Purdue Convocations announces its 121st season

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

Purdue Convocations presents its 121st season with a lineup of innovative projects and performances from around the world.

The 2023-24 season includes the 28th West Lafayette Global Fest, award-winning hip-hop, rock, folk, jazz, and chamber musicians, an interactive wellness installation, a curricular integration residency, thought-provoking lectures, family-friendly engagements, on-campus school matinees, and award-winning Broadway musicals and major attractions in Elliott Hall of Music including “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Live in Concert,” “Mean Girls,” “Dance Theatre of Harlem,” “Hairspray,” “Come From Away,” and “Shrek The Musical.” The full schedule is available below or at convocations.org/events.

More information can be read the Purdue Convocations website.

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Media contact: Jim Bush, jsbush@purdue.edu

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