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26febAll Day21mar"Legacy: Alzheimer's Stories"Photography by Cara Lee Wade(All Day)
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Kellogg Community College will exhibit nearly three dozen works by Indiana photographer and arts educator Cara Lee Wade in February and March on campus in
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will exhibit nearly three dozen works by Indiana photographer and arts educator Cara Lee Wade in February and March on campus in Battle Creek.
Wade’s exhibit, titled “Legacy: Alzheimer’s Stories,” explores themes of memory, family and the impact of Alzheimer’s and will run from Feb. 26 through March 21 in the KCC Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek.
The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular gallery business hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Fridays and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays.
A closing reception – also free and open to the public – will be held with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in the gallery.
In an artist’s statement, Wade says the images that make up her “Legacy” exhibit were inspired by her grandmothers, who were both diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1999 and died in 2004.
“As a result, I have become obsessed with absorbing my grandmothers’ and consequently my own past,” Wade says. “As they struggled to retain their identity and their memories, I am now determined to gather them and add them to my own. The result is this imagery.”
Wade began working on the “Legacy” project as part of a graduate school assignment in 2000 as a way to cope with her grandmothers’ illness, adding images to the series every few years. The images feature items and locations belonging to or inspired by her grandmothers, as well as “my own physical and mental inheritance,” she says.
All images were captured with a large-format 1947 4- by 5-inch Graflex “press camera” using sheet film, then scanned and archivally printed on watercolor paper in editions of 25.
“Using myself and these everyday things along with my memories and those given to me by members of my family, as well as a vast collection of family photographs, I have built narratives within the frame,” Wade says. “Through the years and through the course of creating, some of the narratives have strayed, making this work a reflection of myself to a much greater extent than I ever could have imagined, and I have realized just how deeply rooted in my ancestry I am.”
Born in Oklahoma but calling coastal Georgia home, Wade’s military father took the family to places all over the country, igniting her interest in diverse subjects. During her academic career she majored in many things, from Musical Theatre to Archaeology, ultimately receiving undergraduate degrees in Education and English. Wade took her first photo class as an elective during her senior year of college and from her first experience in the darkroom, she knew her world was changed.
Wade later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004 and began teaching the following fall at University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, where she is Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging.
Wade exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. In 2024, she has solo exhibitions planned at the First Presbyterian Art Gallery in Fort Wayne; Jasper Arts Center in Jasper, Indiana; the Rosewood Arts Center in Kettering, Ohio; and Sinclair Community College in Dayton; in addition to KCC. She’s also participating in group shows at the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart and the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis.
For more information about the artist, visit caraleewade.com. For more information about the exhibit or other KCC arts events and initiatives, contact KCC’s Arts and Communication Office at 269-965-4126.
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February 26 (Monday) - March 21 (Thursday)
19mar1:00 pm2:00 pmFresh Food DistributionFree and open to the public1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Kellogg Community College’s monthly Fresh Food Distribution events continue this month on campus in Battle Creek. The events are a partnership with the South Michigan Food
Event Details
Kellogg Community College’s monthly Fresh Food Distribution events continue this month on campus in Battle Creek.
The events are a partnership with the South Michigan Food Bank that provide free fresh produce, baked goods and protein items to KCC student and community members during a pickup event the third Tuesday of each month on campus in Battle Creek. Students and others from the community can simply drive or walk up during the event and pick up a free box of food, free of charge while supplies last.
(Registration with the Food Bank is required and processed onsite; see instructions below.)
KCC distributes approximately 400 to 500 boxes of fresh food to those in need through the initiative over the course of four or five events each semester. The initiative will continue this spring semester on Jan. 16, Feb. 20, March 19 and April 16.
Fresh Food Distribution events are held in Parking Lot G – the parking lot next to the Miller Physical Education Building – on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. They formally begin at 1 p.m. but interested individuals are encouraged to come earlier, as supplies go quickly and there’s often a line well before 1 p.m.
The Fresh Food Distribution events are just one part of a continuously growing food insecurity initiative at KCC that also includes the campus Bruin Baskets, a campus food initiative that provides free grab-and-go snacks for students at a half dozen stations on campuses in Albion, Battle Creek, Coldwater and Hastings.
Individuals interested in receiving items via the event should note there are just 100 boxes to distribute and it’s first come, first served. To expedite the distribution process, attendees are asked to fill out the online registration form from the Food Bank when they arrive and are waiting in line by completing the following steps:
1. Text the word Bruins to 866-474-3663
2. Open the link received back and fill out the short online form
3. Once submitted, show the confirmation to the volunteer in line
For more information, contact the KCC Foundation at 269-965-4161 or kccfoundation@kellogg.edu.
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will exhibit nearly three dozen works by Indiana photographer and arts educator Cara Lee Wade in February and March on campus in
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will exhibit nearly three dozen works by Indiana photographer and arts educator Cara Lee Wade in February and March on campus in Battle Creek.
Wade’s exhibit, titled “Legacy: Alzheimer’s Stories,” explores themes of memory, family and the impact of Alzheimer’s and will run from Feb. 26 through March 21 in the KCC Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek.
The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular gallery business hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Fridays and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays.
A closing reception – also free and open to the public – will be held with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in the gallery.
In an artist’s statement, Wade says the images that make up her “Legacy” exhibit were inspired by her grandmothers, who were both diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1999 and died in 2004.
“As a result, I have become obsessed with absorbing my grandmothers’ and consequently my own past,” Wade says. “As they struggled to retain their identity and their memories, I am now determined to gather them and add them to my own. The result is this imagery.”
Wade began working on the “Legacy” project as part of a graduate school assignment in 2000 as a way to cope with her grandmothers’ illness, adding images to the series every few years. The images feature items and locations belonging to or inspired by her grandmothers, as well as “my own physical and mental inheritance,” she says.
All images were captured with a large-format 1947 4- by 5-inch Graflex “press camera” using sheet film, then scanned and archivally printed on watercolor paper in editions of 25.
“Using myself and these everyday things along with my memories and those given to me by members of my family, as well as a vast collection of family photographs, I have built narratives within the frame,” Wade says. “Through the years and through the course of creating, some of the narratives have strayed, making this work a reflection of myself to a much greater extent than I ever could have imagined, and I have realized just how deeply rooted in my ancestry I am.”
Born in Oklahoma but calling coastal Georgia home, Wade’s military father took the family to places all over the country, igniting her interest in diverse subjects. During her academic career she majored in many things, from Musical Theatre to Archaeology, ultimately receiving undergraduate degrees in Education and English. Wade took her first photo class as an elective during her senior year of college and from her first experience in the darkroom, she knew her world was changed.
Wade later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004 and began teaching the following fall at University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, where she is Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging.
Wade exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. In 2024, she has solo exhibitions planned at the First Presbyterian Art Gallery in Fort Wayne; Jasper Arts Center in Jasper, Indiana; the Rosewood Arts Center in Kettering, Ohio; and Sinclair Community College in Dayton; in addition to KCC. She’s also participating in group shows at the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart and the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis.
For more information about the artist, visit caraleewade.com. For more information about the exhibit or other KCC arts events and initiatives, contact KCC’s Arts and Communication Office at 269-965-4126.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
22mar7:30 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run7:30 pm
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Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek. The play is an original work
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek.
The play is an original work written by KCC Theatre professor and Theatre Program Coordinator Brad Poer and will run for six showings March 15-17 and 22-24 in the Binda Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. Friday and Saturday shows will start at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows will start at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10 each for students, KCC faculty and staff and seniors, and $15 each for the general public. They can be purchased onsite before each show or reserved in advance through the KCC Theatre Box Office by calling 269-965-4154.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward defraying the cost of travel for those participating in the August 2025 KCC Theatre trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where a shortened version of “Pando” will be performed for international audiences.
Poer, who in addition to writing the show will also direct it, calls “Pando” a “philosophical comedy set in the many worlds of video games.” It consists of six short one-act plays, each set in a different video-game-inspired universe and connected via a handful of short scenes between them.
A core group of nine actors play the characters in the games, Poer said, while other actors play the humans “playing” the games on a couch.
The play is “a comedy about how to translate the digital world into the analog world, and how imagined worlds can help us become better humans in the real world,” he said.
“Within the games themselves, there are lessons from ancient and contemporary philosophy concerning what it means to be human today and how to process the ups and downs of life. Content-wise, this premiere production is aiming at the Pixar template, with lots of laughs for kids and emotional depth for grownups. Though it’s set with video games as a backdrop, it’s aimed just as much at those with no interest in games as it is for lifelong gamers like myself.”
“Pando” is Poer’s first original work since his 2017 adaptation “Antigone: Closure,” which was also produced at KCC. Written so that nearly anyone can play any role, and with allowances made in the script for the actors to alter dialogue to fit their own preferences, Poer said the play was originally inspired by a conversation he had with a friend in graduate school.
“We both loved video games and thought it was sad that there wasn’t more theatre about gaming,” he said. “There’s a lot of natural crossover when it comes to role playing and figuring out who we want to ‘be’ when we play games, not unlike actors figuring out how to portray someone else.”
Individuals who can’t make a show but who would like to donate directly to support the group’s upcoming trip to Scotland can email Poer for details at poerb@kellogg.edu.
