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  • PLU Theatre presents an exciting new production, The Shape of Things, opening May 3rd. The story is a twisted tale that explores what people are willing to do for love and what can happen when love takes things too far. The play written by Neil…

    Storytelling in their upcoming performance Read Next Broadway Today! a musical revue to open the 2018-19 season LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 February 16, 2021 Hints and Help for Your Virtual Theatre Scholarship Application January 18, 2021

  • MediaLab, PLU’s award-winning film production program, is no stranger to documentaries. For the past many years a team of students have gotten together, and decided on a topic they thought they could shed some light on through stories and film. This year, the team chose…

    Auditorium at the Seattle Public Library, located at 1000 4th Ave. Seattle, WA 98104. An on-campus premiere will be held on Thursday, April 28 as part of the SOAC Focus Series on Storytelling. For more information, please visit the These Four Years website at (www.thesefouryears.com/). RSVPs for the event can be submitted to ml@plu.edu. Read Previous Annual ‘Empty Bowls’ event fills empty stomachs Read Next Debate student discusses local issues on KBTC’s Northwest Now LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi

  • Occasionally, we are fortunate enough to find things that are more exciting than what we are searching for. This is certainly true for Dr. Jen Jenkins, Associate Professor of German in the Languages and Literature Department at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Jenkins spent the 2016-2017…

    2016-2017 academic year on sabbatical, a year which she dedicated to investigating the texts of Hermann Broch, an Austrian 20th century Modernist writer, with the explicit mission of exploring evidence of visual tropes and metaphors of seeing in Broch’s novels. Broch was born in Vienna on November 1, 1886, into a Jewish family. As a writer aligned with the Modernist movement, which prioritized individuality and subjectivity, he wrote fiction and poetry and was known for his unique and often

  • By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer In January, I enrolled in my first MOOC to learn more about this controversial form of instruction.  It was definitely valuable, both for instructional design research and as a learning experience. The course was designed around five basic elements: video…

    scientists.  The lack of visual supports made it more difficult to process all the lecture details.  Without the support of a textbook or slide presentation, I often missed important facts later represented on the quiz.  This small frustration reminded me of the importance of using visual cues to assist in the processing of new information, especially when discussing names and terms that are hard to aurally discern. One of the common complaints about MOOCs is that they provide for little or no

  • Some say dance is a universal language. At Pacific Lutheran University, that concept is growing further through the opportunities that its Dance minor program offers. This fall 2017 semester marks the 40th anniversary of the program. The Dance minor program and Dance Ensemble were created…

    . “Their diverse backgrounds and experiences they bring from their different fields of study is really inspiring.” 2017-18 Upcoming Dance Concerts:PLU Dance Team will be performing their Winter Showcase Friday, December 1 in the Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets will be available online at Eventbrite. Prices will be $5. Dance 2018 will be performing Storytelling, Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 in the Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille

  • Some say dance is a universal language. At Pacific Lutheran University, that concept is growing further through the opportunities that its Dance minor program offers. This fall 2017 semester marks the 40th anniversary of the program. The Dance minor program and Dance Ensemble were created…

    different fields of study is really inspiring.” 2017-18 Upcoming Dance Concerts:PLU Dance Team will be performing their Winter Showcase Friday, December 1 in the Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets will be available online at Eventbrite. Prices will be $5. Dance 2018 will be performing Storytelling, Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 in the Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, directed by Rachel

  • Professor of Music Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl…

    if I would be interested in writing a piece for Octave 9, it seemed like a great fit for this idea. Part of the point of the commission from the Seattle Symphony was for composers to experiment with the possibilities of the new Octave 9 space. What about Octave 9 made it a good match? The space is highly electronic. It has a bunch of speakers in the ceiling for sound mapping, and it has video and visual capabilities. Writing for electronics provided limitless possibilities for a sound concept. It

  • Go vote. And take a picture. Vote. Doesn’t matter what party or on what issue. Just get registered and get to the polls on Nov. 4 and vote! Student Involvement and Leadership has joined up with the Washington Secretary of State’s “I Will Vote” campaign…

    October 6, 2008 Go vote. And take a picture. Vote. Doesn’t matter what party or on what issue. Just get registered and get to the polls on Nov. 4 and vote! Student Involvement and Leadership has joined up with the Washington Secretary of State’s “I Will Vote” campaign to encourage Lutes to vote, and send in some cool pictures while they are at it.“I Will Vote” is a social media campaign that will encourage PLU voters to make a visual pledge to vote in the general election on Nov. 4. To wit

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 3, 2018) — In response to years of student inquiries and interest, Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Communication announced a new concentration in Film and Media Studies. Courses, which will be available for registration April 16-27, launch in fall 2018. The new…

    relations support, video projects, web-based productions, community communication efforts, as well as on-campus multimedia productions. Some students — including Joshua Wiersma ’18, a communication major and former member of MediaLab — say the new concentration is a good fit that will assist students who want to pursue interests in film and other visual media. “I’ve heard several students say, during my time at PLU, that if there was a film program or concentration available, they would pursue that

  • Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s…

    theme of innovation is significant because it involves not being complacent and accepting the status quo in the world of dance. Innovation is the belief that it has not ‘all been done before’- there is new ground to cover in the art of communicating through dance, pushing through the comfort zone to try something new,” Winchester says. Winchester’s piece Home Movies engages modes of innovative storytelling, where imagination, improvisation and memory play an active role in the creative processes of