Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “The Other Side” spring 2019 contest winners included 11 student honorees, three faculty/staff honorees, and one local middle school student honoree. Each of the four Libraries Short Stories Editorial Board winners and the People’s Choice winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card. All winners and honorable mentions will have their stories placed on the Libraries’ Short Edition short story dispensers.
If you walk by faculty member Justin De Senso’s office at Penn State Berks, there’s a good chance that you will hear him and one of his students, James Watts, freestyle rapping in between classes.
Students from Penn State Berks and Albright College have partnered with some of the dancers who performed in “This Is Reading,” a performance art installation unveiled in 2017, to publish a book titled “We Are Reading: Dancing in the City.”
The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present "An Enemy of the People,” written by Henrik Ibsen, Wednesday through Saturday, April 10-13, at 8 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Harrisburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored Ruth Matilda Freyberger on March 14, with assistance from Marilyn Fox of the Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery.
The Freyberger Gallery will host the FH Gaige II Juried Exhibit in honor of the late CEO Emeritus Frederick H. Gaige. The exhibit includes more than 60 pieces of art including painting, sculpture, printmaking, fabric art, and ceramics from Berks County.
The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present "Independence,” written by Lee Blessing, at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 20-23, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
"The Great DuBois', Masters of Variety" a fast-paced variety show including incredible feats of juggling, hula hoops, unicycle, aerial and audience interaction — all wrapped in a blanket of comedy — will come to Penn State Berks on Thursday, Jan. 31.
