Stetson University offers a full array of cultural opportunities open to the public, including concerts and operas by the School of Music, art exhibitions in the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, plays at Stover Theatre, collections and exhibitions at the Gillespie Museum of Minerals and many public lectures. Some programs are free, while others have a minimal ticket price. Free parking is available with easy access to Stetson’s beautiful campus in DeLand.

To learn more about the cultural events offered at Stetson during Spring 2012, visit the online Stetson UniversityArts Events calendar at www2.stetson.edu/artsevents. The January-February 2012 listing follows:

Stetson Arts Events Calendar for Spring 2012

JANUARY 2012

Music: Friday, Jan. 20 – Stetson University Faculty Recital featuring Ashley Heintzen, bassoon, and Betty Jo Couch, piano. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Sunday, Jan. 22 – Stetson University Faculty Recital featuring Lynn Musco, clarinet, and Michael Rickman, piano. 3:00 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music/Lecture: Tuesday, Jan. 24 – Stetson University Guest/Faculty Lecture Recital, “Songs of Perfect Propriety” by Seymour Barab, with words by Dorothy Parker. Featuring Amy E. Wheeler, soprano, and Kristie Born, piano. Sponsored by Stetson’s Artists & Lecturers Series, 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950;www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Thursday, Jan. 26 – Stetson University presents ZAWA! Flute Duo Guest Recital. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. ZAWA is a renowned flute duo comprised of guest flutists, Jill Felber and Claudia Anderson, who have performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Brazil. They will be joined by Stetson faculty flutists Susan McQuinn and Jean West, dean of the School of Music. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Arts: Friday, Jan. 27 – Opening reception for “The Politics of the Personal,” Exhibition featuring works by Judith Page in the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, 6-8 p.m. Exhibition continues through Friday, March 2. The Hand Art Center, on the University’s Palm Court/Quad, is located at 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand. Free. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday during the Stetson University academic year; closed weekends and all national holidays. For more information, call the Hand Art Center at (386) 822-7270 or the Stetson University Art Department at (386) 822-7266; www2.stetson.edu.

Arts: Friday, Jan. 27 – Opening reception for the new Bluemner Exhibition, “Concentrated Color: Watercolors by Oscar Bluemner from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection,” in the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, 6-8 p.m. Exhibition continues through Wednesday, May 2. The Hand Art Center, on the University’s Palm Court/Quad, is located at 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand. Free. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday during the Stetson University academic year; closed weekends and all national holidays. For more information, call the Hand Art Center at (386) 822-7270 or the Stetson University Art Department at (386) 822-7266; www2.stetson.edu.

Music: Friday, Jan. 27 – Stetson University presents CMENC Broadway Revue. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $5.00 for all. Benefit for Collegiate Music Educators National Conference. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Saturday, Jan. 28 – Stetson University Guest/Faculty Recital featuring Jessica Hall Speak, clarinet, and Tammy Miller, piano. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Museum: (Continuing) – Stetson’s Gillespie Museum exhibition on “Ross Allen and Florida Natural History: A Photographic Exhibition,” 234 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand. Exhibition opened in Sept. 2011, and will continue through April 12. This exhibition is based on photos, artifacts and memorabilia from the Stetson archives, featuring Ross Allen, Stetson alumnus and self-trained herpetologist and entrepreneur who opened the Reptile Institute at Silver Springs in the 1930s. Allen helped make it an important tourist attraction for Central Florida before the days of Florida’s major attractions. More information: www2.stetson.edu/gillespie; (386) 822-7330.

FEBRUARY 2012

Music: Friday, Feb. 3 – Stetson University Faculty Chamber Music Recital with Stephen Robinson, Guitar. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Museum: Saturday, Feb. 4 – Stetson University’s Gillespie Museum of Minerals presents “For the Love of Rocks & Minerals,” 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tour Stetson’s Earth Science Museum and join a beading workshop or hand-craft natural gifts in time for Valentine’s Day. The Gillespie Museum of Minerals is Stetson University’s earth science museum. Its collection of 20,000 mineral, rock, and fossil specimens—one of the oldest and largest in the southeastern U.S.—has developed over the past 50 years into a center for environmental education. Exhibits and displays include geology, native Florida ecosystems and plant landscapes, minerals and mining, and fluorescent rocks. The Gillespie Museum, located at 234 E. Michigan Ave., is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. More information:www2.stetson.edu/gillespie; (386) 822-7330.

