Special Events:

Oct. 9 The SE library and the health and physical education department are sponsoring a “Thriller” dance workshop 2:30-4 p.m. in the gym (ESEB 1210). Hangman’s House of Horrors’ Sheryl Jordan will teach participants how to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Everyone is invited to attend a Thrill the World event Oct. 26 at Hangman’s House, where participants will join zombies from around the globe in dancing to the song. The event is free and open to TCC students. For more information, call library services assistant director Tracey Minzenmayer at 817-515-3388.

Music:

Oct. 5 The NE Campus percussion ensemble will perform at 2:30 p.m. on the Pavilion Stage at the Bedford Arts Festival. For more information, email warren.dewey@tccd.edu.

Oct. 7 The NE percussion ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the NE Theatre (NFAB 1205). For more information, email warren.dewey@tccd.edu.

Oct. 8 The SE music department will present a fall concert featuring the SE choir, jazz band and orchestra 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the C.A. Roberson Theatre. The free performance is open to the public. For more information, email gregory.dewhirst@tccd.edu.

Oct. 8 Texas Camerata will perform at 7:30 p.m. in College Hall (NCAB 1111) on NE Campus. The group performs pieces from the Baroque and classical periods on authentic Baroque instruments. The free concert is open to the public. For more information, email karen.parsons@tccd.edu.

Oct. 10 The NE Jazz Lab Band will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. in the NE Theatre (NFAB 1205). For more information, email philippe.baugh@tccd.edu.

Oct. 12-13 NE Campus’ Opera Workshop students will present various opera scenes in the NE Theatre (NFAB 1205). Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information, email stan.paschal@tccd.edu.

Oct. 14 Members of the Fort Worth Opera will present a free performance on NE Campus. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the NE Theatre (NFAB 1205). For more information, email stan.paschal@tccd.edu.

Oct. 15 The NE music department will welcome guest performers at 7:30 p.m. in College Hall (NCAB 1111). The trio features Joe Carpenter on percussion, Jeremy Hull on bass and Thomas Woods on piano. For more information, email karen.parsons@tccd.edu.

Oct. 17 The Sonata Club will host a musical performance at 10 a.m. in Center Corner (NSTU 1615) on NE Campus. The Razz-ma-Jazz Dixieland Trio featuring Jon Stutler will perform. For more information, email karen.parsons@tccd.edu.

Art:

Now-Oct. 3 Hans Molzberger’s Rubin’s Colors opens the fall season in the Carillon Gallery in South Campus’ Joe B. Rushing Center for Performing Arts. The exhibit includes a hundred butterflies made from colored glass by Molzberger and Rubin Samelson, a Buchenwald concentration camp survivor who became a glass artist after his liberation. The gallery is open Monday-Thursday by appointment only via email to joshua.goode@tccd.edu.

Now-Oct. 5 Local artists Ray Albarez and Eric Villarreal are displaying their paintings in Art Corridor II on SE Campus. The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Saturday during normal school operating hours.

Now-Oct. 11 In a Different Light is currently on display in College Hall (NCAB 1111) on NE Campus. The photography montage features the works of NE graphic services coordinator Evelyne Binz and NE graphics specialist Chrissy Green. An artists’ reception is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in College Hall. College Hall is open Monday-Friday during normal school hours.

Now-Oct. 15 The NE library presents Answers Come in Dreams located on the art wall on the second floor of the J. Ardis Bell Library. Photography student Aaron Hutchinson displays his pinhole images as part of the digital exhibition experience. For more information, call the library at 817-515-6627

Theater:

Now-Oct. 5 The SE drama program will present The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman in the C.A. Roberson Theater. The play is based on the true story of a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo., and eventually died. After the murder, the members of one theater traveled to Laramie, interviewed the townspeople and turned the interviews into The Laramie Project. The performance is 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with a matinee performance 1:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is free for TCC students, faculty and staff, $3 for seniors and other students and $6 for the general public. Reservations are not required but can be made through the box office at 817-515-3599.

Now-Oct. 5 The NE drama program will present An Evening with Harold Pinter at 7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday as well as a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. The show will consist of two short plays, The Dumb Waiter and The Lover, directed by student directors Brandon Wimmer and Roxana Astemborski. Both one-act plays contain elements of drama and comedy and have been staged as both. Admission is free for all TCC students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students and senior citizens and $6 for the general public. To reserve tickets, call the box office at 817-515-6687.

Oct. 3-5 Craving Gravy or Love in the Time of Cannibalism opens the South Campus drama season in the Joe B. Rushing Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. The play follows two wanderers, Gilroy and Delroy, through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Admission is free for all TCC students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students and senior citizens and $6 for the general public. Tickets go on sale at 7 p.m. the day of a performance, and no late seating is allowed.

Oct. 9-13 NW drama students will perform the dramatic comedy Crimes of the Heart, a critically acclaimed play by Beth Henley about two tenacious sisters with blood on their hands. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Theatre Northwest (WTLO 1108). Ticket prices are $6 for general admission, $3 for non-TCC students and senior citizens and free for all TCC students, faculty and staff. For reservations, call the NW box office at 817-515-7724.