Baseball vs. Monmouth College
The Vikings baseball team will play the Monmouth College Scots in their home opener.
It's the first game in the Augustana Invitational Tournament. The Vikings will take on Buena Vista at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Dominican at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The woman behind the name: Emmy Evald, pioneer champion for women’s rights
The author of a new biography of Emmy Carlsson Evald, for whom the Augustana building is named, will discuss her book at a meeting of the Augustana Historical Society.
The program is open the public via Zoom.
Sharon Wyman is the great-granddaughter of Emmy Evald, and the author of "Power, Passion, and Faith: Emmy Carlsson Evald, Suffragist and Social Activist."
Voted by the readers of a Swedish newspaper as the “most prominent Swede now living abroad” in 1922, Emmy Carlsson Evald marched with Susan B. Anthony to the U.S. Capitol to demand women’s right to vote, raised money to fund the construction of the Women's Building at Augustana College, and founded the Augustana Women’s Missionary Society, which helped to build scores of educational and health facilities around the world.
The Women's Building was remodeled and renamed Carlsson-Evald Hall in 2008.
Women's water polo vs. Wittenberg University
The Augustana women's water polo team will take on the Wittenberg University Tigers.
Women's water polo vs. Austin College
The Augustana women's water polo team will take on the Austin College Kangaroos.
Women's water polo vs. Macalester
The Augustana women's water polo team will take on the Macalester College Scots.
Women's water polo vs. Carthage
The Augustana women's water polo team will take on the Carthage College Firebirds.
Women's lacrosse vs. Illinois Tech
The Vikings women's lacrosse team will kick off the new season against Chicago Tech in Chicago.
The team will follow it up with its first home contest March 5 against Augsburg at Thorson-Lucken Field.
Senior recital: Emma Pilmer, soprano, and Colin Claytor, tenor
Seniors Emma Pilmer, soprano, and Colin Claytor, tenor, will present a voice recital
Pilmer is a vocal music education major from Aurora, Ill.
Claytor is a vocal music education major from Arlington Heights, Ill.
Program
Sheila Doak, piano
Adele Shirkey and Aiden Zoller, flute
Emma Pilmer
"Schafe können sicher weiden" from Cantata BWV 208 by Johann Sebastian Bach
"Saper vorreste" from "Un Ballo in Maschera" (A Masked Ball) by Giuseppe Verdi
"O mio babbino caro" from "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini
"Après un rêve" by Gabriel Faure
"Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert
Colin Claytor
"Brother Will, Brother John" by John Sacco
"The Daisies" by Samuel Barber
"Go Lovely Rose" by Roger Quilter
"Mein!" from "Die Schöne Müllerin" by Franz Schubert
"Fly Me to the Moon" from "Once Around \" by Bart Howard
Emma Pilmer
"Thank You for the Music" from "Mamma Mia" by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
"No One is Alone" from "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim
"No One Else" from "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" by Dave Malloy
Hispanic Film Festival: Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory)
Augustana College will sponsor its 26th annual Hispanic Film Festival on Wednesdays, Oct. 26-Nov. 30.
All films will be shown at 7 p.m. in Hanson Hall of Science, Room 102. Films are free and open to the public. Films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Tonight's movie, Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory)" is a 2019 drama directed by Pedro Almodóvar. In it, a film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him. The film is rated R and runs one hour, 53 minutes.
• Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Film The Academy Award
• Winner “Best Film” Best Director, Cinema Writers Circle Award
• Winner Best Film, Goya Awards
Hispanic Film Festival: Aquí y Allá (Here and There)
Augustana College will sponsor its 26th annual Hispanic Film Festival on Wednesdays, Oct. 26-Nov. 30.
All films will be shown at 7 p.m. in Hanson Hall of Science, Room 102. Films are free and open to the public. Films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Tonight's movie, "Aquí y Allá (Here and There)" is a 2012 drama directed by Antonio Méndez Esparza about a Mexican immigrant who returns home to a small village in Mexico after years of working in the U.S. He struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band. The unrated film runs one hour, 50 minutes.
• Winner Critics Weeks Grand Prize Cannes Film Festival