ARTifacts 9/9/11

River Campus celebrates 5 years with open house

The Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts celebrates its fifth season and welcomes members of the community with an afternoon of free entertainment for the entire family during a kickoff open house scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 17 at the River Campus. Tours will be given. The Department of Theatre and Dance will present new student showcase excerpts from plays in the Rust Flexible Theatre, stage combat exercises on the lawn and a variety show in the Bedell Performance Hall. The University Players will provide face painting and pieces choreographed by guest artists. Light jazz will be played by members of the Department of Music in the Shuck Music Recital Hall. The Southeast Missouri Music Academy also will give children the opportunity to try their hand at playing various instruments. The Crisp Museum will exhibit "The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art." The museum also will host activities for children. The River Campus box office will be open for the public to purchase tickets and be added to mailing lists. The Southeast Bookstore also will be selling merchandise. Drawings for tickets, KRCU goody bags, art and more will be offered.

Artists' reception set for downtown Sikeston

SIKESTON -- Downtown Sikeston will be hopping this evening with music, art and refreshments from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Downtown Artists Reception. The Sikeston Depot Museum, Front Street Gallery, Calbert Studio, Sweet Gum Gallery, Here We Go Again Antiques and Tradewinds Antiques will all be open. The Depot Museum will feature the opening of the 27th annual Bootheel Regional Judged Art Show. Shirley Coleman, a guidance counselor at Kelly High School, will also be on hand for a book signing at the museum. Front Street Gallery will display the metal sculpture art of Sheila Bohannon. All activities are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mike Marsh at the Sikeston Depot Museum, 573-481-9967.

Wehrenberg brings back summer's hit films

Wehrenberg Theaters is bringing the most popular films of the summer to the big screen at just $1 a show. From Sept. 16 to 22, all nine regional Wehrenberg Theaters -- including Cape West 14 Cine in Cape Girardeau -- will show the summers hits: "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Bridesmaids," "Mr. Popper's Penguins," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "Fast Five." Each film will play at least one show daily. Schedules are subject to change. Guests can visit www.wehrenberg.com for up-to-date titles and schedules.

New student showcase slated for Sept. 17

The Department of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University will hold the third annual new student showcase at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Rust Flexible Theatre at the River Campus. The show will feature freshmen and transfer students performing short duet or trio scenes from various styles of plays, monologues, songs and dance. Dance students will perform a choreographed piece by a faculty member, while music theatre students will have the option to sing in a number. The showcase is free and open to the public.

Ensemble presents free concert at River Campus

The Kingsbury Ensemble of St. Louis will present a concert of Baroque music at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Shuck Music Recital Hall on the River Campus. The concert, under the auspices of the Department of Music at Southeast Missouri State University, will be free and open to the public. Composers to be featured will include Jean Marie Le Clair, Georg Phillip Telemann, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. For more information, contact the Department of Music at 651-2141.