| Friday
February 22, 2008 |
| 4:00-
6:15 p.m. |
ART
EXHIBIT:
Listen! by Dowling & SCAVO artists. THE COFFEE SHACK/ 5TH &
UNIVERSITY
Dinner at Drake Neighborhood eateries |
| 6:45
p.m. |
OPENING
CEREMONY
- SHESLOW AUDITORIUM/DRAKE UNIVERSITY
Drake International Student Association performers |
| 7:30
p.m. |
CONCERT:
A Tribute to Marian Anderson
“See There in the Distance” with Ruby Hinds, mezzo-soprano
Partnering with Civic Music Association - SHESLOW AUDITORIUM/DRAKE
UNIVERSITY TICKETS: $15.00 Students / $35.00 Adults, in advance, at
IowaTix.com. |
| Saturday
February 23, 2008 |
| 10:00-12
noon |
Individual
choirs work with Nick Page (Iowa Youth Chorus, Heartland Youth Choir,
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa Chorus, Cowles Montessori-DMPS,
Kyles AME Church,
& First Christian Church); Rehearsal with Odetta & Susan Werner.
|
| 1:00-5:00
p.m. |
Mass
Choir rehearsals with Odetta & Susan Werner. |
| 6:00
p.m. |
SOULFOOD
COMMUNITY DINNER - FELLOWSHIP HALL/FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
with KFMG’s PRESTON DANIELS & RON SORENSON, guest speakers.
TICKETS:
$15.00 Adults / Children 12-&-under $10.00. By reservation only,
call 255-2181 |
| 7:30
p.m. |
CONCERT:
Odetta & Susan Werner with the Thresholds Mass Choir
“Stories of Hope, Sounds of Change” - SANCTUARY/FIRST
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
TICKETS: Available at IowaTix.com
-or- The Coffee Shack - 25TH & UNIVERSITY
Reserved seats on main floor - $35.00 / General Admission - Adults
$25.00
Student tickets $15.00 (Gen. Adm.)
|
Sunday
February 24, 2008
|
| 9:20
a.m. |
WORSHIP:
The Thresholds Service - SANCTUARY/FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH |
| 11:00
a.m. |
LECTURE/DISCUSSION
by Odetta: “Listening’s Impact on the
Civil Rights Movement” - SANCTUARY/FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
|
| 12:30
p.m. |
PATRONS-&-ARTISTS
BRUNCH @ Drake President David & Maddy Maxwell’s home.
(CALL BEN ALLAWAY AT 515-720-1038 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING A
PATRON.) |
| 3:00-4:15
p.m. |
ART:
Children’s Art for Peace Workshop with Metro Arts artist Jenipher
Sutherland FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH - Kids form “Peace Art Parade”
during the closing concert. |
| 4:00
p.m. |
GALA
MULTIMEDIA CONCERT: SANCTUARY/FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
“Listen … Understand … Act …”
Odetta & Susan Werner &…
Representatives of six local ethnic and religious groups…
African-American/Jewish/
Muslim/Latino (Christian)/Bosnian-Serbian/Native American …are
invited to share on issues
which most affect them and on which they feel they have not been
heard:
The audience is invited to LISTEN …
Art will
help us more deeply UNDERSTAND …
we’ll be inspired to ACT … in love, for positive
change and deeper friendship!
GALA CONCERT
ARTISTS: Odetta & Susan Werner, the Thresholds Mass Choir
plus … Paul Micich, Central Iowa Dance, Langston Hughes Players,
Iowa Youth Chorus,
Heartland Youth Chorale, Drake University Chorale, composer Jim
Papoulis, Ben Allaway,
Garrison Western… and more!
(A free-will offering will be taken.)
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