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PAS Beerfest 2011-70 Beers and Counting
PAS Beerfest 2011
The Performing Arts Society 3rd Annual Beerfest is Saturday, October 22 from 12:00 NOON to 6:00 PM at The Forum in downtown Macomb. Beerfest features 70 beers and complimentary snacks to attendees 21 years and older. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door for the public and $5 for students with a valid university ID.
The PAS Beerfest is the only chance in west central Illinois to taste some of the most sought after brews around. Tasting tickets are $.75 each or 8 for $5. Taste beers from Michigan, Colorado, California, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Illinois, New York, Oregon, Canada and Germany.
The "Special Release Beers" tasting is one of the highlights of the event. Every hour on the hour, from 1:00 to 5:00, Beerfest will feature a very hard to get brew: 1:00-Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine; 2:00-Smuttynose Older Brown Dog 2007; 3:00-Two Brothers Askew; 4:00-Left Hand Wake Up Dead Imperial; and 5:00-Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
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WIU Opera at the Art Center
The Medium poster
The School of Music and the Opera Theatre of Western Illinois University presents The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. The performances are Friday, October 28, 8:00 pm; Saturday, October 29, 8:00 pm; Sunday, October 30, 2:00 pm; and Sunday, October 30, 8:00 pm at the West Central Illinois Art Center on the Square in Macomb, IL.
The performance, directed by Angela Hand, will feature students and faculty of Western Illinois University: Laura Dittmar, Lily Blouin, JJ Gatesman, Kitty Karn, Therese Pircon, Andrea Dunn, Daniel Brakefield, James Christian (understudy for Daniel Brakefield), Natalie Randall, and Barbi Brewer.
Tickets are on sale at Hainline Box Office, 309.298.2900, and at the event: Public $15; Senior Citizen/Youth $12; WIU students free with a valid ID.
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PAS Gala & Silent Auction 2011-A Night at the Oscars
PAS Gala & Silent Auction 2011-- A Night at the Oscars
The Performing Arts Society Gala and Silent Auction 2011 presents "A Night at the Oscars" Saturday, November 12 at the Western Illinois University Union First Floor from 5:00-11:00 PM. MidAmerica National Bank is the official sponsor of the PAS Gala 2011.
Get ready for an "Oscar" experience where you are the star. The red carpet, paparazzi, photos at the "walk of fame" wall-and all of this for a great cause-supporting the arts. The evening begins at 5:00 PM with valet parking on both sides of Murray Street. Enter the Union at the new Murray Street entrance and walk into Hollywood!
Dan Schmidt, faculty assistant and scene shop manager, and Scot Bouillon, faculty assistant and scene shop master builder, sculpt a prop for the PAS Gala 2011, "A Night at the Oscars."
A social hour from 5:00 to 6:00 PM will include the Gala 2011 signature drink, "Oscar's Red Carpet." Passed hors d'oeuvres in the Prairie Lounge begin the evening: Jerk Beef on Crostini, South Indian Kabobs, Fried Mozzarella with Arugula and Prosciutto will please any palate.
Most importantly, the social hour gives Gala guests the opportunity to view and bid on the spectacular Gala Silent Auction items. This year's auction items include trips, tickets to sporting and cultural events, golf opportunities, local services, jewelry, art, and so much more. Check the Silent Auction items at wiu.edu/pas for the most current list of auction items.
The Performing Arts Society (PAS) encourages all Gala guests to bid often and generously on the Silent Auction items, as the Silent Auction is the true fundraising aspect of the Gala.
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Socks for Soldiers
Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity will be holding a sock drive in the University Union Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday October 25, 26, and 27 from 10-5 pm for the United States Marine Corps, 2nd Battalion, located in Afghanistan, Helmand Province. All donated socks must be new and in regulation colors: white, black, gray, brown, or army green. All socks must be 100% cotton. A table will be set up in the Union ground floor concourse.
Additionally, the members of Kappa Pi will be collecting socks at Farm King on Saturday, October 29 from 10-5 pm.
The United States Government does not provide greatly needed socks for our troops. Soldiers often wear the same pair of socks for over a week. Without fresh clean socks these brave men and women can get trench foot and other immersion foot syndromes.
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Bard in the Barn 2011-An All Alum/Guest Artist Cast
WIU alums, guest artists, and WIU faculty perform "unrehearsed Shakespeare" for Bard in the Barn 2011.
Bard in the Barn returned to Macomb this year with a twist. This year's cast for Bard was made up entirely of WIU alums, guest artists and WIU faculty. Why no students you ask? Because the "unrehearsed Shakespeare" technique has become so popular with WIU theatre majors that for the first time ever, the theatre department has created a semester long class taught by the local "unrehearsed Shakespeare" authority, Bill Kincaid.
Mike Speck, a 2005 Masters of Fine Arts graduate of Western Illinois University, plays his part in Saturday's unrehearsed Shakespeare event, "Bard in the Barn."
According to Kincaid, the class offering was extremely well received and between students just beginning to learn the technique and a University Theatre production in rehearsal and a Studio show that was in the second night of production the same night as Bard, there were no WIU students available to perform in this year's Bard. So, out went the call and 22 alums and guest artists paid their way to get to Macomb and perform in Bard. That says a lot about how collaborative the Bard experience is. Alums and guests came from as far away as Florida and Washington state.
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