Inaugural Year Academic Showcase Events
Seattle Pacific University’s academic programs are celebrating the Inaugural Year with a series of Academic Showcase events throughout the spring of 2013. In disciplines as diverse as theology, theatre, psychology, and music, these events are open to the public and most are free.
April 5–June 7
Senior Art Exhibition
9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday
Art Center Gallery
- April 5-26: Illustration/New Pictures Senior Show
- April 30-May 10: Studio Art Senior Show
- May 14-May 24: Studio Art Senior Show
- May 29-June 7: Visual Communication Senior Show
April 9
Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship: “Youth, Faith, and the Christian University After Moral Therapeutic Deism: A Reassessment of the National Study of Youth and Religion Findings in Light of Walter Brueggemann's The Creative Word”
7:30 p.m.
Queen Anne Room, Upper Gwinn Commons
Lecturer: Professor of Christian Ministry, Theology, and Culture Jeffrey Keuss
Professor Keuss will reflect on the 10-year anniversary of a ground-breaking national study assessing the nature of faith formation in young people. He will look at the outcomes of the study in relationship to the education mandates in Walter Brueggemann’s book, The Creative Word: Canon as a Model for Biblical Education.
April 17
Social Venture Plan Competition Showcase
2–6 p.m.
Weter Hall and Martin Square
Now in its seventh year, this event showcases student business ideas that can drive social change. Teams compete for cash prizes and are judged by local business leaders.
April 18–20, 25–27
Spring Theatre Production: Letters to Sala
7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. matinee on April 27)
E.E. Bach Theatre, McKinley Hall
$12 General Admission; $10 Students/Seniors
Box office: 206-281-2959
While living in World War II forced labor camps, a young Jewish girl, Sala Garncarz, received more than 300 letters from family and friends. Fifty years after her release, Sala shared the letters and story of survival with her family. Those letters inspired her daughter, Ann Kirschner, to write a book called Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story, which inspired a play, Letters to Sala, by Arlene Hutton. The Northwest premiere of the newly finished work takes place at SPU.
In conjunction with the play, a traveling exhibition of letters, photographs, and documents from the Sala Garncarz Kirschner Collection will be displayed in Kreider Gallery in SPU's McKinley Hall during the month of April. Following the April 19 performance of Letters to Sala, playwright Arlene Hutton and book author Ann Kirschner will discuss the play and answer questions from the audience.
April 19
A Night at the Theatre Reception: Sponsored by the SPU Alumni Association, President’s Circle, and Wellspring Society.
6 p.m.
Gazebo Room, SUB
$15
RSVP at 206-281-ALUM or alumni@spu.edu.
May 1
Paul T. Walls Lecture: “Holiness in Black & White: Women, Race, and Sanctification”
7 p.m.
First Free Methodist Church (adjacent to campus)
Lecturer: Professor of Theology Priscilla Pope-Levison
Dr. Pope-Levison is an ordained United Methodist minister and author of Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists. The lecture will draw on her two decades of research on American women evangelists. Serving as respondent will be SPU Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department Michael S. Hamilton.
May 10
Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference
3–9 p.m.
Otto Miller Hall
Keynote speaker: Microsoft Senior Director of Hardware Product Development Ed Giaimo
Mr. Giaimo will speak on the development of the new Surface tablet.
May 17
Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert
7:30 p.m.
First Free Methodist Church (adjacent to campus)
Director: Gerry Jon Marsh
May 29
Lecture on the Integration of Faith and Professional Practice: "The Nature and Functions of Religion and Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence"
4:30 p.m.
SPU Campus
Lecturer: Bucknell University Professor of Psychology Chris Boyatzis
Professor Boyatzis will examine the importance of religion and spirituality early in life. The lecture is part of the annual School of Psychology, Family, and Community Research Conference.
May 30
Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:30 p.m.
First Free Methodist Church (adjacent to campus)
Director: Eric Hanson
May 31
Choir Concert
7:30 p.m.
First Free Methodist Church (adjacent to campus)
Directors: David Anderson, Ron Haight, and Ken Pendergrass