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Brandeis MakerLab hosted its first annual Tech Fest on May 2 in the lounge outside Rapaporte Treasure Hall. This event showcased an array of technological projects, ranging from hard robotics to 3-D printed art.
This spring, the Rose Art Museum is featuring the artwork of renowned modern artist Howardena Pindell. Her artwork is diverse both in media and in message. Most of her work can be described as abstract paintings inspired by personal events or societal moments during her life, though the exhibit does not limit itself to the paintings, including videos and collages.
From May 2 to 4, Brandeis hosted four showing of “This Place/Displaced,” a theater production that focus on the issue of gentrification and displacement in the Greater Boston area. The event was able to happen thanks to the effort of the Brandeis Univeristy minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation. Last week, justArts & Culture spoke to Anneke Reich, the producer of “This Place/Displaced” and a Brandeis alumna, and Joshua Glenn-Kayden, the director of the show.
The Justice unanimously elected Jocelyn Gould ’21 editor in chief for the 2019–20 academic year on April 16. Justice editors and staff members held a meeting during which Gould discussed her goals for her upcoming term as editor in chief and answered questions from attendees.
A new musical entitled “We Live in Cairo” will open at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge on May 22, according to the theater’s website. Per the National Alliance for Musical Theater, the show features dramaturgy by Brandeis Assistant Professor Ryan McKittrick (THA). The production began preview performances on May 14 and will run through June 23.
Five students, two clubs and one faculty member were recognized for their campus contributions at the first-ever Ollies Awards show on May 1, emceed by former Student Union Vice President Benedikt Reynolds ’19. The Ollies Awards Selection Committee awarded individuals and groups on campus who “are the backbone of campus life and growth,” according to the event program.
Faculty, staff and students convened in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater on May 3 for the annual Prizes and Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Dean of Students OfficeLife. The ceremony highlighted the University’s core values — citizenship, leadership and academic excellence — according to Assistant Dean of Students Stephanie Grimes, who served as master of ceremony.
This past Thursday, I attended the Department of Theater Arts’ production of “The Bacchae,” which tells the story of Dionysus, son of Zeus and Semele, and his revenge against Pentheus and all others who have slandered his name and denied his status as a god. As someone with very little knowledge of Greek mythology — I haven’t even seen the Percy Jackson films — the play was captivating. Before the show even started, the set design immediately stood out. Assistant Professor of Theater Arts Cameron Anderson (THA) and all those involved in creating the backdrop produced a remarkable work that alluded to what was to come from the performance. The remarkable nature of the set became more evident when Dionysus, played by Rose Archer ’20 and Dan Souza ’19 entered the stage and climbed on the crafted walls to proclaim their status as the god Dionysus. In addition to the set design, the musical numbers were well executed, as the chorus took the stage and the aisles to serenade the crowd. Daniel Rodriguez, Stephanie Fleischmann and Daniel Kluger created melodic accompanying pieces that enhanced the theatrical experience. The band was also an integral part of the musical ensemble; from the conductor to the violin, each individual successfully generated the mood that aided in carrying the story along.
Art & Text in the Archives, an event hosted at Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections as a part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, showed many texts that ranged in design and age for all to enjoy.
As many Brandeis students gathered on Chapels Field for Springfest, I decided to attend a different kind of rowdy performance: a puppet show full of slapstick for the kids and political jokes to get a few chuckles out of the parents. On Sunday, April 7, I sat down in the second row of the SCC Theater, surrounded by children with their parents and facing a classic boxy puppet theater alone on the stage. To American puppet theatergoers, the stock story of a Punch and Judy show is completely foreign. But these British archetypes of a dysfunctional puppet family — and perhaps an entire dysfunctional society — have been popping up at fairs and festivals in the English countryside for nearly 400 years.
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In 1979, American artist Howardena Pindell was in an almost-fatal car accident. According to a plaque with a description of her art, as she laid there trapped in her car, “onlookers watched, too hesitant to help because the punctured gas tank might explode.”
One of my favorite things that happens during the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts each year is the transformation of mundane spaces on campus. This year, Slosberg Music Center became a museum of sound for a night. Six exhibits, each curated by a graduate student taking “MUS 196b: Sound in Space” with Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Erin Gee, filled the classrooms of Slosberg with new and exciting sound installments, most of which had interactive aspects for visitors to explore as they wandered about the building.
Dark clouds were not an impediment for the Light of Reason to shine over the Rose Art Museum last Friday evening. Unfortunately, this year’s SCRAM Jam — the annual party organized by the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum — did not happen under the best meteorological conditions. Nevertheless, the event dedicated to community, self-expression and celebration of the arts gathered a considerable crowd that reminded us that art is not to be confined to the walls of a museum, but to be enjoyed as a dynamic rupture in public space.
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As a part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts, this display was just a part of the talent seen all around campus, with more recent works and works from hundreds of years ago.
A part of the University’s Archives and Special Collections, Art & Text in the Archives showed both printed and manuscript texts.