DELAWARE, Ohio – Ohio Wesleyan University today announced its April 2015 lineup of public events. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free. For the latest OWU event information, visit http://events.owu.edu or “like” OhioWesleyanUniversityNews on Facebook. For Battling Bishop athletics schedules, visit www.battlingbishops.com.
Now through April 5 – “Edmund Kuehn: A Retrospective (1937-2011),” featuring paintings by the former director of the Columbus Museum of Art, and “Gifted,” an exhibition of works donated to the Richard M. Ross Art Museum’s permanent teaching collection, at the museum, 60 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more about Kuehn at www.kenygalleries.com. During the academic year, Ross Art Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is handicap-accessible and admission is always free. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit http://ross.owu.edu for more information.
Now through April 9 – All Student Spring Show, featuring juried artworks created by Ohio Wesleyan students from all academic disciplines, in Gallery 2001 inside Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Gallery hours coincide with library hours, posted online at http://library.owu.edu. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit http://ross.owu.edu for more information.
4:30 p.m. April 1 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Ohio Northern, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 1 – OWU Women’s Lacrosse vs. Oberlin, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 1 – Community Film Series screening of “The Axe,” a dark comedy based on a Donald Westlake novel about desperation among the long-term unemployed, at The Strand Theatre, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware. (French with English subtitles.) Tickets are $5.50. The series is sponsored by the OWU Department of English and the Strand. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu/communityFilmSeries.html.
3:15 p.m. April 2 – OWU student voice recital featuring tenor Anthony Belfiglio; sopranos Allison Dawson, Melody Smith, and Katie Miller; and mezzo soprano Chrissy Vankovich, accompanied by faculty member Mariko Kaneda on piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 2 – Mark R. Beissinger, Ph.D., the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University, discussing “Ukraine, Russia, and the End of the Post-Cold War Political Order,” in the Benes Rooms A and B of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Beissinger’s presentation is OWU’s 26th Annual John Kennard Eddy Memorial Lecture on World Politics. Learn more at http://politics.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 3 – OWU Women’s Lacrosse vs. Denison, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 3 – OWU Tournées French Film Festival screening of “Grand Illusion,” a film set during World War I and examining the relationships that form among a group of French officers held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The free screening will be held in Benes Room B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Marty Hipsky, Ph.D., professor of English, will lead a post-screening discussion. Learn more at http://blogs.owu.edu/connect2/ohio-wesleyan-to-host-tournees-french-film-festival.
8 p.m. April 3, 10, 17, 24 – Evening programs at Ohio Wesleyan’s Perkins Observatory, 3199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23), Delaware. Content varies based on sky conditions, but may include a planetarium show, observatory tours, and star gazing with the 32-inch Schottland Telescope. Advance tickets are $8 for adults, and $6 for children and senior citizens. Reserve tickets by calling (740) 363-1257. Learn more at http://perkins.owu.edu.
All day April 4 – OWU Track & Field hosts the Marv Frye Invitational, at the George Gauthier Track inside Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
9 a.m. April 4 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Wooster, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
Noon April 4 – OWU Baseball doubleheader vs. Ohio Christian, at Littick Field, 199 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3 p.m. April 4 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Adrian, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 4 – OWU senior-junior recital featuring Caitlen Sellers on flute, accompanied by faculty member Mariko Kaneda on piano, performing work composed by Lam Khoa, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 6 – OWU Tournées French Film Festival screening of “On my Way,” written for Catherine Deneuve, whose character turns a head-clearing getaway into a nearly weeklong road trip through rural France. The free screening will be held in Benes Room B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Mary Anne Lewis Ph.D., assistant professor of modern foreign languages, will lead a post-screening discussion. Learn more at http://blogs.owu.edu/connect2/ohio-wesleyan-to-host-tournees-french-film-festival.
4 p.m. April 7 – OWU Men’s Tennis vs. Wittenberg, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 7 – OWU Baseball vs. Ohio Dominican, at Littick Field, 199 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. April 7 – OWU Chamber Orchestra performance conducted by faculty member Michael Malone, in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
April 7&8 – Community Film Series screening of “A Screaming Man,” a drama centering on the tensions between a father and son set against the backdrop of civil war. (French and Arabic with English subtitles.) Screenings will be at 9:15 p.m. April 7 and 7 p.m. April 8 at The Strand Theatre, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware. Tickets are $5.50. The series is sponsored by the OWU Department of English and the Strand. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu/communityFilmSeries.html.
