march
26febAll Day21mar"Legacy: Alzheimer's Stories"Photography by Cara Lee Wade(All Day)
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
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)
15mar7:30 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run7:30 pm
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
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
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
16mar10:00 am12:00 pmSTEM SaturdayFree and family-friendly!10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024. The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024.
The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong Learning Department’s Bruin Youth Programming initiative, offers hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities and demonstrations for kids of all ages and their families in Calhoun County.
The 2024 events will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on the following Saturdays at the locations indicated:
> Jan. 20 at KCC’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center, 405 Hill Brady Road, Battle Creek
> March 16 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> May 18 at the Marshall Middle School cafeteria, 100 E Green St., Marshall
> Sept. 21 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> Nov. 16 at the Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center, 171 Michigan Ave., Battle Creek
In addition to financial and logistical support from KCC and INNOVATE Albion, STEM Saturdays are funded via support from the Albion Community Foundation, the Albion-Homer United Way, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Caster Cares, Eaton Corporation, Haas Trucking, the Marshall Community Foundation, the Rural Technology Fund and Team 1 Plastics, in addition to a $100,000 Consumers Energy Foundation grant awarded in 2022.
For more information, call INNOVATE Albion 517-945-4800 or visit kellogg.edu/youth.
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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
16mar7:30 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run7:30 pm
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
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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(Saturday) 7:30 pm
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
17mar3:00 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run3:00 pm
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
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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(Sunday) 3:00 pm
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
19mar1:00 pm2:00 pmFresh Food DistributionFree and open to the public1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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
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
21mar3:00 pm5:00 pmFirst Home Baseball GameFree Admission3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cheer on your Bruins as the baseball team competes in the first home game of the season in a nine-inning matchup against Ancilla starting at
Cheer on your Bruins as the baseball team competes in the first home game of the season in a nine-inning matchup against Ancilla starting at 3 p.m. at C.O. Brown Stadium! Admission is free! GO BRUINS!
(Thursday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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
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
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
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
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
23mar7:30 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run7:30 pm
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
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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(Saturday) 7:30 pm
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
24mar3:00 pmKCC Theatre presents "Pando"World Premiere Run3:00 pm
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
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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(Sunday) 3:00 pm
Binda Performing Arts Center
450 North Ave.
25marAll Day29Spring BreakNo classes for students(All Day)
There will be no classes for Kellogg Community College students from Monday, March 25, through Friday, March 29, during the College’s Spring Break. While no classes
There will be no classes for Kellogg Community College students from Monday, March 25, through Friday, March 29, during the College’s Spring Break.
While no classes will be held for students during KCC’s Spring Break, most College offices will be open Monday through Thursday. The College will be closed Friday, March 29.
Hours generally vary by department or office. To check the open hours of a particular office or department, contact the College at 269-965-3931.
Registration for the summer semester opens the Monday students return to campus, on April 1. Student registration information, including links to registration instructions, policies, tuition and fees and other information, is available online at kellogg.edu/registration.
Those who wish to meet with an academic advisor prior to registering are encouraged to schedule an appointment by calling 269-965-4124 or emailing advising@kellogg.edu.
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march 25 (Monday) - 29 (Friday)
27marAll DayMental Health Symposium Pre-Registration DeadlineEvent is April 11(All Day: wednesday)
Kellogg Community College’s Education and Human Services programs will host a free Mental Health Symposium next month on campus in Battle Creek. Pre-registration is required
Kellogg Community College’s Education and Human Services programs will host a free Mental Health Symposium next month on campus in Battle Creek. Pre-registration is required by March 27.
The KCC Education and Human Services Mental Health Symposium will be held from 4:30 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the College’s Binda Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek.
The event is free and open to the public but individuals interested in attending must pre-register by March 27 via the online form at https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7n1B8nqxmU2AuHZxT3slWVxGmUE2XMRJksokBe0vJ_xUNDVMN1FDQlhKSEU4VlBIMlhKWkpYS0NQSy4u&origin=lprLink&wdLOR=c4573ADC6-8BD2-45DE-82D7-F8582F941B28.
