Arts

Our capstone experience in the major and something that sets our department apart from many others. This festival is collaboratively curated and produced by the senior theatre major class and presented in an intimate setting in-the-round on the Norton Clapp stage. The plays are often diverse and ambitious, featuring a large number of our students (both majors and non-majors).

The Adelphian Concert Choir will perform their home concert following a week-long tour in various locations. Enjoy music by composers Hagen, Macdonald, Martini, Nunes, Garcia, Vovk, and others; conducted by Steven Zopfi with Jinshil Yi, piano. All performances are free and open to the public.

The School of Music is pleased to welcome Baroque Violinist Tekla Cunningham, who will present a master class featuring performances by Puget Sound School of Music violin students.

This event is free and open to the public.

The School of Music is pleased to welcome guest artist Tom Hicks, who will share his experience and expertise in a piano master class at 3:30 p.m., followed by a recital concert at 7:30 p.m., where he will perform works by composers John Field, Fryderyk Chopin, Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, and more.

These events are free and open to the public. 

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The Collins Memorial Library exhibit, The World Through Abby’s Eyes, is about the nuanced life of women in the American West in the early twentieth century. The focal point of the exhibit is Tacoma resident Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943). Hill was a landscape artist best known for her oil paintings created en plein air depicting the scenery of the American West.

Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, young chocolatier Willy Wonka manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time.

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten. Presented by ASUPS Campus Films.

A 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise. Presented by ASUPS Campus Films.

A 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise. Presented by ASUPS Campus Films.

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten. Presented by ASUPS Campus Films.