Monday, Oct. 21 – Breast Cancer Awareness speaker, 11am-noon, R.H. Stephens Room.  i.e. Improv performance, 6pm, Sangamon South.  RAD Class, 6pm, Trutter Center.

Tuesday, Oct. 22 – Epicurean Club Soups & Sauces Sale, 11:30am-1:30pm, Workforce Careers Center lobby.

Wednesday, Oct. 23 – Health & Wellness Fair, 10am-1pm, A. Lincoln Commons.  Board of Trustees Meeting, 5:30pm, Hillboro Area Hospital (see 10/18 article for details).

Thursday, Oct. 24 – Pink & Jeans Day, purchase stickers in Student Life.  Epicurean Club Soups & Sauces Sale, 3:00-5:00pm, Workforce Careers Center lobby.

Friday, Oct. 25 – Family event: Istvan & His Imaginary Band, 6:30pm, Trutter Center. SGA Breast Cancer Awareness display, 11am-1pm, Student Union.  Anyone wearing pink can enter to win a $50 gas card!

The Epicurean Club will be selling stocks, soups, and sauces on Oct. 22,  11:30 am – 1:30 pm and Oct. 24, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm. The stocks, soups and sauces will be frozen and that recipes will be provided with the stocks and sauces.

Phi Theta Kappa will be holding a “Pink and Jeans Day” on October 24th to benefit Susan G. Komen Foundation. Make sure you stop by the Student Life Office before Thursday with $5 to purchase your pin to wear on that day along with your pink and jeans.

Free Family Concert on Friday, Oct. 25th! Bring the kids for a free Family Concert featuring Istvan and His Imaginary Band at the Trutter Center at 6:30 p.m.  Istvan has an irresistible mix of interactive rock ‘n’ roll, country, pop punk and sing-alongs that get heads bobbing.”

Mariah Kaplan, soprano, will perform Sunday, Oct. 20 as part of the LLCC Recital Series. Her 4 p.m., free concert will be held in the Trutter Center on the LLCC Campus.

Mariah was the first student to achieve gold medal awards in both piano and voice at Sacred Heart-Griffin High School. In the summer of 2010, she sang at Carnegie Hall with the American High School Honors Performance Series. She now attends Indiana University where she is studying voice and psychology. Last summer, she attended the Summer Voice Festival at the Manhattan School of Music, where she played Polly Peachum in a rendition of the “The Beggars’ Opera” and “The Threepenny Opera.”

Mariah has been a student of Sue Hamilton, LLCC adjunct music instructor, for nine years.

Wednesday, Oct. 16 – Rochester 6th graders visit LLCC for a presentation and tour of the Workforce Careers Center, hosted by Public Relations and Marketing. SGA will have a Breast Cancer Awareness display and serve snow cones 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons.

Thursday, Oct. 17 – Annual Employee Wellness Screenings will take place during the morning in the Trutter Center.  Contact HR for more information, 6-2752.  The annual Career Development Services Silent Auction is from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the R.H. Stephens Room.  Proceeds benefit the CDS Emergency Fund.

Friday, Oct. 18 – SGA Breast Cancer Awareness display will be in the Student Union from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Anyone wearing pink can enter to win a $50 gas card!  The Annual Career Development Services Silent Auction is from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the R.H. Stephens Room.

Sunday, Oct. 20 – Recital Series performance by Soprano Mariah Kaplan will be in the Trutter Center at 4:00 p.m.

“i.e. improv,” the improvisational performance group at LLCC, will perform five shows this fall semester, beginning this evening, Oct. 7, at 6 p.m. in the lower level of Sangamon Hall South on the LLCC Springfield campus.

Other Monday evening performances are Oct. 21, Nov. 4 and 18, and Dec. 2, all at 6 p.m. in Sangamon Hall South. The public is invited, with viewer discretion advised. Tickets are available at the door for $2.

“i.e. (the Latin abbreviation for ‘that is’) improv” is comprised of LLCC students who perform unscripted, uncensored comedy, similar to the style of famous improv groups in Los Angeles and Chicago.

As a completely off-the-cuff show, this group takes audience suggestions and turns them into long-form improv.  The students involved have all studied improvisation at LLCC.

More information is available by emailing mark.hardiman@llcc.edu or by calling 786.4942.

The 10^th Annual Multicultural Fest was a great success in its new location of the A. Lincoln Commons plaza. Students, faculty, staff and community members enjoyed entertainment including the headliner band, Xperimento, ethnic food and colorful displays. Restaurants, entertainers and exhibitors who have participated for five or more years were recognized in a ceremony, followed by the LLCC Madrigals. Entertainment was simulcast to ESAs who also had special activities.

Click HERE for a Facebook photo gallery.

Classical guitarist Russel Brazzel will open the Lincoln Land Community College Recital Series on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22.  The public is invited, free of charge, to this and all recitals in the series. The Sunday afternoon recitals begin at 4 p.m. and are held in the Trutter Center on the LLCC Springfield campus.

Russel Brazzel is co-founder and music director of the Springfield Classical Guitar Society, which has just completed its 15^th season of concerts. In July, Mr. Brazzel performed with violinist Kamen Petkov in Bulgaria as part of the International Chamber Music Festival 2013.  For more information and the full Recital Series Schedule, click HERE.

The Surgical Technology students celebrated National Surgical Technologists Week “Excellence With an Edge” this week. On Tuesday students participated in a potluck and Program Director Janice Lovekamp gave students pins and bags to celebrate.