Events Articles

Culinary arts and baking and pastry arts students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will show their final works during the School of Hospitality's annual Food Show on Dec. 2.

A fair-trade sale of internationally handcrafted home décor items, an annual event organized by students in human service classes at Penn College, is being held in the Bush Campus Center. The Ten Thousand Villages Festival sale features handmade jewelry, ornaments, soaps, musical instruments and other goods fashioned by the world's working poor.

The Williamsport Civic Chorus will hold its first concert of the season at 3 p.m. Sunday in the nave of St. Luke Lutheran Church, 1400 Market St. The concert will feature "The World Beloved," a mass with traditional portions but with bluegrass accompaniment. Featured soloists include Nicholas I. Buckman, a 2002 Penn College graduate in mass communications; Eric K.

Penn College Resident Assistants and the Multicultural Society put together a Community Carnival for children at the Campbell Street Community Center this week. Student leaders staffed a number of booths, including a duck game, prize walk, grand-prize bucket game, pin the tail on the donkey, basketball shoot, bingo, rope climb and bowling.

The Wildcat Comic Con an unprecedented mélange of education, enlightenment and entertainment related to the far-reaching worlds of comics and graphic novels is open for registration.

A Veterans Day recognition ceremony was held during Saturday's basketball game between the Lady Wildcats and The Apprentice School. John C. Carlson, a Penn College alumnus and 22-year Navy veteran, served as master of ceremonies for the halftime observance in Bardo Gym.

The Community Arts Center and Pennsylvania College of Technology invite the community to a free performance of the National Players' stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at the Arts Center. This is a general admission show, which requires no tickets. Seating will be on a first-come basis; doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has formally dedicated a Veterans' Portico on the main campus, honoring students, alumni, faculty, staff and retirees of the institution who have served in the nation's armed forces.

From Nov. 11 to Dec. 11, The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of the Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will host an unlikely alchemy of the natural and mystical worlds as captured in the artwork of Virginia Bradley and Chris Malcomson.

The Early Educators Club at Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a lecture by the education coordinator of a preschool for low-income children in Rwanda. Janet Brown, who helped establish the Cyakabiri School for Young Children in April, will offer a talk that is open to the public at 7 p.m. Nov. 21 in the college's Thompson Professional Development Center.