Since
1983, the Williams Center for the Arts has hosted the finest performers in
classical and world music, jazz, dance, theater, and more.
Our 25th Anniversary 2008–2009 season features 20+ performances in a wide range
of genres. Artists frequently offer pre-concert discussions, master
classes, and workshops. |
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Williams Center Gallery offers seven exhibitions during the academic
year, often in collaboration and consultation with the Performance
Series, Department of Art, and other campus offices. It also presents
workshops, a Brown Bag lecture series, and other special events,
and serves as both a resource for art students and a destination
for the campus and surrounding community. |
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College Theater features two
mainstage productions and two black box productions directed
by theater faculty and guest artists.
November's 16th annual Fringe showcases "anything goes"
works by students, faculty,
staff, alumni, and guests. |
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The Department of Music presents mainstage concerts by its four major ensembles, along with faculty and student recitals throughout the year. |
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Check here for ticket availability and pricing for all the season's events.
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| The Arts Society presents a variety of programs and events, open to
all students, to complement programming at the Williams Center and to
advance the presence of the fine and performing arts on campus. |
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here for information about workshops and lectures, sold-out performances,
the Williams Center in the news, and more.
Our 2008–2009 brochure is available now! E-mail us if you haven't received one. |
"It
is not the newest or largest performing arts venue in the Lehigh
Valley, but the Morris R. Williams Center at Lafayette College
in Easton is quite possibly the best." The
Morning Call |
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Friends of the Williams Center, founded
in 1999, is a group of some 300 performing arts enthusiasts from the
Lehigh Valley and beyond who provide essential funding support and enjoy private concerts and other events.
An advisory council of 18 has representatives
from the community, alumni, and Lafayette faculty and staff. |
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Gifts
to Lafayette's Annual
Fund are important to the College's continued success and prominence
in many areas.
You may designate your contribution to benefit the Performance Series
via the Friends of the Williams Center;
theater  production and education via the College
Theater Angels; or student-led arts
activities and programs via the Lafayette
College Arts Society. Click here to make a secure online gift.
Thank you for supporting the arts at Lafayette College! |
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Williams Center is at the edge of the Lehigh Valley, and at the
cutting edge of contemporary arts. For 20 seasons director Ellis
Finger and gallery director Michiko Okaya have presented operatic
hip-hop dancers and performance-art photographers, countertenors
and hair sculptors, slam poets and a cellist who played, and destroyed,
a block of ice. Blending scholarship with entertainment, they’ve
made the center a school, a satellite, a multimedia mecca."
(The Morning Call, April 2004) |
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The Williams Center for the Arts is a member of the Lehigh
Valley Arts Council.
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