Purdue News Service

EDITORS: This calendar lists events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free, except where noted, and are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings are designated by two asterisks (**).

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar at http://calendar.purdue.edu

ENTERTAINMENT
      ** -- Nov. 20. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. "Blue Note Special" concert. Purdue's four jazz bands celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Blue Note jazz record label by performing some of its biggest hits.
      ** -- Nov. 22. 2:30 p.m. Long Center. 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Purdue Symphonic Band, the Purdue Glee Club and the Purduettes to present a variety of Copland works. Singers from Purdue Musical Organizations will join the Symphonic Band for selections from Copland's "The Tender Land," an opera about a farm family in the Midwest written in 1952-54 for the NBC Television Opera Workshop, along with other selections.
      -- Nov. 22. 3 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. "Strega Nona the Musical." Based on a series of children's books by author and illustrator Tomie dePaola, "Strega Nona The Musical" is the tale of a friendly magical witch who strives to cure the ills of her tiny Italian town of Calabria. The production, which was adapted for the Stage by Thomas W. Olson, features a score by composer Aron Accurso. Tickets are $14 for adults and $10 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster outlets. Discounted tickets for groups of 10 or more can be ordered at 765-496-1977.
      -- Dec. 4. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Black Cultural Center's annual Cultural Arts Festival. This year's festival will culminate the semesterlong focus on hip-hop. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for Purdue students.
    ** -- Dec. 8. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Herman Boone, the coach of the 1971 high school football team in Alexandria, Va., that inspired the movie "Remember the Titans," will speak on respect, teamwork, community involvement and the importance of character. There will be a meet-and-greet with Boone immediately following the lecture in the West Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union.
      ** -- Dec. 11. 7:30 p.m. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. Purdue Contemporary Dance Company will present its Winter Works 2009 Concert. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for students and $6 for children ages 12 and under. Reserved tickets can be purchased in the Loeb box office in Stewart Center, or box offices in Elliott Hall of Music and Pao Hall. Tickets also can be reserved by calling 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW, or through Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.
      ** -- Dec. 12. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. Purdue Contemporary Dance Company will present its Winter Works 2009 Concert. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for students and $6 for children ages 12 and under. Reserved tickets can be purchased in the Loeb box office in Stewart Center, or box offices in Elliott Hall of Music and Pao Hall. Tickets also can be reserved by calling 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW, or through Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.
      ** -- Dec 12. Noon, 4 and 8 p.m. Elliot Hall of Music. 76th annual Purdue Christmas Show. Purdue Musical Organizations will present "The Spirit of the Season." Campus and community performers in the show include members of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, Purduettes, Purdue Bells, Heart & Soul, All Campus & Community Chorale, the PMO Kids Choir and the reintroduced University Choir. Tickets are $20 for students age 13 through college; $26 for adults; $24 for seniors age 65 and older; and $12 for children age 12 and under. For information or to order tickets, visit the Stewart Center, Pao Hall or Elliott Hall box offices or call 765-494-3933 or 800-914-7469. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster. Purdue Musical Organizations also will offer a special children's matinee at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 11. Children's tickets are $10 per student for groups of 49 or less; $8 per student for groups of 50-99; and $6 per student for groups of 100 or more. For this performance, teachers, chaperones and bus drivers will be admitted at no charge. For information about the school matinee, call Andrea Ridge at 765-494-3941 or 800-893-3041.
      ** -- Dec 13. 2 p.m. Elliot Hall of Music. 76th annual Purdue Christmas Show. Purdue Musical Organizations will present "The Spirit of the Season." Campus and community performers in the show include members of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, Purduettes, Purdue Bells, Heart & Soul, All Campus & Community Chorale, the PMO Kids Choir and the reintroduced University Choir. Tickets are $20 for students age 13 through college; $26 for adults; $24 for seniors age 65 and older; and $12 for children age 12 and under. For information or to order tickets, visit the Stewart Center, Pao Hall or Elliott Hall box offices or call 765-494-3933 or 800-914-7469. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster.

LECTURES
      ** -- Dec 3. 4 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 306. The Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship 2009. "Medicines, Money and the Millennium" presented by Suzanne Hill, secretary to the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Essential Medicines, and principle investigator and team leader for the World Health Organization project on Better Medicines for Children. Reception precedes the talk at 3:30 p.m. Sponsored by the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, and Virginia Tyler. More information is available at http://www.pharmacy.purdue.edu/tyler/
      ** -- Dec 4. 10:30 a.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. The Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship 2009. "Old Drugs, New Questions: Improving Treatment for Children with TB" presented by Suzanne Hill, secretary to the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Essential Medicines, and principle investigator and team leader for the WHO project on Better Medicines for Children. Sponsored by the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, and Virginia Tyler. More information is available at http://www.pharmacy.purdue.edu/tyler/
      -- Dec. 4. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Beering Hall, Room 2290. Cindy Fornelli, executive director of Center for Audit Quality, will speak to liberal arts students during the LA Influentials course. More information available at: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/alumni/gs300/

Compiled by Jim Bush, 765-494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu