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Creative Industries project gains legislative fundingAugust 5, 2025 - 1:44 pm
SOU announces plan to rebuild itself in response to fiscal crisesAugust 5, 2025 - 11:29 am
SOU to facilitate AG’s town hallAugust 4, 2025 - 2:55 pm
SOU biologist receives NSF grant for grasshopper researchJuly 28, 2025 - 8:52 am
SOU students step up for solar energy projectJuly 17, 2025 - 3:59 pm
Where curious minds gather: OLLI at SOU Open HouseJuly 17, 2025 - 11:05 am
SOU awarded grant to create historic plastics databaseJuly 8, 2025 - 9:49 am
SOU considers partners for older adult housing and education facilityJuly 1, 2025 - 2:14 pm
SOU maintains “Gold” in prestigious sustainability ratingJune 24, 2025 - 9:29 am
Commencement surprise: Gov. Kotek addresses SOU graduatesJune 16, 2025 - 7:19 am
SOU’s Havniear receives Outstanding Graduate Student awardJune 10, 2025 - 8:44 am
Highlights from SOU’s Spring Wellness EventJune 9, 2025 - 4:55 pm
An interview with Bill Rauch: Trials and Transformations at OSF
/in The ArtsShakespeareAMERICA, Jefferson Public Radio and Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present “An interview with Bill Rauch: Trials and Transformations at OSF,” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 6, at SOU’s Music Recital Hall. Rauch, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s outgoing artistic director, will discuss his 12-year leadership of the organization in Monday’s special presentation. Geoff […]
Oregon’s poet laureate to speak at SOU Friends of Hannon Library event
/in Press Releases, The Arts(Ashland, Ore.) — Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate, will read and discuss his work in an SOU presentation on Thursday, April 18, that is part of the Friends of Hannon Library Speaker Series for the 2018-19 academic year. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in the […]
Ashland, SOU mark 50 years of Guanajuato “sister” relationships
/in Press Releases, The Arts(Ashland, Ore.) — Delegations from Guanajuato, Mexico, and the Universidad de Guanajuato will visit Ashland and Southern Oregon University in April to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their sister city and sister university relationships. The celebration will include a formal renewal of the partnerships between the cities and universities, and is seen as an opportunity […]
Saturday concert to benefit music scholarships
/in The ArtsThe annual Joyce Stevens Benefit Recital, which raises money for music scholarships, will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Southern Oregon University’s Music Recital Hall. The concert will feature a program of classical favorites, performed by a variety of musicians: SOU faculty members Alexander Tutunov, Christine Eggert and Madeline Abel-Kerns; SOU […]
SOU unveils theater, JPR facilities with public celebration
/in Press Releases, The Arts(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will dedicate its expanded and renovated Theater Building, and new Jefferson Public Radio Broadcast Center, in a daylong celebration on Saturday. The public is encouraged to participate in the festivities. The event will begin with a dedication ceremony at 11 a.m., followed by an open house, tours, complimentary entertainment […]
“Into the Woods” to be featured on the Main Stage at SOU
/in The Arts“Into the Woods,” a musical about classic fairy tale characters and their lives after the stories, will be performed beginning this week on the Main Stage Theater at Southern Oregon University. Based on the book by James Lapine, “Into the Woods” is a compilation of fractured fairy tales and is set to Stephen Sondheim’s music […]
Patrick Collier, visiting artist at SOU’s Schneider Museum of Art
/in The ArtsMultidisciplinary artist Patrick Collier will give a visiting artist lecture from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the SOU Art Building’s Meese Auditorium. He will also exhibit a selection of recent digital prints in the Schneider Museum of Art. Collier’s current exhibition, “Field Burns,” shows both the power and beauty of the controlled […]
Piano master Jerome Rose to perform in SOU’s Tutunov Series
/in The ArtsSOU’s Tutunov Piano Series will host a master of the piano on Friday, Nov. 2, when Jerome Rose – who has been hailed as “the last romantic of our own age” – graces the Music Recital Hall stage. Rose will perform selections from Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin in a performance of about 90 minutes, with […]
SOU’s Left Edge Percussion presents world premiere of Tower Music
/in The ArtsTerry Longshore will lead SOU’s Left Edge Percussion in the premiere of New York composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s percussion arrangement of “Tower Music.” The work features 82 percussion instruments played by five performers, and will premiere Nov. 8 at the university’s Music Recital Hall. Left Edge Percussion is a contemporary percussion group in residence at SOU’s […]
Murder at the Cafe Noir: An audience-participation whodunnit from OLLI
/in The ArtsMembers, instructors and community supporters of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at SOU are invited to three audience-participation performances next month of the comedy, “Murder at the Café Noir.” All proceeds of the events will support OLLI’s Campbell Center Renovation Fund. The dinner play will be performed by the OLLI Improv Players from 5:30 […]