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From Montana State University-Northern The artist of the Month at the Montana State University-Northern Multicultural Center is Robert Gopher. The celebration of April is titled “Powwow Days” in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Sweetgrass Society powwow. Gopher is presenting his piece “Chief Rocky Boy,” which is a 16-by-20 inch acrylic on canvas. Gopher is rekindling his artistic fire after a break. This piece is a portrait of Chief Rocky Boy “based on conversations I had with my mother and photographs I have seen,” he...
Press Release Havre Hometown Humanities Faces of Montana will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program "Montana Women Writers," with author and educator Caroline Patterson, Thursday, April 21, at 6 p.m. in the Historic Havre Post Office. This presentation is free and open to the public. The hour-long program offers a survey of Montana women writers, from early Native American writers through homesteaders and settlers (Mary Ronan and Nannie Alderson) into the mining...
Staff and wire report The Filharmonic will perform Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Fifth Avenue Christian Church, sponsored by Student Activities at Montana State University-Northern. The performance will be free of charge. With Los Angeles as home base, The Filharmonic is a band unique in their musical talent and cultural diversity. The group of Filipino-American youngsters were featured in NBC's hit musical competition "The Sing-Off." Making the semi-finals, finishing the first...
In celebration of Women's History Month 2016, the Multicultural Center at Montana State University-Northern has invited Ed "Eddy" Stamper Jr. to be the artist of the month of March. Stamper is a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. He creates various kinds of art and has been actively immersed in this passion since he was a young child. Stamper has an interest in doing portraits based on the work of photographers like Gertrude Käsebier, Frank...
Press release Havre Hometown Humanities Faces of Montana will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program "Singing the Westward Legacy" by Neal Lewing Wednesday, March 2, at 10 a.m. in the Northern Montana Care Center, 24 13th Street. The presentation is free and open to the public and will be held in the Care Center Ponderosa Room. Lewing offers an entertaining performance on America's musical legacy from Lewis and Clark to Custer, with traditional and original folk s...
Press release Following the popularity of last winter's Glasgow and Havre production of "Love Letters" starring Pam L. Vies and Andy Meyers, the Fort Peck Fine Arts Council is presenting a brief Montana tour of a Tennessee Williams classic, "The Glass Menagerie." Performed in the style of a nostalgic radio broadcast, the cast will again feature Veis and Meyers, as well as Sydney Hayward and Jay Michael Roberts. The Fort Peck Summer Theatre will perform a reading of Tennessee...
This week on Yellowstone Public Radio, Feb. 14-20: Sunday — 7 p.m.: In a double bill from Geneva, Switzerland, the Suisse Romande Orchestra and Grand Theater Chorus perform Ravel’s only two operas,“ L’Heure espagnole” and “L’Enfant et les sortileges” on “World of Opera.” Monday — 2 p.m.: Pianist and bandleader Jon Batiste, now leader of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert house band, in conversation and performance on “Piano Jazz” Tuesday — 7 p.m.: A new conversation with David Kaczynski, who turned in his brother Ted,...
Press release The Montana State University-Northern, Chancellor’s Lecture Series will present “Meagher of the Sword: Montana’s Governor, Thomas Francis Meagher” with Neal Lewing Tuesday, March 1. The presentation will be at the Applied Technology Center, Hensler Auditorium, at 7:30 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public. Neal Lewing, an actor, singer/songwriter, recording artist, playwright, poet, storyteller, author and historian, presents the story — in folklore, music, and his own words — of the man commemo...
From Montana State University-Northern The Native American Studies Program will feature a series of indigenous films starting Feb. 23. The series highlights films written, directed, produced and cast by American Indian and indigenous artists and filmmakers. Following each film will be a short discussion about the major themes and issues within the stories. Everybody is welcome Light refreshments will be available. Movies will be shown in Northern’s Hensler Auditorium, ATC Building, from 6 to 8 p.m. The films this year are: ...
From Montana State University-Northern For February, Black History Month, the Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs at Montana State University-Northern has invited local artist Kris Shaw with her piece “Yellow Hat.” Her work is a water color in terracotta tones in an image size of 13-inch by 19 1/2-inch and 19 1/2-inch by 26-inch matted. Shaw describes this piece as an androgynous African-American individual, who “might represent a girl or a boy. “That is the beauty of art, everyone can decide on his or he...
From Montana State University-Northern Powerful musical performer Lakin will be performing at Montana State University-Northern at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Student Union Building Ballroom. Lakin is a young singer and songwriter whom critics have said has a voice sweeter than honey and whose combination of genre-defying musical styles, stunning melodic gifts, beauty, and warmth shine through in her heartfelt lyrics and powerful performances. She grew up in an...