The event will feature presentations on topics related to mental health as well as a keynote address from counselor and social worker Dr. Jennifer Harrison, a professor at Western Michigan University’s School of Social Work.
Harrison will speak on strategies for reducing stigma and supporting mental health recovery. Additional speakers and topics include:
> Suicide Prevention Facilitator Scott Teichmer, of Summit Pointe, will speak about suicide prevention
> Dr. Caelan Soma, chief clinical officer of Starr Commonwealth, will speak on the overlap of trauma and mental health
> Dr. Odell Miller, of Off the Bench, will speak about the impact of physical health on mental health, and strategies to keep yourself healthy
All speakers will also participate in a final Q&A panel session following the last presentation.
An informal box dinner will be offered at the start of the event, with door prizes and certificates awarded throughout. Participants will also be able to collect information from vendor tables immediately before and after the speaking presentations.
For more information about the Mental Health Symposium, which is made possible thanks to a Program Initiative Grant from the KCC Foundation, email education@kellogg.edu.
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All Day (Wednesday)
april
01aprAll Day02Summer Registration OpensExperience KCC this summer!(All Day)
Registration for Summer 2024 class opens at 7 a.m. online on Monday, April 1! The Summer 2024 semester starts May 13 and ends Aug. 8. Click
Registration for Summer 2024 class opens at 7 a.m. online on Monday, April 1!
The Summer 2024 semester starts May 13 and ends Aug. 8. Click here to view our Course Catalog and filter by “Summer Semester 2024” to see a list of KCC courses offered during the summer semester.
For more information about summer registration, visit kellogg.edu/registration.
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april 1 (Monday) - 2 (Tuesday)
02apr5:00 pm6:00 pm"Blaze Goes to Camp" LaunchMeet the author and illustrator!5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Kellogg Community College is pleased to announce the publication of “Blaze Goes to Camp,” a fully illustrated, 32-page children’s book rounding out a trilogy of
Kellogg Community College is pleased to announce the publication of “Blaze Goes to Camp,” a fully illustrated, 32-page children’s book rounding out a trilogy of popular titles centered on a young version of Blaze, the College mascot.
“Blaze Goes to Camp,” which will be released to the public in print and online in April, is a follow-up to the College’s award-winning “Blaze Goes to College” and “Blaze Goes to the RMTC” children’s books, both published in 2019. All of the books have been illustrated by KCC Graphic Design Program alumna Sara Parks and written by KCC Marketing Director Simon Thalmann.
The illustrator and author will launch the book during a meet-and-greet event from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 – which is International Children’s Book Day – at KCC’s Morris Library, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. The informal event is free and open to the public, and the first 100 visitors will receive a free print copy of “Blaze Goes to Camp.”
The new book follows Blaze and his classmate Bella as they attend and report on the diverse array of summer day camps available to kids on KCC’s North Avenue campus in Battle Creek. Thalmann said the new book is the best one yet, intentionally designed to be read aloud and with several interactive elements perfect for young audiences.
“The amazing art and character design of Sara Parks takes center stage in the latest Blaze book, which was intentionally created with younger audiences in mind than our previous books,” Thalmann said. “There are way less words and way more things to look at, as well as things to do, physically, with the book.”
Readers can be encouraged from the title page to “press play” to get the book going, for example, to search for funny scenes in an elaborate centerspread map of the College’s actual campus, and to read poems featured in the book aloud, among other things.
Parks called illustrating the book “a rewarding challenge.”
“It has a different energy compared to the rest of the series, and coupled with how my art had improved in the interim, I had the opportunity to update the style and play with layouts I hadn’t experimented with before,” Parks said. “I tried to put a lot of variety into the characters, especially, so that kids could have fun figuring out what animal was what and picking out their favorites.”
In the five or so years since publication of the first Blaze book, well over 10,000 copies of the books – including Spanish versions – have gone to print and been given freely to area kids, families, schools, libraries and other community organizations, and KCC employees have read the books to countless elementary school students across the College’s service district.
Both of the previous books won regional Medallion Awards from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations after publication. “Blaze Goes to College” also won Gold Paragon and Best in Show awards at the national NCMPR Paragon Awards in 2020.
A digital version of “Blaze Goes to Camp” will be available to read for free on KCC’s website at kellogg.edu/blaze beginning April 2. Print copies of all three books in the series will be available for purchase in the College’s Bruin Bookstore for $4.99.
For more information about “Blaze Goes to Camp,” contact the author at thalmanns@kellogg.edu. For information about day camp opportunities at KCC this summer, contact KCC’s Lifelong Learning Department at ll-info@kellogg.edu, call 269-965-4134 or visit kellogg.edu/youth.
“Blaze Goes to Camp” was made possible in part by a grant from the KCC Foundation. For more information about the KCC Foundation, visit kellogg.edu/foundation.
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(Tuesday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
KCC Morris Library
450 North Ave.
10aprAll Day26Annual KCC Student Art Exhibit(All Day)
Mondays-Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8 am-5 pm, Thursdays, 8 am-7 pm Reception/Awards Ceremony: Friday, April 19, 5:30-7:30 pm
Mondays-Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8 am-5 pm, Thursdays, 8 am-7 pm
Reception/Awards Ceremony: Friday, April 19, 5:30-7:30 pm
april 10 (Wednesday) - 26 (Friday)
11apr4:30 pm8:45 pmMental Health SymposiumPre-Registration Deadline is March 274:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Kellogg Community College’s Education and Human Services programs will host a free Mental Health Symposium next month on campus in Battle Creek. Pre-registration is required
Kellogg Community College’s Education and Human Services programs will host a free Mental Health Symposium next month on campus in Battle Creek. Pre-registration is required by March 27.
The KCC Education and Human Services Mental Health Symposium will be held from 4:30 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the College’s Binda Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek.
The event is free and open to the public but individuals interested in attending must pre-register by March 27 via the online form at https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7n1B8nqxmU2AuHZxT3slWVxGmUE2XMRJksokBe0vJ_xUNDVMN1FDQlhKSEU4VlBIMlhKWkpYS0NQSy4u&origin=lprLink&wdLOR=c4573ADC6-8BD2-45DE-82D7-F8582F941B28.
The event will feature presentations on topics related to mental health as well as a keynote address from counselor and social worker Dr. Jennifer Harrison, a professor at Western Michigan University’s School of Social Work.
Harrison will speak on strategies for reducing stigma and supporting mental health recovery. Additional speakers and topics include:
> Suicide Prevention Facilitator Scott Teichmer, of Summit Pointe, will speak about suicide prevention
> Dr. Caelan Soma, chief clinical officer of Starr Commonwealth, will speak on the overlap of trauma and mental health
> Dr. Odell Miller, of Off the Bench, will speak about the impact of physical health on mental health, and strategies to keep yourself healthy
All speakers will also participate in a final Q&A panel session following the last presentation.
An informal box dinner will be offered at the start of the event, with door prizes and certificates awarded throughout. Participants will also be able to collect information from vendor tables immediately before and after the speaking presentations.
For more information about the Mental Health Symposium, which is made possible thanks to a Program Initiative Grant from the KCC Foundation, email education@kellogg.edu.
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(Thursday) 4:30 pm - 8:45 pm
16apr1:00 pm2:00 pmFresh Food DistributionFree and open to the public1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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
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
22aprAll DayFall Registration OpensExperience KCC this fall!(All Day: monday)
Registration for Fall 2024 class opens at 7 a.m. online on Monday, April 22! The Fall 2024 semester starts Aug. 26 and ends Dec. 13. Click
Registration for Fall 2024 class opens at 7 a.m. online on Monday, April 22!
