By Cole Hatcher
Ohio Wesleyan University today announced its October 2024 lineup of public events. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free.
7:30 p.m. Oct. 3-5 and 2 p.m. Oct. 5-6: “Helen,” adapted from “Euripides” by Ellen McLaughlin, in the Studio Theatre inside Chappelear Drama Center, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware. In this fresh take on Euripides’ tragicomedy, Helen never went to Troy but spent the war fought in her name in a hotel waiting for her husband to find her and take her home. But even his eventual arrival can’t save Helen from the legend that has grown far larger than the woman who inspired it. Directed by Brian Granger, assistant professor of Theatre, the play contains adult language and themes. Admission is free, but reservations are required by visiting owu.edu/PerformingArts beginning two weeks before the show debuts. For questions, call the box office at (740) 368-3855.
Oct. 4-5 – OWU Homecoming and Family Weekend: Ohio Wesleyan will host its 2024 Homecoming and Family Weekend on Oct. 4-5, and the community is invited to join in these public celebrations. Learn more about Homecoming and Family Weekend at owu.edu/homecoming and more about Battling Bishop athletics at battlingbishops.com.
- 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 4: Men’s Soccer Tailgate – Enjoy dinner before the big game. Food trucks will have items for purchase outside the Jay Martin Soccer Complex, 249 Park Ave., Delaware.
- 7 p.m. Oct. 4: OWU vs. Wittenberg men’s soccer game, at the Jay Martin Soccer Complex. Game tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and students. Admission is free for Ohio Wesleyan students with a valid university ID and for children under 12 for homecoming and all regular-season games.
- 11 a.m. Oct. 5: OWU vs. Allegheny field hockey game, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Admission is free.
- 11 a.m. Oct. 5: U.S. Entrepreneurship Competition – Find out who wins Ohio Wesleyan’s inaugural USEC, the most lucrative business plan competition in Ohio. Winners in student and professional categories will be announced during a special event at the West Plaza of the Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus. The winners, who competed live on campus Sept. 26, will share in a total prize package worth nearly a half-million dollars. The prizes include a cash investment and office space in the Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at OWU. Learn more about the U.S. Entrepreneurship Competition at owu.edu/USEC.
- 11:30 a.m.: Public art dedication – Sarah Hahn, Ohio Wesleyan’s 2023-2024 artist-in-residence, officially unveils her creation, “Where the Wind Carries You,” a multi-piece outdoor sculpture featuring three 10-foot-tall dandelion seeds made of bronze and stainless steel, a pair of 4-foot-tall fingertips holding the empty head of a dandelion flower, a rippling metal wall with a sustainability message, and a native plant pollinator garden. The dedication will be at the sculpture, located north of University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, and near the OWU Labyrinth. A 2008 Ohio Wesleyan graduate, Hahn’s residency was funded by The Ebb and Teena Haycock Public Art Endowment. Learn more about the endowment and the OWU Department of Fine Arts atowu.edu/FineArts.
- 12 p.m. to 12:15 p.m. Oct. 5: Parade of Bishops – Show your Ohio Wesleyan pride and join the walking parade from the JAYwalk fountain to Selby Stadium, led by the Battling Bishop football team, the Marching Bishops, the OWU cheerleaders, and the Battling Bishop himself. (Meet at the fountain in front of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware.)
- 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 5: Battling Bishop Tailgate – Enjoy lunch and get fired up before the Ohio Wesleyan Homecoming football game. The Marching Bishops, OWU cheerleaders, a balloon artist, and a face painter all will be on hand for the festivities. Food trucks will have items for purchase outside Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware.
- 2 p.m. Oct. 5: OWU vs. DePauw football game: The halftime celebration includes recognizing the 2024 “W” Association Hall of Fame inductees. Game tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and students. Admission is free for Ohio Wesleyan students with a valid university ID and for children under 12 for homecoming and all regular-season games.
8 p.m. Oct. 4, 11, 18, and 25: Friday night skywatches, at Perkins Observatory, 3199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23), Delaware. Content varies based on weather conditions, but may include a planetarium show, observatory tours, and stargazing with the 32-inch Schottland Telescope. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 on the day of the event and at the door. Reserve tickets by calling (740) 363-1257. Learn more at owu.edu/perkins.
Opening Oct. 15: Ohio Wesleyan’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum, 60 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, will feature three exhibits in its next showcase. During the academic year, the Ross is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is handicap-accessible and admission is always free. For more information, call (740) 368-3606 or visit owu.edu/ross.
