Arts Briefs

Walking Beyond Our Ancestor’s Footsteps: An urban Native American experience

Grand Valley’s Kutsche Office of Local History has teamed up with local organizations as part of the Gi-gikinomaage-min Project to create an oral history project that aims to create the first archival collection focused on the urban native experience in West Michigan.

The exhibit, which opened Tuesday in the Mary Idema Pew Library exhibition space, looks at how Native Americans in the Grand Rapids area built their community. The exhibition is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Native American Advisory Board, GVSU Special Collections and Archives, the Grand Rapids Public Library and the Grand Rapids Public Museum and runs through Nov. 19.

To Sustain a Continent: An exploration of South African resource management

A new exhibition opened in the Blue Wall Gallery in the DeVos Center on Nov. 2. During spring and early summer of this year, GVSU student Hannah Mico participated in a study abroad program in South Africa.

While abroad, Mico explored and studied resource management issues that confronted the communities surrounding the Kruger National Park and the wildlife within the nature reserve.

Mico saw conditions and special circumstances that spoke to broader, more worldwide issues. While immersed in this new culture, she took photographs that she arranged into her exhibit, titled “To Sustain a Continent.” The exhibit combines these photos with Mico’s own observations about her experience in South Africa.

Shakespeare Festival student competition

This Saturday, GVSU’s theater department will host the Shakespeare Festival’s student competition from noon until 2 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium in the DeVos Center. The competition recognizes talented students throughout the university that will be judged by a committee of jurors.

The awards are $100 for first place, $75 for second and $50 for third in each category. Admission is free to the event.

For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/theatre.

Race and Beauty in Brazilian Soccer: A Troubled Past

GVSU’s Latin American studies department is hosting a lecture from professor Roger Kittleson from the department of history at Williams College. The lecture will focus on the race, masculinity and science of Brazilian soccer in the 50s through the 70s to build on his book, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil.”

Kittleson’s book focuses on playing style and fan culture. The event is open for everyone but especially beneficial for students interested in history, sports or the history of soccer. The lecture will take place in Kirkhof Center Room 2215 and is LIB 100/201 approved.