317 Past Events at Cornerstone Center for the Arts

Join Cornerstone staff and students as we celebrate a wonderful fall session! On Sunday, December 11, 2011, from 2-5:30 pm, Cornerstone students will show off what they have learned in their classes through performances, an art gallery, demonstrations and more! Friends and family are invited, as well as anyone interested in learning more about the opportunities offered through the Cornerstone Arts Program.

This workshop will focus on basic card magic, easy to do effects with everyday items found around the house, and effects that are easily made for just a few dollars and with minimal effort. This class is recommended for ages 12 and up. Everyone should bring a deck of cards to the workshop.

The cost of this workshop is $10.

Cornerstone requires a minimum of 7 pre-registrations before hosting any workshop.

Contact the Education Department at 765.281.9503, ext 23 with any questions.

Kathryn Major, Elise Rorick, and Claire Sample, seniors at Ball State University will be showing their photography projects at the Cornerstone Art Gallery from April 5^th-30^th.

The photographs and mixed media will explore a variety of topics: crime, innocence, depression, abstraction, underwater, various alternative photography techniques, and Greek mythology. These works will be displayed for a month with the opening on April 5^th, from 5pm-8pm.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

• What: Senior Photography Exhibition
• When: April 5^th-30^th, Opening night on April 5^th, 5-8pm
• Where: Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 520 E. Main St. Muncie, IN 47305
• Who: Open to the public.
• Cost: Free

Call Cornerstone Center for the Arts at 765.281.9503 or visit www.cornerstonearts.org for more information.

Cornerstone Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the 26th Annual A Taste of Muncie, on Sunday, April 15th, 2012 from 4-6pm.

A Taste of Muncie is sponsored by Indiana Michigan Power and WLBC, FoxSports, MAX, WERK Radios, and will feature food from several area restaurants including Vera Mae's Bistro, Delaware Country Club, Ivy Tech Community College Culinary Department, Cardinal Cupcakes & Coneys, White River Valley Pizza Hut, Mr. Mouse, Sister, Sister Catering, Del's Custom Catering, Chef Boy's Sandwhich Factory, Scotty's Brewhouse, Carino's Italian, and more to come!

Advance tickets are $20.00, $18.00 for groups of ten or more, and $15.00 for students with ID. Tickets purchased the day of the event will be $25.00 for adults and $15.00 for students with ID.

A full listing of participating vendors, as well as ticket sales, is available online at www.cornerstonearts.org. Tickets can be purchased in the building Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

Interested in volunteering with A Taste of Muncie? Contact Carly Acree at cacree@cornerstonearts.org.

Cornerstone Center for the Arts will host a stand-up comedy event on Friday, June 8^th at 8 pm. This fundraiser will be headlined by Mikey Mason, a Muncie native who has toured the nation doing stand-up comedy, and hosted by Jay Baker, a member of Muncie’s comedy scene.

Mason is known for his hilarious musical comedy. He's made multiple appearances both on NBC's Night Shift with Kevin Ferguson and at the House of Blues concert halls, has been featured on Nerdist.com, the SyFy channel's Blastr.com, and MTV's Geek News.

Tickets for the comedy show are $5 in advance, and $7 at the door. Purchase tickets at The Fickle Peach and Savage’s Ale house or online at www.cornerstonearts.org.

This show contains hilarious and mature content and is for ages 18 years and older. A cash bar will be provided.

Proceeds from this event will benefit Cornerstone’s programming and events. Contact Carly Acree at 765.281.9503, ext 23, with any questions.

The Muncie Symphony Orchestra and Cornerstone Center for the Arts present Jennie DeVoe in a live benefit concert! Jennie’s heartfelt lyrics and enchanted voice paired with MSO’s finest musicians make it a spectacular event that is worth a trip from near and far to witness greatness. Concert will be preceded by the reception at 6:45pm.

Concert proceeds benefit Muncie Symphony Orchestra and Cornerstone Center for the Arts.

Purchase online here.

Call MSO office at 285-5531 to claim a group discount.

For more information about this event visit MSO website at www.munciesymphony.org

East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra will hold its third concert of the year at 7:30 p.m. on December 4 at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts. With a new conductor and a talented feature artist, Dr. Phillip Cooley, the small symphony orchestra is hoping to attract a wide audience. 

Cooley will perform Mozart's entire 21st piano concerto. Other pieces to be performed by the orchestra will be the overture from Mozart's "Die Entfurung aus dem Serail," Beethoven's "The Consecration of the House," Jean Sibelius's "Valse Triste" and a special Christmas piece.

Contact:Van Nelson                                                                 Tel. 765-748-1851

Email: vnelson38@att.net

East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra will hold its first concert of the year at 7:30 p.m. on March 23 at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Pie and refreshments will be provided for those who make reservations at the dessert concert in the Colonnade Room of the art center. The evening’s performance will also feature the Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana, directed by Dr. Karin Hendriks.

The ECICO has had a dessert concert for the past eight years, said Van Nelson, the group’s director. He explained that it is the group’s version of a pops concert, as they usually play light classical selections as well as music from movies and musicals. Some of the pieces currently being planned for the Saturday concert are Franz Suppe’s “Light Calvary Overture,” “Serenata” by Leroy Anderson, and “Orpheus” by Jacques Offenbach. The ECICO will also perform a selection of pieces composed by John Williams from the famous movie, Schindler’s List.

