Convos Stories

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...

Alan and Gail Beck are inspired by innovative performances. Alan and Gail Beck have been staunch supporters of Purdue Convocations for the past 20 years. Their generous donations benefit the Innovative Performance Fund, which brings experimental performances and unique artists...

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....

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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.

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.

Under the direction of Grammy Award-winning drummer, Ulysses Owens Jr., the 1960’s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. To effectively deliver this vast repertoire, the program features vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, and Joanna Majoko.

Under the direction of Grammy Award-winning drummer, Ulysses Owens Jr., the 1960’s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. To effectively deliver this vast repertoire, the program features vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, and Joanna Majoko.

Each pair of ruby slippers is estimated at a value of $1.5 million, making them the most expensive Hollywood memorabilia known. They have been dubbed by some as "The Holy Grail" of all Hollywood nostalgia.  Despite their incredible fame, the...

"For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return...

The Convos Piano Giving Circle brings together the Friends of Convocations who believe in the importance of making live piano music performances regularly available in our community.

The Convos Piano Giving Circle brings together the Friends of Convocations who believe in the importance of making live piano music performances regularly available in our community.

Program for Orlando Consort: Voices Appeared Silent Cinema and Medieval Music The Passion of Joan of Arc February 23, 2018 / St. Thomas Aquinas VOICES APPEARED: SOUND AND VISIONS BY DONALD GREIG Voices Appeared is Jeanne d’Arc’s gnomic explanation of...

When the Tony Awards were handed out in June of 2014, the stylishly comic musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, took home four trophies, including the biggest: Best Musical. “It was the most incredible thing,” says author Robert...

https://live-convocations.pantheonsite.io/event/gentlemans-guide-love-murder/ I just wanted to talk to you about the whole process of putting Gentleman’s Guide up on Broadway and winning the Tony Award.  As they say in Sound of Music, let’s start at the very beginning.  How did you...