in the jam session? Bring an instrument and join the fun.
3 Dots Downtown
137 E. Beaver Ave., State College
Join Mwenso and The Shakes for a community music jam and reception. The artists will celebrate partnerships fostered in the past three years through their participation in the center’s Fierce Urgency Festival. Anyone who wants to play in the jam session is welcome to bring an instrument and join the fun.
Presented by the Center for the Performing Arts and 3 Dots Downtown.
This engagement is supported in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals ArtsForward program, funded by the Mellon Foundation.
3 Dots Downtown
137 E. Beaver Ave., State College
Musician and educator Michael Mwenso will joyfully guide attendees through the powerful gifts buried within Black roots music and will demonstrate how he actively listens to music—alone and as part of a community.
Through this exploration of recorded music, participants will learn to understand that Black roots music contains the Black experience. It embodies the spirit and memory of a people who weave together traditions of the African diaspora with expressions in the United States, the Americas, and beyond.
Modeled after a program first presented in 1990 by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., A Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will bring together vocal ensembles from Penn State, Centre County high schools, and a historically Black university.
Theater of War Productions presents The Frederick Douglass Project, a live, online reading by an acclaimed actor of speeches by the American social reformer.
Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium
Presented by the Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Penn State University Libraries
Hear a discussion with Shimmy Jiyane, choir master, and Diniloxolo Ndlakuse, musical director, about the Soweto Gospel Choir’s concert tour featuring South African freedom songs and music of the American civil rights movement.
As Roosevelt Sykes first told us, and Ray Charles later amplified, “… The night time is the right time to be with the one you love.”
This virtual screening is a collaboration between Soul Science Lab and the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State. The screening will be followed immediately by a question-and-answer session featuring film creators Chen Lo and Asante Amin.
