Events - 2014

Wine Tasting/Tour & Reception at Cooper's Hawk Vineyard

Join President Susan Schultz Huxman, Fred Martin and Grebel Alumni from Leamington and surrounding areas at Cooper's Hawk Vineyard in Harrow, Ontario. For $10/person, we will enjoy a formal wine tasting of 4 different wines and tour the production area. Please stay for some hors d'hoeuvres and let Fred fill you in on the exciting building advances. Susan will provide an update on life at Grebel and we will view the 50th anniversary video!

A public lecture and reception for 2013 Arts Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Ernie Regehr.

Part 1: Is it actually true that contemporary wars are rarely won? That we are "fighting to lose?" A survey of wars fought over the past 25 years, and how they end.

Music Studio students perform Winter term music in four end-of term concerts.

Featuring Alicia Batten - An exploration of why the pearl emerged as a significant theological symbol in Eastern Christian contexts (especially Syria and Egypt), but not in the West (i.e. Italy).

New date & time:  Featuring Jason White on piano, and Pam Patel - vocals.

Writing low German Mennonites into a history of Canada, Royden Loewen (Chair of Mennonite Studies and Professor of History, University of Winnipeg)

Writing the Amish into North American history, Steven Nolt (professor of History, Goshen College)

The Conrad Grebel Chapel Choir will lead the worship at East Zorro Mennonite Church in Tavistock.  Directed by Dr. Kenneth Hull.

In 2012 Northern Irish singer-songwriter Steafán Hanvey completed Nuclear Family – an album that meditates on the constructive and destructive forces inherent in most (normal) families and relationships.

Carmina Burana, the famous cantata composed by Carl Orff, will be performed by the University Choir.  This version will include two pianos, six percussion instruments, and the Inter-Mennonite Children's Choir.  Directed by Dr. Gerard Yun.

Rod and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar