| Friday, April 4
Friday Forum/Nussbaum Lecture
Rev. Bob Tabscott
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex,
Room 215
This commemorative lecture series is dedicated to the men and women who stood their ground against racial bigotry and religious prejudice in the South during the Civil Rights Era. It was established in honor of Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, whose courage and vision epitomize the continuing vigil for freedom and justice.
Free
Contact Lynn Raley, 601-974-1423 or raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Friday, April 4
The 14th Annual MultiCultural Festival
11:00 a.m.
The Millsaps College Bowl – (rain-site is inside College Center & Leggett)
Fun, Fashion, Food, Music and Friends make up the Festival to highlight the cultural value in everyone. That is what diversity is all about – and this year’s theme proclaims - that Millsaps College will “Step Up To Diversity” and make a recommitment for the diversity of our community and the community at large. Our goal is simple: To communicate, learn from and positively connect with others within our community who may or who may not be different from ourselves. The joy of festival!
Free
Contact Sherryl Wilburn, 601-974-1208 or wilbuse@millsaps.edu
Monday, April 7
"Innocent People: Understanding Wrongful Imprisonment"
7 p.m.
Leggett Center
Advocates for exonerees, those citizens wrongfully imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, host a community forum to raise awareness of the issue. Speakers at the forum include Tucker Carrington, director of the new Mississippi Innocence Project in Oxford; Emily Maw, director of the New Orleans Innocence Project; Nsombi Lambright, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi; and Cedric Willis, a local exoneree released from prison in 2006 after being falsely imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for 12 years. The forum will also include a visual media presentation and a Q&A session with the speakers. Sponsors of "Innocent People" include the Mississippi Innocence Project, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Mississippi Association for Justice, the Millsaps College Minister for Missions, and the Jackson Free Press.
Free
Contact Chris Spear, 985-788-1306 or christopher.spear@gmail.com; National Innocence Project news and information
Monday, April 7
Departmental Recital
3 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Monday, April 7
Senior Art Show
4:30 p.m.
Millsaps College Lewis Art Gallery
Katie Carmon, Kalea Hardwick, and Jonathan Webb - three senior art students - will be featured and present their work in an art show.
Free
Tuesday, April 8
Senior Recital: William King, tenor
7:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
For details call the Performing Arts office 601-974-1422
Monday, April 7 - Thursday, April 17
First Senior Studio Art Exhibition
Senior Gallery Talks by Kathleen Carmon, Kalea Hardwick and Jonathan Webb will be held Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m.
Lewis Art Gallery
Free
Wednesday, April 9
In Black and White: Eudora Welty's Photography
A Presentation by Professor Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University
12:00 p.m.
Murrah, Room 200
This talk considers Welty's photographic representations of African American women in the context of their history in photography. The comparison suggests how Welty's images are of her time and yet also innovative, presenting us with some new ways to see.
Free
Contact Dr. Suzanne Marrs, marrss@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, April 9
Staged Reading of Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O."
A Reader's Theatre
3 p.m.
Academic Complex, Room 215
The reading is in celebration of Ms. Welty's birthday, April 13. Please join us for birthday refreshments at the Welty House, 1119 Pinehurst Street, following the reading. For a free tour of Ms. Welty's home following the reading, be among the first 25 people to RSVP! (Please include your name and contact information in the email.)
Free
Contact Hillary Hamblin, hamblha@millsaps.edu
Friday, April 11
Friday Forum
Understanding the Civil War and Indian Wars as One War
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex,
Room 215
Jeff Kolnick, associate professor of history at Southwest Minnesota State University, presents this Friday Forum. Few events in U.S. history generate as much interest and as much mythology as do the Civil War and Indian wars. This presentation will bring these two historical problems together by looking at how they influenced one another in an interactive examination of significant primary documents.
