The event will feature a unique, collaborative set designed and performed by musical artist Piano Pete, a New York City pianist, and Dana Kinsey, Lancaster City Poet Laureate, actor, and spoken word artist. The performance will feature original poems in communion with songs composed or adapted by Piano Pete. The set will include some narrative as well as a few special guest artists.
Genre: Community Event
On Screen/In Person Film Series: Preschool to Prison – FREE
Tuesday, October 7 • 7 PM • Steinman Hall
A compelling examination of the U.S. public education system and its disparate outcomes for children of color and children with special needs. Those affected by the school-to-prison pipeline, fueled by zero-tolerance policies used to justify suspension and arrests, discuss the generational impact of this system.
6:15 PM • Pre-show community panel discussion with Chad Dion Lassiter, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; Dr. Frederika Schmitt, Millersville University Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminology; Karlee Shambaugh, Program Facilitator, Lancaster County Prison; and Dr. Elizabeth Powers, Millersville University Professor of Early, Middle, and Exceptional Education and Chair of the MU Center for Public Scholarship & Social Change.
Post-screening Q&A • Dr. Karen Baptiste, director Presented in partnership with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the Millersville University Department of Criminology, Sociology, & Anthropology.
Post-screening Q&A • Dr. Karen Baptiste, director Presented in partnership with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the Millersville University Department of Criminology, Sociology, & Anthropology.
On Screen/In Person Film Series: Life After – FREE
Thursday, November 13 • 7 PM • Steinman Hall
A gripping personal investigation that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying. Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in a matter of life and death.
6:15 PM • Pre-show community panel discussion
Post-show • Q&A with director Reid Davenport
Post-show • Q&A with director Reid Davenport
Presented in partnership with the MU Disability Film Festival.
On Screen/In Person Film Series: Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health – FREE
Wednesday, February 18 • 7 PM • Steinman Hall
Asian Americans are among the least likely to seek help for mental illness. The stigma surrounding the topic, in conjunction with discrimination and racial profiling, makes mental health an intersectional—and pressing—issue. Silent War reveals the unspoken toll mental illness has had on this community.
6:15 PM • Pre-show community panel discussion
Post-show • Q&A with director Dr. Changfu Chang
Post-show • Q&A with director Dr. Changfu Chang
2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Barbara McQuade
SPEAKER: Barbara McQuade
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
Law professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how technology is exacerbating the problem, and how it is affecting American society. She will also offer potential solutions to help us mitigate the challenges of disinformation in an evolving world.
Lecture begins at 7:00 pm in Biemesderfer Concert Hall, Winter Center.
Homestead Village’s Thriving & Inspiring Talk – Speaker: Jim Davidson
Adventure Seeker Jim Davidson has been chosen as the speaker for Homestead Village’s second annual 2025 Thriving & Inspiring Talk. He has written two best-selling books about his life-changing experiences mountain climbing and has cheated death more than once. His message of survival, facing your fears, and resilience will have you on the edge of your seat and inspire you to conquer any challenges that come your way.
Ticket Prices:
General Admission: $25.00
General Admission: $25.00
Holocaust Conference Keynote Lecture by Dr. Norman Naimark, Stanford University “Never Again? Genocide in the 21st Century”
Dr. Norman Naimark is one of the most well-known international scholars on genocide. He is a professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Naimark is an author of such widely recognized books as Fires of Hatred: A History of Ethnic Cleansing and Stalin’s Genocides.
This event is made possible by the continued generous support of P. Alan and Linda Loss.
We The People First Fridays Presents: Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project – FREE
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 6:30 P.M.
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
FREE
The Jingle Dress Project takes the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress across the nation. Through the project’s travels, dance and images of the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, it unites and gives healing hope to the world through art, dance and culture.
ART: Eugene Tapahe Photography
Friday, November 4
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Lyet Lobby | Ware Center
On display November 4 through 29
ART: The Woodcut Portraits of Dan Miller
Friday, November 4
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
On display November 4 through 29
At age 94, Lancaster County woodcut artist Dan Miller still makes the train commute to Philadelphia for his full-time professorship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he has taught for nearly 60 years.
A well-known artist in the galleries of Philadelphia, Miller is holding his first-ever show in Lancaster at 6 PM on (First) Friday, November 4 at the Ware Center.
Miller discovered the woodcut during visits to Japan in the early 1950s. Later, during his studies as a painting major at PAFA, he gradually drifted toward the medium for its directness of process and expressive strength.
You can learn much more about Miller’s life and process from a film by one of his former students, “The Reward of Art.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
The woodcut conceived in China in the 9th Century as a simple illustration of religious text has, over the centuries, achieved multiple levels of expression. Unlike other art forms in need of patronage approval, the graphic artist has been free to give voice to the personal and the controversial. The woodcut’s independence of spirit has been its power. My own introduction to the woodcut began with visits to Japan in the early 1950s, but no efforts on my part were made until 1955 with my entrance into the Pennsylvania Academy as a painting major. I gradually began drifting toward the woodcut because of its directness of process and its expressive strength. The world of wood, printing ink and paper became a way of life. There seemed no better way to give voice to a needed desire to search for content and meaning.
Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
Entertainment, raffle baskets, breast health information, and more. Musical guest Lavacave! Gypsybilly Cabaret stylings, with violinist Robin Chambers, and Nick DiSanto of one-man band fame, wailing and crooning their original fare.
Art: Jan Yatsko – 52 DIVAS
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
Friday, October 7, 2022
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
On display October 3 through 28
ARTIST STATEMENT
The 52 self-portraits are a conversation and visual discovery of my own image, with myself, as an artist and with the viewer.
Since 2013, I have taught a workshop for women titled “Discover Your Inner Diva”. 2 years later, I decided to use the same exercises in the workshop for my own development. From January 2015 to March 2022, I painted 52 self-portraits of my life with its ups and downs, my dreams, my thoughts, and my visual interpretation of spiritual classes that I have taken as well as certain phrases from books. During this process, I realized that it has also been a visual interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”. The colors, symbols and images reflect my life in Costa Rica since 1999. It is a “visual journey” of my interior self as well as an artist over 7 years.
On Screen/In Person Film Series Old Friends: A Dogumentary – FREE
A heartwarming story of the beloved Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Join founders Zina and Michael Gooden, their amazing staff, and over one hundred plus senior pooches as they parade to their new 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art home.
6:15 P.M. Community Panel Discussion – – Lancaster Center for Animal Life-Saving, Humane PA represented by CEO Karel Minor
– ORCA (Organization for the Responsible Care of Animals) represented by Founder/Director Connie Kondravy
– K-Pets (Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services represented by Director Laura Heller
– Paws On Deck (The Millersville University student branch of Susquehanna Service Dogs) represented by MU student president Jami Ebersole
7 P.M. Screening | Post-Show Q & A with film director Gorman Bechard
Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes.
But wait, there’s more! Join artist Loryn Spangler-Jones from 4-7 in front of the Ware for “puppies’ paws & prints”! Bring your furry friend and leave with art. Proceeds will be shared with participating orgs listed above. Learn more: https://fb.me/e/3wQKAVEnG