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The World Remembers
Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00 am - Saturday, November 11, 2017 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The World Remembers: 1914-1918

Every day from September 25-November 11, the names of 661,818 soldiers and nurses on all sides of the First World War killed in 1917 will be digitally displayed at more than 60 locations around the world. The commemoration is a unique expression of remembrance, reconciliation and education, and shows the enormous human cost of the war. The Mennonite Archives of Ontario Gallery (3rd floor, Conrad Grebel University College) will be one of these display locations. The Gallery is also the location of the exhibit “Sites of Nonresistance: Ontario Mennonites and the First World War.”

Friday, September 29, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Austrian Pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits

Pianist Anna Kokits
Anna Magdalena Kokits - Coast to Coast Tour

Award-winning Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits will play a selection of modern and classical pieces as part of her coast-to-coast tour during Canada 150.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

32 Variationen in c-moll, WoO 80 (1806)

Book launch.
Thursday, October 5, 2017 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Book Launch: Later Writings of the Swiss Anabaptists, 1529-1592

The Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies (IAMS) and Conrad Grebel University College invite you to celebrate the launch of Later Writings of the Swiss Anabaptists, 1529-1592, edited by former Grebel professor C. Arnold Snyder.

Friday, October 13, 2017 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Noon Hour Concert: The Three Tenors

No, not those three tenors, but our own instrumental version.  This concert will feature the musical legacy of Tenor Saxophonists: Jimmy Heath, Hank Mobley, and Stan Getz.

Presented by Michael Wood on the Vibraphone, Ernie Kalwa on Tenor Saxophone, and Bassist Greg Prior.Ernie Kalwa saxophone

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Noon Hour Concert: Songs for My Mother

Composed by Carol Ann Weaver, "Songs for My Mother - from Appalachia to Africa" is a song cycle based on writings from her mother Miriam L. Weaver's pioneering life in Appalachian Kentucky in the 1940s (primitive house, flat iron, Hard Shell Baptists who met outside on the hillside), her travels to Africa, and her return to Virginia with poignant words about her sudden impending death in the 90s.

Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Benjamin Eby Lecture with Reina Neufeldt

Reina NeufeldtGood intentions. Good ends. Failure. People usually assume peacebuilding is morally good because well-intentioned people are pursuing good ends.   Likewise, reconciliation. But, what happens when the moral values that drive peacebuilding become a problem?  

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Noon Hour Concert: Bach Suites & Chimera

Elinor Frey celebrates J. S. Bach’s Suites for unaccompanied cello with a performance of his dark and introspective Suite No. 5 in C Minor (BWV 1011), alongside the complex, nuanced nobility of Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major (BWV 1010). Between these two pillars of the cello repertoire, Ms. Frey performs a newly commissioned works “Chimera” (2017) by the innovative American composer Ken Ueno.

Elinor Frey & cello