Defining Modernism
Tuesday, September 30th
Begin at 11:00 AM
Lunch at 12:00 PM
Join your friends for lunch in the beautiful Fogle Fine Arts Gallery for a presentation by Matteo Neivert, Professor of Painting and Brian Palmer, Professor of Dance. They will speak about modernism as a movement in both visual arts and dance. The term Modernismis widely misunderstood to be a current trend, instead of a period with specific characteristics.
RAGTIME: The Musical
Sunday, November 2nd
Lunch at 1:00 PM
Performance at 2:30 PM
This epic musical paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America. Based on E.L. Doctorow’s distinguished novel, Ragtime intertwines three stories illustrating history’s timeless contradictions of wealth and
poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and love and hate. The show won best score, book, and orchestrations in the 1998 Tony Awards.
The Collaborative Project
Thursday, February 12th
Dinner at 6:00 PM
Performance at 7:30 PM
Join us for a special dinner with a featured presentation by the key faculty members who produced this amazing performance. Get the inside scoop on how it all came together and what to look for as you experience this trulycollaborative project.
In our second year of uniting disciplines, Jacksonville University Faculty will explore strengths and virtues within the human evolutionary experience. Filled with original compositions and live performances, this year’s
project will explore six virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
Goodnight Desdemona
(Good Morning Juliet)
Thursday, April 2nd
Dinner at 6:00 PM
Performance at 7:30 PM
After a medieval feast, in the Fine Arts Hall with an informal presentation by ProfessorAllison Steadman, join us for a special performance of this award winning play. A 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery. Constance theorizes that Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello and Romeo and Juliet, were originally comedies, and believes the ideas for the plays originate from the indecipherable Gustav Manuscript. In a moment of despair, Constance is thrown into both her subconscious mind and the two Shakespearian tragedies to discover the truth about herself.
*Some adult content in the Shakespearian fashion of gender bending.