Directed by Richard P. Gang

Black Box Theatre

As timeless as today’s romantic comedies, this play tackles the foibles of love with disguised heroines, good hearted scoundrels and beautiful lyrical poetry. Valentine and Proteus can’t seem to get their love lives in order. As a complicated love affair challenges their friendship, it takes the wit of their girlfriends, Sylvia and Julia, to make everything right.

Reservations highly recommended: $12.00 or Elon ID. Reservations will be taken one week prior to the start of the show by calling (336) 278-5650. *

David Faber is a Holocaust survivor who was born in Poland in 1926 and suffered Nazi persecution from 1939-1945. He witnessed the murder of his parents and six of his seven siblings during the Holocaust, and was imprisoned in eight different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Faber speaks to fulfill the promise he made to his mother, “to tell the world.”

Sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum, Hillel, the History Department, and the Resident Student Association

Admission by ticket only: $12.00 or Elon ID. All proceeds will be donated to American Veterans*

William Haley, the son of Alexander Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, will be Elon’s Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative speaker for 2005. He will discuss how Dr. King’s efforts helped many of us make critical decisions important to our growth as individuals and as members of a society that values its moral compass. He will tailor his comments to a phrase said often by his late father, “Whenever you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be sure that it had help getting there,” meaning that our individual accomplishments always include the efforts of many others. Haley is President of The Alex Haley Center in Maryland and has been active as a race relations agent for over 30 years in equal opportunity training and education.

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Multicultural Affairs Council and the Liberal Arts Forum

The James H. McEwen, Jr. Visual Arts Series

Linda Shields will share her mixed-media works titled “Sacred Objects and Spaces.” She writes in her artist’s statement, “Perhaps it is the search for safety and meaning that motivates me to make art. What I am after is an image that portrays the places where we are most in touch with the spiritual.” On exhibit through January 28.

Whether or not sleigh bells are ringing or snow is glistening, you’ll brighten your holidays with this much-loved concert. You simply cannot beat this traditional concert to ring in the fun of the season. So gather up friends and family for this wintry treat!

Admission by ticket only: $18.00; $15.00 for seniors or Elon ID. Free for children with paying adults*

Brought from Germany to Old Salem, North Carolina by early Moravian settlers, this traditional Christmas service includes the children’s carol “Morning Star,” pure beeswax candles, and a simple fellowship meal of coffee and a Moravian bun.

Sponsored by the Religious and Spiritual Life Office

Directed by Stephen Futrell, Camerata, Chorale and élan will perform accompanied and unaccompanied works from various time periods and cultures.

Hot chocolate, carol singing and hundreds of luminaries lining the walkways will mark Elon’s annual “Festival of Holiday Lights.”

Sponsored by the Religious and Spiritual Life Office

Art History at Elon Speaker Series

Dr. James Elkins will hold a speech titled “Why Photography Isn’t Friendly: Excerpts from a Work in Progress, Written Against Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida.” Elkins is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches in the departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies. He is currently working to develop an entirely new program called Image History as a cooperative venture between the School of the Art Institute, the Burren College of Art in Ireland, Peking University (China), and the Chicago Theory Group. Dr. Elkins has written 17 books for both academic and general audiences, including The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing (1996), Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis (1999), and, forthcoming this year, The Narrow Place of Religion in Contemporary Art. Elkins has spoken on his research internationally and will bring to Elon his most current musings.

Directed by Stephen Futrell, élan will present an eclectic mix of jazz standards and popular songs.