Music: Sunday, Feb. 5 – Stetson University Faculty Recital featuring Routa Kroumovitch-Gomez, violin, and Michael Rickman, piano. 3:00 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Tuesday, Feb. 7 – Stetson University presents Cellobration, David Bjella, director. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Dance: Wednesday, Feb, 8 – Stetson University presents “Untold Stories.” Performance by Emotions Dance Company, 7:30-9:00 p.m., in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. More information: contact Dr. Emily Mieras at [email protected].

Music: Friday, Feb. 10 – Stetson University Symphonic Band, Bobby Adams, conductor. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Saturday, Feb. 11 – Stetson University presents a guest recital featuring Charles West, clarinet. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Theatre: Thursday, Feb. 16 – Stetson University presents “A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer” Vday 2012 benefit performance, sponsored by Stetson’s chapter of National Organization of Women (NOW) to help in the fight to end violence against women. 8-9:30 p.m., Stetson Room, 2^nd floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. Further information: contact Tara Formisano at [email protected].  

Music: Friday, Feb. 17 – Stetson University presents “Sounds New” Faculty Composers Recital, featuring Stetson professors, Sydney Hodkinson, Manuel de Murga, Nathan Wolek. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Tuesday, Feb. 21 – Stetson University presents Music by Black Composers. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Music: Wednesday, Feb. 22 – Stetson University presents Jazz Ensemble, George West, director. 7:30 p.m., Stetson Room, 2^nd floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 23 – Stetson University presents Dr. Peniel Joseph, to speak in the University’s civil rights and social justice lecture series, 7 p.m., Rinker Auditorium, inside Lynn Business Center, 345 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Dr. Joseph is professor of History at Tufts University and the author of the award-winning Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America andDark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, as well as editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. More information: contact the Dean’s Office, College of Arts & Sciences,StetsonUniversity (386) 822-7515.

Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 23 – Stetson University presents “Domestic Violence Awareness” featuring author Ms. Leslie Morgan Steiner, New York Times Best Seller and national speaker. Free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted for The House Next Door. 7 p.m., Rinker Field House in the Hollis Center, 602 N. Bert Fish Dr., DeLand. Sponsored by Stetson University’s Psi Chi, Alpha Chi, Gender Studies and Residential Life. Ms. Steiner’s memoir, Crazy Love, is about her experiences with domestic violence and her tips on how to avoid, get out and help others dealing with the same problems. Further information: contact Shannon Martin at [email protected].

Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 23 – StetsonUniversity’s German Program and the Gender Studies Program present a lecture, “Muslims in a Democratic Europe” by Dr. Nausikaa Schirilla, Professor for Social Work, Migration and Cross-Cultural Competence,University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg, Germany. 7 p.m., in the duPont-Ball Library, lower level, Room 25, accessed from the Nemec Courtyard on the north side of the library,134 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. More information: contact Stetson’s Office of Modern Languages and Literature at (386) 822-7260.

Music: Thursday, Feb. 23 – Stetson University presents Guest Recital/Artists & Lecturers Series, featuring the Jupiter String Quartet. 7:30 p.m., Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

Theater: Thursday, Feb. 23 through Sunday, Feb. 26 – Stetson University Theatre Department presents “Lysistrata” – a comic war between the sexes by Aristophanes. Stover Theatre, 535 N. Florida Ave., DeLand. Tickets: $10 general admission; $8 for seniors and non-Stetson students. Stetson students, faculty and staff will be admitted free with valid Stetson I.D. More information: contact Dr. Julia Schmitt, Stetson chair of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts at [email protected], or call (386) 822-8700.

Music: Friday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 26 – Stetson University presents Piano Scholars Festival – Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Admission to each concert: $10 general public; $8 senior citizens; $5 area students. More information: Concert Line (386) 822-8947; School of Music (386) 822-8950; www2.stetson.edu/music.

• Friday, Feb. 24 – Guest Recital featuring Mirian Conti, piano, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 25 – Scholars’ Recital, 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 26 – Faculty Recital, featuring Edit Palmer andMichael Rickman, pianos. 3 p.m.

Lecture: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 29 – Stetson University presents George H. Shriver Lecture Series: “Religion in American History – The Urban Origins of American Judaism” with lecturer Deborah Dash Moore,Frederick C. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. All lectures will be held in Stetson Room, 2^nd floor of Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. More information: contact Dr. Mitchell Reddish at [email protected], or call (386) 822-8930. (See schedule below)

• Tuesday, Feb. 28 – 7 p.m.  – “Synagogues”
• Wednesday, Feb. 29 – 12 p.m. – “Streets”
• Wednesday, Feb. 29 – 7 p.m. – “Stories”