The Canisius College Chorale, under the direction of Frank Scinta, will present a concert in collaboration with the esteemed Camerata di Sant’ Antonio Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of St. Louis Church on Sunday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. in St. Louis Church, located at Main and Edward Streets in downtown Buffalo.

The program will feature works by Faure, Verdi and others. Admission is $18.00 and all proceeds will benefit the Camerata Orchestra fund.

Now in its 20th season, the Canisius College Chorale remains one of Western New York’s most active collegiate music ensembles. Composed of 100 undergraduate and graduate members, the chorale regularly presents concert programs to school, church, and community audiences throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario. In recent years, the chorale has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ars Nova Chamber Musicians, Amherst Symphony Orchestra, Camerata di Sant’Antonio, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Please join us for this wonderful collaborative music experience in one of our region’s most historic sanctuaries.

For more information, contact the Canisius College Music Office at Ext. 2536.

Submitted by: Frank Scinta, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Jennifer Kaiser, founder of The Restoration Hem Project, will speak Wednesday, March 8 at 6:00 p.m. in Grupp Fireside Lounge.

Jennifer Kaiser is a graduate of the University of Southern Florida, Tampa. After moving to Atlanta, she became involved in community volunteering and service-based projects with her church. Those projects she says, “…ignited in me a desire to better understand the injustices and struggles that people face outside my suburban reality.”

While in Zimbabwe, Kaiser was particularly struck by the lack of the simplest resources, including underwear and feminine hygiene supplies. She learned that a girl will miss an average of 60 days of school per year due to lack of feminine hygiene products. This leaves girls vulnerable to an elevated school dropout rate, early marriage, sexual exploitation and infection and disease.

The Restoration Hem Project is built on the belief that every girl deserves uninhibited access to life’s opportunities. The project does this by working to bring girls local access to sustainable feminine hygiene solutions and empower them to boldly pursue their dreams and education. Kaiser now spends time between the U.S., where she works at the Georgia Aquarium and Zimbabwe where she and a group of local girls began sewing reusable sanitary pad kits and preparing feminine hygiene seminars for rural schools.

Please join us to learn how the Restoration Hem Project is impacting our own Buffalo homeless, immigrant and refugee communities through the work of the Canisius College Women & Gender Studies Club.

Sponsored by the Women & Gender Studies Program, Women and Gender Studies Club and the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and Archives and Special Collections, the event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information contact Kathleen DeLaney, librarian, archives and special collections at delaneyk@canisius.edu.

Submitted by: Kathleen DeLaney, librarian, archives and special collections

The campus community is invited to Campus Ministry’s RAISE Benefit Dinner Friday, March 10 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center.

Food tastings from around the world will be available along with a cash bar, a basket raffle, a silent auction and live music! A ticket to the event is $25. A group package (four tickets) is available for $75. All tickets for Canisius students and children between the ages of 11-17 will be $10. Children 10 and under are free.

Purchase tickets by visiting www.canisius.edu/RAISE or at the Office of Campus Ministry, located in Old Main 207.

All proceeds will help more than 50 Canisius students who are taking part in one of Campus Ministry’s 2017 international immersion programs this summer. Students will be journeying to locations around the globe to live out the Jesuit ideals of men and women with and for others.

Submitted by: Alice Zicari, associate campus minister, campus ministry