Friends University will host the 2016 National History Day Kansas District 6 Competition Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. Approximately 200 high school and middle school students, together with their teachers and parents, will participate in the competition. In addition to Friends University professors’ and students’ assistance with the event, more than 30 professors, historians, specialists and teachers […]

The Friends University Ballet and Wichita Ballet Theatre will present their Spring Ballet March 4-5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. and March 6, 2016 at 2:00 p.m, in the Riney Fine Arts building in Sebits Auditorium at Friends University. Premiering the spring show is a new ballet by Friends University Alumni, Melonie Buchanan Murray who is […]

Society of Composers Inc. will be having their Region VI conference at Friends University February 11-13, 2016. Works by composers from the region and across the United States will be presented in 10 concerts. Concerts are open to the public and free of charge. Concert schedule can be found through the Facebook event found here. […]

Friends University Assistant Professor of Piano Dr. Jamie Knight will perform on February 9, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium. This recital is a celebration of the late piano works of Beethoven. The first work on the program is a collection of Bagatelles that happen to be the last pieces he wrote for piano. […]

The Friends University Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble will present a concert on Monday, February 8 at 7:30 PM in the Sebits Auditorium in the Riney Fine Arts Building on the Friends University campus. The Concert Band and the Percussion Ensemble have been selected by blind audition to perform at the Kansas Music Educators Association […]

Athletic Director and Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Carole Obermeyer has announced that Friends University will be adding women’s golf and competitive cheer to its roster of existing intercollegiate athletic teams. The University will also be adding a pep band starting in the fall. “We’re excited to offer these new teams and a pep […]

Friends University will induct three former Falcons into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame Jan. 30. The new inductees will be introduced to the community at the Garvey Physical Education Center between the women’s and men’s basketball games (estimated to occur sometime between 6:15 to 6:45 p.m.). The inductees include: Dan Kontz, a 2007 graduate […]

On February 4, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. at Friends University, 100 regional high school and junior college singers will join the Friends University Singing Quakers, Concert Choir and Jazz Vocal Ensemble in the 10th anniversary concert of the university’s annual vocal outreach festival. The “Sing it! Vocal Festival” features Friends University faculty and nationally known […]

Friends University will perform the Opera Dido and Aeneas on January 29-30, 2016 in Sebits Auditorium. Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas is an adaptation of Virgil’s Aeneid. This work, England’s first surviving opera was first performed at an all-girls boarding-school in 1689. Purcell, familiar with the musical and dramatic tools of his day chose […]