Events

Soprano Christine Goerke LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University will host four concerts for the inaugural season of the Gail Robinson Series, beginning with a performance by Metropolitan Opera star Christine Goerke on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. Tickets are available through the Singletary Center box office at (859) 257-2949, online or in person. Robinson, a soprano, sang with many of the world’s leading opera companies in the 1970s and 1980s. She spent 34 years at the Metropolitan Opera, including ten years as executive director of the Met’s Young Artists Program. She was also director of the Met’s National Council Auditions. In 1999, she became a voice professor at the University of Kentucky, where she taught until her death in 2008. Three of her mentees, Goerke, Gregory Turay and Michelle DeYoung, are featured in the inaugural season of the recital series. Soprano Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, La Scala, Teatro Municipal de Santiago and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, beginning with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now moving into the dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. Goerke has also appeared with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and the Orchestra of

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University Theater opens the 2012-13 season with “The Liar,” which runs Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3, at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 28, at 2 p.m., in Transylvania’s Lucille C. Little Theater.   Sullivan Canaday White, program director and assistant professor of theater, directs this Pierre Comielles farcical romance set in mid-seventeenth century France and linguistically adapted for today by David Ives. Dorante is a charming young man with a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. What our hero regrettably does not know is that Clarice is secretly engaged to his best friend Alcippe. Nor is he aware that his father is trying to get him married to Clarice, whom he thinks is Lucrece, who actually is in love with him. “If I had to pick one word to describe it I would say ‘silly,’” said junior Andrew Traughber, who plays the role of Dorante’s father, Geronte. “The set is very colorful and close enough to the audience that they may feel as if they are a part of the set. The costumes are comic renditions from the period; think Three Musketeers meets Liberace, without the glitter and sequins.” Tickets are $10 and may be reserved by calling the box office at (859) 281-3621, Monday-Friday, from 1-4

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—On Tuesday, October 16, more than 400 Latino, immigrant and refugee students are expected to attend the Eighth Annual Latino Multicultural Student College Fair (LMCF) at Transylvania University in the Beck Center from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The LMCF began as a collaboration between Bluegrass Community & Technical College’s (BCTC) Hispanic/Latino Outreach and the Kentucky State University Hispanic Initiative. The fair features workshops in English and Spanish centered on success in higher education. Since 2006, the fair has been held annually and has served more than 3,000 youths. “It is our hope to inspire and encourage students to explore all of their post-secondary opportunities,” said Gaby Baca, BCTC Latino Outreach Coordinator. The LMCF will offer many concurrent sessions including college preparation and planning, tips for selecting a college and how to apply for financial aid. There will also be sessions that offer help to first generation college students on how to be successful and advice for students on how to speak to parents about college planning, savings and Latino American history. Community college students searching for four-year institutions and university students searching for graduate school opportunities are also encouraged to participate. College representatives from 36 state and private colleges throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia are scheduled to attend. This year’s fair features a teachers’ and a parents’ conversation series as well. “We are encouraging teachers and parents to attend this event to learn and discuss what these

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—One of Lexington’s newest hot spots, West Sixth Brewing, is just blocks away from Transylvania University, in an old bread factory turned microbrewery and community creative space. It offers a variety of beer made on site, food from local food trucks and now…science lectures? “In Lexington we have gallery hops, music concerts, poetry readings and Civil War roundtables, which are all fantastic,” said Kirk Abraham, associate professor of exercise science at Transylvania. “However, science topics are generally not a part of our public discourse. I wanted to take science out of the classroom and into a relaxed setting, where people who are not experts can be part of the conversation.” To remove the academic formality of lectures in a class room, Abraham created the West Sixth Science Pub, which takes science topics out of the labs and into the taproom on the third Monday of each month from 6-7 p.m. Upcoming topics range from preventing diabetes with wine to preventing ACL injuries. All talks are free and open to the public. The science pub concept has taken off in other states and it’s not uncommon in  Oregon to have over 100 people attend a science pub talk and people are often lined up at the door when it opens. Abraham hopes the West Sixth Science Pub will generate the same kind of interest in the Lexington community. “I hope anyone who has a general interest in science will attend

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Marion Nestle, one of the nation’s top experts on nutrition, will give the fall 2012 Kenan Lecture Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The presentation, titled “Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health,” is free and open to the public. Nestle, a specialist in the politics of food and dietary choice, is the Paulette Goddard Professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, where she researches the connection between scientific and societal influences on dietary advice and practices. Her book “Food Politics” has won awards from the Association of American Publishers, the James Beard Foundation and World Hunger Year, and “What to Eat” was named one of Amazon’s top 10 books of 2006 and called a “must read” by “Eating Well” magazine. Nestle has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the 2011 National Public Health Hero award. In addition to her tenure at NYU, she is the visiting professor in the Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences. She was senior nutrition policy adviser for the Department of Health and Human Services and a managing editor for the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the United States Department of Agriculture/Department of Health

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