Dogwood

Calvin College January Series 2012 – Dogwood Remote Live Webcast
Underwritten by the Richard & Helen DeVos Foundation
In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for Veggie Tales, served as writer and editor for Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint, and written for the New York Times.  He is a best-selling author whose  biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, and Macedonian.  He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of entertaining and thought-provoking discussions on “life, God, and other small topics” held in New York City.  He is a frequent cultural commentator on CNN and the Fox News Channel and he has been featured on many radio programs, including NPR’s Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation and others.  He is the author of two highly acclaimed biographies Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

Calvin College January Series 2012 – Dogwood Remote Live Webcast
Edith Mirante is an American artist and author of Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution published in 1993 and Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontiers published in 2005. Her most recent book, Down the Rat Hole, is about a hidden world of guerrilla warfare and jade trading, the AIDS pandemic, rainforest destruction in Burma western border among the Arakanese, the Chins and the Kachins. She is also author of several reports about politics, human rights and environmental issues about the Chins among others; “The Chin Compendium (1997)”, “Ashes and Tears (2001)” (A report a bout Chin/Burmese refugees in Guam), the “Razor Edge” (Survival Crisis for Refugees from Burma in Delhi, India-2004) and “Mithuns Sacrificed To Greed: The Forest Ox of Burma’s Chins (2004)”. Her commentaries are regularly broadcast on the BBC World Service, she’s lectured for Amnesty International and Greenpeace, her articles appear in New York Times, Asiaweek, and she’s given evidence about Burma before the US Congress and the European Trade Commission and International Labor Organization. Ms. Mirante is founder and project director of Project Maje.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

Calvin College January Series 2012 – Dogwood Remote Live Webcast

Underwritten by Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning

 
As associate conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony, John Varineau conducts the orchestra on all of its concert series, including the Richard and Helen DeVos Classical Series, Fox Motors Pops Series, the SymphonicBoom Series, Crowe Horwath Rising Stars Series, DTE Energy Foundation Family Series, PNC Lollipop Series and the D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops. He also conducts a variety of educational and outreach concerts throughout the area. Mr. Varineau is committed to nurturing the next generation of classical music lovers. He is a frequent visitor to area schools, and shares an infectious enthusiasm with students throughout West Michigan.
The 2011-2012 Season marks his 27th anniversary with the Symphony and 24th year as the conductor of the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony and Classical Orchestra. He has been a visiting orchestra conductor both at Calvin College and Western Michigan University.  Recently, he was a guest conductor for the Traverse City Symphony.
     
Mr. Varineau also appears in a variety of summer music programs in the region and plays in the chamber music group, Montage. In 2003, he appeared twice as a guest conductor with the Arkansas Symphony. Additionally, he conducts the Grand Rapids Symphony for performances by the Grand Rapids Ballet Company. Mr. Varineau is a clarinetist and teaches clarinet at Calvin College, Cornerstone University and Grand Rapids Community College.  Mr. Varineau attended Michigan State University, University of Wyoming and Yale School of Music for his clarinet training. He has made three recordings with the Grand Rapids Symphony and three with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He and his wife, Gwen, have a daughter, Jade, and a son, Justin.

Calvin College January Series 2012 – Remote Live Webcast

A professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology.  She is a professor at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.  Her latest book “Alone Together” explores our digital lives in todays always on, always connected culture.  Profiles of Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine.  She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

Baffling Bill is back at the Dogwood this time to present “Baffling Bill’s Magic of Christmas Show”!  With over 15 years of experience as an educator/entertainer, Baffling Bill knows how to make learning fun through dazzling magic, audience participation, and non-stop laughter! 

Let the fun begin!  Card tricks, illusions, rabbits, and puzzling magic!  Things will disappear and re-appear later in the show when you least expect it!  Be ready to giggle, laugh and then wonder… “How did he do that”???  A special appearance (or will it be a disappearance?) by Santa!  Bring the family for a fun night out at the Dogwood!

Tickets $15 for adults and $5 for children under 18.  7:30 p.m. Main Stage.  Click here for tickets now!
Tickets are available here online, at the Dogwood Box Office, or at NCCA-Artsplace in downtown Fremont.
Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and two hours prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.
NCCA-Artsplace hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
For information, phone 231.924.4022.