For more information about the upcoming production, contact Poer or visit the KCC Theatre Facebook page at facebook.com/KCCTheatre.
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(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
23mar7:30 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run7:30 pm
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek. The play is an original work
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek.
The play is an original work written by KCC Theatre professor and Theatre Program Coordinator Brad Poer and will run for six showings March 15-17 and 22-24 in the Binda Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. Friday and Saturday shows will start at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows will start at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10 each for students, KCC faculty and staff and seniors, and $15 each for the general public. They can be purchased onsite before each show or reserved in advance through the KCC Theatre Box Office by calling 269-965-4154.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward defraying the cost of travel for those participating in the August 2025 KCC Theatre trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where a shortened version of “Pando” will be performed for international audiences.
Poer, who in addition to writing the show will also direct it, calls “Pando” a “philosophical comedy set in the many worlds of video games.” It consists of six short one-act plays, each set in a different video-game-inspired universe and connected via a handful of short scenes between them.
A core group of nine actors play the characters in the games, Poer said, while other actors play the humans “playing” the games on a couch.
The play is “a comedy about how to translate the digital world into the analog world, and how imagined worlds can help us become better humans in the real world,” he said.
“Within the games themselves, there are lessons from ancient and contemporary philosophy concerning what it means to be human today and how to process the ups and downs of life. Content-wise, this premiere production is aiming at the Pixar template, with lots of laughs for kids and emotional depth for grownups. Though it’s set with video games as a backdrop, it’s aimed just as much at those with no interest in games as it is for lifelong gamers like myself.”
“Pando” is Poer’s first original work since his 2017 adaptation “Antigone: Closure,” which was also produced at KCC. Written so that nearly anyone can play any role, and with allowances made in the script for the actors to alter dialogue to fit their own preferences, Poer said the play was originally inspired by a conversation he had with a friend in graduate school.
“We both loved video games and thought it was sad that there wasn’t more theatre about gaming,” he said. “There’s a lot of natural crossover when it comes to role playing and figuring out who we want to ‘be’ when we play games, not unlike actors figuring out how to portray someone else.”
Individuals who can’t make a show but who would like to donate directly to support the group’s upcoming trip to Scotland can email Poer for details at poerb@kellogg.edu.
For more information about the upcoming production, contact Poer or visit the KCC Theatre Facebook page at facebook.com/KCCTheatre.
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Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
Location
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
24mar3:00 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run3:00 pm
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek. The play is an original work
Event Details
Kellogg Community College will present the world premiere of the original play “Pando” this month on campus in Battle Creek.
The play is an original work written by KCC Theatre professor and Theatre Program Coordinator Brad Poer and will run for six showings March 15-17 and 22-24 in the Binda Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. Friday and Saturday shows will start at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows will start at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10 each for students, KCC faculty and staff and seniors, and $15 each for the general public. They can be purchased onsite before each show or reserved in advance through the KCC Theatre Box Office by calling 269-965-4154.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward defraying the cost of travel for those participating in the August 2025 KCC Theatre trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where a shortened version of “Pando” will be performed for international audiences.
Poer, who in addition to writing the show will also direct it, calls “Pando” a “philosophical comedy set in the many worlds of video games.” It consists of six short one-act plays, each set in a different video-game-inspired universe and connected via a handful of short scenes between them.
A core group of nine actors play the characters in the games, Poer said, while other actors play the humans “playing” the games on a couch.
The play is “a comedy about how to translate the digital world into the analog world, and how imagined worlds can help us become better humans in the real world,” he said.
“Within the games themselves, there are lessons from ancient and contemporary philosophy concerning what it means to be human today and how to process the ups and downs of life. Content-wise, this premiere production is aiming at the Pixar template, with lots of laughs for kids and emotional depth for grownups. Though it’s set with video games as a backdrop, it’s aimed just as much at those with no interest in games as it is for lifelong gamers like myself.”
“Pando” is Poer’s first original work since his 2017 adaptation “Antigone: Closure,” which was also produced at KCC. Written so that nearly anyone can play any role, and with allowances made in the script for the actors to alter dialogue to fit their own preferences, Poer said the play was originally inspired by a conversation he had with a friend in graduate school.
“We both loved video games and thought it was sad that there wasn’t more theatre about gaming,” he said. “There’s a lot of natural crossover when it comes to role playing and figuring out who we want to ‘be’ when we play games, not unlike actors figuring out how to portray someone else.”
Individuals who can’t make a show but who would like to donate directly to support the group’s upcoming trip to Scotland can email Poer for details at poerb@kellogg.edu.
For more information about the upcoming production, contact Poer or visit the KCC Theatre Facebook page at facebook.com/KCCTheatre.
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Time
(Sunday) 3:00 pm
Location
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
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