The International Cat Association will host the Ho Ho Ho-liday Cat Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave.
The Capitol Area Performers will present an encore presentation of the play “Fences” at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Starlight Dinner Theatre will perform “A (Greater) Tuna Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Waverly East Intermediate School, 3131 W. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Leon Gregorian, the director of orchestras in the College of Music, is directing Home for the Holidays, which will light up the stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. The annual music celebration will combine the talent of MSU’s Symphony Orchestra, the State Singers, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs and the MSU Children’s Choir.
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Some of MSU’s professors of jazz will perform in “A Jazzy Little Christmas” at 8 p.m. Dec. 18 at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Joni Starr, an assistant professor of theatre, said the latest work by the Department of Theatre is about camaraderie and showing who you are. The Freshman Showcase production of “Secret in the Wings” is set to debut at 8 p.m. Friday in the Auditorium Arena Theatre.
The Greater Lansing Ballet Company, or GLBC, will perform Nutcracker Ballet at 7 p.m. on Dec. 18 and at 2 p.m. on Dec. 19 in the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre.
The holiday spirit will be in full swing at 8 p.m. Saturday in the MSU Auditorium for the Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller.
MSU’s annual Home for the Holidays concert will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Spencer Nordwick, a comparative cultures and politics and international relations junior, spent the majority of his summer at Mleczarnia Café in Kraków, Poland, writing a historical fiction novel. Nordwick’s goal was to finish the first draft of his 50,000-word novel in a 75-day deadline he set for himself.
The student group Purpose Org. will sponsor its annual fashion show, “Carpe Diem,” which is set to hit the runway 7 p.m. Friday in the Union Ballroom.
“A Christmas Cabaret” will debut at 8 p.m. Friday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
The Department of Art and Art History is sponsoring a guest lecture by Jessica Jackson Hutchins at 7 p.m. today in 109 South Kedzie Hall.
MSU professor and Zimbabwe native Isaac Kalumbu, who is a professor of ethnomusicology, was nominated for best reggae album for the 2011 Grammy Awards earlier this month. He said his music career might change forever. The album, “Isaacs meets Isaac,” was released in March and features 12 songs in the lovers rock genre.
The 47th annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Show transformed the Union into a haven for holiday knickknacks. The show was organized by the University Activities Board, or UAB, and showcased about 200 exhibitors selling an array of Christmas and winter-themed items, including personalized holiday ornaments, home-decorating merchandise and jewelry.
Kim Wren, a music education sophomore, is the bass guitarist and a vocalist in local folk band Doug Mains and the City Folk. She said playing with vocalist and guitarist Doug Mains has allowed her to grow as a musician, and she enjoys being able to do something unique.
Bert Goldstein, the director of the MSU Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts and Creativity at Wharton Center, will debut his latest stage production, “Nickel and Dimed,” at 7 p.m. tonight at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Frank Ticheli, a College of Music artist in residence, will be here through Friday. The Wind Symphony will perform music composed by Ticheli at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Since Leila Chatti was a child, the English and Residential College in the Arts and Humanities junior has spent her summers in Tunisia, where her father is from, and even lived in the north African country for part of elementary school.