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Take a look and say a beautiful morning that turns into a beautiful evening.

And together make beautiful art.

And if you wanna see that, come along with me.

That's right.

Welcome to Experience Michiana.

I'm the show's producer, Kelsey Ziemba, and we have a great show for you today as we get out and explore the Michiana area.

We're going to head over to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center to see what's on both stage and screen coming up there real soon.

We're also going to revisit the Rockne exhibit, which is happening at the History Museum, and we'll take a look back at the Wild and Wonder Place studio that we visited back in May.

But first up, Courtney is with Sean and Ricky.

I love being here with my friends Ricky and Sean.

You guys are always amazing.

You have such wonderful productions that are coming up here at Notre Dame, and I'm so, excited to share that.

As always, these are open to the public, and it's so wonderful to be able to bring the public into the Notre Dame campus so they can experience the performing arts.

Absolutely.

It's wonderful.

I mean, it's why we're here.

We love, bringing the art to people, and we hope that people come to the art and it's, we love to have people.

I love this so much.

Okay, so let's talk.

We're gonna talk cinema first, right?

Sure.

Okay.

Let's do that.

Ricky.

Okay.

So, we had a boy that came from a cancellation.

So inspired by what happened at the Louvre, we did a quick capsule series on heist films, centered around Kelly Reichardt's new film, The masterminds.

Which we wanted to show anyway.

And then we supplemented it with the original Thomas Crown Affair from 1968.

Rififi, which is a French film that really kind of sets the course for heist movies through the 20th century.

Is it in French?

It is in French.

Okay.

Is there subtitles?

No.

No, I'll do some Rosetta Stone first.

And, and then we had the 90s flop Hudson Hawk, which I think people should come back to and watch, and then.

Oh, he's a good guy.

And so last part of that, we are showing the great Muppet Caper, which is part of our Professor Franco $500 films.

These are a dollar I get in a dollar for dollar for popcorn.

And they're every Sunday at 1 p.m., every Sunday, every Sunday.

That's good to know.

Every Sunday, other than Thanksgiving, Sunday.

And we do take some breaks.

Okay.

Double check this guy.

Yeah, but, we have the Great Muppet Caper, a town called panic, which is a stop motion film from Belgium.

That is a lot of fun.

And then we have a Christmas film and the classic elf, one of my favorites.

That's a classic.

And to be able to see it in the cinema.

Right.

That gives you a different perspective, right?

Over screams of children, which is the way it was meant to be seen.

It is very affordable for families too, which is really a bonus.

You know, it isn't for everyone, but we hope the low price point can bring as many people in as possible.

And if you're a group or a church or whatever, who's looking to, you know, bring people in and maybe can't afford it, email me, call us, we can work with you and wonderful.

Make sure that you're able to have, the experience of coming to the movies, which can be really expensive, I love that.

Thank you so much.

Okay, let's talk about some of the upcoming presenting series that you have going on.

Yeah.

So, you know, typically in our presenting series we are bringing in professional actors or professional performers, excuse me, to perform for audiences.

The remaining four on this semester is actually the it's all about collaboration, where we have professional artists working with students, working with community members, to put on these really wonderful performances that neither group could sort of do on their own.

Okay.

Really good.

Okay.

So first up, we're talking Magnificat.

Magnificat, Magnificat.

So this is a production in collaboration with our sacred music program here at Notre Dame.

And it's based on the box Magnificat.

Oh, okay.

Which is, it's it's a, you know, it's a 17th century work.

So that will have, a choir and, and orchestra and soloists, and, you know, so some of those are professional, some of those are student artists working together.

Additionally, on this program, there's, work with the South Bend Symphony, performance by, so Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony.

So it's a small symphony using South Bend Symphony Orchestra players, and then finally, they'll be ending with a, a guitar, concerto.

So chamber orchestra with guitar.

Wonderful, wonderful.

And that's all happening when this is on Sunday, November 16th, this Sunday at 4:00 PM.

Perfect.

Okay.

Now on the next one, I've heard they've won Tony Awards for this performance.

While they've been nominated, indicate that this is, in collaboration with our theater department, where once again, we'll have professional actors working with the student actors doing a production of John Proctor is the villain.

Yeah.

So John Proctor is the character in The Crucible, but this play is set in Georgia high school classroom, present day.

Exactly.

Okay.

They are reading The Crucible.

So that's what the title.

So, John, I know everybody had that experience when they were a kid.

Right.

That's exactly relate to it.

I mean, so this is just it's a play about power and authority and, and identity and gender and sort of all wrapped up into one, okay, sort of skating around the Crucible as one of the sort of talking points throughout the play.

Okay.

Is there an age appropriateness for that one?

You know, it's it's probably for middle or high school, I know.

Right.

Perfect, perfect.

And when is that one happening that is happening all of next week November 19th to the 23rd.

Perfect.

And of course check our website for, dates, times and prices for tickets too.

Okay.

Perfect.

All right.

Now I know you have more stuff coming up too.

We have plenty on the live programing, and in this we're talking about performances that are recorded and videoed, filmed in other locations, and then beamed to us.

Okay, so we have National Theater Live, who did a giant production of Life of Pi, which was a book that then became the ang Lee movie.

And this is, kind of reminiscent of a Julie Taymor production with big puppets or kind of like War Horse.

If you saw War Horse.

Okay.

Very similar to to that.

So that is coming in from England.

And then we have three operas, one being the Julie Taymor production, The Magic Flute, starring, Southend's own Nathan Gunn, that we show every December.

Okay.

We also have Puccini's La Boheme, which, you know, as a standard.

And then we have Andrea Schoen.

Yeah.

Giordano's, opera about the French Revolution, which, you know, just in time for Christmas.

Catch us on that really cheery wait, was that sarcasm?

I'm not going to be frank with me.

So, and then lastly, we do every Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we show a concert film.

So these are, you know, concerts that were made into documentaries.

And this year we have 1972 amazing Grace, which is a recording of Aretha Franklin's recording.

When she made that album, and what's at a Baptist church?

Oh, my gosh.

Amazing.

Yeah.

And it was lost for decades.

And then recently technology allowed it to come available so you can come check that up.

We turn the volume up.

Okay.

So you're going to really hear those pipes, and it's a beautiful film.

And that's amazing talking about like, the advancement of technology and how that works into that.

I love that okay.

All right.

Now we have a couple more things coming up for December still yet.

Right.

Exactly.

So a couple of Christmas performances you know for the past four years we, we have a series called our Cultural Collective which is highlighting local artists.

And for these past four years, we've done a Motown, a tribute to Motown.

So over the years, sort of volume 1 to 3.

And now this fourth volume, I think that everybody here loves Motown and it sells out, you know, because that's how popular it's a thing.

We love it.

So to differentiate this year we're doing a Christmas Motown.

And that's on Saturday, December 13th okay.

Perfect.

All right.

We got to get tickets for that one too.

Exactly.

And then our last, performance on the series this semester is by a group called Apollo's Fire.

So this is an early music chamber orchestra.

So when I say early music, what does that mean?

It means, like, music from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

Really classic.

Yes, exactly.

And they are doing, the Vespers by a composer named Michael, Pretorius, who's a German composer.

And that is so they'll be a chamber orchestra with choir, and they need a children's choir.

So we're using the Notre Dame's children's choir.

How wonderful.

That's going to be a beautiful concert.

I love that one.

Is that one?

And that one is Tuesday, December 16th.

Okay.

Got it.

Make sure you get your tickets for that one too.

Okay, let's wrap up our cinema series.

Let's just run through, I mean, talking about classics.

So we have some classics as well.

We have one of the earliest, I think, the earliest Yiddish film in the book that we're doing with the Jewish Federation.

We have Aki Kaurismaki’s The Match Factory Girl, that we're doing with the MFA program here, as well as Candy's a Sweet Hereafter, not an upper.

Also, South Korea's The Handmaiden, which is kind of this historic, a historical, anti-colonial, psychosexual thriller.

