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MAY

5/15, 16, 21, 22, & 23 at 7:30 p.m. and 5/24 at 2 p.m. MJC Theatre presents Wait Until Dark, Little Theatre ~ a thriller by Frederick Knott. The play is a mystery in which a blind Greenwich Village housewife becomes the target of three thugs searching for hidden heroin ~ $10 general Admission, $8 for student & seniors. Buy tickets now!

5/25 Memorial Day, Campus Closed

JUNE

6/7 Docs Play the Pops IV Concert, 3 p.m., MJC Recital Hall ~ Sponsored by Friends of Music, Surgical Artistry and Local Medical Professionals, $12 general, $10 students/seniors Box Office 575-6776 - Open Tuesday through Thursday from noon to 5 p.m.

6/16 - 6/18 Hip Hop Extravaganza, 7:30 p.m, El Capitan Center - MJC Cabaret Dance Studio - West Campus, $10 General, $8 Students/Seniors

JULY

7/6 Fourth of July Holiday - Campus Closed

7/17 A Summer Sonata, 6 p.m., at the Home of the Envoldsen's ~ Sponsored by the MJC Foundation, this elegant, garden dinner party features fine food and wines, silent and live auctions, and raises money for MJC's educational programs and student scholarships. Reservations are $150 and sponsorships are available. Phone 575-6068 or 575-6156 for more information

AUGUST

8/31 First Day of Fall Semester Classes

SEPTEMBER

9/7 Labor Day Holiday - Campus Closed

9/11 A Tribute to Patsy Cline starring Joni Morris & the After Midnight Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, East Campus. $14 general / $12 students & seniors.

9/24 - 9/27 Jam ‘n Jive Dance Concert, Sept. 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 27 at 2 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center,$10 general / $8 students & seniors. Jam n' Jive is a Jazz dance concert featuring the MJC Off~Balance Dancers and dancers from area high schools and dance studios from the community.

OCTOBER

10/13 Speech Night, with performances at 4 p.m. & 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 in advance and $7 the day of the event.
Speech Night is an enjoyable evening of platform speeches, interpretation of literature and debate performed by the award-winning MJC Speech and Debate team.

10/23 - 11/1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oct. 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 25 & Nov. 1 at 2 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general and $8 students and seniors. The classic play by Dale Wasserman, based on the best selling novel by Ken Kesey. The play takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The fine balance of the ward's existence is threatened when a new patient is thrown into the mix of the acutes and chronics.

NOVEMBER

11/4 Fall Sing Concert, 3:30 - 6 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general / $4 students & seniors. A choral festival which includes most of the high schools from Stanislaus County plus the choirs from MJC and CSU, Stanislaus

11/6 Fall Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general/$4 students & seniors. The concert will include MJC's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and the Opus Handbell Ensemble

11/11 Veteran's Day Holiday - Campus Closed

11/12 High School Orchestra Day, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. Orchestra clinics with MJC String Professor Anne Martin. The program includes performances by all the orchestras. The event ends with a fiddle tune performance by over 200 string players!

11/23 Jazz Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The evening's program, entitled "Just Jazz" will feature the MJC Day & Evening Jazz Ensembles

11/26 - 11/28 Thanksgiving Holiday - Campus Closed

DECEMBER

12/4 - 12/13 Private Eyes, Dec.4,5,11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec.6 & 13 at 2 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general and $8 students and seniors. Private Eyes, by the hot new playwright Steven Dietz, is a comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious "relationship thriller" about love, lust and the power of deception. Some adult language.

12/6 Fall Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general/$4 students & seniors.

12/7 Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. Contemporary Classics: A program highlighting the new literature for wind band as well as classics from the band repertoire.

12/8 MJC Community Orchestra Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $3 general / $1 students & seniors.

12/9 MJC Community Concert Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. American and European Band Masters: a concert featuring works for band by composers around Europe, the United States and the world

12/10 Holiday Choral Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general / $4 students & seniors. This Holiday of Festival Choirs features the MJC Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and an invited choir from one of our local high schools.

12/12 High School Orchestra Day, time TBA, Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free.

12/14 Wintertime Tales: An Evening of Storytelling, 6:30 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free.

12/17 Masterworks Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general / $4 students & seniors.

12/17 An Evening of Improvisation, 7:30 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 with sliding scale donations. (All proceeds of the evening will go to a local animal rescue.) The program features comedy sports from the MJC Improvisation class. Everything is off the cuff and unrehearsed-scenes, skits and games from audience suggestions.

