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Experience the timeless beauty of Copland's iconic masterpiece, Appalachian Spring, as it vividly portrays the American landscape. Kojiro Uzmezaki joins the South Bend Symphony as he uses the shakuhachi to transform the landscape imagined in Angel Lam's "Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain," and Takuma Itoh's "Faded Aura."   GET TICKETS  

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Join UZIMA! Drum and Dance Company for an inspiring evening as we journey down the road less traveled, following in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mary Church Terrell, and other visionaries who have paved the way for peace and progress. Experience the power of expression through the art of music and dance that transformed the course of humanity. Together, we'll explore the desire for change that compels us forward, forever, as suffragist and activist Terrell wrote, "lifting as we climb." GET TICKETS  

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"Powering the Future: Reimagining the Grid for Tomorrow" is presented by Sunny Elebua, senior vice president, chief strategy and sustainability officer and Jeanne Jones, executive vice president, chief financial officer, both of Exelon Corporation in Chicago. Exelon is a Fortune 200 company and the nation’s largest energy delivery company, serving more than 10.5 million customers through six fully regulated transmission and distribution utilities. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.

Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera's defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer's spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, is Aida's Egyptian rival Amneris, and tenor Piotr Beczala is the soldier Radamès — completing opera's greatest love triangle. The all-star cast also features baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. GET TICKETS  

Gospel giants continue bringing epic concerts to fill the Leighton Concert Hall with praise. Grammy Award and Dove Award winner Fred Hammond — uplifted by a hand-selected choir of community singers — makes his Presenting Series debut. His concert concludes the center's contributions to Notre Dame's Walk the Walk Week. Hammond's smooth voice, distinctive flair for funk, and inspirational messages are why his career has flourished for nearly four decades. GET TICKETS  

Each year, one selected artist for the DeBartolo Center's organ recital series is a Program in Sacred Music alumnus or alumna. This season, we welcome Emma Whitten. She is an accomplished organist specializing in early Baroque and contemporary repertoire. An alumna of the University's Program in Sacred Music, she performs the program, A Spotless Rose: Marian Works for Organ, music celebrating the Blessed Virgin Mary from the early Baroque to the present. Highlights include Dietrich Buxtehude's Magnificat for organ and a stunning fantasia on the Salve Regina by Dutch composer Margaretha Christina de Jong. GET TICKETS  

Register here Anna Moreland is the chair and director of the Villanova University Honors Program and Thomas W. Smith is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at The Catholic University of America. Moreland and Smith will discuss their recent book, The Young Adult Playbook: Living Like It Matters and their work in education for flourishing among undergraduates. We hope you will join the Institute for Social Concerns each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops, an annual conference, and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose through our publications.

On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to more than 50 years of war. The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies has the primary responsibility for technical verification and monitoring of implementation of the accord through the Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative. In this talk, Angela J. Lederach (Ph.D. ’20), assistant professor of peace and justice studies at Chapman University, will draw on a decade of research with grassroots social leaders in Colombia, weaving together campesino theories of time, social relations, and place to develop an ethnographic theory of “slow peace.” Slowing down does not negate the fierce urgency of social leaders’ commitment to disrupt and transform the compounding forces of political and environmental violence that persist in postaccord Colombia. Instead, slow peace offers a relational framework for peacebuilding as a multigenerational, multispecies, and permanent struggle to cultivate a more just and livable world. Lederach will be joined in conversation by Josefina Echavarría Álvarez, professor of the practice and director of the Peace Accords Matrix, and a student and faculty respondent (TBA). Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Collaborative Intelligence: Leading the Forefront of Enterprise Innovation is presented by Matt Alverson, partner at the global design and innovation consultancy, IA Collaborative. For nearly 25 years, he has helped executives gain deeper insights into their future consumers, prototype new digital business models, and scale transformative offerings. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.

A national treasure, the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is a generational institution in music and the related arts. And the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center's 20th anniversary season would only be complete with a return engagement by the baddest big band in the land and the very first Presenting Series artist! Kicking off the programming on September 19, 2004, returning in 2008, and again for the 10th anniversary season in 2014, you know we're all in this for a swingin' time. GET TICKETS  

Two-time Grammy nominee for Best Classical Vocal Solo Album, soprano Laura Strickling and Notre Dame's own critically acclaimed pianist Daniel Schlosberg embark on a journey through American art song, featuring works by masters of 20th- and 21st-century vocal repertoire. Through their landmark 40@40 song commissioning project, they endeavor to add to the modern song canon, bringing world premiere performances. GET TICKETS  

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." GET TICKETS  

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." GET TICKETS  

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." GET TICKETS  

Rev. Msgr. Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo is the undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He will join the Keough School of Global Affairs during the Nanovic Institute for European Studies' Keeley Vatican Lecture, the latest in this series that seeks to connect the University of Notre Dame with the Vatican. His message, titled "The Reform of the Roman Curia and the Promotion of Integral Human Development," will focus on integral human development, a critical component of Catholic Social Teaching that emphasizes supporting the growth of each person as a holistic human being. This powerful calling inspires the mission of the Keough School of Global Affairs. We invite all students, faculty, staff, and the general public to attend this timely event. Notre Dame President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., will introduce Rev. Msgr. Ekpo.About the Keeley Vatican Lecture series The Keeley Vatican Lecture, facilitated annually by the Nanovic Institute, provides a way to deepen Notre Dame’s connection to the Holy See by bringing distinguished representatives from the Vatican to explore questions surrounding the University’s Catholic mission. Established in 2005 through the generous support of alumnus Terrence R. Keeley ’81, lecturers typically spend several days on campus, joining classes, celebrating Mass with students, and conversing with faculty members. Past Keeley Vatican Lectures have included Sister Raffaella Petrini (secretary-general of the Vatican City State), Rev. Fr. Hans Zollner, Dr. Barbara Jatta, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and Ukrainian Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Get ready to groove again to more of that unforgettable Motown music! Bigger and better each time, your ticket guarantees a concert packed with the biggest hits sung by talented vocalists and backed by a smokin’ band known for bringing the Motor City sound to life. A Gammage Solutions and Bishop’s House Music have this tribute to the timeless Motown era down. Dance all night long to a catalog that includes legends like Stevie, Teena Marie, Smokey, The Isley Brothers, those Tempting Temptations, and hits written by Ashford and Simpson that you know every word by heart. Don’t wait for another sell-out. This show is a must-see for all fans of the pioneers who led a musical and cultural revolution that continues today. GET TICKETS  

Register here Nathan Hatch served as the president of Wake Forest University for 16 years and previously served as provost at the University of Notre Dame. He recently published The Gift of Transformative Leaders(link is external). We will discuss this book and his lifelong commitment to making character central in higher education. We hope you will join the Institute for Social Concerns each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops, an annual conference, and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose through our publications.