You know, checks all the boxes.

Bergman's Autumn Sonata.

And which gives you, opens up Sweden, another Scandinavian film, and then two Italian films.

Russell is Rome open city and then profunda rosso, deep Red, Argento's Giallo, which has this Christmas tie in.

So that's your scary ghost story.

Okay.

Good to know.

Kind of like a Scrooge.

Kind of like a Scrooge with, with more knives.

Okay, good.

I always love how you like the thought process of what goes into making these selections.

Yeah.

It's, it's varied, and sometimes there's a lot of fire, and sometimes, you know, it's just fun.

It's what?

Stuck against the wall.

And to close out, we have a really neat film festival that we're doing in conjunction with the French government and the Albertine, Cinematheque.

And that's the Albertine Film Festival.

So we have six films that are from France or French related.

We have the honey, which is about art repatriation, from Africa on the Ottoman, which is, one the won a big award at the Berlin Film Festival about a barge where people with mental health issues, receive help, in Paris, the beast, which is this kind of sci fi time bender.

Sudan.

Remember us?

About, you know, activism in Sudan and how that is transnational, Red Island, another colonial film or anti-colonial film?

From the director.

120 BPM.

And then lastly, we're showing Jack Daniels The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which a lot of people know because it was basically appropriated when they made La La Land.

Oh, interesting.

Okay, so there's some documentaries mixed within this to write up some new some, okay, some French, some also French.

So.

So I have to start learning France.

Okay.

If I go onto the website, can I get more of a description of what each of these productions are about?

Of course, if you've go to performing arts dot ND dot EDU, you can get your tickets, you can learn about the productions, you can learn how to get here, learn how to park.

You can also go and download the app, which will have all of this information and more.

And you can use that as your device for actually scanning.

Yes as well.

Oh, is that new?

It's newer.

Always refreshing, I love it.

And make sure you do your update.

So perfect.

Well thank you guys so much.

Always a pleasure to see you.

And I hope we fill the seats.

I'm here at the History Museum of South Bend for something that football fans this time of the year, especially with the season now back.

This is a great exhibit to come to.

I'm here with Emily.

Emily, tell me a little bit about this exhibit.

It's about Newt Rockne and his life and legacy, and there's so much to see.

Yeah.

So this exhibit covers Rockne's entire life from his origins in Norway.

His travel across to Chicago, how he got to Notre Dame and then how his, coaching career went, and also all of his other extracurricular activities that he did aside from coaching as well as eventually his death, on a plane.

And how long have you been putting this together to have this?

I mean, did you just open it in time for football season?

That was obviously planned as well.

We just started getting this together last September, open just in time for football season to start.

So we're hoping to get a lot of Notre Dame fans in once the home games start.

So yeah, it's great.

And I know we're going to have a look around the museum at some of the some of the highlights of this exhibit.

So starting with a sweater.

So let's go there first.

All right.

So tell me about here.

It's a sweater and a whistle.

So this is this actually belonged to him.

Like did he wear it or.

Yeah.

So this was worn used by Knute Rockne and very much well used, from what Notre Dame told us, they got this sweater from a player of Rockne's who said, that he wore to practice all the time.

And then they actually found this photograph of him with a hole in the exact same spot.

Exact same size.

And then this whistle, we have the side facing up.

One side has Notre Dame, the top side that is facing us, says Newt Rockne.

This is actually the fashion today.

But that was just actually because that's how much he wore it back.

Yes, exactly.

All right.

And we've got some little fans here who love seeing it as well.

My little daughter is here with me today as we look at the life and legacy of Knute Rockne.

And I also know that, in this building is the Studebaker Museum, which is, you know, your neighbor museum.

And actually, this exhibit has a bit of a crossover with that, which is a vehicle that's over here in the corner.

So I didn't know this about Knute Rockne, but he actually worked for Studebaker as well.

Right.

So yeah.

So he started working for Studebaker shortly before his death.

This car, the cars didn't come out until after, Rockne has passed.

And while the sign says, the Studebaker Rockne, this was actually a completely separate company.

