The Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series opens is 2016–17 season with St. Louis’ first professional contemporary jazz dance group, Big Muddy Dance Company. Big Muddy comes to the Krehbiel Auditorium stage in Bethel College’s Luyken Fine Arts Center Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Big Muddy seeks to build a love of dance through fun, experiential and highly […]
How do you appropriately celebrate the 30th year of a college course that has had a significant impact on the life and faith of nearly 6,000 students who have put in hours of hard work and come away with a broader worldview and greater biblical understanding? A brand new, first-time-ever textbook for the course seems […]
The Hesston College Theatre Department will present four public performances of the fable “Fools,” directed by Rachel Jantzi, Oct. 27 to 30, in the Helmuth Studio Theatre in Keim Center on the Hesston College campus. “Fools,” by Neil Simon, set in the small village of Kulyenchikov, Ukraine, during the late 19th century, tells the story […]
An array of world-class musical talent, genres and sounds will headline the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts’ (HBPA) 35th season for 2016-17. The contemporary jazz dance company Big Muddy Dance Company will open the season, Nov. 11, at Krehbiel Auditorium in Bethel Colleges’ Luyken Fine Arts Center. Founded in 2010, St. Louis’ Big Muddy Dance […]
Starting in January 2017, Hesston College will launch an RN to BSN program for registered nurses looking to complete a bachelor’s level degree. For almost 50 years Hesston College has educated nurses in an associate degree program where academic success is nurtured in a supportive, student-centered environment. Throughout the program’s history, more than 98 percent […]
The last month of the academic year marks a flurry of sophomore student recitals for Hesston College music students. All recitals are free and open to the public. Kicking off recital season is Ali Zuercher with a flute recital at noon, Saturday, April 16, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Zuercher (Phoenix, […]
Greenville (Ill.) College art professor Jacob Amundson works with alternative and new genre media in his art show titled “#Blessed&Depressed,” featured in Hesston College’s Regier Friesen Gallery, located in the Friesen Center for Visual Arts, through April 15. “This body of work represents explorations over the past year in subverting my own wrestling with depression, […]
French organist Pierre Queval will give a recital on the Andover Organ at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The concert is free and open to the public with a reception to follow. The concert is made possible by The John Ernest Foundation. Queval will perform music […]
The Swingles, a vocal group that has morphed with and pushed the boundaries of music for more than 50 years, will perform the final concert of the 2015-16 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts (HBPA) season at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 3, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. HBPA season ticket holders are invited to […]
Hesston College Theatre will present six performances on two separate weekends of the spring musical Working. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., April 1 and 2 and April 8 and 9, and at 2:30 p.m., April 3 and 10. All performances are in the Helmuth Studio Theatre in Hesston College’s Northlawn Center for Performing Arts […]
Hesston College will host Carol F. Lewis, president of Communities in Schools (CIS) of Georgia, for the Melva Kauffman Lecture series entitled “Be the Change.” A free seminar will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Hesston Mennonite Church Community Center on the Hesston College campus. The seminar will focus on stories of […]
Of all the repeat artists to the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series, the group of 12 men appearing at Bethel College later this month is certainly one of the best loved. Chanticleer, “an orchestra of voices” named for a clear-singing rooster in the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, will perform Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial […]
For the first time, Hesston College will host the annual winter worship for the Kansas chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Feb. 19 and 20. There will be a Friday session for college students, including all Hesston College voice students, and a Saturday session for teachers. For registration information, contact Matt […]
The Hesston College Chamber Orchestra and Chorale will present a diverse repertoire of musical pieces during their winter tour to southeast Nebraska and Kansas Feb. 12 to 14. Concerts include: • Friday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m. at Salem Mennonite Church, Shickley, Neb. 820 Rd V • Saturday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at Bellwood Mennonite Church, […]
Students studying science, math or computer science at Hesston College have a new scholarship option to pursue to help offset the cost of their education. The Habegger-Harder Science/Math Scholarship will award one scholarship each year through a competitive application process to students who demonstrate high academic achievement and a passion for a major in science, […]
