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Peter Sellars, a renowned theater, opera and festival director and one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts, will speak at ���ϲ����� on Thursday, Sept. 16.

Set in a tough, Bronx high school, the nationally acclaimed and award-winning “No Child…” traces the efforts of a young teaching artist to engage a class of uninspired and underachieving 10th graders by challenging the students to put on a play.

The New York State chapter of the Surface Design Association (SDA), a nonprofit educational organization with more than 4,000 members worldwide, will host “SDA at SU,” an informative, one-day gathering on Saturday, Sept. 11.

The seminar will be team taught by arts professional David A. Ross ’71 and artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at ���ϲ�����’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of the exhibition “Monumental Printstallations” at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., ���ϲ�����.

���ϲ����� Stage is seeking boys and girls ages 7-12 of all ethnicities.

Kola Owolabi, ���ϲ����� organist and assistant professor in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present an organ recital Tuesday, Sept. 7, and Wednesday, Sept. 8, on the historic Holtkamp organ in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College.

The group will perform its all-female version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at the Edinburgh festival.

���ϲ�����’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Ralph Zito, a theater professional in voice, text and dialects who most recently served as the chair of the Juilliard School Drama Division’s voice and speech department, has been named chair of the Department of Drama.

The ���ϲ����� Summer Dance Intensive program, administered by University College and co-sponsored by SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, has brought students from as far away as Europe and California to participate in one of the premier dance programs in the United States. Now in its fifth year, the students, ages 12 to 18, have the privilege of studying with internationally acclaimed teachers and guest artists during two- or three-week sessions.