TICKETS:The Center for the Arts Box Office opens for the Fall 2011 semester on Tuesday, August 30.

Admission to all programs is free unless otherwise noted. Please refer to the cultural calendar entries for admission price and dates that tickets will be available. Tickets for Black Box events are available one week prior to the first performance by calling the Black Box reservation line. Patrons with Elon University identification will receive tickets free of charge. Tickets are nonrefundable unless the program is canceled.

Seats will be held 15 minutes before the performance, and patrons are encouraged to be seated before the program starts. Except where so indicated, all tickets are for general admission.

Box Office hours:

Monday-Friday, 12:30 – 5 p.m.

Box Office phone: (336) 278-5610

Black Box reservations:

(336) 278-5650 (24-hour service)

Isabella Cannon Room gallery hours: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday and Thursday

For additional information regarding specific programs or detailed directions to the Elon campus, please visit www.elon.edu/e-net/cultural

parking: Limited special event parking is available in The Oaks complex parking lot on Williamson Avenue across from Koury Athletic Center and the Center for the Arts. Additional parking is available in the Moseley and McMichael lots off North O’Kelly Avenue.

parking: Limited special event parking is available in The Oaks complex parking lot on Williamson Avenue across from Koury Center and the Center for the Arts. Additional parking is available in the Moseley and McMichael lots off North O’Kelly Avenue.

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Tuesday−Wednesday, September 6 & 7The Second City

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Koury Business Center:LaRose Digital Theatre

Friday−Saturday, September 23 & 24CollageDirected by April HillYeager Recital Hall, Friday, 7 and 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, 6 and 7:15 p.m.The Department of Performing Arts presents an exciting program of song and dance from the Broadway stage. Admission by ticket only: $10 or Elon ID. A very limited number of tickets for all performances will be available at 12:30 p.m. on September 23 at the Center for the Arts Box Office.

Friday, September 23Department of Music Faculty GalaWhitley Auditorium, 8:30 p.m.Faculty artists invite Elon families and friends to a mixed program for voice, piano, organ, percussion, wind and brass.

Sunday, September 25Dance in the Landscape ConcertArtistic Direction by Jason AryehLindner Hall Pavilion, 2 p.m.Enjoy the Carolina blue sky, the beautiful Elon campus and exquisite dancing by the Elon Dance Company.

Tuesday, September 27Sigrid Danielson, “Hands and Temperaments: Art History and the Early Medieval Artist”Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.Is it possible to discuss early medieval artistic identity? Danielson explores the ways scholars have worked to attribute early medieval objects with their makers and centers of production. During the first decades of the 20th century, art historians regularly employed the themes of nationalism and authenticity to characterize those relationships. Far more than exercises in connoisseurship, these elaborate schemas often replaced the absent biography with narratives that served a variety of regional interests.

Thursday, September 15Omri Shimron, pianoWhitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.Written by American composer Frederic Rzewski, The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a set of 36 variations on a Chilean protest song. A politically charged work, this pianistic tour-de-force captures many of the 20th century’s musical idioms, genres and styles. Shimron will introduce the work to provide an overview of its structure and genesis.

Thursday, September 15David Ogden, “The Intersection of Law and Politics”Isabella Cannon Room, 7:30 p.m.Ogden, a former English major at Penn, speaks about his experiences in the legal world. Ogden served as President Barack Obama’s deputy attorney general and was head of the Obama transition team at the U.S. Department of Justice. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and currently works in private practice at a legal firm in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, September 21Cindy Van Dover, “Gold Rush: Discovery of Gold Deposits in the Deep Sea and the Extraordinary Animals that Live on Them”McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.As one of the original explorers of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Van Dover’s research focuses on the complex ecosystems that thrive in the absence of sunlight.  Hydrothermal vents are the sites of accumulated sulfide deposits that contain precious metals that are increasingly mined. Van Dover cautions that the practice can disrupt vent ecosystems similar to the damage done by terrestrial mining.