Free
Contact Lynn Raley, 601-974-1423 or raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Sunday, April 13
Senior Recital: Jacqueline Coale, soprano
3:00 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
For details call the Performing Arts office 601-974-1422
Monday, April 14
Southern Circuit Film Series
Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil by Cathy Crane
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Following the 1940 German occupation of Paris, Simone Weil is forced to leave for the “unoccupied zone” of southern France. Under Vichy, she is denied the right to teach. For two years, she waits, she says, for God. The film stages the “theatre” of her thought through a mise-en-scene whose rear screen projections of live-feed video and archival newsreels antagonize the spectacle of biographical reconstruction being played out before it.
Short Circuit Opening Short: Theodore by Jorge Moran. Theodore knows loneliness, but the challenge of his life is knowing love.
Free
Contact Austin Wilson, 601-974-1305 or wilsola@millsaps.edu
Thursday, April 17
Else Forum - "A Discussion of Universal Health Care"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, Associate Professor Medicine and co-Director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program, Harvard University
7:45 a.m. - Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Program
Leggett Center - Campbell Student Center
Following Dr. Woolhandler’s remarks, there will a panel discussion on the topic featuring Dr. Dan Jones, vice-chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center; Kurt Metzner, President and CEO of Mississippi Health Systems; and Andy Taggart, legal and strategic counsel, and former chief of staff for Governor Kirk Fordice.
$15, Open to the public
Reservations are recommended, 601-974-1250
Thursday, April 17
Faculty/Guest Recital
Jimmy Turner, guitar, and Ronda Benson Ford, flute
7:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music for guitar and flute
Free
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Thursday-Sunday, April 17-20
Millsaps Players Production
The Music Man
7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Christian Center Auditorium
An affectionate homage to Smalltown, USA, of a bygone era, Meredith Willson’s musical follows the fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys band he vows to organize—this despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marion the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall. By turns wickedly funny, romantic and touching, The Music Man is family entertainment at its best.
$10 general admission, $8 seniors and students
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Friday, April 18
Friday Forum
Coach Mike DuBose
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex,
Room 215
Mike DuBose is known for his uncanny ability to motivate athletes to reach the peak of their abilities. He has also gained a wide reputation as an inspirational speaker.
Free
Contact Lynn Raley, 601-974-1423 or raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Monday, April 21 – Sunday, May 11
Second Senior Studio Art Exhibition
Senior Gallery Talks by Michelle Allen, Alyce Howe, Mathew Puckett and Petra Vackova will be held Monday, April 21, at 4:30 p.m.
Lewis Art Gallery
Free
Tuesday, April 22
Senior Recital: Brenna Spell, soprano
7:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
For details call the Performing Arts office: 601-974-1422
Thursday, April 24
Friday Forum
Living in America, Remembering Sudan: Interviews and Conversations
12:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Featuring excerpts from videos created by Millsaps students in collaboration with Sudanese refugees.
Free
Contact Lynn Raley, 601-974-1423 or raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Friday, April 25
Millsaps Singers Concert
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
7:30 p.m. -
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
In their final concert of the season, Millsaps College’s 70-voice stage choir spins the charms and blows of fate’s whirling wheel of fortune in Carl Orff’s wildly popular secular cantata Carmina Burana. The Millsaps Singers are joined by youth choruses from St. Francis of Assisi and Mississippi Talent Education in their performance of this exciting and rhythmic choral work with accompaniment by two pianos, timpani and percussion.
Free admission ($5 donations accepted at the door)
Contact Linda Nix, 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Saturday, April 26
Senior Recital: Walton Lott, piano
7:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission
For details call the Performing Arts office 601-974-1422
Saturday, April 26
Student Performance: Rhapsody: Arias & Scenes from Opera & Musical Theater
3:30 p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Voice students of Dr. Cheryl Coker and Mr. James Martin present the music of Mozart, Massenet, Menotti, Bernstein, Lalo, Weill and Sondheim with selections from The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Werther, Le Roi d’Ys, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Street Scene, The Telephone and Sweeney Todd.
Free admission
For details call the Performing Arts office 601-974-1422
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