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 https://calendar.purdue.edu

ENTERTAINMENT

-- CANCELED -- Nov. 9. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. An Evening With Rosanne Cash.

-- Nov. 14. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. There will be a concert featuring music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. The musicians are from Indiana University and are directed by Juan Carlos Arango. The event, part of An Encounter with Islam: Religion & Culture, is sponsored by the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement program, known as PLACE.

-- Nov. 16. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. There will be a performance of folk dances from countries of the Middle East. The dance troupe is directed by Kat Lebo. The event, part of An Encounter with Islam: Religion & Culture, is sponsored by the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement program, known as PLACE.

-- Nov. 16. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 314. Acoustic blues recording artist Fruteland Jackson will present All About the Blues, sponsored by the Black Cultural Center Library. Call Dorothy Washington, (765) 494-3093.

** -- Nov. 16. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Purdue's Jazz Bands to perform Basie & Beyond.

-- Nov. 17. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Stefon Harris. The jazz band will pay tribute to Duke Ellington. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $27 for the public, $22 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

-- Nov. 18. 3 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Russian American Kids Circus. Trained by members of the Moscow Circus, these artists will include acrobatics, tightrope walking, juggling and clowning in their performance. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $24 for the public, $15 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

-- Nov. 30. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The Black Cultural Center's annual Cultural Arts Festival centers on a semester-long look at the blues. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for Purdue students. Contact the BCC at (765) 494-3092.

EXHIBITS

-- Through Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Stewart Center Gallery. "Dried - Cracked - Wet - Dripping - Blooming: Installations by Charles A. Gick." Gick, an associate professor of art and design in Purdue's Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has exhibited his interdisciplinary installations nationally and internationally.

-- Through Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Purdue Memorial Union. "Does Gender Still Matter?" Exhibit examines current constructs of masculinity, femininity, androgyny, etc., from the viewpoints of seven artists.

LECTURES

-- Nov. 12. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Sears Lecture Series. Former CIA director R. James Woolsey will present "Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century."

** -- Nov. 13. 10:30 a.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Jeff Hawkins, the architect of the PalmPilot, will speak on his new theory on the brain and how it could lead to the building of intelligent machines. Hawkins is the speaker for the Philip Bagwell Lecture Series.

-- Nov. 16. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Leslie Bauer, director of internal audit, The Washington Post Co. "Personal Choices: Shaping You, Your Career, Your Life."

CONFERENCES

-- Nov. 15-16. Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center and the Department of English present inaugural Cancer Culture and Community Symposium with keynote speaker Terry Tempest Williams, author of "The Power of Story: Finding Refuge in Change," at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Poet Sue Ellen Thompson will give a poetry reading and discuss the Poetry of Cancer from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library. Author S.L. Wisenberg will lead a workshop, Capture Your Stories, and read from her work at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 in the West Lafayette Public Library. The two-day event is in conjunction with the new Cancer Culture and Community Program, which is exploring the humanity of cancer revealed through literature and the visual and performing arts. For information, contact Kris Swank at (765) 494-4674, kswank@purdue.edu

OTHER

** -- Nov. 16. 9 a.m. Purdue University board of trustees. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Ballroom Conference Center.

Compiled by Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu