The Linfield Collaborative Music Ensemble (LCME) will perform their first concert, featuring the world premieres of three compositions, at a free concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Continue reading
Category Archives: Arts
Linfield Theatre announces 2023-24 season
Linfield Theatre’s 2023-24 season, which features two full-length plays, two student-led performances and a celebrated experimental production, centers around themes of health, resilience and healing.
“As we emerge from a global pandemic that amplified the precarity of our systems — global, economic, health, immune — the theatre artists at Linfield seek to explore what it means to thrive, to heal, to grow, and to emerge,” said Lindsey Mantoan, an associate professor, resident dramaturg and intimacy director for the theatre program. Continue reading
Aug. 30: Linfield Art Gallery spotlights the films of homeless youth with “Blame It On Art: Creative Mentorship At Outside The Frame”
The Linfield Art Gallery kicks off the fall 2023 semester with an exhibition of film and visual art from Outside the Frame, a Portland-based nonprofit that provides houseless folks ages 16-30 with job training, peer mentorship, a sense of dignity and, perhaps most importantly, a creative outlet and means of self-expression through filmmaking. Continue reading
Pyxis Quartet joins Linfield’s Lacroute Music Mentorship Program with performances on May 9
The Linfield University Department of Music and the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program is partnering with Pyxis Quartet for a series of performances this semester. The string ensemble is part of the 45th Parallel Universe, which is a constellation of the Oregon Symphony. Continue reading
“Hurricane Diane” runs April 27 to May 6 in Linfield University’s Marshall Theatre
Mythology meets New Jersey in this divine comedy when Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, reincarnates as a queer, butch permaculturist and turns a quiet New Jersey neighborhood upside down!
“Hurricane Diane”, an Obie Award-winning comedy by renowned playwright Madeleine George and directed by Portland’s Cassie Greer, opens on April 27 at Linfield University’s Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall.
“Hurricane Diane” brings classic Greek mythology to suburban New Jersey, where four housewives debate how best to landscape their yards. The Greek god Dionysus is reincarnated as Diane, a permaculture gardener who radiates butch charm, and the play asks what it will take to get through to Americans more concerned with social status and trappings of wealth than their impact on the environment. Continue reading
Inaugural winners of Lacroute Prizes in Poetry, Prose announced
With generous support from the Lacroute Initiative, Linfield University’s Creative Writing Program inaugurated the Lacroute Prizes in Poetry and Prose to honor the best student writing in the 2022-23 academic year.
Finalists were chosen from nearly sixty submissions by the creative writing faculty, then sent to poet and fiction writer Genevieve DeGuzman, recipient of the 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowship, for final deliberations. Continue reading
Second-annual Camas Festival will be held at Linfield University Friday, May 5
Linfield University, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Greater Yamhill Watershed Council invite you to learn about the cultural, biological and artistic significance of the purple camas flower at the second-annual Camas Festival.
For generations, purple camas lilies have been cultivated, traded and consumed by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest including the Kalapuya, who were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in 1855. Though much sparser now than in the days it turned the Willamette Valley purple each spring, it remains a central piece of Kalapuyan lifeways.
The Camas Festival honors their enduring significance and is a chance to engage not only with camas flowers but learn more about the habitats — wet prairie, oak savannah and oak stand — of Linfield’s McMinnville campus. Continue reading
“lakamas”, featuring three artists from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, opens Wednesday, April 5
The Linfield Art Gallery is excited to host “lakamas”, a group exhibition that showcases mixed media art highlighting the beauty of the land that surrounds us. The artists include Crystal Starr, Kitana Connelly, and Jeremy Ojua. All three artists are part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde community and share a powerful pull to their culture.
The title “lakamas” comes from the chinook wawa word for camas, a North American flower known for its vibrant medley of blue and purple colors. This flower has been harvested by Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest as currency and a food source. The exhibit is co-curated with the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center. Continue reading
Linfield hosts two celebrated writers in April
Linfield University will host lectures from two celebrated writers in April as part of the “Readings at the Nick” series. Memoirist Apricot Irving speaks on April 4, then creative writer Claire O’Connor speaks on April 11. Both events are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library’s Austin Reading Room. Readings at the Nick are free and open to the public. Continue reading
Linfield’s Spring Choral Concert celebrates love and diversity in music on March 19
The Linfield University Department of Music presents the Spring Choral Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, March in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium inside Melrose Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Continue reading