3:30 p.m. April 8 – OWU Softball doubleheader vs. DePauw, at Margaret Sagan Field, 251 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 8 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Wittenberg, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 8 – OWU Men’s Lacrosse vs. Wabash, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 8 – Carl Hart, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Columbia University and author of “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society,” in the Bayley Room of Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Hart’s presentation is part of the university’s Butler A. Jones Lecture on Race and Society. It is sponsored by the “Crime, Responsibility, and Punishment” Course Connection and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology-Anthropology and the “Poverty, Equity, and Social Justice” Course Connection. Learn more at https://sites.google.com/a/owu.edu/crime-responsibility-and-punishment/, http://soan.owu.edu, or http://courseconnections.owu.edu/povertyEquityAndSocialJustice.php.
3:15 p.m. April 9 – OWU student recital featuring music performance minors, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7:30 p.m. April 9 – Scott Griffin, chief sustainability officer for Delaware-based Greif Inc., discussing “Normative Ethics – Executive reflections on doing business in Haiti after the Earthquake and beyond,” in the Benes Rooms of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. His presentation is the 2015 Heisler Business Ethics Lecture sponsored by the university’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. Learn more at http://wcebe.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 10 – OWU Women’s Lacrosse vs. Hiram, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 10 – Christina Maria Hoenig, Ph.D., assistant professor of classics at the University of Pittsburgh, discussing “Union and Disunion in Lucretius,” in Room 330 of Slocum Hall, 75 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Hoenig specializes in Greek and Roman philosophical writers of the late first century B.C. and the Latin Platonic tradition. Her presentation is sponsored by the OWU Classics Program. For more information, contact OWU professor Lee Fratantuono at lmfratan@owu.edu.
All day April 11 – OWU Track & Field hosts the All-Ohio Division III Championship, at the George Gauthier Track inside Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
10 a.m. April 11 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. DePauw, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
Noon April 11 – OWU Men’s Tennis vs. DePauw, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
1 p.m. April 11 – OWU Softball doubleheader vs. Kenyon, at Margaret Sagan Field, 251 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 11 – OWU senior-student recital featuring soprano Grace Thompson, J.J. Jurcisek on violin, Katherine Thompson on trumpet, and faculty member Mariko Kaneda on piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
Noon April 12 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Oberlin, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
1 p.m. April 12 – OWU Men’s Lacrosse vs. Denison, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 12 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Otterbein, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3:15 p.m. April 12 – OWU junior recital featuring Alex Armstrong on organ, in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 13 – OWU Tournées French Film Festival screening of “Augustine,” telling the story 19-year-old Augustine, who is sent to famed neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot after an inexplicable seizure renders half her face paralyzed. The doctor selects Augustine to be one of the prized patients – under hypnosis, and often naked – used in his demonstrations to other physicians about this exclusively female mental disorder. The free screening will be held in Benes Room B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Ana Oancea, assistant professor of modern foreign languages, will lead a post-screening discussion. Learn more at http://blogs.owu.edu/connect2/ohio-wesleyan-to-host-tournees-french-film-festival.
3:30 p.m. April 14 – OWU Softball doubleheader vs. Wooster, at Margaret Sagan Field, 251 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. April 14 – OWU senior recital featuring compositions by Robert O’Neill, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
April 14&15 – Community Film Series screening of “Where Do We Go Now?”, a poignant, and powerfully funny, film about peacekeeping in the midst of war. (Arabic with English subtitles.) Screenings will be at 9:15 p.m. April 14 and 7 p.m. April 15 at The Strand Theatre, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware. Tickets are $5.50. The series is sponsored by the OWU Department of English and the Strand. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu/communityFilmSeries.html.
4-8 p.m. April 15 – OWU’s first Student Symposium, showcasing academic achievement through poster presentations oral presentations, music performances, student-artist talks, and more. The event will be held on the ground floor of Schimmel/Conrades Science Center, 90 S. Henry St., Delaware. Refreshments will be served. Learn more at http://blogs.owu.edu/connect2/student-symposium.
April 16 through Aug. 10 – “Fragments of Italy,” an exhibition of oil paintings and iron castings by artist Rosellina Avoscan, in Gallery 2001 inside Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 16. Gallery hours coincide with library hours, posted online at http://library.owu.edu. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit http://ross.owu.edu for more information.
3:15 p.m. April 16 – OWU student composition recital featuring works from faculty member Jennifer Jolley’s studio class, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 16 – OWU Tournées French Film Festival screening of “Grigris,” opening at a disco in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, where Souleymane – nicknamed “Grigris” – dazzles the crowd with his spectacular dance moves. The free screening will be held in Benes Room B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Randy Quaye, Ph.D., associate professor of black world studies, will lead a post-screening discussion. Learn more at http://blogs.owu.edu/connect2/ohio-wesleyan-to-host-tournees-french-film-festival.
