Nov.: AU's free cultural events for November

Music, art, theater on Aurora University November events calendar

Events are free to the public except where a fee is indicated. The schedule is:

Nov. 2: Day of Dead Display — Latin American Student Organization students will display a Day of the Dead altar and provide information from noon to 1 p.m. in the Dunham Hall atrium, 1400 Marseillaise Place in Aurora. For more information, call (630) 844-6259.

Nov. 2: Book Discussion — The first of three public discussions of Yossi Klein Halevi’s “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land” will be held from 3:15 to 4 p.m. by the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action at 430 S. Evanslawn Ave. in Aurora. Reservations are requested. Call (630) 844-6864 for more information.

Nov. 4: Lecture — Comanche author Paul Chaat Smith will discuss “Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong” at 7 p.m. in Perry Theatre in the Aurora Foundation Center, 1305 Kenilworth Place in Aurora. For more information, call 630-844-7843.

Nov. 7: Music — The Prometheus Trio, premier ensemble of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, will perform chamber music at 2 p.m.in Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration, 407 S. Calumet Ave. in Aurora. Reservations are required. Call 630-844-4924.

Nov. 9: Book Discussion — The second of three public discussions of Yossi Klein Halevi’s “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land” will be held from 3:15 to 4 p.m. by the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action at 430 S. Evanslawn Ave. in Aurora. Reservations are requested. Call (630) 844-6864 for more information.

Nov. 11: Holocaust Speaker — “Witness to the Holocaust” will be presented by Skokie resident Magda Brown at 3:30 p.m. in the University Banquet Hall in Alumni Hall, 1410 Marseillaise Place in Aurora. For more information, call 630-844-6864.

Nov. 12-13, 17-20: Theater — The Theater Department stages “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” at 7:30 in Perry Theatre located in the Aurora Foundation Center at 1305 Kenilworth Place in Aurora. Reservations are required. Call 630-844-4924.

Nov. 13: Theater — The Theater Department stages “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” at 7:30 in Perry Theatre located in the Aurora Foundation Center at 1305 Kenilworth Place in Aurora. Stephens Hall. Reservations are required. Call 630-844-4924.

Nov. 16: Book Discussion — The third of three public discussions of Yossi Klein Halevi’s “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land” will be held from 3:15 to 4 p.m. by the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action at 430 S. Evanslawn Ave. in Aurora. Reservations are requested. Call (630) 844-6864 for more information.

Nov. 29: Film — “Mad Hot Ballroom,” the second of four films in the 2010-2011 AU Film Series, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Perry Theatre in the Aurora Foundation Center at 1305 Kenilworth Place in Aurora. A discussion will follow. For more information, call (630) 844-4924, e-mail artsandideas@aurora.edu or visit www.AUartsandideas.com.