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All promotions for this classic of English literature have been done to death, so what better way to approach such a defined period piece than with a pop art theme!

Adapted by Kate Hamill from the novel by Jane Austen

Never out of print since its 1807 debut, Jane Austen’s classic first novel comes to vibrant life in this acclaimed stage adaptation. Facing bleak prospects, the disinherited young Dashwood sisters discover love, endure heartbreak, and achieve triumph as England swerves between the reason (“Sense”) of the late 18th century and the surging romanticism (“Sensibility”) of the 19th. An indelible gallery of lovers, rogues, greedy in-laws, generous friends, and witless twits, are rendered with Austen’s spectacular language and benevolent humor, and staged with ingenious theatricality and style.

Performances Thurs-Sat, 7:30PM and Sundays at 2PM

Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday 2:00 pm
The Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts
1423 St. James, Peoria, IL 61625

Heinz (Ketchup) is 150 years old this year. The brief was to create an integrated campaign that put this iconic superstar of the condiments center stage instead of a supporting role.

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Next branding brief for our junior graphic design students – Heinz Tomato Ketchup. 150 years old this year. Put it center stage instead of the support act to a meal. Give it the recognition it deserves. Celebrate its past 150 years and make it an irreplaceable brand for the next 150 years…. easy!

Step one: Brainstorn the brand. Nothing better than a good old mind map.

Always good to start the semester with a good intro to Brand Experience – and what better way than with a ‘Self-Branding’ assignment. As always, students are trying to create a beautiful, tactile branded resume package with the intention of it landing on the desk of an individual creative head for a potential internship position.

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As always, great fun creating the promotional piece for the latest theatre production – Silent Sky.

THE STORY OF STELLAR WOMEN WHO MADE ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES

Bradley University Theatre proudly opens its spring season with Silent Sky, Lauren Gunderson’s, acclaimed play about Henrietta Leavitt, the early 20th-century astronomer whose discoveries forever changed the way that we understand the universe.

Henrietta Leavitt, invited to join a staff of women “computers” at the Harvard Observatory, left her home and family in Wisconsin and distinguished herself in the shadow of male superiors who not only forbade her to touch a telescope but often took credit for her pioneering work. At a time when the Milky Way was commonly believed to comprise the entire universe, Leavitt and her female colleagues studied photographic plates of the stars, laboriously cataloguing them, calculating luminosity and searching for patterns. Leavitt’s unwavering examination of blinking stars, or Cepheids, led her to discover that light could be used to determine the distance and size of the stars in our galaxy—and tell us not only that the universe is infinitely larger than we believed, but also exactly where in its vast reaches we live. These crucial discoveries provided the foundation for the work of later, better-known astronomers, including Edwin Hubble.