October 2006

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream rolls on stage at Transylvania for six performances

Posted on October 24, 2006July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Transylvania opens its 2006-07 theater season with Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Thursday, November 2, in the Lucille C. Little Theater. This classic tale of fairies and mismatched lovers, which has become one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, runs November 2-3 and 9-11 at 7:30 p.m., and November 4-5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written sometime in the mid-1590s, follows an original plotline in which several characters face difficulties in the form of social hierarchy, artistic license, love and magical fairies. The play follows Lysander and Hermia, two lovers torn apart by Hermia’s engagement to Demetrius. The two agree to elope, but their plan is foiled when Helena, a woman in love with Demetrius, informs him of the plot. The resulting confusion is intensified by the involvement of kindhearted woodland fairies, whose antics ultimately bring about a happy ending for everyone. This classic comedy is directed by Tim Soulis, drama program director and professor of drama. Call (859) 233-8141 for more information, and (859) 281-3621 for tickets.

Transylvania University invites high school juniors and seniors to Fall Open House

Posted on October 11, 2006July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University will host an open house for high school juniors and seniors and their families Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m – 2 p.m. Student will have the opportunity to attend faculty presentations, an academic information fair, a student panel and a session about scholarships and financial aid. They will also have the opportunity to tour campus, meet the president and talk with faculty members and current students about all aspects of life at Transylvania. A complimentary lunch will be served. Registration begins at 9 a.m. in the Clive M. Beck Center. Interested students may register for the open house and obtain more information by calling Transylvania’s admissions office at (800) 872-6798 or (859) 233-8242. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently ranked in national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

Transylvania student group hosts “Global Warming: Local Practices, Global Effects” with a free showing of An Inconvenient Truth followed by a panel discussion

Posted on October 6, 2006July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

The public is invited to a free showing of the highly acclaimed film An Inconvenient Truth Wednesday, October 11, at the Kentucky Theater, at 5:30 p.m.,followed by a panel discussion, “Global Warming: Local Practices, Global Effects.” Panelists include Ben Chandler, U.S. congressman; John Clay, deputy secretary of the environmental and public protection cabinet; and James Wagner, professor of biology at Transylvania and 2001 CASE/Carnegie Kentucky Professor of the Year will follow. Peter Fosl, professor of philosophy at Transylvania and recipient of the 2006 Acorn Award from the Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education, will moderate. An Inconvenient Truth was a 2006 Sundance Film Festival hit and offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who has a personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. He is persuasive in his argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue. The event is hosted by the Transylvania Environmental Rights and Responsibilities Alliance (TERRA), an organization committed to better awareness and understanding of environmental issues in the community. Event sponsors are Natasha’s Café, the Kentucky Theater, Civil Service Institute, Youth Service America, Pohl Rosa Pohl, the Good Foods Co-op, the Transylvania University Career Development Center and Transylvania’s divisions of fine arts, natural science and mathematics,

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Four emerging artists are exhibiting their newest work at Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opened Monday, October 23.

Posted on October 6, 2006July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Four emerging artists from New York, Philadelphia and Virginia will exhibit their newest work at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opens Monday, October 23, and runs through Friday, November 17. Andy Byers, Ryan Kelly, Morgan Herrin and Andrea Moreau are four up-and-coming visual artists who have two things in common: They are 2005 Ohio State University masters graduates and they are meeting with great success in their first year out of grad school. Kelly and Byers are ceramicists, Herrin is a sculptor and Moreau is a painter. Kelly was just awarded the prestigious Resident Artist position at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Byers has been working as an art director’s assistant in New York and playing with his critically successful band, Minus Story; Herrin received rave reviews for his new work in the exhibit Diamonds Cut Diamonds at Rare Gallery in New York; and Moreau was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, the largest and most international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States. The jazzy one-word title, SNAP!, is a slang term to describe disbelief, which is what viewers will feel when taking in the sculptures and drawings in the exhibition. “Each of these artists has a real gift for taking mundane and ordinary materials from our everyday lives and turning them into the magical, the beautiful and the humorous,” said Andrea Fisher, director of the Morlan

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