By GARY DEMUTH Salina Journal Karl Beverly’s friends are getting used to him walking around with a puppet on his hand. Beverly, a Kansas Wesleyan University senior, is portraying the puppet character Nicky in “Avenue Q,” a musical that uses the format of the classic public television series “Sesame Street” to explore adult issues and [...]

Leslie Mangrum was recently honored with the West Central Region NATS Artist Award. Mangrum, a Kansas Wesleyan University Assistant Professor of Music, competed in Denver against three other artists from Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, each being their respective state winners. Mangrum competed against multiple entrants at the state level before advancing to regionals. The volume [...]

The art department at Kansas Wesleyan University announces the opening of a KWU Student Juried Exhibition. The show, featuring work from KWU students throughout the 2011-12 school year, will run from April 4-May 10. Any student who took an art class was invited to participate in the exhibition, which will be juried by artist and [...]

Kansas Wesleyan senior and music major, Aine Hakamatsuka has recently been accepted into the prestigious Manhattan School of Music Master’s Program in New York.  Many graduates of this preeminent program go on to perform on prominent stages throughout the world. Hakamatsuka is currently a Voice Performance Major and at MSM will be in a two-year [...]

The Kansas Wesleyan University’s young Debate and Forensics squad concluded their competitive year with two national tournaments.  Three members attended the Junior Varsity Nationals at Hutchinson Community College in the Lincoln Douglas Debate Division.  Kansas Wesleyan closed out the tournament with senior Zack Brown and freshman Jake Provo tying for first place while sophomore Sean [...]

The Kansas Wesleyan Choir Tour is in full swing! Last night, KWU students performed in Omaha, Nebraska and the next stop is North Platte. Saturday and Sunday will mark performances in Arvada, Colorado. Monday they will make a stop at the First United Methodist Church in Liberal, Kansas, and Tuesday’s performance is right here on [...]

Ken Hakoda, Music Department Chair, won Dancing with the Salina Stars last Friday night at the Salina Community Theatre with his partner, Peggy Simms. Congratulations on this fun award!

Last weekend, 11 orchestra students from Kansas Wesleyan University represented the University in the Kansas Intercollegiate Orchestra at KMEA Convention. This honors ensemble requires an audition or a recommendation by a school director and the KWU students chosen were string and wind musicians. After a two day rehearsal, the students performed at Century II Convention [...]

How many different ways could you visually depict “Primal Instincts”? Art students at Salina South and Salina Central high schools took up the challenge, and 55 of the results are on display at The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts at Kansas Wesleyan University through March 30. Ann Marie Morris, curator of education at [...]

This Pulitzer Prize winning play is a hilarious comedy about three eccentric sisters, a husband who’s been shot, and a lawyer with a vendetta; the recipe for a 30th birthday gone perfectly wrong. Family cruelty has never been more casually dealt with than in Beth Henley’s Southern Gothic screwball comedy. Ebullience abounds in the MaGrath [...]