Devoted fans of the Bollywood movie industry packed the Watson Institute for International Studies Tuesday to listen to Rachel Dwyer, professor of Indian cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, give a talk entitled "Islamicate or Islamophobic?: Muslims in ...
There's nothing quite like nude portraiture to start your morning off right. Students and faculty wandering to lecture this week got their full dose in "What I Found in the Desert," a solo exhibition by Maya Diablo Mason '15, on display Oct. 19-26 in the First Floor Gallery of the List Art Center. The ...
A "banana" is how Haley Butler chooses to describe herself - "I'm yellow from the outside, but white from the inside." Butler is one of four teenage girls who were adopted from China and featured in the award-winning documentary "Somewhere Between," produced and directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton ...
Midterm period is tough. Students spend hours in libraries and review sessions, cramming in last-minute facts. Sleep and fun slip from existence for weeks as students slave over papers and tests. Musical Forum's Midterm Revue, a mash-up of various musical theater songs set to an original plot, offers ...
Rarely does one have the opportunity to see a dozen Shakespearean actors - all clad in bear masks - launch into a synchronized dance mob around a baby onstage to the tune of "Outta Your Mind" by Lil Jon. Yet director Taibi Magar MFA'14 grants the audience this zany opportunity and many more in her youthful ...
The scene is not the typical image of artists at work - a group of people working together to display images from a computer onto a large screen - yet the artists are some of the most prominent artists and designers in the world. The user interface is their method of engaging the audience, and the technology ...
In an open rehearsal Thursday evening at 95 Empire Street downtown, the production "Maria Kizito" led its audience down the complicated path of good, evil, suffering and hope as a part of what playwright Erik Ehn, professor of theater arts and performance studies, described as a "spiritual investigation ...
Shakespeare on the Green will turn Metcalf Courtyard into a modern political stage for its performance of "Richard III" this weekend, the first time the theater troupe has performed in this space. The play, which runs Oct. 18-21, portrays the rise to power of Richard III, whose charisma and clever turn ...
A group of 16 students sat around a large table, Natasha Smoke Santiago seated amongst them. After the Iroquois artist recounted how she learned to hand-sculpt clay pottery on a small island in the Akwesasne Mohawk First Nations Reserve, where many Iroquois people traditionally learn the craft, a lesson ...
"So if you're from Africa, why are you white?" a solemn Nate Huether '15 asked Michael Goodman '13 this past weekend during the Production Workshop's unique script reading of Mean Boys, a spin-off of the popular movie "Mean Girls." The cast read the entire film script with one key difference - the ...
Guitar strums, harmonious voices, stomping and snaps echoed from Alumnae Hall Friday night during the fifth annual Strong, Sexy Words, an event sponsored by the Women Peer Counselor program. Organized by Elisa Glubok '14 and approximately 12 other WPCs, the event mixed scheduled performances by various ...
Experimentations in light, rhythm and sound took center stage at the ninth annual installment of Pixilerations, a media festival presented by FirstWorks Friday and Saturday night in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The full schedule included two concert programs of digital animation, ...
Ira Glass '82 is the host and executive producer of the NPR program "This American Life." He recently co-wrote the new film "Sleepwalk With Me," produced by "This American Life." Based on the true story of comedian Mike Birbiglia, who wrote, directed and starred in the movie, "Sleepwalk With Me" takes ...
The Armageddon Letters, a series of short films, graphic novels and podcasts, are being released throughout October in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. The transmedia project is web-based and is designed to appeal to a broad audience, exposing them to the realities ...
The third annual New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema, which played Sept. 27 and 28 at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, addressed in various forms the diverse cultural and emotional experiences of the Iberian diaspora. The full program included more than 60 short and ...
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