The Fine Arts Division of Hesston College has planned a Fine Arts Week beginning Tuesday, March 31 and ending Sunday, April 5. The theme this year is “A Grand Time With the Arts.” The events are free and open to the public, except for the HBPA Sunday concert. The events are: Tuesday, March 31, 7 […]
Hesston College chemistry students will benefit from a National Science Foundation grant awarded to college chemistry professor Jim Yoder. The grant comes in the form of a Faculty Fellowship in the research Site for Educators of Chemistry (RSEC) program at Wichita State University. During that 10-week fellowship beginning at the end of May, Yoder will […]
Les and Gwen Gustafson-Zook, Goshen, Ind., will serve as Church Leaders in Residence at Hesston College March 18-20. Storytellers and musicians for Mennonite Central Committee, they serve as regional associates for the MCC Great Lakes office in Goshen, Indiana. The couple will lead chapel at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 18 and 11 a.m. Friday, March […]
Ted Swartz and Trent Wagler, with director Ingrid De Sanctis, have created a new play with music, What Would Lloyd Do? to be presented at Hesston Mennonite Church at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 22. The play contains great original music, lots of humor, and important themes of disappointment and disillusionment, faith, and hope, within the […]
More than 250 people attended an educational and inspiring concert by legendary Irish folk singer and peace activist Tommy Sands at Hesston College Tuesday evening, February 24. Sands was joined on stage by his two children, also accomplished musicians, 26–year old daughter Moya, who sang and played a number of instruments, and his 25-year old […]
A new play from Ted and Company TheaterWorks is coming to Hesston at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 22. Ted Swartz and Trent Wagler, with director Ingrid De Sanctis, have created this new play with music, What Would Lloyd Do? to be presented at Hesston Mennonite Church. Embracing themes of disappointment and disillusionment, it includes a […]
Andreía Dück (left) and Geverton Ost, international students from Brazil, perform the gaúcha dance during the 17th annual International Festival at Hesston College Thursday evening, February 12. The theme this year was “An International Valentine.” Gaúcho clothing, worn by men, and gaúcha clothing, worn by women, reflect historical and cultural influences in Brazil and Argentina […]
Hesston College alumni and friends are invited to an evening of music, comedy entertainment, and dessert starting at 7 p.m., Friday, March 13, at LVD’s Concert Hall at the Historic 1896 Old Bag Factory, 1100 Chicago Avenue in Goshen. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Performers include two Hesston College alumni-professional baritone and faculty member […]
Alumni and friends of Hesston College and Hesston Academy are invited to donate items that are of historical significance or that have some tie to the institution, which is 100 years old this year. The items will be sold during the Heritage Auction in Yost Center, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, September […]
The high-energy Irish David Munnelly Band made a big impression on south central Kansas when they first appeared at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield several years ago, and now they’re coming to Bethel College. The band is the fourth artist group in the 2008-09 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series season. They will sing, dance and […]
Ireland’s legendary folk singer and peace activist, Tommy Sands, will appear with his children and accomplished musicians, 25-year-old Moya and 26-year-old Fionán Sands, at the Hesston Mennonite Church Community Center. The performance is 7 p.m., Tuesday, February 24. The concert is sponsored by Hesston College, and Peace Connections of Newton. A freewill offering will be […]
Plan on fun for the entire family when Hesston College hosts its annual Alumni and Community Basketball Games at the college’s Yost Center Saturday afternoon, February 21. The Larks will host Southeast Community College from Beatrice, Neb. The women’s game tips off at 2 p.m., and the men’s game to follow at 4 p.m. The […]
Poet and social activist Mama Brenda Matthews will speak at Hesston College February 18-19. She is the fifth speaker in the Melva Kauffman Lecture Series that began in 2005. Matthews, who lives in Chicago, is a poet and dynamic speaker whose purpose is to plant seeds of change in the hearts of those who have […]
Abstract and mixed media created by Ashley Sauder-Miller, a 2001 graduate of Hesston College, will be on exhibit in the Hesston College Gallery located in Smith Center February 9-March 9. Her works were produced largely during the final semester of her master of fine arts degree that she earned from James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Va.) […]
Look for lots of improvisation in the upcoming Hesston College production of Godspell. The Music and Theatre departments will present the musical in the Northlawn 109 Studio Theater at 7:30 p.m. February 19-21 and February 26-27, and 8:30 p.m. February 28. Theatre director Megan Tyner says the script itself is open to interpretation. “I’ve seen […]
