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Great Performance Series: Nathaniel Dett Chorale
November 20, 7:30pm
Dimnent Memorial Chapel

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is a Canadian professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues. The 21 classically trained vocalists have shared the stage with internationally recognized artists such as Juno Award-winning jazz pianist Joe Sealy; opera star Kathleen Battle; the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; and the Signal Hill Alumni Choir of Tobago, West Indies. The chorale has also performed at events honoring world leaders Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and personalities Muhammad Ali and Oscar Peterson.

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Christmas Vespers Tickets on Sale November 21!

Call or visit the ticket office in DeVos Fieldhouse on November 21 to reserve your spot at the Christmas Vespers Services. Services will be held December 5 at 4:30pm and 8:00pm, and on December 6 at 2:00 and 4:30pm. See the full press release for more details.

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Knickerbocker Film: "Lemon Tree"
November 20, 7:30pm
Knickerbocker Theatre

Widowed empty-nester Salma Zidane lives on the Palestinian West Bank, in a little house flanked by lemon trees planted by her great grandparents. Unfortunately, when the Israeli minister of defense builds a house adjacent to her own, her lemon trees are deemed a security risk. Salma hires a lawyer to prevent the powerful man from having her ancestral trees removed, but the odds are stacked against her, and to make matters worse, she begins to fall in love with her lawyer. Things seem bleak, but it looks like hope could shine in from an unexpected source, when the minister's neglected wife develops sympathy for Salma's plight.

The "Los Angeles Times" has called the film a "sober-hearted take on the righteous blowback from whittled-away souls, and a movie that invariably rights itself with each return to the beautifully steely gaze of Abbass."

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IMAGES: A Reflection of Culture
November 21, 7pm
Knickerbocker Theatre

"Images" will begin with a dinner featuring international cuisine from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Phelps Hall dining room. For those not on the college's meal plan, admission to the dinner will be $5 per person, payable at the door.

The international showcase, to which admission is free, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The showcase will feature an array of songs, dances, instrumental performances and other clips of culture in multiple languages and fashions. More than 30 students will participate from countries such as Burma, China, Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Women's Chamber Choir to Perform
Monday, November 23, 7:30pm
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church

The program will include poetry by Emily Bronte and Leonora Speyer, accompanied on piano by Lannette Zylman-TenHave. Other pieces include two spirituals, "Nobody knows the trouble I see" and "Let Me Ask You," featuring soloists from the choir; a four-part setting of the Latin text "Jesu, dulcis memoria" ("Jesus, the very thought of thee"); an energetic Psalm 150; and an evocative work by Venezuelan composer Alberto Grau, "Kasar mie la gaji" ("The earth is tired"), in which the choir imitates the wind and navigates cross-rhythms and dissonances. The program will close with the choir's traditional song, "Blessing," by Katie Moran Bart.

The Women's Chamber Choir is directed by instructor and staff accompanist Jennifer Wolfe.  She holds master's degrees in choral conducting and piano performance from MichiganStateUniversity and the University of Illinois.

Student Juried Art Show
November 30- December 18
DePree Art Center

The competitive exhibition, open to all students at Hope, is an annual fixture in the De Pree gallery. All Hope College students were eligible to submit work in any media.

Each year, the department of art and art history invites a recognized artist or curator to judge the student work. This year the juror is Jimmy Kuehnle, who received an MFA in sculpture in 2006 from the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 2008 he researched public art and worked in the studio as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and artist in Japan. In the summer of 2009 he was a resident artist at Atelje Stundars in Vaasa, Finland. This fall he is the Philip C. Curtis Artist in Residence at Albion College. His current exhibition, "I Don't Like Cold Weather," is at the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, and a solo exhibition of new work will be at PittsburgStateUniversity in Pittsburg, Kan., in January.

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