A film screening and discussion of the documentary film “Paper Tigers” will begin at 6:30 tonight at Montana State University-Northern in Hensler Auditorium housed in the campus’s Applied Technology Center. Curtis Smeby, professor of education, said the 105 minute film follows teachers and students at Lincoln High School over the course of a year in Walla Walla, Washington. The school uses trauma-based services to tackle the rampant violence, criminal activity, substance abuse and absenteeism that plagues its student body....
Fort Peck Summer Theatre Following the popularity of last winter's production of "Love Letters" starring Pam L. Veis and Andy Meyers, the Fort Peck Fine Arts Council will present a brief Montana tour of a Tennessee Williams classic, "The Glass Menagerie." Performed in the style of a nostalgic radio broadcast, the cast will again feature Veis and Meyers, as well as Sydney Hayward and Jay Michael Roberts. Veis, a Havre resident, is an audience favorite with the company, who...
This Week on Yellowstone Public Radio, Jan. 10-16: Sunday — 7 p.m.: From the Salzburg Festival, the Mozarteum Orchestra performs Massenet’s “other opera,” “Werther,” on “World of Opera.” Monday — 2 p.m.: Legendary drummer Max Roach plays and shares his stories of working with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie on “Piano Jazz.” Tuesday — 7 p.m.: Black families of murdered relatives in South Carolina demonstrate the long tradition of nonviolence for coping with oppression on “Humankind.” Wednesday...
To start the year, the Montana State University-Northern Multicultural Center has invited Kris Shaw as the January artist of the month. She is presenting her piece, "The Wanderer." "This painting is a collage using paper I made using watercolors and a recycled watercolor painting," Shaw said. "The wanderer in the painting might be a nomadic Native following the seasons, a person traveling through a foreign country and learning new ways, or someone reading about far off lands...
Cathy Olthoff of Great Falls has been collecting Nativity scenes most of her life. She has a special fascination with the depictions of the birth of Christ. She believes they mark the true meaning of Christmas. She collected several hundred types of Nativity scenes of all shapes and sizes. They are made out of everything from wood to enamel. They come from all over the world - Japan, Thailand, Mexico, Peru and all over Europe. She kept them in her home for many years, even...
From Montana State University-Northern Mary Nault is the Montana State University-Northern Multicultural Center's artist of the month for November, American Indian Heritage Month. Everyone is invited to visit the Multicultural Center to see Nault's art from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. Northern's Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs invites local and regional artists to exhibit their pieces, preferably those that have some link to multicultural themes. For more...
Press release Havre Hometown Humanities will host "Music in Montana" with Montana State University professor Eric Funk Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Fifth Avenue Christian Church. The presentation is open to the public free of charge. There will be a coffee and cookie reception for professor Funk at the end of the program. Funk will combine samples from his seven-time Emmy Award winning Montana PBS show, "11th & Grant with Eric Funk‚" as well as live performance to d...
Press release David Romtvedt, an award winning author, former Wyoming Poet Laureate and musician, will visit Liberty Village Arts Center Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. This event will include a reading from his new novel, "Zelestina Urza in Outer Space," discussion about Basque history and the performance of Basque music on the trikitixa accordion and the piano by Romtvedt and Chester musician Philip Aaberg. "Zelestina Urza in Outer Space" follows the lives of two women in...
From The Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument FORT BENTON - Whether you've already been captivated by the Missouri Breaks or are still planning a canoe trip through the White Cliffs, you won't want to miss your chance Saturday, Nov. 14 to take home a piece of this stunning landscape. Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument and the Bureau of Land Management are hosting the event at 1 p.m. at the Upper Missouri River Breaks Interpretive Center in Fort Benton. The 25 original...
From The Associated Students of MSU-Northern Program Council The Associated Students of MSU-Northern Program Council presents comedian Cody Woods Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom at Montana State University-Northern. Cody Woods has been called one of the most hilarious and talented comedians rising today. While growing up idolizing comedians as a child, he discovered he had a natural way of making everyone laugh early on. At the age of 13, he was recommended...
Press release Montana Actors’ Theatre will be holding auditions Monday and Tuesday for “God of Carnage,” a comedy by Yasmina Reza to be directed by Patrick Ulano. Billed as “a comedy about parents acting like children,” “God of Carnage” is the story of two married couples in present-day New York City who meet for the first time shortly after their respective sons have a nasty schoolyard tangle. Michael and Veronica, whose son’s teeth were knocked out with a stick, invite Alan and Annette, whose son did the knocking, to th...
Press release During October, the Multicultural Center at Montana State University-Northern has invited guest artist Kris Martens, to present Visitors from the East End Colony on a 15 by 19 foot acrylic on canvas. Visitors from the East End Colony depicts a scene of two smiling Hutterite girls. Elaborating, Martens added, “Since several Hutterite colonies surround Havre, I became friends with a group of ladies from the East End Colony when they were picking apples in our neighborhood. When they can, they stop by to visit, h...
