Owen/Cox Dance, a professional contemporary dance company from Kansas City, will present “A Soldier’s Tale” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 4 in the Potter Theater on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, and free for all students college and younger. Tickets can be purchased in advance [...]
The Golden Griffon Pep Band of Missouri Western State University will kick off the first MWSU Midday Melodies of the spring semester at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 at Kelley Commons, the patio area just west of Blum Student Union. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the Blum Food [...]
The Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance and Above the Line present the fourth annual 48-Hour Film Festival, open to anyone with a passion for filmmaking. Teams will create short films March 4-6 with a festival screening and awards ceremony at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the Paradox Theatre in downtown St. Joseph. [...]
Dr, Franke Wilmer, professor of political science, Montana State University Dr. Franke Wilmer, professor of political science at Montana State University, will open Missouri Western State University’s observation of Women’s History Month with a talk titled “A World of Difference: Living in a Woman’s Body,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in the [...]
Missouri Western State University is the site of Electronic Music Midwest’s annual MiniFest Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27. Concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall. The concerts are free and open to the public. MiniFest is [...]
Chris Miles (left) and Casey Huffman won the Missouri State Championship in Parliamentary Debate at Webster University. The Missouri Western Speech and Debate program brought home some titles from the Missouri Association of Forensics Activity State Championships at Webster University on February 19-20. The parliamentary debate team of Chris Miles and Casey Huffman [...]
Dr. David Karp, professor of sociology and director of the Project on Restorative Justice at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, will present a lecture at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Wilson Hall, room 205. The talk, “Restorative Justice on the University Campus: Repairing Harm and Building Community,” is free and open [...]
The Music Department of Missouri Western State University will host its tenth annual MWSU Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 13. Groups will perform in Blum 219 and the Fulkerson Center. Each ensemble will perform for the adjudicators, and will receive recorded and written critiques of the performance from clinicians. Immediately following each band’s performance the [...]
“The Marriage of Figaro,” the play by Pierre Beaumarchais that inspired the Mozart opera of the same name, will be presented by the Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance in the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University Feb. 19-27. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, 20, 25, 26 and [...]
The Golden Griffon Marching Band of Missouri Western State University will be a part of a holiday tradition in Branson, Missouri, leading Rudolph’s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade through Silver Dollar City on Dec. 12. “This is the first time the Golden Griffon Marching Band has participated in the parade at Silver Dollar City, and [...]
