April showers area with a Nobel Peace Prize speaker, Steinway Monsters, international films, Amish quilts

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (03/11/2014)(readMedia)-- Exceptional events are scheduled for April at Elizabethtown College including experts who specialize in peace, writing, Amish quilts, music, business and murder-Agatha Christie-style.

All events are free unless otherwise noted. For a full listing of April's events: http://www.etown.edu/newsandevents/cultural/index.aspx

27th Annual Student Art Show

Reception: 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 1

Exhibit: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Lyet Gallery

The 27th Annual Student Show features art work by students in the College's Fine Arts courses. Media include ceramics, computer-based, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media. Continues through April 25.

Speaker and International Film

6 p.m. – Rwandan speaker Joseph Sebarenzi

7 p.m. – film "Sometimes in April"

Thursday, April 3

Gibble Auditorium

To remember the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda that took the lives of nearly 100,000 in just over three months, Elizabethtown College brings Joseph Sebarenzi, a Rwandan who survived the genocide that killed most of his family. He talks about "Peace, Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice" prior to the screening of the film "Sometimes in April." A Q&A with Sebarenzi takes place after the film, which centers on when Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in the African nation of Rwanda in April of 1994. The film is presented in its respective language, with English subtitles.

Annual Young Center Banquet, Reception and Lecture

Thursday, April 3

5:30 p.m. -- reception

6 p.m. – dinner

in the College's Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall

7:30 p.m. -- lecture -- "Abstract Art or Country Craft? The Quilts of the Amish"

behind the College at Elizabethtown College Church of the Brethren, 777 S. Mount Joy St.

In 1997, art critic Robert Hughes called Amish quilts "America's first abstract art." These country crafts attract tourists to "Amish country," eager to take home a souvenir of their visit. Janneken Smucker, an assistant professor of history at nearby West Chester University, explores these and other paradoxes of this material manifestation of Amish culture. Smucker is the author of numerous works on Amish quilts, including "Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon." She serves on the board of the national nonprofit Quilt Alliance.

Cost: $20; contact the Young Center at 717-361-1470. Reservation deadline is March 20

10 a.m.

Friday, April 4

Durnbaugh Lunch and Seminar: "Cloth, Commerce, and Collecting"

Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

In this hands-on, participatory session led by Janneken Smucker, assistant professor of history at West Chester University and the author of numerous works on Amish quilts, attendees hone their skills in identifying characteristics of Amish quilts, consider the relationship of these objects to consumer culture and analyze material culture, including quilt-related objects made for the consumer market.

Cost: $10, covers the cost of lunch; reservation deadline is March 20

Contact: Young Center at youngctr@etown.edu or 717-361-1470

7 p.m.

Friday, April 4

Reading by poet Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum

Bowers Writers House

Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum reads from his 2014 Miller Williams Prize Winning collection "Ghost Gear." He also is editor of "Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days" and series editor of the Floodgate Poetry Series: "Three Chapbooks by Three Poets in a Single Volume." He also is founder and managing editor of PoemoftheWeek.org. McFadyen-Ketchum is an award-winning freelance editor, writing coach and instructor of creative writing and English at a number of colleges and universities in Denver, Colo.

7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 5

Monsters of the Steinway IV: Wosner Plays Schubert

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Monsters of the Steinway, Gretna Music's two-year celebration of Elizabethtown College's new Long Steinway piano, concludes when pianist Shai Wosner meets Schubert's magnificent B-flat Major Sonata.

Cost: $20 and $15

Contact: Carl Kane at 717-361-1508 or kanec@etown.edu

7 p.m.

Monday, April 7

Diversity Film Festival: "Hairspray"

Gibble Auditorium

The Diversity Film Series features closed-captioned movies addressing race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic stratification, culture and politics. "Hairspray," is a 1988 comedy film written and directed by John Waters, in which he professes his love and obsession with dance crazes, behind-the-scenes drama and gossip he saw on Baltimore's "The Buddy Deane Show." The film incorporates everything he loves about American culture: popular novelty dances such as "The Twist," "The Mashed Potato" and "The Roach;" celebrities and fame; people turning disadvantages into advantages. Discussion by Dr. Sarah Daughtrey, assistant professor of music follows the film.

7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 7

Monday Series Concert-- "The Devil's Vertigo"

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Dan Immel, on piano, plays "The Devil's Vertigo."

Author Paul Lisicky

4 p.m. -- creative writing craft talk

8 p.m. – reading

Wednesday, April 9

Bowers Writers House

Author Paul Lisicky author of "Lawnboy," "Famous Builder," "The Burning House and "Unbuilt Projects" reads from his own work. A new memoir, "The Narrow Door," is forthcoming from Graywolf press in 2015. Lisicky teaches at Shooting for the Moon Spiritual Development Center, Snydersville, Pa.

