University Events Calendar

Enjoy dinner while listening to local jazz musicians play in the dining hall

ECU School of Music voice faculty member Jami Rhodes will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 in a free concert in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall.

The School of Theatre and Dance will present "Crimes of the Heart" by Pultizer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley on stage at McGinnis Theatre through Oct. 2.

ECU's Entrepreneurial Initiative, in partnership with the North Carolina Eastern Region and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center are co-hosting the Eastern North Carolina Entrepreneurship Summit. The event offers two tracks, one directed to entrepreneurs and the other directed to municipal leaders supportive of community and economic development built around new home-grown business development.

The School of Theatre and Dance will present "Crimes of the Heart" by Pultizer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley on stage at McGinnis Theatre through Oct. 2.

Students will have the opportunity to have an informal lunch with faculty members from the College of Technology and Computer Science and College of Arts and Sciences. Lunch is provided.

The Atlantic World History program presents Professor Laurent Dubois of Duke University, who will deliver a lecture entitled “The Banjo: Roots and Routes” on Oct. 3. This is a free event and open to the public.

A discussion of banned or challenged books and discussion of censorship will be held Oct. 3 at Joyner Library.

Choreographers Nora Chipaumire and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar lend their distinct perspectives and innovative movement styles to "Visible," a new dance theater work commissioned by Harlem Stage and produced by Zollar’s company Urban Bush Women.

The School of Art and Design will be the site of a tri-state sculpture exhibition Sept. 4-Oct. 5, and the keynote speaker Oct. 5 will be James Surls, a noted sculptor of wood, steel and bronze.

The ECU School of Music will present Octubafest I at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall. This is a free concert.

Magician Martin Lubcke will perform illusions and magic at 5 p.m. Oct. 10 at Hendrix Theatre.

The ECU School of Music present Octubafest II in a free concert Oct. 11.

The ECU School of Music presents the Octubafest II concert in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.

ECU School of Music faculty trio, featuring Emanuel Gruber, cello; Keiko Sekino, piano; Hye-Jin Kim, violin, will perform in a free concert Oct. 14.

A domestic violence awareness program in remembrance of Tiana Nicole Williams, who had been accepted to the Brody School of Medicine and lost her life to domestic violence in July 2002 just before starting her first year.

The ECU School of Music will present a wind chamber music concert on Oct. 16. This is a free concert and open to the public.

The ECU Staff Senate is sponsoring the annual Health Fitness Walk on west campus. This is a university-sponsored floating event and all ECU employees are encouraged to attend.

The St. Cecilia Singers will perform in a free concert Oct. 18 in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall.

The ECU School of Music presents Jazz @ The Hilton. This is a free event.

The College of Education will hold its 14th annual Educators Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Fletcher Recital Hall on Oct. 20.

Families are invited to celebrate National Day on Writing, sponsored by the Tar River Writing Project and the University Writing Program at ECU. Come read, write, draw, share, and play as a family at Barnes & Noble, while we celebrate the Day on Writing with teachers from ECU and Pitt County Schools.

Carl E. Haisch, MD, professor and director of surgical education and associate dean for faculty development in the Brody School of Medicine, will present “Hunter Holmes McGuire: Much More than Stonewall Jackson’s Surgeon.”

Dr. Will Brooker will speak on “Tales of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mosaic, Myth and Folk Hero" at the Greenville Art Museum. Brooker is head of Film and TV research at Kingston University, London. A reception with light refreshments will begin at 6 p.m. with the program starting at 7 p.m.

Meet filmmaker Anlo Sepulveda after the screening of "Otis Under Sky" at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 at the Fletcher Music Center. This unscripted story is about a web artist attracted to a heartsick kleptomaniac. This is a free event and open to the public.