Buy tickets now! Tickets are now available at the Box Office and online for Private Eyes, Westminster Choir, An Evening with Benjamin Verdery (Classical Guitarist/Composer), Duo Violin Recital (Dr. Calvin Lee & Mark Jordan), Docs Play the Pops. Tickets for Keith Johnson/Dancers available only at the Box Office.
Through 11/20 “Where Have You Been” Photography Exhibition, Monday - Thursday 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Friday 7 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sierra Hall, free.
11/2 A Celebration of El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning Center - West Campus - presented by MJC's M.E.Ch.A Club honoring the memory of loved ones. This free event showcases a community altar and features Folklorico and Aztec Dancers. There will be traditional Mexican food for sale, vendors selling handmade crafts, and a special sugar skull making workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. with a $5 donation request to cover the workshop supplies.
11/3 Science Colloquium ~ Science that Matters ~ 2:20 - 3:10 p.m., Science 213, Debbie Lind, Environmental Resources Management presents "Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites"
11/3 Soccer, Women's ~ MJC vs. Sierra College, 3 p.m., Soccer Field, West Campus
11/3 How to Fill Out a CSU Application Workshop, 2 - 3 p.m. (hands-on). Call for location: 575-6239. Free.
11/3 French Movie Night, featuring the film The Class(Entre les Murs) 6:30 p.m., Forum 101, (in French with English subtitles). Free! The Class, winner of the Palme d'Or award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, tells the story of a French language and literature teacher’s determination to teach an unruly French class of mostly-immigrant, middle-school students. The film, directed by Laurent Cantet, is based on the novel by co-screenwriter, lead actor and real life teacher Francois Bergaudeau. The documentary style film shows Bergaudeau’s struggle to maintain respect and meet the challenges of teaching his multi-ethnic class of outspoken teens.
11/ 4 UC Workshops in the Career Development & Transfer Center, Library Annex 103 on East Campus. How to Fill Out the UC Application: 12 noon - 1 p.m. and Writing Your Personal Statement: 2 - 3 p.m. Free.
11/4 Fall Sing Concert, 3:30 - 6 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, Free ~ This choral festival will feature area high schools plus the choirs from MJC and CSU, Stanislaus.
11/6 Volleyball, MJC vs. American River College, 6:30 p.m., gym, East Campus
11/6 Fall Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general/$4 students & seniors. The concert will include MJC's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and the Opus Handbell Ensemble.
11/6 & 7 Black & Brown Summit, West Campus. This year’s conference is aimed at addressing issues related to the early release of approximately 25,000 non-violent inmates from California prisons over the next two years. The Summit will highlight successful re-entry programs and explore new strategies that help keep communities safe. Registration is $40 general and $20 for students and includes access to all workshops, breakfast both days and lunch on November 6. To register or obtain information visit www.bbsummit.org or call the Homeward Bound office at (532) 634-2542.
11/ 6 & 7 Keith Johnson/Dancers, 7:30 p.m., Cabaret West Dance Theatre in the El Capitan Center on West Campus, $10 general/$8 students & seniors. Keith Johnson/Dancers will be in residency at Modesto Junior College November 5, 6, & 7. In addition to the repertory concert, Johnson and his company will be working with MJC dancers and dancers from area high schools and the community through master dance classes and lecture demonstrations. Concert tickets can be purchased at the MJC Box office on the East Campus Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during box office hours. Tickets, with limited seating, will also be available 90 minutes prior to each performance at the West Campus location. For groups of 10 or more or more information regarding Keith Johnson’s master classes or performances, contact Lori Bryhni at 575-6496 or email bryhnil@mjc.edu.
11/9 -13 Art Faculty Fundraiser Salon in the MJC Art Gallery, East Campus. This week-long silent auction will feature professional original artworks donated by MJC art faculty and the proceeds will provide merit awards for MJC students during the fall Student Art Exhibition. A reception will be held Friday, November 13, 5-7 p.m. For more information contact 575-6819.
11/10 Science Colloquium ~ Science that Matters ~ 2:20 - 3:10 p.m., Science 213, Jesse Roseman, Tuolumne River Trust, presents "Current Issues on the Tuolumne River"
11/10 Transfer Day and College Night ~ East Campusw location TBA - pending weather and completion of the HVAC project in the Student Center. Transfer Day will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is targeted at MJC students seeking transfer to a four-year college. Representatives from approximately 50 colleges and universities will be on hand to answer questions and provide information on their institutions, including academic programs, admission procedures, transfers, financial aid, student life and more. College Night, which assists high school students in making plans to pursue a higher education, will begin with a panel presentation at 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium. College representatives will also be available from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Student Center Cafeteria. Both events are free and open to college students, high school students and their parents.
11/11 Veteran's Day Holiday - Campus Closed
11/11 Wrestling, MJC vs. San Joaquin Delta College, 7 p.m., gym, East Campus
11/12 Science Colloquium: Patricia Watts, Founder and West Coast Curator of ecoartspace, 2:20-3:10 p.m. inScience 213, free. Watts has researched art and nature practitioners since 1994. She is founder and west coast curator of ecoartspace, a nonprofit platform organizing exhibitions and programs in collaboration with artists who address environmental issues in the visual arts. Watts has participated as panelist at numerous conferences and has given lectures at art departments internationally. Most recently she traveled to New Delhi, India to participate in the 48*c Public Art Ecology international festival and symposia, and to Taiwan for the Tropic of Cancer Environmental Art Project (2008-09), including community dialogues and symposia addressing debris fields of aquaculture waste as material for Land Art and cultural engagement. She was Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California (2005-08), where she curated Hybrid Fields, an exhibition of artists who create socially engaged art that inhabits a hybrid space where art and life, art and agriculture, converge.
11/12 High School Orchestra Day, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. Orchestra clinics with MJC String Professor Anne Martin. The program includes performances by all the orchestras and a performance by the Music Teachers Chamber Ensemble. The event ends with a Irish tune performed by over 200 string players and their music teachers!
11/12 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Agriculture Student Housing, 2:30 p.m., West Campus. Attendees are invited to walk through one of the new housing units following the Ribbon Cutting and refreshments will be served. Free and open to the campus and community!
11/12 Civic Engagement Project Film, 7 p.m., Forum 110, East Campus, free. Manufactured Landscapes ~ This documentary showcases the photography of artist Edward Burtynsky, whose work spotlights "manufactured landscapes," places where nature is transformed by industry, places such as quarries, mines, dams, refineries, factories, and recycling yards. the film follows Burtynsky at work in China, as he captures images of its rapid industrial transformation and uses his art to raise questions about our impact on our planet.
11/13 Soccer, Men's ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa Junior College, 3 p.m., Soccer Field, West Campus
11/13 Volleyball, MJC vs. Sacramento City College, 6:30 p.m., gym, East Campus
11/14 Football, MJC vs. Merced College, 7 p.m., Stadium ~ Admission: $8 General, $5 Students, Seniors (62 and over), $3 MJC Student with Activity Sticker and Children (7-10 years of age) - 6 and under free.
11/17 Science Colloquium ~ Science that Matters ~ 2:20 - 3:10 p.m., Science 213, Noah Hughes presents "An Earth Scientist's View of Global Climate Change: Evidence, Obfuscations, and Perspectives"
11/17 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Columbia College, 7 p.m., gym, East Campus
11/18 UC Workshops in the Career Development & Transfer Center, Library Annex 103 on East Campus. How to Fill Out the UC Application: 12 noon - 1 p.m. and Writing Your Personal Statement: 3 - 4 p.m. Free.
11/18 Fall Electronic Music Concert ~ Sample Fest 2009, 7:30, MJC Recital Hall, free ~ Featuring MJC advanced student composers performing original electronic music compositions in concert. Some of the compositions will be performed live while others will be pre-recorded performances. Special lighting effects, video displays and slides will accompany the compositions. The MJC Electronic Music Studio Director, David Dow, will also perform an original electronic music composition.
11/21 MJC Graffiti Bowl, 1 p.m., Stadium, East Campus
11/20 Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) 7:30 p.m., Forum 110 ~ "Tornadoes in the San Joaquin Valley"~ MJC Earth Science instructor Mike Whittier explains how wind and terrain can create tornadoes right here in the San Joaquin Valley.
11/23 2009 Student Art Exhibition on display through December 8, Art Gallery - The art exhibit will showcase student work from various MJC art and photography classes - Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A reception will be on November 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. - Free.
