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The Swingles, a vocal group that has morphed with and pushed the boundaries of music for more than 50 years, will perform the final concert of the 2015-16 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts (HBPA) season at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 3, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. HBPA season ticket holders are invited to […]
Hesston College Theatre will present six performances on two separate weekends of the spring musical Working. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., April 1 and 2 and April 8 and 9, and at 2:30 p.m., April 3 and 10. All performances are in the Helmuth Studio Theatre in Hesston College’s Northlawn Center for Performing Arts […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will present the program “Transform Our Lives” in churches and schools throughout Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa during a spring break tour March 6 to 13. All concerts are free and open to the public, through free will offerings will be collected to assist with tour costs. “Transform […]
About 5:30 p.m., Thursday evening, Feb. 25, the Hesston College campus went on lockdown after receiving information from emergency services about an active shooting incident at nearby Excel Industries. The campus was not in immediate danger, but due to the college’s close proximity to Excel – about four blocks – emergency officials instructed the lock […]
What does it look like to live out our faith? That was the question explored by more than 300 registrants from 17 states at Hesston College’s Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series (AVDS) weekend Feb. 19 to 21. The weekend’s theme, “Not Just on a Sunday,” featured Shane Claiborne, an ordinary radical, founder of The Simple […]
Of all the repeat artists to the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series, the group of 12 men appearing at Bethel College later this month is certainly one of the best loved. Chanticleer, “an orchestra of voices” named for a clear-singing rooster in the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, will perform Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial […]
Golfers from across the country can take a break from the winter cold in sunny Arizona for Hesston College’s seventh annual National Golf Benefit for Student Scholarships, Saturday, March 12, at The 500 Club in Glendale, Ariz. Proceeds from the benefit go to student financial aid. But even if a trip to Arizona doesn’t fit […]
Hesston College’s annual Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series will feature nationally known Christian speaker and author, Shane Claiborne, to explore the theme “Not Just on Sunday” Feb. 19 to 21. The conference will explore what it looks like to live a vibrant 24/7 faith by discovering spiritual practices that bring transformation. Both youth and adults […]
A group of Hesston College students are honing their professional skills as interns with the college’s Marketing and Communications team during the spring semester. The internship is an opportunity for students to expand their skills and creativity and build their professional portfolios as freshmen and sophomores – a step in the process that many students […]
One of the most internationally sought-after string quartets, Minguet Quartet, will join with dynamic pianist Andreas Klein for the third concert in the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series (HBPA) 2015-16 season at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 1, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Minguet Quartet, a German group comprised of two violins, a […]
The Hesston College Presidential Search Committee met on campus Jan. 15 and 16 to work through the process of determining the best candidate for the college’s next president. President Howard Keim, the college’s eighth president, announced his resignation in October, to be effective June 30, after 11 years of service. The search committee facilitated listening […]
For the second year in a row, Hesston College is offering any interested participants the opportunity to learn the history and dynamics of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in a weeklong Civil Rights Seminar during the college’s spring break, March 4 to 13. The seminar, led by Hesston College faculty member John Sharp […]
Tradition-rich Celtic song and dance will help usher in the holiday season when Cherish the Ladies presents their Celtic Christmas program for Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts (HBPA) series at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 3, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Formed in 1985 in New York City, Cherish the Ladies is a Grammy-nominated, […]
A Hesston Thanksgiving tradition, the Hesston College Music Department will present its annual masterworks concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 26, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The performance will feature The Creation, a Classical period oratorio by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. The oratorio, under the direction of Hesston College music faculty […]
Hesston College Theatre will present four performances of the fall drama These Shining Lives, directed by Rachel Jantzi, Nov. 12 to 15 in the Helmuth Studio Theatre in the Northlawn Center for Performing Arts Education on the Hesston College campus. Set in the 1920’s, These Shining Lives, by Melanie Marnich, is the true story of […]
