Category: Education and Engagement

Leading the way in performing arts research

What happens when you attend a Purdue Convocations performance? Does it refresh your memory of a novel you read, a favorite lyric, or a historical event? Perhaps you have great discussions about the show with your companions afterward. You know...
Diavolo at Jeff High

Inspired Giving: Floyd and Patricia Garrott

Floyd and Patricia Garrott are inspired by student experiences. Inspired by the ways live performance can help young people grow, Floyd and Patricia Garrott established an endowment to provide discounted tickets to Purdue students attending performances tied to their course...
Inspired Giving

Inspired Giving: Eyal and Gabrielle Barash

Eyal and Gabrielle Barash are inspired by education initiatives. Gabrielle Cramer Barash has been attending Convos performances since she was a little girl. Now she helps bring the gift of live performance to hundreds of children across Lafayette and beyond....
Call of the Wild

Convocations to lead “Call of the Wild” literacy/theatre project

Purdue Convocations is leading a nationwide study aimed at understanding the impact a live performance has on a student’s literacy skills. This project will use Jack London’s book and Theatre Heroes’ theatrical production of Call of the Wild.

“Freedom Riders” family matinee explores one of the most critical chapters of the civil rights movement

Freedom Riders is the newest play from Mad River Theater Works. It explores valiant and courageous personalities behind one of the most critical chapters in the history of the civil rights movement, the freedom riders.

Diavolo at Jefferson

Diavolo master class at Jefferson High impacts students and teachers

STUDENT PROFILE: SHANNON DAVIS, Lafayette Jefferson High Sophomore Explain the importance of the arts in your school career. I think bringing arts into schools and giving students the opportunity to choose and let their creativity roam is something that every...
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Graduate researcher will assist with nationwide performing arts education project

Our newly created graduate research assistant position will play an essential role in helping to organize and analyze data collected through our nationwide performing arts research project.

Dancer and founder of The Seldoms Carrie Hanson conducted

“Bodies on the Gears” offers Purdue dance students chance to learn with pros

Carrie Hanson from Chicago-based dance company The Seldoms conducted the “Bodies on the Gears” dance workshop at Purdue.

Chicago-based dance group The Seldoms offer Purdue students workshops

As part of The Seldoms dance company artist residency, Purdue Modern Dance and Ballet classes participated in master class workshops ahead of “Power Goes”.

Sullivan Fortner, jazz pianist

LISTEN: Sullivan Fortner & Friends Pre-Show Discussion

Music educator Judd Danby & Don Seybold, host of WBAA’s Inside Jazz, led a pre-show discussion before Sullivan Fortner & Friends. Listen to the podcast.

Purdue Faculty during pre-show discussion of Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg Pre-Show Discussion

Purdue Faculty experts discussed the social, historical, and political questions surrounding the Nuremberg Trials.

Members of Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company dress Purdue students in Peking Opera costumes

An Introduction to Jingju with the Actors and Musicians of The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan

World Music and Chinese Language and Culture Students Participate in a Lecture and Demonstration on the Art of Jingju (Peking Opera)