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The Wheaton College Jazz Ensemble performs a spring concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 8. The concert takes place in Barrows Auditorium in the Billy Graham Center, 500 College Ave., Wheaton.

Tickets are available only at the door and cost $6 for general audience, and $4 for students and seniors 60 and better. For more information, call the Conservatory of Music at (630) 752-5099. To check out more events, visit www.wheaton.edu.

Eleven-year-old violinist Serena Harnack of Glen Ellyn will perform the third movement of Mendelssohn’s Concerto in e minor at the Sejong Society Winner’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, at Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, Chicago. Admission is free and no reservations are required. For concert details, visit www.sejongsociety.org.

 A sixth-grader at St. Petronille in Glen Ellyn, Serena has been playing violin for seven years, and studies with Julie Maura at Wheaton College. She has won first place in the Chinese Fine Arts Society Confucius Competition, and recently won first place in the DePaul Concerto Festival, and was a soloist with the Oistrach Symphony.  Serena has received numerous awards from Midwest Young Artists/Walgreens Competition, Musichorale, and Sejong.

The Artist Series at Wheaton College presents the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company in performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24.

The ensemble was formed in 1937 when Ukrainian ballet masters Pavlo Virsky and Mykola Bolotov assembled a group of folk dancers. Under Virsky’s guidance, the ensemble matured into an internationally respected dance company. Myroslav Vantukh, an expert in folk traditions and ethnography, has led the ensemble since 1980, preserving the choreographic folk art.
 

The Virsky troupe. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Wheaton College is challenging its students, teachers and even the community to eat locally produced foods.

The Eat Local Challenge returns for its fifth year on Tuesday, Sept. 29, as all three food service venues at Wheaton College participate in the event being led by Bon Appetit, the restaurant management company that provides food services to the campus. With the exception of salt, all ingredients served in Anderson Commons, Sam’s, and The Stupe will come from local food artisans and small farms within 150 miles of campus.