Arts

Ataloa Theatre
Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center

In the Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center

In the Estep Multimedia Center in the Bill S. Cole University Center

Tickets: General $10, Students $5, ECU Students Free

In the Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center

Chalmers Theatre
Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center

Tickets: $10 Adults, $9 Senior Citizens & Non-ECU Students; Alumni receive $1 discount; Admission is free for all ECU students and employees with ECU ID

Ataloa Theatre, Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center

A Tribute to Scott Joplin will mark the centennial of the death of America’s great composer of ragtime music. Joplin, known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime,” composed some of the most well-known musical pieces of the era, including The Entertainer, and the Maple Leaf Rag.  Standing as great music in its own right, Joplin’s ragtime, with its syncopated rhythms, also became a major influence upon and a forerunner of Jazz.  The event will include concerts by ECU students and faculty throughout the day. At the 7:30 event, will be a combination lecture-concert featuring Chautauqua historic presenter Charles Everett Pace and pianist Donald Ryan. Mr. Pace will provide the first segment of the program. Through his Chautauqua historical presentation of Scott Joplin, members of the audience will gain insights into the man behind the music and his place in history  Following a brief intermission, Donald Ryan will take the stage to perform a variety of Joplin pieces. The event is free and open to the public, sponsored by Oklahoma Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Estep Multimedia Center, Bill S. Cole University
& North Lounge, Memorial Student Union

Thursday, April 5

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium 

Jason Poudrier - Cameron University Pvt Pau & We All Had Our Wives
Terri Cummings – Nichols Hills, Oklahoma Voyeur
Alan Gann – Dallas, Texas Field Notes: Love, Politics & Movie Musicals

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Don Stinson – Northern Oklahoma College, from Flatline Horizon
Gay Pasley – Edmond, Oklahoma, Fact Finding
John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma, for havin' gotten rid of me: love-lyrics Flip-side B: all the goodbyes

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 – 3: 20 North Lounge

Hank Jones – Tarleton State University, A Rash of Poetry
Dorothy Alexander – Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nevertheless: The Art of Persistence
Christopher Soden – Dallas, Texas. Little Bird
Bill McCloud – Pryor, Oklahoma, Recovering the Rhythm of War

IV. 2:00 – 3:20 Estep Auditorium

Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, Arkansas, For My Ancestors
Aaron Glover – Dallas, Texas, They Say the Plains are Lonely
Laurence Musgrove – Angelo State University, One Kind of Recording
Daniel Miller – Amarillo, Texas, To Shoot a Rattlesnake

V. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Ann Howells – Carrollton, Texas, Softly Beating Wings
Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lolita, The Bird and the Black-Tongued Dog
Rebecca Hatcher Travis – Sulphur, Oklahoma,  from Constant Fires
Roy Beckemeyer – Wichita, Kansas, Amanuensis Angel

VI. 7:00 – 8:15 Estep Auditorium

Carol Coffee Reposa – San Antonio, Texas, In Oklahoma & other poems
Andrew Geyer – Univ. of South Carolina-Aiken, Tangled Up in Blue
Robin Carstensen –Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, Poetry: Histories and Wars
Alan Berecka – Del Mar College, Finally, The Hamlet of Stittville

(Authors’ Reception TBA)

Friday, April 6

VII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

William Peter Grasso –Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Our Ally, Our Enemy
Maureen DuRant – Cameron University, Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border
Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas, García Lorca Is Somewhere in Produce.

VIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Eddie Malone – University of Oklahoma, The Healing Project
Rilla Askew – University of Oklahoma, They Live Meanly Here

IX. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Larry D. Thomas – Las Cruces, New Mexico, The Innkeeper
Roxie Faulkner Kirk - Morris, Oklahoma, from Save Yourself

X. 11:00 – 11:50 North Lounge

Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University, Drowning the Monsters
Joey Brown - Missouri Southern State Univ., Content Subject to Change
Chris Murphy – Northeastern State University, Roscoe & flash fiction

XI. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Paul Juhasz – Allentown, Pennsylvania, Proxy
Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth, Texas, from Doors
Richard Dixon – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Leaving Home

*** Lunch ***

XII. 2:00 – 3:20 North Lounge

Sally Rhoades – Albany, New York, Don’t Put Plastic Flowers on My Grave
Thomas Murphy- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, The Barron Park Diwan
Yvonne Carpenter – Clinton, Oklahoma, Poems from the Prairie
Preston Marshall – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from Regicide

XIII. 2:00 -3:20 Estep Auditorium

John Morris – Cameron University, Selflessly Through the End of the Steps
Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas, Red Riding Hood’s Sister
Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, Missouri, from Queries and Wonderments
Robert Dean Jr. – Augusta, Kansas, At the Lake with Heisenberg

XIV. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Sly Alley – Tecumseh, Oklahoma, That Good Medicine & other poems
Cindy Huyser – Austin, Texas, Siren Hours
Chris Ellery – Angelo State University, America Is Having an Existential Crisis
Ron Wallace – Southeastern Ok State U., from Renegade

XV. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

Featuring George Bilgere

 Saturday, April 7

XVI. 9:00– 10:15 Estep Auditorium

Nathan Brown – Wimberley, Texas, An Honest Day’s Confession
Michael Howarth – Missouri Southern State U., A Scoundrel Looks at Forty
Maryann Hurtt – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, How My Heart Learned to Bleed Orange
Paul Austin – Norman, Oklahoma, Notes for Hard Times

XVII. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium

Abigail Keegan – Oklahoma City University, I Could Turn and Live with Animals
Simon Han – Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Impossible Task of Remembering the Nanking Massacre
Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University, Cairns, Cigars, and the Blues
Paul Bowers – Northern Oklahoma College, Quiet and Loud

XVIII. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

* Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher State High School Contest Winners

See: www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com for Bios of all Authors, and other details

Estep Multimedia Center

4 p.m.
        •    Musical performances by ECU faculty & students featuring the ECU Chorale
        •    “Amadeus: The Lines vs. The Letters" a lecture by Dr. Joshua Grasso

6:30 p.m.
        •    A Taste of Germany served by NAfME, $6 a plate

7:30 p.m.
        •    “Amadeus” $10 General Admission Free for ECU Students
 

Estep Multimedia Center

Estep Multimedia Center