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“Mission to Heal” with Dr. Glenn Geelhoed
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Dr.  Geelhoed serves as a surgeon and faculty member at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington DC, although he spends most of the year living in remote areas of the world.  For nearly 40 years he has led teams of medical students and professionals to some of the poorest and most medically needy areas on earth.  They have traveled to places such as Haiti, the Phillippines, Somaliland, Ethopia, Eritrea, Congo, Sudan, and Rwanda. 
In recognition of his work, Dr. Geelhoed was named one of the George Magazine’s Humanitarians of the Year in 2000 and was recently inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame which is affiliated with The University of Toledo’s College of Medicine and honors those who have improved the human condition through better public health care.  Dr. Geelhoed is a Calvin alum who will return to his alma mater to share his experiences on the medical mission field and the lessons he has learned in human resilience, lessons he calls “gifts from the poor”.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

“Tattoos on the Heart:  The Power of Boundless Compassion” with Father Greg Boyle
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Father Greg is a Jesuit priest and the founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, the largest, most successful gang intervention program in Los Angeles.  Homeboy, whose motto is “Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job”, takes gang members (Homeboys and Homegirls) fresh out of detention centers and offers everything from job training and placement to tattoo removal.
Reflecting on over 20 years of experience with the gangs, Father Greg has recently published Tattoos on the Heart which has been on the Los Angeles Times best seller list all summer.  He has received numerous humanitarian awards, among them the California Peace Prize.  He lives in Los Angeles.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

“Playing God:  Creativity and Cultural Power” with Andy Crouch
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making:  Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership.  A senior editor at Christianity Today International, he has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008.
Andy is a member of the editorial board of  Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute, and serves on the board of Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia.  He is currently working on a book about the Christian view of power, both its promise and is danger.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

Enjoy some great family-friendly films on Saturday afternoon!
2:00 p.m.  The Search for Santa Paws (G), 88 minutes, 2010
4:00 p.m.  Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, (PG), 108 minutes, 2010
Free admission.  Donations accepted at the door to benefit future programming at the Dogwood Center for Performing Arts.
The Dogwood Center Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.

“All Kinds of Minds:  The Importance of Developing Each Person’s Unique Strengths” with Temple GrandinWebcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Temple Grandin is the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world.  An expert on animal behavior, she has designed humane handling systems for half the cattle processing facilities in the U.S. and consults with the meat industry to develop animal welfare guidelines.
She is an Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, a prominent author and speaker and was recently named as one of the 25 “Heroes” in this years’ Time 100 annual list of the workd’s most influential people.
Grandin’s books about her interior life as an autistic person have increased the world’s most influential people.  Her understanding of the condition with personal immediacy – and with importance as rates of autism diagnosis rise.  An HBO movie was recently made about her life starring actress Clare Danes.  She is revered by animal rights groups and members of the autistic community, perhaps because in both regards she is a voice for those who are sometimes challenged to make themselves heard.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

“Daughter of the Killing Fields” with Theary Seng
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Theary Seng was born in Phnom Penh in January 1971.  Under the Khmer Rouge, she lived in Svay Rieng province bordering Vietnam, where the killings were most intense and where she spent five months in prison.  The Khmer Rouge killed both her parents.  In November 1979, at the age of eight, she and her surviving family trekked across the border for Thailand and emigrated to the U.S. one year later, first settling in Grand Rapids with the support of a local CRC church.
Theary graduated from Georgetown University’s school of Foreign Service with a BS in International Politics and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan’s Law School.  Theary returned to Cambodia in 2004 and is the founder and board president of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation.  She wrote a book about her life entitled Daughter of the Killing Fields and is currently working on her second book.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

“Faith and Freedom in Contemporary China” with Kelly Clark
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Professor of philosophy at Calvin and program director of the “Values & Virtues in Contemporary China”, a global initiative 2010 – 2013.  Author of numerous books including Philosophers Who Believe and The Story of Ethics. 
With the number of Christians in China possibly outnumbering the members of the Communist Party, the Party senses an increasing political threat posed by religion, yet China’s constitution guareantees freedon of religion.  Professor Clark will help us understand China’s religious contradictions.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

“Einstein’s God:  Conversations about Scince and the Human Spirit” with Krista Tippett
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Krista Tippet is creator and host of Speaking of Faith, which airs on more than 200 public radio stations in the U.S. and internationally via the Web.  A Peabody award-winning broadcaster, she is known as one of the most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. 
Through the show and her writing she has endeavored to enliven public discussion about the intersections of spirituality, faith and everyday life.  She is the author of two books:  Speaking of Faith and Einstein’s God.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.

Delilah DeWylde and the Lost Boys are coming to the Dogwood’s Black Box!
This group marches to the country shuffle of a bygone era; before country was on FM radio, before country artists had personal trainers, and most certainly, before country sounded like rock and roll with a fiddle!
Mixing self-penned songs with old country hits (and unknown gems) by such artists as Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, and Buck Owens to name a few, Delilah and the Lost Boys come out on stage looking and sounding like a 45 year step back in time.  Dressed to the nines in the tradition of pre-color television country singers and musicians, donning matching western suits and playing the finest vintage musical instruments in the finest old school way.
The leader of the band, of course, is Delilah, playing upright bass and singing lead.  A veteran of the West Michigan music scene for over 15 years and an alumnus of rockabilly institution DangerVille, is also a holder of the secret of standing on the bass while she plays it.  Don’t ask her how it’s done…..it’s a secret!
Lee Harvey is featured on lead guitar, on drums is D.J. McCoy, Drew Howard is behind the steel and some vocals, and Mark Schrock is featured on fiddle and vocals.
You just can’t get music like this on radio or television anymore….besides, there are plenty of New Country acts out there!  Come on out and join us on Friday, November 19!
Tickets $12.  Black Box. 7:30 p.m.
The Dogwood Center Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.

Three Men and a Tenor will bring a hilarious, holiday themed show called “The Ha-Ha Holidays Show” to the Dogwood Center!  It is a full-blown music concert with a unique twist…the group performs a full show without using any instruments!
The performance will be high-energy and have hilarious vocal antics and soothing harmonies as Three Men and a Tenor performs music you will recognize and some of their original arrangements.
Three Men and a Tenor formed in 1992 at Michigan State University by Paul Felch, Chuck Colby, Mark Stiles (all of whom are well over 6 feet tall) and Glenn Williams (a 5 foot tenor).  Three Men and a Tenor produced its own nationally-televised PBS special, airing in markets including Los  Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Seattle.  The group also has been on WGN-TV, the WB Superstation in Chicago and has recorded four cd’s.
Check out more on the group at www.threemenandatenor.com!
Tickets:  adults $15, children 18 and under $5.  Main Stage. 7:30 p.m.
This program is funded in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
The Dogwood Center Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.