It was a subsidiary of, Studebaker.

So a completely different company.

There's a couple different models.

This was one of the newer ones.

So we were actually able to borrow this from the Studebaker Museum.

It's absolutely beautiful.

And, of course, football coaches didn't make as much money back then.

It's not like it is today where, you know, you might get $5 million a year or something.

So he had to have a real job as well.

Yeah.

He had, several projects that he worked on, not just, with the Studebaker company, but he was also creating other promotional items.

He worked with the Wilson, company.

We actually have a helmet that has his name on it.

And his pants.

He has a humidor that was made from a real football as well as a football kind of game board situation over there.

Now, there is actually one thing that I want to look at real quick, and we can go over there because it actually says, please touch.

Yes.

So I want to see that really quick, okay.

Because, my brother is here with me today and my brother was holding this football.

And I said, what do you do when you get.

And he said, no, it says, please touch.

So I just want to see this really quick.

So yeah.

So one thing that we wanted to add was something that our people could actually handle, because all these objects, we obviously don't want people touching these 100 year old artifacts, but these we actually got from a company that makes reproductions.

Yeah.

Footballs and helmets from the field.

What it was like.

Yeah.

So this one is actually kind of the style that nobody would wear, especially with the black crosses.

Yeah.

And that football is actually bigger than the modern day football.

It's more like a rugby ball that it is today.

Well, I just like that the museum, because I think it's so important for people to be able to feel things and touch things and, and so that's really cool.

And of course, his life ended in a very tragic way, which I know you also have, an exhibit here, part of that.

So we're going to have a look at that as well to finish off this today.

But when can people come to see this.

Are you open all year round to open all week long?

Yeah, all week long.

Except for of course major holidays.

Monday through Saturday, we're open 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m.. Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.. Okay.

And, this exhibit is going on till when this closes May 31st.

So.

Okay.

So the school year.

Yeah.

Okay.

Nice.

All right.

So, his end was in an airplane in Kansas, and, tell me a little bit about this part of the exhibit here and what you have going on.

Yeah.

So Rockne was actually on a journey for, business purposes.

He was going out to LA, discuss a movie promotion.

Actually meant to see his boys.

Our school in Kansas, before, arriving on the plane.

Sadly, their train was late, and so he didn't get to see his, boys.

So he got on the plane.

And at this time period, people are a little bit skeptical about plane travel, but he considered it incredibly safe.

Unfortunately, mechanical issues happened.

And the plane ended up crashing, in a farm field.

So we have some pieces of that plane here, as well as the cufflinks that he was actually wearing.

Oh, wow.

It was in that plane.

We actually have a piece from the from the wing.

Yeah.

So these are all kind of different pieces of that plane there.

This is a model of, that plane.

Yeah, it's a Fokker F ten.

Yeah.

That's the actual name.

Okay.

We didn't say a bad word.

No, it's called the Fokker.

Okay.

So, yeah.

And then the cufflinks that he was wearing as well.

And so.

Yes.

Wow.

And so where did most of these pieces come from?

Like, is this stuff that was already at Notre Dame or is this stuff from different collectors around the country?

A little bit of both.

The cufflinks come from Notre Dame archives.

These items here, come from Augie's locker room.

He has these, typically on display in a store, not for sale, but, for people to be able to kind of see these pieces.

And is there anything else that as you look around here, I mean, we've looked at some of the different things, like the car and the airplane here as well.

Is there anything that you think is really cool that you think, okay, that's something like the sweater, but what's your kind of favorite thing here that you think people, can I show you my favorite photographs?

I absolutely, yeah.

If you want to follow me on.

Yeah.

All right.

So many people, of course, know that Rockne was a very athletic man, but he also had a bunch of other extracurriculars, that he did while he was a student at Notre Dame.

One of them being he did marbles.

He also did track and stuff like that.

But they also, did plays at Notre Dame.

And this is at a time period where women were not students at Notre Dame.

So like the Shakespeare Times, if you needed a female character.

Yeah.

It was going to be a man in a dress.