11/23 Jazz Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The evening's program, entitled "Just Jazz" will feature the MJC Jazz Ensemble.
11/24 Science Colloquium ~ Science that Matters ~ 2:20 - 3:10 p.m., Science 213, James Youngblom, Ph.D., CSU Stanislaus Biology Department presents "Recently Discovered Roles of RNA"
11/26 Modesto Turkey Trot,1/2 mile kids race (13 years and under) 9 a.m., 5 K run/walk 9:20 a.m., Awards 10:30 a.m., Tuolumne Regional park, Modesto ~ Contact Mary Shea 575-6219 or sheam@mjc.edu. Race day registration opens at 7:30 a.m. and closes at 9 a.m. - arrive early to avoid long lines at the registration area or better yet, pre-register, and save time and money. There will be post-race refreshments, raffle prizes and T-shirts.
11/26 - 11/28 Thanksgiving Holiday - Campus Closed
12/1 Transfer Strategies for Success Workshops, 11a.m. – noon and at 2 – 3 p.m., in the Transfer Center on East Campus, free.
12/1 Science Colloquium ~ Science that Matters ~ 2:20 - 3:10 p.m., Science 213, Elizabeth McInnes presents "Charles Darwin's Down House"
12/1 French Movie Night featuring the film Paris 36 (Faubourg 36) on at 6:30 p.m. in Forum 101, (in French with English subtitles). Free!
12/2 Intermediate and Advance Fall Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall, free
12/3 Civic Engagement Project Film, 7 p.m., Forum 110, East Campus, free. Autisum: The Musical ~ This documentary begins with a sobering statistic: while in 1980 only one in 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism, today one in 150 is. The movie, however, documents the uplifting journey taken together by Elaine Hall, founder of the Miracle Project, her son Neal and the other autistic children and parents who participate in a musical theater program. Director Tricia Regan presents their story at home and on stage as they prepare and present a full-length musical. Interviews of parents reveal the emotional burden of contemplating their children's futures without them. The children themselves, however, provide the viewer of this film with feelings of wonder and awe.
12/4 - 12/13 Private Eyes, Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 6 & 13 at 2 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general and $8 students and seniors. Private Eyes, by the hot new playwright Steven Dietz, is a comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious "relationship thriller" about love, lust and the power of deception. Some adult language. Buy tickets now!
12/4 Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) 7:30 p.m., Forum 110 ~ "Nutrition and Your Carbon Footprint"~ Dr. Gail Feenstra explores the connection between climate change and nutrition. What you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your health at the same time.
12/7 Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. Contemporary Classics: A program highlighting the new literature for wind band as well as classics from the band repertoire.
12/7 Beginning Class Fall Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, free
12/8 MJC Community Orchestra Concert: From Mozart to the Movies! 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $3 general, $1 students & seniors ~ The MJC Community Orchestra, directed by Anne Martin, will present a variety of music by composers from Austria, Italy, Russia, and the United States. The featured soloists are MJC students Hali Pekron, Violin and Veronica Rogers, Viola, performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante. The program will conclude with a performance of the concert suite from The Dark Knight.
12/9 MJC Community Concert Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. American and European Band Masters: a concert featuring works for band by composers around Europe, the United States and the world.
12/10, 11, 12 Basketball, Modesto Tournament, gym, East Campus
12/10 Holiday Festival of Choirs, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general/$4 students & seniors. This Holiday of Festival of Choirs will feature the MJC Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Masterworks Chorus and Turlock High School Choir.
12/14 Wintertime Tales: An Evening of Storytelling, 6:30 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free ~ Bring the whole family to this magical storytelling event. Featured tellers are from MJC's Storytelling and Reader's Theatre Classes.
12/15 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. West Hills College, 6 p.m., gym, East Campus
12/17 Masterworks Chorus Winter Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center ~ Soloists and orchestra will present a Winter Concert featuring the great English oratorio, Messiah, by George Frederick Handel. Co-conductors are Ginger Covert Colla and Richard J. Colla ~ $5 general/$4 students & seniors.
12/17 An Evening of Improvisation, 7:30 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 with sliding scale donations. (All proceeds of the evening will go to a local animal rescue.) The program features comedy sports from the MJC Improvisation class. Everything is off the cuff and unrehearsed-scenes, skits and games from audience suggestions.
12/18 Fall Semester Classes End
12/24 - 1/3 Campus Closed for Winter Break
1/8 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa Junior College, 6 p.m., gym, East Campus
1/8 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa College, 8 p.m., gym, East Campus
1/11 Spring Semester Classes Begin
1/12 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. Diablo Valley College, 6 p.m., gym, East Campus
1/12 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Diablo Valley College, 8 p.m., gym, East Campus
1/13 MJC Friends of Music presents the Westminster Choir in Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $12 General/$10 Students ~ Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., has been combining scholarship and professional training in music for over 60 years, and during that time the mixed, 40 voice Westminster Choir has set the standard for choral excellence. Forming the core of the 200 voice Westminster Symphonic Choir, the Choir has performed with every internationally known conductor in the last 50 years. Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
1/18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - Campus Closed
1/19 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Sacramento City College, 6 p.m., gym
1/19 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. Sacramento College, 8 p.m., gym
1/22 16TH Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, featuring keynote speaker Willie Brown! Doors open at 6 p.m. Free ~ This annual event celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. This year, the speaker is the former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor. Historian Kevin Starr writes, "Willie Brown has long proven to be one of the most charismatic, engaging, and effective politicians of his generation."
1/28 Speech Night, with performances at 4 p.m. & at 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $7 general / $5 students and seniors. An enjoyable evening of platform speeches, interpretation of literature and debate performed by the award-winning MJC Speech and Debate team
1/29, 1/30 County Honor Band, Choir & Orchestra, Choral performance: January 29 at 7 p.m. ~ Orchestra performance: January 30 at 2 p.m. ~ Band performance: January 30 at 2 p.m and 7 p.m. Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free ~ 2010 Stanislaus County Junior high and High School Music Festival. Joint performances with junior high to high school students.
1/29 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. Cosumnes River College, 6 p.m., gym
1/29 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Cosumnes River College, 8 p.m., gym
2/9 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. American River College, 6 p.m., gym
2/9 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. American River College, 8 p.m., gym
2/12 - 2/15 Presidents' Days Holidays - Campus Closed
2/16 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. Sierra College, 6 p.m., gym
2/16 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. Sierra College, 8 p.m., gym
2/18, 19, 20 at 7:30 p.m. & 2/21 at 2 p.m. MJC Off-Balance in Repertory Performance,Main Auditorium of the performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general, $8 students/seniors ~ An evening of thought provoking poetry, image, and gesture through Modern and Contemporary dance styles, performed by the MJC Dance Company, Off-Balance.
2/19 Basketball, Women's ~ MJC vs. San Joaquin Delta College, 6 p.m., gym
2/19 Basketball, Men's ~ MJC vs. San Joaquin Delta College, 8 p.m., gym
2/25 Music Association of CCC Northern Honor Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, Free ~ A concert featuring the MACCC honor band. The membership is made up of community college students from colleges all over Northern California nominated as being outstanding players by their directors. The concert will open with a performance by the MJC bands.
March Musical Theatre Production, Dates TBA, Recital Hall
3/19 - 3/28 Noises Off, March 19, 20 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and March 21 & 28 at 2 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students & seniors. This hilarious farce by Michael Frayn is set in a play within a play. Comedy ensues as the off-stage chaos affects the on-stage performances.
3/20 26th Annual Hispanic Education Conference, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Media & Performing Arts Center, East Campus
3/31 Spring Electronic Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free ~ Features MJC student composers performing original electronic music compositions in concert.
3/31 An Evening with Benjamin Verdery, Classical Guitarist/Composer, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $12 general / $10 students and seniors. Classical Guitar magazine has called Benjamin Verdery "one of the classical guitar world's most foremost personalities." Verdery is an American original. The New York Times calls him "iconoclastic and inventive." His recording of Some Towns and Cities won the 1992 Guitar Player Magazine Best Classical Recording. For more information on Mr. Verdery visit: http://www.benjaminverdery.com/ Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
4/TBA Earth Day Celebration, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on the East Campus Quad, free. The MJC Civic Engagement's Project Green Committee has planned an Earth Day celebration to heighten environmental awareness and educate students, staff, and the greater community on green and sustainable practices. The event will be informative and interactive, including displays, information tables and demonstrations and is open to the public.
