LLCC music instructors Denise Edwards and Barbara Lanham will present the piano recital “Christmas for Two” on Sunday, Dec. 6. The 2 p.m. recital is being held in the Trutter Center and is free and open to the public.
“Christmas for Two” is an arrangement of Christmas carols for four hands by Robert D. Vandall.
The LLCC James S. Murray Gallery closes its fall season with an exhibition by LLCC faculty in a variety of media. The LLCC faculty show will be on display through Thursday, Dec. 17.
This year’s faculty show includes the work of Joseph Ciaccio, Michelle Coakes, Al Shull, Leslie Stalter, Emily Thompson, Thom Whalen and Joseph Williams.
Final semester projects make great submissions for the Lincoln Land Review! We are reviewing academic non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, digital media and fine art. As the semester draws to a close and faculty are collecting final projects, we encourage instructors to encourage their students to submit their best work in academic and creative writing and digital and fine art to the Lincoln Land Review. Of course, we are also interested in any other work students are proud of that they would like to submit. Students do not have to be currently enrolled in an English or Art class to submit; our last publication actually includes academic writing from a number of disciplines and personal work that students have created on their own!
Submissions will automatically be entered into the 2015-2016 LLCC Writing and Art Contest for a $50 prize in each category. Furthermore, publication in a campus literary journal looks great on a resume or college transfer application, while showcasing student work to the campus community and beyond.
Students can go to the Lincoln Land Review website to use our submission form: lincolnlandreview.org. They can also submit to us or send specific questions directly to LincolnLandReview@llcc.edu.
Thanks for your support of student writing and art!
The LLCC Traveling Theatre class is going on the road for a series of 16 performances in the central Illinois area beginning Dec. 3. The 17 cast members will present their children’s theatre production of “Operation Super Hero,” at four different locations every day on Dec. 3, 4, 10 and 11.
Adjunct theatre instructor Ken Bradbury said that the experience harkens back to the days of traveling tent shows and vaudeville. “It’s a joyous and grueling experience,” said Bradbury. “The Lincoln Land vans pull up, we unload the equipment truck, set up the show in fifteen minutes and the curtain’s up.” The traveling troupe will be performing for approximately 3,000 elementary and middle school students in this year’s road tour.
Bradbury is especially gratified that many of this year’s LLCC actors signed up for the class because their first introduction to theatre came by watching the previous Lincoln Land theatre tours. “So many of my students tell me that they once sat in the audience and said, ‘I want to do that some day.’”
For a schedule of this year’s road tour, contact ken@bradbury.cc.
Dr. G. William Zorn, adjunct English instructor, will have a free reading of his new play, “Housekeeping” on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.. The reading is being held at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (600 N. East Street, Bloomington, IL). With apologies to Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde,” the play weaves together the stories of eight individuals whose paths cross through extraordinary means in 2009.
Tonight is the last opportunity to see “Your Swash Is Unbuckled.” Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Hoogland Center for the Arts Theatre III.
Three of the plays are world-premieres, authored by Goode just for LLCC Theatre under the direction of Mark Hardiman, LLCC professor of theatre.
Tickets are on sale for $18 ($16 for seniors and $10 for students with ID) at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 South 6th St., by calling 217.523.2787 or online at http://www.hcfta.org. The production is suggested for mature audiences.
More information about the play can be found HERE.
A reminder that Arts and Humanities is hosting the third and final presentation in its East Asia Film and Lecture Series tonight from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center. There is no charge to attend.
The film “Tokyo Story” (1953), will be shown, followed by a discussion led by Elizabeth Oyler, associate professor of Japanese and director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
A reminder that Arts and Humanities is hosting the third and final presentation in its East Asia Film and Lecture Series tomorrow, Nov. 5 from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center. There is no charge to attend.
The film “Tokyo Story” (1953), will be shown, followed by a discussion led by Elizabeth Oyler, associate professor of Japanese and director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
“Tokyo Story,” directed by Yasujiro Ozu, has been described as a profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. “Tokyo Story” plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what has been called “one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces” (Film Comment) and “one of the three greatest films ever made” (Sight and Sound Critics’ Poll 1992).
Arts and Humanities hosts the third and final presentation in its East Asia Film and Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 5 from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center. There is no charge to attend.
The film “Tokyo Story” (1953), will be shown, followed by a discussion led by Elizabeth Oyler, associate professor of Japanese and director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
“Tokyo Story,” directed by Yasujiro Ozu, has been described as a profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. “Tokyo Story” plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what has been called “one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces” (Film Comment) and “one of the three greatest films ever made” (Sight and Sound Critics’ Poll 1992).
Discussion leader Elizabeth Oyler’s research focuses on pre-modern Japanese literature and drama, particularly works of the medieval period focused on the rise of the samurai class. She teaches courses on pre-modern Japanese literature and theater as well as classical Japanese language. Her publications include the book “Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan,” and she was co-editor of the volume “Like Clouds or Mists: Translations and Studies of Noh Plays of the Genpei War.”
The East Asia Film and Lecture Series is offered in partnership with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at UIUC. In the spring semester, LLCC is offering “Cultural Values in the Eastern World” (Humanities 201) Thursday evenings, taught by English professors Paul Van Heuklom and Ashley Green. Students will explore the literature, music, philosophy and fine arts of the Eastern culture as well as complexities in the development of the human spirit.
The Central Illinois Woodwind Quintet will perform in the LLCC 
Recital Series on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center. The recital is free and open to the public.
The Central Illinois Woodwind Quintet was founded in 2014 and performs traditional and contemporary music in recitals and for various events. This LLCC Recital Series program will include classic woodwind quintet repertoire written by Hindemith, Ibert, Piazzola and Tull. Members include UIS faculty member Dr. Abigail Walsh, flute, with Troy Rasmussen, oboe; Greg Cohill, clarinet; Jeni Phelps, bassoon; and Chris Lynch, horn.
Other performances in the 2015-2016 LLCC Recital Series:
Nov. 15 – Theresa O’Hare & Tom Irwin
Jan. 31 – Melinda Pitt Kaye
Feb. 21 – River Ramblers
March 20 – Brickhouse Brass
April 3 – Emerald Underground
May 1 – Paul Van Heuklom – Native American Flutes
All performances are held Sundays at 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center on the LLCC-Springfield campus, and are free and open to the public.