The Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University will be transformed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, into a live radio studio very similar to one used by CBS radio station KNX in Hollywood 65 years ago to broadcast the most popular Armed Forces Radio show to GIs during World War II: “Command Performance, USA!”
Some 300 students from the mountains and piedmont of North Carolina will be judged on their theatrical skills as Western Carolina University hosts a western regional competition of the North Carolina Theatre Conference’s High School Play Festival on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7.
A dinosaur discovers the meaning of love in a “glow-in-the-dark” theater experience onstage at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
The Low Tech Ensemble at Western Carolina University will present a concert of gamelan music at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus.
Western Carolina University’s Base Camp Cullowhee and Climbing Team will host the fourth annual Reel Rock Film Tour on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.
As the cold weather advances this autumn and many people think about Halloween costumes and Thanksgiving traditions, folks at Western Carolina University have turned their minds toward the holiday season.
“Pareidolia,” a senior exhibition featuring the work of nine Western Carolina University art students, will open with a reception in the Star Lobby of the Fine and Performing Art Center from 4 until 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22.
A film made by Asheville resident Aaron Putnam for his senior thesis in Western Carolina University’s motion picture and television production program has been selected to screen at an annual international film festival in Spain during the first two weeks of October.
Country music recording artist Matt Stillwell will return to his roots Thursday, Oct. 15, for a hometown Homecoming week concert at Western Carolina University to help his alma mater celebrate a major milestone.
Brad Ulrich, trumpet professor at Western Carolina University, will return to Russia in October to teach and perform and to recruit students for a week of study at WCU this spring.
Winford Gordon, assistant professor of psychology, will present “Listen Carefully in Case Life Happens” at the annual Last Lecture Series event on Friday, Oct. 16.
Western Carolina University’s stage and screen department presents the dark comedy “Manuscript” by Paul Grellong as the 2009-2010 season opens on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The play runs through Sunday, Sept. 27, in Hoey Auditorium on WCU’s campus.
Bob Buckner, director of Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, is one of the first two recipients of the Award for Excellence in Marching Music Education presented by MENC: The National Association for Music Education and Drum Corps International.
Western Carolina University graduate student Tracy Bochnak Kirchmann recently received an honorable mention in the 2009 Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture competition from the International Sculpture Center. The competition featured 441 students from more than 176 college and university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
The mountain rock band Cullowhee, named for the community where its sound was born, will reunite for a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s Last Minute Productions will host a series of free concerts Thursdays this summer on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Community members are invited to visit artists’ studios, preview upcoming exhibits, view demonstrations and create their own works of art during a free, informal open house hosted by the School of Art and Design, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The mountain rock band Cullowhee, named for the community where its sound was born, will reunite for a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s Last Minute Productions will host a series of free concerts Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center. All performances are at 7 p.m. The rain location is Club Illusions, on the third floor of the University Center.
