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Country music's Alan Jackson
will be at The Bryce Jordan Center
on the University Park campus at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21.
For tickets, call (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336.
Country music superstar Alan Jackson will return to The Bryce Jordan Center at University Park at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, after two years. The group Lonestar will appear as a special guest. Tickets are $28 for reserved seating.
Jackson, who sold out the Jordan Center in 1996 and 1998, has had 26 No. 1 hits and has sold more than 27 million records. His latest album, "Under the Influence," is full of country music classics and is a salute to country greats like Jim Ed Brown and George Jones.
Tickets can be purchased at the Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium South Box Office, selected Uni-Mart outlets, Commonwealth campus and college ticket outlets or by calling (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336. For more information visit the Web at http://www.bjc.psu.edu/.
Lord of the Dance, a Celtic dance spectacular with a cast of more than 40 dancers, will return to The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25. Tickets are $39.50 and $28.50 for reserved seating. Group rates also are available.
Tickets can be purchased at the Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium South Box Office, selected Uni-Mart outlets, Commonwealth campus and college ticket outlets or by calling (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336. For more information visit the Web at http://www.bjc.psu.edu/.
The Center for the Performing Arts presents The Red Balloon, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15 in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Adapted from the book by Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon fuses fantasy with imagination in a look at the joys and frustrations of friendship. Combining drama, mime, puppetry and storytelling, four actors from Visible Fictions create a highly visual and exciting piece of theatre for 5- to 11-year-olds.
Tickets are $8. For tickets or more information, contact the Arts Ticket Center at (814) 863-0255 or (800) 278-7849.
"Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," an exhibit of student-designed posters and a selection of historical Black Experience posters from the University Libraries' collection will be on display in the Pattee Library lobby throughout this month and February.
The 17 posters, created by students in Lanny Sommese's Art 470 course at University Park, were designed for Penn State's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemoration activities, to be held Jan. 15-18 (see page 5 for details). This year's theme is "Heritage and Horizons: The African American Legacies and Challenges for the 21st Century."
For more information about the exhibit, call (814) 865-0401.
The Center for Arts and Crafts is taking registrations for spring non-credit art classes. Classes begin Jan. 24 and include oil painting, drawing, watercolor, wheel-thrown pottery, stained glass, slide photography, the roots of rock and roll, playwriting, creative movement series, Spanish dance, culinary arts and more. Call (814) 863-0611 for more information or stop by the former Paul Robeson Cultural Center building on Shortlidge Road to register.
Award-winning pianist and educator Raymond Jackson will present a free concert at noon Wednesday, Jan. 26, in the Gallery Lounge at Penn State Harrisburg. Jackson, a professor of music at Howard University, has taught and served in administrative capacities at the Washington, D.C., institution since 1977.
Jackson has the distinction of being the first African American, first musician and youngest person from his native state elected into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. He also formed the Raymond Jackson Scholarship and Mentoring Program for Gifted Pre-College African-American Pianists.