Feb. 7, 2012 – Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein, two entrepreneurs who left San Francisco in mid-January on a cross-country road trip to talk about innovative and sustainable modes of manufacturing, are making a stop in Meadville this week. Ghalib and Hornstein, founders of Pocket Factory 22, will be at the Meadville Market House on [...]

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Feb. 2, 2012 – One of the world’s best known environmentalists, author and activist Bill McKibben, will give a presentation at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 in Shafer Auditorium at Allegheny College. McKibben’s talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the college’s Year of Sustainable Communities. McKibben is the author [...]

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Feb. 2, 2012 – Tibetan Bon Lama Tempa Dukte will give a talk on “The Preciousness of Our Life” on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Ford Chapel at Allegheny College. The talk is free and open to all. Tempa Lama is founder and spiritual director of Olmo Ling Bon Center in Pittsburgh. An [...]

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Jan. 26, 2012 – Creek Camp, a residential environmental science camp for students entering 10th or 11th grade, will take place this summer at Allegheny College. Campers can choose from two nearly identical sessions on June 24-29 or July 8-13. Now in its seventh year, Creek Camp is hosted by Creek Connections, a watershed education [...]

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Jan. 25, 2012 — The art galleries of Allegheny College are presenting “In Sisterhood: The Women’s Movement in Pittsburgh,” curated by Patricia Ulbrich, through Saturday, March 10. A closing reception will be held in the galleries on Friday, March 9, from 7 to 9 p.m., with a public lecture by the curator. The exhibit features [...]

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Jan. 20, 2012 — The Allegheny College chapter of Theta Chi fraternity is bringing a production of “The Apology of Socrates” to campus for a performance that will benefit CHAPS, the Crawford County Mental Health Awareness Program. The one-man performance by Yannis Simonides, a dramatization of Plato’s “The Apology of Socrates,” will be presented at [...]

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Jan. 17, 2012 — The art galleries of Allegheny College present “The Figure Untamed: Desire as Resistance,” curated by Visiting Professor of Art Valerie Gilman and gallery director Darren Lee Miller. A reception will be held in the galleries on Wednesday, Jan. 25, from 7 to 9 p.m., with a slide lecture by artists Erin [...]

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Jan. 10, 2012 – The Allegheny College community will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of free public events on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 16 and 17. The theme of this year’s celebration of King’s life and work is “Sustaining King’s Dream: Raising Consciousness, Enacting Change, Building Community.” Writer, poet, [...]

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Jan. 10, 2012 — People of faith in the Crawford County area can learn how to become more energy efficient by attending a program at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22, at Allegheny College’s Ford Chapel. The program will feature board members of Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (PAIPL), along with members of a local [...]

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Dec. 7, 2011 — The Allegheny Chamber Singers will present a free public concert of oratorio excerpts at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, in Ford Chapel on the Allegheny College campus. The program will include excerpts from Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” Gilles’ “Messe des Mortes,” Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” Handel’s “Dettingen Te Deum,” J.C. Bach’s “Dies Irae,” J.S. [...]

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Dec. 2, 2011 — The Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College will host a discussion on domestic and global poverty issues from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 in the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is open to the public. Three Allegheny seniors — Ben Dempe, Chris Plano and Elise Swanekamp — [...]

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Nov. 30, 2011 – The Fall 2011 Senior Comprehensive Projects and Advanced Studio Projects exhibitions will open at the Allegheny College art galleries with a public reception in the galleries on Tuesday, Dec. 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibits will showcase the work of graduating art and technology major Andrew Kaye and 19 [...]

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Nov. 29, 2011 — The Dance and Movement Studies Program at Allegheny College will present its free annual “Cookies and Milk” holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 4, with performances at 2 and 4 p.m. in the college’s Montgomery Performance Space. Refreshments will be served in Room 301/302 of the Campus Center at 3 p.m. The [...]

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Nov. 22, 2011 — Leah Wolfson, senior program officer in the Center for Advanced Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will present a free public lecture on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 301/302 of the Campus Center at Allegheny College. The title of her presentation is “A Song for a [...]