So we have this photograph that we brought borrowed from, learning archives of Rockne and a wig and, and a dress.

And he actually, got a very good review in the Scholastic, which is a Notre Dame.

Student newspaper there.

It's so funny, the difference in mentality of, could you imagine Marcus Freeman now dressing up as a woman in a play at Notre Dame because, or, you know, this is so many things.

And just the role of a coach has changed so much.

And just football in general has become such a big business and such a but this is really cool.

As I mentioned, it's the life and legacy of Knute Rockne, somebody that I hear about a lot.

I mean, there's been so much talk about them, constantly, but I didn't know that much about him.

So even as I'm here, I'm learning a lot.

But then again, I didn't even watch the movie Rudy until last year, which I feel like if I had admitted that when I first moved to South Bend, people might have actually, like, made me go back to Ireland.

So.

And but this is really cool.

And as you mentioned, the opening hours again, 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday, 12 to 5 on Sundays.

Okay.

So you're open every day of the week, every day of the week.

Awesome.

All right.

Rockne, the life and legacy.

Emily, thank you so much for showing me around.

You guys did a great job with the exhibit.

That's really wonderful.

Make sure and come see it and go Irish.

As a father of an almost two year old.

One of the things you're always looking for is places to be able to go with your child that they love.

And so far, my daughter is over here and loving every minute of it.

Isn't that right, Kennedy?

Right on cue.

And I'm here right now with the owners of this.

Can you tell me the name of it where we are?

Kristen, let's start with you.

Hi.

Welcome.

This is Wild and Wonder Place studio.

Lindsay and I are co-owners, indoor play space for kids to have fun with their parents.

I love it, so, I love, of all the places I've gone to, this seems to be the most well decorated, the most well thought out.

I mean, there's a lot of fun places around.

I'm not bashing on anything.

This is also brand new, but feels like a little village in here as well.

Like it's really fun.

So what was the vision behind starting it and and the vision behind how you decorated it?

So we wanted it to be more like a small little town, right?

So we have our imaginative play, space over here with the houses, the hospital, the farmers market.

And then we have kind of like a park setting on this side, with the balance being the teeter totter and the play structure with the slide.

The infant area is also a great space for the the tiny one.

Yeah.

For the little ones.

Well, the other thing too, when you become a parent for the first time, which we did less than two years ago, is you can feel very isolated too.

So when you come somewhere like this, it's really a great way to meet other parents as well.

Yeah, it's a great place for the kids to socialize.

It's also a great place for, you know, moms, dads, grandparents to come to meet other parents that are kind of in the same, you know, season that everybody else is in.

Yeah.

So sometimes it can feel a bit rough and there's something less energy zapping about being surrounded by other people at the same time, you know?

So sometimes it can be intimidating going to other places with the older kids and stuff like that.

So kind of putting everybody together, that's that same age group and seeing them all interact and in a place that's comfortable and safe and safe.

Yeah, absolutely.

And obviously your daughter right now is helping to look after my daughter who's going to run over my toes.

Ow Yeah.

And we like a lot of that too.

And the little ones also learn from the bigger kids.

And then the bigger kids also help the little ones.

So I've actually been so pleasantly surprised when we go to places.

How I don't know how old she is.

3 or 4.

She's three.

I've been pleasantly surprised just how caring the three and four year olds are towards the younger.

They're so gentle with them.

In most cases not so much the boys.

Yeah, and but no, but they really want to help them along.

Or if they see they're struggling to get up on something, they're so gentle with them and it's, it's actually been great to see that, what, three and four year olds as well with her.

Yes it is.

It's so nice to see them all interacting and play together.

Yeah.

And you know, they like being the the bigger the bigger siblings.

Yeah.

Kristen, what's it like having a business with your sister?

Because you are sisters.

We are so, so and so.

What's that like?

Because Lindsay runs the day to day.

I work for, local community schools and doing, therapy for kids with disabilities.

So that's kind of my background.

Yeah.

Lindsay is the master, you know, all of the the back side of business, and, yeah, she's she's doing a great job.

