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| | Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Earth day comes around every year just as the Earth orbits the sun every year. Keeping our planet healthy and safe is a challenge for those in our lifetime. Join The Worthington Chorus as we reflect on our planet and discover how we can create change in ourselves to then change the world.
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| | Mansee Singhi and Meenal Singhal will lead this session exploring movement with hand and facial gestures. Students will experience the benefits of yoga for body and mind wellness.
Mansee Singhi is a Columbus, Ohio-based Indian classical dance performer, choreographer, and teacher. She has been a member of the United Nations Dance Council since 2012 and more recently joined the Ohio Teaching Artist Roster.
Meenal Singhal is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). | Buy tickets |
| | With control of the presidency and Congress at stake in a deeply polarized electorate, and the integrity of the electoral process itself under challenge, 2024 is shaping up as one of the most important elections in American history. By the end of April, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees should have been decided, pending ratification by their summer national conventions. Many of the parties’ candidates for all 435 House seats and the one-third of Senate seats on the ballot in 2024 also will have been chosen. The class will review the outcomes of these nomination contests and how the different rules by party and by state have governed them. Attention then will turn to the prospective general elections for both the presidency and the Congress, including how a third party or independent candidate might affect the presidential outcome. Presidential winners are determined by which candidate wins a majority of votes in the Electoral College, leaving the popular votes in only about a dozen “battleground” states to determine of the outcome. The contrast between the Electoral College and popular votes will be highlighted. By contract, congressional winners typically are determined by popular vote “pluralities.” Finally, how much the challenges to the electoral process and the violence that may accompany them will influence the outcomes and the very state of electoral democracy in America also will be discussed.
Paul A. Beck (1971 PhD, University of Michigan) is currently Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University and international co-coordinator of the Comparative National Elections Project (u.osu.edu/cnep), which now includes almost 70 national election surveys conducted since 1990 in 31 different countries. He has been the primary investigator of dozens of public opinion polls during his career. Most recently, he co-directed multiple surveys of voters: for Britain and France in their 2017 elections; for the U.S. in its 2020 election, for Ohio in its 2022 primary, and for Brazil in its 2022 election. Over the course his career, Beck has published 9 books and numerous articles in leading professional journals on voting behavior, political parties, and public opinion; has received 5 research grants from the National Science Foundation; and has been a regular commentator on politics in the media and before community and professional groups. He is recipient of the Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Service awards from Ohio State University and the American Political Science Association’s Goodnow and Eldersveld awards for distinguished service to the profession and career professional contributions to the field of political organizations and parties, respectively. He served as the political science department chair for 19 years at two different universities, 13 at Ohio State, and as dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State. | Buy tickets |
| | Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Cultural Connections
At the MAC, we’re bringing the world to you! Join us for a quartet of events where you will experience “paired presentations” of multicultural music, film, and dance. Build connections in your culture or immerse yourself in new experiences as we offer an expressive mosaic of passionate artists and the arts.
HuaYun Dance Group - China Revue on Stage
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| | Motown played an integral role in American music during the late 1950s into the 1960s. Join Michael Yonchak as he discusses the unique “one stop shop” business model of this independently owned family business. Learn about one of the powerhouse studio bands of the time. Experience legendary Motown artists in action through historical footage and listen to an overview of this golden era of American music with a specially curated playlist. Come enjoy the unforgettable sounds of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, and more! | Buy tickets |
| | Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Cultural Connections At the MAC, we’re bringing the world to you! Join us for a quartet of events where you will experience “paired presentations” of multicultural music, film, and dance. Build connections in your culture or immerse yourself in new experiences as we offer an expressive mosaic of passionate artists and the arts.
Growing Up Maasai
Isaya Oleporuo, a Maasai Warrior from a remote village in northern Tanzania, loves to share his culture with others. In his interactive “Growing up Maasai” program you will learn about this peaceful, kind and sharing people who live in extended-family homes (bomas). Maasai life has remained largely unchanged for the past several centuries. The arts and its symbolism is very rich in Maasai culture. Isaya will show and demonstrate their traditions, dress, beautiful jewelry (available for purchase to help the Maasai women), dance and song. He will tell about the roles of elders, young men and women in their culture. Boys learn from fathers about becoming warriors who are guardians of their cows and servant-leaders for their people. In the past, girls have become wives and mothers at a very young age. You will also learn about Isaya’s work to rescue young girls from forced childhood marriage and finding sponsors to help them further their education. Isaya Oleporuo is a Maasai Warrior Chief from the remote village of Eluai in northern Tanzania. He grew up in the traditional family-centered lifestyle that the Maasai have followed for centuries. As with all boys, he learned to herd and protect cows, which led to becoming a servant-leader among his people. Isaya did not attend school, but had the opportunity to come to the U.S. in his 20’s. He obtained his GED, an associate degree in Boston and completed his bachelor’s degree in International Affairs at Ohio State University in 2022/23. His passion is to help his people and teach others about Maasai culture. While in Boston, he did many presentations at schools about Maasai culture. He continues to help support the women in his village by selling traditional beaded jewelry, providing income for their families as the men are away for months finding pasture for the cows. Isaya has also established Osotuwa Foundation that helps young girls escape childhood marriage, with sponsorships enabling them to further their educations. He began this work approximately 8 years ago with nearly 200 girls now having hope for a future of their own.
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| | Member’s Event – Empowerment through Drawing with Angela Gage
Join MAC Instructor Angela Gage in an introductory drawing workshop. Angela will lead participants through a drawing workshop similar to those presented at MAC Outreach Events. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn some of the basics of drawing while hearing more about the outreach programs presented by the MAC and their outcomes. | Buy tickets |
| | Leah Wong - Guided Gallery Tour
Thusrday, May 30, 2024 at 7:00pm
Join exhibiting artist, Leah Wong in an informative and in-depth tour of her exhibition, +/- Perspectives, at the McConnell Arts Center. To learn more about Leah before the tour, visit her website.
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| | MAC VIP Breakfast
Saturday, June 15, 2024, 8:00 – 9:30am
Location: The Griswold Center, 777 High Street, Worthington, OH 43085
The MAC is hosting a VIP breakfast to kick off the Worthington Arts Festival. Come join us for breakfast (including mimosas) with delicious food from Steven’s Catering. You will have VIP parking at the Griswold so that you have “first dibs” when the Arts Festival opens!
Admission includes drink tickets.
Proceeds go to support programming at the McConnell Arts Center. | Buy tickets |
| | Karin Dahl - Guided Gallery Tour
Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 7:00pm
Join exhibiting artist, Karin Dahl in an informative and in-depth tour of her exhibition, "How Does Color Sound?" at the McConnell Arts Center. To learn more about Karin before the tour, visit her website. | Buy tickets |