Datebook

Friday, February 17
Nursing theorist, author, and teacher Betty Neuman speaks at 10:00 a.m., Nursing 317. Ext. 1607.

Slam poetry performer Saul Williams reads his work at 8:30 p.m. in the Pavilion. Ext. 7847.

Saturday, February 18
The 20th annual student mathematics conference takes place in and around Prosser Auditorium. Guest speaker is Carl Pomerance of Dartmouth College. Information: www.math.moravian.edu/conference. Ext. 1605.

Sunday, February 19
Martha Schrempel, artist-lecturer in music (piano), plays Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata and the second book of Préludes by Debussy. 4:00 p.m., Peter Hall. $12, $6 students/seniors. Ext. 1650.

Wednesday, February 22
Moravian College Christian Fellowship hosts its companion organizations from around the Lehigh Valley for an intercollegiate worship rally. Dinner, 9:00 p.m.; rally, 10:00 p.m., led by the band Doxadzo. Saal, Bahnson Center. Ext. 1583.

Friday, February 24
Alix Ohlin, a fiction writer who teaches at Lafayette College, will read from her book The Missing Person. 4:00 p.m., Arena Theater, HUB. Ext. 1392.

The Moravian College-Community Orchestra and Wind Ensemble plays music of Moravian composer John Antes (1740-1811) and cuts a birthday cake in his honor. Also choruses from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, band music by Gustav Holst and Alfred Reed, and a guest appearance by the Mosaic Singers of Detroit. $6. Ext. 1650.

Saturday, February 25
The Jewish and Israeli Film Series screens Fateless, about a teenager in a Nazi concentration camp. 7:30 p.m., Prosser Auditorium, HUB. $9; LVAIC students free.

Sunday, February 26
Moravian College Women’s Chorus, directed by Eduardo Azzati, sings at 4:00 p.m., Peter Hall. $6. Ext. 1650.

Love, actually: Here are the distinguished American actor Richard Venture and a very young Tony Goldwyn, who played the father and his gay son in the 1990 American premiere of The Sum of Us at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. This gentle play, the winter offering of the Morvaian College Theater Company, can be seen at 8:00 p.m. Thursday-Saturday (February 16-18) and 2:00 p.m. Saturday-Sunday (February 18-19). Tickets are $13, $9 stsudents/seniors. Ext. 1489.

The Dave Roth Trio with trumpeter Alan Gaumier plays on the Allentown Symphony’s Jazz Cabaret series. Ticket includes café fare. 8:00 p.m. Friday, February 24, Rodale Community Room, Allentown Symphony Hall, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown. $20. 610 432-6715. Busy Dave ’85 then gives a solo jazz piano concert at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 25, Trinity Episcopal Church, Mount Pocono, to benefit Tipitina’s Foundation, an organization that supports New Orleans musicians in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 570 629-0644.