Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities Arts/Events Calendar

Hurst Artist in Residence: Amitav Ghosh

Presented by Browning Presents! and Weber State English
 

Monday, October 25
Hetzel-Hoellein, Stewart Lib,
Meet & Greet, Q & A with students & faculty
1:30-2:45 p.m.

Tuesday, October 26
A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
Elizabeth Hall, Rm. 229
1:30-2:45 p.m.

St. Joseph High School/Aquinas Inst., Black Box/Auditorium
Presentation and Reading
7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday, October 27
Public Reading with short Q & A
Hetzel-Hoellein, Stewart Lib
1:30-2:45 p.m.

World-renowned author Amitav Ghosh will be the Hurst Artist in Residence at Weber State University from October 25 - 27. Ghosh will teach in the College of Arts & Humanities, the  Honors Program, and others, and interact with students, faculty, and staff. He is also scheduled to give public readings through the Aquinas Institute at St. Joseph's High School and on campus.

Browning Presents! Guillermo Galindo
Sonic Borders III

Presented by Browning Presents! and Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery

When: October 28, 2021 at 6 p.m.
Location: The Allred Theatre in WSU's Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts (3950 W Campus Dr., Ogden, UT)
 

Browning Presents!, the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and the Shaw Gallery at Weber State University are thrilled to welcome experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo to the Val A. Browning Center for Performing Arts for an immersive musical performance. Using objects found along the border between the United States and Mexico, Galindo creates symphonies and soundscapes exploring themes of displacement, migration and culture. 

(This performance is in conjunction with the exhibition Vida, Muerte, Justicia | Life, Death, Justice: Latin American and Latinx Art for the 21st Century, co-hosted by Ogden Contemporary Arts and the Shaw Gallery, and co-curated by Jorge Rojas, and WSU art history professor María del Mar González-González). 

Weber State Symphony Orchestra Movie Scores

Presented by Weber State Music

When: November 6, 2021
Location: The Austad Theatre in WSU's Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts (3950 W Campus Dr., Ogden, UT)
Price: General Admission - $10;
WSU students, children under 18, senior citizens and military members - $7

The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons

by Rachel Teagle

Presented by Weber State Theatre

When: November 12 - 20, 2021
Location: The Eccles Theatre in WSU's Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts (3950 W Campus Dr., Ogden, UT)
Price: General Admission - $15;
Weber State Students, children under the age of 18, senior citizens and military members - $12

Suddenly, all childhood dreams have come true and the world is full of astronauts, ballerinas, cowboys and princesses. It's a brave and glorious new world for everyone but Jess, who wanted to be a mastodon when she grew up. With the help of her friendly vocational adviser and her super-spy boyfriend, Jess embarks on a journey to find her place in the world and discover why it seems to be unraveling.

Virtual Visiting Writers Workshop: Greg Brownderville & Tim Earley

Presented by Weber State English

When: November 16, 2021 @ 6 p.m.
Location: Zoom

Greg Brownderville is the writer, showrunner, and creator of Fire Bones (2021), the world’s first go-show. Brownderville is also the author of three books of poetry. In 2011 he published Gust (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly), which made the Poetry Foundation’s Best-Seller List and was included among “Top Picks” by Library Journal. In 2012 he published Deep Down in the Delta (Butler Center Books), a collection of poems based on folktales he gathered in and around his home community of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. Brownderville’s third book, A Horse with Holes in It, was released by LSU Press in November 2016. Collaborating with composer Jacob Cooper, Brownderville wrote the words to “Jar” (Silver Threads, Nonesuch Records, 2014) and Ripple the Sky, which premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2016 and was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2020. Brownderville has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New Millennium Writings, and the Porter Fund. He has been a Murphy Visiting Poet at Hendrix College and a writer in residence at the Lemon Tree House in Camporsevoli, Italy. Brownderville currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Southwest Review, the director of creative writing, and an associate professor of English at SMU in Dallas.

Tim Earley was born and raised in the Sandy Mush community of Rutherford County, North Carolina. He is the author of five books of poems, Boondoggle (Main Street Rag, 2005), The Spooking of Mavens (Cracked Slab Books, 2010), Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Horse Less Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award, Linthead Stomp (Horse Less Press, 2016), and Epigrams Both Ludic and Regicidal (Delete Press, 2019).

His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Chicago Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, Southern Humanities Review, Sink Review, Typo, Conduit, The Ecopoetry Anthology, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, and the Hick Poetics Anthology. He was educated at Isothermal Community College, USC Upstate, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing.

He is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, he teaches online courses in creative writing, Appalachian literature, fantasy literature, and early British literature. 

Tim is the founder of Odd Bard Games, a group of poets and writers dedicated to producing tabletop roleplaying games with an emphasis on character development and narrative richness. His first game, Holler: An Appalachian Apocalypse, uses the Savage Worlds rules system and focuses on labor conflict, environmental crisis, and Appalachian ghost stories/folklore. Holler will be published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 2021.

Orchesis Dance Theatre: Where Dance Breathes

Presented by Weber State Dance

When: November 18 - 20, 2021 @ 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Allred Theatre in WSU's Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts (3950 W Campus Dr., Ogden, UT)
Price: General Admission - $15;
Weber State Students, children under the age of 18, senior citizens and military members - $12

Orchesis Dance Theatre welcomes audiences back to the theatre space with Moving Company’s premiere works by Congolese Guest Artist Zim Zim and WSU faculty member Amanda Sowerby. Moving Company co-directors, Deja Mitchell and jo Blake, are excited that the invited guest artists have expressed interest in creating works that challenge the notion of what dance can be - past, present, and future. New works by student choreographers will be debuted as well.

Where Dance Breathes invites audiences to experience a wide array of works that are steeped in elements of time and effort as it interconnects with human connection, community-based outreach and technological advances that continue to support the physical art created and presented in November 2021 at the Browning Center's Allred Theater. 

IN PIECES: A New Musical

by Joey Contreras

Presented by Weber State Theatre

When: December 2 - 11, 2021
Location: The Eccles Theatre in WSU's Val A Browning Center for the Performing Arts (3950 W Campus Dr., Ogden, UT)
Price: General Admission - $15;
Weber State Students, children under the age of 18, senior citizens and military members - $12

"IN PIECES: A New Musical" by Joey Contreras reflects on the romantic journeys of eight individuals, as they share, ponder and look back on their chosen paths and partners along the way. Set in New York City. The scary excitement of being vulnerable and saying yes to whatever adventure is ahead. The magical first kiss. An unlikely friendship. Well-kept secrets. The monotony. The rebound. An awkward reunion. All these pieces come together to create a universal remembrance of what it’s like to be young and learning in love. Regional Premiere.