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This young driving force in Nordic world music draws inspiration from folk and traditional Scandinavian music and reshapes it with an endlessly innovated and contemporary approach. The Dreamers’ Circus trio musicians Nikolaj Busk (Denmark, piano and accordion), Ale Carr (Sweden cittern), and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (Demark, violin)—display inventiveness and talent in their approach to performances.

Based in music from Denmark and Sweden as well as Iceland, Finland, and the far reaches of the windswept Faroe Islands, they view these traditional roots merely as a point of departure from which to expand. In playing, they seek to unlock imaginations and allow the mind to wander to a place where stories unfold. The name of the band is no accident. The magical feel upon entering the circus tent, surrounded by vividly colored memories… Dreamers’ Circus strives to engage your senses and invoke a place of freedom, somewhere for our imagination to play in and a space for dreaming.

All Ovations events for the spring 2021 season are Pay-as-You-Can. Visit our ticket site to rent this video.

After a well-received and dynamic performance of Handel’s “Messiah” in 2018, the Lively Arts is delighted to invite the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra for a return visit to perform “We Sing America,” a patriotic salute highlighting the contribution of female composers.

Designed to complement a gallery of women artists, this program from the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra Principal String Quartet showcases the melodic and energetic works of women composers, including famed suffragette Ethel Smyth, award-winning American composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Jessie Montgomery, as well as the evocative music of George Walker. The program concludes with a youthful quartet of Beethoven.

All spring 2021 Ovations events are Pay-As-You-Can.

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Colleges of Education and Communications, Fine Arts, and Humanities and Social Sciences

You can find additional information on the Commencement website.

The IUP Office of Alumni and Friends and the IUP Alumni Association invite graduates, along with family and friends, to attend a champagne toast on IUP Commencement Day.

Non-alcoholic sparkling cider will be available. IUP graduates will receive an IUP Alumni champagne flute, while supplies last. Registration is required.

Guests will enter one door, will walk through to enjoy one glass of champagne or sparkling cider along with a photo opportunity before exiting another door. Please refer to signage posted outside of Breezedale Alumni Center for directions. Guests and servers will be separated by plexiglass barriers. Beverage refills will not be offered. 

An afternoon Celebration Toast will be offered from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Breezedale Alumni Center will be closed for cleaning from noon to 1:00 p.m.

The Celebration Toast is being planned according to current Centers for Disease Control guidelines with regard to gathering and capacity limits. However, new information about the status of the virus or new guidelines from state officials could cause plans to change. If that were to happen, the Office of Alumni and Friends would notify all registrants as soon as possible.

Eberly College of Business and Information Technology and Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

You can find additional information on the Commencement website.

The IUP Office of Alumni and Friends and the IUP Alumni Association invite graduates, along with family and friends, to attend a champagne toast on IUP Commencement Day.

Non-alcoholic sparkling cider will be available. IUP graduates will receive an IUP Alumni champagne flute, while supplies last. Registration is required.

Guests will enter one door, will walk through to enjoy one glass of champagne or sparkling cider along with a photo opportunity before exiting another door. Please refer to signage posted outside of Breezedale Alumni Center for directions. Guests and servers will be separated by plexiglass barriers. Beverage refills will not be offered.

A morning Celebration Toast will be offered from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Breezedale Alumni Center will be closed for cleaning from noon to 1:00 p.m.

The Celebration Toast is being planned according to current Centers for Disease Control guidelines with regard to gathering and capacity limits. However, new information about the status of the virus or new guidelines from state officials could cause plans to change. If that were to happen, the Office of Alumni and Friends would notify all registrants as soon as possible.

College of Health and Human Services

You can find additional information on the Commencement website.