Hughes Lecture Series
For about 40 years, the Hughes Lecture Series has been inviting speakers to campus. From politicians to environmentalists to authors like Jeannette Walls and David Sheff, presenters offer a lecture and often work with students during their time on campus.
Frankenstein @ 200
The College of Liberal Arts celebrated the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a series of events in 2018.
Hogwarts on the Hilltop
As part of an event series hosted by the College of Liberal Arts, Hogwarts on the Hilltop invited local high school students to campus in September 2018.
- August 22, 2022
- September 8, 2022
- September 9, 2022
- September 10, 2022
- September 8, 2022
ALL IN THE TIMING
September 8, 2022 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Kelly TheatreTickets at https://wlutiming.brownpapertickets.com/
Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award. This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. A hilarious sextet whether played together or separately. “Like sketches for some hilarious, celestially conceived revue. The writing is not only very funny, it has density of thought and precision of poetry…ALL IN THE TIMING is by a master of fun. David Ives spins hilarity out of words.” —NY Times.
“Theatre that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart. Ives is a mordant comic who has put the ‘play’ back in playwright…A wondrous wordmaster.” —Time Magazine.
“An original turn of mind is to be saluted in our tired theatre…A playwright with ideas, his own ideas, in his head is relatively rare. Such a one is David Ives.” —NY Magazine.
SURE THING. Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love.
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love.
PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
THE PHILADELPHIA presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into “a Philadelphia,” a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for.
VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber’s axe he’s discovered in his head.
- September 12, 2022
Guest artist: Wojciech Lipinski, guitar
September 12, 2022
College HallSpecial Guest Wojciech Lipiński (pronounced voy-check) will be joined by local musicians Jamie Peck and Jason Birch for an evening of jazz.
Wojciech Lipiński, PhD
Classical and jazz guitarist, lecturer, composer
He graduated from the classical guitar faculty at theUniversity of Music in Lodz, and completed postgraduate studies at HochschuleFur Kunste Bremen in Germany. He is most passionate about jazz and improvised music, to which he dedicated his doctoral thesis, defended in 2015 at theUniversity of Music in Lodz.
Wojciech Lipiński participates in numerous music projects as a soloist, accompanist, arranger, and composer. He collaborates with the Lodz Film School, as well as Logos and Studyjny theatres, for which he writes music for plays directed by Piotr Krukowski, Marek Kasprzyk, andAgnieszka Greinert. In 2018, he started cooperation with City Puppet Theatre inKielce. In 2022, he composed music for a play entitled: "Legendyświętokrzyskie" (Legends of the Świetokrzyskie Region), directed by MarekZakostelecky (Czech Republic) one of the best directors of this genre, as wellas a pantomime performance entitled "Miasteczko" (Small Town),directed by Ewa Lubacz.
His passion for improvised music guided him towards jazz guitar. He mastered his skills at a variety of guitar master-courses inPoland and abroad coached by renowned guitar players. Currently, he conducts his own workshops on improvisation and band leading, both in Poland and abroad.
Wojciech performs with many ensembles. Together with his wife, they have released three albums. The last one entitled"3po3" includes Polish folk tunes and songs by Stanisław Moniuszko in jazz arrangements. The album won the fifth place in JazzPRESS and RadioJAZZ.FM plebiscite for the best Polish jazz album of 2020. Recently, Wojciech has arranged this project for a string orchestra supported by a rhythm section, performing in philharmonic halls.
He also cooperates with an octet formed together withSwedish musicians. He has performed with them in Poland, Italy, and Sweden (Lapland).
Since 2010, he has been working as a lecturer at Jan Kochanowski University. He also works at the State Music School in Kielce, where in addition to teaching classical guitar, he introduces jazz improvisation to the curriculum for the youngest students.
Guest artist: Wojciech Lipinski, guitar
September 12, 2022 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
College HallSpecial Guest Wojciech Lipiński (pronounced voy-check) will be joined by local musicians Jamie Peck and Jason Birch for an evening of jazz.
Wojciech Lipiński, PhD
Classical and jazz guitarist, lecturer, composer
He graduated from the classical guitar faculty at theUniversity of Music in Lodz, and completed postgraduate studies at HochschuleFur Kunste Bremen in Germany. He is most passionate about jazz and improvised music, to which he dedicated his doctoral thesis, defended in 2015 at theUniversity of Music in Lodz.
Wojciech Lipiński participates in numerous music projects as a soloist, accompanist, arranger, and composer. He collaborates with the Lodz Film School, as well as Logos and Studyjny theatres, for which he writes music for plays directed by Piotr Krukowski, Marek Kasprzyk, andAgnieszka Greinert. In 2018, he started cooperation with City Puppet Theatre inKielce. In 2022, he composed music for a play entitled: “Legendyświętokrzyskie” (Legends of the Świetokrzyskie Region), directed by MarekZakostelecky (Czech Republic) one of the best directors of this genre, as wellas a pantomime performance entitled “Miasteczko” (Small Town),directed by Ewa Lubacz.
His passion for improvised music guided him towards jazz guitar. He mastered his skills at a variety of guitar master-courses inPoland and abroad coached by renowned guitar players. Currently, he conducts his own workshops on improvisation and band leading, both in Poland and abroad.
Wojciech performs with many ensembles. Together with his wife, they have released three albums. The last one entitled”3po3″ includes Polish folk tunes and songs by Stanisław Moniuszko in jazz arrangements. The album won the fifth place in JazzPRESS and RadioJAZZ.FM plebiscite for the best Polish jazz album of 2020. Recently, Wojciech has arranged this project for a string orchestra supported by a rhythm section, performing in philharmonic halls.
He also cooperates with an octet formed together withSwedish musicians. He has performed with them in Poland, Italy, and Sweden (Lapland).
Since 2010, he has been working as a lecturer at Jan Kochanowski University. He also works at the State Music School in Kielce, where in addition to teaching classical guitar, he introduces jazz improvisation to the curriculum for the youngest students.