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a collage of German composers known for writing Lieder

Penn State Altoona to hold Liederabend March 27

Penn State Altoona music faculty Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber and Anthony Cornet, along with Penn State Altoona voice students, will perform 19th-century German Lieder, poems that have been set to music by German composers.
Theatre masks of comedy and tragedy on a yellow background

Penn State Altoona to present Shakespeare spoof March 20 and 21

Penn State Altoona’s spring theatre production, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]” by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, directed by Mary Beth Geppert, will run March 20–21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
Book cover: The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Films, and Games. Edited by Brian Hisao Onishi and Nathan M. Bell

Penn State Altoona professor publishes book on eco-weird

Brian Onishi, associate professor of philosophy at Penn State Altoona, has published a new book. “The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Film, and Games” is the first volume to identify the eco-weird as an umbrella term for the intersection of environmental thought and weird fiction.
Image created from print of Giana de Dier

Libraries to host pop-up exhibit related to Panama Canal history in February

Penn State University Libraries will feature a pop-up exhibit of prints from "El tiempo pasa y nada cambia" ("Time passes, and nothing changes") by Panamanian artist Giana De Dier on Feb. 24-25 in the lobby of the Pattee Library mall entrance. The exhibit honors the lives of Afro-Caribbean women who supported their families and communities during the construction of the Panama Canal. It will then travel to Penn State Altoona to be hosted in the Robert E. Eiche Library on Feb. 27-28.