The YSOECI will also play its own John Williams selection, “Themes from Harry Potter,” a medley of music from the very popular series. The selection was arranged by Paul Cook and adapted for the YSOECI by Ryan Bischoff, a Ball State student. The ECICO and its guest, the YSOECI, will also combine to play a medley of music from the recent movie adaptation of Les Misérables.

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana was founded in 1964 to provide an outlet for middle school and high school orchestral musicians. A part of the Muncie community for such a long time, the group is currently working on an “immersive learning” project with Ball State students.  Dr. Hendriks explained this partnership is a way to help revitalize the program and ensure it “becomes a functioning, thriving, and growing youth symphony program in Delaware County.”

Dr. Hendriks is an assistant professor of music education at Ball State University. She has taught as a public school orchestra instructor for thirteen years and has won several awards for her skills in teaching. A private cello teacher for over 25 years, Dr. Hendriks was even once recognized by then First Lady Laura Bush in 2003. She has also collaborated in education projects with several international soloists and chamber ensembles.

Leading the ECICO will be Javier Mendoza who was hired as the ECICO’s new conductor just this fall. Mendoza is currently music director and conductor of the Chicago Arts Orchestra and a guest conductor for El Sistema Nacional de Bandas, Orquestras y Coros de Guatemala. Some of his past accomplishments include guest conducting for the Boris Liatoshnisky Chamber Orchestra in the Ukraine during an International Conductors Festival and working as the artistic director for the International Music Festival of the Americas in summer 2009 in Guatemala. 

The concert is free and open to the public. Desserts are optional and $8 per person. Reservations for desserts and any inquiries about the evening’s performance may be made by contacting Van Nelson.

Contact: Van Nelson                                                          

Tel. 765-748-1851

Email: vnelson38@att.net

Join the Orchestra for their First Concert of the Season

On November 15, the East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra will be performing in the Colonnade Room at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts. The concert will begin at 7:30 that evening. 

Teaming up with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana, the ECICO will perform songs that Van Nelson, the president of the group, said he hopes will take the audience on a fantastic adventure. Starting with Verdi’s “Hymn and Triumph March from Aida,” the listeners will be taken to Egypt where the Egyptian prince has fallen in love with an Ethiopian princess enslaved there—the triumphal music reflecting the prince’s love for the princess.

Following this, Nelson explained, the journey will then head to Scotland as the group performs Mendelssohn’s “Hebride’s Overture,” also known as “Fingal’s Cave.” The music will paint the scenery of the Scottish countryside in the minds of the listeners as they are then transported to an eerie graveyard in the middle of the night. In will come “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saëns whose piece will evoke the image of skeletons dancing on their own graves, Nelson said.

Finally, the audience will be taken on a voyage into space as the Youth Orchestra plays a selection form Holst’s “The Planets.” Ending the journey, Nelson concluded, will be a performance of the theme from the popular television series Star Trek whose motto was “To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

The ECICO is composed of around 30 musicians—both young and old—from around the area. The orchestra provides an opportunity for musicians who may not have majored in music in college to play in a small symphonic orchestra setting. The group receives support from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County, the Indiana Arts Commission, and Indiana Public Radio. Nelson said there is even a small number of Ball State students—music majors and non-music majors—who participate in the group.

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana was founded in 1964 to provide an outlet for middle school and high school orchestral musicians.

The night’s performance is free and open to the public. All are welcome to join the orchestras on this musical journey. For more information about the performance or the orchestras, contact Van Nelson.

An opening reception and art show featuring the art of Amanda Craw and Rateira Dodds-Simmons. Their combined show will feature works of acrylic on canvas: urban and rustic landscapes, nature scenes, animals, silhouettes, fantasy, and realism for myriad tastes. .

The opening reception will take place from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the Cornerstone Art Gallery on the second floor of Cornerstone Center for the Arts. The show will be on display throughout the month of September.

Amanda Craw, a self-proclaimed “go-getter” is an English teacher at Delta High School who recently discovered her love of painting. Craw enjoys using painting as a means of relaxing and reliving experiences and sights. When she’s not painting Craw enjoys traveling, writing, listening to music, spending time with her cat Carlisle, and meeting new people.

Rateira Dodds-Simmons is a mother of two boys who works as a Certified Medical Technologist. Dodds-Simmons finds painting to be therapeutic and relaxing and enjoys expressing emotions by creating art. Dodds-Simmons prefers to live life to the fullest by painting, traveling, skydiving, and riding motorcycles.

The Ball State University Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts Lab will showcase live, electronic dance music and hooping on the 3rd floor.

To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, the BSU Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection will present a maps program depicting the history of Native Americans in North America and the United States, including original culture areas, land cessions and migrations, wars, and current settlement areas. The program will also include photographs and artwork detailing Native American participation in world events and important Native American figures who shaped history.

This workshop is free and open to the public and will be held at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Pre-registration is encouraged and is available at http://cornerstonearts.org/education/programs/native_american_maps.