First Year’s Speak Up Showcase: “Find Your Voice, Share Your Passion”

Presented by the First Year of Studies. The 18 student participants will each speak for three minutes on a subject that they are passionate about in front of a panel of judges and a live audience. Prizes will be awarded for the best presentations as voted by the judges and the audience. Free, but ticketed.

Tuesday, April 15; 7 p.m. in the Philbin Studio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Film: "Young Frankenstein" (1974)

Director: Mel Brooks. Starring: Gene Wilder.

Wednesday, April 16; 7 to 9 p.m. in the Carey Auditorium (ground floor), Hesburgh Library

MFA Student Reading

Four students from the MFA Program in Creative Writing including work of two fiction writers and two poets: Jessica Newman, Dev Varma, Paul Cunningham, and Rachel Zavecz.

Wednesday, April 16; 7:30 p.m. at the Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art, 1045 W. Washington Street, downtown South Bend

Hitchcock! Film: “Psycho” (1960)

Cast: With Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. Rated R, 109 minutes. $7 - $4; free admission for ND students. The film that spawned the modern horror genre with a stop at the Bates Motel run by the skittish Norman and his domineering mother.

Wednesday, April 16; 8 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Artists' Talks

Join MFA candidates Heather Parrish and Jake Ollinger in the galleries as they discuss their work on view in the 2014 Thesis Exhibition by BFA and MFA Candidates.

Thursday, April 17; noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Snite Museum of Art



Film: “Before the Devil Knows You're Dead” (2007)

(Classics at the Browning) With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney. Rated R, 112 minutes. $7-$4. Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all: itself.

Thursday, April 17; 7 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center