4/TBA Celebrate MJC Athletics Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting, 6:30 - 9 p.m., MJC Gymnasium, $35. Local wineries and restaurants will offer samplings and a silent auction will be available. Sponsored by the MJC Foundation, this fundraiser benefits the 21 sports teams in the MJC Athletics Program and tickets are available in advance and at the door.
4/5 Jazz Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. Studies in Blues: a program featuring the MJC Jazz Ensemble.
4/9 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities, 6 p.m. Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The winners of this student competition will be announced for categories in writing, art, speech and the performing arts. The awards ceremony is free, open to the public and is followed by a reception. The Celebration of the Humanities Art Exhibition will be held April 7-16 in the MJC Art Gallery and admission is free.
4/10 An Evening with Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate of the United States, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, ticket prices TBA ~ In 2008, Kay Ryan was appointed the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, Paris Review, among other journals and anthologies. She was named to the "It List" by Entertainment Weekly and one of her poems has been permanently installed at New York's Central Park Zoo. Her work has been selected four times for the Best American Poetry and was included in the Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. About her work, J.D. McClatchy has said, "Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost."
4/11 Duo Violin Recital featuring Dr. Calvin Lee and Mark Jordan, 2 p.m., Music Recital Hall ~ Dr. Calvin Lee is a local physician and a YouTube symphony winner. Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
4/12 MJC Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. A Journey Through Time: a program highlighting wind band classics as well as contemporary literature from the band repertoire.
4/12 Intermediate and Advance Fall Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free
4/13 MJC Community Orchestra Concert: From the Baroque to the Ball Game, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $3 general, $1 students & seniors ~ Featuring Ernie Bucio & Joe Caddell, Trumpets ~ The MJC Community Orchestra celebrates the baroque era and baseball with a concert of two trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi and Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Von Titzer. Conductor Anne Martin will also lead the orchestra in works by great German, Italian, Russian and American composers. The concert will conclude with film music from Star Wars with special appearances by the 501st Legion.
4/14 Community Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. Romantic Rendezvous: a program featuring favorite composers from the Romantic Era and many others.
4/16 33rd Annual New Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The concert features student composers and winners from the 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities contest. Local composers and faculty composers are also featured.
4/17 Shirley Woodward Festival of Young Pianists, 3 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The festival features students from local piano teachers from the Music Teachers Association of California Stanislaus County branch. Students have the opportunity to play pieces on the nine foot Steinway Concert Grand piano on stage.
4/18 12th Annual Native American Powwow,10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Quad on East Campus, free. (Rain location is the Mary Stuart Rogers Student Center on West Campus.) The intertribal Powwow features Native American singing, dancing and drumming. Arts, crafts, jewelry and food will be for sale.
4/19 Beginning Class Fall Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free
4/23 A Choral and Vocal Extravaganza, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center,$5 general / $4 students & seniors. This concert features MJC's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and also includes soloists from our vocal music majors.
4/29 Masterworks Chorus Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center ~ $5 general/$4 students & seniors.
4/30 Graduation Luncheon, 12 noon, Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning Center, West Campus, advance tickets $10
4/30 MJC Commencement Ceremony, 6 p.m., Stadium, East Campus, free
5/10 First Day of Summer Classes
5/14 - 5/23 New Play Fest 2010, May 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and May 16 & 23 at 2 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students and seniors. New Play Fest 2010 is a production of world premiers written by students in the MJC Drama Department's playwriting class. Produced by Michael Lynch with direction by theatre students, these short one-act plays showcase a variety of themes and genres. Plays contain some adult language and situations.
5/23 Docs Play the Pops, 2 p.m., Main Auditorium, $12 General, $10 Student/Seniors ~ Local health care professionals (doctors, nurses, techs and so on) perform both classical and contemporary music to thrill the audience and raise scholarship funds for the music student at MJC ~ Presented by Friends of Music. Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
5/31 Memorial Day Holiday - Campus Closed
6/17, 6/18, 6/19 Hip Hop Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students & seniors. Hip Hop Dance Extravaganza, dancers from MJC and the community join in an evening of Hip Hop Dance at its best!
7/5 Independence Day Observance - Campus Closed
7/16 Summer Sonata ~ please mark your calendar ~ 6 pm Hors d'oeuvres, 7pm dinner and program ~ Location: Gallo Center for the Arts ~ MJC Foundation 575-6080
8/14 Summer Semester Classes End
