Perko Playpen Theatre

Chronicles is one of many plays in Don Nigro’s Pendragon series. The play is set in 1920 in the crumbling family mansion in Armitage, Ohio, at Christmas time. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly cruel history, the characters nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh in this richly textured and intricately woven drama.

Collegiate Performing Arts Center

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a dramatization of this story of Scrooge and the three ghosts, will once again be presented for elementary school children (and their teachers and parents).

The Global Humanities Lectures Series

Humanities 218

Dr. Bhrigutpati Singh, Harvard University

Anthropologist

Can we conceptualize certain comparative moral problems to which each of the world religions variously respond? How are these problems re-articulated within secular moralities? Through Gandhi, and his admiration for Thoreau and American Transcendentalism, we take up one such problem: the question of the ascetic ideal, or a positive conception of frugality. How do we understand the tension between different modes of frugality and excess in our times? Is a moral affirmation of ‘excess’ possible?

Drawing on his ethnographic work on Hinduism, as well as certain resonating strands of moral philosophy, Singh will place these questions in relation to the emergent framework of global ‘political theologies’. This framework, he argues, allows us to consider comparative dimensions of these questions across divine and ‘godless’ moralities.

Singh studied in Delhi, London, and Baltimore. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, and is presently a Visiting Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He is currently working on two book projects, which explore comparative concepts in religious and secular moralities within the framework of global ‘political theologies’. The first project is an ethnographic study of Hinduism in a context of rural poverty titled Gods and Grains: Lives of Desire in Rural Central India. The second project is a set of essays in moral philosophy titled This World, Another World: Essays in Political Theologies.

Perko Playpen Theatre

Chronicles is one of many plays in Don Nigro’s Pendragon series. The play is set in 1920 in the crumbling family mansion in Armitage, Ohio, at Christmas time. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly cruel history, the characters nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh in this richly textured and intricately woven drama.

Collegiate Performing Arts Center

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a dramatization of this story of Scrooge and the three ghosts, will once again be presented for elementary school children (and their teachers and parents).

Perko Playpen Theatre

Chronicles is one of many plays in Don Nigro’s Pendragon series. The play is set in 1920 in the crumbling family mansion in Armitage, Ohio, at Christmas time. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly cruel history, the characters nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh in this richly textured and intricately woven drama.

Collegiate Performing Arts Center

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a dramatization of this story of Scrooge and the three ghosts, will once again be presented for elementary school children (and their teachers and parents).

York College Galleries

Brossman Gallery - Senior Graphic Design Majors

Cora Miller Gallery - Senior Fine Arts Majors

Dec. 4 - 17, 2009

Senior portfolio presentations: 5 - 7 p.m., Dec. 4 (DeMeester Recital Hall)

Opening reception: 7 - 9 p.m., Dec. 4

This biannual exhibition features the work of senior art majors in their final semester of study at York College. Fine Art and Graphic Design majors present thematically cohesive bodies of work showcasing the skills and techniques they have acquired at York College before leaving our program to pursue careers as professional artists and designers. The students work collectively during their final semester to refine their creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with an exhibition of their work and Senior Portfolio Presentations, to be held Friday, Dec. 4 from 5 - 7 p.m. The students will present brief public lectures on the subject, content, and style of their work. This event is open to the public and will be followed by an Opening Reception for the Senior Show exhibition in the York Galleries.  Awards will be presented for both Excellence in Fine Arts and Honors in Design, as well as the People’s Choice Award and the Best of Show Merit Award.

Perko Playpen Theatre

Chronicles is one of many plays in Don Nigro’s Pendragon series. The play is set in 1920 in the crumbling family mansion in Armitage, Ohio, at Christmas time. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly cruel history, the characters nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh in this richly textured and intricately woven drama.

Collegiate Performing Arts Center Series

The York College Jazz Ensemble is one of the oldest musical groups on campus. The ensemble performs music written by the jazz greats including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Students are featured in spontaneous improvisations that build off of the solos of the past masters of jazz. The ensemble performs in various jazz idioms such as Swing Era Jazz, Bebop, and Fusion.

Perko Playpen Theatre

Chronicles is one of many plays in Don Nigro’s Pendragon series. The play is set in 1920 in the crumbling family mansion in Armitage, Ohio, at Christmas time. Trapped in the labyrinth of a darkly cruel history, the characters nevertheless love each other and make each other laugh in this richly textured and intricately woven drama.

DeMeester Recital Hall Series

Conducted by Professor Zachary Levi, the York College Community Orchestra is a full symphonic orchestra. The group includes music majors and musicians from York and the surrounding area. The Orchestra will perform works of the masters from the 18th century to the present. Faculty and student soloists are often featured on the programs.

Collegiate Performing Arts Center Series

The annual Holiday Concert features the York College Chorale and Wind Symphony conducted by Grace Muzzo and Wayne Romer, respectively. It’s a wonderful time to get in the holiday spirit by enjoying sacred and secular music of the season. An audience sing-a-long is always a special way to conclude the program!