May 22, 2013
Since Tracy Callahan started teaching at Weber State University 16 years ago, she has always had her students in her Directing II class produce one-act plays that were actually cast by the student directors and performed and hence was born the One-Act Festival. This year, seven student directors took on a variety of plays, including [...]
Continue reading …The Weber State University Guitar Ensemble Concert started nearly 20 years ago, a few years after Todd Woodbury started a guitar program at WSU through the encouragement of a high school student who’d been taking private lessons from him. Woodbury divides his time between teaching at the University of Utah and WSU. “We started doing [...]
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The Singer/Songwriter Festival has pulled students from a current course taught for about five years at Weber State University by William Pollett, a WSU English Department faculty member, but before that, he was teaching people in the community to get them writing and singing their own songs. “You can write a song, but it’s not [...]
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Almost every Sunday, members of the African Drumming Society at Weber State University practice traditional African rhythms, some of which are played on handmade instruments carved by members of the club. Cameron Williams, president of the club, first started studying these rhythms more than 12 years ago. Around four years ago, he heard that a [...]
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Men and women dressed in cowboy boots and hats for Weber State University’s hoedown on Wednesday night. The event started at 8:30 p.m. and opened with a line dance, followed by a 30-minute lesson. Men scrambled to find partners while some women danced with their friends during the shindig. Madison Stratton, the president of the [...]
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Alicia Washington, a Weber State University musical theater 2010 alumna, grew a vague notion into a dream into the intimate theater space called Good Company Theatre that opened Nov. 2, 2012 on Ogden’s Historic 25th Street. Having seen “parlor-style” theater in New York and Chicago, Washington determined that Ogden itself was a perfect place for [...]
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