Center Stage

Coming this Fall!

One World Multicultural Evening
	Oct. 9  |  6 p.m. Tech Pride Room Roaden University Center

Both events will feature international cuisine to expose students to cultures through food that they may not have previously experienced. The hosts will provide Chartwells with authentic recipes to ensure students have an authentic tasting experience. For the Fall 2024 event, the program will be an International Talent Show. International members of the campus and community will be invited to share music, stories, and dances from their cultures with the audience.

Amy Reidel	Painting Exhibition
	Oct. 25-Dec. 5 Gallery Talk: Dec. 5 | 4:30 p.m. Joan Derryberry Art Gallery Roaden University Center

Amy Reidel has exhibited work nationally since getting her BFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and her MFA at The University of Tennessee. Reidel’s artwork has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis, High Low Gallery, The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries, Granite City Art and Design District (G-CADD), Lambert International Airport, Flood Plain Gallery, ACRE projects gallery in Chicago, Fluorescent Gallery in Knoxville, Piano Craft Gallery in Boston and the Amarillo Museum of Art among others. Reidel lives and works in St. Louis with her family where she is also Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at STLCC-Meramec, Adjunct Instructor at Washington University and Co-Founder of the woman-led studio and exhibition space, Coral Green Studios in South City.

Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers The Black Female Experience in the US
	Friday, Oct. 25 | 7 p.m. Stonecipher 113 Reception & Book-Signing Following Stonecipher 260

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers earned her doctorate in U.S. History from Rutgers University, specializing in African American History and Women’s History. A historian of black women, her work examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and freedom, specifically focusing on the lives of enslaved and free black women in the Old South.

An Evening with Affrilachian Poet Amy M. Alvarez
	Tuesday, Oct. 29 11 a.m. Workshop & Light Refreshments Henderson Hall 205 6 p.m. Featuring Readings from Makeshift Altar: Poems Bell Hall Auditorium Book-Signing & Reception Following Bell Hall Rm. 260

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar (2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (2023). Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Foundation, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She has taught at high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, and at West Virginia University. She currently teaches at Boston College.

First Nations Circle of Music
	Friday, Nov. 15 6 p.m. Wattenbarger Auditorium Bryan Fine Arts Building

Returning to campus during Native American Awareness Month, First Nation’s Circle of Music offers and education and entertaining experience. Multiple indigenous tribes will be represented.