Wonder Workshop Children’s Museum &
The Manhattan Arts Center Presents:
Make a Drum Workshop & Community Drum Circle

When: February 6th, 2010

Where: Manhattan Arts Center, 1520 Poyntz Avenue

Time: Drum making 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Cost $25 per person (all supplies provided), ages 7 and above. Drum Circle 7:00 – 8:30 PM, Cost $10 adults, $8 military, $5 kids (12 & under) To register for either or both programs call the Arts Center 785-537- 4420

Drum Making Workshop:
During this workshop each participant will make their own drum and design the outside shell using paints, string, and their imagination. Each drum will measure 17” tall, with a drum head measuring 6” in diameter.

Community Drum circle:
No experience necessary! We will provide you with drums, percussion instruments, and instruction. First, allow us to show you how to play your drum, second, let us teach you a rhythm, and third, let’s make the Art Center “Rock!”

Who will lead the workshop & drum circle? Richard Pitts, he is the Executive Director of the Wonder Workshop and a Drummer/Storyteller on the State of Kansas, Arts Commission Roster.

Good morning from Manhattan High School!

I have a few pieces of information that I want to pass on to you.

1) Beginning Monday - February 1 - Manhattan High School will be starting school 5 minutes earlier and ending 7 minutes later. School will begin at 7:40 a.m. and end at 2:59 p.m. This is to make up the 4 days of missed school due to the inclement weather we have had so far (and we are still in January). Please adjust accordingly.

2) Friday - February 5th - Winter Homecoming will be taking place at MHS. This is to remind everyone that after the game we will be have a Dance/Fun Night at the West Campus. This event will last until 11:30 p.m. on Friday Night. If you are compelled to help chaperone - you are always welcome.

3) Parent - Teacher Conferences will be held Wednesday(Feb. 10)/Thursday(Feb.11) at MHS - West Campus. The conferences will be held from 4:30-8:00 each night. We hope to see you there.

4) Construction Plans continue to move forward. The architects have been working in conjunction with the internal MHS Construction Committee (BC3) - to design the best possible plan that will attempt to touch every corner of the west campus. All parties have worked extremely hard on this project. More will be coming out on this soon.

5) Finally....State Assessment season is approaching and will begin towards the end of February and run through the middle of April. This year we will be taking assessments in Reading, Math, and Science. We are in need of your support as we prepare for the assessments. Please communicate with your children and encourage them to put forth their best efforts on all of these tests.

Thank you for your support of Manhattan High School. It truly takes all of us working together to be successful.

Terry McCarty, Principal
Manhattan High School

K-STATE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC OFFERS FREE PERFORMANCES IN FEBRUARY

There will be no shortage of music on the Kansas State University campus in February, with a variety of performances for the community to enjoy. Performances, all free and open to the public, include:

* Patrick Sheridan, guest tubaist, will present a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, in All Faiths Chapel. Sheridan is one of the most celebrated soloists in the instrument's history, performing more than 3,000 concerts in more than 50 countries and in such venues as the White House, NBA halftime shows and the Hollywood Bowl. Sheridan also was a member of "The President's Own" United States Marine Band.

* Guest artists Jeremy Starr, violin, and Martin Cuellar, piano, will present a duo recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, in All Faiths Chapel. Both Starr and Cuellar teach at Emporia State University.

* Kristin Pisano, clarinet, and Irena Ravitskaya, piano, will present a guest recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in All Faiths Chapel. Both are music department faculty members at Fort Hays State University.

* Double Reed Day, Saturday, Feb. 6, offers oboists and bassoonists of all ages and ability levels an opportunity to learn more about their instruments, meet other double reed players and learn how to become a better sight reader. Activities also include instrument clinics and a reed-making workshop. The day will conclude with a fun and informal performance at 5 p.m. in Room 204 of McCain Auditorium. The event is coordinated by K-State's Nora Lewis, professor of oboe, and Susan Maxwell, professor of bassoon.

* Cello professors David Littrell, a university distinguished professor of music at K-State, Edward Laut, University of Kansas, and Steven Elisha, Washburn University, will team up for a joint recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, in the Hemisphere Room on the fifth floor of Hale Library.

