NGCSU choirs present 'Homecoming' concert March 31

DAHLONEGA –  Following their performances in England during Spring Break from North Georgia College & State University, the NGCSU Singers and Le Belle Voci will present their "Homecoming" concert on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. The free event will take place in the auditorium of the Health & Natural Sciences Building on Sunset Drive off West Main Street in Dahlonega. Both choirs are under the direction of Dr. Jack Broman.

	Peter Jankovic

Classical guitarist Jankovic to perform on March 24

DAHLONEGA – International award-winning classical guitarist Petar Jankovic will perform two concerts on March 24 in the Hoag Student Center Auditorium at North Georgia College & State University. The concerts, at 12:30 and 7:30 p.m., are part of the Nix Living Heritage Fine Arts Series and are free and open to the public.

Since beginning his professional music career in 1985, Jankovic has delighted audiences at recitals and enlightened students in his master classes throughout Europe and the United States. As a performer at major competitions around the globe, his universally evocative sound has won high regard with the world’s classical music community, and as a result, Jankovic has garnered numerous awards at international competitions.

Currently Jankovic is a member of the Indiana University School of Music faculty.

J. L .Nix and his wife Sarah Highsmith Nix of Cleveland, Georgia, established the Living Heritage Fine Arts Trust in honor and memory of his father, John L. Nix, a Cleveland businessman and lifelong resident of the hills of North Georgia. The endowment funds special fine arts events and exhibits at NGCSU that foster an appreciation of the role arts play in today's society.

For more information, please contact the NGCSU Fine Arts Department at 706-864-1423.

'Ghost Out' event demonstrates dangers of DUI

DAHLONEGA – No one was actually hurt or died, but on March 8, a mock car accident at North Georgia College & State University took place on the drill field at the center of campus. Local emergency response personnel treated student “casualties” in a real-time scenario demonstrating the possibly fatal consequences of drunk driving.

This “Ghost Out” event at NGCSU involved 60 students, representing the number of students killed daily by such accidents, wearing white face paint and cardboard tombstones around their necks.

“There were EMT vehicles, police officers, and a helicopter participating in the accident in an attempt to drive home the message to think before you drink and drive,” said Anna Robertson, the drug and alcohol awareness educator at NGCSU.

Hoag lecture spotlights 'Chaotic Politics'

	Don Saari

DAHLONEGA – Politics and mathematics will be a combined topic when Don Saari, the distinguished professor of mathematics and economics at the University of California Irvine, speaks on "Chaotic Politics" at North Georgia College & State University. The 7 p.m. lecture in the Hoag Student Center Auditorium on March 22 is this year’s Merritt E. Hoag Lecture, and is free and open to the public.

Saari's presentation will focus on the chaos theory as it relates to politics and global world perspective.

"Dr. Saari is an internationally known mathematician and speaker whose contributions to chaos theory and game theory have helped revolutionize economic and political science modeling," said Robb Sinn, NGCSU associate professor of math and computer science.

Sinn says that his fellow undergraduate students at Northwestern University "fought to get into Saari's classes" when the noted mathematician taught there, prior to his prestigious appointment at UCI.   

"He is a great communicator who takes the trouble to explain mathematics to people who don't 'get' mathematics," Sinn explained. "He's like Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm character in 'Jurassic Park,' always talking about chaos and seeing the beauty of the not-quite-randomness of our lives and the maddening randomness of nature and events around us."

Saari has won numerous academic awards and was named to the National Academy of Sciences, among other national honors. Among his many editorial positions, Saari has been chief editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society since 1999. His 150 published papers and seven books cover topics ranging from the dynamics of the Newtonian N-body problem to questions from mathematical economics and voting theory, with an emphasis on dynamical systems and consequences.

The Hoag Lecture Series is named in honor of NGC President Merritt E. Hoag (1949-1970).

Full Radius Dance performs March 10

DAHLONEGA – Full Radius Dance will perform at North Georgia College & State University on March 10 at 7 p.m. in the Hoag Student Center Auditorium. The group mixes dancers on foot with dancers in wheelchairs to create technically demanding and visually exciting choreographic works. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the NGCSU Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1643.

Pulitzer Prize winner Margaret Edson at NGCSU March 9

Margaret Edson

DAHLONEGA – Margaret Edson, playwright of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Wit,” about a professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, will speak at North Georgia College & State University on March 9. An original stage production of “Wit” by the NGCSU Student Theatre Guild continues through Sunday on campus. The events are free and open to the public.

Edson, an Atlanta elementary school teacher, will speak in Hoag Auditorium on March 9 at 7 p.m. Between earning degrees in history and literature, Edson worked in the cancer and AIDS unit of a research hospital. “Wit,” about a poetry professor’s fight against cancer, is her first play and won the Pulitzer Prize drama award. The event is sponsored by the Cultural Events Committee. For more information, call 706-864-1965.
 

The NGCSU student production of “Wit” takes place at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Hoag Auditorium. North Georgia English professor Sandee McGlaun will play the title role of Vivian Bearing. Donations are accepted and part of the proceeds will go to cancer research. For more information, please contact “Wit” director Kevin Mace at 706-867-2760.

Sandee McGlaun as Vivian Bearing in "Wit"

'Wit' comes to NGCSU stage March 2-6

DAHLONEGA – Margaret Edson's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit," about a professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, comes to North Georgia College & State University March 2-6. The acclaimed play by Edson, an Atlanta elementary school teacher, takes place at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Hoag Student Center Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted and part of the proceeds will go to cancer research.

"This is one of the most searing and affecting American dramas in the last 10 years," said Kevin Mace, director of the "Wit" stage production.

A presentation of the NGCSU Student Theatre Guild, "Wit" stars NGCSU English professor Sandee McGlaun as Vivian Bearing, a renowned literary professor who learns the importance of human kindness when faced with ovarian cancer.

"Sandee gives a performance of remarkable strength and courage that will touch audiences' hearts," Mace said. The cast also includes university students Joe Kleid, Gabe Ramos and Adrienne Stevens.

For more information, please contact Mace at 706-867-2760 or kmace@ngcsu.edu.

	The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers

NGCSU Women & Leadership Conference set for March 1-2

DAHLONEGA – The 10th Annual Women & Leadership Conference at North Georgia College & State University will take place March 1-2 on the Dahlonega campus.

The keynote speaker, Sally Bethea, is the founding director of Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed. She will speak March 2 at 11 a.m. in the Health & Natural Sciences Auditorium on Sunset Drive.  

"The focus of this year's conference is everyday leadership and bringing out the leader in everyone," said conference committee chair Kathleen Dolan.

	Sally Bethea

Amy Blackmarr, the Georgia Writer’s Association Author of the Year Award winner in the essay division, will speak as part of a women writers’ panel on March 1 at 2 p.m. in Dunlap Hall, room 212.

Workshops and discussion panels involving many local community leaders are scheduled for the two-day event. Women student leaders will also lead some of the panels.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the duo better known as the Indigo Girls, will hold a charity concert March 2, 7-9 p.m., in the Memorial Hall Gym on the main campus. For ticket prices and purchasing, call 706-864-1446. The proceeds will go to Honor the Earth, an organization creating awareness and support for environmental issues and to develop resources for the survival of sustainable Native American communities.

An Honor the Earth panel with the Indigo Girls will take place earlier in the day from 3-4:45 p.m. in the HNS Auditorium.

For a complete schedule of events for the Women & Leadership Conference, go online to www.ngcsu.edu/wlc. More information available at 706-864-1446.

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