Arts And Entertainment

CenterArts presents Cherish the Ladies on Sunday, October 16th, 2011 at 8 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, HSU.

AS Presents Portugal. The Man and special guests Alberta Cross on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, HSU.

AS Presents Chromeo, Mayer Hawthorne & The County and Sammy Bananas on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in the Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Park Way in Arcata, Calif.

AS Presents Gaudi, Mad Professor + Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, HSU.

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Humboldt State faculty and community members of the Redwood Jazz Alliance proudly announce their 2011-2012 season, which begins on Thursday, September 15 with the Donny McCaslin Group in HSU's Kate Buchanan Room.

Humboldt State debuted a new commercial on Sept. 8 during the nationally televised football game against Central Washington University.

With selections from Mozart to Sondheim and Ellington, members of the HSU Music Department faculty will perform a musical welcome to the new school year on Saturday, September 10 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

CenterArts presents Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8 p.m. in the Van Duzer Theatre, HSU.

AS Presents the 37th annual San Francisco Comedy Competition: Semi-Final Round On Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 8 p.m. in the Depot, HSU.

_Seeing Crow’s Shadow_, an exhibit of prints from Crow’s Shadow Press opens at Humboldt State’s Native American Arts Gallery with a public reception on Thursday, September 15 from 4:30–6:30 pm.

The HSU Natural History Museum invites community members to visit for an evening of art, music, and natural history exploration for Arts! Arcata on Friday, Sept. 9, from 6 to 9 p.m. The evening will celebrate the work of two local artists inspired by nature, the acoustic music of For Folk’s Sake, and the museum’s new hands-on Redwood Ecology exhibit.

Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors presents a visually arresting and powerful first-person history of one of the defining events of the 20th century through photographic portraits and personal stories of Holocaust survivors. Humboldt State University’s Reese Bullen Gallery presents Multiply by Six Million from September 2 to October 8, 2011 with an opening reception on Thursday, September 1 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

CenterArts presents the return of Mason Jennings on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 9 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, HSU.

AS Presents Katchafire & Elan Atias and White Elephant on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 9 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, HSU.

AS Presents The Slackers, Georgetown Orbits & Pressure Beat Soundsystem On Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 9 p.m. in the Depot, HSU.

AS Presents The Voodoo Glow Skulls, Killbot Factory & Pressure Beat Soundsystem on Sunday, September 23, 2011 at 9 p.m. in the Depot, HSU.

CenterArts presents Buddy Guy and special guests Moreland & Arbuckle on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 8 p.m. in the Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. Buddy Guy is a true blues legend with a list of accomplishments as profound as his signature guitar sound.

A faculty and staff exhibition showcasing the talent of the artists who teach and work in Humboldt State University’s Art Department will be featured at Humboldt State University First Street Gallery in Old Town, Eureka, California.

Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents, elastic: emerging alumni artists, on exhibit from July 2nd through August 7th, 2011.

Comprised of some of the best wind instrument players from North Coast communities, the North Coast Wind Ensemble directed by HSU professor Kenneth Ayoob emphasizes the music of popular dance in its Fulkerson Recital Hall concert on Saturday, June 11.

Fresh from playing Rhapsody in Blue with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and being named the University of Southern California Thorton School of Music’s outstanding graduate of 2011, North Coast favorite son Ryan MacEvoy McCullough returns to HSU for a solo piano concert on Friday, May 27.

HSU University Singers and the Humboldt Chorale perform choral classics from settings for Latin Masses to famous opera and musical choruses in their shared spring concert at Fulkerson Recital Hall on Sunday night, May 8.

HSU Symphonic Band, conducted by Kenneth Ayoob, shares its spring concert with the Eureka High School Symphonic Band, conducted by Gwen Gastineau-Ayoob. After separate sets, the two ensembles combine for the 80-instrument finale, in Fulkerson Recital Hall on Saturday, May 7.

Humboldt Symphony’s spring concert features two of Vivaldi’s “ The Four Seasons,” Mozart’s Overture to “The Magic Flute” and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony—“some of the most popular classical pieces for orchestra ever written,” said Humboldt Symphony conductor and HSU Music professor Paul Cummings.