Boston National Poetry Month Festival will be held at the Boston Public Library, Copley Branch and Northeastern. On Saturday, April 3, the festival will be at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sunday, April 4, the festival will be held in 410 and 430 Dodge Hall. Both of these events are free and open to the public. For more information call either (617) 723-3716 or (617) 536-5400.
March 31 Wednesday
Northeastern’s Theatre Department will present “Dr. Caligari and All the Rest,” a new play adapted for the stage by Dmitry Troyanovsky and Gave Geltzer. The show will run March 31 to April 3. Performances will be at The Studio Theatre in the Curry Student Center and begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Wednesday and Thursday shows and $13 for Friday and Saturday shows. For more information, call the NU box office at ext. 2247.
As part of Holocaust Awareness Week, the Holo-caust Awareness Committee will be sponsoring a lecture entitled “Remembrance and Reconciliation: Why the Memory of the Holocaust Matters Today.” The lecture is free to the public and will be held in Blackman Auditorium, Ell Hall, from noon to 1:30 p.m. The lecture will feature Bjorn Krondorfer, an associate professor of religious studies at St. Mary’s College, Maryland, as this German native, born afer WWII, combines his personal and scholarly commitment to justice. For more information, call the spiritual life office at ext. 2728.
April 1 Thursday Holocaust survivors will share their experiences and accounts at Northeastern’s annual Philip N. Backstrom, Jr. Survivor Lecture Series, from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sacred Space in Ell Hall. Speakers include Edgar Krasa at 9:15 a.m., Raymond Fridmann at 10:30 a.m., Freida Grayzell at 11:45 a.m., Jack Trompetter at 1:35 p.m. and Hirsch Altman at 3 p.m. This series is free. For more information, call the spiritual life office at ext. 2728.
April 3 Saturday The Undergraduate South Asian Student Association (UTSAV) will hold its first Baisakhi Mela celebration in the Krentzman Quadrangle. Baiskhi is the holiest day on the calendar for over 20 million Sikhs worldwide. For many, Baiskhi marks the beginning of the Sikhs’ new year and also, for some Punjabis, it is the beginning of the harvest season and a time of happiness. There will be food, music, dancing and vendors all day long and it is free to the public. E-mail utsav @neu.edu for more information.
April 4 Sunday The Northeastern Concert Band will be performing works by Levinson, McBeth and Bell at 3 p.m. in Blackman Auditorium in Ell Hall. Allen Feinstein will be the conductor for this performance with William Drury as the associate conductor. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for students and seniors. Tickets for this event can be purchased at the door or at the NU box office in Ell Hall. For details, call ext. 2671.
April 5 Monday Northeastern’s English Department and the English Club are bringing Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked,” now on Broad-way, “Confessions of an Ug-ly Stepsister” and “Mirror Mirror.” The lecture, “Wick-ed Reflections: A Novelist’s Look at Evil” will be held in 346 Curry Student Center at 4:30 p.m. For more information about this event, call ext. 2512.
Upcoming Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority will be hosting “Take Back the Night” on Wednesday, April 7, a night of events and speakers with the emphasis on taking a stand against sexual assault and violence. Feature keynote speakers of “Take Back the Night” include Kelly Walker and Rebecca Tieder. The night’s events begin at 7 p.m. in the Krentzman Quadrangle. For more information, contact Lindsay at [email protected].
Celebrity Birthdays March 31 Cesar Chavez, 1927 Christopher Walken, 1943 Ewan McGregor, 1971
April 1 Debbie Reynolds, 1932 Barry Sonnenfeld, 1953
April 2 Marvin Gaye, 1939 Ron “Horshack” Pillio, 1954
April 3 Marlon Brando, 1924 Eddie Murphy, 1961 Jennie Garth, 1972
April 4 Maya Angelou, 1928 Heath Ledger, 1979
April 5 Gregory Peck, 1916 Colin Powell, 1937