NCCA’s “Art in the Box”, a one day sale of original artwork by local artists, will be held in the Dogwood’s Black Box and Lobby areas.  This is a great opportunity to shop for the finest jewelry, pottery, woodworking, glass work, painting, and textile art in West Michigan!
Black Box and Lobby.  Free admission.  10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
For more information, please contact NCCA-Artsplace at 231.924.4022 or visit www.ncca-artsplace.org.

We are in for a treat at the Dogwood Center!  Join us for a taste of the talent of  the Grand Rapids Ballet Company, Michigan’s only professional ballet company!  “Nine Sinatra Songs” and “Samplings from The Nutcracker” will be featured during this great night!
The evening begins with “Nine Sinatra Songs”, choreographed by Twyla Tharp, and is full of excitement, passion and fun!  You will be swept away by this glamorous classic danced to the best of Sinatra, including “Strangers in the Night” and “One for My Baby”.  Costumes by Oscar de la Renta, the music of Ol’ Blue Eyes and Tharp’s stunning choreography combine in an unforgettable performance!
The second part of the evening features parts from the Second Act of the  “Nutcracker Suite”. Experience some of the magic as parts of the E.T.A. Hoffman story is brought to life through the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky and the talent and artistry of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company!  
7:30 p.m.  Main Stage. Reserved seating.  Tickets $17.50 adults, $10 children 18 and under.  Click here for tickets!
Tickets are available here online, at the Dogwood Box Office, or at NCCA-Artsplace in downtown Fremont.
Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and two hours prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.
NCCA-Artsplace hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
For information, phone 231.924.4022.

Rory Block is one of the most accomplished performers in the blues,  lighting  up festival stages and blues clubs across the globe for years.  Throughout her lengthy and respected career, Block has received five W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards for her work, including twice being named “Best Traditional Blues Female Artist” by The Blues Foundation.

Heralded as a “a living landmark” (Berkeley Express), “a national treasure” (Guitar Extra), and “one of the greatest living acoustic blues artists” (Blues Revue), Rory Block has committed her life and her career to preserving the Delta blues tradition and bringing it to life for 21st century audiences around the world.  A traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, she wields a fiery and haunting guitar and vocal style that redefines the boundaries of acoustic blues and folk.  The New York Times declared: “Her playing is perfect, her singing otherworldly as she wrestles with ghosts, shadows and legends.”

Rory maintains an intensive worldwide solo touring schedule that includes art centers, theaters, listening rooms and major festivals such as The San Francisco Blues Festival, The Chicago Blues Festival, The Telluride Blues Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Memphis in May, The Edmonton Folk Festival, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Womad Festival in England, The Pinkpop Festival in Holland, The Notodden Blues Festival in Norway, The Peer Festival in Belgium, and The RAWA Festival in Poland, and the Cognac Blues Festival in France.  Rory was one of the featured guitarists in the prestigious Columbia Artist management Guitar Summit tours, which presented guitar masters in various fields.  Rory has also toured with Michael Hedges, Stanley Jordan, Herb Ellis, and Sharon Isbin.

Tickets $17.50.  7:30 p.m.  Black Box.   Click here to purchase your tickets now!

 Tickets are available here online, at the Dogwood Box Office, or at NCCA-Artsplace in downtown Fremont.
Box Office hours will be Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and two hours prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.
NCCA-Artsplace (downtown Fremont) hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.  For information, phone 231.924.4022.

Directed by and starring Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, Pollock is a beautifully crafted, stunning drama about the legendary American painter Jackson Pollock.
Fellow artists and lovers, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York’s 1940’s art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock’s career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally.  Pollock and Krasner escape to the country and marry, and soon, Pollock creates work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America.  With fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt;  before long Pollock’s life threatens to explode. 
Cast also includes:  Marcia Gray harden, Amy Madigan, Val Kilmer, and Jennifer Connelly.  Rated R.  122 minutes.
Tickets: $5.00.  Main Stage.  7:30 p.m.  Click here to purchase your ticktes now!
Tickets are available here online, at the Dogwood Box Office, or at NCCA-Artsplace in downtown Fremont.
The Dogwood Center Box Office is currently open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event.  Beginning Tuesday, September 6,  Box Office hours will be Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and two hours prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.
NCCA-Artsplace hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.  For information, phone 231.924.4022.