Events

Richard Taylor LEXINGTON, Ky.—In celebration of the National Day of Writing, Transylvania University will host a poetry reading, “Writing the Landscape” at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning on Thursday, October 20, at 6 p.m. The reading, which is free and open to the public, features authors Carrie Green, George Ella Lyon, Bianca Spriggs ’03, Richard Taylor, and Lisa Williams. Green is the author of “It’s Not My Birthday, That’s Not My Cake.” Lyon is the author of numerous books for children and adults including several collections of poetry such as “Catalpa,” “Where I’m From, Where Poems Come From” and “Choices: Stories for Adult New Readers.” Spriggs, an Affrilachian poet and Cave Canem Fellow, graduated from Transylvania in 2003 and is the author of “Kaffir Lily” and “How Swallowtails Become Dragons.” Taylor is a former poet laureate of Kentucky and the current Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania. He is the author of “Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War in Kentucky,” “Rail Splitter,” “Stone Eye” and “Girty.” Williams is associate professor of English at Centre College and the author of “Woman Reading to the Sea” and “The Hammered Dulcimer.” The lecture is sponsored by the Carnegie Center, the Transylvania Writing Center, and Transy/Sustainability. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. For more information, contact Scott Whiddon, assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and communication and director of the Writing Center at Transylvania.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Actors from the American Shakespeare Center (ASC) will perform “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Monday, November 7, and “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore” on Tuesday, November 8, in Carrick Theater at 7:30 p.m. The ASC strives to recreate the festive sense of community that delighted patrons of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Theater during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Instead of using elaborate sets and electronic wizardry, the innovative company focuses on presentation, performing with the house lights on and speaking directly to the audience. ASC has honed its art since 1988, performing in 47 states and five foreign countries. This will be the  group’s first appearance in Lexington. Through the generosity of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, free tickets, two per person, are available at the William T. Young Campus Center (corner of Broadway and Fourth Street), beginning Tuesday, October 18 from 6-11 p.m. Hours for the campus center after Tuesday are: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Saturday noon-8 p.m.; and Sunday 1-11 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Coaches and players from both the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University will attend a tip-off dinner on Oct. 30 at Keeneland Entertainment Center in advance of the historic meeting of the teams on Nov. 2. Tickets are available for the event, billed as “Dinner with the Pioneers and Wildcats.” The teams will then meet on the court for the first time in 100 years on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Rupp Arena in an exhibition game. Individual seats for the dinner are $150 but tables can also be purchased for prices ranging from $1,200 for seating for 10 to $15,000 for a table that includes the head coaches. All proceeds from the event will go to the Transylvania athletics department. Click here for more information about reserving a table or buying an individual ticket, a live auction, and other events to be held in conjunction with the event. Check-in and a cash bar begins at 5:45 p.m. with dinner to follow at 6:30 p.m. Follow this link to see the all-time record and learn more about the history of the rivalry. Follow this link to find head shots of the Transylvania players and coaching staff. The exhibition game with Kentucky follows a pre-season trip to Canada for the Pioneers, set for Oct. 15-17. Transylvania will take on Calgary, Windsor, and Western Ontario in exhibition contests. Transylvania and UK last played on March 3, 1911, in a game

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—On September 30, Transylvania University junior Paul Brown will open his first solo exhibit, “The Prayer Project,” at the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery in Lexington. A reception will be held at 6-11 p.m. and is free and open to the public. For “The Prayer Project,” a sculptural audio show, Brown has collected nearly 400 prayers from a variety of sources and had volunteers record them. The prayers can be heard from one end of a soup can telephone mounted onto each of three sculptures. Each sculpture broadcasts a different type of prayer: inward, outward or upward. Prayers are commonly categorized in this way, with inward prayers functioning as a means of self-reflection or meditation, outward prayers being about and for others and upward prayers being a means of connecting with the divine, such as a prayer of praise. “I decided religion and prayer were good foils for that lack of clarity that comes from using can telephones,” Brown said, of his concept for the exhibit. Kevin Ladd, associate professor of psychology at Indiana University South Bend, will give a talk at the opening reception. Ladd’s research interests include prayer, the interface between science and religion and spiritual transformation. Brown has consulted with Ladd throughout the development of his exhibit and the graphite drawings Brown has also included in the exhibition depict prayer positions that seem universal among most faiths and are consistent with Ladd’s concept of directional prayer.

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