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2 Thursday 4:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA 19th Annual Spanish Arts Festival. Teams of students from Illinois high schools present poetry recitations, skits and songs entirely in Spanish. Registration information available from Professor Jorge Prats, 309-343-0112, ext. 300.
2-4, Thursday-Saturday 6:30 p.m. Seymour Union Madrigal Dinners: A Renaissance feast and royal pageant, featuring authentic 16th-Century songs, dances and entertainment. Presented by Collegium Musicum, directed by Laura Lane, Assistant Professor of Music. Tickets are $14 from the Main Desk of Seymour Union. Deadline May 1.
3 Friday 4 p.m. Common Room, OM Caxton Club Lecture: "Reading from Inside and Outside Community: Franz Kafka and Toni Morrison." David Bleich, author of Reading Response Criticism, Subjective Criticism, and Readings and Feelings, and English professor, University of Rochester.
3 Friday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Performance: Hypnotist John Kolisch.
Rededication of Seymour Library 4 Saturday 2 p.m. Seymour Library Rededication Ceremony marking the completion of a four-year, $2.6-million renovation of Knox's Henry M. Seymour Library. Featured speaker: Russell H. Bostert, 1941 Knox graduate and Stanfield Professor of History at Williams College.
4 Saturday 7 p.m. Lobby, CFA Student Art Show Opening: Christine Steyer. Works on display through May 8.
5 Sunday 2 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Student Recital: Christine Steyer, soprano, performing two original works by Jeffrey Miller, Assistant Professor of Music at Knox.
6 Monday 7 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Lecture: "Greenpeace: Past, Present and Future." Environmental technician Christopher Childs.
7 Tuesday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Odetta. Internationally acclaimed folk singer, and guitarist.
8 Wednesday - 11 Saturday 8 p.m. Harbach Theatre, CFA Theatre: Cinders, by Janusz Glowacki. A drama depicting life in a girls' reform school. Directed by Elizabeth Jahnke, Visiting Instructor in Theatre.
9 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Round Room, CFA Lecture: Dan Gustin, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss his work.
10 Friday 4 p.m. Lobby, CFA Opening Reception and Awards Presentation: Al Young Show. Dan Gustin,of the Art Institute of Chicago, will judge two-dimensional art works in this year's annual student art exhibition and competition. Three-dimensional work will be judged by ceramic artist Eva Kwong. Works on display through May 24.
10 Friday 7 p.m. Gizmo, SU Performance: Second Suburb Improvisational Troupe. A student theatre group will perform impromptu comic sketches.
10 Friday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Lecture: "Back to Eden: Alternatives in the World Food System." Wesley Jackson, geneticist, Land Institute of Kansas.
11 Saturday 9 a.m. Common Room, OM Coffetalk: "Agroecology." Wesley Jackson, geneticist, Land Institute of Kansas.
11 Saturday 1 p.m. Round Room, CFA Slide Lecture: "Ceramic Sculpture." Ceramic artist Eva Kwong.
15 Wednesday 7 p.m. Common Room, OM Student Open Forum: "Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Movement." A film about the life of Malcolm X will be shown.
16 Thursday 4 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Recital: Vocal and instrumental performances by Knox College students.
16 Thursday 7 p.m. Common Room, OM Fiction Reading: Tony Ardizzoni, award-winning author of In the Name of the Father, Heart of the Order, and The Evening News, and director of the graduate creative writing program at Indiana University. Ardizzoni also will announce winners of Davenport Fiction Awards.
17 Friday Alumni Career Panels: Knox alumni discuss their careers in education (3 p.m. in the Common Room, OM); theater (4 p.m. in the Round Room, CFA) and physics (4 p.m. in Founders Lounge, Seymour Union).
17 Friday 4 p.m. Common Room, OM Poetry reading: Marianne Boruche, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University. Boruche also will announce winners of Davenport Poetry Awards.
17 Friday 7:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Knox College Choir, directed by Laura Lane, Assistant Professor of Music, will perform works by Mozart, a cappella jazz pieces, and a medley of selections from West Side Story.
18 Saturday 8 p.m. Harbach, CFA Concert: Two Chicago-based progressive rock bands -- Frigid Air Records group "Odd Man Out" and "Maybe/Definitely." Tickets are $5 and can be purchased in advance at the Main Desk in Seymour Union. High school and college students are free with school identification card.
19 Sunday 7 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Lecture: "The Legacy of Malcolm X." Michael Williams, author of Pan-Africanism and Zionism; Political Movements in Polarity, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Simmons College.
22 Wednesday 7 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Honors Convocation: Annual academic awards ceremony for Knox College students.
23 Thursday 4 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Student Recital: Vocal and instrumental performances by Knox College students.
23 Thursday 6:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band, directed by Scott Garlock, Visiting Instructor in Music.
23 Thursday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Student Recital: Soprano Jodi Johnson and pianist Mark Serrano.
24 Friday 7:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Knox College Jazz Ensemble, directed by Scott Garlock, Visiting Instructor in Music.
26 Sunday 2 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Vocal Recital: Tim Pahel.
29 Wednesday Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center Exhibit: Knox students display their research projects in biology, chemistry, psychology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
June
Saturday, June 8, 10 a.m.
Knox College - 146th Commencement. South Lawn of Old Main. Free and open to the public. In case of rain, Galesburg High School Auditorium. Tickets required for admittance to rain site.