Category: Event
The Luther College Cathedral Choir will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Main Hall of the Center for Faith and Life on the Luther campus. This concert is the culmination of Cathedral Choir’s 2019 Wisconsin Tour.
Luther College presents a three-day Interfaith Forum, where international scholars, partitioners of interfaith collaboration and faith leaders of the Midwest gather to help engage the campus in an assembly about the challenges of interfaith existence and collaboration. This event will take place on the Luther campus from Thursday, April 4 to Saturday, April 6.
Luther College has been selected as a one of 25 participants in The Council of Independent Colleges’ second Diversity, Civility and the Liberal Arts Institute, which will be held June 2-5, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Luther College will host two geologists from the Iowa Geological Survey as they give two public lectures on the topic of the Decorah impact crater at 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in the Decorah Public Library and 9:40-10:50 a.m. Thursday, April 4, in Valders Hall of Science Room 206 on campus.
The Luther College Concert Band, one of the Midwest’s touring collegiate wind ensembles, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Main Hall of the Center for Faith and Life on the Luther campus. The performance is the culmination of the band’s 2019 Southwest Tour.
Luther College junior Kelly Grba is presenting a vocal recital at 12 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on Luther’s campus.
Both her recital and the reception to follow are open to the public with no charge for admission.
A panel of Luther College faculty and staff are hosting a roundtable discussion about their experiences with failure and the growth that can come from hardship. The panel’s discussion begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall.
Focusing on the theme “Stories in Community,” tales shared by families, friends, world travelers and neighbors are only a few of the stories told in the more than 60 films to be screened at the 10th annual Oneota Film Festival. The event, co-sponsored by Luther College, is set for Thursday through Saturday, March 7-9, 2019, on the Luther campus and in downtown Decorah. Festival-goers are asked to pre-register at: https://www.oneotafilmfestival.org/register.
Luther College alumna Kadra Abdi, class of 2008, is a strategic consultant who spends her days helping minority businesses and nonprofits craft strategies and counteract the often-negative assumptions that arise between immigrant and mainstream communities. At 4 p.m. on March 6, she will speak at the Hammarskjold Lounge in the Dahl Centennial Union on the Luther campus.
Giving Day, a 16-hour fundraising event to support the Luther Fund at Luther College, will be held 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday, March 7. The day features a simultaneous 12-hour live feed beginning at 8 a.m. bringing entertainment, engaging stories and information from students, faculty and staff across campus to Luther family and friends across the globe. The community is invited to make a gift, view the live feed and get real-time updates on Giving Day at luther.edu/giving-day.