Events

Cast of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s “Macbeth” LEXINGTON, Ky.—Several Transylvania University student groups are partnering for Shakesweek, a three-day festival of events celebrating the birthday of William Shakespeare. Included in the events are two free public performances, on April 25 and 26. On Thursday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m., the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will present a post-apocalypse style version of “Macbeth” on the lawn of Old Morrison, Transylvania’s administration building on Third Street. The actors will offer a question and answer session following the performance and there will be blanket space and chairs for audience members. On Friday, April 26, at 5:30 p.m., there will be “A Night of Shakespeare Scenes and Music,” in Old Morrison chapel featuring scenes from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Caesar” and “Henry V” performed by students in The Transylvania Theatre Guild. The student band The Cowgill Tippers and Transylvania’s a cappella group, TBA, will perform pieces based on Shakespeare’s works. “This event initially came about because people from the English and theater departments had been talking about how we should collaborate more often, since we’re often studying the same works from different points of view,” said senior Elizabeth Davis, president of Sigma Tau Delta English honorary and organizer of Shakesweek. “What author could be more interdisciplinary than Shakespeare?” Other activities for students during Shakesweek include a screening of the 1999 film “10 Things I Hate About You,” which is based on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Eric Stoller, higher education thought leader, consultant and writer will present Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Titled “Our Shared Future: Digital Identity, Leadership, and Your Career,” his presentation will focus on social media and teaching students about digital identity development. Stoller is a former academic advisor and web coordinator for the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. He served previously as a marketing specialist for student affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has more than 10 years of experience in higher education and student affairs and has been blogging for more than eight years. For more information about Stoller, visit his blog.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Poet Maurice Manning will read from a collection of his work, including his upcoming book “The Gone and the Going Away,” Monday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public. Manning, who has published four books of poetry, was recently selected as one of the judges for the National Book Award poetry prize, which was awarded in November. On a panel with four other judges, he helped select a winner for the poetry prize from 181 submissions. Manning’s most recent book, “The Common Man,” was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His first collection, “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,” was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has had his works in publications including The New Yorker, Washington Square, The Southern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Manning’s fifth book, “The Gone and the Going Away,” will be published in April. Manning joined the Transylvania faculty in September 2012 as an English professor and writer in residence. He also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, the Appalachian Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The lecture is sponsored by the Delcamp Visiting Writer series. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Wear your favorite baseball jersey and join the Transylvania University community for a night of concession refreshments and baseball history as filmmaker Byron Motley discusses his documentary, “The Negro Baseball League: An American Legacy,” which is scheduled to air on PBS in February 2014. The presentation, Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., in the William T. Young Campus Center is free and open to the public. It offers an insightful, educational and entertaining look at the histories and memories of the Negro Leagues. Motley is a singer, songwriter, filmmaker, lecturer, author and photographer. In 2007, he co-authored his father’s memoir, “Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars: Umpiring in the Negro Leagues and Beyond.” His father, Bob Motley, is the only living umpire from the Negro Leagues. The talk is sponsored by the Transylvania University Athletics Department, the Creative Intelligence Lecture Series, and the offices of diversity and inclusion and student life. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.