Chautuaquas

Each semester honors students are offered the opportunity to attend cultural and informative activities known as Chautauquas. Listed below is schedule of these opportunities.

Come and be part of a lecture series called ASpace, Place & Life@ on Thursday, August 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Services Building Auditorium. This opening presentation in the series will be given by Kentucky author and poet Crystal Wilkinson, whose topic is AWarm in the Lap of Rural Kentucky: Home, Haunts and the Literary Imagination@. Crystal will be joined by singer, Megan Goble. There are many other lectures in this series and you may use any TWO of them for an official Honors Program Chautauqua. A complete listing of these events is attached for your convenience. In fact, if you want to be involved in the intellectual life at EKU, attend as many of these lectures as you can. Many of your professors and classmates will be there. E-mail our own Professor Bruce.MacLaren@eku.edu if you=d like to join any of these speakers for dinner in the Powell Building before each lecture and he will give you the details. NO COST for the lecture. Dinner would be your responsibility but you can use your meal plan. Dr. MacLaren usually posts more details about these lectures on our e-mail list serve.

Did you know that EKU now has a licensed massage therapist available for appointments in the Fitness and Wellness Center? This is your chance to find out more about message therapy and the several modalities available such as relaxation massage, therapeutic massage, deep tissue massage, and craniosacral message. Sound like something you=d like to know more about? Come to the Fitness and Wellness Center from 5:00-5:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 13th and meet Tami Sernulka, our licensed massage therapist at EKU. And to make your attendance even more fun, we will have a drawing at 5:45 p.m. for four relaxation massages valued at $25.00 (60 minutes) each.

On this weekend, Lake Reba in Richmond (near the Outback Steakhouse) will be the site of a Native American Pow Wow. Events will be taking place during these three days and special performances are scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday. Native American arts and crafts will be displayed and sold. Tickets for the Pow Wow are $5.00 at the gate. Some Pow Wow workers will be needed on Friday, the 28th in the morning for school groups, so you can get in free by volunteering to work for a short time.
If you would like to volunteer, please e-mail Neil.Wright@eku.edu (by September 21th) and work out the details directly with him for helping out in exchange for free admission.

Friday, September 28 - Saturday, September 29 Roundtable at Kentucky State University
Join us for a trip to Frankfort, Kentucky for the fall meeting of the Kentucky Honors Roundtable (the state-level organization of Honors Programs), on September 28th - 29th. The Roundtable will consist of a dinner and fun event on Friday evening. Saturday will consist of student presentations. This is a good opportunity to see what these presentations are like so that you can think about participating in panels at future state and national honors conferences. Sign up sheets are in the study room in Case Annex 163 on the bookcase and are due back to Dr. Gray or Debra no later than September 14th. Please think carefully about your personal schedule before committing to this event. And those of you spending Friday night in Frankfort should sign up on the rooming list which is posted on the bulletin board outside my office (Case Annex 169). There is NO COST to you for this event.

Sunday, October 14 Il Trovatore, An Opera

If you have never been to an opera, this is your opportunity to see and hear one of Verdi=s most popular works. We will travel to the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville for the 2:00 performance. Meet at the Daniel Boone statue at 11:30 a.m. Bus transportation will be provided and Dr. Neil Wright will be discussing the opera with us as we travel to Louisville so that we will be better prepared for what we will experience. There will be NO COST to you for this event. Fifty tickets are available so make your reservation with Debra or Dr. Wright by October 5th. Bring your own lunch to eat on the bus as we will not be stopping for lunch. A post-opera meal will be provided for us by Jane and Charles Boyer, friends of the Honors Program. Some of the performers will likely join us at this time.

Friday, October 26 Halloween Celebration

Let=s celebrate Halloween with a trip out to the property owned by the family of Honors Program graduate, Sarah Bowles. Our celebration will include a weenie roast, scarey stories, and games to be planned by the Honors Program Student Advisory Council. We will car pool to Union City around 5:00 p.m. Let me know if you need a ride. Watch for more details from the Honors Program Student Advisory Council but rest assured that good food and a fun time will be enjoyed by everyone. Maps will be available in the study room in Case Annex 163 or from Debra. Bring your favorite scarey story to read around the campfire and a bag of chips or something for dessert. Costumes are encouraged but not mandatory. NO COST! Rain location: Living Center in the Burrier Building.

November 7, 8, 9, and 10 Dance Theatre Concert

Come to the auditorium in the Student Services Building at 8:00 p.m. on any of these four evenings or the 2:00 matinee on the 10th and enjoy a performance by the students involved in the EKU Dance Theatre. Several of our Honors Program students will likely be dancing and doing choreography for this concert. Give your name to the Ticket Sellers and we will reimburse the Dance Theatre for the cost of your ticket which is normally $5.00. NO COST.

Thursday, November 15 The Musical of Musicals: A Campus Play

The hit of the 2003-2004 off-Broadway season, The Musical of Musicals is really one story made into five hilarious satiric musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form. June, an ingenue who can=t pay her rent, is threatened by her evil landlord, but will she be saved by her handsome leading man in time? This basic plot is musicalized as it might have been done by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sonheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Kander and Ebb. The EKU Department of Music will again join forces with EKU Theatre to present this Aoutrageous musical spoof.@ You can see the play performed by the EKU theatre on Thursday, November 15th at 8:00 p.m. in the Gifford Theatre in the Campbell Building. Student tickets are normally $6.00 but your cost is $2.00. Sign up and pay your $2.00 to Debra by November 13th to reserve your seat. Dr. Gray will be in the lobby of the Campbell Building by 7:40 p.m. on November 15th to pass out the tickets.

This is an opportunity to see for yourself what will be required of you when you are a senior. Come and support the seniors who will be giving their senior thesis oral presentations. The topics will be varied and an exact program will be distributed in advance of the event which will be in the Kennamer Room in the Powell Building between 2:00 and 9:00 p.m. For Chautauqua credit we will ask that you hear a minimum of two presentations which last about 30 minutes each. This event includes a supper buffet starting at 5:00 p.m. in the Regents Dining Room, so be sure to take advantage of the good food. NO COST.

Note: #1 It is advisable to sign up as soon as you are ready to make a commitment as spaces are limited for some events.

Additional events may be added to the list of official Chautauquas but only by Dr. Gray.