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Good Morning. the Week Ahead Includes a Listing of Events and Activities Scheduled Across PASSHE to Which the Public Is Invited Good morning. The Week Ahead includes a listing of events and activities scheduled across PASSHE to which the public is invited. The listing is distributed every Monday during the academic year. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown University’s Music Department will host a performance of the complete Brahms sonatas for violin and piano, performed by Dr. Maria Asteriadou and Kurt Nikkanen, at 7:30 p.m., today, in Schaefer Auditorium room 100. This event is free. Kutztown University will welcome cross-cultural communication speaker Dr. Michael Oleska to campus from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., tomorrow, in Beekey Education building room 218. Originally from Allentown, Oleska has spent the last 30 years in Alaska, where he is recognized as an elder by the Alaska Federation of Natives. Oleska will speak about how culture influences the way we understand each other. The first presentation, which explores the meaning of culture, is from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The second presentation, on one-on-one communication and how people of different cultures miscommunicate, is from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Kutztown University’s Music Department will host a performance by the Percussion Ensemble, at 7:30 p.m., tomorrow, in Schaefer Auditorium. This event is free. Diversity educator Jessica Pettitt will speak at 3 p.m., Wednesday, in McFarland Student Union room 183. Pettitt’s presentation, Social Justice: When Diversity Isn’t Enough, is an interactive program that gives participants the tools they need to inspire change, dismantle oppression and recognize privilege. Kutztown University’s Music Department will host a piano master class, from 8 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, in Old Main room 163, the Georgian room. Kutztown University will hosts\ Love Your Body Day, a daylong event offering information tables, chocolate, yoga and more, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, in McFarland Student Union room 218. KU alumna, award-winning international storyteller and TED Talks talent search finalist Kristen Pedemonti will give the keynote speech at 3 p.m. The Love Your Body campaign, sponsored by the National Organization for Women, aims to speak out against harmful and disrespectful advertisements and images of women, and to encourage media images of women and girls that are diverse and realistic, promoting health and self-esteem. Kutztown University’s Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery will host an opening reception for the art exhibition “Modern Markers: 21st Century Craft in Berks and Lehigh Counties,” from 4 to 6 p.m., Thursday, in the Sharadin Arts Building. This event is free. Mansfield University of Pennsylvania The Young Men’s Choral Festival (YMCF), hosted by the Mansfield University student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), will be held on Friday. The festival will feature two concerts in Steadman Theatre, The Young Men’s Choir at 4 p.m. and ’Round Midnight, an award winning a capella quartet, at 7 p.m. Both are free. “The Conjuring” will be the weekly film series presentation at Mansfield University’s Straughn Hall at 8 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m.; 3 and 8 p.m., Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday. Admission is $1. MU students with ID are free. Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville University’s Biology Colloquium will present the lecture "Blood, Brains and Behavior: Individual Differences in a Wild European Songbird and the Role of Stress and Sex Steroid Hormones," presented by Dr. Alex Baugh, assistant biology professor at Swarthmore College, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, in Caputo Hall. Millersville University’s Cultural Affairs Committee will present a Grace Kelly quintet at 7 p.m., Wednesday, in the Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center. The quintet will perform musical numbers by Grace Kelly, an Asian-American jazz saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. Jazz at the 'Ville will feature the Millersville University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band performing a variety of selections including swing era favorites, jazz standards and works by contemporary jazz composers at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in the Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center. On Friday, OperaLancaster will present the ghoulish Opera Macabre, an opera cabaret which will feature ghosts, witches, magic, madness and zombies, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, and 2 p.m., Sunday, at the Ware Center, Millersville University Lancaster. Chelsea Snow from Millersville University will perform vocal selections in her senior recital at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, in the Winter Visual and Performance Center. Senior Elina Sergeyev will perform her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Shippensburg University will host “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze” at 7 p.m., Thursday, in Memorial Auditorium. The play is free, but reservations are requested. The event is sponsored by STEM-UP PA, the National Science Foundation and the university’s Women’s Center, Office of Social Equity and Department of Mathematics. STEM-UP PA is a program that does research to address gender equity among science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty at higher education teaching institutions in Central Pennsylvania. For reservations, visit stemuppa.eventbrite.com. Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock University’s Art Departments will host the 2013 Regional High School Art Exhibition today through Thursday in the Martha Gault Art Gallery in Maltby Center. A closing reception will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday. Prior to the reception, SRU art faculty will conduct a campus Art Walk at 4 p.m. Slippery Rock University will host its annual Healthfest offering free health screenings and information from regional health organizations for 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., tomorrow, in the Aebersold Student Recreation Center. Slippery Rock University’s annual Empty Bows Project will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and 4 to 7 p.m., tomorrow, in the Smith Student Center. The event, which includes a meager meal of soup and bread, is designed to increase awareness of local, statewide and world hunger issues. Volunteers hand-painted more than 500 ceramic bowls for the event. Participants take home the bowl to remind them of hunger issues. Slippery Rock University will celebrate homecoming week today through Sunday, including a pep rally at 7 p.m., Friday, in the Aebersold Student Recreation Center and the homecoming parade through downtown at 10 a.m., Saturday followed by the SRU women’s soccer game against Mansfield at 1 p.m. in Egli Field and the SRU vs. Clarion football game at 2 p.m. in Mihalik-Thompson Stadium. Fiber artist Akiko Kotani, Slippery Rock University professor emeritus of art and the 2013 Pittsburgh Artist of the Year, will lecture on her art at 12:30 p.m., tomorrow, in SRU’s Art Building. Slippery Rock University’s soccer program will host its Ring of Honor Banquet at 7 p.m., Friday, in the Smith Student Center Ballroom. Seven men and women soccer alumni will be inducted. The 20th anniversary of the women’s soccer program will be celebrated with activities through the day. A banquet is planned for 6 p.m. in the Smith Student Center Theater. West Chester University of Pennsylvania The 113th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper exhibit featuring works from The Philadelphia Water Color Society is open to the public during gallery hours now through Oct. 26 in The New Gallery at West Chester University. West Chester University’s Philadelphia location will host an Open House for the Bachelors of Social Work and B.S. in Criminal Justice from 5 to 6 p.m. and Masters of Social Work and M.S. in Criminal Justice from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, at 701 Market Street, third floor classrooms, Philadelphia. Click to register. West Chester University’s School of Music will present the Fall Choral Festival featuring WCU's Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus, and Cantari Donne at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, in Asplundh Concert Hall. West Chester’s "The Big Read" will present the panel discussion West Chester College during the Vietnam Era from 3:30 to 5 p.m., Thursday in the Philips Autograph Library. The panel is composed of former students and faculty who attended or taught at West Chester College during the 1960s. WCU’s Theatre & Dance Department will present the performance Godspell Friday through Oct. 26at the Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre. Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, Godspell is a timeless tale of friendship, loyalty and love Godspell, is one of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time. Click for performance times and ticket information. West Chester University will host the Fall Graduate Open House from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday. The Open House will showcase WCU’s 70+ master's degrees, certificates and certification programs. Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg University’s Fall Choral Concert, featuring the Women’s Choral Ensemble, Husky Singers and Concert Choir, will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, in First Presbyterian Church, 345 Market St., Bloomsburg. The concert is free. Bloomsburg University’s Quest program will offer the Full Moon Night Hike at 9 p.m., Thursday, starting from the Quest office on BU’s Upper Campus. The cost for the hike is $5 per person. Quest events are open to members of the community as well as BU students, faculty and staff. See www.buquest.org for more information. Bloomsburg University’s Center for Visual and Performing Arts is hosting The Arts in Autumn at 4 p.m., Sunday, in the Moose Exchange, 203 W. Main St., Bloomsburg. The event features hors d’oeuvres, three-course dinner, entertainment, art exhibit and silent auction.
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