The Fall 2024 semester starts Aug. 26 and ends Dec. 13. Click here to view our Course Catalog and filter by “Fall Semester 2024” to see a list of KCC courses offered during the fall semester.
For more information about fall registration, visit kellogg.edu/registration.
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All Day (Monday)
may
18may10:00 am12:00 pmSTEM SaturdayFree and family-friendly!10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024. The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024.
The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong Learning Department’s Bruin Youth Programming initiative, offers hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities and demonstrations for kids of all ages and their families in Calhoun County.
The 2024 events will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on the following Saturdays at the locations indicated:
> Jan. 20 at KCC’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center, 405 Hill Brady Road, Battle Creek
> March 16 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> May 18 at the Marshall Middle School cafeteria, 100 E Green St., Marshall
> Sept. 21 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> Nov. 16 at the Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center, 171 Michigan Ave., Battle Creek
In addition to financial and logistical support from KCC and INNOVATE Albion, STEM Saturdays are funded via support from the Albion Community Foundation, the Albion-Homer United Way, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Caster Cares, Eaton Corporation, Haas Trucking, the Marshall Community Foundation, the Rural Technology Fund and Team 1 Plastics, in addition to a $100,000 Consumers Energy Foundation grant awarded in 2022.
For more information, call INNOVATE Albion 517-945-4800 or visit kellogg.edu/youth.
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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Marshall Middle School
100 E. Green St.
september
21sep10:00 am12:00 pmSTEM SaturdayFree and family-friendly!10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024. The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024.
The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong Learning Department’s Bruin Youth Programming initiative, offers hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities and demonstrations for kids of all ages and their families in Calhoun County.
The 2024 events will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on the following Saturdays at the locations indicated:
> Jan. 20 at KCC’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center, 405 Hill Brady Road, Battle Creek
> March 16 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> May 18 at the Marshall Middle School cafeteria, 100 E Green St., Marshall
> Sept. 21 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> Nov. 16 at the Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center, 171 Michigan Ave., Battle Creek
In addition to financial and logistical support from KCC and INNOVATE Albion, STEM Saturdays are funded via support from the Albion Community Foundation, the Albion-Homer United Way, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Caster Cares, Eaton Corporation, Haas Trucking, the Marshall Community Foundation, the Rural Technology Fund and Team 1 Plastics, in addition to a $100,000 Consumers Energy Foundation grant awarded in 2022.
For more information, call INNOVATE Albion 517-945-4800 or visit kellogg.edu/youth.
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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
november
16nov10:00 am12:00 pmSTEM SaturdayFree and family-friendly!10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024. The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong
Kellogg Community College’s free STEM Saturdays partnership with INNOVATE Albion will continue with five events in 2024.
The STEM Saturdays project, led by the KCC Lifelong Learning Department’s Bruin Youth Programming initiative, offers hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities and demonstrations for kids of all ages and their families in Calhoun County.
The 2024 events will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on the following Saturdays at the locations indicated:
> Jan. 20 at KCC’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center, 405 Hill Brady Road, Battle Creek
> March 16 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> May 18 at the Marshall Middle School cafeteria, 100 E Green St., Marshall
> Sept. 21 at INNOVATE Albion, 200 W. Center St., Albion
> Nov. 16 at the Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center, 171 Michigan Ave., Battle Creek
In addition to financial and logistical support from KCC and INNOVATE Albion, STEM Saturdays are funded via support from the Albion Community Foundation, the Albion-Homer United Way, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, Caster Cares, Eaton Corporation, Haas Trucking, the Marshall Community Foundation, the Rural Technology Fund and Team 1 Plastics, in addition to a $100,000 Consumers Energy Foundation grant awarded in 2022.
For more information, call INNOVATE Albion 517-945-4800 or visit kellogg.edu/youth.
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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center
171 Michigan Ave.