Recent News

Hands-on and visual demonstrations of water and environment-related issues helped students focus on the importance of water to society and local communities during the seventh Annual Ada Water Festival/Earth Day at East Central University.

SHOWTIME, East Central University's musical theatre performing group, will present its Grand Finale' concert/cabaret "thank you New York" program at 8 p.m. Friday [APRIL 30] in the Estep Multimedia Center in the Bill S. Cole University Center.

The group also will show slides and video from their trip to New York City where SHOWTIME members studied at Julliard and New York University, the sights they saw and what they brought back.

Twelve students will conduct East Central University's Symphonic Band in its spring concert Thursday [APRIL 29] in the Ataloa Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. The select Wind Ensemble will be conducted by ECU Band Director Allen Correll and guest conductor Dean Coale.

The free concert will begin at 8 p.m. and is open to the public.

A McAlester Area Reunion for alumni of East Central University will be held Saturday [MAY 1] at Angel's Diner, 1402 S. George Nigh Expressway. The reunion will begin at 6 p.m.

Online registration is available until Saturday at http://alumni.ecok.edu/.

The Oklahoma Arts Council is partnering with East Central University and the Ada Arts District to host a Town Hall Meeting for the Arts in Ada on May 4 [TUESDAY]. The town hall meeting will be held on the ECU campus in the Regents Room of the Memorial Student Union.

An East Central University student who says her parents taught her that hard work, determination, a positive attitude and a kind heart would take her anywhere worth going has been named the 2010 recipient of the prestigious George Nigh Award as ECU's top graduating senior.

Dance students at East Central University will focus on "Remembering the Man" as they pay tribute to the late Michael Jackson in their spring dance concert Friday and Saturday [APRIL 23-24].

The East Central University Chorale and the University Singers will premier three works by local composers at their concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday [APRIL 19] at St. Joseph Catholic Church.

The University Chorale will present the first performance of "O Holy Spirit" by Victoria Davison and Rudy Lupinski, Ada composers who have collaborated on many pieces that have been premiered by the ECU groups.