12/24 - 1/3 Campus Closed for Winter Break

JANUARY 2010

1/11 Spring Semester Classes Begin

1/13 or 1/14 MJC Friends of Music presents the Westminster Choir in Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, tickets TBA

1/18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - Campus Closed

1/22 16TH Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, featuring keynote speaker Willie Brown! Doors open at 6 p.m. Free

1/28 Speech Night, with performances at 4 p.m. & at 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $7 general / $5 students & seniors. An enjoyable evening of platform speeches, interpretation of literature and debate performed by the award-winning MJC Speech and Debate team

1/29 County Honor Band, Choir & Orchestra, Time TBA, Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free

FEBRUARY

2/12 - 2/15 Presidents' Days Holidays - Campus Closed

2/25 Music Association of CCC Northern Honor Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, Free A concert featuring the MACCC honor band. The membership is made up of community college students from colleges all over Northern California nominated as being outstanding players by their directors. The concert will open with a performance by the MJC bands.

MARCH

3/19 - 3/28 Noises Off, March 19, 20 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and March 21 & 28 at 2 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students & seniors. This hilarious farce by Michael Frayn is set in a play within a play. Comedy ensues as the off-stage chaos affects the on-stage performances.

APRIL

4/5 Jazz Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free.
Studies in Blues: a program featuring the MJC Day & Evening Jazz Ensembles

4/7 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities, 6 p.m. Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The winners of this student competition will be announced for categories in writing, art, speech and the performing arts. The awards ceremony is free, open to the public and is followed by a reception. The Celebration of the Humanities Art Exhibition will be held April 7-16 in the MJC Art Gallery and admission is free.

4/12 MJC Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. A Journey Through Time: a program highlighting wind band classics as well as contemporary literature from the band repertoire.

4/13 MJC Community Orchestra Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $3 general / $1 students & seniors. Travel from the classical era to the 20th century with the MJC Community Orchestra. Works by Mozart, Mussorgsky, and more! Featuring soloists are MJC students Hali Pekron (Violin) & Veronica Rogers (Viola).

4/TBA An Evening with Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate of the United States, 7 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, tickets TBA

4/14 Community Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. Romantic Rendezvous: a program featuring favorite composers from the Romantic Era and many others.

4/16 33rd Annual New Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The concert features student composers and winners from the 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities contest. Local composers and faculty composers are also featured.

4/17 Shirley Woodward Festival of Young Pianists, 3 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The festival features students from local piano teachers from the Music Teachers Association of California Stanislaus County branch. Students have the opportunity to play pieces on the nine foot Steinway Concert Grand piano on stage.

4/18 12th Annual Native American Powwow, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Quad on East Campus, free. (Rain location is the Mary Stuart Rogers Student Center on West Campus.) The intertribal Powwow features Native American singing, dancing and drumming. Arts, crafts, jewelry and food will be for sale.

4/23 Choir Performance, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center,$5 general / $4 students & seniors. This concert features MJC's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and also includes soloists from our vocal music majors.

4/TBA Earth Day Celebration, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on the East Campus Quad, free. The MJC Civic Engagement's Project Green Committee has planned an Earth Day celebration to heighten environmental awareness and educate students, staff, and the greater community on green and sustainable practices. The event will be informative and interactive, including displays, information tables and demonstrations and is open to the public.

4/TBA Celebrate MJC Athletics Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting, 6:30 - 9 p.m., MJC Gymnasium, $35 (must be at least 21 yrs.old). Local wineries and restaurants will offer samplings and a silent auction will be available. Sponsored by the MJC Foundation, this fundraiser benefits the 21 sports teams in the MJC Athletics Program and tickets are available in advance and at the door.

4/29 Masterworks Chorus in Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general / $4 students & seniors. A Choral and Vocal Extravaganza!

4/30 Graduation Luncheon, 12 noon, Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning Center, West Campus, advance tickets $10

4/30 MJC Commencement Ceremony, 6 p.m., Stadium, East Campus, free

MAY

5/10 First Day of Summer Classes

5/14 - 5/23 New Play Fest 2010, May 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and May 16 & 23 at 2 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students and seniors. New Play Fest 2010 is a production of world premiers written by students in the MJC Drama Department's playwriting class. Produced by Michael Lynch with direction by theatre students, these short one-act plays showcase a variety of themes and genres. Plays contain some adult language and situations.

5/31 Memorial Day Holiday - Campus Closed

JUNE

6/17 - 6/19 Hip Hop Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students & seniors. Hip Hop Dance Extravaganza, dancers from MJC and the community join in an evening of Hip Hop Dance at its best!

Last Updated 5/21/09