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Nov. 22, 2011 – Charles W. Mills will present a free public lecture titled “Contract and Domination: The Intersections of Racism and Sexism” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center at Allegheny College. Mills is diversity scholar in residence at Allegheny for fall 2011. Mills, who [...]

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Nov. 21, 2011 — The Allegheny College Choirs will present their annual free Christmas Concert on Saturday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. in the college’s Shafer Auditorium. Four choirs and 140 singers will perform a variety of sacred and secular music of the season under the direction of Ward Jamison, director of choral activities at [...]

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Nov. 16, 2011 – Three performances remain for the Allegheny College Playshop Theatre production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” directed by Mark Cosdon. The show will be presented in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts Nov. 17-19. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. [...]

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Nov. 14, 2011 — The Allegheny College Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble will present its 2011 Fall Concert on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 3:15 p.m. in the college’s Shafer Auditorium. Admission is free of charge. The ensemble is under the direction of Professor of Music Lowell Hepler. Assistant Professor of Music Jennifer Dearden will be [...]

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Nov. 14, 2011 — The Allegheny College Percussion Ensemble, Trumpet Ensemble and Brass Quartet will perform in a combined concert on the stage of the college’s Shafer Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. The audience will be seated on the stage with the performers for this free concert. Stephen F. Corsi and Jennifer [...]

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Nov. 11, 2011 — The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre continues its 2011-2012 season with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” directed by Mark Cosdon. The show – conceived by Rebecca Feldman, book by Rachel Sheinkin and music and lyrics by William Finn – will be presented in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre in the [...]

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Nov. 11, 2011 — Katie Koestner will give a presentation at Allegheny College on the prevention of date rape. The talk, at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, in the college’s Shafer Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Koestner will share her own story as well as those of male and female students [...]

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Nov. 8, 2011 — The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will present essayist Matthew Ferrence at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The reading is free and open to the public. Ferrence recently joined the college’s Department of English after stints in both journalism [...]

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Oct. 24, 2011 — Award-winning fabric artist Louise Silk returns to Allegheny College for a residency from Nov. 3-5 as part of the college’s Year of Sustainable Communities. In addition to showing a documentary on quilt making on Thursday, she will present a slide talk at the Meadville Council on the Arts on Friday and [...]

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Oct. 24, 2011 – Union Latina at Allegheny College is hosting a Day of the Dead celebration on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Nov. 1. The public is invited to attend the celebration of the Day of the Dead, or Dia de Los Muertos, a traditional Mexican holiday that remembers those who have passed away [...]

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Oct. 20, 2011 — James C. Bulman, the Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English at Allegheny College, will deliver the 16th annual Pelletier Library Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the college’s Pelletier Library. Bulman’s lecture, “Three Faces of Hamlet: The Potentials of Performance Criticism,” is free and open [...]

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Oct. 20, 2011 — The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will present its second author of the season at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, with poet Shara McCallum reading from her work. The presentation in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center is free and open to the public. McCallum is [...]

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Oct. 20, 2011 – Sculptor, painter and metalworker David Edwards, a 1984 graduate of Allegheny College, will give a talk at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, in Room A104 of the Doane Hall of Art on the Allegheny campus. The public is invited to this free presentation, titled “Public Art, Community Environments and Questions [...]

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Oct. 18, 2011 – Allegheny College today presented a two-year gift of $130,000 to the City of Meadville. The college has been making a monetary gift to the city since 2005. With the newest contribution, the college’s total gift to the city since 2005 reaches $395,000. “The City is always appreciative of Allegheny’s gift,” said [...]

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Oct. 18, 2011 – Allegheny College will participate in the 2011 Collegiate Challenge to benefit WQLN, northwest Pennsylvania’s public radio station, on Thursday, Oct. 20. WQLN will be broadcasting live from the Campus Center lobby from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Allegheny College alumni, students, faculty and staff will compete with their counterparts at Pitt [...]

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Oct. 14, 2011 — “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces,” 36 works of art that consider the veil in its many manifestations, will be on exhibit at the Allegheny College Art Galleries from Tuesday, Nov. 1, through Sunday, Nov. 27. A reception in the galleries from 7 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 1 will include [...]

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