Michelle Alexander, a writer, civil rights advocate and professor, best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will present the Atlee and Winifred Beechy Peace, Justice and Reconciliation lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Each year Goshen College honors the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. by holding an all-school study day, emphasizing the values and ideals that characterized King’s work.
The world’s most beloved boys choir, The Vienna Boys Choir, will be returning to Sauder Concert Hall on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. with their program “Christmas in Vienna.”
The Goshen College Theater Department will present John Cariani’s play “Almost, Maine” on Nov. 15, 16 & 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 17 & 24 at 2:30 p.m. in Goshen College’s Umble Center.
Goshen College will again present A Festival of Carols, the annual Christmas music extravaganza and one of the most highly-anticipated concerts of the year, on Dec. 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. The concert will feature performances by the Goshen College Choirs, Goshen College Symphony Orchestra and special guests, interspersed with audience singing and readings.
Back in Goshen by popular demand with new songs from their upcoming album, Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse bring three distinct voices that together make the achingly perfect vocal sound of the Juno award-winning Wailin’ Jennys.
Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire makes their return to Sauder Concert Hall for a Performing Arts Series concert Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. They will perform Ordo Virtutum, or “Play of the Virtues,” a medieval musical drama written by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who is universally revered as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages.
The prolific Preservation Hall Jazz Band will be taking the stage in Sauder Concert Hall on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Performing Arts Series.
Hailed by Spectacle Magazine as “the greatest contribution to the American circus since Cirque du Soleil,” Cirque Mechanics are bringing their awe-inspiring acrobatics to Goshen College on Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
13-time Juno winner and Canadian Music Hall of Famer Bruce Cockburn will take the Umble Center stage at Goshen College for an intimate Performing Arts Series concert on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
