Cultural arts events at Coastal Carolina University: March 19-26
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Monday, March 19
MUSIC
The Third Annual Jazz Festival featuring the CCU Jazz Ensemble, the CCU Jazz Combo, CCU faculty ensembles and guest composer and pianist Ron Miller will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Wheelwright Auditorium.
CONTACT: Matt White, 843-349-4083 or mwhite@coastal.edu
TICKETS: $17 per event or $30 for events Monday and Tuesday, with CCU discounts available.
Tuesday, March 20
MUSIC
The Third Annual Jazz Festival featuring the CCU Jazz Ensemble, the CCU Jazz Combo, CCU faculty ensembles and guest composer and pianist Ron Miller will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Wheelwright Auditorium.
CONTACT: Matt White, 843-349-4083 or mwhite@coastal.edu
TICKETS: $17 per event or $30 for events Monday and Tuesday, with CCU discounts available.
FILM
The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies will present a screening of Andrey Kravchuk's 2008 film "The Admiral" at 5 p.m. in the Coastal Theater, Lib Jackson Student Union (Room A110). Following the screening, faculty members Christopher Gunn of the Department of History and Nataliya Alekseyenko of the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies will lead a discussion on the film's historical and cultural context.
CONTACT: Gunn, 843-349-6461 or cgunn@coastal.edu
Thursday, March 22
LECTURE
CCU faculty and area employees will hold a panel discussion titled "What Holds Women Back? A Panel on Family Leave Policies" at 4:30 p.m. in the Coastal Theater. The discussion will present various perspectives on the importance of paid family leave in the U.S. as well as policies in other countries. This event is part of CCU's Women's History Month celebration; a reception follows the discussion.
CONTACT: Ina Seethaler, 843-349-6919 or iseethale@coastal.edu
Additional links: coastal.edu/wgst/ccuwomen
LECTURE
C. Bradley Thompson, BB&T Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University, will deliver a lecture on the conceptual factors that led to the creation of the American Constitution at 5 p.m. in the Edwards Recital Hall. Thompson's talk will explore how American Revolutionaries discovered and developed the idea of a written constitution as fundamental law during the years of the Imperial Crisis.
CONTACT: Kimberly Hale, 843-349-2653 or khale1@coastal.edu
LECTURE
Bonnie Clark, anthropologist, curator and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Denver, discusses her research project at Amache, the site of Colorado's WWII-era Japanese-American internment camp, at 5:15 p.m. in Brittain Hall. The forced removal and subsequent internment of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent from their homes along the West Coast of the U.S. during World War II is a pivotal incident in world history.
CONTACT: David Palmer, 843-349-2266 or dpalmer1@coastal.edu
Saturday, March 24
LECTURE
Joe Oestreich, professor and chair of CCU's Department of English, presents "Memoir Writing in the Era of Oversharing" at 10 a.m. at the Myrtle Beach Education Center on 79th Avenue in Myrtle Beach. The lecture will explore the difference between the memoir and the social media status update, offering strategies for those interested in writing about their own lives.
CONTACT: Oestreich, 843-349-2433 or joeo@coastal.edu
MUSIC
The culminating concert of the CCU Honor Band and Scholarship Festival will take place at 3 p.m. in Wheelwright Auditorium. Featuring high school students from South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, the festival is a three-day workshop ending with a final student performance.
CONTACT: T. Andre Feagin, 843-349-5081 or tfeagin@coastal.edu
TICKETS: $7, with CCU discounts available