“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)” opens Dec. 7

Stage set for "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind," featuring random piles of objectsTickets are now on sale for “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)” by Greg Allen, which features the work of six student-directors. A cast of nine actors plus an emcee are tasked with completing the 30 plays within the timed 60 minutes, aided by interactions with the audience. The plays, which are chosen by this year’s directors, range from themes of love and sex and war to music lyrics and horror, among others. Performance dates are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, then 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8 in the Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall.   Continue reading

NW Media Fest 2023 provided “perfect opportunity” for students to connect with media pros

 

A photographer shows camera settings to a group of students

Celebrity photographer Joey Terrill was one of eight NW Media Fest guests offering student-only workshops and lectures.

Linfield University’s second NW Media Fest was longer and larger than the original, but still stayed true to its mission of giving Linfield students the chance to connect individually with journalists, musicians, entertainment executives and even the largest independent comic publisher in the country.   

Four days of programming kicked off Tuesday with a screening of silent horror classic “Nosferatu” accompanied live by organist Dean Lemire performing his original, at times improvisational, score. Between then and Friday night’s closer with Dark Horse Comics CEO Mike Richardson, there were more than a dozen events from this year’s eight featured guests Continue reading

Linfield University’s NW Media Fest returns and expands in its a second year

NW Media Fest logoNW Media Fest, a multi-day celebration of the wide-ranging media universe that debuted last year on Linfield’s McMinnville campus, returns Oct. 24-27.

Now expanded to four days, NW Media Fest features eight guests representing the worlds of journalism, music, streaming content, photography, comics and more. Continue reading

Homecoming Weekend 2023 in photos and video

Mack the Wildcat, Linfield's mascot, runs onto the football field with a '67' jersey, signifying 67 consecutive winning seasons. Homecoming Weekend 2023 drew Linfield University alumni by the hundreds from around the country to McMinnville for three days of celebrations, sports, wine, science and memories. 

“It was a phenomenal Homecoming Weekend — the largest we’ve had since the pandemic,” said Debbie Harmon Ferry ’90, director of alumni and parent engagement. “We were thrilled to be able to share so many exciting new aspects of Linfield, like the Acorn to Oak Wine Experience and the new W.M. Keck Science Center, but also take time to just be together, eat, drink, celebrate and enjoy what makes Linfield so special.” Continue reading

Horror classic “Nosferatu” to screen Oct. 24 at Linfield University, accompanied by organist Dean Lemire

A monstrous-looking man with long claws and a deranged expression stands in front of ship rigging.The earliest surviving film adaption of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” will be accompanied by Lemire’s original score in Linfield’s historic Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium  

Dean Lemire will be performing his original score to accompany a screening of the 1922 German-Expressionist horror flick “Nosferatu” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium on Linfield University’s McMinnville campus.   Continue reading

Oct. 15-22: ‘Majestic Tree Week’ at Linfield University will determine finest tree on campus

A group of students sit on sprawling branches on a Cedar of Lebanon tree.

The Majestic Tree Week team (left to right): Chris Johnston, Cameron Butler, Becks Mifflin, Hannah Meithof and Mikayla Minton.

Linfield University students are leading an interdisciplinary effort to educate, entertain and inspire their community to appreciate the McMinnville campus’ unique ecosystems with Majestic Tree Week, a bracket-style competition to pick the most spectacular of the more than 2,500 trees on the McMinnville campus.  Continue reading

Linfield Theatre’s “The Wolves” runs Oct. 26-28, Nov. 2-5

Cast members of "The Wolves" stand in a field practicing soccer.Linfield Theatre Program’s fall production of “The Wolves,” a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie award–winning play by Sarah DeLappe, will open Oct. 26, with performances through Nov. 5.  The play follows nine teenage girls on an indoor soccer team as they navigate daily life while doing soccer warm–ups and preparing for games. Continue reading