Sunday, October 9
Music – Gretna Music Concert
7:30 p.m.
SFJazz Collective
Location: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

An eight-player SFJazz Collective is a collection of all-stars. Each year, the group focuses on the works of a single jazz or pop master, bringing its inimitable virtuoso gifts to bear in vivid reinterpretations of that master’s greatest works. This season the focus is on the music of cultural icon, Stevie Wonder, with hits such as “Do I Do,” “Look Around” and “Sir Duke” (itself a tribute to Duke Ellington).

Cost: $19 to $39; Elizabethtown faculty and staff members, $5 at door with ID; Elizabethtown students, free admission at door with ID.

Sponsor: Gretna Music
Contact: Carl Kane at 717-361-1508
Open to the public
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Monday, October 10
“To Kill A Mockingbird” (1962) more
7 p.m.
Film – Diversity Film Festival 2011-2012
Location: Gibble Auditorium

Academic Advising hosts a film festival featuring classic motion pictures about diversity. The film includes discussion by Dr. John Teske, professor of Psychology and Dr. Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of Political Science, and director of the Pre-Law program …more

Sponsor: Academic Advising
Contact: Jean-Paul Benowitz, assistant director of Academic Advising, at 717-361-1110 or benowitzj@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Tuesday, October 11
“Smoke and Mirrors: Translating the Uncanny Imaginings of Franz Kafka”
Smoke and Mirrors 7 p.m., with reception following
Lecture — Inaugural Scholarship Series – An Evening with Mark Harman
Location: Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

As part of the celebration of the new College president, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President sponsors a two-year series of lectures by distinguished full professors who are actively engaged in scholarship.

Sponsor: Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President
Contact: Nancy Kaufhold at kaufholdn@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Wednesday, October 12
“Symposium on Books: The Significance of Books Past, Present, Future”
11 a.m. to noon
Lecture
National Arts and Humanities Month Presentation
Location: Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Dr. Susan Traverso, provost and vice president, chairs a faculty panel with Dr. David Brown, professor of History; Dr. John Rohrkemper, associate professor of English; Dr. Suzanne Webster, associate professor of English; BethAnn Zambella, director of the High Library; and Diane Elliott, assistant professor of Social Work and director of Diversity. They will discuss the significance of books in history, the present age and into the future. What has been the impact of books on civilization? What is the relevance of books in modern society? What will be the fate of books in future culture?

Sponsor: Academic Advising
Contact: Jean-Paul Benowitz, assistant director of Academic Advising, at 717-361-1110 or benowitzj@etown.edu
Open to the public
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“Meaningful Life Work, Careers and the Liberal Arts”
Oct 12, 6:30 to 8 p.m., with reception following
National Arts and Humanities Month Presentation
Location: Hoover 212

“Meaningful Life Work, Careers and the Liberal Arts” is a panel presentation featuring people in the campus and local community who are engaged in the meaningful life work and hold careers in the arts and humanities. If you are a student considering a major/minor in the liberal arts disciplines or contemplating internships, graduate school or career paths in the arts and humanities, come and learn from a panel of artists, authors, editors, publishers, musicians, gallery/museum curators, administrators, political lobbyists for the arts and many more who will examine meaningful life work in the arts and humanities. A reception follows the presentation/discussion.

Sponsor: Career Services
Contact: Jane Nini, director of Career Services, 717-361-1349 or ninij@etown.edu or Jean-Paul Benowitz, assistant director of Academic Advising, at 717-361-1110 or benowitzj@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Musical and Poetic Performance — Sarah Daughtery and Justin Badgerow with Jesse Waters more
Oct 12, bowers writers house event 7 p.m.
“Sons de Brasil: The Music and Poetry of Brazil”
Location: Bowers Writers House

Since April 22, 1500, when the first Portuguese explorers landed in Brazil, that amazing country has been a dynamic mix of cultures, peoples and arts. And as poetry and music have long shared common traits, an exploration of Brazilian music and poetry – together – is as natural as mangoes in the Amazon. more

Cost: free
First-come first-served; arrive at least a half hour before the event to get a seat.
Sponsor: Bowers Writers House and the English Dept.’s Guest Poets Series
Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945
Open to the public
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Friday, October 14
Family Weekend Event — Dessert Social
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Location: the KĀV

Bring the family and meet your Elizabethtown student at this Family Weekend tradition. Gourmet desserts complemented with flavored coffee, tea and punch.

