FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             Media Contact: Lynn Norwood

February 6, 2004                                                                     (313)927-1493

 

 

The following is a list of upcoming events scheduled to take place at Marygrove College.  The college is located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit.  Unless otherwise indicated, all events are free and open to the public.

 

Bob St. Thomas in Concert  (photo attached)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Well-known local jazz vocalist Bob St. Thomas will perform an arrangement of jazz, pop and blues selections on Friday, February 20, 8:00 p.m. in the Marygrove College Theatre.  St.Thomas was the featured vocalist in the ÒMotown and All That JazzÓ concert and at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival for four years. He has performed with many top entertainers including The Temptations, Joan Rivers, Frankie Avalon, Little Richard, and Regina Carter. 

Tickets are $10each and can be purchased in advance or at the door.  Call (313) 927-1372 for tickets or more information. 

This concert is part of MarygroveÕs Onstage! program, a multidisciplinary, community-focused, arts outreach effort directed to children, adolescents,  part with support from the Whitney Fund, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the City of Detroit Neighborhood Opportunity Fund.

 

 

Shirley Verrett (photo attached)

Soprano Shirley Verrett will perform and sign her newly published autobiography on Monday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Denk Chapman Hall. Verrett has been a star at the worldÕs great opera houses, where she has been acclaimed for exceptional gifts as a singing actress.  She appeared in the Metropolitan Opera for more than two decades and has performed and recorded as a soloist with the worldÕs most renowned conductors.

This program is also part of Onstage! and was made possible in part with support from the Whitney Fund, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the City of Detroit Neighborhood Opportunity Fund. For more information, call (313) 927-1372.

 

 

Art Exhibitions

The Gallery at Marygrove College continues its 2003-2004 season with a performance and exhibition by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles/In-Flux and Mimi Prussack. Knowles is one of the founders of Fluxus, an art movement noted for blending different artistic disciplines including visual, music and literature. She will present a solo performance involving sound and text at an opening reception on Thursday, February 26 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in The Gallery. Her exhibition will be on display from February 26 through March28.  The exhibition will also feature works from In-Flux, a group of artists from the Detroit area.

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Marygrove Events, continued

 

 

On Sunday, February 29 from 3:00-6:00 p.m., an opening reception will take place in the Beyond Words Library Gallery for Mimi PrussackÕs oil painting exhibit. Prussack uses traditional subject matter of landscape and still-life in a unique interplay of patterns found in light, color and forms of her multi-layered compositions.  The exhibition is from February 29 through March 28. 

For more information, call (313)927-1370 or (313) 927-1336.

 

 

African American Family Dinner and Celebration

As part of Black History Month, Marygrove College will hold a family dinner on Sunday, February 29 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. in Alumnae Hall.  Tickets are $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children. The soul food dinner includes fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, peach cobbler and more. Tickets are available in the Madame Cadillac Bldg., Rm. 127, or call

(313) 927-1477.

 

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