Celebration 2002 Arts Series
March 24, Generations Benefit Concert - 2 p.m., Riverview
Place Chapel, $10 suggested donation
Generations will perform a concert to benefit Presentation Sisters in
Housing, a ministry dedicated to the promotion of justice through
decent, affordable housing. Generations is a four-person,
student-faculty music group playing acoustic folk and traditional
music. Concordia sophomores Heather Frank, Joe Halvorson and Allison
Thompson, with English assistant professor Bill Snyder, sing and play
a variety of instruments.
April 1-30, Calligraphy Show - 2 p.m., Riverview Place
Chapel, $10 suggested donation
This free show during the month of April features the calligraphy of
Fargo artist Doug Fliss. Art director at Hetland Ltd. in Fargo, Fliss
works in both sculpture and calligraphy and has created commissioned
hand-lettered pieces in ink, watercolor and other media. He enjoys
studying antique letter forms and incorporating older styles with his
own individual flair.
Oct. 2002, The Real Adventure Began Here…Bus Trip to Corps
of Discovery Points of Interest
Joining the Corps of Discovery: Lewis and Clark in North Dakota
With the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark approaching, North
Dakotans take particular interest in the Corps of Discovery's stay in
North Dakota. This overnight bus trip to some of the Lewis and Clark
sites along the Missouri River corresponds to an optional F/M
Communiversity tuition-free class. Sites to be visited include:
On-a-Slant Indian Village and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park,
Mandan; Heritage Center, N.D. Historical Society and the Capitol
grounds, Bismarck; Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort
Mandan, Washburn; and the Knife River Village National Historic Site,
Stanton. Sheldon Green is the senior writer in the Office of
Communications at Concordia College. He has been the editor of the
Hazen (N.D.) Star weekly newspaper and North Dakota Horizons magazine
and helped edit, design and photograph the five-volume North Dakota
Centennial Book series. He is a graduate of the University of North
Dakota. He was collaborator on the award-winning book, Magnificent
Churches on the Prairie, and co-author with Jim Coomber of
Unwanted Bread: The Challenge of Farming and Ranching,
published by the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, North
Dakota State University. Click
here to find out what the Corps of Discovery was doing on this
day in history.