7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 10

2014 Ware Lecture on Peacemaking – Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 in recognition of her work in non-violent struggle for the expression rights, safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work in Yemen. She is the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date, at the age of 32.

Cost: free, but tickets are required – 717-361-4757

Theatre -- Agatha Christie's "A Murder is Announced"

8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 10, 11 and 12

8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, and Friday April 25

2 p.m. Sunday, April 27

Tempest Theatre

The inhabitants of and visitors at Miss Blacklock's Victorian manor home are shocked to read a local newspaper ad announcing the time and place-Blacklock's house-where a murder will occur. They are even more shocked when it happens. What follows is a classic Agatha Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, a determined Inspector grimly pursuing the evidence and Miss Marple on hand to provide the final solution, in a dramatic confrontation just before the final curtain.

Cost: $6; call 717-361-1170 or e-mail boxoffice@etown.edu

11 a.m.

Friday, April 11

M&M Mars Executive Lecture Series: Thomas J. McGonigle, attorney, Murphy & McGonigle

M&M Mars Room, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

M&M Mars partnered with the Elizabethtown College Department of Business to create an Executive Lecture Series geared toward bringing senior level executives from various industries to talk about their businesses and engage the audience in discussions about programs that are offered to customers.

3 p.m.

Sunday, April 13

Concert -- College-Community Orchestra

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Highlighting featured soloists Cassia Beiler and Frank Zarefoss, winners of the fourth annual Elizabethtown College Concerto Competition.

7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 14

Concert: Scholarship and Creative Arts Day

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

The Scholarship and Creative Arts Day concert on Monday evening is a highlight of the year in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, featuring student performances of vocal, instrumental, and piano music. The performers are music students who were chosen through a highly selective audition process in February. Students have said that they are drawn to compete for this honor by the excellent acoustics in Leffler Chapel and the opportunity to perform with the Long Steinway piano.

Scholarship and Creative Arts Day: "Life Is What You Make It"

Conversation with Peter Buffett -- 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 15

Book signing – 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

"Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett" is a live performance featuring Peter Buffett on the piano with cellist, Michael Kott. This is a multi-media presentation that takes the audience on a journey with Peter from his discovery of the piano, to writing for commercials and film, and then on to how his current philanthropic work with the NoVo Foundation has ultimately influenced his songs and life. Using his own life story and experiences as illustrations, Buffett discusses how important it is for each person to define his or her own path, regardless of their wealth or background, and ultimately conveys that it's ones values-and what we are able to give back to society- that shape and define us as individuals. The event is the live companion to Buffett's recently released book, "Life Is What You Make It," which debuted at number 4 on the New York Times Best Seller Hardcover Advice list.

11 a.m.

Wednesday, April 16

M&M Mars Executive Lecture Series: John B. Jung Jr., senior managing director, Marketing & Integration, BB&T Capital Markets

Hoover 212

M&M Mars partnered with the Elizabethtown College Department of Business to create an Executive Lecture Series geared toward bringing senior level executives from various industries to talk about their businesses and engage the audience in discussions about programs that are offered to customers. John B. Jung Jr., senior managing director, Marketing & Integration, BB&T Capital Markets, speaks on "Competing in Today's Global Economy."

11 a.m.

Friday, April 25

M&M Mars Executive Lecture Series: Carl Freeman, site director, Mars Chocolate North America

Hoover 212

M&M Mars partnered with the Elizabethtown College Department of Business to create an Executive Lecture Series geared toward bringing senior level executives from various industries to talk about their businesses and engage the audience in discussions about programs that are offered to customers. Freeman, born in Memphis, Tenn., earned an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee State University and a master's degree in business administration from Vanderbilt. He has held several positions in major consumer packaged goods companies before joining Mars Chocolate North America, in September of 2010 as the site director of the Elizabethtown, Pa., manufacturing plant.

3 p.m.

Sunday, April 27

Concert: Symphonic Band

Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Soloist Dr. Kevin Shorner-Johnson, a member of the Elizabethtown College music faculty, is featured.

8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 29

"The Widening Spell of Leaves" with Michele Poulos and Gregory Donovan

Bowers Writers House

In the last 30 years, many poets have influenced American writing, but none have had the dynamic power of the late Larry Levis. Filmmakers Michele Poulos and Gregory Donavan screen part of their ground-breaking documentary of Levis' life, "A Late Style of Fire." The documentary includes interviews with poetic luminaries former Poet Laureate Philip Levine.

11 a.m.

Wednesday, April 30

Fine and Performing Arts Spring Concert

Zug Recital Hall

Members of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts present an entertaining hour of music and drama to celebrate the arrival of spring and the end of the semester.

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