Just some random Performing Arts events that you should know about

------THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

Theatre performance: STAGE One, a festival of one-act plays written, directed, and acted by WSU students, Wadleigh Theatre, Daggy Hall, 7:30 p.m. Admission will be charged.
STAGE One opens with recent WSU graduate Lonnie Stuart's play "Few and Far Between," where the death of a hit man is overshadowed by a comedic lovers' spat. "Something Borrowed, Something Blue," written by psychology major Aubry Whitfield, follows with a wild story of family and friendship that takes place as the youngest relative prepares to walk down the aisle. In English major Mike Coletta's play "Behind Closed Doors," boundaries are tested through the relationship of a young teacher and his student as unsettling accusations are made against a well-respected professor. The final play, "Commitments," by theatre major Dana Bensel, exemplifies sisterhood as two women bond over a life-changing experience and reaffirm their love for each other.
Play admission is $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors, and $5 for WSU students with ID. WSU graduate and professional students and their partners can attend free of charge with valid student ID. WSU theatre is sponsored by the Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts Committee at WSU and the Graduate and Professional Student Association. The theatre box office in Daggy Hall is open 2:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday during play weeks and at 6:30 p.m. on performance evenings. For reservations and more information, call 509-335-7236 or e-mail reservations@wsu.edu.

------FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Atrium Music: Michelle Mielke (music), piano, Terrell Library Atrium, 12:15 p.m.

Student recital, Katherine Brown, violin, and Elizabeth Wollstein, flute, Bryan Hall Theatre, 3:10 p.m.

Museum of Art event: Guest speaker Barry Friedman, author of "Chasing Rainbows: Collecting American Indian Trade and Camp Blankets" and one of the nation's experts on trade blankets, Fine Arts Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.

Music Faculty Artist Series: Jazz Northwest, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. WSU students with ID admitted free; general admission $10; seniors (60+) and other students $5. Season pass is $60.
The newest members of Jazz Northwest, WSU's faculty jazz ensemble, are vocalist and keyboard artist Kathleen Hollingsworth and saxophonist David Hagelganz. Hollingsworth came to WSU this fall from San Francisco where she taught at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco School of the Arts. Hagelganz is a Down Beat magazine award-winning saxophonist who has performed with David Friesen and Mal Waldron. The group also includes saxophonist Greg Yasinitsky, trumpeter David Turnbull, percussionist Dave Jarvis, and bassist David Snider. Individually, the members of Jazz Northwest have performed with the top figures in jazz including Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, Jon Faddis and many others. Jazz Northwest has performed at the Bumbershoot Festival, Experience Music Project and Tula's Jazz Club in Seattle and regularly appears at festivals, conferences and schools throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The program will include original compositions and arrangements of jazz standards created especially for Jazz Northwest by members of the group.

EXHIBITS

------THROUGH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Evertt Beidler: Research and Development, Fine Arts Gallery II.
Portland (Ore.) artist Evertt Beidler produces sculpture and performance work that explores the areas in our lives where catharsis, performance, and ritual converge to function as agents of transformation.

------THROUGH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

Revelations, a juried exhibit of works by adults with disabilities living in the Northwest, CUB Gallery.
VSA Arts of Washington has proudly launched it 2007-2009 No Boundaries traveling exhibition, Revelations. This group exhibit showcases 29 works elected for inclusion by a regional jury. The pieces in the show embody a wide variety of artistic styles and mediums. The participants are all adults with disabilities living in the Northwest (specifically Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Oregon, and Washington) and represents both professionally trained artists as well as self-taught, folk, and outsider artists. As a program of VSA Arts of Washington, No Boundaries is designed to help artists with disabilities gain access to the professional arts world, to demonstrate ADA-accessible exhibit design, and to celebrate the artistic contributions of artists with disabilities.

------FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19

Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets, Museum of Art.
Wrapped in Tradition includes 80 vintage Native American trade blankets from the personal collection of the master of glass, Dale Chihuly. Also on view will be numerous pieces of original art from Chihuly's Blanket Cylinder series, which vividly invokes the blankets' unique texture, patterns, and colors. A third component of the exhibition showcases vintage examples of Native American baskets from WSU's Museum of Anthropology. The resulting display conveys a rich cross-cultural dialogue between an innovative contemporary artist, commercial craftsmanship, and Native American traditions.