Anthropology Museum highlights African culture for spring after-school programs
January 26, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will focus on African culture during their spring after-school program, “Exploring World Cultures.” The four-part program, geared for children in grades 1-5, is designed to work in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit, “Spirit Influences on the Arts of Power: […]
WFU theatre presents ancient story of ‘Antigone’
January 26, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest Theatre Department will present a Timberlake Wertenbaker adaptation of “Antigone” written by Sophocles as the first show of the spring semester. The production will run Feb. 11-12 and Feb. 16-19 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. All shows will […]
WFU’s Art Gallery presents ‘Young Americans’ and ‘Memoirs of a Beast’
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will present two new exhibits that will run from Feb.10 through March 24. “Young Americans,” curated by Heather Stephens and Megan Bush, co-owners of the 31GRAND Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., will be exhibited in the Main […]
African exhibit to open at WFU’s Anthropology Museum
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
“Spirit Influences on the Arts of Power: The David and Karina Rilling Collection of African Art” will open Feb. 11 at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit, which explores how objects connected to the spirit world become essential to governing and decision-making in […]
Violinist Joshua Bell to perform for WFU’s Secrest Artists Series
January 25, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell will perform at Wake Forest University in the fourth concert of the university’s Secrest Artists Series at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in Wait Chapel. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Bell was originally scheduled to perform Feb. 10, but organizers […]
Holland & Corn to perform concert at WFU
January 21, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Events
Classical guitar duo Holland & Corn will perform at Wake Forest University in Brendle Recital Hall 8 p.m. Feb. 4. The concert is free and open to the public. Murray Holland and Duane Corn describe their work as “an exploration in music for two guitars […]
WFU Anthropology museum offers summer camp for kids
January 21, 2005 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events
This summer, children can take time out from the heat and cool off by exploring the cultures of the Arctic in “Snow Goggles in Summer?! The Arctic” at the Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology summer camps. Camps meet the weeks of June 13, 20, […]
Notre Dame Provost Nathan O. Hatch named 13th President of Wake Forest University
January 21, 2005 | University Announcement
Nathan O. Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame and one of the most influential scholars in the study of the history of religion in America, will become Wake Forest University’s 13th president on July 1. Following a 10-month national search, the Wake Forest […]
Stories this week at WFU
January 20, 2005 | Events, Speakers
ISRAELI PRIEST, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE TO SPEAK AT WFU — The Rev. Elias Chacour, a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen and priest in the Melkite Catholic Church, will discuss “Building Peace on the Desktops of Students” at 1 p.m. Jan. 22 in Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel. […]
WFU announces February lecture schedule
January 20, 2005 | Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University announces the February schedule for lectures that are open to the public. Feb. 1, Babcock Leadership Lecture with William R. Johnson, 2 p.m., Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. William R. Johnson, chairman, president and CEO of H.J. Heinz Company, will present a […]
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