Happenings

April 10, 2019

Northern Arizona University’s School of Music Percussion Ensemble concert presents a wide variety of contemporary music at 7:30 p.m. April 19 in Ardrey Memorial Auditorium.

Under the direction of music professor Steve Hemphill, the NAU Percussion Ensemble will be joined by two guest performers. University of Arizona doctoral candidate Michael Pratt will perform as marimba soloist on Jeffrey Dennis Smith’s “Tiger Dance,” a showcase of relentless rhythmic drive for percussion quintet. NAU alumna Alison Brightwell-Balot will return… Read more

April 9, 2019

A group of apocalypse survivors plays a mythic game of telephone in the Northern Arizona University Department of Theatre’s “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play,” written by Anne Washburn and music by Michael Friedman.

The play begins shortly after an apocalypse. The electric grid has gone down and nuclear plants are oozing radiation, killing millions of people and destroying the world as we know it. A group of survivors gathers around a campfire to brave their new reality by… Read more

April 5, 2019

This spring, Wall Aquatic Center (WAC) invites the Northern Arizona University and Flagstaff communities to participate in its third annual free swim session. Registration is open to children, adults and teens. The four-day session will be taught by NAU students as a part of their FIT 100 Water Safety Instructor Certification course. Classes will take place Monday and Wednesday evenings from April 22-May 1 at WAC (part of the Aquatic and Tennis Complex in building 86).

While… Read more

April 3, 2019

As part of the 2018-19 Horizons Concert Series, Jeffrey Swann & Friends invite concert-goers to experience the nature-inspired music of renowned composers Gustav Mahler, Joseph Haydn, João Guilherme Ripper and Olivier Messiaen in the program “The Birds and the Bees.” This performance takes place 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in Kitt Recital Hall.

Sopranos Christine Graham and Deborah Raymond, pianists Rita Borden and Michelle Wachter, oboist Rebecca Kemper Scarnati and clarinetist Cris Inguanti join pianist Jeffrey Swann… Read more

April 3, 2019

The Center for International Education at Northern Arizona University invites the NAU community to join in on the music, food and fun that International Week 2019 is sure to bring.

From April 2-12, CIE will be hosting the annual event in celebration of the range of cultures found across the globe and at NAU. Flavors from around the world will be featured in the Union and DuBois Center all… Read more