Visit Pierce College for a concert or two, or walk through a life-size “Stargate” as the school year comes to a musical, fun-filled end.
Here’s a list of events happening in the next few days at Pierce College.
All concerts are in the Pierce College Puyallup Arts and Allied Health Theater, 1601 39th Ave. SE, Puyallup, WA 98374. The Science Dome is on the Pierce College Fort Steilacoom campus.
For more information on these events, go to www.pierce.ctc.edu
Friday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.
Pierce College Puyallup Concert Choir and Chamber choirs: A Northwest Collage
In this collage-style format, choir members will be stationed at a variety of places within the theater, and the spotlight will move from location to location as segments of the choirs perform. The entire concert will focus on the work of Northwest composers. Ken Owen directs the choir.
Free admission; donations to music scholarship fund accepted.
Saturday, June 8, noon
Pierce College Science Dome: Science Fact or Science Fiction?
An afternoon of interactive science exhibits and talks on whether the amazing things billed in movies as science are actually rooted in fact. Visitors can dig up imitation dinosaur bones and walk through a life-size, lighted “Stargate” modeled after the space-travel portal of the similarly named movie and TV show.
Science fiction movies will show inside the planetarium.
Exhibits and talks: Noon to 5:30 p.m. Movies: 10:30 a.m. to 5:55 p.m.
Admission: Free for exhibits and talks; $5 cash for each movie at the door.
Pierce College Science Dome, Pierce College Fort Steilacoom, Rainier Building, Room 263, 9401 Farwest Dr. SW, Lakewood, WA 98498
Saturday, June 8, 6:30 p.m.
Pierce College Fort Steilacoom Concert and Chamber choirs: Size Matters: All Things Great and Small
The evening explores the paradox of scale in music and art, starting at 6:30 p.m. with a juried art exhibit of student work. The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., takes listeners from Alice in Wonderland’s small, childlike “Lobster Quadrille” to grand, full-bodied numbers about the universe and birth of a star.
As the choirs and accompanist Amy Boers perform, art students and muralist Liza Brown will produce a 6-foot-tall mural inspired by the program’s outer space-themed songs. Evin Lambert directs the choir.
Admission: $5; Pierce College students free with ID.
Monday, June 10, 7:30 p.m.
Pierce College Orchestra: Spring Concert.
Under direction of Mark Jasinski, the orchestra performs a varied set featuring Prokofiev, Handel, Mahler and Newbold.
Free admission.
Tuesday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.
Pierce College Concert Band: Spring Concert
Under direction of Jere Knudtsen, the band performs works from a variety of composers, including: Mozart, Souza, John Williams, Doss, Hirose, Hart, and Ticheli.
Free admission.