Weber State U - 2012 WSU Greek Festival - 28-29 September

2012 WSU Greek Festival

Who:                Weber State University Honors Program
What:        2012 WSU Greek Festival
When:        schedule below
Where:        WSU Campus

        WSU Honors presents the 15th annual WSU Greek Festival in conjunction with the Classical Greek Theatre Festival. The festival production for 2012 is Sophocles´ Antigone.  The festival originated as support for the Classical Greek Theatre production hosted by WSU Department of Performing Arts every fall, by providing our own WSU faculty in a series of lectures and other events about Classical Greek culture. This is also the 15th year it has been scheduled to coincide with the Ogden community Greek Food Festival presented by the Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, this year on 28-29 September.
        The festival will present a series of lectures, a readers theatre performance of Aristophanes´ The Wasps, which is intended for mature audiences only, as well as the Classical Greek play. All events are open to the public and free, with the exceptions of the ticket price for the theatre production of Sophocles´ Antigone  $9/$12. 
        Lectures and the readers theatre production will be held at various venues on the WSU campus noted on the schedule below. The pre-show lecture for Antigone will be held in the Fireplace Lounge in the Shepherd Union Building. Antigone will be presented in the Wildcat Theater, Shepherd Union Building. The pre-show lecture and the performance are in adjacent venues so audience members can move easily and quickly from one to the other.

WSU Greek Festival Schedule 2012
Mon        Sept 10        1:30        WSU Anthropology Club; public invited, SS103 (Social Science Building)

Tues        Sept 11        Noon        Greek Stories in the Stars, by Dr. Stacy Palen, Ott Planetarium        

Mon        Sept 17        1:30        Greek Justice, by Ogden attorney, Kent Winward, Hetzel-Hoellein Room (Special Collections), Stewart Library.

Tues        Sept 27        1:30        Aristophanes´ "Wasps," WSU Greek Readers Theatre, for adults only. 
                        Hetzel-Hoellein Room (Special Collections), Stewart Library.
                        (more information to follow in separate news release).

Wed        Sept 28        6:30        Intro lecture/Jim Svendsen, Classical Greek Theatre Festival Director, Fireplace Lounge, Shepherd Union Bldg.
                7:30        Sophocles´ "Antigone,"  Wildcat Theater, Shepherd Union Building.
                        (more information to follow in separate news release).

Fri-Sat 10AM-10PM        Greek Food Festival, Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, 674 42nd Street, Ogden
                        Food, Greek culture, entertainment, gifts, and a party with over 10,000 of your best friends.

Writers: the following contact list is provided for more information:
Classical Greek Theatre Festival/Antigone: Dr. Jim Svendsen,  jim.svendsen@mac.com
Anthropology: Dr. Linda Eaton, leaton1@weber.edu
Greek Readers Theatre:  Caril Jennings, 626-6431 or crjennings@weber.edu
Orthodox Church: Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church, 399-2231
Planetarium: Dr. Stacy Palen, physics.weber.edu/palen
WSU Greek Festival Concept/Overview,  Caril Jennings, 626-6431 or crjennings@weber.edu