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LUaroo 2025 Announcements

Visual Arts Director

The Band Booking Committee is looking for student artists to design promotional material for LUaroo! If you are interested, fill out this form.

Applications are due by Sunday, March 9 at 11:59 p.m.

Student Auditions

Complete this form to apply to perform at LUaroo 2025, May 24-25!

  • Submissions are due by Sunday, April 13 at 11:59 p.m.
  • Application results will be emailed by Wednesday, April 23 at the latest.
  • Artists must provide all their own instruments and backline.

Questions? Email busset@lawrence.edu.

Lawrence-Funded Internship Highlight: Broadway Cares

From now until the end of March, we will be highlighting various funds and summer internships available to students! Through the generous support of alumni and friends, Lawrence students are eligible to apply for funding to support summer internships or projects.

Broadway Cares

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, in partnership with Spencer Ross, has created a comprehensive paid fellowship program for college juniors or seniors, recent college graduates, early career professionals, or those in career transition interested in pursuing a career in nonprofit fundraising.

The successful candidate will express a distinct interest in learning about and/or pursuing a career in nonprofit fundraising. Fellows will have the opportunity to learn in a highly collaborative setting, assisting in all areas of the Broadway Cares’ development team. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS values a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusivity and belonging. Our goal is to attract qualified candidates and encourage applications from all individuals without regard to religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, respect and integrity for all.

Deadline for submission: March 10, 2025

learn more about the internship

Questions? Michelle Buchinger can help! Email her at michelle.m.buchinger@lawrence.edu.

Kids Give x ACU Fundraiser Dinner

Saturday, March 8 | 6-9 p.m.
Warch 325-Pusey Room

The African Caribbean Union is collaborating with Kids Give to celebrate their 15 anniversary, a milestone marking over a decade of dedicated educational support to children in Sierra Leone.

To celebrate, you’re invited to a special anniversary fundraiser dinner. Our goal is to raise $4,000 to continue providing vital resources and scholarships to help kids in Sierra Leone thrive.

RSVP to Makenzy Dreher by emailing makenzy.s.dreher@lawrence.edu. Dress is business casual.

Tickets will be sold in Warch Campus Center on Monday, March 3 from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Lunch and Listen: Global and Public Health

Tuesday, March 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Warch 126—Schumann Room

Calling all students interested in Global and Public Health and LU! We are starting a new program for global and public health and want to hear from you.

  • What would you like to see in a new program?
  • What classes would you like to take?
  • What experiences would you like to have as part of a new Global and Public Health program at Lawrence?

With questions, contact Dr. Ornella Hills at hillso@lawrence.edu. All students from all majors are welcome.

International Women’s Day

Friday, March 7 | 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
International House

Join us in celebrating International Women’s Day by making cards and paper flowers for the women in your life. Enjoy some cookies and chocolate as you learn about famous women around the world.

Feel free to come and go as your schedule allows!

Symphonic Band Concert

Saturday, March 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Directed by Matthew Arau

Featuring the Works of:

  • Grainger – “Gum-Suckers March”
  • LaBarr, arr. Wilson – “Grace Before Sleep
  • Mayhew ’17, arr. Trentadue – “Symphony No. 1 – The Eternal Present”*
  • Schumann – “Chester”
  • Hokoyama – “Beyond”

    *World Premiere

New Music Series: Wet Ink Ensemble

Presents Second Nature by Eric Wubbels

Sunday, March 9 | 7:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble

  • Erin Lesser: Flutes
  • Ian Antonio: Percussion
  • Eric Wubbels: Keyboards

Second Nature is a new concert-length music and video work from composer/performer and Wet Ink Ensemble Co-Director Eric Wubbels, an artist who “brings meticulous poise to his experimentalism,” and whose music, “with references to many traditions, sounds like nothing by any other composer” (The New York Times).

Written for and developed in long-term collaboration with Wet Ink Ensemble members Erin Lesser and Ian Antonio, Second Nature is an extended meditation on cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration, drawing on ancient, contemporary, and futurist perspectives, instruments, and technologies.

Taking as its genre-ancestor Morton Feldman’s late trios for flute, piano, and percussion, the piece then pivots in a radically different direction, finding meaning and complexity in the particularly loaded contemporary intersection of nature, culture, and technology.

Over the course of more than 70 minutes, Second Nature brings together musical scenarios of the most extreme variety and diversity into a stunningly original synthesis. Movements for traditional instrumental combinations (flute, vibraphone, piano) segue directly into music for computer-controlled cymbals and 3-D printed ultrasonic flute, and passages for analog synthesizer and inside-piano technique are accompanied by homemade (and in one case, home-grown) wind and percussion instruments made from plant, rock, and animal bone materials. Video interludes of the trio performing outdoors at specifically chosen geographical and seasonal locations extend the conceptual and symbolic reach of the piece beyond the concert hall and back into the natural world itself.