8 p.m. April 16 – OWU student piano recital featuring works from faculty member Frank Chiou’s piano class, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
4 p.m. April 17 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Baldwin Wallace, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. April 17, 18, 24, and 25, and 2 p.m. April 26, 2015 – “Urinetown: the Musical,” with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. A water shortage prompts the actions of both heroes and villains in this sly, vibrant, uproarious, and very contemporary Tony Award-winning musical. The play will be directed by faculty member Ed Kahn and performed on the Main Stage inside Chappelear Drama Center, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for senior citizens, Ohio Wesleyan employees, and non-Ohio Wesleyan students. Admission is free for Ohio Wesleyan students with a valid OWU ID. To reserve tickets, call the Theatre Box Office at (740) 368-3855. For more information, visit http://theatre.owu.edu.
April 18 through May 10 – Annual Juried Senior Fine Arts Majors exhibition, featuring works by members of the OWU Class of 2015, at the Richard M. Ross Art Museum, 60 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. The exhibit will open with a special Saturday reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 18. During the academic year, the museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is handicap-accessible and admission is always free. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit http://ross.owu.edu for more information.
Noon April 18 and April 19 – OWU Baseball doubleheaders vs. Denison, at Littick Field, 199 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3 p.m. April 19 – Acclaimed vocalists John and Nancy Shuffle and pianist Charles Manning present “An Afternoon of Opera and Broadway,” a fundraiser for a school in Peru that serves developmentally disabled children. The concert will be held in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for adults, and may be purchased at the door or reserved by emailing OWU’s Patricio Plazolles at perufundraiser2015@gmail.com. Tickets also are available at the office of the Central Ohio Symphony, 24 E. Winter St., Delaware. All checks should be payable to the “OWU Peru Program” and, if mailed, sent to 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Funds raised will help the Peruvian school to buy an oven and establish a bakery as it works to become self-supporting.
3:15 p.m. April 19 – OWU student recital/lecture featuring soprano Elizabeth Fisher, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
3:30 p.m. April 21 – OWU Softball doubleheader vs. Heidelberg, at Margaret Sagan Field, 251 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
4 p.m. April 21 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. Muskingum, at Luttinger Family Tennis Center, 31 Hayes St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 21 – Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood,” in the Benes Rooms of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. His presentation is part of the David Osborne Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of English. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu.
8 p.m. April 21 – OWU senior recital featuring baritone Connor Stout and faculty member Mariko Kaneda on piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
April 21&22 – Community Film Series screening of “The Missing Picture,” which tells the story of the filmmaker’s family under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Because the filmmaker-narrator has so few photographs to document atrocities committed by Pol Pot, he supplements documentary footage with clay figures set in dioramas. (French with English subtitles.) Screenings will be at 9:15 p.m. April 21 and 7 p.m. April 22 at The Strand Theatre, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware. Tickets are $5.50. The series is sponsored by the OWU Department of English and the Strand. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu/communityFilmSeries.html.
4 p.m. April 22 – OWU Baseball vs. Marietta, at Littick Field, 199 S. Henry St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3:15 p.m. April 23 – OWU student recital featuring Annie Spink on organ, Logan Baker on trumpet, Quenton Stokes-Brown on trombone, Liam Keller on double bass, and the OWU Brass Ensemble, in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
8 p.m. April 23 – OWU faculty recital featuring soprano Crystal Stabenow, accompanied by Frank Chiou on piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
1 p.m. April 25 – OWU Women’s Lacrosse vs. Wittenberg, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at http://stream.owu.edu. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7 p.m. April 25 – OWU senior-student recital featuring Lidia Mowad on oboe, accompanied by the student Percussion Ensemble, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at http://music.owu.edu.
7 p.m. April 28 – 150th commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passing through Delaware on April 28, 1865. This event will feature a conversation with President Lincoln (character actor) and a children’s choir performance, in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. The event is sponsored by the Delaware County Historical Society with support from the OWU Department of History. For more information, contact the Historical Society at 740-369-3831.
April 28&29 – Community Film Series screening of “sex, lies, and videotape,” an exploration of tensions among a sexually repressed woman, her philandering husband, and his videographer. Screenings will be at 9:15 p.m. April 28 and 7 p.m. April 29 at The Strand Theatre, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware. Tickets are $5.50. The series is sponsored by the OWU Department of English and the Strand. Learn more at http://english.owu.edu/communityFilmSeries.html.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers 86 undergraduate majors and competes in 23 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Ohio Wesleyan combines a challenging, internationally focused curriculum with off-campus learning and leadership opportunities to connect classroom theory with real-world experience. OWU’s 1,750 students represent 46 U.S. states and territories and 43 countries. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” listed on the latest President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, and included in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists. Learn more at www.owu.edu.