Butler Cultural Requirement

02/27/2020

The last of this year's public lectures in the Butler Seminar in Religion and Global Affairs is next week!

The Chinese government has a troubled relationship with the nation’s religious minorities.  In this session, we hear from experts on the persecution and mass incarceration of China’s Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims.

02/19/2020

Mark your calendar with the concluding lecture in this year’s Butler Seminar on Religion and Global Affairs!

Religion Seminar Series: Incarceration, Nationalism, and Religious Identity in China
This event is free and open to the public, no ticket required.
Tuesday, March 3 • 7:00 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2V3gprB

02/18/2020

Don't miss the next lecturer in this year's Woods Lecture Series: Janna Levin!

Janna Levin is the Director of Sciences and Chair of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. She is also the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. A Guggenheim Fellow, Janna has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra d...

02/07/2020

Concert tonight!

Every month is a great month to strive for racial equity! Join us as Butler’s School of Music and Black Student Union share music and readings spanning the struggles, hopes and progress made by Black America. Guest artists, Manon Voice (Indianapolis-based hip-hop artist) and Eastern Star Church’...

02/04/2020

Watch one or both of the movies and get BCR credit!

02/04/2020

Performance tonight!

The Indianapolis Quartet begins 2020 with a FREE performance at Butler University's Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4. The program features works by Beethoven, Debussy, and Butler University faculty member Frank Felice.

The quartet continues its survey of Beethoven's quartets in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth. On this program, the quartet will open the concert with the fifth quartet from Beethoven's first set of quartets (opus 18) written during 1799-1800. This ambitious composition project was important to the entrepreneurial Beethoven as chamber music was marketable to the Viennese aristocracy. This quartet is an homage to Mozart and modeled after his "Drum" quartet (K. 464). It is graceful and elegant, and contains one of Beethoven's best variation movements from his early period.

Felice's "Preserve Me, O God" for string quartet and voice will follow. �Written for mezzo-soprano Mitzi Westra, voice faculty at the University of Indianapolis, this piece is described as a dialogue between soloist and quartet, somewhat like a congregation engaging in active, vocal participation with a preacher’s reading.

Debussy's only contribution to the string quartet genre will wrap the program. It marked his first important chamber music work and emphasizes color and texture as much as melody.

Join us!

12/05/2019

There are always an abuncance of BCR events as the holidays draw near!

https://butlerartscenter.org/event/music-butler-series-rejoice

12/05/2019

Not every BCR event is showing up with that tag on the online event calendar. When in doubt, ask the core office - or just go!

The original climate change play!  An Enemy of the People follows the downfall of scientist Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers toxins in the town’s would-be tourist destination, The Springs.   As he attempts to alert the public, he is met with opposition at all sides: from the investors, his b...

12/04/2019

Still need BCRs? There are so many to choose from, but the Woods Lecture series is always really interesting. Hope you can make it!

Please join us at the Shelton Auditorium for the last lecture of the semester.

11/05/2019

Tonight!