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Bluegrass Concert
Sunday, September 17, 2017 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Jim Reimer Memorial Bluegrass Concert with Rescue Junction

Join us on Sunday, September 17 at 2:30 PM at Grebel for the Jim Reimer Memorial Bluegrass Concert featuring Rescue Junction and special guests 5 on the Floor.

5 on the Floor members Bob Janzen, Lyle Friesen, and Ron Harder are reuniting and joined by Tim Bergen (Fiddle) for this special event in memory of former band-mate Jim Reimer.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Noon Hour Concert: A Journey to Romantic Vienna

Sarah Marie Kramer, sopranoPresenting Lieder written by composers who lived and worked throughout the Romantic period of the Imperial city of Vienna. Sarah Marie Kramer, soprano and pianist Carl Philippe Gionet present works for the dramatic soprano. Composers such as Brahms, R. Strauss, Wagner, and Dvorak will be featured. 

Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Launch reception for Painting a Picture of Dignity exhibit

Celebrate the International Day of Peace in a unique and refreshing way this year! 

Join us on September 21st - the International Day of Peace and World Alzheimer’s Day - to celebrate the launch of Painting a Picture of Dignity, the Grebel Gallery's Fall 2017 exhibit.

Exhibit description:

Painting a Picture of Dignity showcases artwork by Canadian individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer's. Participating artists explore the theme of dignity through paint on canvas.

Background:

Changing the Historical Narrative
Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Changing the Historical Narrative: A sign ceremony

Conrad Grebel University College invites you to join us for a gathering to plant a new sign our Mennonite commemorative garden. In 2005 the College created a garden beneath a black walnut tree that marked the 200th anniversary of a land purchase along the Grand River by Mennonite settlers from Pennsylvania. As we continue to educate ourselves about injustice towards Indigenous peoples and recognize their history on this land where Conrad Grebel now sits, we acknowledge the need to change the historical narratives of Mennonite settlement in the region.

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?