The Lake Forest College Combined Choirs and The Inversions (A Cappella)

At 4:15, the Lake Forest College combined choirs (made up of members of the Women's Choir and Concert Choir with soloists Claire Olson and Michael Lesko) will perform Trilo - Traditional Finnish and Black is the Color - Traditional Scottish, Arr. by Peter Hunt.

A talk by Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute

Life On My Hands, a student written and directed play based on interviews with Lake Forest College students. Recorded March 4, 2017 in Hixon Hall, Lake Forest College.

Details at http://www.lakeforest.edu/calendar/#event_id/481634/view/event

The Women’s Chorus and Concert Choir present “Celtic Connections.” The concert features compositions and arrangements based on songs and airs from Ireland (Éire), Wales (Cymru), Scotland (Alba), and Brittany (Breizh) in north western France. The program also includes a world premiere performance of Ben Hanlon’s O Danny Boy by Concert Choir.

Recorded February 24, 2017 in Calvin Durand Hall.

This Year’s Artist in Residence, the transgender actress Alexandra Billings’ visit to campus will culminated in a talk entitled “Transparent: On Being a Transgender Performer in Hollywood,”

Alexandra Billings plays Davina on the Amazon show Transparent. In 2005, she became the first transgender actress to play a transgender character in the history of television. She has been acting since 1968, performing across the United States in hundreds of plays and musicals, and appearing on TV shows including How to Get Away with Murder and Grey’s Anatomy. The PBS documentary about her life, Schoolboy to Showgirl, was nominated for an Emmy.

Recorded Tues. Feb. 21, 2017 in the Chapel.

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A memorial for Paula Dau ’58, one of the College’s most-beloved alums and wife of head handball and assistant football coach Mike Dau ’58. The memorial was held 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 3 at Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. A reception followed.