- Oct. 15-Dec. 13: Faculty Exhibition: “In the Studio.” Ohio Wesleyan Fine Arts professors respond to an object selected from OWU’s Natural History Museum by art historian Camilla Querin. Professors Kristina Bogdanov, Frank Hobbs, and Jeff Nilan will create unique art based on their disciplines and research. For nearly 150 years, OWU’s Natural History Museum (formally the Brant Museum of Zoology) has housed teaching collections of mammals, birds and their eggs and nests, insects, mollusks, and corals, with smaller collections of other organisms. Learn more at owu.edu/NaturalHistoryMuseum.
- Oct. 15-Dec. 13: Tony Mendoza: “Pictures with Stories.” In this series, noted photographer and writer Tony Mendoza documents his family’s history from pre-Castro Cuba to the present, ranging from commune living in the late 1960s to a long career as a photography professor at The Ohio State University. Every photo has an accompanying story reflecting on the captured moment and its impact on the artist’s life. Learn more at www.tonymendozaphoto.com.
- Oct. 15-March 23, 2025: “Culture Push” Exhibition. A selection of works from the Ross Art Museum’s Permanent Teaching Collection, “Culture Push” is a response to Fritz Scholder’s “Hollywood Indian” on loan from Art Bridges. The exhibition supports the curriculum developed for OWU’s first-year student seminar, with the selected works intended to investigate the powerful cultural forces that shape people’s lives.
7:30 p.m. Oct. 15: Michael Tiedemann, CEO of AlTi Tiedemann Global, presents the 2024-2025 Robert L. Milligan Leaders in Business Lecture, in the Benes Rooms of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Tiedemann, a 1993 Ohio Wesleyan graduate, was a founding partner, CEO, and chairman of the Internal Investment Committee at Tiedemann Advisors, as well as CEO at Tiedemann Investment Group (TIG), before leading the merger that created AlTi. He is committed to serving others, and he established and is chairman of the board for RIVER FUND, a nonprofit organization that provides food, education, and support services to help families in New York City break the cycle of poverty. The annual Milligan Lecture is presented by The Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. Admission is free. Learn more at owu.edu/Woltemade.
4:30 p.m. Oct. 17: Philosopher, computationalist, and award-winning game designer Ian Bogost presents “Inside the Box with Ian Bogost: How to Live Playfully,” in the Benes Rooms inside Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Bogost, Ph.D., is a professor and director of Film & Media Studies and a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University’s McKelvey School of Engineering in St. Louis, Missouri. His presentation is Ohio Wesleyan’s 2024-2025 Katherine Kearney Carpenter Lecture sponsored by the OWU Department of English. Admission is free. Learn more at owu.edu/English.
6 p.m. Oct. 18: “Scenes!” featuring performances staged by the Theatre Directing Class on the Main Stage of Chappelear Drama Center, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware. This 30-minute event features new students as actors and may contain adult themes and language. “Scenes!” is presented by the OWU chapter of the Theta Alpha Phi National Theatre Honors Fraternity. Admission is free. For more information, visit owu.edu/PerformingArts.
4:15 p.m. Oct. 24: Megan Pinto, MFA, poet and 2014 Ohio Wesleyan graduate, reads from her poetry collection “Saints of Little Faith,” in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall, 75 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. The collection engages with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness. Pinto’s poems confront these realities while simultaneously envisioning life as holy and the divine as capable of gentleness. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has earned scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Storyknife, and the Peace Studio. She earned the 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review and was selected for the Poets & Writers 2024 Get the Word Out poetry cohort. Her reading, part of the Department of English’s Visiting Writers Series, will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book signing. Admission is free. Learn more about the department at owu.edu/English.
8 p.m. Oct. 24: Ohio Wesleyan Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Richard Edwards, professor of Music, in Gray Chapel inside University Hall, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Admission is free. Learn more at owu.edu/PerformingArts.
7 p.m. Oct. 28 – Nancy Khalil, Ph.D., assistant professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, presents Ohio Wesleyan’s 2024-2025 Merrick Lecture, in Benes Room B inside Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Khalil’s research focuses on the politics of American Islam. Founded by Frederick Merrick, the university’s second president, the Merrick Lecture is sponsored by the OWU Department of Philosophy & Religion. Learn more at owu.edu/philosophy.
All Ohio Wesleyan public event information is subject to change. For the latest updates, visit owu.edu/calendar. For more Battling Bishop athletics events, visit battlingbishops.com.
Ohio Wesleyan’s Homecoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 4-5, highlights the university’s October calendar of public events. (Photo by James DeCamp)
Source, Photo: OWU