* Paul Hunt, professor of trombone, will have a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in All Faiths Chapel. The recital will be a chamber music collaboration with a group of fellow faculty members from the department of music. Hunt, along with Kurt Gartner, professor of percussion, will perform "Three Sketches for Trombone and Percussion" by the prolific French composer, Eugene Bozza. Also on the program is Walter Hartley's 1950 "Sonata da Camera." The sonata is for the unusual combination of oboe, two clarinets, bassoon and trombone. Hunt also will be joined by K-State music faculty members Tod Kerstetter, Nora Lewis, and Susan Maxwell, as well as Melissa Woodworth, senior in music education, Manhattan. The program will include the second performance of Hunt's own composition, "Re:MemoRandom" for trombone and digitally manipulated sounds. The 2007 work was written in memory of Hunt's father. The final two works of the performance will feature all of the faculty part!

* Steve Maxwell will present a tuba recital with William Wingfield, pianist, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in All Faiths Chapel. The program includes "Concerto for Tuba" by John Williams, "Monologue for Tuba" by Tom Johnson, "Three Romances for Susie" by Barbara York and "The Kraken's One Day is as Another" by Robert Denham.

* K-State music students will perform at the General Student Recital, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in All Faiths Chapel. This hourlong performance will feature students from wind, brass, keyboard, string and/or percussion divisions.

* Nora Lewis's oboe students will perform solo works and chamber music in a class recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in All Faiths Chapel. The concert will feature a performance by the Double Reed Ensemble as well. The program includes works by Handel, Saint-Saens, Paladilhe, Nielsen, Beethoven and Mozart.

* The K-State Wind Ensemble will perform a joint concert with K-State graduate Luke Chafee and his concert band from Washburn Rural High School, Topeka, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, in McCain Auditorium. The performance will include selections from Morton Gould and David Maslanka.

* "Chamber Music with Oboe," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23 in All Faiths Chapel, will feature K-State faculty member Nora Lewis with guest artist Katherine Lewis, violist and assistant professor of music at Illinois State University. They will be joined by K-State faculty members: Slawomir Dobrzanski, piano; Kristin Mortenson, violin; Tod Kerstetter, clarinet; and Gordon Lewis, cello and double bass. The performance will feature works by Klughardt, Loeffler, Mozart and Prokofiev.

For more information about upcoming music department events, call 785-532-5740 or visit: www.k-state.edu/music

Four Seasons and Wonder Workshop's Take A Stand: An Underground Railroad Children's Quilt
January 9 - February 21

"Four Seasons" is the exhibit featuring the work of four women artists from Nebraska who share a 30 year relationship marked by the uniqueness of each of women. Patsy Smith masters in water-based abstracts, Judy Greff in interpretice acrylic, Sammy Lynn is batik, padded fiber and Amy Sadle is printmaking.

In the front gallery is Wonder Workshop's "Take A Stand: An Underground Railroad Children's Quilt." The exhibit features a "quilt" made up of drawings of the underground railroad drawn by local area children.

Generously sponsored by Olivia Collins & Tony Jurich

manhattanarts.org

K-State Alum's Exhibition, 'Gail Gregg: the Album Series,' Coming to Beach Museum of Art

Gail Gregg The work of abstract artist and Kansas State University alum Gail Gregg will be on display at K-State's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art Jan. 29 to May 2.

The exhibition explores the power of visual autobiography.

The work in "Gail Gregg: The Album Series" features recycled pages taken from anonymous, cast-off scrapbooks and family photo albums Gregg gathered from flea markets and other sources. She has removed the photos from the album pages and, with graphite or pastels, replaced the form of the photograph with an abstract placeholder for a very specific moment in time.

"My hope is that this new 'non-photo' communicates a sense of loss, a sense of the tenderness with which important benchmarks in a life are recorded and, finally, a sense of possibility," Gregg said.

In conjunction with her exhibition, Gregg will present "Some Thoughts on Art, Memory and the Two Manhattans" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in the Beach Museum's UMB Theatre. The presentation is free and open to the public. Gregg will speak about the roots of her creative life in Kansas, the evolution of her paintings and her most recent body of work. Gregg is originally from Topeka and graduated magna cum laude from K-State in 1972 with a bachelor's in journalism.

The Beach Museum of Art also is offering a special tour for kindergartners and first-graders focusing on shapes in art using the Gregg exhibition and the Beach Museum of Art's permanent collection. The tours are free and bus funds are available through a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission. To schedule a tour, contact the museum's Kathrine Schlageck at 785-532-7718.

For more information, contact the Beach Museum of Art at 785-532-7718 or drop by the museum on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue. Free visitor parking is available next to the building. Normal museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays.

