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The Student Activities Office at Calvin University tries to accomplish two goals in all of its programs. First, the SAO seeks to help students engage with popular culture and to discern the positive and negative messages contained within. We attempt to perform this critical Christian service by equipping our students with the tools and experiences necessary to begin discerning culture. As such, we
03/28/2026
SPECIAL EVENT! On April 1, we are teaming up with Celebration Cinema to host a showing of “The AI Doc” followed by a paneled conversation with Calvin professors. Movie is at 7:30pm at Celebration north and tickets are available in the comments.
02/25/2026
Do you have your tickets to Kishi Bashi's show at Calvin on April 7th?
10/31/2025
Preacher Lawson at Calvin University https://calvin.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2258
10/16/2025
Want to buy tickets to Kishi Bashi before everyone else has access? Use the code "SAYYEAHTOMICHIGAN" to grab your tickets today (look in the comments)
10/15/2025
We’re excited to announce that Kishi Bashi will be returning to Calvin to perform on April 7th of 2026 in the CFAC Auditorium. Tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10 am.
Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of Emmy-nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Kaoru Ishibashi. A Berklee-trained virtuoso violinist, Kishi Bashi is acclaimed for his uplifting, high-energy concerts and his distinctive loop-based violin style. He has also earned recognition for his groundbreaking collaborations with major symphonies—including the National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Oregon Symphony—where he blends classical and pop influences in captivating performances. Beyond the orchestral stage, he has toured internationally with Regina Spektor and of Montreal, and released five acclaimed albums—beginning with his NPR-praised debut 151a (2012), followed by Sonderlust (2016), the documentary project Omoiyari (2019), and most recently Kantos (2024), a kaleidoscopic fusion of funk, jazz, and orchestral pop. Known for his cinematic storytelling and genre-bending sound, Kishi Bashi continues to push creative boundaries while captivating audiences worldwide.
Grand Rapids! Calvin University Students! If you want two free tickets to tonight’s show with Hannah Cohen and Major Murphy, comment below who you’d bring to tonight’s show. We’ll DM the winners with how to get their tickets, so make sure you are following us to receive the dm. See you at the show! More info here: Hannah Cohen w/ Major Murphy at Calvin University
09/08/2025
Support update: Friends of the SAO, Major Murphy, have been added to this Saturday’s show with Hannah Cohen. Grab your tickets today for two incredible artists in the CFAC Recital Hall.
08/06/2025
We're excited to announce that Denison Witmer will be returning to Calvin on October 11th in the CFAC Recital Hall. Denison's new LP, "Anything at All" is one of my personal favorites of the year and I am thrilled for this show. For the SAO historians in the chat, you may recall that in 2003, Denison performed at Calvin as a part of the Festival of Faith & Music. Opening up for him was Sufjan Stevens, who also produced "Anything at All". Seats are limited so grab your today!
Calvin University | Ticketing - SAO Concert: Denison Witmer Doors open at 7:30 pmAbout Denison:Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Witmer began his journey in recorded music at the age of 19 with his first album, My Luck, My Love - recorded originally as a high school English project and released on 250 cassettes. His official debut album, Safe Away,...
07/22/2025
We are excited to announce that Chris Renzema's "Christmas in the Midwest" tour will be coming to Calvin's chapel on December 6th. Tickets are on sale now.
07/15/2025
We are very excited to announce that Hannah Cohen will be coming to Calvin University on September 13th to perform in the CFAC Recital Hall. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am.
A little about Cohen's latest LP, Earthstar Mountain:
Earthstar Mountain is an ode to curiosity. It asks what it means to live a life: how do we decide which direction to take? How do we stay there? And what happens when the rug is pulled from under our feet? Once again working with her partner and collaborator Sam Evian at their recording studio Flying Cloud, Hannah Cohen’s fourth full-length album Earthstar Mountain, is a keepsake of Cohen's time in the Catskills, built over the course of 2020-2024, as blurred, shimmering memories come into focus to produce a collage of echoes and sonic souvenirs. Featuring contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Clairo, Sean Mullins, Liam Kazar, Oliver Hill and more, Earthstar Mountain is a love letter to the Catskills and in the interconnectedness of all things: in her past, present, future and alternative selves, in her friends––here and gone––and in the mountain that peers through her windows.