Sponsor: Office of Student Activities
Contact: OSA at 717-361-1273 or osa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Saturday, October 15
Family Weekend Event — Family Entertainment Zone
Noon to 4 p.m.
Family Weekend Event — Family Entertainment Zone
Location: the KĀV

Activities including inflatable Skee-Ball, cow milking and photo telescopes. Cost: free.

Sponsor: Office of Student Activities
Contact: OSA at 717-361-1273 or osa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Music — Homecoming Concert
Oct 15, 2:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Location: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

The Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents a concert of choral and instrumental music in celebration of Homecoming. Dr. Matthew Fritz leads the choirs in works both ancient and modern. Alumni are invited to use the concert to reconnect with musical friends. Cost: free.

Sponsor: The Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 361-1212 and reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Sunday, October 16
Comedy and magic of Justin Kredible
1 to 2 p.m.
Comedy and magic of Justin Kredible
Location: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Cost: adults, $8; children 12 years and younger, $5. Tickets go on sale Monday, Sept. 19, at www.etowncollegeonline.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door for $10 for adults; $7 for children. Students can pick up their free ticket at the Student Activities Hub.

Justin Kredible (aka Justin Willman) www.JUSTINKREDIBLE.com is the host of the hit show Cupcake Wars on the Food Network and HubWorld on the Hub Network. His dynamic mix of comedy and magic has quickly established him as one of America’s hottest entertainers. He’s appeared on Disney’s The Suite Life on Deck and the hit CBS show The Defenders, as well as The View, Chelsea Lately and Rachel Ray. USA Today said it best when it called Justin, “Like a magician, but cooler.”

Sponsor: Office of Student Activities
Contact: OSA at 717-361-1273 or osa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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BA Music Club Concert — “Night on Broadway”
Oct 16, 3 p.m.
Music — BA Music Club Concert
“Night on Broadway”
Location: Zug Recital Hall

The BA Music Club stages a lighthearted selection of recent Broadway tunes. Cost: free.

Sponsor: Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Monday, October 17
BA Music Club Concert — “Night on Broadway”
3 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Music — BA Music Club Concert
“Night on Broadway”
Location: Zug Recital Hall

The BA Music Club stages a lighthearted selection of recent Broadway.
Sponsor: Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Oct 17, 7 p.m.
Film Screening
“Open Book, Open Film: Deadly Deception”
Location: Gibble Auditorium, Esbenshade Hall

Four-hundred African-American men told they were being treated for syphilis, but actually were part of the notorious Tuskegee study that provided worthless medicine and denied them treatment. This well-documented, dramatic program is an indictment of the Public Health Service, which allowed the study to continue for 40 years, even after penicillin became available and it became clear that syphilis was the same disease in blacks and whites. This is the first of four films that will be presented to explore themes in the Open Book Common Read selection, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Sponsor: Open Book Common Read Initiative
Contact: Louise Hyder-Darlington at 717-361-1454 or hyderl@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Music — BA Music Club Concert
Oct 17, 7:30 p.m.
Music — BA Music Club Concert
“Night on Broadway”
Location: Zug Recital Hall

The BA Music Club stages a lighthearted selection of recent Broadway. Cost: free

Sponsor: Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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The English Concert
Oct 17, 7:30 p.m.
Music – Gretna Music Concert
The English Concert
Location: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Cost: $18 to $30; Elizabethtown faculty and staff members, $5 at door with ID; Elizabethtown students, free admission at door with ID.

Since its founding by Trevor Pinnock in 1972, the English Concert has been at the forefront of authentic Baroque performance practice. The group’s Gretna Music debut features highlights from Purcell’s “Restoration Spectacular,” The Fairy-Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Sponsor: Gretna Music
Contact: Carl Kane at 717-361-1508
Open to the public
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Tuesday, October 18
“An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the Holmes County, Ohio, Amish Settlement”
7:30 pm
Cost: FREE
Dale Brown Book Award Lecture
“An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the Holmes County, Ohio, Amish Settlement”
Location: Bucher Meetinghouse

Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell, winners of the 2011 Dale Brown Book Award, discuss the Amish in Ohio, the subject of their award winning book, An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community.