SPECTACULAR UNCERTAINTY

"Eddy" photograph by Tim Forcade

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS
Strecker-Nelson Gallery
Friday, January 15 @ 5:00 - 8:00

Featuring Blown Glass Sculpture by Vernon Brejcha, Landscape Paintings by Lisa Grossman, Prints by Justin Marable And Collaborative Works by Both Lisa Grossman & Justin Marable.

Exhibit Ends February 27th 2010.

Strecker-Nelson Gallery
406 1/2 Poyntz
Manhattan, KS 66502

www.strecker-nelsongallery.com

K-State's Jeffrey S. Smith to Present a Larson Lecture on Mexican Immigration

Jeffrey S. Smith Jeffrey S. Smith, associate professor of cultural geography at Kansas State University, will present the spring semester's first Vernon Larson International Luncheon Lecture, "Three Types of Migrants Out of Rural Mexico," at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be preceded by a luncheon at 11:45 a.m. Both events will be at the Holiday Inn at 17th Street and Anderson Avenue. The luncheon costs $15 and reservations, which are required, may be made by Friday, Feb. 12, at 532-5990.

Smith will discuss the history of legal and undocumented immigration in the United States and what motivates most immigrants to leave rural Mexico for the U.S. He'll focus on the lives of three men and their families from Zacatecas, who are representative examples of the larger migration phenomenon. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.

Smith's research focus is on the geographical patterns of attachment to place/sense of community, the results of cultural interaction and change in the landscape and the concept of culture regions. Much of Smith's work centers on the greater U.S.-Mexico borderlands, where he has examined the cultural landscape and settlement patterns throughout the American Southwest and Mexico.

Smith has a doctorate in geography from Arizona State University, a master's in geography from Bowling Green State University and a bachelor's in social science from the University of Northern Colorado.

K-State's Vernon Larson International Luncheon Lecture Series was started in 1979 and is named for Vernon C. Larson, former director of international agriculture programs at K-State.

What is Mall Rats About?

Days can be pretty boring at the Northview Mall. Best friends Madison, Kevin, and Destiny know this far too well. But before school starts the next day, they decide it's time for an adventure. Filled with crazy characters like egocentric Officer Tom Cones, the trendiest clique in town Tri-K, and The Great and Mighty Rufus, who has lived in the arcade for years, Madison, Kevin, and Destiny find that the Mall is anything but boring!

A sold out, smash hit this summer, Mall Rats, written by GPT's very own Greg Krumins, is being performed an entire weekend, Feb 18-20.

Buy your tickets today: Adults $10 & Students $5
greatplainstheatre.com

Chile Queen Jane Butel to Present Workshops at K-State

Jane Butel Jane Butel wears the title Chile Queen with aplomb. Often credited with starting the Tex-Mex cooking craze, she wrote and taught about Southwestern and regional Mexican cuisine before most people knew how to pronounce "jalapeno."

After graduating from K-State's College of Human Ecology with a degree in home economics and journalism and landing in such hefty positions as vice president for American Express in New York, Butel became a devotee of the chile and its accompanying cuisines. She has written "Real Women Eat Chiles," published by Northland in 2006, and 19 other cookbooks.

Butel will bring her internationally famous skills to K-State Thursday, Feb. 25, and Friday Feb. 26, for the annual Culinary Enhancement Workshop sponsored by the department of hospitality management and dietetics.

"Flavors of the Sizzlin' Southwest," the Feb. 25 workshop for food service professionals and alumni, is limited to 50 attendees. The first 30 to register will make tamales in an hourlong hands-on session with Butel. Registration for the workshop, to be in Derby Dining Center, closes Friday, Feb. 12. Cost ranges from $100 for an individual to $500 for Culinary Leader sponsorship. Registration includes demonstrated recipes, lunch, beverages and a copy of her 2008 book from Workman, "Chili Madness, a Passionate Cookbook by Jane Butel."

On Feb. 26, Butel will repeat the workshop with K-State students.

Butel's cooking school in New Mexico, named one of the best in the U.S. by Gayot.com and Bon Appetit magazine, has been featured in publications around the world. She also conducts culinary tours in Mexico and Spain.

Her topics at K-State will be chili madness, corn craze and the evolving Southwest. Lunch will feature her favorite recipes.

For information, contact Missy Schrader at schrader@k-state.edu. To register by phone, call Charla Henry at 785-532-7536 or 800-432-1578.