Friday, September 23Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make ItMcCrary Theatre, 4:30 p.m.The Emmy Award-winning artist, philanthropist and author will lead a musical performance that incorporates multimedia and personal stories and has inspired audiences across the nation. The son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett explains that no matter what your last name, you become who you are by the decisions you make and the actions you take.

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Thursday, September 1Phoenix Piano TrioWhitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.Faculty members Dan Skidmore, violin, Meaghan Skogen, cello, and Victoria Fischer Faw, piano, perform a recital of chamber works for strings and piano.

Sunday, September 4Tim Baker, organ Whitley Auditorium, 3 p.m.Baker is director of  music ministries at University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.  Originally from New York City, he is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, where he studied organ with  Donald McDonald, and he specializes in the performance of French music.

Monday, September 5The Plastic Box, opening receptionIsabella Cannon Room, 5:30 p.m.A national juried exhibition explores the proliferation of toy cameras, pinhole camera kits, how-to manuals for alternative photographic processes and the non-digital point of view of artists bucking 21st century trends. Exhibition continues through November 16.

Tuesday−Wednesday, September 6 & 7The Second City McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.The premier improvisation company returns to Elon with its unbridled social and political satire. Ripped from the stages of the legendary Chicago and Toronto theatres are two new shows: The FAFSA and the Furious (Tuesday) and the LOL Tour (Wednesday). Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available August 30.

Thursday, September 8A 9/11 DiscussionWhitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.It has become a cliché to say that the events of September 11, 2001, changed the world, yet the full impact of those events on individuals and societies alike has not been fully explored. A panel of experts from a variety of fields−economics, psychology, sociology−will describe how the terrorist acts of that unforgettable day transformed lives and political institutions alike.

Monday, September 12Indrani Nayar-Gall, opening receptionArts West Gallery, 12:30 p.m.Artist talk: Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 p.m.Nayar-Gall examines the displacement and loss integral to the trauma of migration. Oftentimes, the experience leaves one in a minority, different and faced with uncertainty in an unfamiliar landscape. The exhibition encompasses works on paper, hybrid forms, installations, multimedia collaborations, public interactive and intervention projects and continues through September 27.

Tuesday, September 27Golden Dragon AcrobatsMcCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.World renowned impresario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Chang combine sensational dance and acrobatics with spectacular costumes, traditional music and contemporary theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty. Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available September 6.

Thursday, September 29Sonia Nazario, “Enrique’s Journey”McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.In the Pulitzer Prize-winning series for the Los Angeles Times and subsequent book, Nazario traces a young Honduran boy’s odyssey from Central America to reunite with his mother in North Carolina.

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Monday, October 3John Douglas Powers, opening receptionArts West, 12:30 p.m.Artist talk: Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 p.m.Powers’ exhibition includes a series of new kinetic sculptures, part of a continued exploration of the interaction between motion, sound and physical space. Recipient of a Southeastern College Art Conference Individual Artist Fellowship, his sculptures, installations, animation and video work have been exhibited worldwide. Exhibition continues through November 2.

Tuesday, October 4

Dorianne Laux, guest readingYeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.Author of five books of poetry and two-time finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award, Laux is a faculty member of N.C. State’s MFA in Creative Writing. The poet Tony Hoagland has said, “Her poems are those of a grown American woman, one who looks clearly, passionately and affectionately at rites of passage, motherhood, the life of work, sisterhood, and especially sexual love, in a celebratory fashion.”

Wednesday−Tuesday, October 5-11Department of Performing Arts presents Getting Out by Marsha NormanDirected by Richard GangBlack Box Theatre, Wednesday−Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; Monday−Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.In her first play, Marsha Norman focuses on characters Arlie and Arlene, two versions of the same individual. Arlie is a young and unrepentant criminal while Arlene is the more mature, rehabilitated woman who struggles to put her youth behind her. Throughout the story, both are confronted by the characters and experiences that accompany them to the present. The play, like life, offers no simple answers but compassionately conveys a heart wrenching battle against incredible odds. Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Reservations are highly recommended and will be taken beginning September 28 by calling (336) 278-5650. Note: Contains mature language and subject matter−viewer discretion is advised.

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