Tuesday, October 25, 2005

By Larry Pakowski, CLES fellow

Halloween Carnival for Kids Oct. 27

The Center for Leadership Education and Service (CLES) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington will host its annual Halloween carnival for kids on Thursday, Oct. 27.

This annual event brings children from various community organizations to campus who may not be able to go out into their communities to trick-or-treat.

Considered one of the flagship programs of CLES, student leaders and organizations partner together for trick-or-treating in residence halls, a carnival with games and prizes, an outdoor haunted forest, and much more.

Donations and other support are greatly appreciated.

Media are invited to attend. For more information contact Jen Toop, CLES fellow, at jt8426@uncw.edu or 910/228-6744.

Tricks and Treats Abound at Upcoming Halloween Family Pops Concert

UNCW’s Department of Music presents a Halloween Family Pops Concert, an evening of music and magic at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 in Kenan Auditorium. Christofer Ackerman conducts the UNCW Wind Symphony, in costume, in a line up of Halloween favorites certain to delight audiences of all ages. As a special treat, magician Michael Rosander joins the wind symphony to perform some of his most captivating tricks.

The 50-minute program will include Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach, “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, selections from The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Symphonic Suite from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by John Williams, and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Paul Dukas.

Audience members are encouraged to attend the concert in costume and children (age 5-13) will have the opportunity to win a full scholarship to Wilmington’s own Magic Camp, a weeklong summer camp that teaches children how to create their own magic.

This event is free to the public and is sponsored by the UNCW Department of Music.

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For more information, please contact the UNCW Kenan Auditorium Box Office at (910) 962-3500 or the UNCW Department of Music at (910) 962-7416.

The wind symphony is UNCW’s premiere symphonic band and its members consist of music majors in the Department of Music and students universitywide, while also involving outstanding high school musicians, local music teachers (both retired and active), people in the music business and music industry, and other community members. The wind symphony is a place where the university connects with the community striving to create the highest level of musical communication possible through the performance of the wind band repertoire.

Christofer Ackerman received his B.A. in music education, cum laude, at The University of Arizona, Tucson and his Master of Music in Performance at Northwestern University. Ackerman performs as the principal trumpet with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. He has maintained a richly diverse musical life that has included solo performances, lead parts in off-Broadway shows, extensive touring through Norway and Germany, CD recordings, studio work, and numerous other venues throughout the United States, Central America and Europe.

Michael Rosander is a magician working professionally throughout North Carolina, Florida and California. His craft of creatively combining magic, theatre and story telling has enabled Rosander to open for Harry Potter books for the Border’s Bookstore Company, headline at Amusement Park Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train and open for crowds of over 2,000 people, including college Entertainer of the Year, Tom Deluca, Stage Hypnotist. While attending UNCW for his B.A. in theatre, Rosander was recognized for his work academically and in the community and received the Man of the Year Award. He resides in California, performing and pursuing his M.F.A. in acting. Rosander spends his summers in Wilmington where he owns and operates Magic Camp, a summer camp devoted to encouraging children to express their individuality through magic.