There is reason to be extra afraid this Halloween season as Martians invade the Earth when Western Carolina University presents a historically accurate re-creation of the radio drama “The War of the Worlds” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Western’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 2, for a bluegrass concert featuring Western North Carolina’s own Balsam Range on stage at Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to engage movie directors about their work as part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers and their films, running from September through April at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center will host the first stop on a 20-city national tour featuring country musician Jason Aldean and sponsored by the music network CMT.
Thomas M. Salzman, past chair of the performing arts department at the College of Santa Fe, recently joined Western Carolina University as head of the stage and screen department.
The Southeast Section of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology selected a WCU faculty member and student to represent the region at the national conference to be held in Houston this spring.
