Tagged As Community Partnerships, Planning, and Research

Grinnell Faculty/Staff Research Series Event, 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Burling First Floor Lounge

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22.

Tilly Woodward, Grinnell College Museum of Art Curator of Academic and Community Outreach, has been welcoming Grinnell community preschoolers to the museum for more than a decade.

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’ grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal.

GEP’s strategies include early literacy enrichment activities, equity and inclusion, and family engagement to help interrupt intergenerational poverty.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. 

Ignite brings local preschool through sixth grade students to Grinnell College, focusing on providing elementary and middle school students with a meaningful, educational experience and exposure and comfort on a college campus.

Grinnell College will stream Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” on March 18 as part of the Met’s 2022-23 Live in HD season.

The funding will help GEP broaden their focus from exclusively youth-based projects to economic empowerment interventions aimed at the whole family. The mission is to support youth and families in Grinnell by aligning community efforts and infusing support for early literacy enrichment activities, equity and inclusion, family engagement, workforce development and financial literacy to interrupt intergenerational poverty.

On display at the Grinnell Area Arts Council from February 27 to May 27, “Observing With NASA” features a range of NASA’s most iconic images of planets like Jupiter and other galaxies to explore and opportunities for visitors to put their own artistic spin on these images through image analysis and processing.