Yeah.

I mean, I think we definitely, had a good collaboration on, on our, you know, our dream, our vision of what this place is.

And, I mean, we've already kind of started to add programs into this space as far as, like, our music programs and our reading with the Elkhart Public Library.

And it's great that you're adding all those programs.

And I know that you have a room back here as well, which also is a place for, families to come and have birthday party.

Yeah, we offer a space for the, in the party room for birthday parties, special events.

We offer, private parties as well.

If you just want to come and just rent the space with just you and your friends, it doesn't have to be a birthday party.

You also, like you're here beside Martin's on Bristol Street in Elkhart, and you also wanted to put in here, too, because it is a little bit of a desert when it comes to places for kids to be able to come.

Right.

Yeah.

We definitely enjoy the, the calm environment that's surrounding the place as well.

The parking lot is a safe space to get in and out of with the little ones because, I mean, we all know how it is sometimes to get out of a crowded place with little ones.

So just kind of being in this calmer space, really just was like the footprint of what we were doing as well.

So we are also trying to, you know, stop families from having to always drive to Mishawaka and.

Yeah, and other places where this of is in Mishawaka, and it's hard to find anything locally in our area for especially the little ones to enjoy.

So that's why we chose this space and this city I love.

Also, as I look behind here, your daughter is teaching my daughter to go down the slide, on her belly and everything.

So yeah, so she is a pro at that.

Yeah.

This is a lot of fun and I absolutely love it here.

And what else have you got going on this food and coffee for the parents.

We offer snacks for the little ones.

We also have a, self-serve coffee bar so moms can come in, grab a cup of coffee, sit down, relax.

And they can see their child from any, anywhere they have a great cafe area that, you know, parents can do work on the computer and monitor their kids while they're playing.

And it's just a different environment, you know, I talked a little bit off camera about the junior achievement of Elkhart County and how, I don't know if you've ever seen them, but they they have an indoor business village where the it reminds me of this.

So you go inside and they have like bank set up and everything to teach young kids and teenagers about how to open checking accounts and things like that.

So it's funny, the second I walked in here, that's what it kind of reminded me of.

I don't know if you even knew that existed, but it's got a it's got a similar feel, which is actually really cool.

So I thought maybe that was some of your inspiration, but no, it's not just what made you think of having a farmer's market and a hospital and things like that.

So kids learn through play, right?

So, any imaginative play is really healthy.

So having, you know, a grocery store and the kitchen, it just is, you know, just learning through play.

Yeah.

So the imaginative houses are, it was the big staple for us.

Yeah.

Oh, and it looks amazing.

I mean, you guys must have put a lot of effort into creating this space.

I mean, yeah, it was a lot of fun, though.

It was really enjoyed.

It worked.

Okay.

You were meant for this because even just yesterday, I had to cut the grass and I was thinking how, like, annoying that is.

So you were just, like, loving all this.

But I guess that's why you do what you do.

And, And what hours are you open and things like that.

And what's your address here so people know.

So we're located we're located at Cobblestone Crossing.

It's 4000 East Bristol Street or Suite eight.

Okay.

We're open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

and then Saturdays are 9 to 11 and Sundays are 10 to 2.

We offer birthday parties on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays.

So our hours kind of on Saturday and Sundays, depending on if we have parties or not.

Okay.

And what is your general hope for the community if they think of this business, what do you want them to to feel after being here?

We want them to just, you know, know that at the end of the play, like they they had a good time, they got some energy out.

Maybe they're time for a nap.

You know, I don't know.

Yeah I don't know.

I mean I definitely want them to feel like this is a safe zone, right?

Where they know that the next time they come and every time they come that they're safe and they're kids are having fun.

Yeah.

Well, great.

I mean, this has to I feel like as a parent you have like a root of about 4 or 5 places that you constantly go to.

And I feel like this should definitely be on the top of people's list because it's beautiful.

And I'm looking forward to spending a few minutes here with my daughter having a coffee and just, just enjoying it because it's it is absolutely wonderful.

Well, that's it for this week's show.

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