By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 12, 2019 • No Comments
The Akron Center for Art, Music and Performance is hosting Heart to HeART: a Family Friendly Valentine’s Day Show on Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. The event will take place on the second floor of The Akron Center for Art, Music and Performance, located at 118 W. Market Street in Akron. Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased either online or at the door. Free admission is granted to children ages two and younger. Valentine’s Day is celebrated on Feb. 14 of every year and is known to be a celebration of love...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
February 11, 2019 • No Comments
As part of Rethinking Race and the 7:17 events on campus, vocalist and guitarist Nelly’s Echo performed in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Starbucks on Feb. 5. The 7:17 Coffee House series is run by the Residence Hall Program Board, where the first 100 people to attend are given a voucher for one free coffee or tea while listening to either a musical or comical performance. Sophomore Lexie Gore, the music and comedy chair for RHPB, said they saw Nelly’s Echo at a convention for residence life committees...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 25, 2019 • No Comments
Women’s Studies is scheduled to hold two more Rethinking Gender talks before the end of the spring semester, according to their events page. With the emergence of Five-Star Fridays, students should find these talks more accessible, as the Rethinking Gender Series presents on Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. The Rethinking Gender series is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, and generally hosts speakers with research, speeches or creative approaches to gender-related topics. “Rethinking Gender provides a forum...
By Dave Lucas, Syndicated Poet Laureate
December 11, 2018 • No Comments
What makes poetry, poetry? Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some won’t be much help: “Poetry is the sort of thing poets write,” Robert Frost is said to have said. I’m sorry I asked. If we struggle with poetry, this struggle to define it is partly to blame. It would be easier if poetry obeyed certain rules—if we could trust it to rhyme, or appear in lines or make sense. Easier, maybe, but certainly less exciting: set...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
March 18, 2019 • No Comments
The University of Akron has three a cappella groups on campus: Rhythm and Roos, Kanga Blu, and Nuance; according to the UA A Cappella webpage. Rhythm and Roos Rhythm and Roos is a co-ed a cappella group founded in 2005. The group was set to perform in the A Cappella Showcase but was forced to withdraw due to scheduling conflicts. Currently consisting of 22 members, Rhythm and Roos enjoys playing for local events to share their love of music. Rhythm and Roos have performed in cities across the country,...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
February 11, 2019 • No Comments
As part of Rethinking Race and the 7:17 events on campus, vocalist and guitarist Nelly’s Echo performed in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Starbucks on Feb. 5. The 7:17 Coffee House series is run by the Residence Hall Program Board, where the first 100 people to attend are given a voucher for one free coffee or tea while listening to either a musical or comical performance. Sophomore Lexie Gore, the music and comedy chair for RHPB, said they saw Nelly’s Echo at a convention for residence life committees...
By Sala Wier, Copy Editor
March 13, 2019 • No Comments
The Bechdel Film Fest is hosting their first ever 48-hour filmmaker's challenge where teams are challenged to make an original film within 48 hours, starting March 22 and screen it in front of other participants on March 24 at the Nightlight Cinema in Downtown Akron. This is a free and friendly competition, where teams are competing for fun awards and possibly even the chance to screen their film during the Bechdel Film Fest on May 29-June 2. “If you participated in these type of events before, you know how...
By Sala Wier, Copy Editor
January 28, 2019 • No Comments
This summer, Brittany Charek, the 2017 Akron Knight Arts Challenge winner, partnered with Joanna Wilson, plans to bring a feminist film festival to Akron. The five-day festival will take place in various downtown locations such as the Nightlight Cinema, starting on May 29. Only films that pass the "Bechdel Test" will be shown. Coming from a part of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (1985), the test is used to determine that a film or any other piece of fiction has proper representation of women (Image...
By José Suárez, Reporter
March 21, 2019 • No Comments
Set on a tour ending in London, Dena Blizzard will be performing her one-woman comedy act at E.J. Thomas Hall at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Blizzard is a mother who shows her talent of comedy about motherhood after her time as Miss New Jersey and a host for Miss America alongside Anderson Cooper. Becoming a hit on the Internet, Blizzard’s most popular video on YouTube is her “Back to School Rant,” which according to the UA events webpage, had reached over 96 million views as of recently....
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 19, 2019 • No Comments
‘Finding Neverland’ is coming to EJ Thomas Hall on March 5-6, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Broadway in Akron Series, which has brought shows like ‘Rent’, ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Rock of Ages’ to EJ Thomas Hall over the years. According to the Broadway in Akron webpage, this show has been the recipient of many awards, including the Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Musical. The show is directed by Tony-Award-winner Diane Paulus, the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 13, 2019 • No Comments
The University of Akron Dance Institute hosted the production of “The Snow Maiden” on Feb. 2, at EJ Thomas Hall. "The Snow Maiden" is an opera composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1881 and has since been adapted into new formats as time went on. UA performed a ballet adaptation of the original opera, with incidental music by Tchaikovsky. In an email interview, the current manager of The Dance Institute Christina Foise said, “Lana Carroll Heylock, a previous manager of Dance Institute, first produced this...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
November 14, 2018 • No Comments
The University of Akron Dance Company will be performing its Fall 2018 Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Kolbe Hall Daum Theatre on Nov. 15,16 and 17. Tickets for this event can be purchased by calling 330-972-7895. General admission is $12, student admission is $6 and seniors, UA alumni, faculty and staff admission is $10. According to the UADC website, the faculty choreographer is visiting professor Nick Carlisle with guest choreographers Holly Bass, Kaleb Reilly and Mary-Elizabeth Fenn. The performance will...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
February 25, 2019 • No Comments
Are you a student at The University of Akron who wants to get involved at an event on campus? Can you sing, dance, play an instrument or have another unique talent? Open auditions for Akron’s Got Talent, a campus-based talent show hosted by the Zips Programming Network, are on Feb. 27 from 7:45 to 9:15 p.m. in room 314 of the Taber Student Union. Josh Villers, Traditional Events Chair for ZPN, is hosting the event for the second time this year and said he is looking forward to students showcasing their abilities. “Students...
By Jake Herron, Online Editor
February 11, 2019 • No Comments
More than 450 student organizations strive to find a way to enrich and refine college life for students at The University of Akron. At RooCatholic, that ‘way’ seeks to enrich for a lifetime. An affiliate of Newman Catholic Campus Ministry for than 80 years, RooCatholic is situated within the confines of the historic Saint Bernard Parish in Downtown Akron. The organization, which assumed its current name during a 2016 rebranding, identifies itself as an “instrument of the Holy Spirit, providing a joyful...
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