Jubilee Festival April Schedule

An abbreviated listing of Jubilee: A Festival of the Arts and Humanties events are listed below. For the full listing, visit www.nicholls.edu/jubilee.

Faculty Invitational Art Show (April 8-19) – Faculty-produced art is exhibited from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Ameen Art Gallery, Room 200, Talbot Hall. – FREE

Lecture: “The LeBoeuf-Dreher Affair” (April 8) – Retired Ellender Memorial Library staffer Francine Middleton presents research on the local Dreher-LeBoeuf murder case, in St. Mary Parish in 1927. The lecture focuses on newspaper coverage of the murder and how it affected the trial, the atmosphere and Ada LeBoeuf. – FREE

Guest Artist Recital: Andrey Ponochevny, pianist (April 9) –

Ponochevny won the bronze medal in the 2012 International

Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and has been the featured pianist at General Assembly of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Washington D.C. He performs at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary M. Danos Theater, Talbot Hall. – FREE

Poetry Readings (April 11) – Rebecca Morgan Frank and John Zheng read selections from their work. Frank is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, author of the collection “Little Murders Everywhere” and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Zheng is a professor at Mississippi Valley State University, founder and editor of three literary journals and winner of numerous grants and writing awards. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room, third floor of the Ellender Memorial Library. – FREE

Guest Artist Ronnie Kole Presentation and Recital (April 18) – Kole, a jazz pianist, singer and entertainer, returns to Nicholls for a lecture and evening performance titled “Different Sounds of Music.” The presentation is at 10:30 a.m. and the concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary M. Danos Theater, Talbot Hall. – FREE

Art Day (April 19) – Nicholls’ annual art day features a litany of presentations, including ceramics by a Tulane professor (8:35 a.m.), printmaking (9:40 a.m.), photography (10:45 a.m.) and graphic design (11:50 a.m.), in various locations. – FREE

Modern Jazz Performance (April 20) – Husband and wife James and Kathleen Westfall perform an hour-long concert beginning at 2 p.m. in the Thibodaux Branch Library, 705 W. Fifth St., Thibodaux. James tours with the jazz-rock group The Wee Trio, and Kathleen, a soprano, has performed more than a dozen operatic roles, operates a private voice studio in New Orleans and teaches at the Louisiana Academy of Performing Art. – FREE

American Musicale Performance (April 22) – Phi Mu Sinfonia hosts the American Musicale competition for music majors and minors, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary M. Danos Theater, Talbot Hall. – FREE

RELATE to Practice (April 25) – Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to express their thoughts on the theme “practice” using spoken-word poetry, monologues, musical performances, dancing or public speaking. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Bollinger Memorial Student Union Plantation Suite. – FREE

University Honors Program Thesis Research Symposium (April 27) – Nicholls’ honor students conclude Jubilee 2013 with presentations and defenses of their original-research results from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Gouaux Hall 101 and 301 – FREE