Library events
Friday, October 23, 2009
Library events
The Emporia Public Library will have the annual Family Pumpkin Carving event from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday in the large meeting room. Participants are to bring their pumpkins for carving jack-o’-lanterns. Carving tools and patterns will be provided, along with spooky music to celebrate the occasion.
Family Night at the Library will be held from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday with the theme, “Halloween Howl.” Family Night is free, with no registration required. Families with children of all ages are welcome to participate in stories, crafts and fun about Halloween.
Fall storytimes at the Emporia Public Library begins with Mother Goose Time at 9:45 a.m. every Monday and Thursday for toddlers to 36 months; Pat-A-Cake Club, infants to 18 months, at 9:15 a.m. every Thursday; and Preschool Storytime, children two to five years, 10:30 a.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
For more information, call 340-6466 or see www.emporialibrary.org.
ESU Chamber Orchestra
The ESU Chamber Orchestra will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. today at Heath Recital Hall in Beach Music Hall on the ESU campus.The Flint Hills Trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Heath Recital Hall. On Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m., the Woodwind Showcase will be featured, also at Heath Recital Hall.
CD release
Local rock band, Radio City, will release their first CD at 9 p.m today at Beer:30. Kansas City based Antennas Up will open the show after a performance by Radio City.
Winston concert
Pianist George Winston performs in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Emporia Granada Theatre. Tickets, $25 for adults, $15 for youth and free for ESU students (limited availabililty), are available by calling 343-6473 or at Emporia Arts Council, Sweet Granada and the Granada Coffee Co.
‘Twilight’
The movie, “Twilight,” will be shown at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Granada Theatre. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $4. The first 200 people in will get a free slice of Wheat State Pizza. For more information, call 342-3342.
Art exhibit
The Bethany Springer: “Showcase Showdown” exhibit continues through Oct. 31 in the Norman R. Eppink Gallery at Emporia State University King Hall. With the help of ESU students, Springer produced an installation designed specifically for the Eppink gallery. The closing reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Bruder Theater lobby of King Hall, 13th Ave. and Market St.
The annual ESU Art Department Faculty and Emeritus Faculty Exhibition: 2009 continues through December. The opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Bruder Theater lobby of King Hallu.
Art students who are seniors with exhibitions in Gilson Memorial Gallery during fall 2009 and spring 1010 are Corey Adkins, Ashton Ludden, Erin Tuttle, Lance Morris, Winston Walker, Michael Bateman, Curie Kim, Grant Charpentier, Xiaomeng Tang, Krista Heller, Alex Caro and Reann England.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 341-5246 or 341-5689 or see www.emporia.edu/art/.
Photo exhibit
The Hays Arts Council announces the call for entries for the 26th annual five-state photography competition and exhibition. Entries will be accepted from Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma. Entry forms are due Nov. 10, 2009; works due at gallery, Nov. 12; show opening and reception, Dec. 11. Cash awards totaling $1,500 will be divided among winners in three categories: nature, people and open.
This year’s juror will be Loretta Young-Gautier, an award winning photographer and associate director of the Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver, Colo.
For more information or to receive an entry form, write, call or e-mail: Hays Arts Council, 112 E. 11th St., Hays, KS 67601, (785) 625-7522; andrea@haysartscouncil.org or bmeder1038@aol.com; or to download a copy of the prospectus and an entry form: www.haysartscouncil.org.
Story contest
Entries are being accepted for the 2009 Kansas Factual Story contest. This annual contest sponsored by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas encourages preserving in writing factual, unpublished happenings and anecdotes in the lives of Kansans, stated the news release. Stories should have taken place in Kansas in earlier days, be limited to 750 words and be true and unpublished. This contest encourages “the preservation of stores which provide a glimpse into the lives of real world Kansans in times past, stories which might not otherwise be preserved by written word. The stories give poignant and humorous insight into the lives of early Kansans.” The contest is open to anyone and only one story may be entered each person. A panel of judges from the Kansas State Historical Society will judge the stories.
Olive Ann Beech of Wichita provided cash awards for the winners for more than 30 years. After her death, this support has been continued by her daughter, Mary Lynn Oliver of Wichita.
Beech Memorial cash awards are $175 for first place, $125 for second place, $100 for third place and $50 for two honorable mentions. Only winning entries will be contacted by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas, stated the news release.
Kansas school students in grades eight through 12 can compete for a cash prize of $250 in the annual essay contest, “Kansas! Say It Above a Whisper,” sponsored by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas. Essays must be limited to 250 words (about one double-spaced typewritten page). The contest title, which deals with pride in the state of Kansas, was coined by early day Kansas newspaper-woman, Mamie Boyd, stated the news release. The cash award is provided by the Boyd family. According to the news release, past essays “have described the interesting and strong-hearted people of Kansas, the state’s wheat fields, enchanting diversity in population, the state’s beauty and the emotions and pride evoked by that beauty.” The essay contest is judged by a panel of judges from the Kansas Historical Society. The judges look for “originality, creativity and sincerity in expressing pride in the State of Kansas.”
All entries must be submitted be e-mail to: ksnsd@sbcglobal.net and received by Nov. 27, 2009. Only winning entries will be contacted by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.
Winners will be recognized at the Native Sons and Daughters annual banquet Jan. 29, 2010, at Maner Conference Center in the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka. For more information, call executive director John Pinegar at (785) 235-6245.