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Los Lobos set to play Sauder

By Becca Kraybill • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: arts

Three-time Grammy winners. Openers for Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. Contributors to soundtracks such as “The Sopranos,” “The Simpsons,” and “Spy Kids.” Performers for the First Family. All these achievements define Los Lobos, a high-energy American-Chicano...

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POETRY: “What Am I: a Conversation of Identity With the Divine”

By Sarah Rich • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: arts

By Nathan Stoess You ask me What am I? What am I? What am I? I am what eyes would perceive as a vanishing point of humanity That couldn't be Because you go all the way from A to Z Alpha omega someone once put it to me Me a reflection of this cosmic poet’s...

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Pen-dueling to publication: writing opportunities at GC

By Sarah Rich • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich Fiction writers and poets have been crawling out of the Goshen College woodwork in the past few weeks. The Broadside board recently hosted a short fiction contest, which received almost 30 submissions written by students. Abe Pauls won the contest...

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Artists Corner: Alana Kenagy

By Sarah Rich • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: arts

Sarah Rich Alana Kenagy, a junior, remembers taking this ceramic pendant out of the raku smoking chamber her first year at Goshen College and thinking, “I am going to have to make more of these.” Since then, Kenagy has created and then sold or given away 60...

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Hour Afters Coming Up

By Becca Kraybill • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: arts

The Campus Activities Counsel has four exciting Hour Afters in store for the campus. On Friday the 13th at 10:00 p.m., a Pop Choir Coffeehouse will feature a cappella singing from the student group “The Dynamics.” The group will perform selections from artists...

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Parables members sing, dance and act their spirit

By Sarah Rich • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: arts

With diverse interests and artistic specialties, the Parables worship team comes together about once a week to share their many gifts but same spirit with congregations and other Christian functions in the area. They recently held one such program for prospective...

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Artist’s Corner: Ted Maust

By Becca Kraybill • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: arts

It was the sacredly-quiet atmosphere of the Good Library that provided Ted Maust with the image for his woodcut relief print titled “Food for Thought.” Maust, a sophomore, was assigned in his Printmaking class to discover a “sacred” place and capture it from...

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Inside the Beehive Design Collective

By Becca Kraybill • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: arts, lead

On Friday, four busy bees gathered in an Umble Center classroom to show off a year’s worth of hard work; but instead of honey, the fruit of their labors was a massive black and white poster, and instead of flowers, their intended audience was an eager crowd of Goshen...

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Artist’s Corner: Melissa Kauffman

By Becca Kraybill • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: arts

For her Drawing course during last year’s May term, Melissa Kauffman was assigned to develop an art project that contrasted light and dark color. Recognizing the graceful movement that is often characteristic of flowers, the sophomore arranged a still-life containing...

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Balet Folklorico and Sones de Mexico to take Sauder Stage

By Kelsey Shue • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: arts, lead

Balet Folklórico and the award-winning Mexican folk band Sones de México will perform at 8 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall on Friday, Oct. 23. Tickets are free with the donation of a canned item to The Window, a food pantry located on Main Street in Goshen. The concert...

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Artist’s Corner: Matt Helmuth

By Becca Kraybill • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: arts

It was a close friend’s happy, upbeat and “life-bringing” attitude that inspired first-year Matt Helmuth to create the graphic design he titles, “Tree of Life.” The colorful design features a tree rooted in the ground, its branches turning into hands that...

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Hovan and Seitz perform in the parlor

By Sarah Rich • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: arts

Matthias Stegmann, who teaches guitar at Goshen College, joined Rebecca Hovan on stage during her "In The Parlor" recital, Saturday. Photo by Molly Kraybill. Dressed in long sparkling evening gowns and lit by the glittering lights of Rieth Recital Hall, music professors...

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Homecoming Music Gala welcomes past and present students

By Becca Kraybill • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: arts

On Saturday evening, Sauder Concert Hall was stuffed to the gills with a peculiar range of students. Though half the attendees were current Goshen students sporting torn jeans and tennis shoes, the other half consisted of former students, now alumni; some with white...

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Artist’s Corner: Emily Miller

By Sarah Rich • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: arts

Emily Miller saw this old, decrepit schoolhouse across the street from her church in Waco, Tex. every Sunday this past summer. The building was recently burned down as part of a string of arsonist felonies, but the “crackpot” lady who owns it, Miller explains,...

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One Acts will encourage students to “Think-for-yourself”

By Becca Kraybill • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: arts

Goshen’s One Act plays will open this Friday with the recurring theme of “think-for-yourself.” The plays will be performed throughout Homecoming weekend; on Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 4 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Umble Center. The One Acts are just...

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