Wind energy conference scheduled in Lawrence

The annual Kansas wind energy conference will be Oct. 1-2 at the Lawrence Holidome, 110 McDonald Drive.

The conference will include exhibits and discussions dealing with developments in wind and solar energy around the state and country.

Above, farmers in Montezuma have capitalized from building wind turbines on their land, netting about $2,000 per year per tower.

Registration for both days costs $65. For more information, contact Pinnacle Technology at 832-8866 or e-mail jcook@pinnaclet.com.

Arts: University classes give children taste of acting

The Kansas University department of theatre and film will offer children free drama classes in Murphy Hall.

Classes will be taught by Jeanne Klein and college students enrolled in TH&F 404 Children and Drama.

For children in first through third grades, registration is from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday. Classes will be from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. every Thursday in September, plus Nov. 21, Dec. 5 and Dec. 10.

For children in fourth through sixth grades, registration is from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 14. Classes will be from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Oct. 15, 22, 29; Nov. 5, 19, 26; and Dec. 3.

Registration is in Murphy Hall. For more information, call 864-5576.

America remembers: Sept. 11 event planned at Lawrence Arts Center

A local service group has scheduled a “gathering of healing and hope” to remember Sept. 11.

The event, organized by One Hundred Good Women, a nonprofit, nonpolitical community of area men and women, will feature performances and readings from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.

Performers will include Venida Chenault, Marianne Carter, Diane McMillen, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Sherry Shultz, Gwyneth Sigmon, the Prairie Wind Dancers and Shiray Shabbat.

The ceremony is part of the grassroots service organization’s Women Speak lecture series, which began on May 1 with a lecture by Harriet Lerner, author of “The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate.”

For more information, contact Rita Stucky at 843-0888.