Loyola students, listen to this great opportunity!!

Thursday, November 12 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is hosting CAMPUS NIGHT!  This is a wonderful chance for you not only to have a fancy night out at the symphony, but ALSO get free Chipotle….

FOR TWO DOLLARS!!

Can you believe it?!

You can only purchase these tickets with your Rambler Bucks at Terry Student Center through Monday, November 9th.

If you want to bring a non-Loyola student, they’ll have to pay $10…but still! what a steal!

On Monday, November 9 at 7:30 PM, an a capella choral music concert will be held in Madonna della Strada Chapel.

This concert will be the first of the Lark Ensemble’s three part series, raising awareness for hunger, human dignity, and peace.  The event will also feature professional singers from across Chicago.

While the concert is free and open to the public, a free offering will be collected at the end to support the benefactors of Hunger Week.

So come out Monday night and help with the fight against hunger!

The story of As You Like It unfolds in the midst of two brotherly conflicts, that of the young brothers Orlando and Oliver as well as Duke Frederick and Duke Senior.  The audience learns early on that Duke Frederick has usurped his brother’s position in the kingdom, and has subsequently banished his brother to the Forest of Arden.  We also see the difficulties between Orlando and Oliver in the very beginning as they fight with each other over the consequences of their fathers death.  The attention that Shakespeare pays to these conflicts in the play seems very reflective of the relationship dynamics of brothers.  In one of Oliver’s monologues, he talks about the tension that he has with his brother and why they cannot get along:

I hope I shall see the end of him;

for my soul—yet I know not why—hates nothing

more than he. Yet he’s gentle, never schooled and

yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts en-

chantingly beloved, and indeed so much in the

heart of the world, and especially of my own

people, who best know him, that I am altogether

misprised. But it shall not be so long; the wrestler

shall clear all.  (Act 1, Scene 1, 157-166).

Shakespeare himself was the youngest of eight siblings, four of whom were males.  Could his own relationship with his older brothers have influenced the story of As You Like It?  Come see tonight’s preview production and form your own theories.

Calling all Loyola undergrad artists!

It’s not too early to start thinking about submitting to the ANNUAL STUDENT ART COMPETITION!

Next semester (February 19-April 16) the Department of Fine and Performing Arts is sponsoring a competition for student art in any medium, including drawing, painting, photography, color theory, two and three dimensional design, graphic design, ceramics, or sculpture (as long as it doesn’t require performance, installation, or a computer display).

The competiton judge will be well-known Chicago artist Mary Lou Zelazny who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

There’s no need to be an arts student to participate! From February 1-4, you can submit up to 3 works at the Fine Arts Office in Mundelein 9th floor. Here is the link for the entry form.

If you have any questions, contact Fine Arts Director Nicole Ferentz at nferent@luc.edu.

Time to get creative, kids!

Seats are going fast for our performances of As You Like It on the mainstage.  You don’t want to miss this comedy of mistaken identity and forbidden love, buy your tickets online now!

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” (Act IV, Sc.I)

Certainly not, we hope to see you in the audience!