Finnish American composer Ilari Kaila and Prof. Patrick Yim perform and discuss Kaila's Solitude for solo violin and other works. Notre Dame Professor David Bird will moderate a discussion with Yim and Kaila. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Get ready for a micro-festival full of free concerts, dancing, free food trucks and giveaways, and special celebratory moments. Featuring performances by Jerry O'Fonics, DJ Chuck Fry, and Brollision, this night commemorates you in thanks for all the support South Bend has shown DPAC since the center opened in 2004. It's our 20th birthday party, but you're the special guests! Bring your boogie shoes and enjoy fun activities until twilight on DPAC's Terrace and walkways at this all-ages event. RSVP  

Alexandra Razskazoff, the 2022 Met Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals winner, and Dror Baitel, Notre Dame Opera music director, join forces in a vibrant program spanning Baroque to the 20th century, including works by Handel, Strauss, and Britten. This concert is free and open to the public.  To watch a livestream. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Lotus Quartet is the 2024 Fischoff Competition Senior Wind Division Gold Medal winner. Formed in 2022 at Arizona State University, Giancarlo Lay, soprano saxophone; Johnathan Lee, alto saxophone; Keegan Ewan, tenor saxophone; and Jerick Meagher, baritone saxophone, perform various styles, including classical, jazz, and pop. "We want to show our versatility as musicians and what a saxophone quartet is capable of in areas that are not classical music," Meagher has said. Lotus makes its Presenting Series debut as part of Fischoff's Double Gold Tour. GET TICKETS  

"Pieces of Me" is an autobiographical play that exposes the devastating emotional cost of living secretly as a mixed-race family under the vicious racist apartheid regime and the legacy it bore. Bo Petersen's father, Benjamin “Benny” Johannes Petersen, made a fateful decision in 1944 that would change his life forever. After meeting and falling in love with Bo's mother, who was white, he decided to pass as white. Until then, he had been classified by the South African Government as "Colored." A Colored person was a person of mixed European ("white") and African ("black") or Asian ancestry, as officially defined by the South African government from 1950 to 1991. Petersen’s parents had five children and were happily married for 62 years. They lived as a white family. Benny never told his wife or any of his children about his true identity. It was a secret that, if uncovered, would have had dire consequences for all of them. Benny could have faced 10 years' imprisonment, his marriage would have been annulled and his children taken away, reclassified and made wards of the State. "Pieces of Me" explores how Bo's father's torturous decision to pass as white has shaped her life. The play captures universal themes of exclusion, threat, and silences experienced by marginalized people throughout the world. "Pieces of Me" is Bo's renegotiation. Speakers:Welcome: Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Professor of the Practice, Director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM)Actor: Bo Petersen, South African actor, writer, directorQ&A: moderated by Laurie Nathan, Professor of the Practice of Mediation, Mediation Program DirectorOriginally published at kroc.nd.edu.

The Wolves drops you outdoors into the midst of a suburban high school girls' soccer team daily practice for six games. Amid warmup and training suffused by the raw energy accompanying youth on the brink of adulthood, the undefeated Wolves psych each other up or out, tackling whatever sport and life throw their way through rapid-fire, unfiltered conversations about the world and who they are within it. Then, what happens when you discover life is not a drill? GET TICKETS Performance Schedule October 2–6, 2024Wednesday–Friday at 7:30 PMSaturday at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PMSunday at 2:30 PM Philbin Studio TheatreDeBartolo Performing Arts Center Tickets Tickets for The Wolves are now on sale and may be purchased by phone at 574-631-2800, in person at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center ticket office (M-F 12:00 - 6:00 PM), or online at performingarts.nd.edu. BUY TICKETS Parking Free parking is available daily after 5:00 pm in the Stayer Center parking lot, just north of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Patrons may now receive free event parking at the Eddy Street Commons Parking Garage by bringing your event tickets and parking ticket to the DPAC Ticket Office to receive a pre-paid parking voucher. An accessible lot for disabled patrons is available immediately adjacent to the center; a valid hangtag or license plate is required. There is a ten-minute parking zone on the north drive of the center for ticket pick-up; during inclement weather you are welcome to drop off guests in this area and proceed to parking.Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, produced in collaboration with the DeBartolo Performing Art Center's Presenting Series.The Wolves is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.concordtheatricals.com