Sponsor: Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Contact: Steve Scott at 717-361-1470 or scottse@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Reading – Mark Doty, poet more
bowers writers house event Oct 18, 8 p.m.
Reading – Mark Doty poet
Location: Bowers Writers House

Poet Mark Doty will read from his own work. Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems …more

Cost: free.
First-come first-served; arrive at least a half hour before the event to get a seat.
Sponsor: Bowers Writers House and Office of the Dean
Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945
Open to the public
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Wednesday, October 19
Mark Doty, poet more
bowers writers house event 11 a.m.
Public Presentation — Mark Doty, poet
“Becoming Yourself: What It Costs Us, and How it Matters”
Location: Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

In 21st-century America, it can be tough to define who we really are – as persons and as a people. Poet and essayist Mark Doty will define this …more

Cost: free.
First-come first-served; arrive at least a half hour before the event to get a seat.
Sponsor: Bowers Writers House and Office of the Dean
Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945
Open to the public
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Film – “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women”
7 .m.
Film screening
Location: Brinser Lecture Room in Steinman Hall

This documentary, by Harriet Reisen and Nancy Porter, was broadcast on the PBS series “American Masters.” Ms. Reisen herself will speak at the Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center of Elizabethtown College 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10.

Sponsor: Elizabethtown Public Library and Department of English and funded by an American Library Association/NEH grant awarded to Elizabethtown Public Library, with assistance from Elizabethtown College
Contact: Kimberly Adams, associate professor of English, 717-361-1230 or adamsk@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Monday, October 24
Faculty Wind Quintet
7:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Music — Monday Series Concert – Faculty Wind Quintet
Location: Zug Recital Hall

The Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents a recital featuring Paula Nelson, flute; Jill Marchione, oboe; Faith Shiffer, clarinet; Gail Ober, bassoon; and Cheryl Staherski, horn. The group will present works by Debussy, Klughardt and Ewazen, along with the premiere of “Avalon Suite” by Elizabethtown College Professor of Music Dr. James L. Haines.

Sponsor: Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Thursday, October 27, through Saturday, October 29
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”

8 p.m.
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”
Location: Tempest Theatre
Cost: $6; call 717-361-1170 or email boxoffice@etown.edu.

“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,” a darkly comic modern classic by Tom Stoppard, tells the story of “Hamlet” from the perspective of the Tragic Dane’s sidekicks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Equal parts early film comedy, existential farce and classic tragedy, the play traces the journey of these two characters, as they struggle to avoid the inevitability of the Bard’s tragic conclusion.

Sponsor: Elizabethtown College Theatre
Contact: Michael Swanson at swansonm@etown.edu or 717-361-1160
Open to the public
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Thursday, October 27
Workshop/Craft Talk — David Clewell, poet more
bowers writers house event 4 p.m.
Workshop/Craft Talk — David Clewell, poet
Location: Bowers Writers House

For the past 30 years, David Clewell has contributed to the definition of modern American poetics. He’ll lead a craft talk concerning those poetics, and what makes a poem distinctly American …more.

Sponsor: Bowers Writers House and the English Dept.’s Guest Poets Series
Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945
Open to the public
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“Civil War-Era Anabaptists and the Modern Nation-State”
7:30 pm
Location: Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Stephen Longenecker, professor of History at Bridgewater College, lectures on the interactions of Anabaptist groups with growing central government powers during the Civil War era.

Sponsor: Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Contact person: Steve Scott at 717-361-1470 or scottse@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Friday, October 28
Reading — David Clewell, poet more
bowers writers house event 8 p.m.
Reading
David Clewell, poet
Location: Bowers Writers House

Poet David Clewell will read from his own works. For the past thirty years, David Clewell has contributed to the definition of modern American poetics. …more

Sponsor: Bowers Writers House and the English Dept.’s Guest Poets Series
Contact: Jesse Waters at writershouse@etown.edu or 717-689-3945
Open to the public
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Saturday, October 29
“Alcott’s Pen, Prose, Men and Martyrs: Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War Saga” more
10 a.m.
Lecture – American Library Association/National Endowment for the Humanities Grant/Program
“Alcott’s Pen, Prose, Men and Martyrs: Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War Saga”
Location: Elizabethtown Public Library Auditorium, lower level

Jean-Paul Benowitz, assistant director of Academic Advising and adjunct professor of History, talks about Louisa May Alcott’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction, literature that was largely influenced …more

Sponsor: Elizabethtown Public Library and English Department
Contact: Kimberly Adams, associate professor of English, 717-361-1230 or adamsk@etown.edu
Open to the public
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Monday, October 31
Music — Student Solo Recital
7:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Music — Student Solo Recital
Location: Zug Recital Hall

A select group of students from the Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts perform solo works for voice, piano, wind and string instruments. The concert is an opportunity to hear the finest student musicians Elizabethtown College has to offer.

Sponsor: Fine and Performing Arts
Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu
Open to the public