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Music meets faith at the Aug. 25-26 Sing Me High Festival

August 4, 2017Last updated August 28, 2017 by Shelby Mertens/Daily News-Record

A celebration of music and the Brethren-Mennonite faith tradition are the hallmark of the Sing Me High Music Festival, which enters its second year Aug. 25-26. Taking place at Valley

Alpacas, Los k’ana Wawakuna and hilltop singing: Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir visits Peru

July 20, 2017Last updated July 25, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Nice alpaca? Ernesto. Mean, spitting alpaca? Pancho. Ice cream? “Best ever.” Hamburger? “Peculiar-tasting.” Dogs? 1,186. Cats? “About 4.” Humor, food notes, marvel and occasional touches of homesickness thread the reflections

TenTalks, featuring accomplished alumni, returns to amaze and inspire at Homecoming and Family Weekend

July 17, 2017Last updated July 17, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The second annual EMUTenTalks during Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend this fall will showcase restorative justice practitioner and slam poet Jodie Geddes MA ‘16, entrepreneur Anxo Pérez ‘97

Illustrator’s first book features friendship between young refugees and their adaptation to a new life

June 27, 2017Last updated June 28, 2017 by Kristin Troyer

Aila and Maryam, two young Iraqi girls, are best friends but separated when Aila’s father decides to take his family to America. This situation, all too real today, is the

The Steel Wheels — with deep EMU roots — to headline Centennial festivities

June 14, 2017Last updated October 17, 2017 by David Doremus

The Steel Wheels, the nationally recognized Shenandoah Valley-based roots music band consisting of Eastern Mennonite University alumni Trent Wagler ’02, Eric Brubaker ’01, and Brian Dickel ’98, as well as bandmate

Crossroads Spring/Summer 2017 issue honors EMU’s 100 years of countercultural education

June 12, 2017Last updated June 13, 2017 by admin

The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Crossroads is the first of two issues celebrating our Centennial year, 2017-18. Eastern Mennonite University was founded 100 years ago, opening for the first classes in

NPR: Bach Festival celebrates 25 years

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Recent CJP grad produces documentary humanizing Syrian refugees, returns to campus as teaching fellow

May 26, 2017Last updated May 26, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

By the time Myriam Aziz arrived from Lebanon to start her master’s degree at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) in the fall of 2015, the U.S.

Singing to Ken J. Nafziger: faculty and former students gather for a retirement send-off

May 24, 2017Last updated May 30, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

“We can’t have a reception honoring Ken without music,” said Professor Joan Griffing at a May event marking the retirement of her music department colleague Ken J. Nafziger. Nafziger stepped

Mirkovic documentary reaps accolades, premieres in Europe

May 22, 2017Last updated June 20, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Zeljko Mirkovic’s “The Promise” continues to reap awards, as it premieres in Belgrade and France this summer. This time, the accolade was an Award of Excellence from IndieFest in California.

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